Ensuring Civic Engagement

December 2021

• America Votes Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund – $500,000
  • To support BIPOC-led and focused state organizations working to improve voter education and increase voter participation.
• Black Voters Matter – $75,000
  • To support efforts to increase the capacity of community-based organizations and Black voter engagement.
• Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, Voting Rights Program – $75,000
  • To support efforts to ensure that all voters have an equal opportunity to vote and have that vote count.
• Leadership Conference Education Fund, All Voting is Local Program – $75,000
  • To reduce barriers to voting for communities of color.
• Mi Familia Vota – $150,000
  • To increase Latinx/Hispanic civic engagement, particularly in Arizona.
• Movement Voter Project, a fund of Tides Foundation – $350,000
  • To support local grassroots BIPOC groups across the country that mobilize voters and build long-term voting infrastructure. 
• NAACP Legal Defense Fund – $150,000
  • To support efforts to protect voting rights.
• Protect the Sacred, a program of Harness at the California Community Foundation – $35,000
  • To support efforts to increase Native American voter participation.
• You Can Vote – $75,000
  • To support efforts to mobilize and educate communities and increase voter participation.