The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) will define and explain existing funding structures used for running fair, efficient and accurate elections and will seek out additional funding concepts for comparison.

The purpose of the grant is to support the ongoing convening of conservatives seeking to work toward identifying policy solutions to the challenges facing our country initiated and successfully conducted at several locations around the country.

The purpose of the grant is to support the Womens Policy Inc whose mission is to bring women policymakers together to work across party lines on issues of importance to women and their families.

The purpose of this grant is to help fund a Civic Hall Imagination Fellow at Civic Hall Labs.

A general operating grant to the No Labels Foundation will support the innovative work of the organization to reduce Congressional dysfunction and foster bipartisan problem solving.

Democracy Works and their subdivision of TurboVote explores low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting through new civic technology and improving processes and data. Their aim is to make voting easier through use of technology and support for elections administrators and voters.

The matching grant with the Hewlett Foundation will allow Millennial Action Project to build on work this year to increase civil dialog and strengthen its own organization through collaborations with like-minded organizations while focusing on a key strategic constituency identified in our emerging map — younger Americans.

The purpose of this grant is to foster bipartisan expert collaboration among several organizations in the field on providing to congressional staff needed training on conducting oversight of the executive branch as part of the regular, civil function of government.

The purpose of this grant is to provide funds to the INNovation Fund which supports projects proposed by nonprofit news organizations to advance the economic sustainability of their newsroom.

The Open Source Election Technology Foundation (OSET) works to increase confidence in elections by innovating election and voting systems using an open-source, adaptable, flexible, full-featured election technology framework.

The purpose of this grant is to provide funds to run another two years of the collegiate grants contest around experimentation and expanding journalism practices.

The purpose of this grant is to expand the practice of fact-checking by helping PolitiFact expand their network throughout the states.

This grant is designed to help support planning by the OpenGov Foundation as they aim to create a Congressional Digital Service. The Congressional Digital Service would provide resources and infrastructure to help build out the digital needs of Congress.  A successful plan would likely include a fundraising plan, hiring of a director, and a strategic plan for the next 3-5 years.

The Collaborative Communications Initiative will continue to improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community. Allowing groups to build collective messaging success in the field.

CIRCLE will lead a process engaging multiple experts that will develop an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the news literacy and associated fields. Subsequently they will propose and prototype an approach to building new networks between newsrooms, news literacy and youth civic engagement.

Faith & Politics will work to perform strategic assessment of their programs to determine how and where best to grow.

The Faith & Politics Institute will work in a variety of ways to bring members of congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

Support the professional development of senior management at No Labels Foundation to strengthen the organization and its management practices.

The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.

To provide a restricted grant for Issue One to hire a consultant to strengthen the organization’s internal grant making processes and procedures.For more on Issue One’s background and program areas, please refer to R-201410-01360.