This grant will provide additional award money for the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $3 million in funding – and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas. Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate.
Grant Type: Project
Public Citizen Foundation, Inc.
To provide a renewal grant to Public Citizen Foundation for its work on the Bright Lines Project, which is a bipartisan group of tax attorneys who have developed a set proposed rules which are designed to clarify the IRS regulations governing nonprofit organizations’ political activities.
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public (CPI) Integrity will combine its historic strength in follow-the-money reporting with a rejuvenated approach to data analysis, digital presentation and high-impact distribution to make the influence of special interests on the 2016 presidential election impossible to ignore and relevant to a wider audience.
Next Century Cities
To support a process to develop a competition between communities with access to next-generation networks (i.e. up to at least a gig to some premises) to leverage their internet capacity to promote stronger democratic processes and increase civic engagement. In short, Democracy on a Gig.
Issue One
The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.
Healthy Democracy Fund
Encourage the replication of the CIR in states outside of Oregon
Civic Hall LLC
The purpose of this grant is to scope opportunities to enable greater public participation in candidate debates by studying, modeling and encouraging the use of innovative approaches from around the country and also elsewhere that make debates more substantive, engaging, educative, and accountable to public concerns.
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Programatic support for the Pew Safe Spaces Project to create a regular, bipartisan convening of House Chiefs of Staff to allow for diverse perspectives to be shared on effective management practices and encourage bipartisan lawmaking on the staff level.
Duke University
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.
Georgetown University
This grant will explore innovation in policy making related to the federal government generally, and more specifically related to civic engagement, and participatory budgeting.