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The Human Rights and Justice Project posts information on a free,web-based clearinghouse, updated throughout the day, on political, social and economic developments overseas that may be of interest to academics, journalists, activists and the general public. Materials circulated include scholarly official and NGO studies, foreign press reports and translations of pertinent foreign-language materials. Major topics include political change, health, the environment, popular movements, and economic trends. 891515 27391 244100 INVENTIVE INITIATIVES: Essential Information has started more than a dozen projects in recent years. The Organization's primary criteria is: Does it promote innovation in the public interest? With quiet determination and sophistication, project leaders identify the fulcrums of power that invariably lie in the shadows, envision new pathways of change that entrenched organizations, overlook and develops new strategies that, over time, profoundly alter the terms of the debate for a given issue. Essential Information projects are designed to be flexible and evolutionary as circumstances warrant. The ascent is on experimentation to develop effective new models of citizen action. In addition, this project has funded dozens of articles on critical issues -- ranging from worker exposure to deadly toxics to illegal U.S. efforts to supply the repressive Guatemalan military -- that have been overlooked or neglected by the mass media. 85551 0 2200 UnKoch My Campus (UKMC), a nonprofit project dedicated to fighting the undue donor influence that seeks to manipulate higher education to serve corporate interests. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Essential Information circulates the conflict of interest form to staff and board, annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The President reviews and approves the compensation of all employees to ensure that it is reasonable. Comparable market data is used from nonprofits in this geographic area. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Essential Information (EI) provides comprehensive and timely information to the public, the media, contributors and government agencies. All solicitation materials accurately represent EI's policies, practices and programs. All financial, organizational and program reports are complete and accurate. All information about EI policies shall be made available, upon request, in a timely manner and without charge to individuals who request it. 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