NPAction Update
Vol 6, Issue 1
January 18, 2008

Welcome to the NPAction Update.

Valuable Government Transparency Tools for Nonprofit Advocates

On Jan. 17, the Internet Advocacy Roundtable (IAR) hosted a panel on new Internet tools that provide information and data to make government activities more transparent. "Advocacy depends on knowing what the government is doing," Roundtable founder Alan Rosenblatt told the group. Although the federal government hosts websites that provide critical information to citizens, these websites have tended to be "clunky and not designed for public use," Sunlight Foundation fellow Bill Allison said.

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*"Steal This Code": Put NPAction on Your Site*

NPAction invites organizations to share our tools on their websites. Just copy the HTML code from our site, and you’re ready to go (but when you steal the code, just let us know!).

"Steal the Code" today
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