The Safe Voting Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, centralizes and shares resources on issues such as educational efforts for policymakers on the importance of updates to voting systems in a COVID-environment and funding state-specific implementation programs.
Grant Type: Project
NALEO Educational Fund
NALEO Educational Fund’s non-partisan voter education aims to ensure Latino voters are equipped with the information and tools necessary to engage in the 2020 election.
Congressional Management Foundation
This grant supports the Congressional Management Foundation’s ongoing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts as an organization in 2020.
The New School
This grant will strengthen The New School’s ability to seize this moment of experimentation around the format and content of journalism, using their unique design thinking methodology. This grant will also provide funds to take this unique way of thinking around the country to regions we focus on through the Ecosystem News strategy.
University of Oregon Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Oregon School of Journalism’s Agora Journalism Center to create workshops to strengthen the community of practice of Engaged Journalism. This grant builds on Knight’s larger grant that supports building a web-tool, with our emphasis on creating robust connections within the field.
The Eyebeam Atelier Inc.
This grant will support the development and testing of Viz Lab, a dashboard designed to track and visualize ‘memes’ carrying misinformation and fake news. Viz Lab’s dashboard tool will trace memes as they move throughout networks automatically. This will be a resource for newsrooms and the public.
City Bureau
This grant will support the development and expansion of the City Bureau Documenters Project which strengthens local media coverage and builds trust in journalism by creating opportunities for anyone to participate in the production of local journalism.
Georgetown University
The purpose of this grant is to support the “Constructive Voices for the Common Good” dialogue series – promoting bipartisanship and civility in public life – hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life (“the Initiative”) based at Georgetown University. The Initiative will lead one major event in Washington, D.C. and multiple smaller events focused on Latino leaders and young professionals during the grant period.
Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.
This grant is to support Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media’s new Collaborative Journalism Fund and first open call.
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
The Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will undergo a strategic planning process and support new leadership as it develops into a national hub for ethnic media. CCEM will add depth and national scope to its efforts with news and information outlets serving ethnic, minority and immigrant communities.