Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

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CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

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The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

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Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

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Progressive gifts made by designers who give a shit

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Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

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A World Bank working paper (2016)

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The ODI's white paper on ethical data policies

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Coordinate your universe of online actions. Create a pattern of regular engagement and watch your support skyrocket. Built on NationBuilder.

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A conference in South Africa that sought to increase collaboration among players in media, technology, civil society, and business in order to improve both the quantity and quality of civic innovation in South Africa as well as other countries in the region.

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The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing

Fractured Atlas help individual artists and arts organizations at every level of the cultural ecosystem, in every creative medium by providing fundraising tools, educational resources, and personalized support

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

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Law Help Interactive is an online service which helps users fill out legal documents for free.

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An online forum for community discussion

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Impact Engine is an investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.

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Over the past ten years, we’ve helped more than a hundred local and national authorities across four continents think differently about public services

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In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

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in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

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O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.

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An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

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PROGRAM ON PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

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Tactical Tech is a non profit that explores the political and social role of technology in our lives.

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Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

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Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

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To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

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The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

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The resistance is local—welcome! Type in your zip code to find local, independent Indivisible groups in your area that have agreed to organize according to Indivisible’s principles. Come prepared to make plans for action and meet others who are working to resist Trump’s agenda. Register a group

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Pentru munca de cercetare din cadrul proiectului „Podul Bunei Guvernări", au fost verificate 106 instituţii din România (18 ministere, 41 de consilii judeţene şi 47 de primării ale municipiilor reşedinţă de judeţ, inclusiv Bucureşti şi cele 6 sectoare).

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Our guide on using design tools and methods in the public sector, created in partnership with design firm IDEO.

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Now GovEx

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FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

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A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

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Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation

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The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

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Primul site de fact-checking pe politicile și declarațiile publice din România.

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The Foundation for Inclusion is the world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges

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With Factlink we have created a layer over the web that shows discussions inside the text you are reading.

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A public database of organizations that use open data from around the world.

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Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.

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PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

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The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide supports evaluation specialists and non-specialists in every stage of an evaluation, from initial decision to final dissemination.

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Last updated 2017

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Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

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We help make technology work for everyone.

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