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Archive of Featured Non-Profits
- Freedom Channel
- Freedom Channel is a free, nonpartisan site that introduces video-on-demand into American politics. The site houses presidential, Senate, House, and gubernatorial candidates' positions on issues in video, audio, and text format. (Featured Wednesday November 8, 2000)
- Alliance for Better Campaigns
- The Alliance for Better Campaigns seeks to improve elections by promoting campaigns in which the most useful information reaches the greatest number of citizens in the most engaging way. (Featured Tuesday November 7, 2000)
- National Conference of State Legislatures
- The most comprehensive site for news on state legislative elections and ballot issues from the nation's authority on state legislatures. (Featured Monday November 6, 2000)
- NetElection.org
- NetElection.org is a resource for journalists, campaign professionals and citizens interested in exploring and understanding the role of the Internet in American political campaigns. (Featured Sunday November 5, 2000)
- ELECnet
- One of the most comprehensive listings of U.S. federal, state, and local elections offices on the Internet, with over 400 links to election-related sites and hotlinks to state and local elections offices. (Featured Friday November 3, 2000)
- Youth Vote 2000
- Youth Vote 2000 is the largest non-partisan coalition committed to encouraging civic participation among our nation's young people. (Featured Wednesday November 1, 2000)
- League of Women Voters
- The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education an (Featured Monday October 30, 2000)
- ServiceVote 2000
- ServiceVote 2000 is a project of Youth Service America to promote public education and voter awareness. (Featured Saturday October 28, 2000)
- Youth-e-Vote.net
- Youth-e-vote gives every student the chance to vote, right here on this site, for President, for your state's Governor and Senator, and for a number of important national issues. (Featured Wednesday October 25, 2000)
- National Constitution Center
- The NCC was established by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution's history, and the Constitution's relevance to our daily lives. (Featured Monday October 23, 2000)
- Kids Voting USA
- Kids Voting USA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to securing democracy for the future by involving youth in the election process today. (Featured Saturday October 21, 2000)
- Web Of Politics
- A critical look at the hope and the hype of the Internet, political participation, and political communication. (Featured Thursday October 19, 2000)
- Quorum.org
- With 35 million people going online this year for election information, there is a unique opportunity to set the standards for an online public space. Quorum.org's goal is to ensure that these standards are driven by positive civic values. (Featured Tuesday October 17, 2000)
- Debate America
- Debate America provides a forum for citizens to raise and discuss issues that are important in their cities and towns. Debate America exists because all issues - and all voices - matter. And they matter all year long - not just at election time. (Featured Sunday October 15, 2000)
- State Elections 2000
- Learn about the eleven gubernatorial races in 2000, and about the importance of this year's state legislative elections, from this nonpartisan nonprofit site. (Featured Friday October 13, 2000)
- Neglection 2000
- Bringing attention to the cycle of disengagement between campaigns and potential young voters. The project examines where candidates are spending time and money and how much (or little) they are targeting potential young voters. (Featured Wednesday October 11, 2000)
- Smart Voter
- Smart Voter is produced by the League of Women Voters of California to provide voters with comprehensive nonpartisan information about the contests on their ballot, and to provide candidates a means to publish information about themselves and their candid (Featured Monday October 9, 2000)
- National Governors Association Elections 2000
- A bipartisan, objective source for information about this yearís gubernatorial elections. It contains a list of the candidates, links to news sources covering the elections, and interesting facts about the governors and the candidates. (Featured Saturday October 7, 2000)
- Minnesota E-Democracy 2000
- A partnership providing one-stop access to election 2000 information, news, and interactive forums across Minnesota. (Featured Thursday October 5, 2000)
- Center for Voting and Democracy
- The site has a great array of information about electoral systems and redistricting in the United States. One of its best features is a map of the country with state-by-state information about congressional elections, redistricting and more. (Featured Wednesday October 4, 2000)
- Y2Vote.org
- Information on registering to vote in your area, profiles of voters, information on candidates, issues, and parties, good reasons to get out and vote, and more. (Featured Tuesday October 3, 2000)
- Federal Election Commission Citizen Guide
- This site is designed as a tool for anyone who wishes to learn more about financing campaigns for federal office, the rules and regulations pertaining to this process, or elections and voting in general. (Featured Monday October 2, 2000)
- Campus Green Vote
- A program of the Center for Environmental Citizenship, a nonpartisan organization that works to educate, train, and organize a national network of young environmental voters. (Featured Sunday October 1, 2000)
- Hess Report On Campaign Coverage
- As the news media intensify their coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign, Brookings scholar Stephen Hess is launching a project to cover the media coverage. (Featured Friday September 29, 2000)
- CongressLink
- A service for teachers and students, CongressLink is committed to exploring new ways to learn about Congress, how it works, its leaders and members, and the public policies it produces. (Featured Wednesday September 27, 2000)
