To support the pilot of Spaceship Local in Douglas, Arizona, rebuilding a news and information system through community engagement in a border town where reliable news sources are scarce. In addition to supporting this community, Spaceship Media is collecting valuable lessons on how their dialogue journalism model for engagement can be deployed more widely in geographic areas with similar needs.
Grant Type: Project
The Equity Alliance
To provide capacity building support to The Equity Alliance to build out its HR policies, including developing a policy handbook, and devote additional resources to other capacity-building work, which could include an audit of organizational processes or other activities as needed.
Hearken
To support Hearken and their “Responsive Election Coverage for Better Democracy” work, fiscally sponsored by the American Press Institute, to provide training, coaching, resources and emergency support to 500+ journalists throughout the country, for more engaged, trusted, and informed elections coverage in 2020.
Faith and Politics Institute
The Faith & Politics Institute will explore the development of a network of faith leaders to promote civil discourse.
Fordham University
Researchers from Fordham University and other academic partners will conduct field experiments on the role of money in our political system.
Do Something Inc.
To support Do Something to build out additional capacity for further expansion into the civic engagement space and to utilize their capacity of young volunteers, tech reminders, and media campaigns in order to test different elements of the voter turnout moonshot. These activities will include using their parallel media campaign, which promotes earned and paid efforts, to get young people to engage with local Do Something leaders to promote greater engagement among their families and peers.
Kanu Hawaii
To provide Kanu, a Hawaii based volunteer organization, with capacity to engage volunteers to raise awareness about nonpartisan civic engagement and empowerment in the state. Kanu will work with other organizations and nonprofits to promote greater Hawaiian participation in voting and public engagement.
American Press Institute
The Trusting News project works with journalists across the country to develop, test, and implement strategies in reporting and publishing that builds trust with audiences.
Georgia News Lab
Georgia News Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, sustains and diversifies investigative newsrooms by training a new generation of diverse journalists across Georgia through high-impact partnerships with local newsrooms.
Democracy Works Inc.
ElectionLine.org is the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information.