As we wind down the year, I want to take this moment to thank all of you wholeheartedly for your... View Article
Continue readingWikiLeaks Thoughts
This post was co-written by Ellen Miller and Mike Klein, Sunlight’s co-founders. The Sunlight Foundation was founded in 2006 with... View Article
Continue readingLeading by Example: Earmark Transparency
Due to the failure of Congress to act on President Obama's State of the Union call for a central database of earmarks, a number of NGOs had to build one from the disjointed and disparate disclosures on congressional websites. The database of earmark requests for 2011 was diligently compiled by WashingtonWatch.com, Taxpayers for Common Sense (both Sunlight grantees) and Taxpayers Against Earmarks. They had to troll through more than 39,000 requests sprinkled across congressional websites and deal with horrible data quality issues. As Daniel Schuman expanded on earlier this year, it ain't easy tracking earmarks.
Open Government Directive: Year One
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Open Government Directive, and Sunlight issued the following statement. Please also join us... View Article
Continue readingA Mashup. The Real Story of Lobbying
Last week, when the American League of Lobbyists announced a new PR offensive to help change the public perception of the profession, including this video, we just couldn’t contain ourselves. Their Lobbying-as-American-as-Mom-and-Apple-Pie PR effort deserved a classic Internet video mashup – one, that in Sunlight-style involves “data jamming” – telling the real story of how lobbyists work to control the Washington agenda:
Sunlight’s Checking Influence: Find the Politics in Your Pocketbook
The Sunlight Foundation is proud to announce our Checking Influence tool that gives individuals the power to see the political... View Article
Continue readingForeign Transparency Policies the US Government Could Learn From
The White House blog recently wrote about Obama’s trip to India and mentioned that US-based organizations could learn from Indian... View Article
Continue readingIntroducing Code for America’s Inaugural Fellows
Sunlight gave Code for America its very first grant (a mere $10,000) and served as its fiscal sponsor while it... View Article
Continue readingBuilding a Better Partnership for Open Government: Right Here
President Obama recently attended an Expo on Democracy and Open Government on his trip to India and announced the creation... View Article
Continue readingJoin Sunlight on Election Night for Live Reporting of the Money Behind the Winners
This election season, we’ve tracked (in real time) the explosion of outside spending – now at $427 million and climbing,... View Article
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