To introduce bright ideas from the ground up, some big, some small, that challenge assumptions and expand the national conversation. To give voice to more creative solutions by exploring ways to share and amplify them, and make civic participation easier to act upon. Fun even. Each Blue Paper lays out a new idea in three parts. They propose practical, human-scale strategies and messages, and each suggests at least one “call to action” – a way to send the idea out there – some as easy as “One Click”. These tools and campaigns make it easier for people to speak up, connect, organize, and be heard, as we hope to push the boundaries of public discourse beyond what is typically considered possible – what political scientists call “The Overton Window”. We aim to pry that “window” open not only with new ways of thinking about problems, but with new ways of applying pressure to politicians, institutions, and corporations who we believe will never propose transformative solutions – until we, the people, demand them.

This is The Blue Paper Project.