TEXAS 2036
3963 Maple Avenue ste 290, Dallas, TX 75219 texas2036.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To enable texans to make policy decisions through accessible data, long-term planning and statewide engagement.

Texas 2036 empowers Texans to make informed decisions using data and long-term strategic planning to sustain texas as the best place to live and do business.

Policy Development: The development of pragmatic, future-oriented policy is the core of the work of Texas 2036. During 2019, Texas 2036 heavily invested time and resources in continuing our efforts to assess, across all six of our core policy areas of Education and Workforce, Health, Infrastructure, Natural Resources, Justice and Safety, and Government Performance, where Texas has been, where it is today, the challenges that it will likely face in the future, potential meaningful policy solutions to those challenges, and the appropriate ways to measure Texas' progress over time. To this end, Texas 2036 engaged in a number of research projects across these policy areas, conducted more than 125 subject matter expert interviews, performed background research and data analysis, and hosted work sessions with more than 100 experienced public policy professionals both inside and outside of government. This work culminated in internal work products that formed the foundational components of the strategic policy framework that Texas 2036 released in 2020.

Data Collection & Dissemination: The work of Texas 2036 is rooted in a deep commitment to using data to inform and shape policy decisions. In 2019, Texas 2036 significantly grew its data efforts, including the expansion and revision of its Education to Workforce Reporting tool built on a longitudinal dataset created by the linking of K-12, higher education, and workforce data in Texas. Texas 2036 also released "Come and Make It" AN ONLINE DIGITAL INTERACTIVE THAT EXPLORES THE HISTORY, present, and future of Texas with data and providing an easy to use data explorer for the public to use. Additionally, Texas 2036 continued to expand and enhance the Texas 2036 Data Lab (formerly know as the Texas 2036 data platform), adding additional datasets, including some hard to get or otherwise inaccessible datasets, and improving usability and features. Additionally, Texas 2036 began laying the foundation for significant future work in the education and workforce and health data along with the creation of mini-data tools/interactives made available on our website.

Engagement & Communication: Central to its efforts to have a sustained future-oriented impact on Texas public policy over the coming decade and a half is Texas 2036's engagement with, and support from, Texans across the state. To build the statewide, active and engaged coalition that is necessary to ensure legislative action on the most important issues with a long term focus and not just on the urgent issues with a short term focus, Texans from all backgrounds, political affliations, regions, and perspectives must understand the challenges Texas faces into the future and have opportunities to engage in helping to shape and advocate for thoughtful, data-informed, long term solutions. Texas 2036 substantially grew its engagement and communication efforts in 2019 to help Texans really begin to understand what the future could hold for their state in the absence of meaningful policy changes. Through speeches and presentations across the state, a robust digital communications effort, outreach through traditional and social media, and as a sponsor of the Texas Tribune's TribFest, Texas 2036 shared findings from the research and data anaylsis it has been preforming, engaged Texans all over the state in thoughtful, productive dialogue about what our state needs to do to remain successful for the generations of Texans to come, and brought data and facts to the conversation about what the most pressing issues facing our state really are. The result has been that more and more Texans are interested in understanding more about the challenges and opportunities ahead for Texas and in thinking about how changes may need to be made, both now and into the future, to ensure the opportunity for economic prosperity and a high quality of life that has been enjoyed by many Texans for so long is enjoyed by all Texans for decades to come.

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