To support Take the Lead’s “50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism” program, providing training, cohort building, and networking opportunities for women leading in the media industry.

To support the Center for Investigative Reporting’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide the Center for Investigative Reporting with critical support for their local news collaborations through the Reveal Local Labs to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. This project will help expand investigative capacity around the country and at the national level. 

General operating support to the Niskanen Center. 

To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. The Trusted Elections Fund will undertake efforts to ensure a free and fair election in November 2020. 

To support the Brookings Institution’s work to track and analyze the actions being taken by members of the House of Representatives and its committees to conduct oversight of executive branch actions and policies in the 116th Congress through its House Oversight Tracker webpage. 

This grant will provide general operating support for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies . 

To be able to review, process and legally share with other partners the volume of documents connected to Thomas Hofeller, now in the possession of Common Cause Education Fund.

To support the 2020 Census Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. This grant will support the efforts of the 2020 Census Project’s Democracy Funders Collaborative joint fund on the Census, which aims to ensure that the 2020 Census is implemented effectively, produces a robust, accurate count of the population of the United States, and supports efforts to ensure all Americans – especially those most likely to be undercounted – are accounted for in the Census.

To provide support for the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund.

This is a general operating, renewal grant to the Obsidian Collection for their work in helping black legacy press preserve and digitize their archives as a new revenue stream for most and a jumping off point to bring them into the digital age.

R Street Institute’s Governance Project aims to assess and improve the state of America’s national system of self-governance by producing research papers and other writing about congressional capacity and separation-of-powers issues.

General support for Faith and Politics Institute

General operating support to Issue One. 

This is a general operating grant to the Native American Journalists Association that will increase their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American communities.

To provide general support for ReflectUs. 

To support Thought Partnerships, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropies, as it seeks to build effective cross sector communities of practice to advance non-violent and just societies through research, sharing and learning.  

The Unicorn Fund at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a one-year experimental award program that supports under-resourced grassroots leaders, including independent journalists, who face attacks for expressing their ideas, telling the truth, and taking a stand on the front lines of narrative change.

To support the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities to develop and socialize a suite of tools and best practices for mayors of U.S. cities to develop nonpartisan programs within their own cities to improve citizen engagement in civic life. They will look to enlist 100 cities to participate in a way that works well for the city’s own culture. 

General Operating Support

To provide general operating support for SCSJ.