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| Funder | Project Dates | Amount |
|---|---|---|
AARP USA Research, design and develop a model constituent engagement plan to be piloted in connection with soliciting the opinions and expertise of AARP members to inform the development of AARP policy | 2019 | $22,000 |
AARP USA Design and launch online member engagement projects using new crowdlaw platforms. Focus area is member views on big data and healthcare. | 2019-2020 | $50,000 |
ANZSOG Australia Public Entrepreneurship: Collaboration with ANZSOG to survey and develop innovations skills curriculum for public servants. | 2019-2020 | $205,000 |
Agence Francaise De Developpement Global Supporting Data4Covid19 Challenge | 2021-2023 | $71,000 |
Amazon Web Services USA Sponsorship of Open Data 500 Roundtable | 2014 | $25,000 |
Anonymous UAE Primer on international insights and ideas in how to innovate in government for a think tank. | 2018 | $18,180 |
Anonymous Family Foundation Mexico Research on scaling city challenge from one city to many in Latin America. | 2018-2019 | $91,000 |
Anonymous Foundation Latin America Research tech-enabled citizen engagement models and design a model for running City Challenges across several Latin American cities simultaneously | 2018-2019 | $200,000 |
Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Global 100 Questions--- Food Systems Sustainability | 2021 | $25,000 |
Bertelsmann Foundation Global Supporting the development of a methodology for people-led innovation and co-design in cities | 2019 | $40,000 |
Bertelsmann Foundation Global 100 Questions - Future of Work | 2020 | $50,000 |
Bertelsmann Foundation USA/Europe Trendspotting: creation of public-facing dashboard that will track the political and economic relationships between the US and the members of the EU | 2019-2020 | $268,272 |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation NULL CrowdLaw: Create the infrastructure for equitable, online youth, parent and teacher engagement in policymaking. | Nov 2020-May 2021 | $445,937 |
Canada's Open Data Exchange Canada Open Data 500 Collaboration and membership in the OD500 network, supporting research on the impact of open data on job creation and economic growth in Canada | 2015 | $20,000 |
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative USA (Burnes Center) Community-Centered AI Initiative in California | 2024 - 2025 | $125,000 |
Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford Global Global learning hub for outcomes-based approaches | 2021 | $33,000 |
Data Transparency Coalition USA Open Data 500 Roundtable Sponsorship | 2014 | $2,500 |
Data2X Global 100 Questions - incorporating gender | 2019-2020 | $30,000 |
Deloitte Consulting & Advisory CVBA USA Business-to-Government data sharing for the public interest | 2020-2021 | $31,600 |
Democracy Fund Global Researching global models for citizen engagement in lawmaking and continuity of legislative operations using new technology. | 2018-2020 | $351,800 |
Democracy Fund USA (BURNES CENTER) Using Crowdsourcing to tap into diverse collective wisdom for ideas on how DF can tackle the problem of accountability for election subversion | 2023 | $100,000 |
FHI360 (USAID) Global MStar SubAward supporting research on Open Data in Developing Economies | 2018-2019 | $112,000 |
Global Supporting research on the uses of private sector social media data to tackle public problems | 2017 | $25,000 |
Global Creation of Data for Policy Institute | 2020 | $100,000 |
NULL 100 Questions Sponsorship | 2019-2020 | $200,000 |
15 Country Study Virtual Communities Research and Trend Report | 2020 | $300,000 |
Global Data portability | 2020 | $100,000 |
Google.org Global Supporting the development of "in the wild" empirical research methods for studying innovations in government, including methods for introducing randomized controlled trials in the study of institutional innovation | 2013-2014 | $300,000 |
Google.org USA (BURNES CENTER) In support of InnovateUS | 2023-2026 | $2,000,000 |
Google.org USA (Burnes Center) In support of InnovateUS | 2024 - 2026 | $5,000,000 |
Govern for America USA Training/coaching program for Govern for America Fellows | 2019-2020 | $48,000 |
Government of Australia Australia Open Data 500 Collaboration and membership in the OD 500 Network | 2015 | $20,000 |
Government of British Columbia Canada Benchmarking Study: Comparing British Columbia with other governments | 2013 | $20,000 |
Government of South Australia Australia Supporting research on how people learn in the public sector ("Network of Innovators") | 2017 | $20,000 |
Government of South Korea South Korea Open Data 500 Collaboration and membership in the OD 500 Network, Supporting research on the impact of open data on job creation and economic growth in South Korea | 2016 | $20,000 |
Government of South Korea South Korea Open Data 500 Collaboration and membership in the OD 500 Network | 2015 | $20,000 |
Henry Luce Foundation USA Covid-19 Re-Use of Data and the Public - Collective Deliberation Project | 2020-21 | $150,000 |
