The Bauman Foundation was funded by the estate of Lionel R. Bauman, a New York City lawyer, businessman and philanthropist who supported education, the arts, social justice and civil rights through charitable and service activities during his lifetime. It is run by Patricia Bauman, a noted philanthropist and political activist.

The Foundation focuses its grants and operating programs on activities which encourage systemic changes rather than on those which ameliorate symptoms. The Foundation selects and becomes intimately familiar with carefully-chosen policy areas and identifies organizations through which it can accomplish its goals.

The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses. The Roosevelt Institution is supported by the DC office of OSI, and works closely with program officer Anna Lefer.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.

With assets of over $6 billion and grants and program-related investments totaling approximately $225 million annually, MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest private philanthropic foundations. The Foundation believes its grantmaking is most effective when focused on relatively few areas of work, combined with sufficient resources over a long enough period of time to make a measurable difference.

The Foundation has supported the Roosevelt Institution as part of their new Social Contract Initiative.

Think Tanks

The Center for American Progress is a progressive think-tank dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through ideas and action. They are creating a long-term, progressive vision for America—a vision that policy makers, thought-leaders and activists can use to shape the national debate and pass laws that make a difference. CAP and Roosevelt run joint fellowship programs that team together student and professional fellows on research projects, and collaborate during the summer months on conferences and intern events. In addition, CAP provides Roosevelt with advice on media, legislation and other crucial areas of operation.

The Democratic Leadership Council and the Progressive Policy Institute, partner 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(3) groups, work to define and promote a new progressive politics for America in the 21st century. Through their research, policies, and commentary, they are fashioning a new governing philosophy and an agenda for public innovation geared to the Information Age. The DLC has agreed to include Roosevelt fellows in its annual National Conversation, a conference of local and state legislators, policymakers and activists.

The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. For more than 90 years, Brookings has analyzed current and emerging issues and produced new ideas that matter—for the nation and the world.

The National Academy of Social Insurance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization made up of the nation's leading experts on social insurance. Its mission is to promote understanding and informed policymaking on social insurance and related programs through research, public education, training, and the open exchange of ideas.

Publications

Democracy: A Journal of Ideas is a quarterly journal of progressive thought, founded by Kenneth Baer and Andrei Cherny, where influential ideas are developed and important debates are spurred. The progressive analogue to such conservative journals as Commentary, The Public Interest and the National Interest, Democracy is at the forefront of forging a 21st century progressivism that responds to a new economy, new national security threats, and the new contours of American life. Democracy is sold in bookstores in 49 states, and its readers--in print and at www.democracyjournal.org--can be found in 90 countries around the world.

The Internationalist is the name shared by a daily website and a quarterly print magazine, both of which are published by the Internationalist Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Both are written, edited and designed by a team of college students and recent grads who intend to make you laugh about, explore, and dissect the world on micro and macro levels. The Internationalist works with Roosevelt fellows to publish op-eds and longer research pieces, while Roosevelt chapters help distribute the publication and support the Internationalist website.

The Policy Studies Organization includes more than 800 universities and institutions in its membership as well as individuals in more than 80 countries. From its headquarters in an historic house near Dupont Circle in Washington, once the home of the families of President James Garfield and the labor leader Samuel Gompers, the society organizes conferences, seminars, the publication of journals and books, and an increasing Internet presence. It is a related society of the American Political Science and Midwest Political Science Associations - grew out of a concern on the part of members of the American Political Science Association in the 1970s that there was a need for more emphasis on (as one member put it) the "coalface". In other words, research knowledge had to be effectively disseminated and had to reach those who actually set policies. This was not a call for any sort of strict utilitarianism, but simply a feeling that much good could be done by bringing together people who felt that policies (and not just government policies, but policies of companies, of universities, and indeed of all kinds of institutions) should be informed policies. PSO has published a full journal of Roosevelt policy, and will soon be publishing an annual journal dedicated to Roosevelt research.

The Next American City is a not-for-profit organization founded by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders to explore the transformation of America’s cities and suburbs, examining how and why our built environment, economy, society and culture are changing. Through a quarterly magazine, events across the country, and op-eds in major newspapers, TNAC promotes socially and environmentally sustainable economic growth in America’s cities and suburbs.

Advocacy Organizations

The mission of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute is to inform new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and to inspire the application of their spirit of optimism and innovation to the solution of current problems. We believe, as FDR did, that the Four Freedoms are essential to a flourishing democracy, and we create programs to encourage those freedoms at home and abroad.

The Roosevelt Institute also serves as the non-profit funding arm of the nation's first presidential library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where our support helps sustain the many programs and resources that make the FDR Library the most important center for the study and teaching of the Roosevelt era in the world.

The Roosevelt Institution has just completed a strategic merger with FERI, which promises both organizations significant additional resources in the future.

People for the American Way is an energetic advocate for the values and institutions that sustain a diverse democratic society. Many of these are now threatened by the influence of the radical right and its allies who have risen to positions of political power. Our most fundamental rights and freedoms--and even our most basic constitutional framework--are at risk. People for the American Way works in close collaboration with other leading national and state progressive organizations to mobilize Americans at this defining moment in our history. Young People for the American Way (YP4) annually works with a number of Roosevelt fellows to support their organizing efforts.

The Progressive States Network aims to transform the political landscape by sparking progressive actions at the state level. Founded in 2005, the group provides coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to state legislators and their staffs, empowering these decision-makers with everything they need to engineer forward-thinking change. Progressive States also works with non-profits and a variety of constituent groups to build a swath of support for coordinated progressive policy. The overarching goals: to get good policy passed into law and change the way issues are debated in the states. PSN is helping Roosevelt work on policy issues at the state level across the country.