New Website: Roosevelt Institute

Posted by Roosevelt Institute on November 9, 2015

I’m thrilled to introduce the new Roosevelt Institute.

For Roosevelt staff, fellows, our board, and our network, today is the culmination of a journey we started last winter. Through a series of workshops, briefings, conversations, drafts, late nights, and intense conversations, we doubled down on what was working, shed what wasn’t, and wrapped it all in our core values and the inspiration of Franklin and Eleanor.

Yes, we have a new, modern and beautiful website and logo. But today we are launching much more than that, including an updated mission guiding our work:

Until economic and social rules work for all, they’re not working.

Inspired by the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor, the Roosevelt Institute reimagines America as it should be: a place where hard work is rewarded, everyone participates, and everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity. We believe that when the rules work against this vision, it’s our responsibility to recreate them.

We bring together thousands of thinkers and doers—from a new generation of leaders in every state to Nobel laureate economists—working to redefine the rules that guide our social and economic realities. We rethink and reshape everything from local policy to federal legislation, orienting toward a new economic and political system: one built by many for the good of all.

We’ve had an extraordinary 2015 so far, from receiving the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions to the amazing success of our Rewriting the Rules report and agenda. We’re also the proud nonprofit partner of the FDR Presidential Library, which continues to be a vibrant hub for Rooseveltian values and work. Our new site and brand will allow Roosevelt to continue to build on these successes and reimagine the social and economic rules that guide our nation.

I hope you’ll spend some time browsing the new Roosevelt site and please let us know what you think.

Thank you for your continued support.

Felicia Wong
President & CEO, Roosevelt Institute