ENV 4V9R - Advanced Research in Environmental Law & Policy

Harvard's Kennedy School's Google custom search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers.

A nonprofit organization that conducts independent research and provides recommendations for policymakers and the public.

"Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institution—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."

Archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. Provides an open digital archive of foundation-funded and other public policy research.

U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.

"USAspending now has spending data from federal agencies related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and other COVID-19 appropriations."

"Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues. Many so-called “watchdog” groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching. Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website."

"LID helps watchdogs turn a mountain of text into digestible insights about the origin and diffusion of policy ideas and the real influence of various lobbying organizations."

Court Watch is a news site covering all the most interesting federal court filings, from search warrants, indictments, to everything in between. The goal is to report on overlooked court records and give readers direct access to primary source documents.

A national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

An initiative of the Pew Charitable Trust. Provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy. Focuses on fiscal and economic issues, health care, demographics, and the business of government.

"GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today we’re the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics."