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Keystone Policy Center empowers leaders to rise above entrenched positions to reach common higher ground. We provide a platform that enables honest, collaborative dialogue, fostering action-oriented solutions to policy conflicts previously thought to be insurmountable.

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Keystone Policy Center’s work is organized into five specialized Centers: Civic Engagement, Education, Food and Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Tribal and Indigenous Engagement. Each Center drives meaningful progress in its field by uniting diverse stakeholders to develop collaborative and innovative solutions for today’s most pressing challenges.

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In addition to our five Centers, Keystone Policy Center also manages three notable programs: the Energy and Climate Program, the Rocky Mountain Family Engagement Collective, and the State and Local Government Program. The Energy and Climate Program, which includes the Keystone Energy Board, fosters sustainable energy solutions by uniting industry leaders, policymakers, and communities. The Rocky Mountain Family Engagement Collective strengthens partnerships between families, schools, and communities to enhance educational outcomes. The State and Local Government Program supports governments in implementing and enhancing public policies through strategic collaboration. These programs complement our Centers by addressing key issues and advancing Keystone’s mission.

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Meet the driving force of Keystone Policy Center. With rare expertise combining public policy and extensive facilitation experience, our Center directors excel at identifying key issues, framing essential questions, and designing processes that guide conflicted groups to common higher ground. They collaborate with our partners as thought leaders to achieve unparalleled success.

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Keystone Report Finds Colorado Schools Show Modest Progress, But Most Students Remain Below Grade Level

Colorado’s K-12 education system is making modest gains, but most students are not meeting grade-level expectations; and gaps by income and race are widening, according to a new report from the Keystone Policy Center. K-12 Education in Colorado: Modest progress, major challenges takes stock of the state’s public schools. The report draws on 2026 state […]

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Keystone, PepsiCo Partner to Publish White Paper on Regenerative Agriculture

American farmers have led on cover crops, reduced tillage, and soil health for decades, often well ahead of the broader efforts now built up around them. So why hasn’t regenerative agriculture scaled faster across U.S. row-crop agriculture? This white paper, developed by Keystone Policy Center and PepsiCo, tackles that question. Drawing on a roundtable of […]

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Keystone’s Ernest House Jr. Named Co-Director of the Water & Tribes Initiative

Keystone Policy Center is pleased to share that Ernest House Jr., director of Keystone’s Center for Tribal and Indigenous Engagement, has been named a co-director of the Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI). Ernest will take on this new responsibility in addition to his ongoing work at Keystone. He joins Lorelei Cloud in sharing the co-director […]

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