Voqal

February 1, 2018 Voqal is pleased to announce two new grants to organizations working in Minnesota to enhance the community and strengthen social equity. The grants of $25,000 to the Land Stewardship Project and $50,000 to WIN Minnesota reflect Voqal’s commitment to support progressive movements for social change. The Landship Stewardship Project The Landship Stewardship

January 25, 2018 Voqal recently accepted eight tech and social entrepreneurs focused on making a difference into the 2018 cohort of its Voqal Fellowship program, which provides the resources and mentoring needed to bring early-stage ideas focused on progressive and social change to life. This is the largest cohort of the Fellowship since its inception

January 24, 2018 As part of our ongoing series featuring stories from our FY 2017 annual report, this week we take a look at another of Voqal’s initiatives aimed at providing EBS Spectrum holders an ally, Independent Spectrum. In the heart of Florida’s Gulf Coast, not too far from Tampa Bay, you’ll find a lush,

January 19, 2017 On November 3, 2015, Seattle voters passed by double-digit margins a locally grown reform measure that promises to radically change how candidates for public office finance their campaigns. Won with a resounding 64 percent of the vote, the measure: Introduces a first-in-the-nation, voluntary, publicly financed “voucher” system that will provide four vouchers

January 18, 2018  Voqal recently released its 2017 annual report and is starting the new year off by featuring some of the stories from the report on our blog. This week we continue to take a look back at FY 2017 with a spotlight of one of Voqal’s initiatives focused on creating equity through access,

January 12, 2018 Voqal recently released its 2017 annual report and is starting the new year off by featuring some of the stories from the report on our blog. We start this look back at FY 2017 with a spotlight on one of Voqal’s more recent initiatives, the Education Venture Fund. PAIRIN CEO and co-founder,

January 9, 2018 As part of our ongoing series about Voqal’s philanthropic investments aimed at getting money out of politics, we take a look at past efforts at addressing campaign finance reform in New York City. In the wake of the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, many eyes turned to New York as a

January 4, 2018 2017 had its share of ups and downs. The country saw a new political ideology rise to power that threatens many underrepresented and underserved populations. Attempts at imposing discriminatory immigration policy and stripping valuable protections for immigrants already residing in the United States have dominated the public discourse over the last year.

December 20, 2017 Voqal recently embarked on a follow-on research effort to understand more deeply the shifting dynamics of the money-in-politics (MiP) field and identify the best role for Voqal going forward. This week, our ongoing series about Voqal’s strategic philanthropic investments to get money out of politics focuses on the final theme from this

December 19, 2017 Mobile Citizen, a Voqal initiative,  is joining nine other public interest organizations focused on high-quality broadband for all Americans to lead a #MobileOnly Challenge in January and ask Americans to participate. The Challenge will call attention to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposal to lower broadband standards and consider an internet connection