Grants Database

To help launch its national Votebeat reporting project by covering elections and other democracy issues in Michigan

$300,000

To support its continued work to advocate for redistricting reform and support implementation of newly enacted state law to eliminate prison gerrymandering

$200,000

To support the continuation of the SPARK Microgrant program for emerging visual artists of color and other underrepresented artists seeking to make their art practice a primary vocation 

$75,000

To support capacity-building and strategic planning projects for small arts and cultural organizations of color 

$75,000

For general operating support

$225,000

To support its Voting Rights and Civic Empowerment Project

$200,000

To advocate for federal policy focused on COVID-19 school recovery, redesigned systems of assessment and accountability, and robust college and career readiness data systems

$100,000

For an investigative reporting project on the causes and responses to algal blooms in western Lake Erie

$50,000

To support its Civic Reporting Fellowship program in Chicago

$100,000

For the Climate and Energy Program

$350,000

To devote immediate staff time to working with Wisconsin state agencies to leverage unprecedented federal infrastructure funding to ensure clean water benefits reach underserved rural communities

$30,000

To support Clean Wisconsin’s Great Lakes water program

$320,000

To support its Democracy Program work in our states

$700,000

For three years of general operating support (totaling $150,000) and one-year digital initiatives support (totaling $25,000) to expand its digital programming and technical training for staff

$175,000

To support the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus

$150,000

To support redistricting evaluation and recommendations and its growing voter engagement work

$200,000