Causes: Citizen Participation, Civil Rights, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Unknown, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights

Mission: The Right Question Institute (RQI) is a non-profit organization offering what many people consider to be the simplest, most powerful strategy available for helping people in low and moderate-income communities learn to advocate for themselves, participate in decisions that affect them and partner with service-providers and public officials. Our mission is to make democracy work better by teaching all people, no matter their educational, income, or literacy level, to think and act more effectively on their own behalf.

Results: Thousands of educators are writing in to share how the QFT helped their classroom come alive with high-order thinking skills, collaboration, and questions. "RQI has done brilliant, pioneering work on finding simple, innovative ways to teach highly sophisticated thinking skills to all people. . . their methods are urgently needed in our schools today. . . " -Prof. Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Ed

Target demographics: low and moderate income individuals and families

Direct beneficiaries per year: thousands of educators teach students to ask their own questions and thousands of families learn to focus on decisions

Geographic areas served: U. S. and beyond

Programs: Question Formulation Technique: a strategy to ask questions and improve questionsFramework for Accountable Decision-Making: a strategy for focusing those questions on the reasons for a decision, the process through which a decision was made, and their role in the decision