About Us

The Opportunity Agenda

Opportunity is a deeply held American value and a precious national asset. At its core, it means that all of us deserve a fair chance to achieve our full potential.

Crucial to the promise of opportunity is that all people have access to a good education, a decent job at a living wage, an affordable place to live, and high quality health care.

Yet many Americans—including many people of color, poor people, immigrants, and women—face multiple barriers to opportunity that can't be overcome through individual effort alone.

The Opportunity Agenda was founded with the mission of building the national will to expand opportunity in America.  Through our active partnerships with advocates, organizers, researchers, and policymakers, we tell a new story to the American people:

• We use communications and media to build public support for expanding opportunity for more Americans;

• We synthesize and translate research on obstacles to opportunity;

• We train and support social justice leaders;

• We identify and advocate on behalf of policies that expand opportunity for all.

Our work moves hearts, minds, and policies, while building the skills and capacity of social justice organizations, leaders, and movements.

We have it in our power as a nation to expand opportunity for all.  Doing so requires working to turn our beliefs and aspirations into public support for fundamental change.

The Opportunity Agenda is a project of Tides Center.

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