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Resource for consumers and businesses to build trust between each, address substandard market behavior, celebrate marketplace role models, and educate both parties on best practices.

A full alphabetical listing of all charity reports completed by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance. Resource for donors and charities to establish trust between each through unbiased evaluations by BBB.

Charity Navigator, America’s leading independent charity evaluator, works to advance a more efficient and responsive philanthropic marketplace by evaluating the financial health and accountability and transparency of America’s largest charities.

The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take positions on policy issues. Its work is carried out by these seven projects: The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Pew Internet & American Life Project, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, Pew Hispanic Center, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Social & Demographic Trends.

The Open Government Guide is a complete compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. Each state's section is arranged according to a standard outline, making it easy to compare laws in various states. There is also a separate site for the Federal Open Government Guide: http://www.rcfp.org/federal-open-government-guide

Website provides data, information, and articles tracking money involved in U.S. politics. Includes top contributors and donation amounts to campaign funds for officeholders, including Members of Congress and Presidential Appointees. Also includes information on elections, fundraising, and lobbying.

Based at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, the Journalist's Resource project examines news topics through a research lens. They focus on surfacing scholarly materials that may be relevant to other media practitioners, bloggers, educators, students, and general readers.