Organization

National Civic League

Grant Purpose

Measuring, Growing and Embedding Civility

This project will promote and measure civility by producing a Civility Index, working with three pilot communities to embed civil discourse practices into public settings, and convening local leaders to refine and disseminate these tools and practices.

Organization

National Institute for Civil Discourse

Grant Purpose

CommonSense American (CSA) Program

This grant will increase the scale and impact of the CommonSense American Program. This membership-based program currently has 46,000 politically balanced members who select the most meaningful issues ripe for bipartisan action. Members then spend 90 minutes per year reviewing the brief and weighing in with their views on the topic. Members then engage Congress with the results and NICD staff brief Members of Congress and their staff on the overall findings. The grant would deepen member engagement by funding the creation and delivery of an option for members to discuss with each other the chosen policy topic in an online facilitated conversation plus increased membership recruitment.

Organization

Sandra Day O’Connor Institute

Grant Purpose

Civics for Life – Multi-generational Online Civil Discourse Program

Civics for Life will become the “go to” online destination for civil discourse and civics education with nonpartisan, fact-based content and interactive activities including:

1) Online Public Square: Highly curated and moderated online webcasts that will include the use of breakout rooms for the audience

2) O’Connor Ambassadors Civics & Debate Clubs: Free high school program to teach the fundamentals of civil discourse, leadership skills and promote civic engagement

Organization

Cure Violence Global

Grant Purpose

Alternative Dispute Resolution Training for Community Conflicts

CVG seeks to pair the deep expertise and lived experience of CVG training staff with an experienced educational designer to produce trainings for the CVG network and the broader field of community violence intervention. This project will leverage state and federal funding for community violence intervention by providing trainings needed to make this work more effective, more universally understood as a public health crisis and more sustainable. Embedded within these trainings will be strategies for maintaining worker safety, based on the latest understanding of the risks and challenges frontline workers face and the field’s response to these risks. Additionally, CVG will retain a communications assistant to expand networks, develop training platforms for the wider public and, disseminate trainings. This proposal includes a comprehensive third-party evaluation of the grant deliverables.

Organization

Dayton Mediation Center

Grant Purpose

This grant will support the expansion of the Mediation Response Unit (MRU) in Dayton, Ohio, building on the $150,000 2022 Annual Cycle Grant the Foundation provided for the creation of the MRU. The MRU is an alternative emergency response program that dispatches trained mediators to respond to lower emergent 911/police calls for the City of Dayton. This grant will be utilized to provide more hours to meet community need over weekends, conduct a professional evaluation of the MRU program, improve data management capabilities, educate the community about the program, connect mediation parties to social service referrals, and create an implementation guide for other communities interested in implementing similar programs.

Organization

Ray Corollary Initiative

Grant Purpose

A multi-year grant in the amount of $125,000 over three years for a total of $375,000 to support the Ray Corollary Initiative (RCI). This $750,000 grant is co-funded with the JAMS Foundation ($375k from each Foundation) for the purpose of furthering RCI’s mission of removing barriers to appointing diverse arbitrators, mediators, and other ADR neutrals, thereby promoting the utilization of all the available talent for ADR.  

Organization

Dignity Best Practices

Grant Purpose

This grant aims to establish field mediation response teams responding to 911 calls in 2-3 pilot cities, demonstrating proof of concept towards a movement making this service mainstream.  If successful, thousands of residents will experience the benefits of in-the-moment professional support, rather than a police response, during crises of interpersonal conflict.