Convened by the Progressive Ideas Network and ProgressiveCongress.org
Westfield Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, Chantilly, VA
January 26-28, 2011
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2007 Winter Retreat
Progressive Ideas Leadership Sector Retreat
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Pocantico Retreat Center
December 10-12, 2007
Leaders of 25 major progressive institutions responded to a call from four peer institutions and met from
December 10-12, 2007 in Tarrytown, NY. The retreat revealed much common ground, and participants recognized that they constitute an "ideas sector" for the cause of progressive politics and and social justice.
Participants have chosen to move together, beyond the organization-logic that necessarily guides each of their institutions individually, into a series of commitments and actions guided by movement-logic aimed at bringing
shared progressive values and policies to the fore in American society.
Through three days of intense dialog, the ideas sector leaders realized that they could strengthen their combined effectiveness by forming a network capable of considering the progressive movement and the ideas that animated it as a whole. The key commitments to come out of the retreat process were:
- To form a Progressive Ideas Network (PIN) whose first priority will be to facilitate the e xchange of ideas and techniques to increase the effectiveness of the sector and grow the influence of a common progressive vision; and
- To immediately engage in a "Transition Project" aimed at promoting a Progressive agenda through the transition to the next Administration. Its likely form will be a briefing book and communications strategy to influence and to challenge the next phase of U.S. political life.
The group desires not only to build a long-term structure for collaboration, but also to make progressive ideas a beacon for our country through the present period of great change.
