WASHINGTON—The 2025 Presidential Transition Project reached a new milestone this week with 60 coalition partners now officially serving as its Advisory Board. The broad and diverse alliance is working collaboratively to ensure a successful presidential administration begins in January 2025.
Project 2025 is being organized by The Heritage Foundation and builds off Heritage’s longstanding commitment to provide policy and personnel recommendations for incoming presidential administrations. This time, however, it is relying heavily on the work of partners spanning the conservative movement.
Under the direction of Project 2025 leaders Paul Dans and Spencer Chretien, the Advisory Board has grown from a handful of organizations last year to five dozen today. (Full list below.)
“Project 2025 is proud to work with 60 of the nation’s leading conservative organizations joining forces to prepare and seize the day,” said Dans, the project’s director and former chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management during the Trump administration. “Our goal is to assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained, and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day One to deconstruct the administrative state.”
Heritage President Kevin Roberts created Project 2025 to develop both a governing agenda for the next conservative president and ensure the administration puts the right people in place, ready to implement those ideas on Jan. 20, 2025.
The project has four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook. The coalition released its policy agenda, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” in April along with the Presidential Personnel Database and Presidential Administration Academy. Teams are already beginning work on the 180-day playbook.
“With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government,” said Chretien, Project 2025’s associate director and former special assistant to the president and associate director of Presidential Personnel during the Trump administration.
Conservative organizations seeking to join Project 2025 may do so by visiting Project2025.org.
The 60 groups that make up the Advisory Board include:
1792 Exchange
Alabama Policy Institute
Alliance Defending Freedom
America First Legal
American Accountability Foundation
American Center for Law and Justice
American Compass
American Cornerstone Institute
American Council of Trustees and Alumni
American Family Association
American Family Project
American Legislative Exchange Council
American Juris Link
American Moment
American Principles Project
Center for Equal Opportunity
Center for Family and Human Rights
Center for Immigration Studies
Center for Renewing America
Claremont Institute
Coalition for a Prosperous America
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Concerned Women for America
Conservative Partnership Institute
Defense of Freedom Institute
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Family Policy Alliance
Family Research Council
First Liberty Institute
Forge Leadership Network
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Foundation for Government Accountability
FreedomWorks
Heritage Foundation
Hillsdale College
Honest Elections Project
Independent Women’s Forum
Institute for Education Reform
Institute for Energy Research
Institute for the American Worker
Institute for Women’s Health
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
James Madison Institute
Keystone Policy
Liberty University
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
National Association of Scholars
National Center for Public Policy Research
Pacific Research Institute
Patrick Henry College
Personnel Policy Operations
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Recovery for America Now Foundation
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America
Teneo Network
Texas Public Policy Foundation
The American Conservative
The American Main Street Initiative
The Leadership Institute
Young America’s Foundation