Henry Luce Foundation USA (BURNES CENTER) To support development of a scalable, at-your-own pace on-line course on “What Works” designed to improve government effectiveness and deepen democracy. | 2023 | $250,000 |
ICANN Global Operationalizing Principles of a Distributed Internet Governance Framework, supporting research on innovative models of Internet governance | 2013-2014 | $312,254 |
ICANN Global Supporting ICANN Strategy Panels | 2013-2014 | $480,410 |
ICANN Global To develop a Prototype of the NETmundial Solutions Map | 2014 | $99,998 |
ICANN Global Supporting a blueprint for an alternative framework of internet governance that is distributed and collaborative | 2014-2015 | $53,465 |
ICANN Global Sustaining and Expanding the NETmundial Solutions Map | 2014-2015 | $40,000 |
ICMA USA Original survey of innovation skills of local governments | 2018-2019 | $30,000 |
IMC Worldwide Global COVID19 Responsible Data Toolkit | 2020-2021 | $41,700 |
INFOTEC (on behalf of the Mexican Government) Mexico/Global Operationalization Memo – “Toward a Distributed Collaborative Internet Governance Ecosystem” | 2012-2013 | $114,222 |
Inter-American Development Bank Latin America Development of Open Data Assessment Tool in Latin American countries | 2019 | $40,000 |
Inter-American Development Bank Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Colombia Crowdsourcing to Support Preparedness and Response to Zika Virus and Other Public Health Emergencies, supporting research on the use of experts-sourcing to accelerate solutions to mosquito-borne illness | 2016 | $208,000 |
Inter-American Development Bank Mexico Smarter Crowdsourcing Anti-Corruption, using expert sourcing to address corruption in Mexico with rapid policy advising | 2017 | $150,000 |
Inter-American Development Bank Paraguay Public Entrepreneurship: Development of blueprint for GovLab Paraguay, innovation skills assessment and training program | 2019-2020 | $90,000 |
Inter-American Development Bank Latin America Smarter Crowdsourcing: Covid in Latin America | 2020 | $300,000 |
International Labour Organisation Global Transformative Technology for Decent Work: Field scan of innovations in labour law and enforcement | 2019 | $40,000 |
International Organization of Migration Global Supporting Efforts of the BigData for Migration Alliance | 2020 | $60,000 |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Global Pre-Research Network Planning Grant to identify initial research agenda | 2012 | $800,000 |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Global Research Network on Opening Governance, supporting a multi-school, multi-discipline research network to study the impact of technology on governing | 2014-2020 | $8,000,000 |
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Global Supporting research on the curriculum of public entrepreneurship and problem solving | 2012-2014 | $3,200,000 |
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation USA To conduct a census of existing companies using open data to be able to provide insight and recommendations that will lead to a better understanding of opportunities for companies to invest in open data. | 2014-2015 | $74,900 |
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation USA To convene an Interdisciplinary Conference on Innovation in Governance (GovLab Experiment) | 2013 | $75,000 |
Laura and John Arnold Foundation USA Supporting research on data driven criminal justice innovation and creation of an online course on data science for public good | 2016-2017 | $851,600 |
Luminate Global Supporting GovLab's data programs | 2019-2022 | $700,000 |
Luminate Global Institutional Grant - Data Collaboratives | n/a | $55,000 |
Madrid, Spain City Council Spain Collaboration on the creation of an urban innovation laboratory on citizen participation (“GOVLAB MADRID”) based on the GOVLAB experience | 2018-2020 | $170,000 |
Markle Foundation USA Supporting research on the economic value of open data | 2015 | $80,551 |
MediaLab Prado Spain Experiment design and analysis to improve citizen participation in Madrid | 2018 | $17,000 |
Mexico's Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary Latin America Open Justice: combines a 10-module MOOC and a hands-on coaching program to educate Mexican public officials on how to use new technologies to improve the judicial system | 2018-2019 | $262,000 |
Microsoft USA The Collective Intelligence Conference Sponsorship | 2017 | $10,000 |
Microsoft Global Support an open data policy lab/observatory | 2020 - 2024 | $2,015,000 |
Microsoft Global Accelerating Data Access for the Public Interest | 2024 - 2025 | $500,000 |
NHS England UK Develop approaches to assessing and overcoming the data science capacity gap | 2017 | $133,666 |
NHS England UK To support the development of a research and evaluation programme for the open data era in health and social care | 2014 | $131,880 |
NYU-AIG Partnership USA Develop prototype tool for crowdsourcing in construction/extractives industries | 2017 | $125,000 |
