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September 19, 2024
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From: Philanthropy Today — The Commons Weekly

Subject: These 22 Leaders Aim to Stop a Repeat of 2020's Election Tumult

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  • Tiana Epps-Johnson, from left, Ben Keiser, Ashley Quarcoo, Ian Bassin, and Ben Ginsberg.
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    Can Elections Ever Be Normal Again? These 22 Nonprofit Leaders Have a Plan.

    By Drew Lindsay
    After the tumult of 2020, a new set of organizations aims to reinforce how votes are tallied on November 5 as well as in 2026, 2028, and beyond.
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    Interview

    ‘Young People Are Going to Fix Our Democracy’

    By Chronicle Staff
    Future Caucus president Layla Zaidane talks about how Gen Z and millennial lawmakers cross the aisle to find solutions. Case in point: The removal of Confederate iconography from Mississippi’s flag.
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Upcoming Events in The Commons

Next up in The Commons in Conversation interview series:

  • Hollywood screenwriter Erik Bork talks about the bridging themes and philanthropy behind his soon-to-be-released The Elephant in the Room, a red-blue romantic comedy. October 2 at 12:30 p.m. ET. Free registration required.
  • Nealin Parker of Common Ground USA will report on nonprofit efforts to head off political violence in advance of the November elections. October 16 at 12:30 p.m. ET. Free registration required.

Of the Moment

We typically bring you short news items in this section, but there’s something today worth lingering on for a bit.

The Democracy Funders Network this morning debuted a new data platform with a first-of-its-kind accounting of the funders and nonprofits focused on election reform, bridge-building, fostering belonging, and other work toward a healthy democracy.

Democracy Hub features data on more than 4,500 nonprofits and nearly 30,000 funders. It was built with Impala, a tech and data company for grant makers, nonprofits, and others in the social-impact world. Some tidbits from the data:

  • Foundations, fiscal sponsors, donor-advised funds, and other grant makers spent $9.7 billion on democracy efforts in 2022, nearly twice the total from 2018.
  • The Ford Foundation is the largest funder, having made grants totaling $1.2 billion from 2018 to 2022.
  • The average grant size over the five years was $133,000. The median size was $15,000.

We’ll explore Democracy Hub in an upcoming story along with other new ventures to map the field of work that The Commons covers. The platform is designed in part to replace and enhance Candid’s work to track the field, which was discontinued earlier this year.

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Editor's Picks

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    Interview

    Philanthropist Laura Arnold on What It Takes to Reduce Polarization and Partisanship

    By Chronicle Staff
    In the launch of a new interview series for The Commons, the Giving Pledge member and influential donor talks about the keys to bringing people together on tough issues.
  • Lisa Kay Solomon of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design endorses a colleague’s comments at the June 2022 meeting of the National Civic Collaboratory.
    Innovation

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    By Drew Lindsay
    Inside an effort dubbed “mutual aid on steroids” that’s getting a tryout in cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Lexington, Ky.
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Drew is a longtime magazine writer and editor who joined the Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2014.
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