Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit - Money in Politics

Washington, DC September 18 to 21.

In partnership with The Sunlight Foundation and Common Cause, Mobilize.org is seeking innovative projects focused towards clean election practices at the local, state, and national level.

Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We work to show young people how our lives are impacted by public policy and, in turn, how we can impact public policy.

The Money in Politics Summit presents members of the Millennial Generation with the opportunity to identify a need in the local, state, or national political arena, develop an idea or solution that would address that need, and present a proposal for funding. The various grant summits we hold around the United States exemplify Democracy 2.0, the theory of change that is the foundation of the work that Mobilize.org engages in with members of the Millennial Generation. Our theory of change starts with the individual citizen identifying problems at the local, state and national levels. Once problems are identified, citizens must engage in conversations searching for innovative solutions to the problems they have identified.

Mobilize.org seeks to take the individual past the deliberation stage, enabling members of the Millennial Generation to implement their solutions.

Through the success of the Democracy 2.0 Grant Summits, Mobilize.org’s end goal is to institutionalize citizen-generated solutions as a staple of American governance at all levels. Competitors in the Democracy 2.0 Entrepreneur Grant Summit must advance a new solution or approach to the money in p olitics problem - that will change the pattern in the field of civic engagement. Winners will each receive a grant, between $3,000 and $5,000 and will receive the support of Mobilize.org and its partner network to champion their proposal, creating systemic and sustainable change in the way elections are administered.

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