Overview
Location
United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees
11-50
Phone
+1 215-557-3600
Founded date
1904
Mentions in press and media 17
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| Oct 19, 2020 | Election Observation: Rules and Laws | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| May 20, 2019 | Philadelphia is as unequal as Colombia. Will a minimum wage boost help? | Put this in a category of limited ambition that you might call the Philadelphia Settle. On Tuesday, Philadelphia primary voters will face a ballot question asking whether the city should set in motion a plan to increase its local minimum wa... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Ethics will be Nutter’s mayoral legacy. Will open data gains survive? | Michael Nutter’s 2007 mayoral campaign was successful in part because of his work in City Council on ethics reform and his strong rhetoric on transparency. With a final year left on his two-term limit, the Nutter administration has been cal... |
| Sep 18, 2013 | What happens to OpenDataPhilly now? | The civic-minded data and app resource website OpenDataPhilly.org, which has become the bedrock of the local civic hacking movement, brought about months of behind-the-scenes debate before launching in spring 2011 during the inaugural Phill... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Appeal your City of Philadelphia property tax assessment | Transparency comes unevenly to hulking institutions. In a move that showed how far it’s come with its open data efforts, the City of Philadelphia launched an app that allowed users to calculate their new property assessments and estimate ho... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | AVI Calculator: use this City of Philadelphia app to see historic, new property reassessments | Axis Philly web app that visualizes the property assessment changes from 2013 to 2014. As the City of Philadelphia is sending out mailed paperwork to property owners alerting them to the new, massive overhaul of city real estate value asses... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | ElectNext: political matchmaking startup launches local politics effort in Philly, now has offices in NYC, SF | After ElectNext left the Philadelphia Media Network’s Project Liberty incubator at the beginning of the summer, the political matchmaking startup left the city. The team is now split between the coasts, with CEO Keya Dannenbaum and Chief De... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Councilman David Oh: “We have to talk about growing the pie more than regulating it” | Since January, David Oh has been a hard man to get in touch with. That’s when he was sworn in as a new Councilman-At-Large along with 5 other new members of Philadelphia City Council, an elected rookie class that meant the departure of six ... |
| Jan 27, 2012 | Al Schmidt: new reform GOP city commissioner talks about changing Board of Elections [Q&A] | When Al Schmidt first walked into his first elected public office as a new City Commissioner, he said it was like walking into a time machine. Often criticized for being among the least transparent offices in Philadelphia, the Board of Elec... |
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FAQ about Committee of Seventy
When was Committee of Seventy founded?
Committee of Seventy was founded in 1904.
What has the press written about Committee of Seventy?
Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Committee of Seventy, among them “Election Observation: Rules and Laws” (Oct 19, 2020) and “Philadelphia is as unequal as Colombia. Will a minimum wage boost help?” (May 20, 2019).
Is Committee of Seventy still active?
Yes, Committee of Seventy is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 22, 2024.