Provide additional capacity building support for administrative training to Center for Technology and Civic Life staff and leadership.
Program Area: President's Office
Democracy 21 Education Fund
The Democracy Legal Strike Force project at Democracy 21 Education Fund provides rapid-response legal work with the objective of protecting the system of democratically elected representative government, challenging anti-democracy efforts, and advancing the foundational American principle that no one is above the law.
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
The Democracy Futures Project is a collaborative effort to equip democracy funders with tools, resources, and skills to be more “future-ready.”
New America Foundation
Launched in 2014, New America’s Political Reform program seeks to develop new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore civic trust, and realize the potential of American democracy.
Alternative Newsweekly Foundation
The Alternative Newsweekly Foundation, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, National Association of Hispanic Publishers and others are collaborating on a “Marshall Plan” for community media. Their goal is digital transformation and long term sustainability of critical community publishers, especially those led by people of color and serving diverse communities in the U.S.
NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Rapid Assistance Safety Initiative (RASI) is a rapid response grantmaking and technical security project that supports social justice organizations’ increasing physical safety and security needs.
Yale University
BrightLinesWatch is a project to track the potential corrosion of democratic norms through the expert opinion of domestic and international political scientists. The grant will also fund an international conference and a series of briefing papers using international experiences to better understand potential threats to American democracy.
Vanderbilt University
To support George Washington University’s The Monkey Cage in its efforts to make the political conversation more informed by timely, accessible, and sound research from a publicly oriented political science discipline and less dominated by evidence-free arguments. This is achieved by increasing the public engagement of political scientists and other academics and connecting academics with key audiences among journalists, policy analysts, and lay readers.
University of Wisconsin Foundation
The State Democracy Research Initiative fosters research and dialogue on state-level democracy, government, and public law across the nation. They produce and promote original academic research and bring together academics, judges, policymakers, and advocates to exchange insights and perspectives on matters related to democracy and the rule of law in the states.
Vanderbilt University
The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.