Sunlight Foundation
Rating: 3.67 stars 3 3 reviews 3,720
Address:
1818 N Street NW Suite 300 Washington DC 20036 USA
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.
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2 people found this review helpful
Organization operates annual Transparency camp, and advertises that it allows interested persons to attend for free, and as volunteers, by registering well in advance, and I received email updates about expected duties and conduct at the event. At very last minute, the event Organizer and Coordinator failed to email nor phone me and others, that we were NOT needed, and, only a few volunteers were actually needed, and that I instead pay to attend. I complained to Director and two top staff members, yet they ignored me and sanctioned this very unprofessional, arrogantly handling of this matter, without reprimanding the Organizer and Coordinator.
Sunlight seriously needs to correct this situation and improve its computerized volunteer registration glitches, and hire MUCH more mature, accountable- under- any -circumstance individuals, and not short-term juvenile interns who dont give a dern about fulfilling job duties or serving the public.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Sunlight seriously needs to correct this situation, by conducting character, even criminal backgrund checks on new hires, and vastly improve computerized volunteer registration glitches. Sunlight should allow more mature, accountable- under- any -circumstance individuals to come into its fold...not any short-term juvenile interns to tackle major duties while not giving a dern about fulfilling job duties, or serving the public.
Would you volunteer for this group again?
No
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
None
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Badly
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Unlikely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2014
1 person found this review helpful
Sunlight fosters a network of sites that start to bring accountability via transparency to government, Federal, state, and local.
The deal is ultimately to show where money comes from, who gets it, and who gets what in turn.
Sunlight is the big operator in this space, getting done more than anyone.
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Will you volunteer or donate to this organization beyond what is required of board members?
Definitely
How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
A lot
Will you tell others about this organization?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
The deal is that Sunlight Foundation is all about government accountability and transparency, helping taxpayers get what they pay for. They're the folks who work with Congress to show Americans what's really going on.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
I've heard from many Congressmen and taxpayers that Sunlight's making a real impact with government transparency.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Help them be able to make more government more transparent as soon as possible.
