The purpose of this grant is to support Solutions Journalism Network in training journalists to develop solutions stories that investigate situations and provide reporting on alternate options to challenges unearthed within the investigations.

This grant will support the Georgia News Lab. The News Lab’s mission is threefold: To make the vital work of investigative reporting affordable for news organizations, to increase diversity in newsrooms, and to help news outlets better serve their communities by increasing the flow of trustworthy public interest journalism.

This grant will provide support for the Morgan Initiative. The Morgan Initiative demonstrates how universities can lead collaborative reporting projects that challenge local newsrooms to shift their practices to better create journalism that is meaningful to communities and responsive to their needs.

The Engaging News Project (ENP) will test web-based strategies for informing audiences, promoting substantive discourse, and helping citizens to understand diverse views. They will also analyze business outcomes, such as clicks and time on page, which provides valuable information about what works, and what doesn’t.

This grant supports work to demonstrate how universities can lead collaborative reporting projects that challenge local newsrooms to shift their practices to better create journalism that is meaningful to communities and responsive to their needs through a focus on reporting from a rural Appalachian perspective.

The purpose of this grant is to support New Jersey’s local news information ecosystem. The grant will create a fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey to support organizations that are working to build a networked, state-wide, place-based, news ecosystem that is audience-centered, trusted, collaborative and resilient.

The purpose of this grant is two-fold. This grant will support research and communications on the impacts and general efficacy of participatory budgeting regarding how governments spend money. This grant will also map and compare expert insights on the state of U.S. democracy, so that field leaders might better anticipate the path of democratic evolution and decide how best to support positive change in our politics. 

This grant will provide general support for Women’s Policy, Inc. as they continue convening female leaders of Congress to build bipartisan relationships and increase congressional capacity. 

This grant will support a two-year research project to study how primary elections impact political polarization and congressional dysfunction, explore the potential of congressional primaries as a vehicle to increase political equality, restoring public trust in the electoral system, and ultimately what gives rise to more equitable economic opportunities.

This project grant will provide support for the Levin Center at Wayne Law to continue its efforts to strengthen congressional oversight. This work will include academic research and collaboration on congressional oversight issues. By facilitating the development of an academic field focused on oversight and research into effective oversight methods, the Levin Center’s work is part of a longer term strategy to rebuild civil society’s work on oversight and accountability issues.

ReflectUS (formerly known as the Women’s Representation Coalition), a fiscally sponsored project of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, is a project by a bipartisan group of national organizations who support women leaders and a political system in which more women can be represented.

The purpose of this grant is to provide support to the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.

This grant will provide support for the Emma Bowen Foundation’s (“EBF”) diversity through internships work. This project will provide capacity for EBF to support at least 25 interns in rural, diverse-led, and nonprofit news outlets across the country. To enhance and extend current EBF intern programing on media specific content and leadership development, EBF will also hire a Program Director.

General Operating Support

OpenTheGovernment (a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government) will map civil society sectors to identify groups to collaborate with. They will identify organizations who do not traditionally advocate for open government and transparency, but whose own causes could be helped by focusing on this issue.

This grant will support the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program as it endeavors to grow and improve its elections administration programming and provide the best possible service to its members and their staffs. 

This grant will provide funding to Demos to continue its work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that state motor vehicle agencies provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities. This grant will also provide limited assistance to engage in Section 8 compliance efforts in states and jurisdictions where opportunities exist to support modernization of list-maintenance programs.

To support the Georgetown University’s Beeck Center in conducting its first field research project of the Resilient Democracy Coalition (RDC), as well as to support RDC’s experimental effort to design an app to connect newly elected Members of Congress to current and former Members.

A grant to the News Revenue Hub to support expanded services and capacity building activities to strengthen the financial sustainability of their clients and the larger nonprofit news community. 

This grant will provide support for the field of elections and voting research through participation in the Civic Engagement and Elections Research Collaborative Fund.