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Date: 6/1/2020
Subject: Follow the Money this Wednesday! OpenSecrets.org Training Opportunity
From: Rionda Osman



TO:  Money in Politics Interest Group
FROM:  Rionda Osman
SUBJECT:  OpenSecrets.org Training Webinar 7pm Wed 3June2020
Don't Forget to Register Now !
 
Sarah Bryner of the Center for Responsive Politics will show us how to use their authoritative site, OpenSecrets.org, to learn who is financing candidates and campaigns, how to track the money in U.S. politics, and how that money affects policy and citizens' lives.
 
OpenSecrets recently participated in reporting by the The Guardian that details efforts to restrict voting and the trail of money leading through a tangled weave of political action committees and funding institutions.   
 
We have the opportunity to get an in-depth look at the tools OpenSecrets.org provides to follow the money in our political system:
 
Wednesday, 3 June 2020, 7-8 pm
OpenSecrets.org Training Webinar - 6/3/2020
 
This webinar will be a zoom event.  Register at:   LWVCO
 
The LWVCO Board is arranging for several up-coming webinars. Check the LWVCO Events Calendar for details. 
 
 

Our instructor will be Sarah Bryner, Director of Research and Strategy, Center for Responsive Politics (Follow @AKSarahB)

From OpenSecrets.org:  Sarah, who joined the Center in April 2011, is responsible for overseeing the Center's data analysis and research collaborations. Previously, she was CRP's lobbying and revolving door researcher. Prior to joining OpenSecrets, Sarah was a doctoral student at the Ohio State University, where she also taught undergraduate political science courses. Her dissertation, "Politicians Behaving Badly: The Determinants and Outcomes of Political Scandal in Post-Watergate America," incorporates both original data collection and political experiments. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State in 2014 and her B.A. in political science and biology in 2006.

from the OpenSecrets.org website: 

Our Vision and Mission: Inform, Empower & Advocate

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Our vision is for Americans to be empowered by access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy and to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy. Our mission is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy.

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere. And for other organizations and news media, the Center's exclusive data powers their online features tracking money in politics - counting cash to make change. Our OpenSecrets News features newsbreaking original reporting about money-in-politics, including the sort of investigative work that won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2013 award for Public Service in Online Journalism.

As a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, charitable organization, the Center relies on financial support from a combination of institutional grants, individual contributions and income earned from custom research and licensing data for commercial use.


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