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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Now researchers, reporters, and armchair pundits have immediate access to America’s diverse views on 40 top policy issues.
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…
American democracy is in crisis. At a time of deepening polarization and social strife, many of our elected officials – most notably our chief executive…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
