The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is a
nonpartisan political watchdog group working for clean government and real
democracy. To carry out that mission, WDC tracks the money in state politics and
works for campaign finance, media and other pro-democracy reforms. The Democracy
Campaign pursues these objectives through research, citizen education, community
outreach, coalition building and direct advocacy.
WDC has built an alliance of over 40 statewide groups in
Wisconsin called the Voters First Coalition that has united behind a
comprehensive campaign reform initiative. Among the many provisions of the
Voters First plan is public financing of state Supreme Court races.
The Democracy Campaign has also built the only Wisconsin
searchable database of campaign contributors. The database now contains
more than 400,000 records of campaign contributions to state campaigns, and is
made available to the public – free of charge and at the click of a computer
mouse – on the Democracy Campaign’s web site.
The Joyce Foundation supports efforts
to protect the natural environment of the Great Lakes, to reduce poverty and
violence in the region, and to ensure that its people have access to good
schools, decent jobs, and a diverse and thriving culture. We are especially
interested in improving public policies, because public systems such as
education and welfare directly affect the lives of so many people, and because
public policies help shape private sector decisions about jobs, the environment,
and the health of our communities. To ensure that public policies truly reflect
public rather than private interests, we support efforts to reform the system of
financing election campaigns. To find out more about The Joyce Foundation, check
out their website.
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