This planning grant will enable the Harwood Institute to develop key programs to help frame, seed and drive a counter-narrative in the country that focuses on people’s aspirations for public life and politics and what leaders, organizations and individuals can do to create a new trajectory in their communities and the country.
Program Area: Governance
The Institute for Cultural Evolution
The purpose of the grant is to support the ongoing convening of conservatives seeking to work toward identifying policy solutions to the challenges facing our country initiated and successfully conducted at several locations around the country.
Women’s Congressional Policy Institute
The purpose of the grant is to support the Womens Policy Inc whose mission is to bring women policymakers together to work across party lines on issues of importance to women and their families.
Former Members of Congress Inc.
General Operating Support
The OpenGov Foundation
This grant will provide OpenGov Foundation with additional resources to help Congress modernize its technological infrastructure. Such modernizations hold the promise to improve the legislative capacity of congressional staff and make communications between constituents and member offices more efficient, effective, and satisfying for all parties.
Lincoln Network Inc.
This grant will support the development of an App Market that reviews tech products for use by congressional staff, focusing on key features like whether those tools can handle the required volume and whether they meet security requirements.
The Brookings Institution
This grant will support Lawfare, a blog and project of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and Lawfare experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making.
Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
This Grant will provide support for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s MLK 50 Conference and the production of materials for continued engagement to attendees and the membership of the ERLC.
The Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
General operating support for the Project On Government Oversight.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
To provide continued support to the Alliance for Securing Democracy at The German Marshall Fund of the United States to identify and support the best methods of pushing back on foreign threats to our U.S. political system, whether they be through elections, misinformation, or attempts to interfere with our democratic institutions.