We get results that make our country better

Together with the nonprofit groups we work with, Fund for the Public Interest has a proven track record of success. Here are just two examples of the countless results we've helped win.

The Human Rights Campaign & the Fund: Standing up for equal rights

How many people do you need to change the way Americans think about equality? For the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a good start was 750,000.

The Fund helped HRC, America’s largest civil rights organization working for LGBT equality, to build more people power for a crucial piece of legislation—the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. HRC was a key backer of the bill, and they needed to ramp up support in advance of the vote on the bill. We had the field presence, and the guts, to sign up members in the backyards of anti-gay rights politicians like Rick Santorum and Bill Frist. And in 2009, President Obama signed the bill into law.

Since 1996, HRC has partnered with the Fund to grow its membership base. Today they boast a grassroots force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters—and the Fund has been a key partner in that growth

Environment America and the Fund: Restoring clean water protections

Due to loopholes in the Clean Water Act, more than 2 million miles of America’s streams, and the drinking water for 117 million Americans were left unprotected against polluters.

For nearly a decade, the Fund built the people power it took to restores protections to these waters. We talked with more than 1 million people at their doorsteps and collected more than 425,000 comments in support of clean water. The money raised by the Fund helped Environment America take on polluters attempting to block the rule.

It worked. In May 2015, President Obama signed the Clean Water Rule, restoring protections to millions of miles of streams across the country. While polluters are still fighting the new rule, the Fund continues to show the public support for these protections.