Scholarship & Access Fund
$10,000 – $100,000
Registration scholarships, travel support, livestream access, student access, accessibility support.
Funder output: Named scholarship cohort and recipient-count report.
Philanthropic support
Fund rights education, public records literacy, and responsible reporting.
Rights & Records Institute is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit home of the 1A Auditor Summit. Your support helps turn public interest in accountability into practical education — scholarships, public records templates, legal review, instructor stipends, accessibility, and free tools for the public.
- 501(c)(3) nonprofit
- Scholarship program
- Free public resource library
- Advisory board in formation
Why fund this work
Recording alone is not enough.
Everyday people increasingly use phones, public records requests, livestreams, and independent media to document government activity. But people need to understand where they can lawfully be, what they can request, how to stay calm, how to preserve evidence, how to protect privacy, and how to publish with context.
A grant to Rights & Records Institute helps turn public frustration into lawful, disciplined, informed civic participation: know the rules, keep calm, request the records, preserve the evidence, and publish with context.
What your grant can support
- Scholarships for students, low-income attendees, journalists, and community members.
- Public records templates, appeal guides, bodycam request tools, and state law explainers.
- Instructor stipends for civil rights attorneys, records experts, journalists, and field practitioners.
- Curriculum development across rights, records, publishing, and digital evidence safety.
- Recorded sessions, transcripts, captions, and free public resources beyond the paid event.
- Evaluation, reporting, and post-event impact summaries for funders and partners.
Funding priorities
Named priorities, with ask ranges and outputs.
Funders can support a single priority or the full Lab. Each comes with a funder-facing output you can report on.
Public Records Resource Library
$25,000 – $150,000
Templates, request guides, state law links, legal review, and plain-language public resource design.
Funder output: Free public library with downloads and usage metrics.
Rights Education Curriculum
$50,000 – $200,000
Attorney-reviewed guides, recorded modules, workshop materials, and field checklists.
Funder output: Reusable curriculum package and session recordings.
Responsible Publishing & Evidence Safety
$25,000 – $125,000
Verification, redaction, evidence preservation, metadata, backup, and safety resources.
Funder output: Checklists, recorded sessions, and attendee training survey.
Full 1A Rights Education & Public Records Lab
$150,000 – $550,000
Integrated support for scholarships, curriculum, resources, instructors, accessibility, evaluation, and reporting.
Funder output: Full program report with outputs, outcomes, lessons, and next steps.
Donate
Give once, monthly, or to a specific fund.
Gifts support the nonprofit’s charitable and educational work. Donations and grants are kept separate from the for-profit Summit’s commercial sponsorships.
- One-time — support whatever is most needed right now.
- Monthly — sustain scholarships and free resources year-round.
- Restricted — direct your gift to scholarships, the library, or curriculum.
Make a donation
Our embedded donation form (Stripe / Givebutter / Donorbox / Every.org) will appear here at launch. In the meantime, reach us to give or pledge.
Tax-deductibility and receipt language are subject to final 501(c)(3) confirmation and counsel review before launch.
Outcomes & reporting
Grants you can report on.
We focus on measurable educational outputs and realistic civic-learning outcomes — not overpromised social claims. Every grant cycle ends with a post-program report.
Participation
Attendees and livestream participants trained, scholarship recipients, students, and partner organizations.
Resource production
Templates, checklists, guides, videos, transcripts, and resource downloads published.
Learning outcomes
Pre/post self-assessment on rights knowledge, records confidence, documentation, and publishing standards.
Access outcomes
Scholarship completion, recipient feedback, geographic reach, and free-resource usage.
Grants vs. sponsorship
Philanthropy and sponsorship are kept separate.
Philanthropic grant — the Institute
- Charitable support for education, scholarships, public resources, accessibility, and measurable public benefit.
- Best for foundations, donor-advised funds, charitable donors, and civic education funders.
- Measured by educational outputs, scholarship access, resources created, and reporting.
Commercial sponsorship — the LLC
- Marketing relationship for brand visibility, exhibit access, audience reach, and sponsor deliverables.
- Best for companies, creators, platforms, tools, gear brands, and media partners.
- Measured by impressions, leads, booth traffic, and partner promotion.
Looking for brand visibility? Summit sponsorship is handled separately.
For funders
Request the grant packet.
We’ll send the one-page brief, program model, detailed budget, scholarship policy, public resource plan, and reporting framework.
Prefer a conversation?
Schedule a 20–30 minute funder call with our team. A calendar booking link will be added here; for now, email us and we’ll find a time.
FAQ
Common funder questions.
Is this a political project?
No. The nonprofit program is nonpartisan civic education focused on constitutional rights, public records access, lawful documentation, and responsible publishing. We avoid party, candidate, and campaign framing.
Is this legal advice?
No. The program provides educational information and practical training. Attendees and readers should consult counsel in their jurisdiction for legal advice.
How is grant support different from sponsorship?
Sponsorship is a commercial marketing relationship handled by 1A Auditor Summit LLC. Grant support funds charitable education, scholarships, public resources, accessibility, and reporting through Rights & Records Institute.
Can a funder support only scholarships or public resources?
Yes. We welcome restricted support for scholarships, public resources, curriculum, responsible publishing, digital safety, or the full program. Restricted funds are tracked separately.
Will resources be available to the public?
Yes. A key grant-funded output is free public resources — records templates, checklists, guides, transcripts, and selected recordings.
What safeguards are in place?
The program emphasizes lawful conduct, calm documentation, no trespass, no threats, no harassment, no doxxing, and responsible publishing, consistent with our Code of Conduct.