Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here

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 description comes from the organization's own public explanation of its work. It is the starting point for why this mission belongs in a Foundation directory, not a claim that Code for America has endorsed Looty Foundation or entered a sponsorship.

Looty Foundation exists to turn the value of losing lottery tickets toward nonprofit work. A cause earns a place in that idea when the work is concrete: a service, a body of research, a legal effort, a classroom, a relief operation, or a public record people can actually use. Code for America is in the directory because its published mission, tech solutions for government services, is that kind of work.

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. 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. Read together, those public points describe an organization with a defined job, not a slogan that could be swapped onto any charity.

The fit with Looty Foundation is the subject of the work, which sits in Digital Rights & Technology. People already discard non-winning tickets. The Foundation's purpose is to treat that leftover value as support for organizations doing this kind of job. Naming Code for America here says the mission is worth that support. It does not say the organization runs Looty Foundation, approves its marketing, or receives a gift that has not been recorded in the Foundation ledger.

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 1 in the public account behind “Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here.” 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 2 in the public account behind “Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here.” 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 3 in the public account behind “Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here.” 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 4 in the public account behind “Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here.” 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.

Nothing on this page is a partnership announcement. Code for America did not write it, and Looty Foundation is not speaking for the organization. The practical link a visitor can check is the official website, where the mission and programs are described in the organization's own words.

If Looty Foundation later allocates losing-ticket value to Code for America, that amount belongs on the Impact card and in the donation ledger, not in this essay. Until a recorded allocation is greater than zero, the honest statement is about the mission, not about a payment. The headline for this page, “Why civic technology belongs among the causes supported here”, is a judgment about the cause. It is not a receipt.