Our Members - Crosspartisan Think Tanks

The Center for New Democratic Processes is a nonpartisan civic engagement and policy research organization whose mission is to strengthen democracy by partnering with individuals, communities, and institutions to design and implement informed, innovative, and democratic processes to address today’s toughest challenges. 

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact. As a source of objective policy analysis, they engage policymakers of both parties and help them develop and analyze proposals to improve the country's fiscal and economic condition.

The founding members of Election Reformers Network have worked to support hundreds of election processes in scores of countries over a thirty-year period. Our work focuses on supporting the range of institutions critical to democracy including civic organizations, political parties, election administration and legislative bodies.

Future500 envisions a world that realizes sustainable economic growth by addressing social and environmental externalities with market-based solutions. They collaborate on broad systemic change finding that uncommon ideas can reveal uncommon solutions.

GOOD Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed through the social impact alliance of GOOD Worldwide, Upworthy and Net Impact, to address important issues, drive social action and reimagine the possibilities for our shared future.

The Hispanic Leadership Fund is an advocacy organization that strengthens working families by promoting public policy that advances liberty, opportunity, and prosperity for all.

We at the Institute for Community Solutions are changemakers, policymakers, researchers, and writers who believe that the best solutions to community problems come from the community themselves. We are dedicated to finding community solutions to community problems.

Issue One is the leading crosspartisan political reform group in Washington, D.C. We unite Republicans, Democrats, and independents in the movement to fix our broken political system. Issue One’s ReFormer’s Caucus of more than 200 former members of Congress, governors, and Cabinet officials is the largest coalition of its kind ever assembled to advocate for political reform.

The McCourtney Institute for Democracy is a research center in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. Through research, education, and outreach, we seek to understand, preserve, and defend democracy. We strive to help people in the Penn State community and beyond become better democratic citizens.

R Street Institute's nonpartisan researchers work with policymakers to reform Congress, and to restructure energy, criminal justice, national security, technology, and financial service policies to make them more efficient and effective. 

Solution Citizen is a project of In This Together, a campaign to help save the environment and repair our democracy by growing a diverse bipartisan community of America’s silenced majority: common sense problem-solvers who have been marginalized by the politics of fear, anger, and division. Their mission is to connect and empower America's silenced majority of 98M-plus, in hope-based campaigns to reclaim democracy, end toxic polarization, and tackle every challenge we face, beginning with climate change.  

Truth in Accounting believes truthful accounting is the key for citizens, legislators, and the press to clearly understand the truth about government finances. Our work has focused on encouraging public entities to produce financial reports that are comprehensive, clear, and transparent.

Up to Us is dedicated to building a sustainable economic and fiscal future for America’s next generation. Up to Us doesn’t just educate and engage - it empowers. Our unique program provides emerging leaders a platform for facilitating a collaborative dialogue on the country’s most vexing challenges.