PEOPLES ACTION INSTITUTE
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Mission Statement
People’s Action Institute aims to align state and local power organizations around a shared vision, coordinated strategy, and a set of strategic organizing campaigns that generate a new people’s politics at a national scale and create a new political “home” for our base. To build power for families and communities, we move people in large numbers through issue organizing campaigns and nonpartisan civic engagement – using base-building, leadership development, direct action, large-scale grassroots and netroots action, and more.
About This Cause
People’s Action Institute was formed in 2016 and aims to align state and local power organizations around a shared vision, coordinated strategy, and a set of strategic organizing campaigns that generate a new people’s politics at a national scale and create a new political “home” for our base. To build power for families and communities, we move people in large numbers through issue organizing campaigns and nonpartisan civic engagement – using base-building, leadership development, direct action, large-scale grassroots and netroots action, and more. The People’s Action Institute national network is comprised of 40 affiliated membership organizations in 30 states. The network (including affiliates) has hundreds of national and state organizers, one million individual members and activists, offices in close to 100 cities, and a combined digital subscriber list of more than 1,053,712 activists. People’s Action Institute itself has 46 staff and offices in Chicago and Washington DC, with additional staff based in New York City, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Southern and Northern California, Texas, and Wisconsin. We have a storied past building strong, multi-racial people’s organizations, centering grassroots leadership of low-income people and people of color, and leading fights to hold powerful interests (both private and public) accountable. We have spearheaded organizing campaigns that led to landmark policy changes benefiting millions of children in low-income communities and communities of color, such as the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (1975), the Community Reinvestment Act (1977), and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (1997). More recently, our work was instrumental in laying the groundwork for critical financial reform initiatives such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) and the $26 billion Attorneys General Mortgage Fraud Settlement (2012), and expanding quality, affordable health coverage through the passage of the Affordable Care Act (2009), implementation of the Affordable Care Act (2010) and subsequent state Medicaid expansions. Our major current programs/campaigns include: ● Health Care for All: focusing on protecting access to health care and the well-being of low and moderate income people; including health care coverage, access, and affordability, with particular emphasis on reducing racial disparities in health by pushing federal proactive legislation, advancing Rx reform, highlighting the issue through elections, investing in state models, and protecting what we have federally. ● 100% Just & Clean Energy: focusing on clean energy investments that benefit communities of color and a just transition to renewable energy - connecting the needs of low-income communities, workers, and the economic and environmental interests of people in frontline communities needs to the broader environmental justice movement. ● Expanding Rural & Small Town Organizing: expanding organizing in rural areas and small towns across southern and rustbelt states to build social justice infrastructure and grassroots leadership. ● Homes Guarantee: Working to expand access to safe and affordable housing - both public and private - and advancing a narrative about housing as a human right and elevating the profile of guaranteed housing as an imperative.