NYU-AIG Partnership USA Research proposal solicitation and management | 2017 | $50,000 |
New York University USA Supporting research on computational methods for making distributed expertise searchable and matching the supply of expertise in universities to the demand for it in government and in universities. Also supporting the creation of expert systems in support of NYU projects | 2013-2015 | $1,120,047 |
New York University USA Institutional support | 2019 | $100,000 |
Northeastern University NULL Smarter Crowdsourcing | 2021 | $64,200 |
Oliver Wyman Inc. NULL Smarter Crowdsourcing | 2020-2021 | $80,000 |
Omidyar Network Global Powering NYers through Open Data, supporting research on the impact of open data in New York City | 2017 | $75,690 |
Omidyar Network Global Supporting GovLab's data programs | 2017-2019 | $1,000,000 |
Omidyar Network Global Development of OpenData Case Studies and Web Site to House Them | 2016 | $125,000 |
Open Data Institute USA Open Data 500 Research Collaboration | 2015 | $10,000 |
Organization of American States Latin America Supporting Coaching Programs for OAS Fellowship on Open Government and evaluation of the Fellowship program | 2016-2017 | $31,000 |
PWC USA Open Data 500 Roundtable sponsorship | 2015 | $2,500 |
Paul Ramsay Foundation Australia 100 Questions for Breaking Cycles of Disadvantage in Australia | 2021 | $74,373 |
PinkTank UAE Preparation of innovation briefs to inform the Shared Services Worshop Research project | 2018 | $19,965 |
PinkTank Global Case studies where AI for CI is used by organizations to investigate customer expectations | 2019 | $25,000 |
Rockefeller Foundation Global CrowdLaw: Supporting Bellagio conference on citizen engagement in lawmaking. In-kind gift of conference support. | 2018 | $NaN |
Rockefeller Foundation Global Supporting research on societal implications of blockchain ("BlockChange: Blockchain for Social Change") | 2018-2019 | $150,000 |
Rockefeller Foundation USA Data Stewards | April 2020-Feb 2021 | $64,200 |
Schmidt Futures/Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund Global Support for creation of Data Collaboratives on 100 Questions whose answers could transform the way we solve a variety of 21st Century problems | 2019-2020 | $200,000 |
Schmidt Futures/Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund USA (BURNES CENTER) To Support Responsible AI Skills Development for Public Professionals | 2023 | $250,000 |
Schmidt Sciences NULL City Challenges - Supporting research on open innovation and its impact on policymaking | 2017 | $100,000 |
Splunk Global Developing an Enabling Policy Environment for Bridging the Data Divide and Preventing a “Data Winter” | 2024 - 2025 | $100,000 |
Stanford University Markets for Good Global Data Labs: Using administrative data for improving program effectiveness in the social sector | 2017 | $37,357 |
Technical University of Munich Global Global AI Ethics Consortium Course | 2020-2021 | $59,000 |
Technical University of Munich Global The Ethics and Practice of AI Localism at a Time of Covid-19 and Beyond | 2020-2021 | $39,800 |
Tinker Foundation Mexico Multi-City Challenge 2019-2020: Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Cities in Northern Mexico | 2020 | $30,000 |
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Canada Supporting creation of Introduction to Open Government course for Canadian Federal Public Servants | 2017-2018 | $14,600 |
UNDP Addis Ababa, Lagos, Accra, Kampala and Harare Multi-City Challenge Africa | 2020 | $80,000 |
UNICEF Global Data Responsibility for Children | 2019 | $175,000 |
UNICEF Global Supporting the study of uses of private sector for public good | 2018 | $164,786 |
United Nations Foundation Latin America Addressing Inequality of Access to Urban Transportation from a Gender Perspective, supporting the creation of a Data Collaborative on Gender and Urban Mobility | 2018-2019 | $100,000 |
United Nations OCHA Global Research on responsible data use | 2018 | $29,000 |
United States Department of Agrictulure USA Supporting a USDA Open Data Summer Camp | 2015-2016 | $22,500 |
Walton Family Foundation USA Smarter Crowdsourcing New Measures | 2020 | $474,000 |
Walton Family Foundation USA (BURNES CENTER) To support an Equitable Engagement Lab pilot project which will provide assistance to a cohort of six WFF grantee organizations with non-representative and representative forms of engagement and insight | 2023 | $499,736 |
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Global Supporting development of a program to strengthen data collaboratives and increase responsible data sharing | 2017-2018 | $600,000 |
World Bank Global Building a research repository on open government research | 2017 | $10,000 |
World Economic Forum Global Promoting Public Engagement with NETmundial Solutions Map | 2014-2015 | $170,000 |
World Resources Institute Global Toward a Responsible and Ethical Data Management Framework | 2020 | $40,000 |
