Our Work

 Pew has three overarching areas of interest:

• Improving public policy. We study and promote nonpartisan policy solutions for pressing and emerging problems affecting the American public and the global community.
• Informing the public. The Pew Research Center, a Washington-based subsidiary, is home to most of our information initiatives. It uses impartial, fact-based public-opinion polling and other research tools to track important issues and trends.
• Stimulating civic life. We support national initiatives that encourage civic participation. In our hometown of Philadelphia, we support organizations that create a thriving arts and culture community and institutions that enhance the well-being of the region’s neediest citizens.