National Issue Campaigns
Economic Opportunity Campaign: Campus Progress is working hard to advance bold policies that make education more affordable and accessible, health care equitable and available for all, and a just, clean energy future that creates jobs and healthier communities. These are our economic solutions:  |
Funding our Future - Funding our Future is a Campus Progress blog to support our Economic Opportunity campaign. The blog focuses on the investments in our economy that ensure a progressive and just future for our generation. From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to the 2010 federal budget to bold legislation in education, health care, and clean energy, young people are working to make sure that our elected officials put their money where their mouth is and prioritize the issues that matter to us. For the most recent updates on the campaign visit fundingourfuture.campusprogress.org.
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Students over Banks- Campus Progress launched Students over Banks campaign in July, 2009 to advocate for a plan, originally put forward by President Obama, to cut wasteful subsidies to student loan companies and use the $87 billion in savings to make college more affordable and accessible as the first step toward making the US the most educated country in the world by 2020. Visit the site to take action and get updates. | |
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Health Care - Campus Progress is representing the youth movement to demand bold change for our broken health care system. We engage young people on the issues of health care through updates on recent health care issues, promoting nationwide activism with our coalition partners Health Care for America NOW, and fighting for provisions in reform that will benefit young people in a coalition of over 20 youth organizations, the Y.I. Want Change coalition. Find out more about our health care campaign here.
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Clean Energy Jobs - Through our work with the Energy Action Coalition, Campus Progress is one of the leading organizations working with young people calling for an end to the climate crisis by creating millions of clean energy jobs and eliminating handouts to polluters. We help young people on college campuses run campaigns to reduce their communities' carbon footprint and help them build relationships with their law-makers. By making their communities more sustainable, they are giving their legislators a concrete example of the benefits of working towards a cleaner economy. We also engage young people with national climate and energy updates. | |
Campus Progress Network: Get Involved
The Campus Progress Network is comprised of several hundred students and young people joining forces to be part of the progressive youth movement. Members of the network work in their campuses and communities to address issues that matter to young progressives.
Click here to Get Involved with the Campus Progress Network
Action Alliances: Organizing Grants & Progressive Partnerships
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Apply in Fall 2009! We will be opening up our new program-Action Alliances-in the Fall of 2009. This new program will feature both Organizing grants of $200-$1,500, and Progressive Partnerships, which involve intensive training, mentorship, and support, for young people leading issue campaigns or projects which build the power of the progressive youth movement. You can find more information here.
Our Organizing Grantees have included:
- Campaigns to stop global warming at Southern Connecticut State University, Grinnell College, and UNC-Chapel Hill
- A campaign to protect Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
- Living Wage Campaigns at Miami University and Vanderbilt, and a sweat-free apparel campaign at the University of Montana
- A campaign to end the Death Penalty at the University of Texas
- A campaign to remove corporate influence from physician decision making at New York University
- A Sudan Divestment Campaign at Brandeis
- Anti-war campaigns at Western Michigan University, Wesleyan, and Springfield
Check out all of our grantees, and check out recent news about their campaigns.
Coalitions
Academic Freedom – Campus Progress is a member of the Free Exchange on Campus coalition, which is beating back conservative efforts to restrict the free exchange of ideas on campus and impose a new political correctness on America’s colleges and universities.
Generational Alliance - Campus Progress is a member of the Generational Alliance coalition, which is a strategic collaboration of organizations across the country that support lo-income youth, youth of color, and LGBT youth who are pursuing progressive victories for their communities.
Energy Action Coalition (EAC) – Campus Progress is a member of the Energy Action Coalition, which unites a diversity of organizations in an alliance that supports and strengthens the student and youth clean and just energy movement in North America.
80 Million Strong – Campus Progress is a member of the 80 Million Strong coalition, which unites young Americans to own and direct their economic reality by convening stakeholders who propose legislation that creates new jobs for the new economy.
Health Care for America NOW(HCAN) –Campus Progress Action is a member of HCAN, which is a coalition that stands for strong principles to provide a guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all.
Y.I. Want Change – Campus Progress is a member of the Y.I. Want Change coalition, a coalition of over 20 youth organizations representing 1.5 million young adults.Y.I. Want Change is committed to securing real health care reform for young Americans.The reforms we seek will benefit all Americans and will help ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable care.
Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) – Campus Progress is a member of the SLAP coalition, which is a joint initiative of Jobs with Justice and the United States Student Association that engages student organizations in economic justice campaigns.
Campaign for College Affordability - Campus Progress is a member of the Campaign for College Affordability—along with the US Students Association, US PIRG, NEA, and other organizations—to coordinate efforts to pass the College Cost Reduction and Access Act.
Other Resources Campus Progress Action Alerts call on you to take action on upcoming decisions related to the most pressing issues facing us today. We often post alerts from our ally organizations, and they are a great way to get your voice heard and influence public policy.
Looking for a fantastic progressive job? Campus Progress occasionally highlights positions on our Work in Progress page that are available with organizations we work with and other awesome groups. Listings appear on this page chronologically and remain up for three months or until we are told the position is filled.
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