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</div><div>How One Conservative Think Tank Is Stocking Trump’s Government</div><div>By placing its people throughout the administration, the Heritage Foundation has succeeded in furthering its right-wing agenda.</div><div>
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</div><div>By Jonathan Mahler</div><div>June 20, 2018</div><div>
</div><div>On the day after Thanksgiving in 2016, Ed Corrigan, then the vice president for policy promotion at the Heritage Foundation, was summoned to Trump Tower in New York to join the senior leadership team of the Trump transition. From inside the building where the climactic personnel decisions of “The Apprentice” were once taped, Corrigan oversaw the staffing of 10 different domestic agencies. Donald Trump, the former reality-TV star, was now the president-elect of the United States, and he had an administration to fill.</div><div>
</div><div>The job of staffing the government is the first, and in many ways defining, challenge faced by every president. As the size of the government has grown to accommodate the nation’s economy, frequent military interventions and increasingly complex geopolitical obligations, so have the scale and gravity of the task. In 1933, there were just over 200 presidential appointees in the executive and legislative branches. At the end of the Barack Obama’s second term, there were 4,100.</div><div>
</div><div>Filling enough of these jobs in time to get the government off the ground on Jan. 20 is difficult in the best of circumstances, which is to say when the president-elect has some sort of pre-existing political infrastructure to draw upon. Even Ronald Reagan, who, like Trump, campaigned as a Washington outsider, relied on both his inner circle from the California Statehouse and a kitchen cabinet of mostly self-made millionaires who helped finance his political rise. Trump would be coming to the White House with little more than the remnants of a campaign staff that included his daughter and son-in-law, a contestant from his reality-TV show and his longtime bodyguard. What is more, in the days after his election, Donald Trump replaced the head of his preliminary transition operation, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, with Vice President-elect Mike Pence and purged Christie’s allies from the team, throwing away months’ worth of their work recruiting and vetting personnel; a senior Trump aide, Stephen K. Bannon, made a show of gleefully dumping binders filled with résumés into the trash.</div><div>
</div><div>The Trump team may not have been prepared to staff the government, but the Heritage Foundation was. In the summer of 2014, a year before Trump even declared his candidacy, the right-wing think tank had started assembling a 3,000-name searchable database of trusted movement conservatives from around the country who were eager to serve in a post-Obama government. The initiative was called the Project to Restore America, a dog-whistle appeal to the so-called silent majority that foreshadowed Trump’s own campaign slogan.</div><div>
</div><div>In some ways, Trump and Heritage were an unlikely match. Trump had no personal connection to the think tank and had fared poorly on a “Presidential Platform Review” from its sister lobbying shop, Heritage Action for America, which essentially concluded that he wasn’t even a conservative. (“Despite his rhetoric, Trump’s history suggests a reluctance to engage in debates over protecting civil society from the imposition of left-wing values,” it read in part.) After Trump mocked John McCain’s P.O.W. experience in Vietnam, Heritage Action’s chief executive, Michael Needham, called the candidate “a clown” on Fox News and said “he needs to be out of the race.” Trump claimed to want to shake up the Washington establishment. The Heritage Foundation is a Washington institution. Its large, stately headquarters sits just a few blocks from Capitol Hill.</div><div>
</div><div>And yet Heritage and Trump were uniquely positioned to help each other. Much like Trump’s, Heritage’s constituency is equal parts donor class and populist base. Its $80 million annual budget depends on six-figure donations from rich Republicans like Rebekah Mercer, whose family foundation has reportedly given Heritage $500,000 a year since 2013. But it also relies on a network of 500,000 small donors, Heritage “members” whom it bombards with millions of pieces of direct mail every year. The Heritage Foundation is a marketing company, a branding agency — it sells its own Heritage neckties, embroidered with miniature versions of its Liberty Bell logo — and a policy shop rolled into one. But above all, Heritage is a networking group. It has spent decades fashioning itself into the hub of a constellation of conservative individuals and organizations united by their opposition to government regulations — from taxes to gun control to environmental protections — and socially progressive causes like same-sex marriage.</div><div>
</div><div>Today it is clear that for all the chaos and churn of the current administration, Heritage has achieved a huge strategic victory. Those who worked on the project estimate that hundreds of the people the think tank put forward landed jobs, in just about every government agency. Heritage’s recommendations included some of the most prominent members of Trump’s cabinet: Scott Pruitt, Betsy DeVos (whose in-laws endowed Heritage’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society), Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Jeff Sessions and many more. Dozens of Heritage employees and alumni also joined the Trump administration — at last count 66 of them, according to Heritage, with two more still awaiting Senate confirmation. It is a kind of critical mass that Heritage had been working toward for nearly a half-century.</div><div>
</div><div>“Feulner’s first law is people are policy,” Ed Feulner, Heritage’s founder and former president, told me recently. Feulner was the head of domestic policy for the Trump transition, charting the direction of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and several other agencies. We met late on a Friday afternoon, in a sitting room at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, a private social club founded by a group of Treasury Department officials during the Civil War. At his feet as we spoke sat a small box of table cards for a dinner he was hosting at the club that evening for the newly appointed director of Trump’s National Economic Council, the television personality Larry Kudlow — another name on Heritage’s Project to Restore America list. Now 76, ruddy, white-haired and content, almost jovial, Feulner founded Heritage decades ago as an ambitious young legislative aide with a radical dream built on a simple concept. As he put it, sinking deeper into his club chair: “First, you have to have the right people.”</div><div>
</div><div>Heritage was born in the spring of 1971 in the basement cafeteria of the United States Capitol. Feulner had just turned 30 and was working for Representative Philip Crane, an Illinois Republican who had written a book, “The Democrat’s Dilemma: How the Liberal Left Captured the Democratic Party,” arguing that left-wing radicals inspired by the Fabian Society, a socialist group in Britain, were secretly trying to turn America into a socialist state via the Democratic Party. As an undergraduate at Regis College, Feulner had been drawn to an emerging conservative movement that saw as its enemy not only Democrats but also moderate Republicans who threatened to do to their party what they believed the Fabians had done to the Democrats. In 1964, as a graduate student at the Wharton School, he organized a campus group to support the insurgent presidential candidacy of his political hero, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.</div><div>
</div><div>Over breakfast at the Capitol, Feulner and another Hill aide, 28-year-old Paul M. Weyrich — later credited with coining the phrase “moral majority” — commiserated over a recent study from the American Enterprise Institute, an established conservative think tank, about a proposed supersonic transport plane. The report could have helped buttress their argument that the government should continue to fund the plane as part of its effort to win the Cold War, but A.E.I. had withheld it until after the Senate voted on the issue so as not to bias the debate. This was, to their thinking, the wrong approach. What if they could create a new sort of think tank, one that would actively seek to cultivate and influence politicians, and in the process advance the cause of movement conservatism?</div><div>
</div><div>Soon after, they made their pitch to Joseph Coors, the highly motivated Colorado beer baron who would later, at the suggestion of the Reagan White House aide and future National Rifle Association president Oliver North, wire $65,000 to a Swiss bank account to buy a cargo plane for Nicaraguan rebels. Coors had come to Washington in search of a conservative institution in which to invest. The meeting was held in the office of the irreverent ex-newspaperman and Nixon aide Lyn Nofziger. Weyrich had heard that Coors was also considering investing in A.E.I., which gave Nofziger the idea for “a little artifice,” as the official history of the Heritage Foundation describes it. Before Coors arrived, Nofziger sprinkled some cigar ashes on a thick American Enterprise Institute study resting on his bookshelf. When Coors asked about A.E.I., he took the book off-the-shelf and blew off the ashes. “A.E.I.?” he asked. “That’s what they’re good for — collecting dust.”</div><div>
</div><div>Coors invested $260,000 in the new venture, and within a few years, Heritage had taken its place at the center of the growing conservative counterestablishment. Its initial fund-raising success foreshadowed the rise of the Republican donor class as a political force: Another early and generous giver was the banking and oil heir Richard Mellon Scaife, who went on to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in conservative media outlets and nonprofit organizations that, among other projects, targeted the Clintons during the 1990s. (Heritage trustees used to joke that Coors gave six-packs; Scaife gave cases.)</div><div>
</div><div>Feulner packaged his fledgling think tank’s ideology into five basic principles: free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values and a strong national defense. They would guide Heritage’s agenda, which would be set by Feulner and his senior leadership team. Feulner also anticipated the danger of his new think tank’s being dismissed as a tool of rich Republicans. To build a Heritage member base that would assert the foundation’s anti-establishment identity, he turned to Richard Viguerie, the conservative marketing pioneer known for his high-quality mailing list and his uniquely apocalyptic warnings of imminent national collapse.</div><div>
</div><div>Think tanks are sometimes referred to as universities without students, suggesting intellectual diversity within a general philosophical orientation. Heritage, by contrast, was strictly results-oriented. Feulner once likened his strategy to Procter & Gamble’s approach to Crest toothpaste: “They sell it and resell it every day by keeping the product fresh in the consumer’s mind.” One way to promote Heritage’s brand was to inundate Congress with an unending barrage of bite-size “backgrounders”; another was by networking. Heritage hosted weekend retreats for lawmakers, study groups for young congressional staffers and semester-long internships for college students, complete with Heritage housing. In its early years, Heritage took up numerous political battles: It published papers advocating making Social Security voluntary, argued against giving striking workers access to food stamps and warned parents about the danger posed by the advancement of “secular humanism” in public schools. To Feulner, they were all worthy fights, but they were just a prelude to what Heritage’s official history calls “the Big Gamble” — its decision to invest in the presidential candidacy of the 68-year-old Ronald Reagan.</div><div>
</div><div>Feulner saw something in Reagan long before he became president. “We had met with him when he was governor in California; we had visited his ranch and seen copies of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek with marginal notes in the book,” Feulner told me. “So we knew that he was one of us.” In the run-up to the 1980 election, Heritage spent $250,000 to assemble a comprehensive guidebook for conservative rule that it called “Mandate for Leadership” and aggressively marketed it to members of Reagan’s transition team, in particular Edwin Meese, who was Reagan’s chief of staff in California and later became his attorney general in Washington. The big gamble paid off: Meese told me that Reagan asked that the 1,093-page document be distributed at his first cabinet meeting. Reagan also turned to Heritage and Feulner to help staff and organize his administration. An enduring, mutually beneficial friendship was born. Meese wrote a letter on White House stationery stating that members of Heritage’s President’s Club — at the time, donors of $1,000 or more — would “provide a vital communications link between policymakers and those key people who made possible Reagan’s victory,” as Sidney Blumenthal reported in his 1986 book “The Rise of the Counter-Establishment.” The relationship worked both ways. When Reagan’s second term ended, Meese joined Heritage as its first Ronald Reagan Fellow in Public Policy, with an annual salary of more than $400,000. Now 86, he remains at the think tank as distinguished fellow emeritus of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.</div><div>
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</div><div>Reagan’s image is everywhere at Heritage, the informal poses and settings — on a horse, on a putting green, relaxing at his ranch — suggesting less a political actor than a beloved family member. But Heritage had its complaints about Reagan at the time. On the first anniversary of his presidency, the think tank issued a report characterizing his tenure as a disappointment to conservatives. Heritage laid much of the blame on personnel who were insufficiently committed to the president’s agenda. “They were looking for competent people,” Nofziger, who had gone on to become a key political strategist for Reagan, later recalled. “I tried to explain to them that the first thing you do is get loyal people, and competence is a bonus.”</div><div>
</div><div>Over the following decades, Feulner continued to pursue his dream of turning the counterestablishment into the establishment. The prospects had perhaps never looked bleaker than they did in 2012, when Obama was easily elected to his second term. Having just turned 70, Feulner decided that it was time to retire. At that moment in conservative history, it was not difficult for him to see where the future of the think tank lay: the Tea Party. Heritage had helped organize and underwrite the anti-tax, anti-government — and, most of all, anti-Obama — movement, even creating a lobbying organization, Heritage Action, to help harness the energy it unleashed.</div><div>
</div><div>A couple of years earlier, in 2010, Feulner heard a talk given by one of the movement’s leading figures, Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, at a meeting of a conservative dinner group in Georgetown. “When it was over, Richard Viguerie said to Jim: ‘That was such a fantastic speech. Why don’t you run for president?’ ” Feulner told me, recounting the events of the evening. “DeMint locked eyes with me and said, ‘The only thing I’ve ever wanted to be president of is the Heritage Foundation.’ ”</div><div>
</div><div>Feulner decided DeMint was someone to watch, and the next year, the senator earned the highest possible rating on Heritage Action’s new congressional scorecard, which evaluated lawmakers’ voting records on the think tank’s principles — higher than Michele Bachmann and much higher than Paul Ryan or Mitch McConnell. (“With each vote cast in Congress, freedom either advances or recedes,” Needham said when Heritage Action unveiled the new rating system.) DeMint had fought the federal bailouts of the banks and carmakers, supported school prayer and opposed abortion and Obamacare. No less important, DeMint, who had an M.B.A. from Clemson University, shared the Heritage belief that politics was as much about sales and recruiting as it was about legislating or governing. Before running for office at the age of 47, he had operated his own marketing company; as a senator, he created a political-action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund, to raise cash for select conservative candidates. He was clearly a skilled fund-raiser, which was a big part of the Heritage job. He would have to be willing to give up his Senate seat to run a think tank, which was maybe not as far-fetched as it sounded. In addition to influence, Heritage offered something the government couldn’t: money. Without even having to taint his reputation by becoming a lobbyist, he would get a roughly 400 percent raise from his government salary, to nearly $900,000 in his first full year.</div><div>
