The Center for Progressive Reform is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that works in the service of responsive government; climate justice, mitigation, and adaptation; and protecting against environmental harm. We draw on the expertise of a national network of leading scholars and a professional staff to shape legislative and agency policy at the state and federal levels and to work in coalition with our movement allies and other public interest organizations.
We work to harness the power of law and public policy to create a responsive government, a healthy environment, and a just society.
We envision a democratic government that uses the full force of its power to curb climate change and ensure a sustainable environment, economic justice, and healthy workplaces and communities for all.
The Center engages in direct policy education and advocacy efforts with relevant policymakers, and we provide thought leadership among our allies, key stakeholders, and decision-makers. We research governing institutions to develop recommendations on how they could be redesigned to better meet policy goals, and we help develop reforms that will empower people — particularly those from structurally marginalized communities — to engage in a durable and meaningful manner on the issues that matter to them.
We work to create the conditions for essential legislative and administrative policy changes, both by influencing thought leaders working in the space of democracy and good government reform, administrative law, and climate and energy justice, and by educating policymakers about the importance of the administrative state for achieving progressive policy goals.
We use our expertise on administrative governance to support public interest advocates who work with the administrative state. At the same time, we are in dialog with the broad and diverse landscape of today’s social movements. We use these relationships to empower frontline community organizations in their struggle for just climate policy.
Through our democratic system of government, we have the power to dismantle institutions and processes that put corporate and special interests over people and the planet. We can build social movements to create a government that better reflects the will of the people, promotes the common good, and protects us all from harm.
We must protect people and places from harm and make policies that safeguard public and environmental health. This is especially important for disenfranchised groups, who bear the highest price of environmental and workplace harms due to legacies of structural discrimination and oppression.
Our society systematically disenfranchises and oppresses some and supports and lifts up others. We’re working toward systems and structures that ensure all people and communities have equitable opportunities to survive and thrive and that no group experiences unjust harms or burdens.
We must protect the planet for its own sake, as well as ours, and ensure that future generations have environmental, economic, and political resources needed to live an equal, if not better, way of life as current generations.
Our system of governance should reflect and respond to scientific evidence and be anchored in truth, reality, and empirical fact. When it doesn’t, the public must stand up for what is right, true, and fair.
Clean air, water, and land, and safe and healthy homes, schools, and workplaces are basic human rights and essential to survival.
We don’t just believe in the ideals of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We are working to embody them. See how we’re holding ourselves accountable and making sure we grow alongside the social movements of today.
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