Government Accountability Project Inc.

“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 39-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, environmental oversight, and corporate and financial accountability programs. Gap is the nation's leading whistleblower protection organization.”

“O gap advanced our investigative efforts in 2015 by continuing to conduct on-sight and in-person interviews with usda meat inspectors from around the country. Gap also continued to help lead the fight against the usdas modernization of poultry inspection rule (himp) by demonstrating the significant threats himp poses to the environment, how it places public health at risk, needlessly adds to the suffering of animals, and threatens the safety of workers who are already routinely exploited. To this end, in 2015 gap worked closely with compassion over killing and the other 98% to develop a campaign brand that was incorporated into an interactive mobile responsive website. Through an interactive infographic, the website specifically engages, educates, and compels users to take action against the practices of hormels high-speed slaughter factories. The groups also launched a campaign petition on the new website, which, fueled by the successful launching of a public education e-mail blast campaign to mother jones 240,000+ subscribers, generated over 325,000 signatures. O in 2015, gap continued to work with allies to challenge ag-gag laws in the states of north carolina and utah. Also, in august 2015, the court granted a motion for summary judgment from the animal legal defense fund, declaring the idaho ag-gag law unconstitutional. The judges decision borrowed language from gaps amicus brief. O building off of gap's critical work with meat inspectors, we designed, distributed and analyzed a survey of over 4,000 usda meat inspectors on issues such as: himp efficacy, food safety, humane handling, and worker safety. In 2015, 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 which we will release during 2016. O in 2015 gap's food integrity campaign was regularly quoted in print and online outlets, such as mother jones, and had appearances on prominent radio shows including npr and other influential public radio outlets. Fics director amanda hitt also appeared in a documentary set to premier at the 2017 sundance film festival.”

“Investigators of that region contributed to gap's investigative findings. O during 2015, gap continued to raise awareness about the criminalization of whistleblowing that is increasingly occurring in the banking and finance sector. For example, in testimony before the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, gaps legal director raised awareness that the criminalization of whistleblower disclosures was occurring across many agencies of government and well beyond those related to defense and national security. Gap called on congress to declare that retaliatory investigations should be designated as an illegal prohibited personnel action that employees could challenge through the civil service system. The senate hearing created a significant record for gaps legislative campaigns in the 114th congress. O in august 2015, launched the next phase of gap's climate science watch -- climate science & policy watch (cspw) -- to assess the actual implementation of the obama administrations stated support for a strong climate policy and critique its behind-the-scenes actions that support accelerated fossil fuel development. Gap launched this expanded program after months of preparation by a team of contributors composed of climate science experts that gap had mentored and worked closely with. As a central part of this effort, gap launched public education investigations and campaigns on critical national issues, which highlight how the country and planet must phase-out fossil energy sources. In 2015, cspw made significant progress on two of these fronts: one campaign was focused on educating workers about their rights while highlighting the environmental dangers of fracking, raising awareness on the issue and launching a regional public interest investigation into the practice; the other was designed to educate workers about their rights to blow the whistle while highlighting the dangers of the fossil extraction process and transport by rail and pipeline. Gap program officers were invited to speak on a panel at the national railroad safety: workers, community & the environment conference in chicago to inform rail workers of their rights to blow the whistle and report environmental hazards on the railroad. O the progress on these interrelated efforts were supplemented regular blog posts and relevant social media alerts/updates/news hits on the cspw blog, facebook and twitter. These blogs in 2015 covered cspw core initiatives and critical current events, including: the dangers of fracking and pipeline vulnerability as assessed in cspw's popular notes from underground cspw series, the presidents climate action plan and national climate change preparedness now and in the long-term, off-shore drilling and the perils facing alaska due to climate change, the 21st conference of states parties to the un framework convention on climate change held in paris in november 2015, the associated press banning from its stylebook the term climate denier, the perils of climate denialist politics in south carolina in light of the devastating storms suffered as a result of climate change, wildfires crisis and drought in california , and the exxon revelations. O in 2015 gap launched an investigation into what exxonmobil knew and when -- seeking to disclose details of material damage inflicted on taxpayer- funded us climate science and communications programs, and provide concrete examples of instances in which exxon engaged in obstructing the executive branch from fulfilling obligations under the law to assess the likelihood of potential climate change impacts and to communicate those impacts to congress and the american people. In addition to raising awareness around these issues via strategic blog posts, gap began developing a "know your rights campaign" intended to educate current government employees and former and current exxon employees about their rights so that they may safely come forward to dislose any illegal activities the company”

“Community employees -- a development gap was instrumental in securing. O throughout 2015, gap worked with a surveillance coalition of leading civil society organizations assessing legislative proposals and advocating for both greater transparency and an end to unprecedented nsa surveillance. For example, gap worked with the aclu, human rights watch, brennan center for justice and freedom of the press foundation to generate a groundswell of citizen activists calling on their congress members to force critically needed surveillance reform. Gap also continued to advocate for the need for enhanced cyber-security reform measures that respect civil liberties and privacy. For example, in april 2015 gap signed on to a letter by the aclu and other open government and civil liberties groups opposing the protecting cyber networks act (pcna). Gap also signed on to a letter by the open technology institute opposing the pcna, which would significantly increase the nsas access to personal information and authorize the federal government to similarly use that information for a myriad of purposes unrelated to cybersecurity. O as part of president obamas open government directive, in 2015 we began conducting a systematic review of government-wide training on existing whistleblower rights. This included the training of federal government ombudsmen at the council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency. We also prepared a video on the key provisions of the whistleblower protection act and the wpea. Gaps legal director provided the lecture for this presentation which the federal office of special counsel is using to fulfill its statutory mandate to train agencies on whistleblower rights and protections. Gap played a leading role in developing both reform laws. These videoes are available for free via youtube to government lawyers, investigators, personnel advisors and managers. O gap began representing a top official in the department of defense inspector general office. We investigated his concerns and prepared a complaint to the office of special counsel. O gap worked with several policy-making, investigative and other officials in implementing presidential policy directive 19. O gap worked with several congressional committees to help develop legislation to protect intelligence agency and other national security whistleblowers, as well as intelligence contractors. O in 2015, gap represented u.s. Air marshal robert maclean in his successful supreme court challenge to his firing by the department of homeland security and the transportation safety administration.”

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