New State & Local Policies

BALLOT INITIATIVE STRATEGY CENTER
1025 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 216
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-223-2373
F 202-289-1530
info@ballot.org
www.ballot.org
BISC provides funding, research, and training to support progressive ballot measure activity and to connect advocates across state and issue lines. Its website tracks a wide variety of state legislative and ballot initiative efforts throughout the country.

BRENNAN CENTER, ECONOMIC JUSTICE PROGRAM
New York University
161 6th Ave., 12th Floor
New York, NY 10013
T 212 998 6730
F 212 995 4550
brennan.center@nyu.edu
www.brennancenter.org/programs/pov/ej.html
The Brennan Center’s Economic Justice Program supports coalitions of community organizations, progressive unions, and legislative leaders working to address the problem of growing inequality.

THE CENTER FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES (CPA)
1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20009
T 202-387-6030
F 202-387-8529
info@cfpa.org
www.stateaction.org
The Center for Policy Alternatives works with state legislators at three levels: providing values-based leadership development programs to help legislators become more effective advocates for progressive policy; developing user-friendly policy tools on a wide variety of issues which support legislators in introducing and arguing for progressive legislation; and building a strong, coordinated network of legislators across the states.

DEMOS
220 Fifth Ave, 5th Floor
New York, NY, 10001
T 212-633-1405
F 212-633-2015
info@demos-usa.org
www.demos-usa.org
Founded in 1999, Demos is a multi-faceted research and advocacy organization that focuses on issues of democracy, the health of the public sector, and the creation of a public realm of debate and ideas. It also has an economic opportunity program that focuses on promoting new ideas in the areas of higher education, income and asset-based policy as means of building wealth among people of low and moderate incomes.

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH NETWORK
c/o Economic Policy Institute
1660 L Street NW, Suite 1200
Washington, D.C. 20036
T 202-775-8810
F 202-775-0819
info@earncentral.org
www.earncentral.org
The Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) links national, state, and regional, advocacy, policy, and research organizations. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) acts as the national secretariat for EARN. In addition, state and regional EARN groups receive a variety of assistance from EPI: technical assistance and data analysis; assistance with testimony and media interviews; experts to appear at local forums; pre-publication access to national group reports; organizational support and onsite visits to newly forming groups; and general media support and referrals.

GOOD JOBS FIRST
1616 P Street N, Suite 210
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-737-4315
F 202-638-3486
www.goodjobsfirst.org
Good Jobs First is a national advocacy organization that tracks corporate accountability legislation, including job quality standards (i.e., requirements that economic development subsidies lead to higher paying jobs), disclosure rules (i.e., requirements that the amount of the subsidies that each company receives be displayed in a form that is accessible to the public), and monitoring (i.e., requirements that part of the subsidy money be returned to the government if job employment and job quality commitments are not met).

JOBS WITH JUSTICE
1325 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
T 202-393-1044
F 202-393-7408
info@jwj.org
www.jwj.org
Jobs with Justice coalitions now operate in over 40 cities in 29 states in all regions of the country, made up of member organizations and thousands of individual activists. By building a base of diverse constituencies at the local level as well as providing training, coordination, and networking at the national level, Jobs with Justice aims to rebuild the infrastructure that gives communities a sense of their own power.

PARTNERSHIP FOR WORKING FAMILIES
2525 W. Alameda
Denver, CO 80219
T 303-727-8088
www.communitybenefits.org
Partnership for Working Families provides hands-on research and technical assistance on community benefit agreements to a growing and energized base of affiliates nationwide. The group currently includes 18 established or formative groups and is actively assisting a dozen more groups in community benefits coalitions and campaigns.

SMART GROWTH AMERICA
1707 L St NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-207-3355
F 202-207-3349
sga@smartgrowthamerica.org
www.smartgrowthamerica.org
Smart Growth America is a coalition of nearly 100 advocacy organizations that have a stake in how metropolitan expansion affects our environment, quality of life and economic sustainability. Partners include national, state, and local groups working on behalf of the environment, historic preservation, social equity, land conservation, neighborhood redevelopment, farmland protection, labor, and city/town planning.

SPRAWL-BUSTERS
21 Grinnell Street
Greenfield. MA 01301
T 413-772-6289
info@sprawl-busters.com
www.sprawl-busters.com
Sprawl-Busters is a private firm that provides consulting services to local community coalitions on how to design and implement successful campaigns against mega-stores and other undesirable large-scale developments.

TAKE BACK YOUR TIME
c/o The Simplicity Forum
PO Box 9955
Glendale, CA 91226
T 877-867-8833
contact@simplicityforum.org
www.simpleliving.net/timeday
Take Back Your Time is an initiative designed to challenge the trend of increasing work hours in America that has contributed to the fraying of family relations, health, and community wellbeing. The group aims to bring parental and personal leaves laws in the United States up to the standards already in place in all other industrial countries. The website includes information about the group’s shorter work hours campaign, a collection of essays by over two dozen authors on the impact of increased hours of work on American communities, as well as public policy suggestions for remedies.

UNITED FOR A FAIR ECONOMY
29 Winter Street
Boston, MA 02108
T 617-423-2148
F 617-423-0191
info@faireconomy.org
www.faireconomy.org
United for a Fair Economy is a national, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with a focus on tax and budget-related issues.

U.S. ACTION
1341 G Street, NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
T 202-624-1730
F 202-737-9197
usaction@usaction.org
www.usaction.org
U.S. Action and its affiliates in 24 states aim to pursue a broad agenda of social, racial and economic justice. Many U.S. Action affiliates have been leaders in campaigns to promote state disclosure of corporate economic development subsidy payments.

WALMARTWATCH.COM
c/o Five Stones and the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-557-7440
www.walmartwatch.com
WalmartWatch.com is a project of the Center for Community & Corporate Ethics. The goal of WalmartWatch.com is to challenge Wal-Mart to become a responsible corporate citizen – paying decent wages and providing decent benefits to its workers; respectful of the rights and needs of the communities it serves; and accountable for the conditions under which its products are produced at home and abroad.