Our Solutions

The Best Initiatives for Activating Change
 
The whole idea of a Next Agenda Challenge is to focus on coming up with a set of solutions that are up to the scale of the problem, which by definition, is big. Throughout the process we keep people focused on finding practical solutions that will work - not too much dwelling on the problem, or envisioning lofty goals that are too far from reach.
 
Solutions can mean many things, and to solve a challenge as complex as our initial Clean Energy Challenge, many different solutions will be needed. Getting all America’s electricity onto clean energy can’t be done by government fiat and a few policies. It can’t be done by the private sector alone, or by changing public behavior. It will take all of that  and more. 
 
Next Agenda can’t fully solve a public challenge that big. We can help catalyze efforts towards it, focus the attention of key stakeholders and the public, enable a process to develop a range of ideas that could solve it, and identify the very best initiatives in the end.
 

We think of the end product as “initiatives.” Each of them are ideas that have been worked through and vetted and seem capable of making significant progress towards solving the challenge. Taken together, this set of a half dozen to a dozen initiatives could arguably solve the challenge if fully carried out. 
 
Next Agenda brings these initiatives to the point of activation. We are not designed  for making them actually happen over the long haul. Other organizations and entities are much better suited for that line of work. We expect others will pick up where we leave off and make these potent projects and policies and other major initiatives come alive. 
 
 
Next Agenda can stick to what it does best, and turn to take on the early thinking of solving another big challenge, and get that to the point of activation too.