12. Progressive Infrastructure Organizations

12.1. General Progressive Policy Groups

Institute for Policy Studies
A multi-issue think tank working for peace, justice, and the environment.
Demos!
Conducts original research and builds networks of civic and economic reformers around the United States to strengthen democracy and create more broadly shared prosperity.
Commonweal Institute
A think tank that seeks to maximize the visibility and the power of progressive ideas and values including environmental protection, racial justice, religious tolerance, and economic security — all ways of bolstering fundamental American ideals of community, responsibility, and fairness.
Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
Helps states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and will ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI)
Seeks to change policy by conducting research into overlooked, but important social and economic issues, by engaging policymakers and opinion leaders, and by offering platforms to amplify the ideas of those who are working for social and economic fairness.
Longview Institute for the Public Good
Articulates and promotes a vision of a moral economy and a just society to help bring us closer to a society that is just, democratic, humane, and environmentally sustainable.
Century Foundation
Conducts public policy research and analyses of economic, social, and foreign policy issues, including inequality, retirement security, election reform, media studies, homeland security, and international affairs.
Citizen Works
Founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation and giving people the tools and opportunities they need to build democracy.
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12.2. General Legal Support Groups

Alliance for Justice
A national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women’s, children’s, and consumer advocacy organizations working to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community’s ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates.
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12.3. Progressive Foundations

Funding Exchange
A network of publicly-supported, regionally-based community foundations dedicated to building a permanent institutional and financial base to support progressive social change.
Tides Foundation
A mission-driven public charity committed to positive social change.
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12.4. Progressive Groups Monitoring Foundations

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP)
Advocates for the philanthropic community to provide nonprofit organizations with essential resources and opportunities to work toward social and economic justice for disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations and communities.
Changemakers
A national public foundation that models and supports community-based social change philanthropy, working within the philanthropic sector to shift where money is directed so it addresses root causes of social and environmental problems, and how it is given, urging individual donors and philanthropic organizations to become more accountable, strategic, inclusive, collaborative, democratic, and creative.
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12.5. Other Progressive Support Groups

Working Assets
A progressive wireless, long distance, and credit card company that also gives its customers the opportunity to speak out on critical public issues through its Web site and monthly phone bill.
Democracy In Action (DIA)
Works to make online advocacy tools accessible to all progressive nonprofits.
Organizers’ Collaborative
Works to harness the use of technology for social change organizing.
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