Past Grants

Grants that have concluded are listed below and grouped under the initiative’s focus areas, as applicable.
Engage diverse stakeholders who support sound policy and public funding for nonpartisan election administration.

• The R Street Institute and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University convened ideologically diverse thought leaders to identify shared principles for nonpartisan election administration as well as leaders, institutions, and policies that instill trust in elections. The organizations produced research to support this effort and disseminated findings and recommendations.

Build a field of scholarship that generates actionable, trusted, empirical evidence for the election policy and practice community.

• The Engineering for Democracy Institute at the University of Rhode Island launched the nonpartisan STEM for Elections Network, an initiative designed to increase the involvement of engineers in election research.

Strengthen networks that bring together election officials, policymakers, and researchers to share knowledge and resources that inform policy and practice.

• The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) expanded its elections legislation database and resources and produced a new analysis of election workforce statutes and requirements in all states. NCSL also held a series of regional meetings on election accuracy, security, and communications.

Grow programs and expertise to help states attract, develop, and retain well-trained election officials.

• The Elections & Voting Information Center (EVIC) produced infographics and communications outreach to accompany results from its 2023 survey of local election officials.

Support the use of evidence-based, nonpartisan methods to verify the integrity of the election process from start to finish.

• The Convergence Center for Policy Resolution conducted research, interviews, and focus groups on building a collaborative, problem-solving process for establishing cross-partisan agreement on what makes elections trustworthy. This effort will also seek to identify policies and practices for applying those principles.
• The Elections Group established a cohort of experts who examined election audit systems and built materials to inform state and local officials about how to improve their audit procedures. The grant also funded the development of a program that identifies successful election programs and practices and helps accelerate their adoption by election officials in other jurisdictions.

• The Hoover Institution at Stanford University hosted a workshop examining evidence-based measures that election administrators use to validate the reliability of their systems, equipment, and processes before and after an election.

Other grants:

• The Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), via Stanford University’s Internet Observatory and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, identified election-related online rumors and disinformation and published analyses in response to this discourse. The EIP collaborated with civil society organizations and research labs engaged in social media research and shared analyses and insights with stakeholders and the public. This effort contributed to the EIP’s ongoing real-time analysis capabilities of online narratives and rumors.
• The National Association for Media Literacy Education created and distributed customizable multimedia resources that election offices can use to help their constituents learn how to access reliable election information.