Face the Facts USA will deliver provocative facts about big issues to help Americans debunk myths, hold better conversations, get involved, and make choices as smarter citizens around the 2012 election.
Grant Type: Project
Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
The BPC’s Democracy Project will address the challenges of polarization and paralysis in our governance process through research and the convening of a national commission on political reform.
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity will launch an anti-deception initiative, called Consider the Source, that aims to uncover how campaigns and consultants manipulate the public using a flood of secret money.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.
The Aspen Institute Inc
Support a reunion of members of the Rodel Fellowship program.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ election initiatives team supports innovative research and partnerships to achieve the highest standards of accuracy, cost-effectiveness, convenience, and security in America’s system of election administration.
Nonzero Foundation Inc
The Non-Zero Foundation’s Bloggingheads.tv will launch its “The Good Fight” project, which will feature video-based dialogues on hot political topics between important voices from the Left and the Right.
Issue One
To provide a restricted grant for Issue One to hire a consultant to strengthen the organization’s internal grant making processes and procedures.For more on Issue One’s background and program areas, please refer to R-201410-01360.
The Aspen Institute Inc
The purpose of this grant is to support the Aspen Congressional Program’s efforts to improve trust, dialogue, and informed participation among Members of Congress.
POLITICO, LLC
Politico is co-sponsoring an event on the future of American democracy and the political parties. While examining these structures through the context of the 2016 election, two panels will focus on the forces and factors that created our current election and how they will influence the future.