Help Us Celebrate our Birthday!

It may feel like just another Monday, but today is a very special day at Brookings. It's our 107th anniversary!

That's 107 years of:

Non-partisan, fact-based research.
Innovative policy recommendations and solutions.
Quality, independence, and impact.

To commemorate this momentous occasion, we are sending fun Brookings coffee mugs to the first 50 supporters that give at least $75 by this Friday! Show your Brookings pride and help us celebrate over 100 years of policy impact.

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Our mission of providing high-quality research and analysis remains constant, but we must be agile to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Your support helps us rise to the occasion.

Here's to 107 years and many more,

Tamara O'Neil

Vice President for Institutional Advancement

P.S. If you can't make your gift by Friday, all through March we'll send supporters a pop-socket to make reading Brookings content on your phone easier from wherever you are!

Over a century of policy ideas

Founder Robert S. Brookings

From 1932-1960, Brookings was located at Jackson Place

A worker in West Berlin, Germany, 1951. The sign reads, Berlin Emergency Program, with Marshall Plan aid

In 1948, Brookings helped develop the Marshall Plan

Did you know? In 1978, Brookings researcher Gary Orfield published "Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and National Policy," which argued that American schools have a legal and moral obligation to desegregate.

For an in-depth look at our history of impact, explore this timeline from our centenary year.

To learn about the institution's present and what's ahead, see our annual report.

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