Civic, Social and Govtech Grantmaking

Civic and Govtech Development Grants

This initiative provides early stage grants and assistance for non-profits working to improve US Democracy, political polarization, sense making, and decision making processes that affect civil society.

- Clearer Thinking - co-creation of learning modules on bias and sense making
- We Vote Project - Improving US democracy via legislator constituent interaction and bill transparency
- Goodly Labs - for Public Editor, annotating important texts for accuracy and bias
- Society Library - for debate maps around complex issues such as nuclear power
- AI Objectives Institute - for Talk to the City to improve surveying with LLMs
- Foresight Institute - for their work on intelligent voluntary cooperation
- Plurality Institute - Liquid Democracy / Voter Guides
- Free and Equal Debates and Open to Debate (AI, social issues)
- Harvard Council on Academic Freedom - Academic Freedom (Stephen Pinker)
- Bipartisan Policy Center - Political polarization
- Civic Health Project - Political polarization
- Braver Angels - Political polarization - social psychologist Johnathan Haidt
- More in Common - Political polarization
- Free Press - Political polarization

US Domestic Policy
- Decriminalize Sex Work - Human Trafficking US
- Let Grow - Childhood independence policy in the US
- Institute for Justice - Justice, Civil Asset forfeiture

We would also like to thank the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Archive and Battery Powered for events and convenings.

International Policy Grants

- Human Rights Foundation - Funding for work on AI issues in Human Rights
- Irish Council for Civil Liberties - Enforce project on cell phone surveillance in EU/US
- All-Fed - Research on how to feed people in disasters provided to governments and institutions
- The Emergency Communication Satellite project in support of UN Early Warning System goals
- MAPS - Psychedelic drugs in therapy settings, conflict zones for PTSD
- Transform Drug Policy UK - drug crime policy proposals and justice

Democracies in Crisis and Conflict Zones

- We provided direct aid to several democracies in crisis (in general we prefer not to name which due to ongoing work)
- We also provided a grant to Atlas Network for their work in Venezuela.
- We provided program funding to Ideas Beyond Borders regarding the middle east.
- Emergency Assistance for select NGO's affected by USAID

We would also like to thank the Human Rights Foundation, Center for Non-violent Action Strategies and IRI for assistance received.

Blogs, Media, and Education

- Ideas Beyond Borders - Enlightenment ideas in the middle east
- Don't worry about the vase - Program funds for blog covering AI and policy
- Porobleno - Seeded the first popular science podcast about Ukrainian culture
- 404 Media - Microgrant for technology and privacy journalism.
- Ludlow Institute - Naomi Brockwell on privacy and cybersecurity

Education and Empathy focus

- AJ Crabill's books and efforts on school board reform, and effective governance for student outcomes (anticipated)
- Clearer Thinking - co-creation of learning modules on bias and sense making
- Hand in Hand Parenting - Tools for emotional wellbeing
- Let Grow - Making childhood independence possible again