Working with Whistleblowers: A Guide for Public Interest Organizations
Whistleblowers—employees who discover and expose serious wrongdoing—are vital for public interest organizations fighting to advance social, economic and environmental justice. Information provided by whistleblowers, when used effectively, has tremendous power to hold institutions and leaders accountable.
This guide is a tool for organizations working with, or considering working with, whistleblowers. It offers practical guidance on how to protect and support employees who want to address malfeasance while ensuring they are not inadvertently exposed to retaliation.
The Government Accountability Project thanks the following organizations for their support in developing this resource:
- Defending Rights & Dissent
- Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency
- Fund for Constitutional Government
- Greenpeace USA
- Jubilee USA Network
- Levin Center at Wayne Law
- News Media for Open Government
- Open the Government
- Project On Government Oversight
- Public Citizen
- Taxpayers for Common Sense
And special thanks to Justice Catalyst.