Projects

Americas Project

The Americas Project at the Center for American Progress is focused on the United States' relationship with and place in the Americas. It endeavors to formulate innovative policy recommendations to address changing realities and, through active engagement of all forms of media, effectively communicate its proposals to a wide range of audiences.

Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities

The United States of America will be a more sustainable society when we eliminate wasteful defense spending and instead invest in the foundations of a strong economy and a prosperous and productive future, by enhancing areas such as education, healthcare and green infrastructure. The role of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities is to leverage the credibility of business leaders on fiscal issues to draw the attention of policy decision makers, the media and the public to how the federal budget is currently allocated and help to create a climate where changed budget priorities can become a reality.

Campus Progress

Campus Progress works to strengthen progressive voices on college and university campuses nationwide, counter the growing influence of right-wing groups on campus, and empower new generations of progressive leaders.

Enough

Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. With an initial focus on the crises in Sudan, Chad, eastern Congo, and northern Uganda, Enough’s strategy papers and briefings provide sharp field analysis and targeted policy recommendations based on a “3P” crisis response strategy: promoting durable peace, providing civilian protection, and punishing perpetrators of atrocities. Enough works with concerned citizens, advocates, and policymakers to prevent, mitigate, and resolve these crises.

Faith & Progressive Policy

The Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative works to identify and articulate the moral-ethical and spiritual values underpinning policy issues, to shape a progressive stance in which these values are clear, and to increase public awareness and understanding of these values.

Middle East Progress

Middle East Progress helps develop and highlight practical approaches to and voices involved in managing—and resolving—the Arab-Israeli conflict, with a primary focus on achieving a sustainable, secure, democratic Palestinian state alongside sustainable, secure, and democratic Israel. We believe such action will improve U.S., Israeli, and regional security, and America’s global standing, and reflects the will and aspirations of a vast majority of Israelis and Arabs living the conflict every day.

Progressive Studies Program

The Progressive Studies Program is a unique interdisciplinary project exploring the history, intellectual foundations, and public understanding of progressivism in America. The program seeks to increase public awareness of progressive ideas and values, and educate public officials and policymakers through lectures, seminars, articles, public events, book discussions, new media tools, and training seminars with activists and young people.

Reel Progress

Reel Progress hosts free screenings open to the public in Washington, D.C. and around the country. These screenings are followed by provocative panel discussions with leading policy experts, actors, and filmmakers. It aims to advance a progressive agenda through innovative films that connect the arts to campaigns for social change and progressive public policy

Science Progress

Science Progress proceeds from the propositions that scientific inquiry is among the finest expressions of human excellence, that it is a crucial source of human flourishing, a critical engine of economic growth, and must be dedicated to the common good. Scientific inquiry entails global responsibilities. It should lead to a more equitable, safer, and healthier future for all of humankind. Our objective at Science Progress is to improve the understanding of science among policymakers and other thought leaders and to develop exciting, progressive ideas about innovation in science and technology for the United States in the 21st century.

Sustainable Security

The Sustainable Security program takes a long-term view of how to make our nation and our world more secure. It incorporates national, collective, and human security and details policy proposals on how the United States can better respond to and prevent a host of traditional and non-traditional security challenges. The Sustainable Security team is writing a series of papers, holding events, and releasing videos that highlight this approach.

A Woman’s Nation

A Woman’s Nation is led by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress in partnership with USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. It seeks to report on the economic shift for women in America and the consequences of this seismic economic and cultural change across the institutions that matter most in American life. The project will use its findings to promote the new definition of who the American woman is today and what she expects and needs from these institutions to thrive now and in the future.