The Revolving Door Project’s research and coalition-oriented outreach generates support for executive branch reform and civil service renewal efforts.
Strategy: Oversight and Accountability
Tech Talent Project
The Tech Talent Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, increases the federal government’s ability to recruit modern technical leaders to achieve critical human, economic, and policy outcomes.
William J. Brennan, Jr. Center for Justice, Inc.
The Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program’s Emergency Powers Project seeks to bolster checks on the use of emergency powers through legal research, developing reforms that limit emergency powers, preparing for potential invocations of emergency powers in the context of the 2020 election, and educating the public about these issues.
Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS)
Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) is a platform to provide mentorship and partnerships with the goal of advancing the leadership and professional development of women of color in the fields of international peace and security, foreign policy, and national security.
Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
The purpose of this grant is to fund Project DATA at the University of Wisconsin, which involves research and analysis of online political advertisements. Through this research and analysis, the project will explore the extent of “dark money” online advertising campaigns. The project will seek to analyze online advertising data collected in 2016 to assess who is behind online political advertising, the information that is disseminated online, who is targeted, and the effects produced by the targeted campaigns. Potential outcomes are publication of the findings in peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as a white paper, and the project lead – Professor Young Mie Kim – engaging in public service activities to disseminate the findings.
Accountable.US
Accountable.US (A.US) is a nonpartisan, 501(c)3 organization that shines a light on special interests that too often wield unchecked power and influence in Washington and beyond. They conduct in-depth investigations to expose conflicts of interest and then share their findings with the media, public, policymakers, and allies in real-time.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States
To support the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic project to expose, analyze, and develop strategies to address authoritarian interference in democracy.
Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
The Brookings Institution
To support Lawfare, a blog and project of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. The grant will support Lawfare’s research and robust analysis of national security and rule of law issues and its use of FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
The Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) assesses and counters technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project sends alerts about threats from malign interference, trains judiciary workers on how to respond to threats, and conducts research into this interference.