To provide support to a website that provides news about the latest and ongoing trends in election administration.
Strategy: Voter-Centric Election Administration
Fair Elections Center
This grant will provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions.
League of Women Voters Education Fund
To support the League of Women Voters Education Fund with funding to conduct a one-year assessment of the organization’s structure, processes, people and engagement, and alignment and culture. This would be the first of at least a three-year organizational change process, focused on assessing the LWVEF’s strengths and assets as well as our weaknesses and liabilities in advancing our goal of becoming an even more relevant and high-impact organization.
Democracy Works Inc.
Democracy Works’ Voting Information Project, How to Vote, & Ballot Scout programs address voting and election administration issues brought about or exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
University of Southern California
The California Civic Engagement Project (CCEP) at the University of Southern California will design, release, and host the Vote Center Siting Tool in three states: Colorado, Arizona, and Texas. The development of the tool in these three states will help election officials make informed decisions about where to locate polling places and how to better target other services to the voters and potential voters they serve.
URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement
The purpose of this grant is to implement the election line allocation tools created by the Voting Technology Project, as recommended by the Rhode Island Board of Elections Task Force.
Common Cause Education Fund
Common Cause Education Fund is a major organization supporting civic reform in the U.S., working for improvements in both election administration and campaign finance. At the national level, they are a major player in shaping conversations around voting and participation rights. Their strong state chapters continue to build local coalitions for many of the reforms that the Democracy Fund believes can strengthen our democracy.
National Conference of State Legislatures
The National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program is promoting effective policymaking around elections and redistricting by providing accurate and bipartisan information and research on elections administration to state legislators, legislative staff, and election officials.
Fair Elections Center
Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.
Native American Rights Fund, Inc.
The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a part of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition, which fosters partnerships with tribal governments across the country to tackle systemic challenges to voter participation for tribal communities.