Greg Speeter, Executive Director, founded the National Priorities Project in 1982 as a way for community groups and the public to understand and participate in critical federal budget decisions. He has been a featured speaker at both policy conferences and training sessions for community organizers, has held a number of budget briefings on Capitol Hill, and is frequently sought out by the media for analysis of budget policies. Before founding the National Priorities Project, Greg worked for six years at the Citizen Involvement Training Project in Amherst, MA, where he authored training books on community organizing and access to the political process. He began his career as a VISTA Volunteer in 1966, and spent the first decade of his professional life as a community organizer and policy analyst.

Blog Entries by Greg Speeter

Five Years of War: Billions Squandered, Opportunities Lost

Posted March 18, 2008 | 10:53 AM (EST)


At the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, it's fitting to take stock: What has the war cost your community?

Of course there is no greater cost than the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this unnecessary and tragic war. But the dollar cost has other enormous human...

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