The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.
Program Area: Public Square
Pro Publica Inc.
To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate.
Wesleyan University
To support the Wesleyan Media Project in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus on ads that involve race and gender.
Center for Public Integrity
The Consider the Source project seeks to ‘out’ shadowy political organizations that have flourished in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
The purpose of this grant is to support the Morrison Institute’s research into the practice of Citizen’s Initiative Review.
Institute for Nonprofit News
INN’s mission is to help nonprofit news organizations produce and distribute stories with impact; to achieve cost efficiencies by pooling resources and services; and to develop new revenue streams that will help member organizations become sustainable, mission-driven, nonprofit businesses.
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.
Mozilla Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to support the Coral Project in the development and implementation of tools and platforms that encourage a culture of engagement in newsrooms. The grant will largely focus on expanding adoption of their tools in newsrooms, which will consist of training, outreach and work around shifting culture inside newsrooms to be more open to engagement.
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
This is a renewal grant to CJR’s United States Project to support experimentation in building local journalism capacity in the areas of collaboration, innovation, impact, and funding in target states.
Center for New Democratic Processes
The Your Voice Ohio Project will test, evaluate, and refine sustainable methods for engaging and serving communities through better, more participatory journalism. The Jefferson Center for a New Democratic Process will explore the complementary roles of public deliberation, community organizing, digital engagement, media collaboration, and new approaches in helping communities, and journalism, thrive.