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OpenSecrets Official Merchandise

OpenSecrets Official Merchandise

Center For Responsive Politics, L Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Sweaters, t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps supporting following the money in American politics

Use Gemini for nonprofits guide

Use Gemini for nonprofits guide

Mountain View, CA

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

Strategic Partnership and Merger Exploration Form

Strategic Partnership and Merger Exploration Form

An IREX Venture are identifying how we can support the development community to surface potential strategic partnerships or mergers that can strengthen resilience.

Bonfire

Bonfire

Richmond, VA

A powerful suite of nonprofit fundraising tools & features that works for your organization.

Private Alert System

Private Alert System

San Francisco

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

European Digital Identity

European Digital Identity

Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien) 🇧🇪

A personal digital wallet for EU citizens and residents

Sujata Strategies Jobs list

Sujata Strategies Jobs list

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Paid job listserv. The Sujata Strategies Job List is one of the most well-read and respected job lists in the progressive community.

Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists

Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

The People Lab

The People Lab

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma

Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma

United States of America 🇺🇸

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

LegWiki

LegWiki

Washington, DC

Organizing Info About Congress

How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop

How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

datahacker

datahacker

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

Every CRS Report

Every CRS Report

Washington, DC

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

American Governance Institute

American Governance Institute

Washington, DC

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

TV Kitchen

TV Kitchen

Pennsylvania

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024

Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

Data as Material Course

Data as Material Course

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY

Taught By Richard The

ESRC Digital Good Network

ESRC Digital Good Network

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

Storytelling with Data Course

Storytelling with Data Course

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

Access Info Impact Award

Access Info Impact Award

Access Info Europe, Cava de San Miguel 8, 4 Centro, 28005 Madrid, Spain

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

Civic Service Design Graduate Minor at The New School

Civic Service Design Graduate Minor at The New School

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

How news organizations are creating trust-based AI policies

How news organizations are creating trust-based AI policies

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

Digital Good Index

Digital Good Index

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

Protect My Public Media

Protect My Public Media

United States of America 🇺🇸

NPR and PBS have teamed up to fight US Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media

Norton Domestic Violence Survivor Support

Norton Domestic Violence Survivor Support

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

Fritz Family Fellowship at Georgetown University Tech & Society

Fritz Family Fellowship at Georgetown University Tech & Society

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

Слідство.Інфо (Slidstvo.Info)

Слідство.Інфо (Slidstvo.Info)

Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

Public & Collab Services Course

Public & Collab Services Course

The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

Lenfest Institute Communities of Practice

Lenfest Institute Communities of Practice

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

Data Cameroon

Data Cameroon

Cameroon (Cameroon, Cameroun) 🇨🇲

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

DigiAdGood

DigiAdGood

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

LIA

LIA

Lisbon

O assistente de pesquisa inteligente do Diário da República - AI interaction features with Portugal's national legislative gazette

USAID Forever Sweatshirt

USAID Forever Sweatshirt

United States of America 🇺🇸

Benefits organizations supporting USAID’s global workforce that have lost their jobs including Democracy Forward, which fights in court for people and democracy.

The Outrage

The Outrage

Washington, DC

The Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.

g0v Taipei Community Hub / NPO HUB 2nd Floor 202

g0v Taipei Community Hub / NPO HUB 2nd Floor 202

Taipei City, Taiwan

An open and transparently-run community space for the g0v community in Taipei

Solar Protocol

Solar Protocol

Brooklyn, NY

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

Center for Science and the Imagination

Center for Science and the Imagination

Arizona State University

Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery.

Global Aid Freeze Tracker

Global Aid Freeze Tracker

These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.

DRAPAC VPN  (Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific)

DRAPAC VPN (Digital Rights in Asia-Pacific)

Backed by a group of civil society organisations supporting human rights defenders in Asia-Pacific, the DRAPAC VPN Project is designed to resist blocking by internet censors.

Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding

Charities Affected by Freeze in Foreign Assistance Funding

United States of America 🇺🇸

Charity Navigator's list of 3- and 4-star organizations whose programs may be affected by the Trump Administration's funding freeze.

Identifying Terminated USAID Programs

Identifying Terminated USAID Programs

United States of America 🇺🇸

This form is to help quickly identify what activities were terminated in the February 25 Armageddon at USAID.

Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT)

Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT)

Brussels

We are dedicated to shaping the future of technology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. 

Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)

Project Moonshot (@projmoonshot)

United States of America 🇺🇸

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)

AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)

United States of America 🇺🇸

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

FOIA request

FOIA request

Washington, DC

Create a Freedom of Information request to the United States government

Doing Democracy Differently

Doing Democracy Differently

New York

This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.

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