PRESS

Press Room & Media Kit

Reporters covering legislative oversight, regulatory enforcement, municipal governance, corporate boards, or residential community governance can reach TASFGA directly for data, analysis, background, and on-the-record commentary.

Press contact

press@tasfga.com · We aim to respond within one business day. Story tips: tips@tasfga.com.

Boilerplate

Standard (~90 words). Transparency, Analysis & Stewardship Foundation for Governance Accountability (TASFGA) is an independent, nonpartisan public-interest project, currently in formation as a planned 501(c)(3) education fund with a planned 501(c)(4) action arm. Its purpose is to identify gaps in governance and accountability across institutions whose decisions affect the public: elected officials, public agencies, corporate boards, municipalities, and private governance bodies. It proposes concrete fixes and tracks whether they are adopted. Its founding focus is residential community governance, documented building-by-building at condoscoopsnyc.org.

Short (~35 words). TASFGA is a nonpartisan governance-accountability project in formation. It documents where governance rules and governance practice diverge, starting with New York's condominium and cooperative sector, and proposes and tracks specific fixes.

One line. TASFGA documents the gap between governance rules as written and governance as practiced, and tracks whether proposed fixes are adopted.

Fact block

  • Status: pre-incorporation; planned dual structure — 501(c)(3) Education Fund + 501(c)(4) Action arm. No IRS determination has been issued; donations are not yet tax-deductible. See the Formation Ledger.
  • Founding focus: residential community governance — condo boards, co-op boards, HOAs, and the managing-agent industry.
  • Research arm: condoscoopsnyc.org — a free public-record database of NYC condominium and cooperative governance, sourced to NYC Open Data and other public systems, with every record citing its primary source.
  • The premise: New York's Department of State licenses 35 occupations — barbers and notaries among them — but residential managing agents need no license, no exam, no bond, and answer to no disciplinary body — managing agents appear nowhere in the DOS license catalog.
  • Founder: Ernest P. Perez (see bio below).

Founder bio

Ernest P. Perez is the founder of CondosCoopsNYC and TASFGA. He built CondosCoopsNYC, a public-record research platform documenting governance failure patterns building by building across New York City's condominium and cooperative housing, and is organizing TASFGA as the standards-and-accountability institution that work points toward. Contact for interviews via press@tasfga.com.

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Republishing & citation

Quote freely with attribution to "TASFGA" and a link to the source page. Data points drawn from the research arm should be attributed to "CondosCoopsNYC, a TASFGA project" with a link to the specific building, agent, or issue page — each page cites its own primary sources, which we encourage reporters to verify independently. For full-article republication or data-set requests, email press@tasfga.com.

Corrections

We correct on the record — see the Corrections Policy and the public corrections log.

Press releases and fact sheets will be added here as they are published.