</div><div>DeMint started at Heritage in 2013. He created a new layer of senior staff that included allies from Capitol Hill, in the process effectively demoting many of Heritage’s veteran leaders. He also went on a hiring spree of young conservatives for the think tank’s media and internet operations. “Conservative ideas are invigorating,” DeMint told The New York Times in 2014. “We had allowed them to become too serious.” (DeMint declined to be interviewed for this article.)</div><div>
</div><div>While Feulner and his senior staff had reserved the right to review policy papers, they generally avoided intervening in the research and publication process. DeMint and his leadership team were much more aggressive. Papers were heavily edited or even withheld from release altogether. Several scholars quit. DeMint replaced them, bringing in as Heritage’s chief economist Stephen Moore, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and a founder of the Club for Growth, a lobbying group that advocates cutting taxes.</div><div>
</div><div>DeMint intensified the think tank’s marketing efforts, targeting Obamacare in particular. A Heritage billboard went up in Times Square — “Warning,” it read, “Obamacare may be hazardous to your health” — and DeMint led a “Defund Obamacare Tour” across the country. In Congress, he had been something of a one-man ideological enforcer. Now he had at his disposal the power of an $80 million institution whose name was a one-word shorthand for movement conservatism; the backing of some of the country’s richest, most politically engaged Republicans; and a significant slice of the conservative base. Within months of his arrival, he was pressing House Republicans to send the president a spending bill that wouldn’t fund the Affordable Care Act, thus inviting a government shutdown. “There’s no question in my mind that I have more influence now on public policy than I did as an individual senator,” he said in an interview with National Public Radio in 2013.</div><div>
</div><div>But his most audacious bid for influence came the following year, when he inaugurated the Project to Restore America. “What we learned from talking to Heritage folks who had been in the Reagan administration was that we needed to be in the game early,” Ed Corrigan, one of DeMint’s Capitol Hill hires, told me. With its focus on staffing, the new effort was the logical extension of his fixation on recruiting the right conservatives for Congress, not to mention the concept at the very heart of Feulner’s vision for Heritage. To lead the project, DeMint turned to a woman who had spent decades building Heritage’s network and knew just how to staff a government: Becky Norton Dunlop, a former deputy personnel director for Reagan. “I know this is going to be hard to believe, but he said — and I agreed — that it was highly likely that a conservative would be elected president,” Dunlop told me, recalling her first conversation about the effort with DeMint. “We needed to be prepared.”</div><div>
</div><div>Dunlop’s name may be unfamiliar to most Americans, but she is something of a legend among movement conservatives. She came to Washington in 1973 straight from college to work for the American Conservative Union, the lobbying group best known for organizing the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, and later married an aide to Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who gave her away at their wedding. (Her father, a Baptist minister, officiated.) Congress eventually pushed her out of the Interior Department for trying to demote or fire several National Park Service employees and replace them with political appointees. Years later, after a controversial stint as Virginia’s secretary of natural resources — “Gunning for the Environment?” was the headline of a 1997 Washington Post profile in the Style section — she landed at Heritage as its vice president for external relations and has been there ever since.</div><div>
</div><div>Dunlop tapped her extensive network, groups like the Family Research Council, Liberty University and the Council for National Policy, an organization that brings together advocates of various conservative causes. “I talked to them all,” Dunlop said. “ ‘You need to think about this, and you need to spread the word. If you’re interested, get your house in order, talk to your spouse and get ready, because we need to save our country.’ ”</div><div>
</div><div>Not only was Trump an awkward fit for a staunch conservative like DeMint, but the Heritage president had strong ties to two of his primary opponents. His PAC had raised close to $600,000 for Marco Rubio’s 2010 Senate campaign, and he and Rubio were both associated with the C Street house, a group residence on Capitol Hill affiliated with the Fellowship Foundation, the nonprofit organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast. Ted Cruz — to whom DeMint’s PAC had given nearly $1 million for his 2012 Senate run — had been a featured speaker on DeMint’s “Defund Obamacare” tour. Trump’s campaign promises to punish American companies that export jobs were anathema to Heritage’s 45-year history of support for free trade, not to mention the interests of some of its biggest donors. Even as Trump was gaining momentum, some senior staff members continued to resist the idea of embracing him, arguing that it would damage Heritage’s reputation, but DeMint decided to get out ahead of the rest of his party and work with Trump’s insurgent campaign.</div><div>
</div><div>DeMint understood better than most what lit up the conservative base; after all, he had spent years stoking its anger at the Republican establishment. At a private dinner on Capitol Hill in January 2016, two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, DeMint was the only one of a group of a dozen conservatives, including Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, who predicted that Trump would win the nomination.</div><div>
</div><div>Trump’s political views were less important than his approach to hiring. With DeMint’s guidance, he could bring in trusted conservatives who supported a Heritage agenda that included opening offshore drilling on federal lands; opposing mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food; reducing regulations on for-profit universities; revoking an Obama executive order on green-energy mandates for federal agencies; phasing out federal subsidies for housing; and opposing marriage equality and nondiscrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. “The watchword of personnel is: Get people who you want on the bus, and then figure out what seat you want to put them in,” Dunlop said.</div><div>
</div><div>In March 2016, the Republican establishment stepped up its effort to stop Trump. More than 100 Republican national-security experts signed an open letter publicly committing to fight his election, calling him a “racketeer” and denouncing his dishonesty and “admiration for foreign dictators.” A number of the signatories were fellows of conservative think tanks; none were affiliated with Heritage at the time. Heritage treated Trump as it would any other candidate, giving his campaign staff more than a dozen briefings and sending them off with decks of cards bearing Heritage policy proposals and market-tested “power phrases.” At the same time, Heritage’s leaders were lobbying furiously behind the scenes to secure senior appointments to Trump’s post-nomination transition team. “It was the top priority for everyone at Heritage,” Dunlop told me.</div><div>
</div><div>Later that month, Trump’s campaign lawyer (and future White House counsel) Donald McGahn convened a gathering of conservative leaders at the Capitol Hill offices of his law firm, Jones Day. Only a small group attended: Newt Gingrich, Senator Jeff Sessions, a handful of other sitting lawmakers who were supportive of Trump — and DeMint. “At that time,” Gingrich told me, “Trump’s views were so unknown to the average conservative the concern was, is he going to be reliable?” As the conversation evolved, an idea emerged: What if Trump could present to the public a list of Supreme Court nominees? DeMint enthusiastically volunteered to help provide one. When he returned to Heritage’s offices, though, some senior staffers balked. One concern they raised was that it would be counterproductive for Heritage to explicitly endorse possible judicial appointees: Because the think tank was considered to the right of the Republican mainstream, its approval of candidates could make them toxic in the confirmation process. But DeMint was adamant, insisting that this was an opportunity Heritage should not pass up. The head of Heritage’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, John Malcolm, ultimately wrote the list in the form of a post for Heritage’s news and commentary website, The Daily Signal. By then, Trump had already singled out Heritage at a news conference, announcing that it was one of the groups he was working with on a Supreme Court list.</div><div>
</div><div>Feulner, still active at Heritage as a member of its board, was the first from the think tank to join the Trump transition after the Republican National Convention. “August 2016, Christie calls, and then candidate Trump calls to confirm: Would I take over the domestic side?” Feulner told me. As he saw it, Trump held even more promise for Heritage than Reagan had. “No.1, he did clearly want to make very significant changes, and No.2, his views on so many things were not particularly well formed,” Feulner said. “And so if he somehow pulled the election off, we thought, wow, we could really make a difference.”</div><div>
</div><div>Yet even as he was drilling further into the Trump team, DeMint was running into trouble inside his own building. Over the summer, complaints about his heavy-handed management style started to reach some members of Heritage’s 22-person board. DeMint and his loyalists rejected the criticisms of his leadership, suggesting that they were the work of Mike Needham, the 36-year-old chief executive of Heritage Action. Needham came from a different world than DeMint. He grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and joined the think tank straight out of Williams College, beginning as Feulner’s research assistant and rising to become his chief of staff. He left in 2007 to work on the presidential campaign of Rudolph W. Giuliani and then went on to attend Stanford Business School but returned after he graduated. As DeMint and his allies saw it, Needham was trying to orchestrate a palace coup, turning a handful of isolated complaints about his hiring practices and handling of Heritage’s research into a major case against DeMint as part of his own campaign to take control of the think tank. They knew, too, that Needham and Feulner were close and were convinced that Needham was trying to undermine DeMint with Heritage’s founder.</div><div>
</div><div>By early November, the tension between DeMint and Needham had escalated, and the senior staff was divided by their respective loyalties. It was just the sort of factionalism that would soon come to define the nascent Trump administration, with its personnel conflicts and firings. As the election approached, it seemed to some at Heritage that DeMint’s future was uncertain. The Republican Party appeared to be headed for defeat and years of soul-searching, which might present a natural occasion for new leadership at the think tank.</div><div>
</div><div>On election night, Heritage turned its first floor over to a viewing party with an open bar, chicken wings and red, white and blue cupcakes. The mood grew increasingly celebratory as the evening wore on and Trump’s tally of electoral votes built toward 270. Some staff members stayed until dawn, went out for breakfast and came back for an all-staff meeting called by DeMint in the larger of Heritage’s two auditoriums. “As you know, I’m kind of a serious guy, so it’s rare that I feel giddy,” he began. DeMint said that Heritage had taken a huge risk — “we were criticized by a lot of our friends in the movement for even going to meetings with Trump” — but that it had paid off. “Most of you are too young to remember the old ‘Mission: Impossible’ series on television, but after they had accomplished their impossible mission, they were all sitting around lighting cigarettes, and the commander would always say, ‘I love it when a plan comes together!’ ” (He was most likely recalling another television program, “The A-Team.”)</div><div>
</div><div>Corrigan had been in close contact with the Trump campaign for months. Now he told the assembled crowd of about 200 people what Heritage had been doing for the campaign and previewed the opportunities ahead. There were thousands of jobs to fill, and the priority was to fill them with “change agents,” he said. “When it comes to personnel decisions, that is the most frequently asked question, even before ‘Are they qualified?’ ‘Are they a change agent?’ ” In the coming days, employees were encouraged to join the transition and were assured that as long as they were working as volunteers, Heritage could continue to pay their salaries and hold their jobs for them.</div><div>
</div><div>The Trump transition offices quickly filled with Heritage staff members recruiting and vetting hires for the administration. The upheaval inside the transition caused by Christie’s firing worked to DeMint’s advantage: Pence was an old friend and conservative ally on Capitol Hill. Christie’s departure also opened the way for Rick Dearborn to take control of the daily decision-making. Dearborn, the longtime chief of staff to Jeff Sessions, had already been a strong presence on the transition team. He went back years with Corrigan, who was the director of the Senate’s conservative caucus for nearly a decade before joining Heritage with DeMint. Corrigan had been informally feeding Dearborn names for months.</div><div>
</div><div>Matthew Buckham, [dad ed MTG?] a project administrator in Heritage’s communications department who joined the transition to vet ambassadors and diplomats, told me that he and the rest of Heritage’s staff on the transition tried to put forward every Heritage employee who wanted to work for the administration, whether in policy, administration or management jobs. “Any list we touched we made sure had as many Heritage people as possible,” he said. One of Heritage’s labor economists, James Sherk, an advocate of rolling back labor rights, joined the White House domestic-policy council; another, David Kreutzer, who was a co-author of a Heritage policy paper arguing that “no consensus exists that man-made emissions are the primary driver of global warming,” joined the Environmental Protection Agency. Roger Severino, the director of Heritage’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, who has opposed extending civil rights protections to gay, lesbian and transgender people, joined the Department of Health and Human Services to run its Office for Civil Rights. Sean Doocey, a former Heritage employee who had worked at the think tank’s Training and Recruitment Center, joined the Presidential Personnel Office — the little-known agency responsible for recruiting and vetting appointees for the executive branch — as its deputy director.</div><div>
</div><div>Heritage helped place countless others, from staff assistants to cabinet secretaries. In some cases, DeMint intervened directly, calling Pence to argue for Mick Mulvaney, a former congressman whose political career DeMint helped start years earlier in South Carolina. Mulvaney is now the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as this article went to press, he was serving out the remaining time in a stint as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a consumer-protection watchdog agency that he had voted to disband in Congress. (He recently fired all 25 members of the agency’s advisory board.) “Not only were we not going to bash the president,” Buckham told me. “We were going to help him and push our friends into positions of policy and influence.”</div><div>
