Convergence Center for Policy Resolution will create and convene a Roundtable on transforming the civil service to meet the needs of the 21st century. The Roundtable will be an incubator for different groups and stakeholders to share ideas about how to transform the system and attract, retain, and develop talented and diverse career public servants.
Grant Type: Project
The Aspen Institute Inc
To support the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program serving Members of the United States Congress and their staff. The Congressional Program’s focus on scholarly engagement gives Senators, Representatives, and senior staff the opportunity to delve into complex and pressing public policy issues with internationally recognized experts in a neutral, off-the-record settings in two primary forums: annual conferences and weekly breakfasts.
Demand Progress Education Fund
To support Demand Progress Education Fund, a project of the New Venture Fund, to investigate and highlight potential improvements to congressional legislative, oversight, and administrative capacity for audiences on and off Capitol Hill. Grant funds will support Demand Progress Education Fund’s execution of written reports and newsletters, participation in public events, and meetings with stakeholders that cumulatively contribute expert, substantive ideas in support of congressional reform.
Georgetown University
To support the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection’s (ICAP) litigation measures in support of targeted communities.
PEN American Center, Inc.
PEN American combats online harassment of journalists through trainings for newsrooms and journalism membership associations on how to prepare and react to online attacks, as well as through their publicly available Online Manual Field Guide, which crowdsources resources and tools in the field to counter online abuse.
PEN American Center, Inc.
PEN America defends press freedom and fosters local journalism. Their work includes events, organizing, and outreach with local communities, organizers and journalists to expand grassroots support for the role of the press in American democracy and the rights of all people under the First Amendment.
Media Democracy Fund
To provide support to Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, to further the NetGain Partnership which supports philanthropic collaboration and leadership regarding issues of technology and society, and to support engagement of organizations led by and serving communities of color in debates around platforms, power, and the public interest.
Santa Fe Community Foundation
The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.
Kairos Fellowship Inc.
Kairos Fellowship, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., trains fellows in digital-first campaigning who are placed at state and national power-building organizations.
Free Press
The Free Press News Voices develops and implements community engagement strategies for journalism that build and sustain information equity and local reporting. These strategies help to create news sources that reflect and represent the communities they serve, in particular people of color who have been neglected and harmed by systemic racism.