DemocracyInAction, or DIA, was a Washington, D.C.-based

501(c)(3) A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...

public charity A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good). The legal definition of a ch ...

organizationDemocracyInActionOrg Activism Services
/ref> focused on being a nonprofit technology provider. DemocracyInAction was the creator and primary maintainer of an open source software application. The original version is referred to as Tomato but was not named until after the release of the current version. This release is named Salsa. It is written in Java. Incorporated as a

, DemocracyInAction also operates as an application service provider hosting a suite of

electronic advocacy Internet activism is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication by citizen movements, the delivery of particular infor ...

tools for other nonprofits. Over 300 organizations use the DemocracyInAction / Salsa toolset.

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