Democracy Matters Institute

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Democracy Matters, founded in 2001 is "a non-partisan campus-based project of Common Cause, works to get big private money out of politics and people back in." [1]

"The Democracy Matters Institute is supported in part by grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, San Francisco Foundation and others." [2]

Board

Accessed February 2010: [3]

  • Adonal Foyle, President, Founder and President, Democracy Matters; NBA Player, Orlando Magic
  • Jay Mandle, Ph.D., Treasurer - W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics, Colgate University; Author of Money On My Mind
  • Adam Weinberg, Ph.D., Secretary - Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of World Learning and SIT
  • Alex Cole - Founder, Vassar College DM chapter; Associate Director, Hattaway Communications
  • Amira Diamond - Associate Director, Circle of Life
  • Bonnie Hallam - Senior Associate, The Food Trust
  • Tracy Sturdivant - Program Manager, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
  • Chester Asher - Founder and Executive Director, Transform America
  • Bryne Craig - Field Organizer, Hillary for President Campaign - Las Vegas
  • Mareike Janzen - Previous DM Campus Coordinator at Fresno Pacific University
  • Dimitri Wohns - Previous DM Campus Coordinator at Colgate University
  • Emily Kinkead - Previous DM Campus Coordinator at Bloomsburg University

Contact

URL: http://www.democracymatters.org

Resources and articles

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References

  1. About, Democracy Matters Institute, accessed February 16, 2010.
  2. Mission and History, Democracy Matters Institute, accessed February 16, 2010.
  3. Directors, Democracy Matters Institute, accessed February 16, 2010.