Participatory Politics Foundation

It works to increase public participation by, among other means, modernizing the political system through technological advancements that help connect lawmakers and citizens.

Founded in 2018, Sludge describes itself as an independent, nonprofit news outlet that produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics.

[7][8] The Sunlight Foundation, a funder and partner of PPF, ran from 2006-2020 with the main goal using the internet and technology to connect citizens of the US to Congress and the federal government.

[16] AskThem worked as follows: In June 2018, David Moore posted on the Participatory Politics Foundation blog that AskThem.io's website would be disabled until further notice.

"[17] Created by both the Participatory Politics Foundation and a civic tech company DataMade,[18] Councilmatic[19] is a website that provides its users up to date with information about their city council.

[20] Created in 2004 and eventually taking over OpenCongress.org, GovTrack[21] was yet another non-partisan website for the public to obtain legislative information that encouraged engagement with the government.

[22] To aid participation in government, GovTrack pursues new developments on issues that its users find important, and publishes them for the public to use.

To ensure the company is non-partisan, they do not accept grants from partisan organizations, and have "no financers, sponsors, investors or partners with a political party or government agency".

[22] Comparable sites to OpenCongress and GovTrack are OpenGovernment.org,[23] AskThem.io, and Councilmatic,[19] which all have the same goal of connecting local residents to state-level officials to express their opinions.