National Priorities Project

National Priorities Project
17 New South St. Suite 302
Northampton, MA 01060
413-584-9566
413-586-9647 fax

National Priorities Project is a not-for-profit organization that offers citizens and community groups tools and resources to shape federal budget and policy priorities which promote social and economic justice.

Greg Speeter, Executive Director

Areas of expertise: domestic spending, federal budget.

Greg Speeter is executive director of the National Priorities Project. He founded it in 1982 as a way for community groups and the public to understand and participate in critical federal budget decisions. Speeter 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, Speeter worked for 6 years at the Citizen Involvement Training Project in Amherst, MA, where he authored training books on community organizing and access to the political process. Speeter 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.

Anita Dancs, Research Director

Areas of expertise: Federal budget, domestic spending.

Anita Dancs researches and writes on the impact of federal policies and manages the development of the NPP Database. She has a PhD in economics and spent years teaching and researching at universities in Hungary, the UK and the US. She also has over 10 years experience teaching popular economics to activists and concerned citizens as a staff economist with the Center for Popular Economics. Her past research focused on the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe.