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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.
Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
Lawyers for Reporters, a Vance Center initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to local and mission-driven journalism organizations in the United States. LFR was created to empower these outlets to investigate and inform their communities about the issues that affect their lives.
The Aspen Institute Inc
Aspen Digital’s AI Elections Initiative works to ensure that amid rapidly evolving technology, civic participation remains a touchstone of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.
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.
The Commonwealth Foundation Inc.
As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.
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.
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.
Solidaire Network Inc
The Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund (MPF) moves resources rapidly to protect frontline organizers from state repression, vigilante violence, and digital attacks.
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.