To provide funding for survey work of public opinions about election administration.
Program Area: Elections and Voting
Center for Technology and Civic Life
Provide two years of general operating support to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL will continue to focus on three areas: training local governments to utilize technology to enhance civic livelihood in their communities, develop low to no cost tools for governmental use, help develop infrastructure allowing the capture of data and information during interactions between citizens and government.
Menlo College
To support the Women Also Know Stuff initiative by providing capacity for workshops and a road show.
Nonprofit Vote
To provide support for Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) project. Nonprofit VOTE will work to recruit and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneously launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.
Fordham University
Researchers from Fordham University and other academic partners will conduct field experiments on the role of money in our political system.
Do Something Inc.
To support Do Something to build out additional capacity for further expansion into the civic engagement space and to utilize their capacity of young volunteers, tech reminders, and media campaigns in order to test different elements of the voter turnout moonshot. These activities will include using their parallel media campaign, which promotes earned and paid efforts, to get young people to engage with local Do Something leaders to promote greater engagement among their families and peers.
Kanu Hawaii
To provide Kanu, a Hawaii based volunteer organization, with capacity to engage volunteers to raise awareness about nonpartisan civic engagement and empowerment in the state. Kanu will work with other organizations and nonprofits to promote greater Hawaiian participation in voting and public engagement.
Democracy Works Inc.
ElectionLine.org is the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information.
Democracy Works Inc.
To provide support to a website that provides news about the latest and ongoing trends in election administration.
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)’s project will identify election cybersecurity issues and best practices in two critical areas: 1) voter registration databases and 2) campaign data and communications.