The Healthy Democracy Fund will organize a Citizen initiative Review in Oregon and work with leaders from other states to encourage the replication of the Citizen initiative Review outside of Oregon.
Program Area: Public Square
Healthy Democracy Fund
Encourage the replication of the CIR in states outside of Oregon
Civic Hall LLC
The purpose of this grant is to scope opportunities to enable greater public participation in candidate debates by studying, modeling and encouraging the use of innovative approaches from around the country and also elsewhere that make debates more substantive, engaging, educative, and accountable to public concerns.
Duke University
The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.
Georgetown University
This grant will explore innovation in policy making related to the federal government generally, and more specifically related to civic engagement, and participatory budgeting.
Outlier Media
To support Outlier Media via its fiscal agent, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc, in its charitable efforts to to identify, report, and deliver high value information that empowers Detroit communities in need to create accountability around the issues that most impact their lives. The purpose of this grant is to support Outlier Media as they work to further develop this charitable practice of service journalism and identify avenues to teach their methods to other news creators.
North Carolina Community Foundation, Inc.
To support North Carolina’s local news and information ecosystem through the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at the North Carolina Community Foundation. The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund will support building a networked news ecosystem that is audience-centered, trusted, collaborative, and resilient.
Press On South Inc
To support PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, in their continued work on media ecosystem analyses in the South.
Spaceship Media
To support the pilot of Spaceship Local in Douglas, Arizona, rebuilding a news and information system through community engagement in a border town where reliable news sources are scarce. In addition to supporting this community, Spaceship Media is collecting valuable lessons on how their dialogue journalism model for engagement can be deployed more widely in geographic areas with similar needs.
Asian Americans Journalists Association
To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.