The Democracy Collaborative (previously known as the Collaborative Communications Initiative) will continue to improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community and allow groups to build collective messaging success in the field.
Strategy: Previous Strategy
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
The Campaign Legal Center helps reformers and stakeholders shape and improve Money in Politics ideas and approaches. Their work includes issues of redistricting, voting rights, voter registration, and restoration of voting rights to formerly incarcerated persons.
The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
The Campaign Legal Center has engaged with other projects to reform and strengthen the FEC, improve media around campaign finance issues, and strengthen Congressional ethics around money in politics issues.
The Foundation Center
Strengthen the democracy reform field through improvements to the Foundation Center’s democracy mapping tool in order to foster more effective strategic collaboration and decision making in the field.
The College of William and Mary
Improve understanding about the attitudes and behaviors of tea party members in order to better inform strategies to address polarization and strengthen political institutions.
Internet Archive
The Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, and the Internet Archive will be matching up the political ads with FCC-mandated public inspection file data from each station to uncover which groups paid how much for each political ad.
Taxpayers for Common Sense
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) will plan to host a series of small confidential meetings (fewer than 20 people from various sides of the issues) to discuss three things: areas of agreement, areas of disagreement, and common definitions to minimize misunderstanding. The purpose of this grant will be to explore the idea of convening these meetings and secure buy-in from key leaders.
New America Foundation
The New America Foundation will work with scholars to conduct a series of lab and field experiments related to the effectiveness of fact checking and innovative uses of media to inform and engage the public.
No Labels Foundation
The No Labels Foundation seeks to convene policymakers, across party lines and at all levels of government, to provide fact based educational programming promoting trust and collaboration.
No Labels Foundation
Support an evaluation or assessment to better understand how the organization is performing.