PEN America defends press freedom and fosters local journalism. Their work includes events, organizing, and outreach with local communities, organizers and journalists to expand grassroots support for the role of the press in American democracy and the rights of all people under the First Amendment.

The University of Virginia’s Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is a nonpartisan organization that uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to promote legislative effectiveness among lawmakers across the United States.

Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS) is a platform to provide mentorship and partnerships with the goal of advancing the leadership and professional development of women of color in the fields of international peace and security, foreign policy, and national security.

The Tech Talent Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, increases the federal government’s ability to recruit modern technical leaders to achieve critical human, economic, and policy outcomes.

The Revolving Door Project’s research and coalition-oriented outreach generates support for executive branch reform and civil service renewal efforts.

To provide support for the Deliberative Media Lab’s research on the intersection of people of color and social media platforms, situated within the new Democracy Initiative at the University of Virginia. 

The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at North Carolina Community Foundation provides support to the local news ecosystem with a focus on underserved communities and the organizations that serve them.

The Center for Media Engagement will produce peer-reviewed research and practical recommendations that inform journalists and newsrooms on engagement practices, building and restoring trust, and serving diverse audiences.

International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

The Childcare Fund at ProGeorgia State Table Inc. will support access to affordable childcare for women of color among their 38 table partners. With safe and reliable childcare during the pandemic, these individuals will be able to continue the urgent work of voter engagement and delivery of direct services in vulnerable communities.

TheColorado Media Project (CMP), within University of Denver’s Project X-ITE, is an ecosystem-level convener, facilitator, and coordinator. They bring capacity-building expertise and support to local news outlets as they work to address the local news and information needs of all Coloradans now and in the future.

To support the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies’s project on Racial Targeting and Digital Marketing, which will research and disseminate findings related to the ways online environments target and potentially discriminate against non-white users. 

To support the NYU Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (IACD) as it organizes a convening entitled, “Radical Hospitality: Imagining Home for a Generation Displaced and Discarded – A Global Convening of Artists, Scholars, and Activists.” The convening will take place at La Pietra, the NYU academic center in Florence, Italy in 2020. 

To support New York University in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus to ads that involve race and gender.

To support the efforts of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University in researching the intersection of youth engagement and election administration.

This grant is to support The Center for Public Integrity’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Public Integrity with critical general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. 

To provide support to Over Zero, a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, in its aim to bring about the reduction and prevention of violence and to create societal resilience on issues pertaining to violence prevention, polarization, and more, partner with civil society organizations, and in particular, better implement a newly developed long-term strategic approach in the United States to create societal resilience to violence.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to enable more understanding of the American Muslim community.

This grant is to provide general operating support for MuckRock, whose work connects community engagement, freedom of information and journalism collaboration to ensure that newsrooms and citizens can access critical informaiton about their government. 

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists.