Civic Share
A shared foundation for civic information and community reporting. Stop duplicating research. Start building on each other's work.
Why Civic Share?
Valuable civic information is duplicated, siloed, or lost entirely. Newsrooms, nonprofits, and advocacy groups working on the same issue often have no visibility into each other's research until after it is published—if it ever is.
Documents and data
Reports, datasets, and records related to the issue—organized and searchable in one place.
FOIA results
Public records requests shared across the network so no one has to file the same request twice.
Legislation
Local, state, and national legislation made more searchable than official state databases.
Published reporting
A running archive of articles and stories already written on the topic.
Expert sources
A vetted directory of people with relevant expertise who are open to being contacted.
Public-use photography
Images available for use in stories or community materials, properly credited.
Built with the community
Help shape Civic Share
We're building this with the communities who will use it. Take a short survey to share what would make Civic Share useful for your work.
Journalists, nonprofits, and neighbors gathered to map out what Civic Share should be—the needs, the gaps, and the concerns.