"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, National Radio Address On Economics 1938

DataCenter is a 32-year-old national social justice institution which empowers grassroots groups advocating for positive change with strategic research support and research capacity-building.

We deliver the power and tools of information and knowledge into the hands of people working to make a more equitable and sustainable world.

We support grassroots groups to bridge the gap between ideas for solutions and the actual power to engage in the policymaking and civic processes & decision making that affects their lives in order to make social change.