The more I learn about local government, the more it seems like infrastructure spending is a Ponzi scheme. Small towns thriving is so important to the country (and the world). 🏘

So many alternatives to police. Let's help without guns wherever we can. 🙅‍♂️

The internet is my second home. It's good to know people fighting for its independence are out there. I want to help them. 👍

Hard to keep up with tech sometimes. We need more investigations into how it's being used, and for whose benefit. 💻

A private place with resources to help build healthy lives and families. 💖

Boggles the mind this is necessary. So glad The Human Utility is helping out.🚰

Need more investigative journalists in the world. To untangling real life and fight off the conspiracy theories. 💪

High quality education for everyone for free. They deserve some support. ✊️

"Original research to ground informed, evidence-based public debate about emerging technology." Yep. Need that. 🤩

Lifting up some of the most at-risk girls and families. Teaching them how to be future activists and leaders. 🥰

Nonprofit organization focused on community development. Building fiscally resilient, prosperous cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

The Strong Towns approach is a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world. We believe that in order to truly thrive, our cities and towns must:

Stop valuing efficiency and start valuing resilience. Stop betting our futures on huge, irreversible projects, and start taking small, incremental steps and iterating based on what we learn. Stop fearing change and start embracing a process of continuous adaptation. Stop building our world based on abstract theories, and start building it based on how our places actually work and what our neighbors actually need today. Stop obsessing about future growth and start obsessing about our current finances.

But most importantly, we believe that Strong Citizens from all walks of life can and must participate in a Strong Towns approach—from citizens to leaders, professionals to neighbors, and everyone in between. And that means we need you.

Strong Towns

Over 1,000 people are killed by police every year in America. We are calling on local, state, and federal lawmakers to take immediate action to adopt data-driven policy solutions to end this violence and hold police accountable.

Campaign ZERO was developed with contributions from activists, protesters and researchers across the nation. This data-informed platform presents comprehensive solutions to end police violence in America. It integrates community demands and policy recommendations from research organizations and President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.


Campaign Zero

We defend your civil liberties in a digital world.

The first line of defense when your rights in the digital world come under attack. EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as our use of technology grows.

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.

As a nonprofit newsroom, our journalism exists to serve the public. And that’s why we have embraced a Show Your Work philosophy. Whenever possible, we will publish the underlying datasets and code that we use in our investigations, as well as a detailed methodology describing the data, its provenance and the statistical techniques used in our analysis. We invite academics, journalists, policymakers, consumer activists, and community organizers to engage with our findings—after all, this is for you.

We also want our stories to reach you where you are. That means we will publish our stories on our own site and also through distribution partnerships with other media.  And because we know many different types of audiences—including those we don’t know about!—will be interested in our work, we encourage you to freely republish our work under the terms of our Creative Commons license. 

The Markup

We’re America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care.

The mission of Planned Parenthood is to provide comprehensive reproductive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of each individual, to advocate public policies that guarantee these rights and ensure access to such services, to provide educational programs that enhance understanding of individual and societal implications of human sexuality, to promote research and the advancement of technology in reproductive health care and encourage understanding of their inherent bioethical, behavioral, and social implications.

Founded in 1916, Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, educator, and passionate advocate here in the U.S. as well as a strong partner to health and rights organizations around the world. Each year, Planned Parenthood delivers vital sexual and reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people. 

Planned Parenthood

The Human Utility is a non-profit organization providing help to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

Water is a human right. But, the United States has a water affordability problem. In places like Detroit, Baltimore, and other cities, families unable to afford their water bills have their water shut off. When this happens, kids can't bathe, people can't wash dishes, and grandparents can't flush their toilets.

The Human Utility's mission is to preserve human dignity by increasing water affordability for all families in the United States through crowdfunding, community-building, and policy action.

On July 18th, 2013, before a small gathering of court reporters and local activists, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder stepped out to a podium and confirmed an unsettling rumor: the city of Detroit was filing for bankruptcy.

No American city of its size or stature had ever so monumentally faltered. Yet, the news surprised no one. “It’s sad, but you could see the writing on the wall,” Terrence Tyson, a long-time Detroit city worker, told The New York Times, shortly afterward. “This has been coming for ages.”

Just 50 years earlier, Detroit had been a flourishing metropolis. As “the cradle of America’s automobile industry,” it had been the country’s fourth-largest city, with a workforce 1.8 million strong. But decades of racial tensions, restructuring, and industry decline took a toll: by the 2010 census, the city’s population had plunged more than 60%. Once a haven of economic growth, Detroit had morphed into what journalists deemed to be a “dystopia” -- a place largely reserved for the disenfranchised who had no means of escaping, and few employment opportunities.

For these residents, bankruptcy came with drastic consequences. An estimated $18-20 billion in debt, the city of Detroit immediately began struggling to recoup funds. The first source it turned to was the Water and Sewage Department, whose bonds accounted for roughly one-third of this debt.

Targeting people who owed the Water Department as little as $150, dozens of blue utilities trucks descended on the fringes of the city to shut off water in 24,000 homes.

And this was just the beginning.

The Human Utility

Newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.  Investigative journalism is at risk. Many news organizations have increasingly come to see it as a luxury. Today’s investigative reporters lack resources: Time and budget constraints are curbing the ability of journalists not specifically designated “investigative” to do this kind of reporting in addition to their regular beats. New models are, therefore, necessary to carry forward some of the great work of journalism in the public interest that is such an integral part of self-government, and thus an important bulwark of our democracy.

ProPublica

Working to make a free, world-class education available for anyone, anywhere with remote learning resources.

For every student,
every classroom.
Real results.
We’re a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Personalized learning -  Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.
Trusted content - Created by experts, Khan Academy’s library of trusted, standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers.
Tools to empower teachers - With Khan Academy, teachers can identify gaps in their students’ understanding, tailor instruction, and meet the needs of every student.


Khan Academy

Original research on topics including AI and automation, the impact of technology on labor and health, and online disinformation.

Data & Society is an independent nonprofit research organization. We believe that empirical evidence should directly inform the development and governance of new technology. We study the social implications of data and automation, producing original research to ground informed, evidence-based public debate about emerging technology.

We combine academic rigor with creative outreach to connect, convene, and sustain expert and practitioner networks. Since 2014, Data & Society has defined the field with original research and programming to break down disciplinary silos and connect provocative thinkers across sectors.

Data & Society Research Institute

The Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY — Connecting Girls to Healthy and Successful Futures.


The Lower Eastside Girls Club has been “Opening Doors, Empowering Women, and Building Community Girl by Girl” since 1996.
Today we operate a full-service arts, science and civic engagement Center for Community on Avenue D adjacent to the low-income NYCHA housing projects. We run programs that serve girls and young women throughout New York’s five boroughs, and collaborate with a range of National and Global partners.

Lower East Side Girls Club

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Co-founder & CTO @ Every.org. Especially excited by small nonprofits doing big things for underprivileged people and our planet.