To support the activities of the Levin Center at Wayne Law to promote bipartisan, fact-based oversight. The Levin Center will conduct oversight trainings for congressional staff, promote scholarly research on oversight, host conferences and symposia on oversight topics, and strengthen the public narrative around the importance of meaningful oversight.
Grant Type: Project
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) will host a public service fellow from May 1, 2019 – October 31, 2020 to conduct research in service of the U.S. Congress. With this fellowship, APSA enhances public understanding of policymaking and improves the quality of scholarship, teaching and reporting on American national politics.
Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Congress Project fosters congressional reform ideas, with a particular focus on the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. The Congress Project will also organize recurring bipartisan programming for Members of Congress and their staff.
New Venture Fund
To strengthen the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund (“the Collaborative Fund”), which is a joint effort with other democracy funders. The Collaborative Fund seeks to provide funding for academic and policy research that supports the work of the philanthropic sector, public and nonprofit leaders and institutions, advocates, academics, and other stakeholders.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts’s Bipartisan House Chiefs of Staff Initiative (“Safe Spaces Project”), run by Pew’s Government Relations Department, offers programming for chiefs of staff in the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at fostering relationships, sharing best practices, and strengthening the capacity of Congress.
League of Women Voters Education Fund
The purpose of this grant is to help the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) implement the Transformation Roadmap, with a focus on increasing LWVEF capacity at the state and national levels to help build a more engaged, diverse, and sophisticated network of 501(c)(3) members, volunteers, and activists.
A portion of this grant will also support LWVEF’s consultations with legal counsel to ensure that its legal structure positions it well for its next phase of operations.
University of Chicago
To support the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, which will bring together a diverse array of political practitioners, scholars, journalists and others and will facilitate relationship building among these actors through engagement with political reforms that strengthen American democracy.
Duke University
The News Measures Research Project (NMRP)’s local news performance assessment is a valuable tool to journalism researchers, funders, advocates, and practitioners for understanding how local news outlets are meeting the information needs of the communities they serve.
George Washington University
This grant will support the launch of The George Washington University’s Project on Political Communications Ethics. The grantee will conduct lunch meetings with key stakeholders to discuss ethics in political communications and will conduct initial research and planning for the future of this program.
Georgetown University
To support the Georgetown University’s Beeck Center in conducting its first field research project of the Resilient Democracy Coalition (RDC), as well as to support RDC’s experimental effort to design an app to connect newly elected Members of Congress to current and former Members.