The Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, formerly the Roosevelt Institution, is the first student-run policy organization in the United States. It is a part of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, an organization with offices in New York, NY, Washington, DC, and Hyde Park, NY, focused on carrying forward through new leaders and ideas the values and spirit that Franklin and Eleanor brought to the last century. Roosevelt currently has 8,500 active members and over 80 established chapters both in the United States and abroad.
Individual chapters on college campuses conduct research and write policy regarding various public issues. It is the first student-run policy research group or "think tank" in the United States.
Roosevelt was founded at Stanford University and Yale University following the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. Its name is a counterpoint to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford.
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