Those are among the changes now in effect for the city’s Democracy Fund, a pioneering municipal program that began in 2007 and attempts to limit the influence of special interests and encourage more ...

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Among the lawsuits was one filed by the progressive group Public Citizen, joined by the State Democracy Defenders Fund, a Democratic-aligned legal hub formed last year by ...

Led by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund, petitioners pledged to reverse existing boom-and-bust dynamics where money floods politically engaged nonprofits late into election years ...