The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation’s Democracy Initiative aims to ensure that elections work for everyone. This special portfolio of grants is designed to educate and engage voters; make sure they get credible, fact-based information about candidates and issues; help secure our election systems; strengthen the integrity of the census and redistricting process; and make sure every vote counts, particularly in places where there has been a history of disenfranchisement.
Democracy Initiative grants were awarded to the following organizations and projects
- Alliance for Youth Organizing – to mobilize the youth vote
- American Press Institute – for the Trusted Elections Network Fund, making microgrants to local news organizations for projects on voter information and combating local misinformation
- Associated Press – for reporting on democracy in the U.S.
- Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute – for voting rights and voter engagement work in predominantly rural Black communities in the Deep South, Michigan and Pennsylvania
- California Calls Education Fund – to educate and engage voters through its Million Voters Project about the need for corporations to pay their fair share of property taxes
- Campaign Legal Center – to protect voter access and prevent election sabotage
- Center for Community Media/Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism – to engage voters of color through community newsrooms in Georgia and Michigan
- Center for Democracy and Technology – to address election security through training, education and networking of election administrators, cybersecurity experts, policymakers, academics and voting advocates
- Center for Secure and Modern Elections – for work on pro-voter policies at the state level to ensure that the U.S. has an election process that is more efficient, accurate and secure
- Common Cause Education Fund – for a range of voter protection and education activities, and to ensure an accurate census and fair redistricting
- Democracy North Carolina – for work on voter protection and education and census participation
- Election Protection Coalition of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – for its voter protection activities, including the 866-OUR-VOTE national hotline
- Enlace Latino NC – for its electoral process guide to inform Latine voters in North Carolina
- Everybody Votes – to support voter registration programs that expand access to our democracy for communities of color.
- Factchequeado – to counter mis and disinformation within Hispanic and Latino communities in the U.S.
- Fair Count – for voter engagement and education in Georgia, especially among hard-to-reach voters in counties outside the Metro Atlanta region
- Fair Elections Center – for its Campus Vote Project
- Fair Representation in Redistricting Project – for its work to achieve an accurate census and ensure integrity in the redistricting process
- Free Election Fund – to protect the rights of all citizens to participate fully in our democratic process and safeguard free and fair elections through litigation
- FRONTLINE – for documentary films on democracy in the U.S.
- Fund for Investigative Journalism – to foster investigative coverage on threats to democracy in the U.S.
- ISRC Education Fund – supporting access to messaging research for organizations working to realize the promise of an equitable, multi-racial democracy
- The League of Women Voters Education Fund – for its Women Power the Vote and People Powered Fair Maps programs
- Mi Familia Vota Education Fund – for voter engagement, education and registration, voting rights work and leadership development in Latino communities
- Military Veterans in Journalism – to counter election disinformation targeting military veterans
- National Disability Rights Network – to increase voter registration and engagement and ensure access to the polls for voters with disabilities
- New Florida Majority Education Fund – for voter education, engagement and turnout, especially in Black and Brown communities
- New Georgia Project – for voter education, engagement and turnout, especially among young voters and voters of color
- ProPublica – for investigative reporting on risks to democracy in the U.S.
- Radio Ambulante – for the audio and video series El Péndulo
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press – legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms
- State Infrastructure Fund – for a donor collaborative to advance a coordinated and integrated voter engagement and voting rights strategy in multiple states and in historically underrepresented communities
- Take Back the Court – to inform the public about the importance of the U.S. Supreme Court and the viability of court expansion
- Trusted Elections Fund – to prepare for and respond to threats to the integrity of our elections by directing rapid-response funds
- Voter Engagement Fund – for a pooled donor fund to increase voter participation among underrepresented communities often overlooked by campaigns
- Voting Rights Lab – for efforts to ensure free, fair and accessible elections, including building a State Voting Rights Tracker
- Way to Rise Fund – for a pooled donor fund to support voter engagement, with a focus on states with growing diverse communities
All Democracy Initiative grants were made to organizations doing nonpartisan work in support of free and fair elections, in compliance with IRS regulations.