</div><div>In the spring of 2017, just a few months into his tenure, President Trump expressed his gratitude to both DeMint and Heritage in a speech at the National Rifle Association: “Those people have been fantastic; they’ve been real friends.” And yet even in this moment of triumph, DeMint was losing the battle to keep his job. Emboldened by Trump’s victory, he asked for a new contract on the eve of the inauguration. (He earned $1.2 million the previous year.) Heritage’s three-person leadership team — Barb Van Andel-Gaby, a member of one of the families that founded the multilevel-marketing company Amway; Thomas A. Saunders III, a private-equity executive; and Nersi Nazari, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur — were noncommittal. Soon after, they came to Washington for a few days to perform their own internal investigation of the personnel problems, interviewing various staff members about DeMint’s leadership.</div><div>
</div><div>By the time the foundation’s largest donors — $10,000 or more a year — gathered in April 2017 for their annual retreat at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar in San Diego, Heritage’s senior management, like that of the administration it was staffing, was consumed by chaos, confusion, resentments and infighting. DeMint, by now, was blaming Feulner as well as Needham; he was certain that Feulner still effectively controlled the board and was turning it against him. Shortly after DeMint and his management team returned to Washington, he was stripped of his power while his severance package was negotiated. Many of the people he had brought in, including Corrigan, James Wallner (a research executive), Wesley Denton (a communications executive) and Buckham, soon left, too. Rumors swirled that Stephen Bannon would be taking over. He was still at the White House at the time, but he was close to Mercer, and it was no secret that Trump was turning on his power-hungry, attention-seeking chief strategist.</div><div>
</div><div>Amid the upheaval, Saunders, the board’s chairman, issued a statement on the ouster. “Heritage is bigger than any one person,” it read. In his first address to the staff, the think tank’s new interim president, Ed Feulner, assured them that Heritage would continue to be “Donald Trump’s favorite think tank.”</div><div>
</div><div>Heritage’s longer-term future was placed in the hands of an 11-person presidential search committee, made up of trustees. They spent months looking for a candidate who could provide continuity, building on the relationship with Trump that DeMint had established, but also signal a departure from the DeMint era. By last fall, they had assembled a short list that was leaked to The Washington Post. It included Marc Short, the White House legislative director and longtime aide to Mike Pence; Todd Ricketts, the Chicago Cubs co-owner and major Republican donor who had recently been nominated as deputy commerce secretary; and David Trulio, then the vice president for international government affairs at the defense contractor Lockheed Martin. None of them got the job. Just as Dick Cheney had once led George W. Bush’s search for a vice president before securing the position for himself, the presidency of Heritage went to the chairwoman of the search committee, Kay Coles James.</div><div>
</div><div>James, who is 69, is an almost total anomaly in the political world: a black female Republican who supports Donald Trump. In her first address to the Heritage staff, she spoke about her difficult childhood in Richmond, Va., with an absentee father and a mother on welfare. The hiring of a black woman as its president seemed like a coup for an institution that has been widely accused of representing only the interests of white men. “She did not get the job because of her gender or race,” Feulner told me. “She got it because she’s such an extraordinary individual. My only regret is that she’s not 10 years younger.”</div><div>
</div><div>In many respects, James does have the perfect résumé for Heritage. She served under Reagan and George Bush and was the director of the office of personnel management for George W. Bush. Along the way, she worked for several conservative organizations, including Pat Robertson’s Regent University, and served on the board of Focus on the Family, the evangelical group known for its opposition to abortion, premarital sex and gay and transgender rights. In 2005, she did a brief stint with a defense contracting firm whose founder, Mitchell Wade, pleaded guilty a year later to bribing a congressman with more than $1 million in return for favors and earmarks. James went on to start her own nonprofit, the Gloucester Institute, which describes itself as a leadership training center; it offers mentoring and networking programs to black and Latino undergraduate and graduate students. According to Gloucester’s 990 tax form, she earned $50,000 as president of the organization in 2016, the year before she became president of Heritage.</div><div>
</div><div>James worked on the Trump transition, overseeing the White House’s budget and personnel management offices. In March, on a Politico podcast, she said that she had been eager to join the administration to work on the president’s “urban agenda.” She was blocked by Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former “Apprentice” villain and director of communications for the White House Office of the Public Liaison, who during the campaign was charged with African-American outreach. “The way it was described to me is she approached the whole thing like it was ‘The Apprentice,’ ” James said on the podcast. “So she looked around Washington and said, ‘O.K., who do I need to get rid of first?’ ” (Newman herself was pushed out last year.)</div><div>
</div><div>I met James, who has short, graying hair and favors colorful blazers, in May in her new Heritage office, which is enormous and looks out at the Capitol. After we settled onto a large, comfortable couch, she described her new job at Heritage as “the crown jewel” of her career in the conservative movement. I asked James how she thought Trump was doing. “People are focused up here on the trouble and all of the noise that you hear in Washington,” she said, gesturing at eye level. “But down here, the bass notes are strong and loud. There’s a lot of good that is going on, but we are in such a partisan, vitriolic atmosphere in this town right now that very often we overlook the bass notes.”</div><div>
</div><div>In recent months, James has applauded Trump’s tax cuts and deregulatory agenda; his crackdown on illegal immigration; his choice of the hard-liner John Bolton as national security adviser; his effort to rescind funding for a variety of federal programs, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program; and an executive order that will curtail the amount of time that federal union representatives can spend helping colleagues file claims for workplace grievances, including sexual harassment. Part of her task at Heritage, James told me, will be to expose a more diverse audience to the think tank’s ideology. “If you talk to anyone about shaping the future of this nation, they will tell you that there are certain demographics that must be touched — millennials, women and minorities,” she said. “And so I tell people that unless our ideas are reaching those demographics, then we are going to be looking at a shrinking minority view in this country.”</div><div>
</div><div>A few weeks later, on a rainy morning in Washington, Heritage held a party for the dedication of a new dormitory for its interns, a gift from the family of E.W. Richardson, a World War II bomber pilot who went on to become a successful Ford dealer. Donors ate finger food and drank mimosas under a tent on Heritage’s rooftop. Some wore name tags on their lapels and dresses identifying them by their level of giving; those who had added Heritage to their wills wore an extra ribbon: “Legacy Society.” James was the only person of color I saw in a crowd that easily exceeded 200 people.</div><div>
</div><div>Forty-five years after its founding, Heritage may finally be the establishment, but its self-image remains fixed in time. It is, as ever, the nation’s last line of defense against the advancing forces of progressivism, perpetually in need of financial reinforcements. Speaking to the gathered group of donors and Heritage staff members, James, standing beside an American flag and a large portrait of Richardson in his flight gear, described the new intern dorm as an expansion of the think tank’s “base of operations” against what she characterized as a “very determined and very well-resourced foe. They want to change America into something she was never intended to be. And they might succeed if we don’t fight every single day of our lives.”</div><div>
</div><div>On the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, Heritage marked the occasion with news releases and a booklet, “Blueprint for Impact,” promoting how much of Heritage’s agenda Trump had already embraced — 64 percent, according to the think tank’s analysis. Heritage’s director of congressional and executive branch relations, Thomas Binion, went on “Fox & Friends” to discuss the report, saying the think tank was “blown away” by Trump’s performance. The president, apparently watching in the White House, promptly tweeted, inaccurately: “The Heritage Foundation has just stated that 64% of the Trump Agenda is already done, faster than even Ronald Reagan.”</div><div>
</div><div>The president and his favorite think tank continue to draw closer. Administration officials speak regularly at Heritage and give frequent interviews to The Daily Signal. In April, Pruitt and Attorney General Jeff Sessions were both scheduled to speak at a Heritage donor conference in Palm Beach, Fla. (Sessions, under fire from the president because of the Russia investigation, dropped out.)</div><div>
</div><div>Even with DeMint gone, Feulner is enjoying unique access to the Trump administration. During one of our conversations, he told me he had recently accompanied the vice president on Air Force Two to Hillsdale College, a Christian stronghold of conservative thought in Michigan. And last year, he was the lone think-tank head invited to a White House dinner for the conservative movement’s “grass-roots leaders.” He was seated right beside the president. Feulner’s dream had finally been fulfilled. I asked him if he believed the Trump presidency would be transformative for the country. “I think we’re very, very optimistic,” he said.</div><div>
</div><div>There is still a huge number of vacancies across the administration. At this point in their presidencies, Obama had filled 584 of his politically appointed, Senate-confirmed positions, and George W. Bush had filled 652; Trump has filled just 450. The Presidential Personnel Office was portrayed in a recent Washington Post article as a frat house, with widespread workplace vaping and happy-hour drinking games involving Smirnoff Ice.</div><div>
</div><div>The turnover rates have also been historic. In March, The New York Times reported that nine of the top 21 White House and cabinet positions have been emptied and refilled at least once; neither Obama nor Bush had lost a single cabinet member by that point in their administrations. Since taking office, Trump has replaced more than half of his 65 most influential advisers, according to a tracker created by the Brookings Institution. Christie recently laid the blame for the turnover on what he described as a “brutally unprofessional” transition, saying that proper vetting would have caught a lot of Trump’s most problematic appointees. A number of other senior advisers seem to be on shaky ground with the president, and an exodus is anticipated after the November midterm elections.</div><div>
</div><div>Churn is a central feature of this administration, even for its unofficial staffing agency. Paul Winfree, a Heritage economist who helped draft Trump’s first budget, is back at the think tank. So are Stephen Moore, who worked on the Trump tax cuts; David Kreutzer, who played a key role in dissolving a White House working group that was studying the monetary costs associated with climate-warming carbon dioxide; and Hans von Spakovsky, who helped run the now-defunct voter-fraud commission, which was created to find evidence to support Trump’s baseless claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.</div><div>
</div><div>In a sense, the transition is still going, and as long as Trump remains in office it may never end. “I get calls from people every day who still want to go in,” Dunlop told me. “Or I’ll hear from the White House, or I’ll run into someone at a reception or over coffee, and I’ll say, ‘I’ve got a name for you. I’ll send it along.’ ”</div><div>
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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox’s flagship “straight news” show has a troubling record on the climate crisis</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nearly 88% of Special Report’s climate segments since 2009 either spread misinformation or perpetuated false or misleading narratives</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special PROGRAMS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CLIMATE & ENERGY</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY ALICIA SADOWSKI</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALLISON FISHER, REBECCA MARTIN, NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ & JANE LEE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PUBLISHED 06/16/21 12:01 PM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier is heralded as the network’s flagship “straight news” program that firmly embodies the show’s motto of “fair, balanced, and unafraid.” Under Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier’s direction, however, Special Report has failed to meet its own standards in covering the climate crisis and environmental protection, instead providing a platform for many of the same climate denier guests and fossil fuel industry talking points featured on the network’s opinion side. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters examined Special Report with Bret Baier’s coverage related to climate change and the environment between January 1, 2009, and May 3, 2021. We counted and analyzed segments devoted to climate change or the environment and those in which a network figure discussed the issue or engaged with a guest who brought it up. We then broadly categorized the show’s misinformation and misleading narratives into five different angles of attack -- regarding climate science, the economy, the efficacy and public demand for domestic climate action, global cooperation, and the urgency of the crisis. These narratives undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and/or drives for climate action or environmental protection. We counted each angle once per segment even if it arose multiple times; segments often included more than one angle.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT IS PART OF THE DECADESLONG AND ONGOING CAMPAIGN TO DELAY CLIMATE ACTION</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BAIER’S “STRAIGHT NEWS” COVERAGE OF THE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ECHOES THE LIES OF FOX’S OPINION PERSONALITIES</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES CLIMATE SCIENCE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT SETS UP A FALSE CONFLICT BETWEEN A HEALTHY PLANET AND A THRIVING ECONOMY OR MISREPRESENTS THE EFFICACY AND PUBLIC DEMAND FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT FUELS NATIONALISTIC AND MISLEADING NARRATIVES OPPOSING GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFORTS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES THE SERIOUSNESS AND URGENCY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CONCLUSION</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">METHODOLOGY</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key Findings</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>From January 1, 2009, to May 3, 2021, Special Report aired at least 972 segments covering stories related to climate change or the environment.</div><div>
</div><div>At least 851 of those segments -- more than 87% -- featured false or misleading narratives and misinformation. </div><div>Since 2009, Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier, guest anchors, correspondents, and guests on Special Report have undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and the urgency of climate action at least 1,333 times.</div><div>Of the 851 Special Report segments that attacked or misrepresented climate change or environmental protection:</div><div>14% undermined climate science.</div><div>
