Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit, nonpartisan neighborhood news site that delivers exclusive stories about Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. With neighborhood-specific newsletters and reporters embedded across the city, Block Club covers Chicago from the ground up.

BrightHive helps organizations, networks and communities securely and responsibly link their data to enhance their impact, empower individual and collective decision making, and increase equity of opportunity.

Center for Tech and Civic Life connects Americans with the information they need to become and remain civically engaged, and ensures that our elections are more professional, inclusive, and secure.

Chalkbeat Chicago is a nonprofit news organization telling the story of public education in American cities. To date, we report from and about seven locations: Chicago, Colorado, Detroit, Indiana, Newark, New York, and Tennessee.

CHANGE Illinois is a coalition leading the charge for more ethical and efficient governments in Illinois. CHANGE (the Coalition for Honest and New Government Ethics) includes a diverse group of civic, business, labor, professional, non-profit, and philanthropic organizations committed to a better future for Illinois. We educate and engage residents in joining us to advocate for a state with fair maps and vibrant elections and governments.

DataMade is a data and web consultancy for civil society. We support our partners in working toward democracy, justice, and equity. We understand that data can be easy to come by, but difficult to make sense of. At DataMade we transform complex data into clear, appealing, and actionable websites.

Hearken means listen. We help institutions better listen and respond to those they serve through training, techniques and technology. We work with newsrooms, schools, museums and more across nearly 20 countries and as many languages.

mRelief is the first-ever, end-to-end enrollment platform for SNAP benefits in the US. We have built an easy-to-use tool on web, text, and voice for people to sign up for SNAP and keep it. The collective work of mRelief has connected more than 469,000 people to social services and unlocked more than $100 million SNAP benefits across the US.