How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies

It began with fellowships that placed technical talent inside local governments, and it now works on issues such as the social safety net, tax benefits, and criminal justice, including how public agencies use artificial intelligence.

Code for America is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology and policy to help government services work better for the people who need them.

The organization describes itself as proving that government can work for people in the digital age. Staff and partners design services that are easier to use, especially for residents who are most often left out of complicated public systems.

Code for America presents this as ongoing work rather than a single event. The public category Looty Foundation uses, Digital Rights & Technology, is a browsing label. It is not a substitute for the organization's own account of who it serves and how.

It began with fellowships that placed technical talent inside local governments, and it now works on issues such as the social safety net, tax benefits, and criminal justice, including how public agencies use artificial intelligence. That is point 1 in the public account behind “How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies.” It describes Code for America’s own work on tech solutions for government services, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about digital rights & technology.

Code for America is a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses technology and policy to help government services work better for the people who need them. That is point 2 in the public account behind “How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies.” It describes Code for America’s own work on tech solutions for government services, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about digital rights & technology.

It began with fellowships that placed technical talent inside local governments, and it now works on issues such as the social safety net, tax benefits, and criminal justice, including how public agencies use artificial intelligence. That is point 3 in the public account behind “How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies.” It describes Code for America’s own work on tech solutions for government services, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about digital rights & technology.

The organization describes itself as proving that government can work for people in the digital age. That is point 4 in the public account behind “How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies.” It describes Code for America’s own work on tech solutions for government services, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about digital rights & technology.

Staff and partners design services that are easier to use, especially for residents who are most often left out of complicated public systems. That is point 5 in the public account behind “How Code for America works on benefits, taxes, and public agencies.” It describes Code for America’s own work on tech solutions for government services, which is why the page stays with this organization instead of a generic appeal about digital rights & technology.

The details above are drawn from Code for America's public materials, then retold here. They are not a financial audit, a ranking, or a promise about results the organization has not published on the pages used for this article.

For Code for America’s own wording, use the official website linked from its Looty Foundation profile. This page explains the work in the Foundation directory and points back to that profile and to the other two articles about the same organization.