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Who is funding the work?
Fri Mar 27 16:13:00 2009 CST
By Jennifer Peebles
Texas Watchdog is grateful for the support of The Sam Adams Alliance, which funded Texas Watchdog's start-up phase. This Chicago-based group has taken on government transparency as a major focus, launching projects such as ballotpedia.org, judgepedia.org and sunshinereview.org. (These projects are now sponsored by the Lucy Burns Institute in Wisconsin.)

This focus on transparency fits perfectly into the mission of Texas Watchdog, which seeks open government at all levels and wishes to arm citizen-journalists with journalistic tools to keep City Hall honest.

Texas Watchdog also generates revenue via its blogger/citizen-journalist training program. We teach journalism skills: crafting a public records request, effective interviewing, using and presenting multimedia, and other skills. If you're interested in hiring Texas Watchdog to conduct a training for your organization, call Deputy Editor Lee Ann O'Neal at 713-980-9777 or e-mail leeann@texaswatchdog.org.

In addition, we are grateful for individual donors who have contributed to Texas Watchdog, as well as to foundations and groups such as the Philip L. Graham Fund, Investigative Reporters & Editors and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund who have provided Texas Watchdog staffers with scholarships and travel related to professional development and networking.

Texas Watchdog is a 501(c)(3) exempt organization, and donations to Texas Watchdog are tax-exempt.
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