The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all. We believe Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure our national policies reflect these values. Our policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:



• developing a long term vision of a progressive America,

• providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals,

• responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and

• communicating progressive messages to the American public.