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.
Program Area: Governance
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.
Trustees of Tufts College
The MGGG Redistricting Lab, a project of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on STV (single transferable vote) elections within the family of ranked choice systems.
LawWorks
The 65 Project, an initiative within LawWorks, a fiscally sponsored project of the Franklin Education Forum, works to increase the adoption of ethics best practices by lawyers and state bar associations.
Legal Accountability Center
Legal Accountability Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, conducts research and independent investigations, along with allied organizations, to expose anti-democratic groups or government misconduct, and to enforce accountability.
New York University
This grant will support a project of GovLab, a program within the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, to develop a handbook for congressional offices with techniques for increasing citizen voice in the policymaking process and improving constituent engagement through new technologies. The grant also will allow GovLab to pilot projects with several congressional offices for using open source software to test some of the techniques outlined in the handbook.
Black Women Leading
Black Women Leading, a fiscally sponsored project of the POPVOX Foundation, funds and supports the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance (BWCA). BWCA works to promote, recruit and retain Black women on Capitol Hill. Their network consists of well over 300 active and engaged members.
Clean Futures Project
Clean Futures Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the Sustainable Markets Foundation.
Democracy Revival Center
The Democracy Revival Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, will bring a generation of social and economic justice leaders, working across issue silos, into the long-term fight to transform political and governing institutions—and lay the groundwork for them to succeed.