Working together for a better Nevada

• Developing strategic approaches to achieving a better future for all Nevadans
• Building collaborations with allies around the state on a wide range of issues
• Working on campaigns to promote more equitable and sustainable policies
• Promoting social, economic, and environmental justice for all Nevadans

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) is a non-profit organization formed in 1994 to bring people and organizations together to build a better Nevada. We are more than two-dozen groups dedicated to working for social, economic, and environmental justice. Our member groups include anti-poverty activists, people of color, children’s advocates, disabled persons, environmentalists, lesbians and gay men, and labor unions.

PLAN works with diverse constituencies—many of whom do not traditionally work together—and builds bridges so that collectively we can build the power to impact policy decisions on a wide range of issues.

Mission and Vision

Our mission is to build collective strategic action among coalition partners in order to deepen democracy and achieve greater social justice in Nevada.

PLAN uses research, public education, leadership development and grassroots organizing to build power and create more humane solutions to Nevada’s problems.
 

What We've Accomplished (the short list)

• PLAN's two year tax campaign culminated in action by the 2003 Nevada Legislature that raised a billion dollars in new revenues to fund income support, human services and education.
• PLAN's efforts resulted in Nevada becoming the 11th state in the country (and the first in the region) to enact the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and the 13th to extend hate crimes coverage to gays and lesbians.
• In the 2001 and 2003 sessions, PLAN's efforts resulted in passing legislation that reinstates voting rights to former inmates, as well as removes barriers to certain occupations.

We also helped pass death penalty reforms, one of the strongest renewable energy portfolio laws in the country, and increased human services funding. PLAN has won monumental policy victories on campaign finance disclosure, racial profiling, AIDS drug funding, low income energy assistance, contraceptive equity, mental health parity, and worker health and safety.

PLAN helped defeat parental notification, "paycheck protection", privatization of medical providers in prisons, "English Only", and attempts to deny state scholarships to undocumented students.  

Seeding and incubating to grow the work

• 1995
  PLAN provided the assistance to start the Nevada Empowered Women’s Project
• 1996
  PLAN worked with Latino leaders to create the state’s first progressive Latino organization, Latinos for Political Education
• 2000
  PLAN helped start A Rainbow Place, Northern Nevada’s Gay and Lesbian Community Center
• 2001
  PLAN provided the staff support and resources to create the Nevada Conservation League
• 2006
  PLAN began developing the Nevada Immigrant Coalition