Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and longtime collaborator of the Democracy and Power Innovation Fund, has been named one of 22 recipients of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, among the nation's most prestigious and significant recognitions.
Over the past 20 years, Hahrie has led groundbreaking research to demonstrate that base-building organizing provides the...
Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards, the interim executive director of POWER Interfaith in Pennsylvania, and Marcus Bass, the deputy director of North Carolina Black Alliance, co-wrote an opinion piece featured in Newsweek about the need to understand the varied political views of black men. Read the full piece here.
Prentiss Haney, a member of DPI Fund's advisory committee and former Executive Director of Ohio Organizing Collective, was interviewed by Astead Herndon of the New York Times for "The Run Up." The conversation walked through DPI's national Black values research and the implications from that research for the work to engage Black voters in the 2024 election. You can watch the...
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a grantee and partner of the DPI Fund, was featured in Signal Cleveland for its voter engagement work. The article highlights OOC's efforts to find hundreds of thousands of eligible Ohio voters left behind by political campaigns. Read the full piece here.
DPI Fund partner PICO California, a faith-based organizing network that operates nine federations across the state, was featured in an article in Axios highlighting its work to shift focus in the political ecosystem away from partisan battles toward solving local problems faced by the Latino community. PICO California’s outreach and civic engagement work is rooted in public opinion...
Several RFF grantees with large Latinx constituencies partnered with Equis Lab and other senior researchers to survey Latinx people, measure their sense of influence, and develop values segmentation clusters to improve efforts to communicate with and organize this important group. The study uncovered social and psychological factors that impact voting habits of Latinx people; Equis...
RFF’s democracy program supports the work of local organizing groups, believing that the people closest to the work are the best strategists. Two RFF grantees were featured in an article published in U.S. News & World Report: How Democracy Fought Back in 2022: Branden Snyder from Detroit Action and Bishop Dwayne Royster from POWER Pennsylvania.