Sunlight Foundation

Sunlight Foundation Press Release Archive

Press Releases for January 2008

• Sunlight Awarded $2 Million Grant by Omidyar Network

  WASHINGTON, DC - The Sunlight Foundation today announced an investment of $2 million from Omidyar Network, a mission-based organization established by Pam and Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. This is the second such grant Sunlight received from Omidyar Network. Sunlight also announced that Lawrence Lessig, renowned expert in intellectual property and Stanford University Law Professor, has joined its Advisory Board.

• Sunlight Foundation Offers Mini-grants to Increase Transparency of Government Information

  WASHINGTON, DC - The Sunlight Foundation is announcing the availability of "mini-grants" of $1,000 to $5,000. These grants will fund original ideas, tools, Web sites, and bloggers that further the organization's mission of using the Internet to create a better, more dynamic relationship between members of Congress and the citizens they represent.