In order to accomplish our goals, 10,000 Friends uses the tools of advocacy, organizing, facilitation and research to:

• Seek adoption of policies, including legislation that provide consistent, sustainable, long-term growth strategies to address land use planning, incentives for investment in existing communities, and property tax reform;
• Educate, assist and build consensus among state and local leadership; and
• Build a strong statewide constituency of local and regional leaders to provide support for policy initiatives through the regional offices of 10,000 Friends.

 We have begun to develop region-based coalitions of business, civic and government leaders to focus on our overall goal to renew Pennsylvania by specific programming initiatives on:

• Land Use;
• Infrastructure;
• Intergovernmental Cooperation & Governance Reform; and
• Revitalization & Smart Growth Development.