These aren't radical ideas, they're obvious. And most of us agree on them. We just don't have a system aligned with us.
Project 2076 exists to build the policies, institutions, and leaders the majority actually deserves.
These aren't radical ideas, they're obvious. And most of us agree on them. We just don't have a system aligned with us.
89% of Americans say healthcare affordability is a "very big" or "moderately big" problem — making it the third-highest priority for voters, according to Pew Research. A West Health-Gallup poll found that lowering healthcare costs ranks as one of the single most important issues for 57% of Americans when choosing a president. This concern crosses every party line.
Source: Pew Research / West Health-Gallup, 2024 →96% of all voters say protecting the health and safety of drinking water is important, according to a 2024 Morning Consult poll for the Walton Family Foundation. 91% of Americans consider clean water access a high priority for the federal government. This is about as close to unanimous as public opinion ever gets.
Source: Morning Consult / Walton Family Foundation, 2024 →74% of Americans say ensuring everyone has a safe, decent, affordable place to live should be a top national priority, including 79% of Republicans who say it's important for elected officials to act on housing. A 2024 Morning Consult survey found 78% of Democrats, 60% of Republicans, and 60% of independents believe government bears responsibility for affordable housing.
Source: Bipartisan Policy Center / Morning Consult, 2024 →79% of Americans support raising taxes on the wealthy — including 63% of Republicans — according to a 2024 Navigator Research poll. A Bloomberg/Morning Consult survey of swing-state voters found 69% favor higher taxes on billionaires, with support crossing party lines: 58% of Republicans, 83% of Democrats, and 66% of independents.
Source: Navigator Research / Bloomberg-Morning Consult, 2024 →98% of Americans — Democrats and Republicans nearly equally — say it's at least somewhat important that people who are legally qualified and want to vote are able to cast a ballot, per Pew Research. 73% agree that counting every legal vote matters more than ensuring their preferred candidate wins. The desire for free and fair elections is the closest thing to a unanimous value in America.
Source: Pew Research, 2024 →80% of Americans support increasing SNAP food assistance benefits, and 77% support universal free school meals — across all demographics, income levels, and party affiliations, per a Siena national poll. A 2025 Rockefeller Foundation survey found more than 4 in 5 Americans — including 85% of Democrats and 78% of Republicans — support integrating food and nutrition programs into healthcare. The richest country in history has 47.9 million people who can't reliably afford to eat. That's a policy failure, not a resource problem.
Source: Siena/MAZON National Poll + Rockefeller Foundation, 2024–2025 →*These are the places we start. The list will grow.
"A society without a strong center doesn't have debate, it has a constant fight. The current narrative would have you believe we don't have a center, but we do. We largely agree on the things that matter most."
A strong society isn't created through just one kind of platform or activity, but through many hands working diligently in the same direction. Project 2076 will provide the following interconnected ventures.
Josh Allan Dykstra has spent twenty years at the intersection of leadership, organizational design, and the future of work — advising Fortune 10 companies, founding and leading tech companies, speaking to groups of all sizes, and building a global coach-training program that credentialed 400+ practitioners worldwide.
His work has long centered on making workplace systems and environments life-giving. Now he's taking those decades of organizational design and focusing them on social and political structures, intent on designing a civic life where more humans can truly thrive. That focus led him to found Project 2076, a national think tank built on the conviction that the policy infrastructure America needs already has public support — the policies just haven't been enacted yet.
He hosts the Hello Tomorrow Podcast, where he explains the systems shaping our future and provides optimistic blueprints for what we could build together.
Most policy organizations measure success in news cycles. We measure in decades. To us, the tricentennial — July 4, 2076 — is not just a birthday party, but a mile marker on the path to a future we're proud to have built. Over the next 50 years, we will help rebuild civic infrastructure, train a generation of future-forward public servants, and produce the governing blueprints a renewed democracy will need to help lead a 22nd Century that's truly worthy of our beautiful world.
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