Our Founding Goals
Originally adopted in 2010:
To attract the people and resources necessary to realize the vision, the Humane Party will seek to:
- Be the change. Establish an organizational culture that embodies compassion, kindness, cooperation, responsibility, accountability, empathy, enthusiasm, promise and prosperity.
- Build the vehicle. Coordinate so as to be effective and efficient at winning elections with skilled candidates who live and lead according to humane ideals.
- Project the vision. Communicate the opportunities and advantages that the Humane Party uniquely offers the United States of America.
- Sow the seeds. Seed, nurture and grow chapters in all states and territories.
- Harvest the votes. Elect Humane Party candidates to serve as:
- U.S. President, and
- a majority in both houses of Congress.
- Finish the job. Collaborate to pass the legislation necessary to achieve the mission and realize the vision for our nation.
America Now Has A Choice.™
(2010)
Our Goals Today
The Humane Party is a liberation movement, and building that movement requires more than preparing for the next election.
Our goals are designed to strengthen humane political power from the ground up—through candidates, state organizing, advocacy, partnerships, public engagement, and a growing community of people ready to put compassion, science, and ethics into action.
Build a Strong National Organization
Develop the people, systems, resources, and leadership needed to sustain a transparent, accountable, collaborative, and effective political organization.
A movement becomes stronger when people know how to participate, where their skills are needed, and how their work connects to something larger.
Grow State and Local Organizing
Support the development of active Humane Party chapters and organizers across the country.
State and local teams can build relationships within their communities, identify regional priorities, engage voters, support advocacy efforts, recruit candidates, and create opportunities for humane political action close to home.
Develop and Support Humane Candidates
Identify, recruit, prepare, endorse, and support candidates who demonstrate a genuine commitment to humane values.
Our goal is not simply to place names on ballots. It is to help cultivate ethical leaders capable of carrying those values into public office and governing responsibly.
Turn Ethics Into Public Policy
Advance policies that reduce exploitation and suffering, protect rights, strengthen democracy and civil liberties, support environmental responsibility, and move our institutions toward more humane outcomes.
Political progress can happen through elections, legislation, public advocacy, administrative action, community organizing, and sustained public pressure.
Build Alliances
Work alongside organizations, advocates, communities, and movements where meaningful goals intersect.
We do not need to agree on everything to work together on something.
Liberation requires connection, and lasting change is more likely when movements recognize opportunities for solidarity rather than working in isolation.
Expand Political Participation
Create more ways for people to contribute to humane politics.
Some will become candidates or state organizers. Others will write, research, fundraise, create, organize events, build relationships, advocate for legislation, contribute professional skills, or simply begin by showing up.
Every sustainable movement needs multiple pathways into the work.
Build Public Awareness
Make humane politics visible, understandable, and relevant to people who may never have encountered the Humane Party before.
That means communicating not only what we oppose, but what we are building—and showing how compassion, evidence, justice, and responsible government can work together.
Build Sustainable Resources
Develop the fundraising, volunteer capacity, technology, communications, partnerships, and organizational infrastructure necessary to support long-term political work.
Ideas cannot become action without people and resources behind them.
Win Elections—and Build Beyond Them
Elect humane candidates at local, state, and federal levels while continuing to build the political infrastructure necessary for lasting change.
Winning office matters.
But an election is not the finish line.
The larger goal is to help move political culture, public policy, institutions, and communities toward a future in which exploitation and unnecessary suffering are no longer accepted simply because they are familiar.
Building the Movement
The original Humane Party goals called on us to be the change, build the vehicle, project the vision, sow the seeds, harvest the votes, and finish the job.
Those ideas still matter.
Today, we understand the work as something even larger: building political power, developing community, creating pathways for participation, forming alliances, electing humane leaders, and turning ethical principles into lasting change.
We are a political party. A growing community. A liberation movement.
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