The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all Americans. We believe that Americans are bound together by a common commitment to these values and we aspire to ensure that our national policies reflect these values. Our policy and communications efforts are organized around four major objectives:

1. Developing a long term vision of a progressive America, 2. Providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals, 3. Responding effectively and rapidly to conservative proposals and rhetoric with a thoughtful critique and clear alternatives, and 4. Communicating progressive messages to the American public.