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ProPublica is an award-winning nonprofit investigative newsroom and an innovator in data journalism and multimedia content. The Rita Allen Foundation previously supported ProPublica’s efforts to expand its multimedia capabilities. Now, a new grant will enable ProPublica to create tools for mobile app developers to access its valuable health…

SeePolitical seeks to bring clarity to vital public policy issues by producing and distributing factual, unbiased, nonpartisan, noneditorial, entertaining animated videos that explain such topics as the Electoral College, as well as state and local ballot propositions. This content is an innovative, modern alternative to the text-based voter…

MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that tracks and publicizes information about money’s influence on politics, is working to make comprehensive, customized voting information more accessible to citizens. In 2014 MapLight piloted Voter’s Edge, an online tool that allows users to enter a home address and view…