Rockridge Institute

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Rockridge Institute is think tank staffed by a group of distinguished scholars and researchers working to help achieve a just, democratic, environmentally sustainable, and humane society. Rockridge is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational institution, and does not endorse or oppose any particular candidate or party.

Rockridge works to:

• Reframe the terms of political debate to make a progressive moral vision more persuasive and influential.

• Develop public policies that will bring us closer to a society that embodies this vision.

• Unify progressives around a shared political program and a common moral language.

• Build links with activists, policymakers, the media, academics, and other key groups to influence the public agenda.

Over the last three decades, a well-organized and well-funded conservative movement has appropriated fundamental American values and language, from freedom to compassion to patriotism, and redefined them from a conservative perspective. By defining the language of public discourse, they have set the parameters of the political debate, even though a majority of Americans continue to reject much of the conservative worldview and its policy implications. The right has used the support of a dense network of think tanks, intellectuals, and policy analysts, to articulate its moral vision, disseminate it to the public, and translate it into public policies.

Intitial funding was provided by the Open Society Institute, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Women Donors Network and MoveOn.org.

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