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.

From the October 01, 2019 up to May 01, 2020, the Grant funds are restricted for the following purpose: To support Upturn’s research, publication, and coordination on the topic of discriminatory targeting by social media platform companies.
Any remaining funds from this Grant as of May 01, 2020 are hereby released from the project restriction outlined above and can be used for General Operating Support. 

The purpose of this grant is to support Bold Impact in their coordination work to organize action within their stakeholder network to generate momentum to advance data policy innovation within a human rights framework through the event series Rights x Tech.

This general operating grant to The American Journalism Project will support the organization’s mission to make transformative investments in Civic News Organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.

To support the Technology and Social Change Research Project in researching coordinated inauthentic activity to promote mis/disinformation that could impact US democratic processes including rule of law issues, elections, and their impact on Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

To support Lawfare, a blog and project of the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. The grant will support Lawfare’s research and robust analysis of national security and rule of law issues and its use of FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making. 

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation will provide Congress with actionable steps to modernize its data collection and evidence-based policy making practices.

To support PEN American’s programming to combat online harassment of journalists, which will include providing trainings for newsrooms and journalism membership associations to better equip both journalists and management on how to prepare and react to online attacks, as well as continued efforts to develop their publicly available Online Manual Field Guide, a crowdsource of resources and tools in the field to counter online abuse. 

This is a general operating grant to the National Association of Black Journalists that will build organizational capacity to continue their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable for recruitment and retention of black journalists as well as their portrayals of the black community through media narratives. 

To support critical data collection and analysis by West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media to document and analyze the networks and strategies being used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.

From the Grant Start Date up to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, August 14, 2020, the Grant funds are restricted for the following purpose:
To support the creation of a Communications Justice fellowship at Public Knowledge to examine early career diversity in tech advocacy nonprofits, publish research and findings, and promote practices to increase representation of marginalized and lower-income applicants.
Any remaining funds from this Grant as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, August 14, 2020, are hereby released from the project restriction outlined above and can be used to support Grantee’s charitable, educational, and/or scientific purposes as described in Grantee’s charter documents.

The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) will create and revise resources on libel and defamation insurance for nonprofit news organizations. INN will expand their insurance program and partner with nonprofit organizations to develop short- and long-term solutions to lowering the cost of insurance for nonprofit journalists so that they are protected against lawsuits related to their reporting.

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will focus on expanding its role from a resource center and advocate for New York City-based community and ethnic media to a national hub for outlets serving ethnic, minority, and immigrant communities.

To support the Jefferson Center’s Your Voice Ohio program, which brings together local media and community members to generate creative solutions on shifting media narratives in the state and better engaging audiences. 

To support the Media and Storytelling Program at the Field Foundation, which supports pivotal investments to increase the production of news and innovative content that is by, for, and about African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and helps create a more inclusive, accurate, and comprehensive narrative of Chicago.

This renewal grant will provide general operating support for the Institute for Nonprofit News. The Institute for Nonprofit News is a critical anchor organization, providing support, training and networking for America’s almost 250 nonprofit journalism organizations.

To support the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic project to expose, analyze, and develop strategies to address authoritarian interference in democracy.  

The Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress, will conduct their signature New Member Seminar (NMS) in January 2021 for newly elected members of the 117th Congress.

Common Cause Education Fund (CCEF) is a national organization supporting civic reform in the U.S., working for improvements in both election administration and campaign finance. They are a key player in shaping conversations around voting. Leveraging their state offices and national membership, they continue to build local coalitions around many reforms to strengthen our democracy.

The Institute for Urban Journalism at Morgan State University trains new cadres of black journalists through new fellowships; runs Social Justice Reporting Collaboratives between students at Morgan State and other journalism institutions; and produces research on the needs of black communities residing in news deserts or facing otherwise biased or insufficient news.