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Mission: New america foundation (naf) is dedicated to the renewal of american politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age. Naf carries out their mission as a nonprofit civic enterprise as an intellectual venture capital fund, think tank, technology laboratory, public forum, and media platform. Their hallmarks are big ideas, impartial analysis, pragmatic policy solutions, technological innovation, next generation politics, and creative engagement with broad audiences.

Programs: Technology policy programs:open technology institute - the open technology institute strengthens communities through grounded research, technological innovation, and policy reform. We create reforms to support open source innovations and foster open technologies and communications networks. Partnering with communities, researchers, industry and public interest groups, we promote affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks. Wireless future project - the wireless future project develops and advocates policy proposals to promote universal, affordable and ubiquitous broadband and improve the public's access to critical wireless communication technologies. X-lab - x-lab anticipates the disruptions and potentially dystopian outcomes of different policy options and aims to help humanity change course through bold policy interventions, privacy-conscious technology development, and novel business models.

domestic policy programs:education policy program - the education policy program uses original research and policy analysis to solve the nation's critical education problems, serving as a trusted source of objective analysis and innovative ideas for policymakers, educators, and the public at large. The federal education budget project produces a continuous stream of rigorous, independent research on and analysis of all facets of federal education finance. Our expert staff analyzes the financing, quality, and cost-effectiveness of various federal initiatives-including each year's federal education budget, appropriations legislation, education-related tax policy changes, and mandatory spending on student loans. Political reform program - working toward an open, fair democratic process, with equitable opportunities for full participation, in order to restore dynamism and growth to the american economy and society. The postsecondary national policy institute - the postsecondary national policy institute serves as the leading source of professional development for congressional staff working on higher education issues. Our goal is to increase policymakers' knowledge and capacity to devise and implement workable, sustainable, and affordable higher education solutions for the years to come. Breadwinning and caregiving program - the breadwinning and caregiving program aims to create a community engaged in issues that include work-family balance, improved access to child care, our changing definition of family, education gender imbalance, discrimination in the workplace, opportunities for female leadership, and the global context. The program seeks to create a public environment that's hospitable to change, through powerful writing and informed debate about careers and families, their strengths and their needs. Future tense - future tense is a partnership between new america, arizona state university and slate magazine to explore emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy. Central to the partnership is a series of events that take in-depth, provocative looks at issues that, while little-understood today, will dramatically reshape the policy debates of the coming decade.

economic/fiscal policy programs:asset building program - the mission of the asset building program is to significantly broaden access to economic resources through increased savings and asset ownership, thereby providing families with enhanced economic security, a direct stake in the commonwealth, and the means to pursue their aspirations. Economic growth - the economic growth program aims to chart a growth path through the post-bubble world economy by advancing pro-growth policy reforms and bringing innovative solutions to the forefront of public debate. The program strives to promote a more balanced pattern of domestic and international growth that creates a stronger productive economy capable of supporting rising living standards for all americans. Open markets - the open markets program promotes political, industrial, economic, and environmental resilience. We do so by documenting and clarifying the dangers of extreme consolidation, and by fostering discussions of ways to reestablish america's political economy on a more stable and fair foundation. Profits and purpose - the program on profits and purpose aims to examine and enhance the ways we harness private energies and resources for public purpose. Through research, policy recommendation and public programming and engagement, profits and purpose seeks to improve the ways we design and finance solutions to poverty, inequality and opportunity, focusing on social entrepreneurship, innovation and public-private partnerships to strengthen investment in human and physical capital in the u. S. And around the world.