Generation Progress
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| Formation | 2005 |
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| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Methods | Activism, journalism, policy research and advocacy |
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Parent organization
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Center for American Progress |
| Slogan | "Generation Progress educates, engages, & mobilizes a new generation of young progressives" |
| Mission | "To promote progressive solutions to key political and social challenges" |
| Website | genprogress |
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Formerly called
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Campus Progress |
Generation Progress, launched as Campus Progress in February 2005 and renamed Generation Progress in July 2013, is an American non-profit advocacy group that promotes progressive political and social policy through support for student activists and journalists on college campuses in the United States. Generation Progress is the youth engagement arm of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress.
From the organization's founding in 2004 until January 2012, Generation Progress was led by David Halperin, former White House speechwriter to President Bill Clinton. The current executive director of Generation Progress is Maggie Thompson.
In a 2013 re-branding effort, Generation Progress identified economic justice, human and civil rights, and democracy as the group's top priorities. The organization announced that it would work to reach beyond college campuses and involve older, working-class and non-college-bound millennials in liberal activism. Generation Progress is a proponent of gun control.
A partner organization of Generation Progress, Generation Progress Action, engages in progressive advocacy activities.
Generation Progress has programs in journalism, activism and events. The organization lobbies Congress and state governments, produces media content, and conducts trainings. Generation Progress has worked with Senator Elizabeth Warren in an attempt to curb rising student debt through a proposal which would lower interest rates and increase taxes.
Generation Progress has organized alternative spring breaks focused on issues including climate change, the death penalty, and the war in Iraq.
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