The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.
Grant Type: Project
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The Press Forward pooled fund, a collaborative vehicle housed at The Miami Foundation, will support local news around the country. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
The Center for Community Media, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, is dedicated to bolstering community media organizations that deliver crucial local coverage, with the mission of empowering trusted outlets to increase access to relevant and impactful news.
Foundation for City College
The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.
Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) , a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, is a dynamic collective of social justice funders and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.
Local Solutions Support Center
Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.
Future Currents
Future Currents creates the spaces for movement organizations to build resilient relationships, tackle pressing challenges, and prepare for possible conditions.
Democracy Rising
Democracy Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., works directly with community groups advancing democracy reform to build effective organizing, education, and advocacy strategies and to ensure just implementation.
Regents of the University of California, Santa Barbara
A team of researchers are working with a constituent relationship management software vendor to compare the demographics of constituents who contact a congressional office and the demographics of the congressional district. Their findings and insights will be shared with congressional staff and the vendor partner.
Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
The Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI Fund), hosted at the Rockefeller Family Fund, is a community of state-based organizing groups, social science researchers, and aligned funders who have come together to support learning and innovative programs that explore the connections between organizing, civic engagement, and building progressive power.