The Social and Economic Justice Leaders Planning Group, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, scenario-planning methodologies, and strategy-design processes to grassroots organizations and movement leaders to help them achieve their goals for a vibrant, reparative democracy.
Grant Type: Project
New America Foundation
To support Ranking Digital Rights, a project of New America Foundation, in their effort to categorize, catalog, and assess the human rights impact of the practices of social media giants in the United States through the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index.
Gumshoe Group
The Gumshoe Group, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc, builds structural, financial, and legal support for diverse freelance investigative journalists to pursue open records requests that hold institutions, power, and public officials accountable.
Hearken
The Election SOS project at Hearken, a fiscally sponsored project of Policy Impact, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage.
Over Zero
To provide support to Over Zero, a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, in its aim to bring about the reduction and prevention of violence and to create societal resilience on issues pertaining to violence prevention, polarization, and more, partner with civil society organizations, and in particular, better implement a newly developed long-term strategic approach in the United States to create societal resilience to violence.
The Pivot Fund
The Pivot Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Online News Association, invests in the skills, capacity, and development of BIPOC-led and serving community media and lends their expertise to the broader work of building an equitable and robust local news ecosystem.
North Carolina Local News Lab Fund
The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is a pooled fund working to repair and transform the state’s news and information ecosystem. They envision a North Carolina where everyone can find, trust, and use the news and information they need to thrive.
Representative Democracy
Representative Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of the Miami Foundation, supports leadership development programs and innovative diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) solutions for governing institutions focused on building inclusive workplaces in the United States Congress.
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement (CDCE) is creating an Election Talent Study Group to address the growing recruitment and retention crisis in election administration.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.