A Sampling of Election-Related Foundation Grants

COMPILED BY JENNIFER MOORE AND GRANT WILLIAMS

Arca Foundation

Campaign finance. To support a legal challenge to North Carolina’s campaign-finance

system: $30,000 to Democracy South (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Campaign finance. To help non-profit groups monitoring campaign-finance overhaul in four states, in cooperation with Democracy Works and Public Campaign: $300,000 (over two years) to Northeast Action (Hartford, Conn.).

Candidate information. For operating support: $300,000 (over three years) to the Center for National Independence in Politics/Project Vote Smart (Philipsburg, Mont.) and $200,000 to the Network for American Renewal (New York).

Youth and elections. To promote civic participation and voting among young people: $25,000 to National Association of Secretaries of State (Washington).

Ford Foundation

Campaign finance. For public education and legal work on campaign-finance changes: $165,000 (over two years) to the National Voting Rights Institute (Boston).

Candidate information. For a database upgrade of the Democracy Network’s Web site, which provides an online exchange of information between candidates and voters: $250,000 (over two years) to the Center for Governmental Studies (Los Angeles).

Joyce Foundation

Campaign finance. To develop and promote standards for and models of public financing for state judicial elections: $213,376 to the American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education, Standing Committee on Judicial Independence (Chicago).

Campaign finance For educational and advocacy efforts to replace Minnesota’s current state-campaign financing system, which subsidizes part of candidates’ campaigns, with full government financing: $200,000 to Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action Education Fund (St. Paul).

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Press coverage of campaigns. For an outreach campaign and evaluation program associated with “The Press and the Public: Election 2000″: $85,000 to Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism (New York).

Youth and elections. For election-year activities aimed at getting kids interested in politics and voting: $200,442 to Kids Voting USA (Tempe, Ariz.) and several of its affiliates.

Open Society Institute

Campaign finance. For a public-education campaign on “soft money” in political campaigns: $100,000 to Democracy 21 (Washington).

Campaign finance. For legal-advocacy efforts that link campaign-finance issues and civil rights: $100,000 to National Voting Rights Institute (Boston).

Pew Charitable Trusts

Press coverage of campaigns. To develop a toolkit and training sessions for reporters seeking to improve coverage of campaigns and elections: $1,300,000 (over two years) to University of California Annenberg School for Communication (Los Angeles).

Press coverage of campaigns. To encourage television networks to provide five minutes of campaign coverage a night during each of the 30 days before elections: $900,000 (over 30 months) to the Alliance for Better Campaigns (Washington).

Youth and elections. For the Youth Vote 2000 project, a coalition of more than 60 civic groups working to draw public, press, and candidate attention to young voters and the issues they care about: $800,000 (over two years) to the League of Women Voters Education Fund (Washington).

Youth and elections. For the Neglection 2000 project to research and report on the extent to which presidential candidates focus their campaigns on young voters: $230,000 to Third Millennium (New York).

Florence and John Schumann Foundation

Campaign finance. For efforts to reform campaign-finance laws: $1.3-million to Public Campaign (Washington).

Woods Fund of Chicago

Campaign finance. For the Government Accountability Project, which promotes public understanding of campaign-financing issues: $15,000 to Illinois PIRG Education Fund (Chicago).