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Big Philanthropy Advances as a Big Player in the Private Funding of Public Elections

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Big Philanthropy Advances as a Big Player in the Private Funding of Public Elections
Voters cast their midterm election ballots in New York City on Nov. 8, 2022. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Steve Miller
RealClearInvestigations
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Echoing the private financing of public elections that critics saw as heavily favoring Democrats in 2020, some of America’s richest foundations are pouring money into a similar effort again, in the face of more organized conservative resistance.

A nonprofit group called the Audacious Project, whose supporters include the Gates and MacArthur foundations and the Bridgespan Group, a consultant whose clients include Planned Parenthood, has committed $80 million to a progressive organization, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTLC), to provide grant funding to run local elections.
Steve Miller is an author and journalist. After spending 12 years as an indie musician, Miller began his journalism career as a courts and cops reporter at the Dallas Morning News and as a national reporter at the Washington Times. He has worked as a national correspondent for The Daily Beast, People magazine, High Times, U.S. News and World Report, RealClearInvestigations, and several alternative weeklies including Houston Press and Miami New Times.
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