Save the American Dream is a campaign of National People’s Action (NPA). NPA is our Network of metropolitan, regional, and statewide organizations that build grassroots power.
NPA was founded in 1972 by Shel Trapp and Gale Cincotta. For more than 36 years, NPA has worked nationally to build and strengthen people’s organizations, to develop indigenous leadership, and to advance campaigns for a more just, equitable, and sustainable society.
National People’s Action is racially, religiously, and geographically diverse. Affiliates include multi-issue organizations building power amongst an urban African American base; city-wide worker centers organizing Latino day laborers; and statewide membership organizations composed of white family-farmers in the heartland.
A Grassroots Vehicle for Social Change
National People’s Action works to build the field of organizing, create permanent alliances, run national campaigns that strengthen organizations and develop grassroots leadership; and utilize technology and communications to take organizing and alliance building to a new scale.
This is done by working closely with and supporting community organizations that wish to amplify their local organizing efforts on the national stage.
At a local level, NPA Affiliates address a wide range of issues, including housing, healthcare, education, immigrant rights, workers’ rights, and criminal justice. Nationally, NPA runs several top-tier leaders and organizer training programs and develops new organizing projects in unorganized regions. It also coordinates two federal-level campaigns for racial and economic equity in the housing and banking industries, and plays supportive roles in national efforts to win comprehensive immigration reform and strengthen workers’ rights.
For information about NPA’s Save the American Dream campaign, contact:
Jordan Estevao
Save the American Dream Campaign Director