</div><div>29% set up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy.</div><div>43% misrepresented the efficacy of climate action or the public demand for environmental protections.</div><div>8% fueled nationalistic defenses of climate inaction and/or misled viewers about global climate efforts.</div><div>more than 5% undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report’s specific attacks undermining climate science were most frequent at the start of Baier’s run as anchor, which began in January 2009. The show spread nearly four times as much misinformation or false or misleading narratives attacking climate science during President Barack Obama’s first year in office (when climate legislation was being considered in Congress) than during President Donald Trump’s first year. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During President Joe Biden’s first four months in office, Special Report was already spreading climate-related misinformation and false or misleading climate narratives at more than three times its weekly rate of 2020.[SO BS SIDE EFFECT COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO FOX RAISON D'ETRE ATTACK DEMONIZE LIBS/DEMS?!</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Special Report is part of the decades-long and ongoing campaign to delay climate action</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In reviewing over a decade of Special Report’s climate coverage, Media Matters found at least 851 segments that featured misinformation or false or misleading narratives that undermine efforts to address the climate crisis or environmental degradation. Many of these same attacks are also heavily promoted by Fox’s opinion shows, which points to the shared talking points of the network’s “news” division and some of its most toxic prime-time personalities.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These attacks on science are not isolated incidents -- they can be contextualized within the clear template of industry-funded science denial. As early as 1977, Exxon scientists were aware of the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels, but the company spent the next two decades leading misinformation campaigns to question the scientific basis of climate change, lobbying congressional representatives to reject domestic environmental regulations and international climate treaties, and spreading narratives to falsely pit the health of the economy against the need for environmental protections. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More than four decades after Exxon’s initial discovery, Fox News has scrupulously parrotted its successful misinformation campaigns, despite international and domestic studies overwhelmingly warning of the dire consequences of fossil fuels’ contributions to climate change. Special Report’s complicity in promoting these industry narratives is part of the larger, systemic failure of the U.S. to grapple with the climate crisis, which also includes denying communities equitable access to healthy environments, often at the expense of people of color, as well as the failure to pass meaningful climate and environmental legislation in the last decade. And the same science-denial talking points featured on Special Report have even been recycled by Fox News opinion shows and other bad actors (following a similar blueprint to the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to undermine climate science) to deny the existence and seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and to dismiss the urgency of finding solutions for this public health crisis.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baier’s “straight news” coverage of the climate and environment echoes the lies of Fox’s opinion personalities</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters’ extensive review of Special Report’s coverage of the climate crisis and environmental protections since 2009 found a persistent theme of the program sowing doubt about the existence of climate change and the efficacy of climate solutions. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of the 851 climate or environment-related segments on Special Report that included such instances, 477 occurred during correspondent segments, 174 occurred during guest segments, and 200 were perpetuated by Baier or guest anchors. Excluding segments featuring guest anchors, Baier himself espoused or allowed 1,116 instances of climate misinformation and false or misleading narratives during the studied time period. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Week after week, year after year, Special Report viewers -- who are promised an objective and unbiased analysis of the issues -- have been inundated with misleading statements that reflect Fox’s opinion-side rhetoric: denying climate science, shirking responsibility for environmental degradation, downplaying the severity of climate change, and recklessly casting solutions as too costly or leading toward a slippery slope of tyranny. Here are the types of attacks we found.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report undermines climate science</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The overwhelming consensus from scientists, both domestic and abroad, is clear: Warming trends over the past century are extremely likely to be caused by human activities emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2007, just two years before Bret Baier took the helm of Fox's flagship news program, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international coalition of scientists who assess peer-reviewed scientific papers to summarize knowledge of the causes of climate change, released a report stating that the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that oceans and other ecosystems were “being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.” The report said anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions were “very likely” the cause of global average temperature rise, and it also urged policymakers to consider “a wide variety of policies and instruments” to “create the incentives for mitigation action.” These findings were strengthened in the IPCC's next six-year review in 2013, emphasizing that changes in the climate since the 1950s were “unprecedented over decades to millennia.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Despite these direct warnings from the world’s scientific experts, Baier’s viewers have heard a different story: Special Report’s coverage of climate change and environmental degradation has flatly denied science, focused on debunked, concocted controversies that attempted to dismantle scientific consensus, and selectively reported cool weather events to dismiss warnings of dire climate change consequences. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overall, 14% of the misinformation and misleading or false narratives about climate change spread by Special Report since 2009 have undermined the consensus and conclusions of climate science, with nearly half of that misinformation -- 46% -- occurring within the first three years of Baier's run. In fact, throughout Obama’s first term, Special Report spread two and a half times as many instances of misinformation and false or misleading narratives undermining climate science as it did during Trump’s term. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Within just his first month as anchor, Baier ran a misleading climate segment on January 28, 2009, which cited David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank funded in part by the fossil fuel industry. Kreutzer suggested that scientists were moving to use the term “climate change” instead of “global warming” to distract from cooling trends and make it “easier” to blame humans for natural environmental variation. In February 2010, Baier himself even claimed that “‘global warming,’ the phrase, has been changed really to ‘climate change’ by supporters,” and he hosted current Fox prime-time star Tucker Carlson to lament that “there’s nothing that can’t be explained by the phrase ‘climate change.’” (While Fox News is still undermining climate science by conflating weather patterns with long-term climate disruption, the term “climate change” was actually championed by longtime Republican strategist Frank Luntz in an infamous 2002 memo advising the GOP on how to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that human activity was warming the planet.) </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Baier has continued to attack the science of climate change by giving climate skeptics’ opinions equal weight to peer-reviewed scientific consensus. In February 2015, Baier ran a segment that cited a “retired accountant, blogger, and self-described climate historian” who baselessly claimed that climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been modified to be “more supportive of those who say the planet is warming and that man is directly responsible.” The segment also cited another Heritage Foundation representative, Nick Loris, who cast doubt on the human-made drivers of climate change and falsely suggested that scientists do not believe policies restricting greenhouse gas emissions would be effective. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2018, the next IPCC report estimated that human activities have caused approximately 1 degree Celsius of global warming above preindustrial levels, which is already wreaking havoc on communities, causing more extreme weather events and rising oceans. The report also gave a more dire warning of the urgency of climate change, telling policymakers they had as little as 12 years to limit warming to 1.5 C before climate change and the ensuing environmental degradation reach an irreversible tipping point. The report gave special note to a change in the “frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of weather and climate extremes,” yet Baier’s reporting has failed to note the potential impact of climate change on extreme weather events. The program even flatly denied the existence of climate change as recently as February 2019.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Special Report dismissed the IPCC’s warnings once again, and Baier ran a segment in May 2019 that quoted Marc Morano, a fossil fuel industry-funded climate skeptic who has been described as “a central cell of the climate-denial machine.” In the segment, Morano dismissed another U.N. report warning of mass species extinction as “politics, not science.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the May 6, 2019, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Between 2009 and 2021, Morano’s climate denial was highlighted in at least 10 segments on Special Report, similar to his frequent visits on Fox opinion shows such as Tucker Carlson Tonight. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Morano appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight in April of this year, responding to Carlson’s opening question on the Biden infrastructure bill: “How much of this bill is geared not toward cleaning up the environment, which we could badly use, but toward this global warming theory that they have? How much of it is climate-based?” Morano again argued that a focus on climate change was not due to necessity or scientific consensus, but claimed that it was simply a maneuver to accrue political power.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the April 1, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Special Report's undermining of climate science wasn’t just left to his guests or correspondent segments -- Baier himself recently engaged in the same rhetoric to doubt climate science as a figure from Fox’s opinion side, The Five’s Jesse Watters. On May 3, Watters complained that “the worst part about the whole story” is that “Biden isn’t certain schools are gonna be open this fall, because, you know, he does not have a crystal ball. But at the same breath he says if we don't spend a trillion dollars on green energy, he knows the Earth's temperature, to a degree, in a hundred years. It’s hard to square those.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Five </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baier attempted to make the same point in the next hour, asking why the Biden administration was being cautious in making predictions about school openings while citing scientific unknowns, but “they don’t have that same phrasing when talking about climate change.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report sets up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy or misrepresents the efficacy and public demand for climate action and environmental protections</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fox News figures and other right-wing media personalities have often falsely pitted the economy against the environment, demonizing climate solutions as either too expensive or a waste of money that will not bring adequate returns in the green economy, in an effort to justify a lack of congressional action. Special Report’s coverage was no different throughout the last decade, with 29% of the misinformation or misleading narratives that it spread perpetuating that false dichotomy or failing to consider the cost of climate inaction, and 43% misrepresenting the efficacy and public demand for climate action.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report often emphasized the immediate cost of climate solutions while also pushing narratives that depicted environmental regulations as ineffective or decried the supposedly “socialist” implications of climate legislation. Almost one in three of the problematic segments identified by Media Matters -- around 273 -- both undermined the efficacy of climate action and portrayed potential environmental protections as hurting the economy. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Scientists and policy experts have repeatedly warned that transitioning to a clean energy economy -- often incentivized through legislation -- is not only necessary to ensure a livable planet, but will also reduce the price of mitigation after irreversible climate impacts take hold. In 2018, the Fourth National Climate Assessment warned that the “continued warming that is projected to occur without substantial and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions is expected to cause substantial net damage to the U.S. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” Another recently published study in Scientific Reports estimated that the cost of failure to keep warming to a 1.5 C threshold rose “from 1.3 trillion dollars per year of inaction in 2010 to over 5 trillion dollars per year in 2020.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet despite the long-term economic suffering promised by increasingly extreme weather and climate disasters, regional temperature changes reducing crop yields, and environmental degradation reducing tourism and recreation, much of Special Report’s climate coverage since 2009 has been fed by fossil fuel industry talking points emphasizing short-term -- and often biased -- economic costs. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Beginning during the Obama administration, Special Report relentlessly attacked the Environmental Protection Agency, framing its mitigation efforts as executive overreach without regard to the economy. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>In April 2009, then-chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle declared on Special Report that the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide could be restricted under the Clean Air Act “could hardly be more sweeping because it could affect everything from airliners to lawnmowers and almost every corner of the U.S. economy,” fearmongering that it “has the potential for shutting down or slowing down virtually all economic activity” without mentioning the environmental benefits of the proposed regulations. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a June 2011 segment on Special Report, disgraced former Fox correspondent Doug McKelway cited the Heritage Foundation's Nick Loris, who argued that President Obama and then-Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson's carbon emission reduction policies “are intended to raise energy prices, and lower-income families pay a disproportionately higher percent of their income on energy prices,” resulting in the policies “hurting those people more than helping them.” In reality, Loris was pushing an oversimplified view of carbon pricing legislation. A study by the World Resources Institute found that legislation addressing either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade program does not “inherently help or hurt lower-income households.” Its impact depends on how the policy is designed; for example, a small portion of the revenue raised from carbon pricing could be offered as rebates to protect low-income households from increasing energy prices.