A goal of the Computational and Applied Data Sciences Initiative (CaADS) is to foster more interdisciplinary research and teaching networks on campus for faculty and students working in these areas and to encourage more engagement with all aspects of data collection and analysis through dedicated resources. As part of that effort, a call for proposals went out in the 2022-23 academic year under the theme of “Data and Democracy,” or how quantitative data and computational methods can be used to study democratic processes, information, and outcomes in both the United States and globally. The funds were available to support research or pedagogical innovation, with a preference for applications that proposed new or enhanced course content related to the theme or support collaborative faculty projects and faculty-student collaboration on research, including in research labs.