In April, CTCL launched the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a nonpartisan collaborative to envision, support, and celebrate excellence in U.S. election administration.

During the first year of the program, we are identifying local election departments who want to join the Alliance and serve as a support system for each other and for other election departments across the country. These offices will be recognized as U.S. Centers for Election Excellence.

While we have received strong initial interest from many election departments that would like to get involved with the Alliance, we recognize that election officials are currently in the middle of primary election season. To ensure that every interested election department is able to respond, we are extending the deadline to let us know if you would like to be a Center for Election Excellence. If you would like to learn more, or explore whether your election office would be a good fit for the Centers for Election Excellence program, please fill out the form by Monday, May 16th.

Centers for Election Excellence will be selected based on their:

• Excitement and willingness to participate in the program
• Commitment to improve upon practices and procedures aimed at enhancing the voter, poll worker, and staff experiences
• Commitment to being part of a learning cohort, sharing materials among cohort members, and providing input into the future of the program

Introduced to the world at TED2022 with funding catalyzed by the Audacious Project, the Alliance is a five-year, $80 million strategy to envision, support, and celebrate excellence in U.S. election administration.

Launched in April 2018, The Audacious Project is a collaborative funding initiative that’s catalyzing social impact on a grand scale. Housed at TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, and with support from leading social impact advisor The Bridgespan Group, The Audacious Project convenes funders and social entrepreneurs with the goal of supporting bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges. The funding collective is made up of respected organizations and individuals in philanthropy, including the Skoll Foundation, Virgin Unite, The Valhalla Charitable Foundation, ELMA Philanthropies and more. The Audacious Project works with the Science Philanthropy Alliance to identify and vet high-quality basic science projects. Each year The Audacious Project supports a new cohort. The 2021-2022 recipients are The Center for Tech and Civic Life, ClimateWorks: Drive Electric, Code for America, Glasswing International, The International Refugee Assistance Project, myAgro, Noora Health, The Tenure Facility, and Woodwell Climate Research Center.