National Priorities Project

Annual Report 2011

Vision of an
Engaged Democracy

A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget

Our Mission

National Priorities Project makes our complex federal budget transparent and accessible so people can exercise their right and responsibility to oversee and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

Board of directors

Laura Berry*
Executive Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

Dennis Bidwell
Board Vice Chair; Principal, Bidwell Advisors

Bill Breitbart
Board Treasurer; Director of Housing for Central and Western Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC)

Savita Farooqui*
President, Symsoft Solutions

Doug Hall
Director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), Economic Policy Institute

Jim Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute

Paul Kawika Martin
Organizing and Political Director, PeaceAction

Jen Kern
Board Clerk; Minimum Wage Campaign Coordinator, National Employment Law Project

Roz Lemieux
Founder and partner, Fission Strategy (web 2.0 and social media strategy) and Executive Director, New Organizing Institute

Miriam Pemberton
Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Lorna Peterson
Executive Director, Five Colleges, Inc. (retired)

Vijay Prashad, Professor
Professor of International Studies, Trinity College

Cate Woolner
Board Chair; Ombudsperson, Amherst College


NPP gratefully acknowledges the service of board members who rotated off the board in 2011:
Eve Brown-Waite, Peter Greenwald, Michael Klare and Lawrence Wittner

*Elected to the Board in December 2011