Vision

The vision of the Up to Us Leadership Network is to create a prosperous economic future in America by empowering the next generation. 

History

In 2012, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation established and funded the Up to Us Leadership Network to raise awareness among college students about the growing national debt problem. The Network has since grown to include programming created in partnership with Net Impact, Campus Compact, Volcker Alliance, and Fiscal Challenge. Collectively, these organizations provide a series of trainings, support, and access to opportunities that prepare the next generation of American leaders to drive sustainable fiscal policy for decades to come.   

About the Funder

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America’s future, and to accelerating action on them. 

About the Partners

Net Impact
Net Impact is a member-centered global community that mobilizes 300+ global chapters and over 130,000 impact-oriented members to use their skills and careers to drive transformational social and environmental change.    

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Campus Compact is a coalition of students, faculty, and staff at more than 300 colleges and universities that supports, engages, and challenges higher education to realize its public purpose — serving as responsive, transformative agents of change while contributing to our collective flourishing.   

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The Volcker Alliance, founded by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, empowers the public sector workforce to solve the challenges facing our nation. With programs focusing on educating, empowering, connecting, and inspiring public servants, the Volcker Alliance envisions a public sector workforce with the experience, preparation, and commitment to ensure that government is accountable and delivers with excellence.  

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Fiscal Challenge was founded by Dr. Mike Aguilar, who has taught economics at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke. Dr. Aguilar founded the program to leverage the power of experiential learning couched in competition to support the next generation of professionals who will shape U.S. fiscal policy.   

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