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U.S. democracy faces myriad new challenges in 2025. The DPUS program revised its guidelines to respond to this evolving context. 

The RBF's Keesha Gaskins-Nathan highlights the need for democracy reformers and civic engagement organizations to adapt their strategies for the impacts of accelerating extreme weather events and encourages funders to support this work.

The RBF Democratic Practice–Global Challenges guidelines more clearly emphasize the program’s commitment to social and environmental justice.

 

From the urban and rural divide to the partisan gulf, from religious groups to warring factions on campuses, organizations and funders are cropping up with hope for common ground.

The Trust for Civic Life, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors, is a new philanthropic collaborative tackling America’s crisis of polarization where it matters most: in the local communities where Americans live, work, and experience day-to-day democracy. 

Twenty foundations are speeding grants to protect voting and elections. 

For International Women's Day, RBF grantmakers discuss philanthropy and the elevation of feminist thought and leadership.

The RBF has revised the Money in Politics strategy to support innovations in systems and practices to strengthen equality of representation.

To build a thriving democracy, we must address not only the formal institutions and processes of self-government but also the deeper sources of our discontent, writes Stephen Heintz.

McGhee’s book, The Sum of Us, chronicles her journey around the country to explore the social and economic gains that result when people unite across racial divides.