Washington State Budget & Policy Center 

The Washington State Budget & Policy Center develops progressive solutions based on sound research and works with community partners to shape the debate on budget and tax reform.

Best practices
WSBPC organizes their work around five key strategies: Shaping the debate through effective messaging; making the budget work for all Washingtonians by conducting in-depth analysis, promoting reform, and providing recommendations; improving our state revenue system; generate high quality data that gets utilized in policy debates; develop policy solutions so that all Washingtonians prosper.

Proven Success
WSBPC consciously decided to become a more public organization over the past year, including finding new ways to share data and research, as well as supporting other organization’s advocacy work and coalition building. As a result, they have appeared in or have been quoted in the media 30 times in the past year. Additionally, they were recently selected for the Strategic Development Program, an initiative of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This investment will add to their current staff capacity and enable the organization to play a larger role in the public debate.

Collaboration
Strategic partnerships are critical for the organization. WSBPC relies on outside organizations to carry their message through advocacy, community organizing, and outreach. Outside organizations rely on WSBPC to provide accurate, timely, and reliable data to support their work. Partnerships include labor organizations, faith communities, environmental, healthcare, education, social and human service groups among many others. A recently enhanced partnership with The Children’s Alliance has resulted in WSPBC housing Washington KIDS COUNT.