About Us
Imagine taking away your ability to:
- focus on decisions that affect you
- formulate your own questions about those decisions and about other concerns
Would you be able to advocate for yourself and your family?
What if you never had the chance to learn skills for focusing on decisions or asking questions? How would that affect you?
And, in a democracy, what if a large portion of the citizenry is not focusing on key decisions made by elected officials?
What if they are not asking questions about the reasons behind the decisions, the processes for making those decisions and the role they could play in the decision-making processes?
Oh, maybe these are not hypothetical questions.
The Right Question Project (RQP) offers a unique response to these questions. RQP is a non-profit educational organization developing new methods and ideas for tapping the potential of tens of millions of people in low and moderate-income communities to become:
- more self-sufficient in their own lives
- active citizens participating on all levels of our democratic society.
RQP’s materials, trainings, web-based resources and consulting services provide a remarkably cost-effective way for a growing number of educational, health care, social service, community-based organizations and public agencies all over the country to enhance and strengthen their on-going services and programs for people in their communities.
Based on the use of its educational strategy in communities all around the country, RQP has developed the concept of Microdemocracy, a new starting point for democratic action, that can help make democracy work better for all people, no matter their educational, income or literacy level.