We fund startups across nearly all technology areas and markets like artificial intelligence, energy, medical devices, robotics, semiconductors, and many more.

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This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

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• Polarization

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

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Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election. Although it was successful in obtaining signatures to get on the ballot in a majority of states, the process set up by the organization did not select a candidate.

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The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

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For the first time, a representative microcosm of the entire American electorate was brought together to a single location.

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Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

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AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

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The professional association for design

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By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

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Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

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New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

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Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

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Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

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Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

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A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

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by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

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El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

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Accelerator for America and Honeywell Collaborate to Promote Smart City Growth in Five U.S. Cities

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CLIP es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, con sede en Costa Rica, y equipo latinoamericano, que realiza y coordina investigaciones periodísticas transfronterizas colaborativas y pone sus innovaciones tecnológicas al servicio del periodismo de la región.

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Advocacy for human rights in the Americas

by Silvana Fumega y Fabrizio Scrollini

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A Code for America Network program designed to create opportunities for Brigades to strengthen partnerships and catalyze local impact.

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A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.

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• women
• LGBTQI

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Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues.

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• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

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This new coloring book is the perfect tool for kids and adults to learn about the political landscape of the United States in a fun and interactive way.

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• Artistic interventions

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

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• Deaf

• Civic features
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
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A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

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VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

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• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

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PIT-UN (US) university membership list

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Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

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America are dedicated to renewing the promise of America by continuing the quest to realize the nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

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Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

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Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

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Are you a Democratic woman who wants to run for office? Our candidate training programs prepare women to run and win. Let us help you!

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