Public Accountability Initiative Inc

Research: pai's research program investigates issues of corporate and government accountanility and brings transparency to the role of powerful public sector and private sector institutions in shaping public policy. Pai releases research in the form of reports, articles, infographics, and datasets. Pai's research has garnered significant media coverage, prompted accountability measures and public and private institutions,and informed groundbreaking campaigns. Pai's primary focus areas include the finance industry and the fossil fuel industry, and corporate power on the regional and state level. In 2022-2023, our research touched on issues including investor-owned utilities, fossil fuel finance, wall street speculation, the revolving door between business and government, corporate subsidies, and money in politics. Our research earns major media coverage and helps drive compaign strategy and wins.

Training: pai trains journalists, astivists, and reseachers in how to conduct power research using littlesis.org and other tools and methodologies. The goal of this work is to cultivate more movement capacity to research and challenge influtial networks in the public and private sector. We conduct trainings in person and online via webinar, and offer them independently and in partnership with other public interested organizations. In 2023-2024, we condcuted a number of trainings on littlesis tech tools including how to edit the research database, how to research publicly-held corporations, research techniques for private companies and non-for-profit organizations, and how to research political contributions.