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A month later, Angle appeared in another segment quoting both Loris, who claimed that the Obama administration’s plan to increase fuel efficiency standards would “be a significant ramp-up,” and the former chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, who fearmongered that the change would be costly to business and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses. In April 2014, Baier himself responded to the announcement that a federal appeals court upheld stricter emission standards from the EPA by citing complaints from anonymous “state and industry groups'' that the “new limits on toxins” would “cost billions of dollars annually to comply.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>In March 2016, current Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham appeared on Special Report and mocked people “losing sleep over the environment every night,” declaring that the Obama administration’s environmental regulations were actually “about redistributing wealth and making America poorer.” Baier failed to push back on this absurd framing.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>During the Trump administration, however, it became clear that Special Report was complicit in the demise of the network’s “news side,” serving as an echo chamber of misinformation to advance the GOP agenda. In Obama’s first term, Special Report worked to oppose the administration’s efforts to curb climate change, spreading one and a half times more misinformation and false or misleading narratives about than it did during the Trump presidency, when the show championed positive coverage of the short-term economic benefits of rolling back Obama-era regulations. During Trump’s final year in office, Special Report -- seemingly sympathetic to the president’s apathetic stance on the climate -- spread the least amount of misinformation or misleading narratives about climate change during the studied time period, with only 52 instances.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>One segment from December 2016 demonstrates how the show used misinformation and dubious claims to pave the way for Trump’s deregulatory agenda. Correspondent James Rosen cited the conservative American Action Forum’s claim that “recent EPA rules on heavy trucks pushed the total regulatory price tag over the next 10 years over the $1 trillion mark,” requiring “every man, woman, and child in our regulation nation to cough up $3,080 a piece to satisfy it.” The heavy trucks regulation in question -- an increase in the fuel efficiency standards -- would ultimately have reduced global warming emissions by 1.1 billion tonnes and saved the trucking industry $170 billion per year. Despite AAF Director of Regulatory Policy Sam Batkins admitting that the group does little research to check whether cost estimates fit reality, Rosen assured viewers that “Mr. Trump has vowed to carry a war of attrition to the regulatory beast.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Special Report’s focus on the perceived economic disruption and “socialist” implications of climate legislation has dogged Democratic efforts at climate mitigation, demonizing all legislation -- from Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal to the Green New Deal to Biden’s more moderate 2021 climate plan -- as radical attempts to wreak havoc on the American economy and livelihoods. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Attacking and spreading misinformation about the Green New Deal has been Fox News’ priority for the past two years; when it was first introduced, the network aired far more segments than its cable network counterparts on the proposal. As the flagship program of Fox’s “news” division, Special Report made no effort to differentiate itself from the network’s opinion coverage, with Baier characterizing the deal as “one of the most controversial political manifestos” and suggesting that the expensive price tag would lead to wasteful spending as part of “the Democrats' campaign against the prosperous.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In February 2019, Baier hosted Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemmingway to complain that “there is not really a case being made for why you would need to upend your lives, destroy life as you know it, destroy wealth, destroy job opportunities, get rid of massive industries that employ thousands and millions of people, and for what?” Hemingway concluded that polls showing American support for the deal could only be attributed to pollsters asking people if they “want free things,” referring to the Green New Deal’s proposed guaranteed “economic security." Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York dismissed public support for funding the deal, claiming that “the idea that most Americans would think that climate change is a World War II-like crisis is really unlikely.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the February 7, 2019, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These pointed attacks on the Green New Deal reflect the rhetoric often espoused on Fox opinion shows, such as by Sean Hannity, who referenced the Green New Deal in relation to Biden on April 20, 2020, claiming that “there are no moderates in today's radical, extreme Democratic socialist party.” In July 2020, Hannity lambasted Biden for “taking his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced, the Democratic modern socialist party.” Hannity then complained about the price tag of the climate proposal, exclaiming that it would “turn America into a socialist, bankrupt hellhole.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Baier did not push back in January after Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel used language similar to Hannity’s rants to attack the incoming Biden administration and the climate bill, stating that she would not “cede our country to the far left who want to turn toward socialism, institute the Green New Deal, and remake America as we know it.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Citation From the July 14, 2020, edition of Hannity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report fuels nationalistic and misleading narratives opposing global climate efforts</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Efforts to prevent and counter the worst consequences of global climate change have to be negotiated at the international level and require unprecedented cooperation between countries in order to succeed. But in covering those efforts, such as the U.S. signing on to the Paris climate agreement under Obama, Baier and his guests on Special Report instead echoed isolationist narratives to undermine global mitigation efforts. Like Fox opinion-side personalities, they suggested that international mitigation efforts are detrimental to the U.S. economy, that they favor China and India over America, and that global cooperation would fail to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Statements that fueled these nationalistic and misleading narratives opposed to global climate efforts constituted 8% of the total misinformation and false narratives spread on Special Report during the studied time period.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>In an appearance on Special Report in December 2009, the late conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer repeated one of the most prevalent talking points used to oppose climate action, suggesting that an international climate agreement would “mean a serious constriction of the U.S. economy, a lowering of our standard of living.” This claim is false and driven by a flailing fossil fuel industry attempting to distract from its own “terminal decline” by scapegoating climate mitigation efforts. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This line of attack was echoed on the network’s opinion side as recently as this year, when climate denier Marc Morano appeared on the January 21 episode of Fox & Friends First to claim that rejoining the Paris agreement is “climate virtue signaling” that will “hammer middle America, blue-collar America, [and] Americans on middle class and lower income.” In reality, committing to Paris emission reductions and building a 100% clean energy economy would create up to 25 million well-paid American jobs, and clean energy jobs are “more likely to be unionized and come with health care and retirement benefits than the rest of the private sector.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a May 2014 appearance on Special Report, Krauthammer pushed the idea that international agreements, specifically the Paris climate accord, would benefit China at the expense of American prosperity because China lacked a legally binding commitment to emissions reductions. Krauthammer stated, “As we dismantle the coal plants in our country, China and India together are adding one coal fire plant every other week. The net effect is to shift the U.S. coal energy generating industry from here to India and China. It will have zero effect.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This argument was repeated on the May 31, 2017, edition of Fox & Friends, when Fox Business host Stuart Varney denigrated the Paris climate accord as an “unequal” agreement meant to “take money and resources off Europe and America” to “give it to other countries,” including China. More recently, Fox opinion host Laura Ingraham expanded upon this argument in April, characterizing global cooperation on climate as tentative at best, with each nation pursuing “what’s in its best interest.” Ingraham then dismissed Biden’s “grand” climate plans as ineffective for failing to reduce global temperatures “at all.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These are bad-faith arguments and they do not account for the fact that not only has the U.S. caused more global warming than any other country and maintains the higher per capita emissions rates, but it also lags behind China on substantive commitments to renewable energy and technology. Furthermore, climate change and its disruptions transcend national borders and are intrinsically linked to the public health, socioeconomic well-being, and growth of every nation. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In yet another appearance on Special Report in May 2017 dismissing the impact of Trump’s promise to pull out of the Paris accord, Krauthammer advanced the argument that U.S. participation in the “extremely weak” agreement was inconsequential, and he claimed it only made a “marginal difference” if “we are in it or out of it.” This sentiment on climate policy efficacy was also echoed this year on Fox’s opinion side by Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg on the January 21 edition of Fox & Friends. He argued that rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost a fortune and cut almost nothing, so basically achieve almost nothing to fix climate change.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These arguments exploit legitimate concerns of the Paris agreement --that measures agreed to at the accord will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- not to garner support for the strengthening of global commitments, but to gripe about the inherent complexities of any global treaty and ultimately erode support for addressing the climate crisis on any level. Despite Paris’ shortcomings, the U.S.’s participation in the agreement — as the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter — represented a critical step toward global climate mitigation. As international markets transition toward clean energy, it is imperative that the United States can advocate for American jobs and workers. Moreover, global emissions reductions work -- in 2016, global emissions flat-lined for the third year in a row even as the global economy grew, partly because the U.S. and China cut their emissions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Special Report undermines the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Baier and his guests made statements that undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis in more than 5% of Special Report’s misinformation and false or misleading narratives around climate change. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These bad-faith arguments have also come from Fox’s opinion side, which has framed the idea of addressing climate change as requiring personal sacrifice from individual viewers. Special Report suggested climate-conscious consumers should not own pets, should limit their hamburger intake, should accept rougher toilet paper, and should feel guilt for using water at hotels or pumping gas for their car. These segments’ reckless linking of personal consumer choices to environmental protection lets the real culprits -- the 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions -- escape responsibility for the worst impacts of climate change, while discouraging popular support for climate action.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Special Report also followed Fox’s signature strategy of focusing on some prominent people’s actions to deflect from those individuals’ concerns about the climate, using charges of hypocrisy as a smokescreen for climate inaction. Baier dedicated segments to personal carbon footprints, pointing to Obama traveling to an Earth Day rally; first lady Michelle Obama flying to Copenhagen to advocate for Chicago to host the Olympics; Prince Charles encouraging environmental awareness; Hillary Clinton traveling during her presidential campaign; and, most recently, Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry using a private jet. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the February 4 edition of Special Report, correspondent Kristin Fisher noted that Kerry was “not necessarily leading by example by taking a private plane to Iceland to accept an environmental award.” Later in the episode, Fox contributor Byron York said that “he's got a government plane now, and you don't marry into a billionaire family if you want to fly commercial.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>This coverage on Fox’s flagship “straight news” show echoed a line of attacks on Kerry from Fox’s opinion hosts, such as Sean Hannity’s January 28 statement that “it’s almost as if John Kerry isn’t that concerned about the environment after all” and Tucker Carlson’s February 3 accusation that Kerry was being “hypocritical.” These personal attacks and red herring arguments serve dual roles -- to villainize and discredit specific activists while trivializing the urgency of the climate crisis. It is a well-worn tactic, as demonstrated by Special Report, that is used across the network’s opinion and “straight news” programming.]GORE TENN HOUSE]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the January 28, 2021, edition of Fox News' Hannity</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video file</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CitationFrom the February 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conclusion</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Climate scientists have overwhelmingly warned for years that unless immediate action is taken to address the climate crisis, irreversible environmental consequences will impact every aspect of our daily lives -- ranging from an exacerbated refugee crisis to devastating economic impacts to irreversible environmental degradation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The stakes for news media to cover this issue seriously and responsibly could not be higher as Biden attempts to simultaneously reestablish United States' leadership in global mitigation and advocate for bold climate legislation, while the deadline to limit global warming to 1.5 C draws closer.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yet climate coverage on Special Report with Bret Baier has been characterized by blatantly false, biased, and desperate attempts to undermine climate change action and environmental protections. Ultimately, Special Report is another extension of Fox News’ climate denial machine, serving to sow misinformation and doubt to defend the politicians who actively prevent any climate mitigation.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Methodology</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Media Matters searched transcripts in the Nexis database for Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier for any of the terms and any derivations of the terms climate change, global warming, climate, global temperatures, climate science, climate scientist, Paris climate, climate accord, Paris accord, climate agreement, Paris agreement, climate deal, climate crisis, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, green new deal, climate conference, climate plan, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, green, Keystone Pipeline, Dakota Pipeline, or energy from January 1, 2009, through May 3, 2021.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We included any segment when climate change or environmental protection was the stated topic of discussion...</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/demoted-nyt-editor-has-long-history-of-lapses-in-judgment/">https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/demoted-nyt-editor-has-long-history-of-lapses-in-judgment/</a></div><div>
