Press Release Archives
- 12/11/2007 Sunlight Mashup Puts Congressional Transparency On The Map
- 11/16/2007 Watchdog Groups Urge Senators to Oppose Budget Secrecy
- 11/14/2007 ProgrammableWeb Launches Insanely Useful Hub of Open Source Government Data and APIs
- 11/06/2007 Navigate House Defense Earmarks on Google Earth
- 11/05/2007 Congress Unwilling to Abide by Competitive Contracting
- 10/09/2007 New Congresspedia Project Lets Citizens "Wiki the Vote”
- 10/03/2007 Sunlight Names John Brothers as Chief Technical Officer
- 09/24/2007 New Online Tool Brings Transparency to Earmarks
- 09/18/2007 Google Grant Offers Sunlight Free Web Advertising
- 08/01/2007 Unprecedented Disclosure Requirements Strengthen Lobbying Reform Bill
- 07/26/2007 Sunlight Foundation and Helium Partner to Promote Transparency in Politics
- 07/16/2007 NEW SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION GRANT TO SUPPORT CONGRESSIONAL NEWS AGGREGATOR
- 07/13/2007 NEW LEGISLATIVE PORTALS MAKE CONGRESSPEDIA HUB FOR ACTION AND INFORMATION FOR THOSE ENGAGED IN DEMOCRACY
- 07/02/2007 SUNLIGHT DEBUTS ‘INSANELY USEFUL WEB SITES’ GUIDE TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
- 06/21/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 3 NEW GRANTS TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
- 06/14/2007 SUNLIGHT DEBUTS NEW ONE-STOP SEARCH ENGINE AND API FOR EASIER ACCESS
- 06/12/2007 NEW DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS DEMONSTRATE TOP FEDERAL EARMARKS RECIPIENTS
- 06/08/2007 Watchdog Groups Challenge Members of Congress to Sign Earmark Transparency Pledge, Release All Funding Requests
- 06/01/2007 NEW BILLBOARD IN LOUISVILLE ASKS, “WHAT’S MCCONNELL HIDING?”
- 05/16/2007 SUNLIGHT APPLAUDS TRANSPARENCY REFORM IN HOUSE ETHICS BILL
- 05/15/2007 GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY GROUPS URGE ELECTRONIC PERSONAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REPORTS
- 05/11/2007 Media Alert: Sunlight to Host MAPlight.org Launch of Groundbreaking Money & Politics Search Engine
- 05/08/2007 SUNLIGHT’S OPEN HOUSE PROJECT PUBLISHES TRANSPARENCY RECOMMENDATIONS TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC ACCESS TO CONGRESS
- 05/04/2007 SUNLIGHT AWARDS MASHUP “UNFLUENCE” AS BEST POLITICAL MASHUP
- 05/03/2007 Media Alert: Open House Project to Deliver Transparency Recommendations to U.S. House of Representatives
- 04/20/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION LAUNCHES NEW REAL TIME JOURNALISM PROJECT
- 04/19/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ASKS CITIZEN JOURNALISTS, 'WHO PUT THE SECRET HOLD ON TRANSPARENCY?'
- 04/12/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW GRANTS
- 03/26/2007 Citizen Journalists Find Majority of Congressional Web Sites are not Tools for Transparency
- 03/21/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES OVER $200,000 IN GRANTS TO START OFF 2007
- 02/11/2007 Sunlight Foundation Announces Board Expansion
- 02/08/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES OPEN HOUSE PROJECT
- 01/17/2007 SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM OMIDYAR NETWORK
Recent Sunlight Foundation Projects
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Pass S.223
We need your help to pass S.223. -
Party Time!
Documenting the Political Partying Circuit. -
PoliQuiz
Test Your Political IQ with our interactive political trivia game. -
Let Our Congress Tweet
Congress should join us where we are talking, sharing and networking—online. -
Capitol Words
Fresh from the US Congressional Record to Your Screen. -
Fortune 535
Running the Numbers on Congressional Net Worth. -
Public Markup
An experiment to open bills to online, public review. -
EarmarkWatch
Bringing Citizen Oversight to Congressional Spending. -
Visualizing Earmarks
Select Visualizations of 2005 OMB Earmark Data. -
Where Are They Now?
Former Congressional Staffers head through the Revolving Door -
Punch Clock Map
Putting congressional transparency on the map.
Press Releases
Web Mentions
- Marisacat: Get your war campaigns on……. August 28, 2008
- OSS Spyglass: Open Source South Africa August 28, 2008
- Panic {RE}_Programming:The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online August 28, 2008
- Angela Hayden: Party Time at the DNC. American News Project August 28, 2008
- MediaShift: Digging Deeper:The Best 2008 Political Convention Coverage Online August 28, 2008
- Watchdog Blog: Lobbyists Trying to Hide in Plain Sight at the DNC August 28, 2008
- You can call me Rick: We have the best government that money can buy August 28, 2008
- The Stanford Daily Online: Cardinal goes blue: Stanford’s ties at the Dems’ National Convention August 28, 2008
- Los Angeles Times:Opinion L.A.: What do you do in Denver if you didn't score a Kanye invite? August 28, 2008
- The American Conservative: Freedom of the Press … When It Suits! August 28, 2008
Press Mentions
- She Snags the Invites But Not the Parties August 27, 2008
- AT&T has high profile presence at Dem convention August 27, 2008
- Lobbyists bend ears on issues in swanky settings August 27, 2008
- Interest groups join the party with top Dems August 26, 2008
- Fundraising Loopholes Allow Lobbyists to “Honor” Lawmakers at the Conventions August 26, 2008
- New ethics rules won't spoil Democratic convention parties August 25, 2008
- Loopholes let lawmakers live large August 25, 2008
- Watchdogs Monitor Party Circuit August 25, 2008
- Conventions lure corporate lobbyists August 25, 2008
- Business puts the party in party conventions August 25, 2008
