April 24, 2025
In early 2024, Democracy Fund launched the successful All by April campaign, urging funders to make nonpartisan election-related grants by the end of April. We…
January 30, 2025
Local news has a growing need for robust infrastructure. As authoritarian movements threaten journalists and pro-democratic news organizations, better infrastructure can strengthen existing newsrooms, provide…
June 25, 2024
ABOUT DEMOCRACY FUND Created by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, Democracy Fund is an independent and nonpartisan foundation that confronts deep-rooted challenges in American…
May 15, 2024
Introduction The 2020 presidential election happened amid a pandemic and racial justice protests, and it was followed by an insurrection. What can we expect in…
January 22, 2024
Executive Summary Philanthropic support for promoting a healthy democracy has grown in recent years, marking a period of transformation for the field. Since 2016, an…
January 4, 2024
ABOUT DEMOCRACY FUND Created by eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar, Democracy Fund is an independent and nonpartisan foundation that confronts deep-rooted challenges in American…
October 31, 2023
Reliable information fuels our lives. We need to know who is on the ballot, what’s happening in our schools, where to find rental assistance, and…
November 2, 2022
In a nation of over 258.3 million eligible voters, election officials’ myriad duties differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction—small to large, rural to urban—and from voter…
September 15, 2022
At Democracy Fund, we see every day how local news strengthens democracy. People rely on local news to figure out who to vote for, how…
July 6, 2020
While most Americans express belief in democratic values and preference for a democratic political system, a new report published by the Voter Study Group, "Democracy…
June 10, 2020
Now researchers, reporters, and armchair pundits have immediate access to America’s diverse views on 40 top policy issues.
March 18, 2019
Democracy Fund’s Elections Program research is off to a strong start in 2019, with the release of the first brief out of the 2018 Democracy…
November 7, 2018
American democracy is in crisis. At a time of deepening polarization and social strife, many of our elected officials – most notably our chief executive…
October 31, 2018
Democracy in America suffers from a decades-long pattern of institutional decline. The candidacy and election of President Donald Trump is a symptom as well as…
October 18, 2018
Washington, D.C. – Today, Democracy Fund, in collaboration with Reed College Professor Paul Gronke, released a new report on Understanding The Voter Experience: The Public’s…
October 16, 2018
This report provides insights into the state of public opinion about election administration and reform. The findings are primarily drawn from the 2008–2016 Cooperative Congressional…
June 19, 2018
Journalism has long struggled to reflect the diversity of the communities it serves, and over the past decade, most efforts to support diversity, equity, and…
June 6, 2018
Washington, D.C. – June 6, 2018 New reports from the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group reveal mixed signals about support for traditional pillars of democracy:…
April 9, 2018
Today Facebook announced a new initiative which will provide independent researchers access to Facebook data to study the impact the social network has on our…
March 13, 2018
Voter Study Group report questions conventional wisdom that democracy is in decline, but finds concerning trends as authoritarian support consolidates among Trump supporters Washington, DC…
