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Community Partners

Los Angeles, California

Grants

2023 (4 years)
$200,000

Storyline Partners

Storyline Partners, housed at Community Partners, is a collective of culture change activists and organizations working for more accurate narratives in media and popular culture. The Disabled Journalists Association (DJA), a project of Storyline Partners, works to provide a supportive network and peer learning community for Disabled journalists. It also trains and holds newsrooms accountable on how to cover disability in a more expansive way. By supporting the representation, perspectives, and convening efforts of Disabled journalists, DJA contributes to more and better reporting on and about Disabled individuals and the intersectional communities this diverse group represents. This flexible support grant enables DJA to build and strengthen a community of Disabled journalists; train newsrooms on how to cover issues related to disability; and develop partnerships with newsrooms and other journalist-serving organizations to expand the impact and reach of DJA. The goal of this work is to create space for Disabled journalists to network, develop mentorship and other learning opportunities, and address the ableism and discrimination that exists inside newsrooms and their coverage of the Disabled community.

2022 (1 year)
$50,000

Storyline Partners

Storyline Partners is a collective of culture change activists and organizations working for more accurate narratives in media and popular culture. The Disabled Journalists Association (DJA), formed in 2022, is a project of Storyline Partners and works to provide a supportive network and peer learning community for Disabled journalists. It also trains and holds newsrooms accountable on how to cover disability in a more expansive way. By supporting the representation, perspectives, and convening efforts of Disabled journalists, DJA contributes to more and better reporting on and about Disabled individuals and the intersectional communities this diverse group represents. This flexible support grant supports DJA’s national programming, newsroom trainings, and coalition building efforts. The goal of this work is to create space for Disabled journalists to network, develop mentorship and other learning opportunities, and address the ableism and discrimination that exists inside newsrooms and their coverage of the Disabled community.

2022 ( 3 months)
$15,000

A project of Community Partners, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization supporting the human rights community’s pursuit of justice and accountability through the production of rigorous scientific research that is used by advocates, policymakers, and courts. This work is rooted in building long-term relationships with local partners in the U.S. and around the globe to advance change. The award supports a meeting for HRDAG employees, contractors, and advisors to convene in order to advance key areas of the organization's technical work.

2021 (3 years)
$600,000

A project of Community Partners, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization supporting the human rights community’s pursuit of justice and accountability through the production of rigorous scientific research that is used by advocates, policymakers, and courts. This work is rooted in building long-term relationships with local partners in the U.S. and around the globe to advance change. HRDAG’s goals are to share the insights needed to make and critique data-driven arguments; use data and models to hold law enforcement and security forces accountable, in the U.S. and internationally; use machine learning and statistical models to illuminate the patterns and magnitude of human rights violations; and build the field of responsible human rights data scientists. The award provides general operating support to the organization.

2020 ( 8 months)
$15,000

A project of Community Partners, The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a San Francisco-based nonprofit, non-partisan organization supporting the human rights community’s pursuit of justice and accountability through the production of rigorous scientific research that is used by advocates, policymakers and courts. The award will support the Human Rights Data Analysis Group’s efforts to publish accessible explanations of cutting-edge COVID-19-related research.

2018 (3 years)
$600,000

A project of Community Partners, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit, non-partisan organization supporting the human rights community’s pursuit of justice and accountability through the production of rigorous scientific research that is used by advocates, policymakers and courts. The award provides flexible support for a line of work to HRDAG as the organization deepens its efforts to help advance artificial intelligence (AI) in the public interest, with a particular focus on machine learning, a subfield of AI. HRDAG will both examine how machine learning models can encode existing social biases and represent them as apparently objective computer calculations, and leverage machine learning to help advance justice and accountability. The organization undertakes work in a variety of countries and contexts ranging from the United States to Colombia, Syria, and Mexico. Central to HRDAG’s approach is working closely with partners – ranging from NGOs to international institutions – in order to help build their capacity on matters related to machine learning and other AI technologies.

2018 ( 6 months)
$20,000

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is a San Francisco-based nonprofit, non-partisan organization supporting the human rights community’s pursuit of justice and accountability through the production of rigorous scientific research that is used by advocates, policymakers and courts. The award supports a technical retreat of HDRAG’s staff, contractors and advisors.

2015 (3 years)
$450,000

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) is a non-partisan, San Francisco-based NGO that applies rigorous scientific methods to the analysis of human rights violations. Community Partners is the fiscal agent ofHRDAG. The award supports three areas of work: the creation of statistical knowledge about mass violence that can be used to substantiate human rights claims; research and development of scientific techniques that improve the rigor of human rights analysis; and outreach to introduce and promote HRDAG's ideas about what scientific methods bring to human rights work.