The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country. 

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Center’s Legislative Reform Program conducts research on major democracy reform issues, and educates advocates, policymakers, and the public about opportunities to increase congressional capacity.

City Bureau works to address inequality in Chicago media. Their innovative programs engage Chicagoans directly in the process of producing civic media.

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.

MuslimARC, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, builds capacity for racial justice in Muslim and allied communities through anti-racism workshops, presentations, panels, and keynotes to organizations and learning institutions across the country.

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project promotes recommendations that improve the quality of U.S. elections. Building on the work in 2019 of the Task Force on Elections, BPC will advance state and federal election reform with recommendations about new challenges in election administration.

To support the Laboratory for Technology, Communication and Democracy (TeCD-Lab) at the University of California, Riverside in their efforts to further development and deployment of an online communications platform that congressional offices can use to have constructive dialogue with constituents. This platform will provide an alternative to those currently available to offices on the commercial market. 

The Rebuild Congress Initiative (RCI), a project of Issue One, seeks to better understand congressional dysfunction and aims to build bipartisan coalitions in support of congressional reform measures⁠ — especially efforts to increase congressional capacity⁠.

To support the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University in deploying and promoting Connecting to Congress, its online deliberative town hall meeting module for use by congressional offices. This grant will help the project expand its pilots with congressional offices and inform potential broader adoption by Congress through analysis of data gathered during the pilots.

To support research that contributes to a growing body of evidence that can inform stakeholders in media, industry, and government on how to most effectively design and regulate online spaces in a way that limits threats to democracy, with a particular focus on the impacts on people of color and women. 

This grant provides general operating support for Texas Civil Rights Project. Texas Civil Rights Project protects the civil rights of Texans through their work on economic justice, voting rights, and criminal justice.

To support One America Movement, a fiscally sponsored project of Repair the World, to conduct leadership development trainings focused on polarization and pluralism. 

The New Jersey Local News Lab Fund is a collaborative fund that supports people and organizations building a more connected, collaborative, and sustainable local news and information ecosystem in New Jersey.

The National Conference of State Legislature’s Center for Legislative Strengthening (CLS) provides nonpartisan research and analysis for state legislators and legislative staff about legislative operations, procedure, and continuity planning. Their work bolsters the autonomy and effectiveness of the legislative branch of government in the 50 states and U.S. territories.

American Oversight is building a centralized hub for oversight of the government’s response to the public and economic crisis created by COVID-19. Using information detailed in FOIA requests, news articles, public reports, Inspectors General reports, and congressional investigations, they will support oversight and investigative activities of the watchdog community.

The NGA Center for Best Practices will provide resources and technical assistance to governors and their staff so state executive branches can better support election infrastructure security and resilience.

Spaceship Media 2.0, a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, serves journalists by developing skills and capacity through Dialogue Journalism methods and local engagement.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law project on COVID-19 accountability uses public education and litigation to address racial disparities in the government’s public health and economic recovery response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) was launched in 2015 to support the development and production of independent news in Massachusetts. From the outset, BINJ has fulfilled that mission by syndicating bold independent reporting to community publications, running collaborations, and training promising media makers.

The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Chicago Reader, a fiscally sponsored project of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, brings together 60 community media in Chicago to provide training, shared resources, and a coalition of support during a devastating time for media that serves communities.