The Disinformation Defense League at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund (NVF), is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers, and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that target communities of color.
Grant Type: Project
Media Democracy Fund
NetGain at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, supports philanthropic collaboration and leadership on issues of technology and society, and supports engagement of organizations led by and serving communities of color in debates around platforms, power, and the public interest.
Red Canary Song
Red Canary Song, a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc., convenes migrant workers and provides mutual aid, including reproductive health and ob-gyn services for a growing population of migrant women. Their work includes outreach to those communities to make it feel safe for them to access these services in the first place.
Internews Network
The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.
The University of Texas at Austin
The Solidarity Journalism project, housed at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, conducts research and provides trainings to reporters on Solidarity Journalism, which centers communities that have been historically excluded or harmed by journalism’s portrayal of them.
Pillars Fund
To support Pillars Fund’s Culture Change Project, in partnership with Pop Culture Collaborative. They have developed the American Muslim Pop Culture Cohort and curriculum and will now advance their work even further.
Sightline Institute
Sightline Institute’s nonpartisan Democracy and Elections program advances solutions for Cascadia’s electoral systems, including stifling extreme partisanship through open primaries, allowing voters more freedom to express their preferences through ranked choice voting and proportional representation, and expanding and protecting voting access for all.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
The NAACP-Legal Defense Fund’s (“LDF”) Police Reform Campaign employs litigation, research, technology, and data strategies to advance police reforms at the local, state, and national levels.
New America Foundation
The New Models of Policy Change project, in the Political Reform Program, at New America Foundation supports work on community resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency conducts data collection and analysis to document and analyze the networks and strategies used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.