CAIP creates transformative policy strategies to change the dominant narrative on policy from one where only educated white men get to decide the laws that govern our lives to one that encourages everyone to participate in determining how we’re governed.

The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy partners with grassroots organizations, coalitions, and networks to decode, develop, and deliver policy strategy that meets the needs of the people first.

OUR STORY

We don’t believe in ‘paying your dues.’

Often, in the early days of our activist lives, we each heard senior colleagues say “That’s just how it goes. You have to learn the hard way. We did. It’s just paying your dues.” What they meant, really, was that there was nobody there to show them the ropes of how policy change happens. They had to make mistakes, and deal with the feeling of being an outsider until they, too, knew the ropes.

Well that’s not effective, nor is it just. At CAIP, we believe this exclusion is a power-play, and we are here to upset that hierarchy.

We believe that those of us who have learned how to access these highly exclusive policy spaces can, and should, work to make those spaces accessible to all.

So, we started CAIP to meet this need.

The Center for Advancing Innovative Policy partners with grassroots organizations, coalitions, and networks to decode, develop, and deliver policy strategy that meets the needs of the people first.

Some of our clients include: