Our Impact

Building a stronger America by ensuring that children become successful adults

Council for a Strong America (CSA) engages law enforcement, business, and retired military leaders who promote evidence-based policies and programs that enable kids to be healthy, well-educated, and prepared for productive lives. We base our state and federal policy agendas on research that supports policies with the greatest return on investment to improve the lives of children and families and prepare the next generation for success.

The year of 2023 was one of change, challenge, and accomplishment. Our Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, ReadyNation, and Mission: Readiness members continued to connect the economic vitality, safety, and security of our nation to substantial and sustained public investments in America’s children and their families. We elevated the importance and the need for investments in home visiting, child care, pre-K, and older children at the federal and state levels. We helped achieve bipartisan victories on these issues in difficult ideological times. As a result of these efforts, we helped secure $1.68 billion in state funding for young children and their families in our targeted states in 2023.

In 2023, CSA:

• Placed 90 op-eds and letters-to-the-editor by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, ReadyNation, and Mission: Readiness members.
• Generated more than 2,065 media hits.
• Produced 43 research reports and briefs.
• Held 41 report releases with our members.
• Initiated 4,467 actions that generated 4,095 policymaker contacts, such as meetings, calls, sign-on letters, and testimonies.
• Recruited 1,009 members and ended the year with a membership of nearly 9,000 law enforcement leaders, business leaders, and retired admirals and generals.

We invite you to read our 2023 Impact Report available here;