The Biden administration's $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) grants, particularly the $20 billion allocated to eight nonprofits, have drawn scrutiny for their rapid distribution and...
Read moreCalifornia heavily relies on federal Medicaid funding, with federal funds making up more than half of the state's $161 billion Medi-Cal budget[6]. This federal support is critical for California's...
Read moreThe state of California faces significant fiscal challenges stemming from its pandemic-era unemployment insurance (UI) debt, which has triggered automatic increases in Federal Unemployment Tax Act...
Read moreThe EPA has over $100 million in funding for seven California Environmental Justice Community Change Grants with several connections to California state government.
Read moreSince February 18, 2025, eight organizations have been unable to access their Citibank accounts where the grant money was deposited. The freeze appears to be part of the Trump administration’s...
Read moreFederal employees are spread all around the country. As of the end of 2023, about 80% of the federal workforce is outside the district/Maryland/Virginia area. “The locations with the largest federal...
Read moreRecent investigations into Social Security Administration (SSA) records have revealed an intriguing statistical anomaly regarding beneficiary age data.
Read moreThis is a table of every individual cancellation, funding freeze, or recovery action we could identify from public documents and news reports for 2025. May be missing DOGE reported data.
Read moreSince the weekend of February 15-16, 2025, DOGE has focused on continuing its efficiency initiatives. They are working with agencies to simplify the credit card program, which involves 4.6 million...
Read moreThe United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has a long-standing history of collaborating with academic institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector...
Read moreHere's an updated table reflecting the latest information on grants, money connections to NGOs, and state programs as of February 14, 2025:
Read moreHere are the most recent major developments regarding the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as of February 13, 2025, along with analysis of potential implications for state governments.
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The U.S. Public Research Interest Group (PIRG) is a federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) that annually publishes a report rating all 50 US states on providing online access to...
Read moreBy Sean Roberts and Frank Kohstall 12 Mar 2018
Read moreThe Open Data Initiative is looking for sponsors and speakers for a Ohio focused open data event we are organizing. The Data Coalition has held open data focused events over the past few years. I...
Read moreBy Sean Roberts 12 March 2018 "Revises requirements for electronic originals & copying of certain records media; revises certain bureau names & creates new bureaus; revises service options for...
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Some useful resources ODI has improved recently:
Read moreBy Sean Roberts 09 March 2018 * Public records are not required to be public by default. Something slightly close as "disclosing direct federal agency expenditures and linking federal contract,...
Read moreThe Contra Costa Civic Hackathon representing the International Open Data Day 2018 was held in the Walnut Creek, CA Victory Workspace on 03 March 2018. "Open Data Day is an annual celebration of...
Read moreBy Sean Roberts 28 Feb 2018 * Public records are required to be available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions, but are not required to be public by default. * An open format is...
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January 2018, Ohio Townhall
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Read moreThe U.S. Public Research Interest Group (PIRG) is a federation of state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) that annually publishes a report rating all 50 US states on providing online access to...
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Late summer 2017, we began investigating government financial transparency status quo by reviewing the US state open financial data and policies. From this research, we created our own transparency...
Read moreDear ODI Community,
Read more- **Join Sean Roberts from ODI and CPC at the Bay Area CLEO meeting.** Talks include local elected officials for discussions on Financial Management, Government Transparency and Learning the Game....
Read moreI have been working on the Open Data Initiative open source project focused on government financial transparency since this summer with the good people of Lincoln Network.
Read more- On November 29th, Lincoln hosted a webinar with the Open Data Initiative Project Leader Sean Roberts. All about the Open Data Initiative, why it matters, and how you can get involved. Viewers...
Read more![Data Coalition]() - Tomorrow, we will join the [Data Coalition](https://joinlincoln.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=37b038d35f4e6f93a44f0c907&id=c27157f846&e=9104beca3f) and [Grant...
Read moreThank you to everyone who worked with us over the past few months to help us better understand the chokepoints in the current system of government financial data transparency implementation.
Read more- **Data Transparency 2017** was the fifth annual flagship open data policy conference. The all-day event, presented by Workiva, took place on September 26, 2017, in Washington, DC.
Read more- **Join Sean Roberts from ODI and CPC at the Orange County CLEO meeting.**
Read moreBy Sean Roberts 28 Feb 2018 * Public records are required to be available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions, but are not required to be public by default. * An open format is...
Read moreBy Sean Roberts and Frank Kohstall 25 Jan 2018
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