The Right Question Institute (RQI) is a nonprofit educational organization offering a simple, powerful strategy that builds people’s skills to ask better questions, participate in decisions that affect them, advocate for themselves, and partner with service-providers. RQI’s innovative methods are delivered through educational institutions and organizations, health care organizations, social service organizations, community-based organizations, and public agencies all over the country and beyond.
RQI’s methods tap into the potential of tens of millions of people to become more effective advocates for themselves, and to become active citizens participating on all levels of our democratic society. RQI’s materials, trainings, web-based resources, and consulting services provide a remarkably cost-effective way for organizations and public agencies to enhance and strengthen their ongoing services and programs for people in their communities.
Our Mission
RQI advances an original educational strategy that makes it possible for all people to ask their own questions. The transformational skill of asking questions enhances learning, promotes empowerment, and strengthens democracy. People—including those furthest from power—can use this skill to think and learn independently, participate meaningfully in decisions that affect them, and advocate on behalf of themselves, their families, and their communities.
Our Vision
An equitable world and vibrant democracy in which all people have the agency to think and act on their own behalf.