Published April 14, 2025
Letter from the President
I am immensely proud to present this overview of my colleagues’ outstanding work in 2024. Though an annual report can provide only the highlights of an organization’s accomplishments, you will see that EPPC has made substantial advances on all fronts.
EPPC focuses on the most important questions affecting human dignity, identity, and flourishing. As this report illustrates, our work promotes a full and true account of the human person across the span of an entire life, from conception to (natural) death.
At the beginning, we work to protect the unborn from the violence of abortion and to empower mothers and fathers to raise their children well, understanding that a marriage culture is the surest long-term solution to the scourges of abortion and family fragmentation.
Parents can’t do it alone, however. We work to make public schools, which 85% of America’s children attend, free of toxic ideologies and more accountable to parents and their elected representatives. And we work to make religious schools vibrantly orthodox, so they offer a choice, not an echo, to the government-run alternatives. We work to reform culture so that children can have an authentic childhood, where parents have authority over Big Tech’s advances on their children and where children are safe from gender ideology and feel at home in their own bodies.
No one’s dignity can be protected, and no one can flourish, without strong but limited government. We work to defend our constitutional order and the quality of our judiciary. We engage the administrative state, which can be the source of lawless ideology and serious violations of conscience. And we work to chart a course for a winning political coalition to uphold the ideals we espouse through our other work.
The most important truth of human nature is that we are made in the image and likeness of God. This is why, unlike most D.C. think tanks, we have programs devoted to strengthening religious communities.
And at the end of life, we work for an America where no one is intentionally killed, having their deaths sanitized with euphemisms like “death with dignity” or “medical assistance in dying.”
In all our work, we seek to offer practical solutions as well as principled arguments. There is perhaps no better testament to the rigor and charity with which we carry out our work than the degree to which civil society leaders and policymakers rely on our advice and expertise.
We could not accomplish anything without our supporters. Thanks to your generosity, our work in 2024 had an outsized influence, and we are in a better position than ever to take advantage of the opportunities and meet the challenges of the coming years.
Thank you for joining us in our mission.
Ryan T. Anderson
