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Flexible Funding Drives Innovation and Agility in Research Trustee and Chair of the Development Committee Pete Higgins (right) and Fellow Andre Perry
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he coronavirus pandemic has amplified the value of Brookings’s mission in an unprecedented way. The urgency of the crisis demands that our scholars meet the moment with rigorous, fact-based solutions, which are essential to developing an effective response and understanding the long-term fallout of the locked-down economy and strained health care system.
Secretary of the Board of Trustees Tracy R. Wolstencroft
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Flexible funding from our donors has fueled our real-time response. And, even as the virus rages across the nation and the world, compelling urgent attention from policymakers and the public alike, our scholars continue to address long-term challenges such as climate change, structural racism and inequity, and re-emerging great power rivalry. Bringing our scholars’ multidisciplinary research to bear on the national and global policy agenda, convening stakeholders for civil debate, and putting forth innovative policy recommendations to key decisionmakers and the general public take tremendous resources, and we are grateful for the support of our donors. Their contributions and engagement make our work possible.
