FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.
Strategy: Previous Strategy
Public Citizen Foundation, Inc.
To provide a renewal grant to Public Citizen Foundation for its work on the Bright Lines Project, which is a bipartisan group of tax attorneys who have developed a set proposed rules which are designed to clarify the IRS regulations governing nonprofit organizations’ political activities.
The Campaign Finance Institute
The Campaign Finance Institute will support scholarship to assess the current conditions and features of campaign finance systems and determine and investigate the most important research questions associated with those systems. Answers to those questions can help inform the field of campaign finance reform with the respected nonpartisan information and analysis.
University of Arizona Foundation
For general support to National Institute for Civil Discourse to encourage political and civic leaders to embrace vigorous debate in a way that allows for diverse perspectives to be shared, for complex issues to be discussed thoughtfully, and for challenging topics to be explored without resorting to invective and personal attacks.
Issue One
The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.
Fordham University
Researchers from Fordham University and other academic partners will conduct field experiments on the role of money in our political system.
The Foundation Center
Continued support for the Democracy Field Mapping Tool. The grant funding will allow Foundation Center to make additional improvements and enhancements to this tool. The tool provides relevant data visualizations for various funders, nonprofits, and other groups interested in the philanthropic sector’s role in U.S. democracy.
FairVote
This grant will be to help support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate greater civility in government through voting reforms.
Voice of the People
Building on the infrastructure established in the first phase of the project, we propose to carry out Citizen Cabinet surveys on seven new policy topics in an expanded number of states as well as with a national sample and to more broadly promote the idea of the Citizen Cabinet to Congress, the media and the public. This grant will also work to help VOP find a new long-term home for this project with more robust institutional resources.
The Foundation Center
For the development of a tool mapping funding flows in the field of democracy reform.