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About the Data Foundation
The Data Foundation is a Washington, DC-based, non-profit, non-partisan organization. We are a trusted authority on the use of open, accessible data to fuel a more efficient, effective, and accountable government; spark innovation; and provide insights to the country’s most pressing challenges. We conduct research, facilitate collaborative thought leadership, and promote advocacy programs that advance practical policies for the creation and use of accessible, trustworthy data and evidence.
For more than a decade, the Data Foundation has been bringing attention to key issues facing the data community. We bring together non-traditional partners and stakeholders to devise practical solutions, which culminate in new policies and approaches for innovating and using data and evidence. The impacts from our work have been tremendous, culminating in enactment of milestone legislation, stronger communities for implementing transparency and data initiatives, and demonstrations of new strategies for innovating with government data.
Policy Research
We conduct ground-breaking policy research that addresses emerging data- and evidence- related needs with the goal of devising realistic solutions, accelerating policy coordination, and advancing necessary innovation.
Community Collaboration
We bring together diverse organizations and individuals to learn how to effectively implement government data and evidence policy, to champion policymaking based on evidence, and to share knowledge.
Data and Evidence Advocacy
We are a trusted intermediary in the identification of opportunities, problems, and solutions for data and evidence. We work with national policymakers for effective data and evidence policy.
As a nonpartisan organization, we conduct research, collaborative thought leadership, and advocacy programs that advance practical policies for the creation and use of accessible, trustworthy data and evidence. We do this by centering everything we do as an organization around our four core values:
▶ Transparency
We rely on facts and transparency to generate trust and credibility.
▶ Pragmatic action
We promote practical, timely solutions to data-related challenges.
▶ Radical collaboration
We enthusiastically pursue opportunities to foster non-traditional collaboration with people and groups that hold divergent beliefs and points of view to jointly identify and solve problems.
▶ Diversity, equity, and inclusion
We seek to embrace and include diversity in all of its forms in our work, and our belief is that through the use of data and research, more equitable opportunities and outcomes will be achieved.
