Government Accountability Project Inc.

“NAME NAME BROTHER IN LAW”

“The draft 990 was reviewed by the president, executive director and the director of admin and finance and every member of the board and changes are incorporated into the final draft.”

“Annually the board of directors is requested to update and sign our conflict of interest questionnaire, and report possible conflicts to the chair of the board whenever they are detected or observed.”

“The board chair and director supervised an independent written and oral performance evaluation of executive director, and together they approve the salary increase.”

“Annual performance evaluations are performed by their supervisors and then reviewed by the executive director.”

“Maine, maryland, massachusetts, michigan, minnesota, missouri, mississippi, new hampshire, new jersey, new mexico, new york, north carolina, north dakota, ohio, oklahoma, oregon, pennsylvania, rhode island, south carolina, tennessee, utah, virginia, washington, west virginia, wisconsin”

“Public disclosure copies of the audited financial statements and the irs form 990 and form 1023 are kept in the office of the director of finance. Upon request copies are made and sent out to the requesting person. The financial audits and irs form 990's are also placed on our website.”

“The government accountability project (gap) is a 38-year-old non-profit public interest organization that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists. We pursue this mission through our public health & safety, international, national security and human rights, environmental oversight, and corporate and financial accountability programs. Gap is the nation's leading whistleblower protection organization.”

“Because most of gap's large attorney fee awards reflect years of legal services, they can create significant income flucuations from year to year. During the organization's annual budgetary planning process, the board assigns portions of these attorney fee award incomes to the budgets of subsequent years.”

“Modernization of poultry inspection rule (himp). We took action by using anonymous affidavits from meat and poultry inspector whistleblowers which disclosed to the national media the serious public health threat the rule poses to the integrity of our food. While gap and coalition partners did successfully stall himp, the usda finalized the rule in the summer of 2014 after providing a few minor concessions. In october 2014, gap joined consumer and worker rights organizations in filing a joint amicus brief supporting a lawsuit that challenged the new rules. The brief relied heavily on whistleblowers statements stemming from our investigation into federal meat inspector concerns. O in 2014, gap challenged idaho and utah "ag-gag" laws through amicusbriefs presented to courts hearing legal complaints against the laws. O at the 2014 whistleblower summit on national whistleblower appreciation day, gaps food integrity director amanda hitt was featured exploring ag- gag laws and how whistleblowers are increasingly facing criminal investigations and prosecutions. Ms. Hitt also spoke at yale law school at a conference which examined the impact of ag-gag laws on freedom of speech, health, food safety, consumer advocacy, animal welfare, and the environment. O in 2014, building off of our critical work with meat inspectors, we designed and distributed a survey to over 4,000 usda meat inspectors and queried inspectors on issues such as: himp efficacy, food safety, humane handling, and worker safety. The results were combined with meat inspector reports detailing work-related illness, environmental hazards, and food safety concerns to inform our most comprehensive white paper in 15 years. O in 2014, gaps food integrity campaign (fic) continued to develop gaps reputation as the go-to source for news media covering issues involving food integrity. By expanding beyond traditional notions of food safety and incorporating aspects of food integrity, we were able to tackle issues related to the use of animals in agriculture and the plight of workers in the industry. During 2014, we contributed significantly to multiple media outlets, including: hbo, cbs, market watch, al jazeera, 60 minutes, pbs, politico, austrian and german public television, tri-states public radio, food poisoning bulletin, canton daily ledger, slate magazine, food safety news, and takepart, for example. Gap fic staff also wrote daily blogs which continued to gain in popularity. Many of our blogs attracted the attention of potential whistleblowers and reporters eager to learn more about our insider stories. We also gained more visibility by providing online blogs for websites such as the huffington post.”

“To new protections gap helped develop now covering over 80,000,000 corporate employees who previously had only minimal legal protection, including: corporate attempts to criminalize whistleblowing; corporate challenges to provisions requiring the reinstatement of whistleblowers after favorable department of labor investigative rulings but before the adjudication of the cases at a hearing; corporate attempts to force chilling agreements on departing employees and gag settlements on whistleblowers; and banking industry challenges to whistleblowers who, under the new law, are now allowed to use confidential corporate documents as evidence to prove their cases. We also actively worked to try to counteract the federal governments ineffectiveness in regulating, addressing and reforming financial and banking corruption as revealed by whistleblowers. O also in 2014, on the fourth anniversary of the passage of dodd-frank, gap teamed up with law firm labaton sucharow to lead a large national coalition to outlaw gag orders used to silence corporate and banking whistleblowers and combat retaliation they so often endure. Joining us in this critical effort were more than 250 organizations with nearly two million members. We demanded that the sec establish a strengthened whistleblower program. Our petition received immediate prolific coverage in the new york times; the wall street journal; the washington post; bloomberg law; inside counsel; american lawyer; compliance week; law 360; value walk; and corp counsel. O gap and our broad coalition of organizations also submitted a non- rulemaking petition demanding the sec: launch a series of public hearings to discuss the problem of workplace retaliation and ways to increase reporting; create an advisory committee on whistleblower reporting and protection; and engage in appropriate rulemaking to clarify and strengthen whistleblower protections.”

“Treatment of nsa whistleblowers drake and other gap clients/former executive-level nsa employees william binney, ed loomis and j. Kirk wiebe -- who endured years of criminal investigation and whose homes were invaded by swat teams after they raised their concerns to their immediate bosses, up the chain of command, to the department of defense inspector general. In 2014, gap continued to tell their stories in the media about their substantive concerns, the reprisals they have suffered, the assault on civil liberties, and the inadequate remedies available for those who raise national security concerns. O gap visited over 25 congressional offices to provide briefings to staff and members about gap client/nsa whistleblower edward snowdens revelations. O in 2014, gap and five of our nsa whistleblowers made presentations to the peace and civil liberties oversight board to make recommendations about reforming intelligence agency practices and operations. O gaps national security and human rights director jesselyn radack, and gap clients/nsa whistleblowers tom drake and william binney testified before a german bundestag investigation committee to provide testimony for its globally-significant investigation into the nsas mass surveillance operations. Gap stressed to the committee that what we know about the nsas invasive and ineffective mass surveillance operation is only available because of whistleblowers.”

“Line 7g - didn't file becuase situation didn't exist”

“Professional fees 486,108 24,574 9,874”