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Big Picture Research and Communicat Ions

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Austin, TXEIN 393919202
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Overview

About Big Picture Research and Communicat Ions

Big Picture Research & Communications works on an ambitious question: how can advocacy for pro-competition and pro-environment regulations return over a trillion dollars a year to workers, consumers, and the environment? The Austin organization develops political-economy models, creates educational materials for interested laypeople, and engages philanthropists through The One Percent Shift. Donor support helps make complex policy questions easier to understand and strengthens advocacy focused on root causes.

Big Picture Research & Communications looks at political economy, globalization, and media through big-picture models designed to clarify policy choices. It also translates that work into videos, articles, and a multimedia library for laypeople, including materials that challenge the premises and conclusions of free market ideology.

What they do

Programs

The concrete work this nonprofit runs. Each program may later become a fundable project.

Program 01

Research and development

Develops big-picture models of the political economy, globalization, and media to clarify policy choices and identify conditions that optimize societal benefit.

Program 02

Education and awareness campaigns

Provides educational videos, articles, and a multimedia library for laypeople, including materials that challenge the premises and conclusions of free market ideology.

Program 03

Engaging philanthropists

Engages philanthropists in The One Percent Shift, moving 1% of their giving to advocacy for pro-competition and pro-environment regulations.

The story

About this work

Mission

To return over a trillion dollars a year to workers, consumers, and the environment through supporting advocacy for pro-competition and pro-environment regulations.

Who they serve

Interested laypeople, workers, consumers, environmental interests, advocates, and philanthropists.

How your donation helps

  • Research and development of models of the political economy, globalization, and media
  • Educational videos, articles, and multimedia library materials
  • Awareness and education campaigns
  • Engagement with philanthropists through The One Percent Shift
Credibility

Recognition & press

Awards & recognition

  • Joshua Busby’s book AIDS Drugs for All received the 2014 Don K. Price Award from the American Political Science Association.
  • Thomas P. Lyon received the 2023 World Sustainability Prize from the MDPI Foundation.
  • Thomas P. Lyon received the 2022 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organizations and the Natural Environment division of the Academy of Management.

Press & mentions

Collaborators

Partners & funders

Tomberg FoundationTomberg Family PhilanthropiesUniversity of TexasRobert S. Strauss Center for International Security and LawAlliance for Research on Corporate SustainabilityErb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this nonprofit and how its work happens.

How does Big Picture Research & Communications make its research accessible?

It develops big-picture models that help interested laypeople understand policy choices, then shares that work through educational videos, articles, and a multimedia library shaped for people with different interests and backgrounds.

What is The One Percent Shift?

The One Percent Shift invites philanthropists to move 1% of their giving toward advocacy for pro-competition and pro-environment regulations.

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