Additional Links

 

RC = Member of the reform coalition

OC = Organization co-sponsor of the Fair Elections Now Act

IR = Information Resource

AO = Advocacy Organization

 

Americans for Campaign Reform (OC, IR, AO)

  • Americans for Campaign Reform is building a nonpartisan grassroots movement of citizens who support voluntary public funding and want Congress to act now.

 

Americans Pissed-Off Enough (IR, AO)

  • APE aspires to provide every American with the necessary tools to lobby their government so their interests are placed before corporate and special interests. 

 

Brennan Center for Justice (RC, IR, AO)

  • The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice.

 

Campaign Finance Information Center (IR)

  • The Campaign Finance Information Center is dedicated to helping journalists follow the campaign money trail -- on the national, state and local levels.

 

Campaign Finance Institute (IR)

  • The Campaign Finance Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit institute, affiliated with The George Washington University, that conducts objective research and education, empanels task forces and makes recommendations for policy change in the field of campaign finance.

 

Campaign for America's Future (IR, OC, AO)

  • The Campaign for America’s Future is the strategy center for the progressive movement. Our goal is to forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity that our country was meant to be.

 

Campus Progress (IR, AO)

  • Campus Progress, part of the Center for American Progress, works to help young people -- advocates, activists, journalists, artists -- make their voices heard on issues that matter.

 

Center for Public Integrity (AO, IR)

  • The mission of the Center for Public Integrity is to produce original investigative journalism about significant public issues to make institutional power more transparent and accountable.

 

Center for Responsive Politics (IR)

  • The Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the organization aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more responsive government.

 

Change Congress (IR, AO)

  • Change Congress is a movement to build support for basic reform in how our government functions. Using our tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington. Our community will link candidates committed to a reform with volunteers and contributors who support it.

 

Citizen Action of New York (IR, AO)

  • Citizen Action of New York is a statewide membership organization founded in 1983. We have individual members and are a coalition of labor, senior citizen, women's, student, tenant and community organizations that works with community activists for social and economic justice.

 

CREW (IR, AO)

  • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life by targeting government officials -- regardless of party affiliation -- who sacrifice the common good to special interests.

 

Color of Money Project (IR)

  • In 1998, Public Campaign released its groundbreaking 1998 report, Color of Money, an in-depth research project that examines federal campaign contributions made to candidates and political committees in the context of US Census data, with a focus on race and ethnicity.

 

Common Cause (RC, OC, IR, AO)

  • Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1970 by John Gardner as a vehicle for citizens to make their voices heard in the political process and to hold their elected leaders accountable to the public interest.

 

CQ Money Line (IR)

  • Congressional Quarterly Inc. has been the nation's leader in political journalism since 1945. Over that time, the company has built a peerless reputation for objective, non-partisan and authoritative reporting on Congress and politics. Today, CQ stands on the leading edge of information companies publishing in both online and print platforms.

 

Democracy 21 (IR, AO, OC)

  • Democracy 21, and its education arm, Democracy 21 Education Fund, work to eliminate the undue influence of big money in American politics and to ensure the integrity and fairness of government decisions and elections. The organization promotes campaign finance reform and other political reforms to accomplish these goals.

 

Demos (AO, IR)

  • Demos is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization. Headquartered in New York City, Demos works with advocates and policymakers around the country in pursuit of four overarching goals: a more equitable economy; a vibrant and inclusive democracy; an empowered public sector that works for the common good; and responsible U.S. engagement in an interdependent world.

 

Drum Major Institute (IR, AO)

  • The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy is a non-partisan, non-profit think tank generating the ideas that fuel the progressive movement.

 

Fair Elections (IR, AO)

  • Fair Elections is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that is working to eliminate the influence of wealthy interests from our election system.

 

Fair Elections Now

  • FairElectionsNow.org is the official website of the reform coalition advocated for the Fair Elections Now Act in Congress.

 

Federal Election Commission (FEC) (IR)

  • In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) - the statute that governs the financing of federal elections.

 

Greenlining Institute (IR, AO)

  • The Greenlining Institute’s mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities.

 

 Head Count (AO)

  • We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization devoted to voter registration and participation in democracy. We were created in 2004 by a group of artists, music industry professionals and fans, all determined to make sure the live music community is well-represented at the polls.

 

National Institute on Money in State Politics (IR)

  • The National Institute on Money in State Politics is the only nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 states.

 

League of Conservation Voters (IR, AO, OC)

  • The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is turning environmental values into national priorities.  To secure the environmental future of our planet, LCV’s mission is to advocate for sound environmental policies and to elect pro-environmental candidates who will adopt and implement such policies. 

 

League of Women Voters (IR, AO, OC)

  • The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, has fought since 1920 to improve our systems of government and impact public policies through citizen education and advocacy.

 

League of Young Voters (IR, AO)

  • The League makes politics relevant, fun and meaningful to young people. We meet young people where they are, work on issues that affect their lives, and provide tools and training to make them viable players and winners in the political game.

 

MapLight (IR)

  • MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways.

 

National Voting Rights Institute (IR, AO)

  • The National Voting Rights Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to making real the promise of American democracy that meaningful political participation and power should be accessible to all regardless of economic or social status.

 

New York Democracy Project (IR, AO)

  • The New York Democracy Project is a voting bloc that forces politicians to reject corporate owned elections.

 

Mobilize.org

  • Mobilize.org is an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation. We work to show young people how public policy impacts our lives, and more importantly – how we can impact public policy.

 

People for the American Way (IR, AO, OC)

  • People For the American Way is dedicated to making the promise of America real for every American: Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts. The American Way.

 

Public Campaign (RC, IR, AO, OC)

  • Public Campaign is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to sweeping campaign reform that aims to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.

 

Public Citizen (RC, IR, AO, OC)

  • Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.

 

Rock the Vote (IR, AO)

  • Rock the Vote uses music, popular culture and new technologies to engage and incite young people to register and vote in every election. And we give young people the tools to identify, learn about, and take action on the issues that affect their lives, and leverage their power in the political process.

 

Sierra Student Coalition

  • The Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) is a network of high school and college students from across the country working to protect the environment. The SSC is the youth-run (age 14-30) chapter of the Sierra Club, the nation's oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization.

 

Source Watch (IR, AO)

  • SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy.

 

Student PIRGS (AO, IR)

  • The student PIRGs are independent state-based student organizations that work to solve public interest problems related to the environment, consumer protection, and government reform.

 

Sunlight Foundation (AO, IR)

  • The Sunlight Foundation is committed to helping citizens, bloggers and journalists be their own best congressional watchdogs, by improving access to existing information and digitizing new information, and by creating new tools and Web sites to enable all of us to collaborate in fostering greater transparency.

 

USPIRG (RC, IR, AO, OC)

  • U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), takes on powerful interests on behalf of the American public, working to win concrete results for our health and our well-being.

 

Votes for Sale?

  • A 50 minute episode of NOW w/ David Brancaccio on PBS that follows the clean elections movement. 

 

White House For Sale

  • This Web site allows you to follow the money trail of campaign bundlers – or people who funnel money to campaigns – as they collect thousands, and sometimes even millions, of dollars from other people for the 2008 presidential candidates.

 

Youth Policy Action Center

  • The Youth Policy Action Center is a Web site that engages young people (and adults) in democracy: changing policies that change young people’s lives.