Lawyers for Reporters, a Vance Center initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to local and mission-driven journalism organizations in the United States. LFR was created to empower these outlets to investigate and inform their communities about the issues that affect their lives.
Grant Type: Project
New World Foundation
The Eclipse Fund a multi-issue, learning and funding community of like-minded funders and donors interested in pushing back on the implementation of Project 2025.
Black River Life
Black River Life, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, is a nonprofit creative studio and cultural organizing hub working to redress generations of anti-Black narrative harm. Through music, film, journalism and digital content, they seek to transform public conversations about Blackness, inviting the kind of discourse that makes multiracial democracy possible.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
The Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project, a project of Charlottesville Tomorrow, aims to support and cultivate collaboration among the region’s local news outlets.
The Aspen Institute Inc
Aspen Digital’s AI Elections Initiative works to ensure that amid rapidly evolving technology, civic participation remains a touchstone of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.
NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Rapid Assistance Safety Initiative (RASI) is a rapid response grantmaking and technical security project that supports social justice organizations’ increasing physical safety and security needs.
The Commonwealth Foundation Inc.
As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.
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.
More in Common Inc.
More in Common’s (MiC) is conducting a three-part research strategy to better understand and diagnose the challenges around American identity, civic and cultural norms, race, polarization and violence mitigation. They will test and refine messaging to identify approaches that can reach and resonate with a majority of Americans.
Grassroots Asians Rising
Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.