</div><div>list of f/us includes?</div><div>he called opponents of fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal “the political fringes,” “groups more on the fringe” and (in the words of anonymous officials) “a small fringe” (FAIR.org, <a href="https://fair.org/home/tell-us-how-you-really-feel-about-fast-track-opponents-new-york-times/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">2/10/15</a>). At the time, fast track was opposed by a majority of the House of Representatives.</div><div class="p3_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He treated the poor and middle class as interchangeable terms, writing that “President Obama’s push for a new ‘middle-class economics’ [would] help make the politics of rich and poor a central issue,” and presenting Mitt Romney “vowing a campaign to ‘end the scourge of poverty’” as an example of the same phenomenon as “Mitch McConnell … encourag[ing] the Republican troops to refocus policy on the stagnant middle class” (FAIR.org, <a href="https://fair.org/home/poor-middle-class-whats-the-difference-to-the-1-percent/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">1/23/15</a>).<div class="p4_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He bemoaned that in 2014, the right-wing Heritage Foundation was becoming “more of a political organization” by hiring staffers “known more for their advocacy journalism than their scholarship” (FAIR.org, <a href="https://fair.org/home/heritage-foundation-where-have-all-the-scholars-gone/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">2/24/14</a>). Heritage’s co-founder and first president, Paul Weyrich, used to write for the far-right John Birch Society; other “scholars” at the think tank have included eugenicist Roger Pearson and white supremacist Sam Francis (Extra!, <a href="https://fair.org/home/heritage-of-extremism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">7–8/96</a>).<div></div>pruitt announce sci sup at heritage, eboyheritage circled the wagons when AG Mass and NY went after Exxon knew,  CEI, claimed 1st amend (also pac leg)perhaps not unrelated?<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">heritage BS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-centuries-of-corporate-personhood-11548978712" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-centuries-of-corporate-personhood-11548978712</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div>=</div><div><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-religious-right-team-schemes-to-legally-erase-trans-identity">http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-religious-right-team-schemes-to-legally-erase-trans-identity</a></div><div>
</div><div><div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"> New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reported</a> on Sunday that the Trump administration is considering a proposal by <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-man-behind-trumps-religious-freedom-agenda-for-health-care/528912/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">one of the administration’s highest-ranking Religious Right activists</a> to virtually erase transgender people from legal recognition and protection by the federal government. The memo proposing the change is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-terrible-anti-lgbtq-first-year-of-the-promised-pro-gay-president-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">just the latest</a> indication of just how <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-year-the-religious-right-moved-into-the-white-house/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">completely the Religious Right has come to dominate policy-making</a> in the administration of Donald Trump.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The push by the Department of Health and Human Services to impose a trans-denying definition of “sex” onto federal civil rights law “would essentially eradicate federal recognition” of an estimated 1.4 million transgender Americans, according to the Times story.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The effort is being led by <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/roger-severino/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Severino</a>, who has taken the anti-LGBT agenda of his former employer, the Heritage Foundation, into the Trump administration as director of the civil rights division at HHS. When he was named to that position, <a href="https://www.washingtonblade.com/content/files/2017/04/041017-SIGNED-Senate-Letter-to-Price-on-HHS-OCR-Director-Severino-Appointment.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a dozen U.S. senators objected</a>, citing Severino’s “long history of making bigoted statements toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and attacking women’s access to health care services and reproductive rights.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">One of Severino’s former colleagues at the Heritage Foundation, Ryan Anderson, is at the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/a-fresh-face-emerges-as-a-leader-in-the-movement-against-same-sex-marriage/2015/04/15/d78cf256-dece-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html?utm_term=.6d311ece8d80" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">forefront</a> of the Religious Right’s anti-trans crusade. Anderson’s latest book is “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.” Anderson argues that gender cannot be severed from biological sex, and that “taking our sexual embodiment seriously in public policy is not discriminatory.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">That language is strikingly similar to Anderson’s approach to sexual orientation, suggesting that if Religious Right activists in the Trump administration are successful in wiping out legal recognition based on gender identity, they may be willing to try the same with regard to sexual orientation.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Anderson is <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/01/16225/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">not a conservative willing to seek “compromise”</a> in the form of religious exemptions to non-discrimination laws. He says that “sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) laws” are “<a href="https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-sogi-laws-threaten-freedom" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">bad public policy</a>” and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ryan-anderson-takes-break-from-war-on-marriage-equality-to-target-nondiscrimination-laws/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">argues against legal protection for LGBTQ people from discrimination</a>:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">Sexual orientation and gender identity refers not only to thoughts and inclinations, but also to behavior, and it is reasonable for citizens to make distinctions based on actions. However, SOGI laws would prohibit reasonable decisions made in response to behaviors that are fraught with moral weight.</blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Indeed, Religious Right groups like the Family Research Council, which has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/family-research-council-boasts-of-victories-in-the-era-of-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">placed staff in positions in the Trump administration</a>, deny the very existence of gay identity as well as transgender identity.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg argues that the idea of a gay identity is “empirically false” and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/anti-gay-warm-up-act-to-world-congress-of-families-this-is-war/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">urges</a> religious conservatives not to use terms like gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, <a href="https://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF18B16.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">preferring constructs</a> like “people who engage in homosexual conduct” or “people who identify as homosexual.” This echoes the practice of the Catholic and Mormon hierarchies, which use terms such as “people with same-sex attractions.” Sprigg and FRC similarly argue that transgender identity is “an objective falsehood—which no law should force others to affirm.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Sprigg was one of the speakers in a session on “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/world-congress-of-families-gender-ideology-panel-targets-feminism-perverts-transgender-identity/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">gender ideology</a>” at the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/world-congress-of-families-summit-promotes-anti-lgbtq-anti-choice-policies-globally/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">World Congress of Families global summit</a> held in Moldova in September. His talking points included a denial that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex discrimination. The session was moderated by Australian Patrick Byrne, author of a new book, “Transgender: One Shade of Gray.” Byrne said that laws against anti-trans discrimination are “authoritarian” and said the solution is to write the definition of man and woman into law, saying, “if you do that, you block the whole agenda.” That is precisely what Severino seems to be trying to accomplish via executive action.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The National Center for Transgender Equality denounced the “terrifying memo” being circulated within the Trump administration, calling it “a direct attack on trans people.” But Severino cannot unilaterally reverse federal court precedents, noted NCTE:<blockquote style="background: rgb(239, 243, 243); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; hyphens: none; padding: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0.75em 2em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px; line-height: 1.5;">You should know that this rule will not eliminate the precedents set by dozens of federal courts over the last two decades affirming the full rights and identities of transgender people. It will not undo the consensus of the medical providers and scientists across the globe who see transgender people, know transgender people, and urge everyone to accept us for who we are. And no rule—no administration—can erase the experiences of transgender people and our families.</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">As a presidential candidate, Trump once held up a rainbow flag, and some of his apologists <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gays-for-trump-join-conspiracy-theorists-in-bringing-anti-islam-anti-pc-message-to-rnc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed that he would be the most pro-gay president ever</a>. In truth, the anti-LGBTQ writing was on the wall once Trump decided that his route to the White House depended on a strategic alliance with the Religious Right. In return for his promises to give them the Supreme Court of their dreams and make them more politically powerful by removing legal restrictions on politicking by churches, Religious Right leaders helped generate a massive pro-Trump vote among white evangelicals. Since his election Trump has been returning the favor, giving the Religious Right whatever it wants, and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-terrible-anti-lgbtq-first-year-of-the-promised-pro-gay-president-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reversing</a> Obama administration pro-LGBTQ policies. In return, religious conservatives have remained his most ferocious defenders, regularly denouncing his opponents as evil, even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-trumps-critics-are-being-controlled-by-satan/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Satanic</a>.</div></div><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; border-top: 5px solid rgb(239, 243, 243); margin-bottom: 2em; padding-top: 1em;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Tags: <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/roger-severino/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Roger Severino</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/ryan-anderson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Ryan Anderson</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-gay/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-Gay</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/anti-lgbt/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Anti-LGBT</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/transgender-rights/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">transgender rights</a><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/topics/trump-administration/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump Administration</a></div></div></div><div>
</div><div>=</div><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/land-and-water-conservation-fund-2604912470.html?" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.ecowatch.com/land-and-water-conservation-fund-2604912470.html</a><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">Is the United States About to Lose Its Best Conservation Program?</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2604912470" data-authors="The Revelator" data-headline="Is the United States About to Lose Its Best Conservation Program?" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description">By Tara Lohan...</div></div></div>talk radio 2011the past few years, conservative radio hosts like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin have been preaching the messages of prominent conservative advocacy groups—and encouraging their listeners to open their wallets to show their support.
According to Politico, that's because these groups, whether listeners know it or not, are paying high sponsorship fees to these programs for on-air plugs and promotional tie-ins that are often woven so seamlessly into the show that they don’t seem like advertisements. This practice was just exposed in a newly-published investigation by Politico into the history and business of these right-wing talk show endorsements.
“People don’t realize is that (big time political talk show hosts) are radio personalities—they are in the same business that people like Casey Kasem are in—and what they do is no different than people who broadcast from used car lots or restaurants or who endorse the local roofer or gardener,” Michael Harrison, founder and publisher of TALKERS Magazine, told Politico.
The Heritage Foundation has a sponsorship deal with Limbaugh’s and Hannity’s shows, while Beck endorses FreedomWorks and Levin has signed with Americans for Prosperity. The groups said that they sought out these hosts because they already preached a message similar to their own, and also because of the enduring power that right-wing talk radio. These shows shows “are really the vanguard of the conservative free market, freedom movement in America these days,” said Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips.
Heritage pioneered the sponsorship model back in 2008, partly in order to widen its appeal outside the beltway, says Politico. The group first paid $1.2 million to sponsor shows hosted by Hannity and Laura Ingraham, later dropping Ingraham in 2009 and striking a $3.3 million deal with Premiere Radio Networks which syndicated Limbaugh’s program and had acquired Hannity’s, with “roughly” $2 million going to the former show and $1.3 million to the latter.
