The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society.

As a nonprofit newsroom, our journalism exists to serve the public. And that’s why we have embraced a Show Your Work philosophy. Whenever possible, we will publish the underlying datasets and code that we use in our investigations, as well as a detailed methodology describing the data, its provenance and the statistical techniques used in our analysis. We invite academics, journalists, policymakers, consumer activists, and community organizers to engage with our findings—after all, this is for you.

We also want our stories to reach you where you are. That means we will publish our stories on our own site and also through distribution partnerships with other media.  And because we know many different types of audiences—including those we don’t know about!—will be interested in our work, we encourage you to freely republish our work under the terms of our Creative Commons license. 

The Markup

Newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them.  Investigative journalism is at risk. Many news organizations have increasingly come to see it as a luxury. Today’s investigative reporters lack resources: Time and budget constraints are curbing the ability of journalists not specifically designated “investigative” to do this kind of reporting in addition to their regular beats. New models are, therefore, necessary to carry forward some of the great work of journalism in the public interest that is such an integral part of self-government, and thus an important bulwark of our democracy.

ProPublica

The Lower Eastside Girls Club of NY — Connecting Girls to Healthy and Successful Futures.


The Lower Eastside Girls Club has been “Opening Doors, Empowering Women, and Building Community Girl by Girl” since 1996.
Today we operate a full-service arts, science and civic engagement Center for Community on Avenue D adjacent to the low-income NYCHA housing projects. We run programs that serve girls and young women throughout New York’s five boroughs, and collaborate with a range of National and Global partners.

Lower East Side Girls Club

Nonprofit organization focused on community development. Building fiscally resilient, prosperous cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

The Strong Towns approach is a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world. We believe that in order to truly thrive, our cities and towns must:

Stop valuing efficiency and start valuing resilience. Stop betting our futures on huge, irreversible projects, and start taking small, incremental steps and iterating based on what we learn. Stop fearing change and start embracing a process of continuous adaptation. Stop building our world based on abstract theories, and start building it based on how our places actually work and what our neighbors actually need today. Stop obsessing about future growth and start obsessing about our current finances.

But most importantly, we believe that Strong Citizens from all walks of life can and must participate in a Strong Towns approach—from citizens to leaders, professionals to neighbors, and everyone in between. And that means we need you.

Strong Towns

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Co-founder & Head of Product @ Every.org. Especially excited by small nonprofits doing big things for underprivileged people and our planet.

Hard to keep up with tech sometimes. We need more investigations into how it's being used, and for whose benefit. 💻

Need more investigative journalists in the world. To untangling real life and fight off the conspiracy theories. 💪

Lifting up some of the most at-risk girls and families. Teaching them how to be future activists and leaders. 🥰

The more I learn about local government, the more it seems like infrastructure spending is a Ponzi scheme. Small towns thriving is so important to the country (and the world). 🏘