Pennsylvania State University will complete research on and spread awareness of the CIR process among policymakers and foundation and think tank officers in the US (and potentially abroad) regarding CIR and related ideas for deliberative democratic reform.

To support the core journalism program at Free Press, which is building an advocacy approach that combines credible, rigorous analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of local media ecosystems with a public engagement approach.

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.

Improve  understanding about the attitudes and behaviors of tea party members in order to better inform strategies to address polarization and strengthen political institutions.

Organizational grant for Rock the Vote over 2 years.

Common Cause Education Fund is one of the major institutions supporting democratic reform in the United States. They work in election administration and campaign finance, with strong state chapters that emphasize building local, bipartisan coalitions for reform.

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 (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.

To continue support for Healthy Democracy as they further institutionalize the Oregon process and extend the CIR practice to other states.

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.

ElectionLine.org is the nation’s only nonpartisan, non-advocacy clearinghouse for election reform news and information.

For the development of a tool mapping funding flows in the field of democracy reform.

Researchers from Fordham University and other academic partners will conduct field experiments on the role of money in our political system.

The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.

Encourage the replication of the CIR in states outside of Oregon

FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.

The Consider the Source project seeks to ‘out’ shadowy political organizations that have flourished in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

TurboVote looks for low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting.

Demos will conduct research on the level of state compliance with the motor voter provision of the National Voter Registration Act.

The Pew Charitable Trusts’ election initiatives team supports innovative research and partnerships to achieve the highest standards of accuracy, cost-effectiveness, convenience, and security in America’s system of election administration.