OMB Watch Project Websites

Posted on January 27, 2009
 

OMB Watch Project Websites

Bailout Watch is a collaborative effort to research, investigate, and analyze the federal government's financial bailout activities and publish resources and data for policymakers, the media, and interested citizens. Six core organizations, including OMB Watch, coordinate the project.

The Charity and Security Network is a project of OMB Watch that seeks to protect U.S. and international nonprofit organizations that fight poverty, provide essential services in underserved communities, and promote human rights and peace. The project guards these organizations from harsh, unfair government rules and those who support violence.

The Coalition for an Accountable Recovery promotes accountability policies for both government agencies and companies that contract with or benefit from spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. More than 30 organizations are part of this diverse coalition, which is co-chaired by OMB Watch and Good Jobs First.

FedSpending.org is a free, searchable database of trillions of dollars in federal government spending. The site launched in October 2006 and received millions of visitors who conducted millions of searches during its first year.

NPAction is an online resource hosted by OMB Watch to support capacity building for nonprofit advocacy.

The Right-to-Know Network (RTK NET), a service of OMB Watch, provides free access to numerous environmental databases With information that helps the public identify environmental threats.