- Every Four Years
- Visit the online counterpart to the Freedom Forum Newseum's exhibit on how the media covers presidential campaigns. How has coverage evolved over a century? (Featured Monday September 25, 2000)
- Political Advertising Articles And Resources
- This University of Iowa page provides an annotated list of Internet resources on political advertising, with links to ad archives, analysis, criticism, studies, and the people who make them. (Featured Saturday September 23, 2000)
- International Foundation for Election Systems
- IFES was established to support electoral and other democratic institutions in emerging, evolving, and experienced democracies. The site contains information on elections worldwide. (Featured Thursday September 21, 2000)
- YouthSpeak
- A grassroots citizen organization working to empower youth and allow youth to make the democratic choices that affect their lives - especially through voting. (Featured Tuesday September 19, 2000)
- National Voting Rights Museum
- The National Voting Rights Museum, located in Selma, Alabama, aims to capture the essence of struggles to empower America's people through the ballot box. (Featured Friday September 15, 2000)
- Citizens' Research Foundation
- The CRF is a nonprofit academic research organization committed to broadening public understanding of political financing and campaign reform. (Featured Monday September 11, 2000)
- Buying Time
- The Buying Time project of the Brennan Center for Justice is the first ever empirical study of campaign advertising. With the research tool, delve into data on the largest existing database on campaign ads. (Featured Wednesday September 6, 2000)
- WhiteHouse 2000
- One of the best sources online for all things Campaign 2000. Links to candidates both famed and fringe, news sources, electoral history, classroom resources, and much more. (Featured Thursday August 31, 2000)
- Public Agenda
- A nonpartisan research organization devoted to citizen education. Their site offers background material and public opinion analysis on 20 policy issues ranging from abortion to welfare reform. (Featured Sunday August 27, 2000)
- Project On Campaign Conduct
- A nonpartisan effort devoted to raising voter awareness and expectations about the quality of political campaigns through voluntary candidate codes of conduct. (Featured Wednesday August 23, 2000)
- The Presidential Appointee Initiative
- The Presidential Appointee Initiative will encourage talented citizens to accept senior positions in the next administration and beyond by easing the burdens of entering appointed office. (Featured Saturday August 19, 2000)
- Center for Women and Politics
- The CAWP site has information on women's participation in American politics. Beneficiaries of CAWP's information are media, scholars, public officials, candidates and the general public.
(Featured Tuesday August 15, 2000)
- YVote2000
- Y Vote 2000: Politics of a New Generation seeks to reconnect young Americans with the political process by creating a new model for providing news on issues they care about in a manner they can relate to. (Featured Friday August 11, 2000)
- Project Vote Smart
- This national nonpartisan effort researches, tracks and provides information on over 13,000 candidates for state and federal office, including voting records, advocacy group ratings, and financial contributor information. (Featured Sunday August 6, 2000)
- Generation Net
- Generation Net uses the power of the Internet to engage young people in civic activism on their own terms. It's an opportunity for young people to discuss and select their own top priority issues. (Featured Wednesday August 2, 2000)
- Publius
- Publius is an election information site for voters in Michigan. Part of the projectís mission is to work with community leaders in Detroit to build coalitions to help bridge the digital divide in that city.
(Featured Tuesday August 1, 2000)
- American Story Project
- A youth-run project to create a web-based interactive documentary on American politics. The project crew is traveling the nation interviewing individuals on the nature and origins of their political beliefs, then posting the result online. (Featured Friday July 28, 2000)
- Rock The Vote
- Rock the Vote is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and helping young people realize and utilize their power to create change in the civic and political lives of their communities.
(Featured Monday July 24, 2000)
- Center For Public Integrity
- The Center for Public Integrity's mission is to provide the American public with the findings of its investigations and analyses of public service, government accountability, and ethics-related issues via books, reports and newsletters.
(Featured Thursday July 20, 2000)
- California Voter Foundation
- The California Voter Foundation is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to applying new technologies to provide the public with access to the information needed to participate in public life in a meaningful way. (Featured Sunday July 16, 2000)
- Center For Responsive Politics
- Follow the money! The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit site that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. Find campaign fundraising data on presidential, state and local races. (Featured Wednesday July 12, 2000)
- Foreignpolicy2000.org
- Foreignpolicy2000.org was launched by the Council on Foreign Relations to foster serious public debate between the candidates and the campaigns about America's foreign policy and international role. (Featured Thursday July 6, 2000)
- The Vanishing Voter Project
- An effort to broaden and deepen citizens' involvement in the 2000 presidential election, the Vanishing Voter Project seeks to study and invigorate the presidential campaign through research-based proposals designed to improve its structure. (Featured Monday July 3, 2000)
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