About the Next System ProjectThe Next System Project is an initiative of The Democracy Collaborative aimed at bold thinking and action to address the systemic challenges the United States faces now and in coming decades. Deep crises of economic inequality, racial injustice and climate change—to name but three—are upon us, and systemic problems require systemic solutions.Working with a broad group of researchers, theorists and activists, we are using the best research, understanding and strategic thinking, on the one hand, and on-the-ground organizing and development experience, on the other, to promote visions, models and pathways that point to a “next system” radically different in fundamental ways from the failed systems of the past and present and capable of delivering superior social, economic and ecological outcomes.Next System ProjectNSP_fd877f44-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf0The Democracy CollaborativeNext System Project Staff & FellowsAdam SimpsonProgram AssociateCarla SkandierSenior Research AssociateDan HindFellowDana BrownDeputy DirectorEllen BrownFellowGar AlperovitzCo-Chair, The Next System ProjectGus SpethCo-Chair, The Next System ProjectIsaiah J. PooleEditorial Manager, The Next System ProjectJarrid GreenSenior Research AssociateJoe GuinanExecutive Director of the Next System Project and Senior Fellow at The Democracy CollaborativeJohanna BozuwaResearch AssociateJohn DudaDirector of Communications, The Democracy CollaborativeJules PeckFellowKatie ParkerSenior Research AssociateLaura FlandersFellow, Next System MediaMatthew BrownSenior Fellow, The Democracy CollaborativeMichael HudsonFellowNishani FrazierFellowPeter GowanPolicy AssociateSarah McKinleyEuropean RepresentativeTed HowardCo-founder and President of The Democracy CollaborativeThomas HannaResearch Director, The Democracy CollaborativeA “next system” radically different in fundamental ways from the failed systems of the past and present and capable of delivering superior social, economic and ecological outcomes._fd87817e-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf0To engage in bold thinking and action to address the systemic challenges the United States faces now and in coming decades._fd878246-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf0R&DResearch and develop political-economic alternatives._fd8782f0-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf01Systemic problems require systemic solutions. -- Through our work at different scales and in a range of sectors, the Next System Project functions as a research and development lab for political-economic alternatives. From comprehensive research and policy development for systemic change to targeted interventions in areas like energy democracy and public banking, we connect designs for a better future with the networks that can make them real.Political EconomyAssemble the elements of a new political economy for the United States._fd8783d6-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf01.1Responding to genuine hunger for a new way forward, and building on innovative thinking and practical experience with new economic institutions and approaches being developed in communities across the country and around the world, we are assembling the elements of a new political economy for the United States in the twenty-first century.Designs & NetworksConnect designs for a better future with the networks that can make them real._fd878494-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf02We connect designs for a better future with the networks that can make them real.DebateCatalyze a substantive debate about the next system and how we might go about its construction._fd878552-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf02.1By approaching issues systemically, we believe we can move our degraded political conversation beyond current limits and catalyze a substantive debate about the next system and how we might go about its construction.Proposals, Experiments & InstitutionsBuild an array of new proposals and practical experiments and institutions._fd878610-f3f1-11e8-ac5a-829a21fabdf02.2Despite the scale of the difficulties, we are cautiously optimistic. There are real alternatives. Arising from the unforgiving logic of dead ends, the steadily building array of promising new proposals and practical experiments and institutions, together with an explosion of ideas and activism, offer a powerful basis for hope.2018-11-29https://thenextsystem.org/about-next-system-projectOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net