Center for Popular Democracy

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Center for Popular Democracy
AbbreviationCPD
Formation2012
Founded at New York City, United States
TypeNonprofit
Purpose Progressive political advocacy [1]
Headquarters Brooklyn, New York
Co-Executive Directors
Andrew Friedman
Ana Maria Archila
Brian Kettenring
Revenue (2013)
$3,046,684 [2]
Expenses (2013)$2,869,329 [2]
Website populardemocracy.org OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Center for Popular Democracy(CPD) is an American advocacy group that promotes progressive politics. [3] [4] [5] CPD is a federation of groups that includes some of the old chapters of ACORN. [6] The group's stated goal is to "envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda." [7] The organization is allied with teachers' unions and has published studies criticizing charter schools. [8] [9]

Contents

Campaigns and actions

The organization gained national prominence during the protests over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. One of the organization's co-executive directors, Ana Maria Archila, confronted U.S. Senator Jeff Flake over his support for the judge [10] [11] and other activists had questions for U.S. Senator Rand Paul. [12]

Private prisons

CPD has run a years-long campaign against private prisons, and prison companies have warned investors that activist groups are a threat to their future profitability. [13] This notice to investors came after lenders like JP Morgan Chase bowed to pressure from CPD and other groups and agreed to stop doing business with prison companies. [14]

Local Progress

Local Progress is a project of CPD, and works to organize grassroots groups on the outside and progressive politicians on the inside to advance an inside/outside strategy for change. It was founded in 2012 to connect progressive leaders in different cities so they can learn from each other's experiences, share policy ideas and model legislation. [15] It also regularly brings local officials together so they can learn from each other in person and share ideas. [16] [17] Local Progress board members include Brad Lander, Helen Gym, Gregorio Casar, Phillipe Cunningham, Tefere Gebre, Lorena González, and other local officials and national progressive leaders. [18]

Funding

CPD has received funding from the Bauman Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Democracy Alliance, [6] and the Open Society Foundations. [19] [20] [21] [22]

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