FreedomWorks based their own deal with Beck off of Heritage’s sponsorship and in 2010 paid $1.4 million in “advertising services” to Rebecca Hagelin, who set up Heritage’s deals with Limbaugh and Hannity, and is now helping FreedomWorks “with several marketing initiatives, including Beck,” according to a spokesman.
Most of the deals give sponsorship groups a certain number of “live-reads,” in which the show’s host uses a script, outline, or specific set of talking points to deliver an ad for the group. Some deals also include “embedded ads,” in which the sponsor’s message is woven into the show. And these deals don’t just get advertisements for the sponsors, either—the hosts also make the point of defending the groups if they happen to come under fire in the news.
Some tea party leaders aren’t too pleased with the sponsorship arrangements, though, believing that “the deals smack of the pay-to-play politics that tea partiers allege has undermined the credibility of the conservative establishment,” says Politico. Other conservative figures fear that grassroots activists might not be aware of the financial terms behind the endorsements. “I wish more of the grassroots knew the reality that this wasn’t Rush or Sean or Beck saying these things out of the goodness of their hearts,” said one conservative leader.
Regardless, these groups’ sponsorships have clearly been worth the price of doing business. Heritage estimates that since signing with Hannity and Limbaugh two years ago, it has added 40,000 new memberships starting at the $25 level. FreedomWorks said that in the three months after its Beck sponsorship started in April 2010, its website had a huge spike in traffic which led to 50,000 new email sign-ups. The endorsement deal was also a “major part” of FreedomWorks nearly doubling its fundraising from $7.6 million in 2009 to $13.8 million in 2010. (Americans for Prosperity wouldn’t divulge any details of its Levin deal to Politico).ref<section class="content" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; counter-reset: list-header-num 0; max-width: 600px;"><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. EPA chief Scott Pruitt is expected to roll out plans soon to restrict the agency's use of science in rulemakings, pitting him against critics who say it would threaten public health and environmental protections.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a closed-door meeting at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Pruitt told a group of conservatives that he has plans for additional science reform at the agency, according to multiple attendees. EPA hasn't formally shared details of the plan, but it's widely expected to resemble an effort that Republican lawmakers and conservative groups have been pushing for years. It's been met with staunch resistance from Democrats and many scientists.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The plan could come "sooner rather than later," said Steve Milloy, who served on Trump's EPA transition team and attended the meeting at the Heritage Foundation.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EPA did not respond to a request for comment. And Milloy cautioned that he did not know the specifics of the plan and said he was not authorized to discuss the meeting.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The initiative is expected to require EPA — when issuing rules — to rely only on scientific studies where the underlying data are made public. It's an idea that House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has been championing for years. He and others argue that EPA has been crafting regulations based on "secret science" to advance its regulatory agenda.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smith, one of the leading opponents of mainstream climate science in Congress, has repeatedly accused federal climate scientists of engaging in a massive conspiracy to falsify climate data. And he has repeatedly introduced bills that would require EPA to publicize data it uses when crafting regulations.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those efforts died when President Obama was in the White House, and Smith's newest legislative push doesn't appear to be moving even though Republicans control both chambers of Congress. The House passed a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1430/BILLS-115hr1430rfs.pdf" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold;">bill</a> dubbed the "Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) Act" — requiring that EPA rules be based on science for which underlying data is publicly available and reproducible — last March. But the measure has gone nowhere since it was referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smith has tried to push the idea elsewhere, too. In comments on the 2019 budget proposal, the GOP majority on the Science panel led by Smith suggested that EPA's funding should be contingent on the administrator's "requiring that all scientific and technical information and data relied on to support a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment; criteria document; standard; limitation; regulation; regulatory impact analysis; or guidance issued by the EPA is made publicly available."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smith did not respond to a request for comment.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Critics on the left and in the scientific community see the effort as an attempt to hinder EPA from issuing rules.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"A lot of the data that EPA uses to protect public health and ensure that we have clean air and clean water relies on data that cannot be publicly released," said Yogin Kothari with the Union of Concerned Scientists.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many scientific studies rely on data that can't be made public for reasons like patient privacy concerns or industry confidentiality.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"If EPA doesn't have data to move forward with a public protection for a safeguard, it doesn't have to do that at all," said Kothari. "It really hamstrings the ability of the EPA to do anything, to fulfill its mission."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publishing raw data also opens scientists up to attacks from industry, which can twist or distort data to shape a deregulatory agenda, said Betsy Southerland, a former senior EPA official in the Office of Water who worked on a staff analysis of the "HONEST Act."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Southerland, who left EPA last summer, said the effort is deceptive and is not about transparency, but about sidelining peer-reviewed science that supports regulation of pollution. She said there are numerous examples of groundbreaking studies that are not replicable, such as human health studies after the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima or the ecological effects of the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In many of the older studies, there are a plethora of people, including some who are dead, who could no longer be tracked down.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This is just done to paralyze rulemaking," she said. "It's another obstacle that would make it so hard and so difficult to go forward with rulemaking that in the end, the only thing that would happen — in the best case you would greatly delay rulemaking; in the worst case you would just prevent it. It would be such an obstacle you couldn't overcome it."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publicizing the data in some EPA actions, which often come after years of research, could be extensive. For example, risk assessments for certain chemicals sometimes cite hundreds or even thousands of studies, all of which would have to be tracked down for data collection, according to the EPA analysis of the "HONEST Act."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Requiring data transparency would cost hundreds of millions of dollars because it would require EPA staff to track down data from study authors and create an online management system to store and present those data, the analysis found. In addition, EPA staff would have to spend time redacting personally identifiable information in the studies, and study authors would likely require payments for preparing and sending their data.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EPA career staff estimated that Smith's legislation would add $250 million in costs annually for the first few years after it was implemented, Southerland said. That estimate was dismissed by senior EPA officials who said those costs were inflated and that the agency would not use many studies to which the rule would apply, but they did not provide evidence, she said. EPA's <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/344731162/EPA-analysis-of-Honest-Act-to-CBO" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold;">analysis</a> of Smith's bill was published by the radio program "Marketplace."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Milloy, who has long pushed for EPA to stop issuing regulations unless the underlying scientific data are made public, said the science reform effort could be done through a directive, in the same way that Pruitt reshaped EPA's science advisory panels.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The overhaul of those committees is another area where Pruitt came through on one of Smith's longtime priorities.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In October, Smith was seated front and center at an event where Pruitt announced that he would reform the advisory panels to bar researchers who take government funding. Critics said that move skewed the advice EPA is getting by making it tough for researchers who rely on public funding to participate, but keeping industry-funded scientists on board.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Pruitt did a great job in cleaning up the science advisory boards, and if he does that kind of work on this, that's fantastic," Milloy said of the expected science data reform effort. "My goal is to make sure EPA does not rely on scientific studies unless the data is made available for replication by somebody."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kothari of the Union of Concerned Scientists called it "alarming" that the Trump administration's science agenda "is being run by the chairman of the Science Committee, given that he has continued to not care about how science informs policymaking."<p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This is the second thing now that this administrator will be implementing based on legislation that was never enacted," Kothari said. "It's just another excuse for Pruitt's EPA to really abrogate EPA's responsibility to protect human health and the environment."</section><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-under-siege-2444990496.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-under-siege-2444990496.html</a><div class="headline-container" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">50+ Interviews With EPA Staff: Trump Poses 'Greatest Threat' to Agency in 47-Year History</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="article-body body js-expandable sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 js-update-url" data-url="https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-under-siege-2444990496.html" data-headline="50+ Interviews With EPA Staff: Trump Poses 'Greatest Threat' to Agency in 47-Year History" data-elid="2444990496" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="article-description" style="margin-bottom: 10px;">From repealing and replacing Obamacare to constructing that border wall, <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">President Donald Trump</a> has broken a lot of promises that he made on the campaign trail. However, there is one area where Trump has been seemingly true to the his word—crippling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/epa" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">EPA</a>).According to the first of a series of reports from the <a href="https://envirodatagov.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Environmental Data and Governance Initiative</a> (EDGI), the Trump administration poses the greatest threat to the EPA's 47-year history.The group's stunning analysis, <a href="https://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege.html" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" word-wrap="word-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The EPA Under Siege</a>, draws on institutional history and the insight of more than 50 interviews with long-term EPA staff, who are unidentified in the report for their protection. The report's authors have identified plummeting morale, mutual distrust between political appointees and career staff, andparalysis of operations within the EPA under current Administrator Scott Pruitt."Twice before, presidential administrations in North America have targeted their own environmental agencies with comparable aggression, in the early Reagan administration (1981-1983) and under Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006-2015)," the EDGI report's authors state. "Trump's assault is on track to surpass these."The <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/edgi" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">EDGI</a> is an international coalition of academics and nonprofits organizations that formed after Trump's election to address potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy. You may know of their detailed work on <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/energy-dept-rewrite-website-2372236613.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">tracking changes</a> to federal websites.There are many unsettling revelations from the report, but this section says it all: 
"From their front row seats, many agency veterans now think they see a gathering profile of the Trump administration's long game: to abolish the EPA. 'I think there'sa <a href="https://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege.html#id.nugacl4iovoi" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">general consensus</a> among the career people,' one tells us, 'that at bottom they're basically trying to destroy the place.' Another, working in a different office, elaborates: '<a href="https://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege.html#kix.3bhlf39dr7nb" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I think this is just phase one …</a> I think there's a much bigger master plan [discernible] if you read into what came out of restructuring ... we're going to be structured out. I think they're either going to break us up again and send us back to the ... programs we came from, or combine us with Energy or strip even further programs from us so that there's just a real exceedingly small base that's doing this work. <a href="https://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege.html#id.g2j22n7iz1ix" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I think the plan is to get rid of EPA.</a>'"Here are some of the other allegations from the EPA staff (you can read the <a href="https://100days.envirodatagov.org/epa-under-siege.html#id.ng9alatpk9th" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">whole collection of quotes here</a>):
Pruitt has never met with environmental groups. "I don't believe he's met with any environmental groups to date, so he's still kind of sticking with his core business, government groups." Almost no one interviewed in the report has had contact with Pruitt himself or seen him around the office. Rather, they take note of his frequent trips around the country and visits with like-minded constituencies, such as Western governors, farmers and coal miners.<div id="AdThrive_Content_2_desktop" class="adthrive-ad adthrive-dynamic adthrive-content" data-google-query-id="CMjT28qQz9QCFRN1AQodshgFoA" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-x: visible !important;">
</div>Pruitt has banned staff from taking notes. "There's a premium on, I would say secrecy. Meaning senior managers that are going into meetings with Pruitt…. aren't [allowed to compile] written materials. They're asked not to take notes, not to take a computer in and type notes… Everything is just verbal. If it's just verbal, then there's no record that you can get a FOIA to see what happened." 
