The Center on Policy Initiatives was founded in 1997. For our 20th anniversary, in 2017, we asked the founders and early staff to reflect on the origins and history of CPI.
The Center on Policy Initiatives was founded in 1997. For our 20th anniversary, in 2017, we asked the founders and early staff to reflect on the origins and history of CPI.
We want power for workers. Workers make our system run yet it only serves people at the top. We're working to transform our current exploitative economy into one that serves all people, not the wealthy.
We are working to transform the education system so that it is completely public and better supports working-class empowerment, community liberation, and provides the tools to fight oppression and create a better future for all.
Environmental destruction hurts everyone, but racism and classism ensure that poor people and people of color are more likely to bear the brunt of the dangers of climate change. We work with environmental justice organizations to promote safe and healthy workplaces and working-class communities to ensure present and future generations can thrive.
Housing is a human right. We advocate for safe, healthy homes and thriving communities. The idea of housing as a way to make money has created homelessness & poverty in unprecedented numbers.
We are working to transform the education system so that it is completely public and better supports working-class empowerment, community liberation, and provides the tools to fight oppression and create a better future for all.
Environmental destruction hurts everyone, but racism and classism ensure that poor people and people of color are more likely to bear the brunt of the dangers of climate change. We work with environmental justice organizations to promote safe and healthy workplaces and working-class communities to ensure present and future generations can thrive.
Housing is a human right. We advocate for safe, healthy homes and thriving communities. The idea of housing as a way to make money has created homelessness & poverty in unprecedented numbers.
We bring people and organizations of all races and genders regardless of citizenship status or disability together to build the power to make things happen. CPI is the proud convener and host of regional community-led coalitions.
We research the facts and produce reports on issues of working poverty and economic inequity, laying the groundwork for policy development.
We partner with Black, Indigenous, People of Color and working-class communities to change systems so that people can participate in the decisions and lead the institutions that impact their lives.
Center on Policy Initiatives is an affiliate of PowerSwitch Action, a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.
The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) is the proud fiscal sponsor, as well as a member of the Advisory Board, of the San Diego Black Worker Center (SDBWC). They fight to build a more equitable economy for Black workers across the diaspora and to advance the Black worker justice movement.
The California Coalition for Worker Power (CCWP) advocates for the rights and voices of California's workers. They aim to create a more equitable workplace through legislative campaigns, anti-retaliation measures, and outreach programs to ensure workers can express concerns and secure their rights.
The Center on Policy Initiatives is a member of Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), a nationwide network of research, policy, and organizing and advocacy organizations fighting, state by state, for an economy that works for everyone.