Program areas at American Promise
American Promise, Inc. empowers, inspires, and mobilizes americans to win the cause of our time: the for our freedom amendment. Once the for our freedom amendment is in place, congress and the states will have the ability to create reasonable safeguards on money in our political system. This historic reform will rebalance our politics and government by putting the rights of individual citizens and the interests of the nation before the privileges of concentrated money, corporations, unions, political parties, and superpacs. American Promise leads the non-partisan, fifty-state campaign for the for our freedom amendment so that people, not money, govern america. (see schedule o)american Promise, Inc. Focuses its advocacy and organizing programs in the following five areas:citizen empowerment:american Promise's citizen empowerment programming focuses on building distributed, decentralized networks to support, connect and amplify cross-partisan local and state action by advocates to move forward the for our freedom amendment in state and federal legislatures.pledge campaign:by securing pledges from candidates for office and incumbents to use their office to work for the for our freedom amendment, American Promise is able to hold elected representatives to their word, to ensure that they represent the good of the country and the will of the people for big, real reform through the amendment, rather than do the bidding of big donors and special interests.state initiatives:american Promise provides legal expertise, organizing strategy and execution, and direct lobbying support for statewide ballot campaigns and local and state resolutions calling on congress to propose the for our freedom amendment.congressional initiatives:american Promise works with democrats, republicans, and independent members of congress to grow cross-partisan support for the for our freedom amendment.website & action center:american Promise's website and action center are interactive resources for citizens, media, organizations, legislators and staff for education, information, events, legislative developments, citizen story-telling, news, opinion pieces and more about the background and progress of the for our freedom amendment.keep the Promise campaign:at the end of 2020, the organization completed phase 1 of its 3 phase strategic plan. The organization built the foundation, including the strategy, organizational structure, leadership team, programming, and citizen participation that set the stage for rapidly building and expanding the skills and engagement of americans as the organization moved into phase 2.in 2023, the third year of phase 2, American Promise, Inc. Continued to build capacity in its programs and communications departments to mobilize and organize its state- and nation-wide membership to build the political will, advocacy, and campaigns necessary for the for our freedom amendment to pass through congress.