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They’ve stepped up as govt steps down
As the Forest Service ceases to serve its purpose, see what you can do to help grow a new network for environmental info.

Researcher with Black & Pink comments on federal data's role in the erasure of LGBTQ+ prisoners
Kenna Barnes is the Senior Director of Advocacy and Programs at Black & Pink National. During her time there, she has created programs to support people who have been impacted by the carceral system, especially those who identify as LGBTQ+ and those who have HIV. Barnes has also helped shape Black & Pink’s research work, such as the Advancing Transgender Justice Survey, a collaborative report led by the Vera Institute.

Digital capture and retrieval for self-managed environments
The digital repository sector serves a diverse range of institutions — academic libraries, national archives, research laboratories, government agencies, and cultural heritage organizations. The ecosystem is split between open-source self-hosted solutions, commercial hosted platforms, and managed services. Open-source platforms dominate in adoption, while managed services lead in operational simplicity.

How VOA was condemned, reprieved, and what 's next
What has unfolded inside VOA is not just a bureaucratic crisis or a political struggle. It shows how swiftly institutions can be destroyed from the inside.

Power v. Public Interest
Learn about the resources Prairie Fire has created to help fight the administration's efforts to remove public data.

Criminal justice researcher at the Vera Institute on combating Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) data gaps
Dr. Jennifer Peirce is a criminal justice researcher at the Vera Institute, a nonprofit policy and research organization dedicated to prison reform. In this conversation with Newsjunkie staff reporter Morgan Kriesel, she discusses the challenges of reaching marginalized populations, why researchers should collaborate with advocacy groups, and ways to combat top-down erasure of our most vulnerable peers.
Independent network of former and current HHS employees.
Tucker, Georgia
Nonprofit public health advocacy organization founded by former HHS employees.
San Francisco
Independent, nonprofit successor to Climate.gov focused on safeguarding public access to trusted climate data, tools, and information.
Advocacy/FEMA monitoring group focused on public safety policy and disaster readiness; runs press communications and public campaigns.
Community/campaign of off-duty, fired, and former/retired National Park Service employees advocating for protection of public lands and federal workers.
Washington
International nonprofit scientific association supporting a global community interested in advancing discovery in Earth and space sciences for the benefit of humanity.
Princeton
Independent nonprofit of scientists and communicators producing research and climate-impact analyses, plus tools and content for journalists and the public.
Washington
Nonpartisan think tank and invitational membership organization that "advances understanding of criminal justice policy choices and builds consensus for solutions that enhance safety and justice for all."
Stanford
Stanford University–based program providing data, tools, collaborations, and an archiving service to help local journalists pursue accountability reporting at scale.
San Francisco
American research group focused on highlighting the public's Environmental Right to Know (ERTK).
San Francisco
The Internet Archive is an independent digital library. With a collection spanning billions of websites, books, movies, music and software, IA is among the largest digital repositories in the world. Its stated mission is to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”
College Park, Maryland
The Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) is a volunteer coalition formed in 2024 to preserve and provide public access to at-risk federal environmental and climate datasets and tools in the United States.
Bolder, Colorado
MAP’s mission is to provide independent, rigorous research and analysis to accelerate equality and opportunity for LGBTQ people.
United States (Virtual)
The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is a volunteer-driven coalition of data librarians, archivists, and researchers, founded in February 2025, working to preserve and provide access to at-risk public US federal government data.
The Prison Policy Initiative is a non-profit research organization that produces analyses of the US carceral system.
The Jail Data Initiative (JDI) is a project from New York University’s Public Safety Lab that scrapes daily county jail rosters.
The Vera Institute of Justice is a non-profit research and advocacy organization focused on the US criminal justice system and prison reform.
Black & Pink is a U.S.-based nonprofit centered on prison abolition, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and mutual aid.
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit investigative newsroom that covers the U.S. criminal justice system.
Independent news and film production outfit that documents US public lands
Independent initiative to publish the canceled National Nature Assessment
Nonprofit conservation and research organization
Global professional association for wildfire-related fields
Research organization that produces data and reports to inform conservation efforts
San Francisco, California, USA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world.
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan, independent nonprofit watchdog organisation based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1981 and operating as a US 501(c)(3) charity, POGO investigates corruption, abuse of power, and waste across the federal government, and champions commonsense policy reforms aimed at making that government more effective, accountable, and equitable.
MediaJustice is a national nonprofit organisation based in Oakland, California, that builds grassroots power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape public life—with particular focus on the harms these systems inflict on communities of colour, low-income people, immigrants, and others historically excluded from the digital economy.
Berlin, Germany
Tactical Technology Collective is a creative international nonprofit that has spent more than two decades investigating how digital technologies reshape societies and individual lives, and turning those investigations into practical resources for the people most affected.
The Tor Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to develop and maintain free, open-source software for anonymous internet communication. It is responsible for the Tor network—a decentralized overlay network run by more than 7,000 volunteer-operated relays worldwide—and the suite of tools built on top of it, including Tor Browser, Tails OS (merged into the Tor Project in September 2024), Snowflake, and onion services.
OpenDP is a community-driven initiative to build trustworthy, open-source software for differential privacy (DP) — a mathematically rigorous method for extracting statistical insights from sensitive data while providing provable privacy guarantees for the individuals represented in that data.
OffSec Services
The Exploit Database is a free, publicly accessible archive of exploits, shellcode, proof-of-concept code, and security research papers, maintained as a non-profit community service by OffSec, an information security training company.
Digital Defense Fund (DDF) is a US nonprofit technology organization that provides digital security support, training, and resources to organizations working in abortion access, reproductive healthcare, and —since 2023—a broader set of movements for autonomy and liberation including trans rights, disability rights, harm reduction, and pro-democracy work.
Access Now is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of people and communities at risk around the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tech Impact is a nonprofit organisation with a dual mission: to strengthen the technology capacity of other nonprofits, and to create economic mobility for individuals who face barriers to entering the technology workforce.