Causes: Government & Public Administration
Mission: The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. We are committed to improving access to government information by making it available online, indeed redefining “public” information as meaning “online, ” and by creating new tools and websites to enable individuals and communities to better access that information and put it to use. We want to catalyze greater government transparency by engaging individual citizens and communities -- technologists, policy wonks, open government advocates and ordinary citizens –- demanding policies that will enable all of us to hold government accountable. Sunlight develops and encourages new government policies to make it more open and transparent, facilitates searchable, sortable and machine readable databases, builds tools and websites to enable easy access to information, fosters distributed research projects as an community building tool, engages in advocacy for 21st century laws to require that government make data available in real time and trains thousands of journalists and citizens in using data and the web to watchdog Washington.
Programs: Grants-the sunlight foundation grants money to organizations that use new web 2.0 technology to further the organizations mission of making information about congress and government more accessible to the american people.
sunlight labs activities include (1) prototype technology ideas to improve government transparency and political influence disclosure and (2) technical support to sunlight foundation sponsored projects.
sunlight foundation programs other than grants or the action of sunlight labs that use the transformative power of the internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what congress and their elected representatives are doing.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.
Mission: The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. We are committed to improving access to government information by making it available online, indeed redefining “public” information as meaning “online, ” and by creating new tools and websites to enable individuals and communities to better access that information and put it to use. We want to catalyze greater government transparency by engaging individual citizens and communities -- technologists, policy wonks, open government advocates and ordinary citizens –- demanding policies that will enable all of us to hold government accountable. Sunlight develops and encourages new government policies to make it more open and transparent, facilitates searchable, sortable and machine readable databases, builds tools and websites to enable easy access to information, fosters distributed research projects as an community building tool, engages in advocacy for 21st century laws to require that government make data available in real time and trains thousands of journalists and citizens in using data and the web to watchdog Washington.
Programs: Grants-the sunlight foundation grants money to organizations that use new web 2.0 technology to further the organizations mission of making information about congress and government more accessible to the american people.
sunlight labs activities include (1) prototype technology ideas to improve government transparency and political influence disclosure and (2) technical support to sunlight foundation sponsored projects.
sunlight foundation programs other than grants or the action of sunlight labs that use the transformative power of the internet and new information technology to enable citizens to learn more about what congress and their elected representatives are doing.
Donor & Volunteer Advisory
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.
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