Pruitt has requested around-the-clock security. "Pruitt is requesting in the 2018 budget that he have a security team, 24/7, made up of 10 people because he feels his life is I guess at risk because there's such internal hatred at EPA. This is scary and unfounded."Pruitt's first speech to the agency was carefully stage-managed to avoid dissent. His speech also never alluded to the EPA's longstanding work in safeguarding human health, science, scientists, ecology or even <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">climate change</a>. One staff member recalled, "I can say that many of us were seething after watching his speech. Well, watching it 'live' from the EPA TV. Junior staff were not permitted to attend in person. All staff were provided with the opportunity to rsvp to attend but apparently the rsvp list was reviewed with a fine toothed comb so only those certain to not cause a disruption during the speech, would be there. I assume that means old people with suits (which is what we saw on the EPA tv while watching the speech). Yes, I too was wondering when he would mention human health. Apparently never!"Trump's visit to the EPA was met with frustration from staff employees. During Trump's March 28 visit to the agency's headquarters to sign "new energy revolution" executive order to undo Obama's climate policies he was flanked by coal miners, Pruitt, Vice President Mike Pence and the new Secretaries of Energy Rick Perry and Interior Ryan Zinke. However, few people at the EPA were invited. One interviewee said, "We were frankly insulted that the President would come to EPA to announce that he is overturning the work to battle the most urgent environmental problem of our generation—climate change. It was beyond comprehension that an Administration could be so arrogant and callous." Another veteran official described it as an "in-your-face, insulting [a] thing as I've experienced in my time here."Some staff believe that Trump's draconian <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-budget-cuts-2419155713.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">2018 EPA budget proposal</a> was influenced by conservative think-tanks. One EPA worker's "personal opinion" was that "it's all from the Heritage Foundation's report, almost verbatim ... they just literally went through the list and said well this is climate change, boom this goes. EJ [environmental justice] we couldn't care less about that, this goes."</div></div>=</div><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Right-Wing Op-Eds Pushed False Claim that Paris Agreement Would Be Economically Disastrous</h4>Conservative op-ed writers falsely claimed that the Paris accord would impose massive costs on U.S. businesses and families.In an opinion piece in <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/15/paris-climate-agreement-needs-to-go/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The Washington Times</a>, Ed Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, argued that the U.S. should withdraw from the agreement, adding, "As economist Nicolas Loris and U.N. expert Brett Schaefer recently noted, 'The U.S. regulations alone would increase energy costs for U.S. families and businesses, causing an overall average shortfall of nearly 400,000 jobs and total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four by the year 2035.'" The figures were based on a 2016 Heritage Foundation <a href="http://www.heritage.org/environment/report/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">report</a> that claimed former President Obama's keystone policy for meeting Paris obligations, the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/clean-power-plan" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Clean Power Plan</a>, would cause an "aggregate gross domestic product loss of more than $2.5 trillion" by 2035. And Loris, who also works for the Heritage Foundation, penned his own opinion piece in the <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2017/05/loris_prez_should_keep_vow_dump_paris_climate_pact" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Boston Herald</a> claiming, "Compliance with the Paris agreement will cost the global economy trillions of dollars over the next 80 years."jane mayerstaffers saw letter weyrich and _ led to founding coors, scaife$
<a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-05-05">http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-05-05</a><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government">https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government</a>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">cum-survivalist multi-tool. A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense contractors. An “evangelist” and lobbyist for Palantir, the Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies. And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently graduated from high school.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">These are some of the people the Trump administration has hired for positions across the federal government, according to documents received by ProPublica through public-records requests.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">While President Trump has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/25/politics/donald-trump-cabinet-vacancies/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">not moved</a> to fill <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">many jobs</a> that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Unlike appointees exposed to the scrutiny of the Senate, members of these so-called “<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/beachhead-teams-agenda-inauguration-day-233774" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">beachhead teams</a>” have operated largely in the shadows, with the White House declining to publicly reveal their identities.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">While some names have previously dribbled out in the press, <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">we are publishing a list of more than 400 hires</a>, providing the most complete accounting so far of who Trump has brought into the federal government.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The White House <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/beachhead-teams-agenda-inauguration-day-233774" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">said</a> in January that around 520 staffers were being hired for the beachhead teams.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The list we obtained includes obscure campaign staffers, contributors to Breitbart and others who have embraced conspiracy theories, as well as dozens of Washington insiders who could be reasonably characterized as part of the “swamp” Trump pledged to drain.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The list is striking for how many former lobbyists it contains: We found at least 36, spanning industries from health insurance and pharmaceuticals to construction, energy and finance. Many of them lobbied in the same areas that are regulated by the agencies they have now joined.<div class="callout" style="margin: 1em 2em; padding: 0.8em; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4; display: inline-block; z-index: 10; box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px; float: right;"><h2 class="pp-int-hed" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Here Are More Than 400 Officials Trump Has Quietly Deployed Across the Government</a></h2><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img src="https://www.propublica.org/images/ngen/gypsy_image_lead_ngen/20170308-beachhead-graphic-300x200.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; width: 277.625px;" /></a><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">ProPublica has obtained a list of more than 400 people hired by the Trump administration to fill key roles across the federal government. <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Read the story.</a></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">That figure is almost certainly an undercount since we only included those who formally registered as lobbyists, a process <a href="https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/04/19/what-is-shadow-lobbying-how-influence-peddlers-shape-policy-in-the-dark/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">increasingly avoided</a> by many in Washington.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">During the campaign, Trump said he would have “<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-before-would-have-no-problem-banning-lobbyists-trump-now-youre-hired" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">no problem</a>” banning lobbyists from his administration. But they have nonetheless ended up in senior roles, aided by Trump’s <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-trump-administration-may-be-skirting-its-own-ethics-rules" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">weakening of Obama-era ethics</a> rules that <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/barack-obama-revolving-door-lobbying-217042" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">modestly limited</a> lobbyists’ role in government.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">There are many former congressional staffers, several top officials from the George W. Bush administration, and even a handful of holdovers from the Obama administration. The list also includes at least eight staffers drawn from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">forged close ties</a> to the new administration during the transition.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Much about the role of the beachhead teams at various federal agencies is unclear. But close observers of the early weeks of the Trump administration believe they have taken on considerable influence in the absence of high-level political appointees.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“If the public and Senate is in the dark about a team created without a Senate confirmation process, no one will be permitted to shed light on who is hopelessly conflicted or who is obviously unqualified — and who is both,” said <a href="http://cepr.net/about-us/staff/jeff-hauser-executive-director-of-the-revolving-door-project" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Hauser</a>, director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The beachhead team members are <a href="https://www.chcoc.gov/content/temporary-transition-schedule-c-authority-and-temporary-transition-senior-executive-service" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">temporary</a> employees serving for stints of four to eight months, but many are expected to move into permanent jobs. The Trump administration’s model is based on <a href="http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/19/15264192-inside-the-romney-readiness-project-the-ambitious-plans-for-an-unrealized-administration?lite" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">plans</a> developed but never used by the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“The beachhead teams involve people with considerable authority over the federal government,” said Max Stier, the CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan group that <a href="http://presidentialtransition.org/ready-to-govern/index.php" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">advises</a> presidential candidates on smooth transitions. “We need clarity about what they’re doing and what their role is going to be.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The Obama administration also hired temporary staffers after the inauguration. But Trump has brought in many more, Stier said.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The new list of names was provided to us by the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources agency. We received additional names from other federal agencies in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. At least a few people on the list have changed agencies or left the administration, including, for example, the young Department of Housing and Urban Development staffer who was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/shermichael-singleton-housing-urban-development.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">fired</a> after his anti-Trump writings during the campaign came to light.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Here is a run-down of some of the Trump hires.<h2 style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1;">The Breitbart wing</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Curtis Ellis was a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160414050424/http://www.wnd.com/author/cellis/?archive=true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">columnist</a> for WorldNetDaily, a website best known for its <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/286329/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">enthusiastic</a> <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/birther-czar-joseph-farah-i-ve-been-talking-to-donald-trump-quite-a-bit" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">embrace</a> of the false notion that President Obama was born outside the United States. A column headlined the “The Radical Left’s Ethnic Cleansing of America” won Ellis an <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-advisor-hillary-and-obama-want-ethnic-cleansing-of-white-working-people/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">admiring interview</a> with Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top aide. He is a longtime <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/08/10/curtis-ellis-tpp-is-about-redistributing-the-wealth-of-america-to-the-rest-of-the-world/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">critic</a> of trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;" /><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Ellis was hired Jan. 20 as a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department. Asked about his role in a brief phone interview Tuesday, he said: “Nothing I can tell you.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Jon Perdue, a self-described guerrilla warfare expert and fellow at a little-known security <a href="http://www.securefreesociety.org/about-sfs/sfs-team/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">think tank</a>, wrote a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/War-All-People-Radicalism-Terrorism/dp/1597977047" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">book</a> called “The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism.” He is also a onetime <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2010/07/08/chavezs-alliance-with-iran-and-how-to-stop-him/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">contributor</a> to Breitbart.<div class="callout" style="margin: 1em 2em; padding: 0.8em; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4; display: inline-block; z-index: 10; box-sizing: border-box; width: 300px; float: right;"><div class="data-store" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; width: 200px; float: left;"><h2 class="pp-int-hed" style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/trump-administration-beachhead-team-appointment" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Trump’s Beachhead Team Appointments</a></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/trump-administration-beachhead-team-appointment" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Download the data</a> behind this story from the ProPublica Data Store.<a href="https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/trump-administration-beachhead-team-appointment" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="data-store" src="https://www.propublica.org/images/ngen/gypsy_image_630/pp_data_store_alternate_b.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; width: 150px;" /></a></div></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Perdue was featured on CNBC’s reality series “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor” for his invention, the Packbow, which Perdue came up with while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packbow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">studying</a> “collapsed societies, and what people who lived in those societies came up with to either defend themselves or to survive.” It’s a bow and arrow that <a href="http://packbow.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">doubles as</a> a compass, tent pole, walking stick, spearfishing rig, and water purification tablet receptacle.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Perdue was hired as a special assistant at the Treasury Department. The agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">John Jaggers ran the Trump campaign in Maryland and Virginia, where he made headlines for endorsing the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was “<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-operative-clinton-will-die-because-wool-coat-d28684385641#.mhkwyal20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">very, very sick and they’re covering it up</a>.” As he put it last August: “The woman who seeks to be the first female president of the United States wears a wool coat at every single thing. Have you ever stopped to wonder why? It’s a big deal, folks.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Jaggers was hired Jan. 20 as senior adviser at the General Services Administration, which oversees <a href="https://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/101606" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">tens of billions of dollars</a> of government procurement every year. But records show he left the job on March 3. He declined to comment.<h2 style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1;">Swamp denizens, including health care lobbyists hired by HHS Secretary Tom Price</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Alexandra Campau, hired at the department of Health and Human Services, was formerly <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000048211L&year=2014" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">a lobbyist</a> in Washington for the law firm Cozen O’Connor. According to disclosure records, her firm’s clients included a licensee of insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fresenius Medical Care, a German company that specializes in medical supplies for renal dialysis.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Timothy Clark, a senior adviser to HHS Secretary Tom Price, ran his own political consulting firm in California. His <a href="http://clarkstrategygroup.com/current-and-past-clients/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">past clients</a> included PhRMA, the powerful trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keagan-lenihan-071b511/?locale=de_DE" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Keagan Lenihan</a>, also a senior adviser to Price, was a director of government relations at McKesson Specialty Health, a firm that supports independent health providers. Disclosure <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/lobbyist.php?id=Y0000046788L&year=2016" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">records</a> show Lenihan directly lobbied HHS. For Lenihan, the new post represents a return trip through the revolving door between government and the private sector, and a reunion with an old boss. Before registering as a lobbyist, she was a senior legislative assistant for Price, when the now-HHS secretary was in Congress.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Asked about the three HHS staffers, an agency spokeswoman said: “We are not confirming or commenting on personnel at this time.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;">Justin Mikolay, hired at the Department of Defense, was previously a registered lobbyist for Palantir. His title at the tech firm was “<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mikolay-375bb02/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">evangelist</a>.” Mikolay lobbied for the “procurement/deployment of the Palantir Government software platform” throughout intelligence and defense agencies, according to disclosure <a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=B1AA2EAD-09CE-4157-9747-7DEDA5B89E34&filingTypeID=69" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">records</a>.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Mikolay was a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-mikolay-375bb02/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">speechwriter</a> to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta between 2011 and 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mikolay also previously served as a <a href="http://theeverybodyletter.com/2014/07/thanks-general-mattis-1/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">speechwriter</a> for current Secretary of Defense James Mattis. He declined to comment.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1;"><a href="http://wexlerwalker.com/team_member/chad-wolf/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">Chad Wolf</a>, a Bush-era Transportation Security Administration official turned lobbyist, is currently serving as an adviser to the TSA at the Department of Homeland Security. His clients have included defense and homeland security contractors.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Reached Tuesday, Wolf declined to comment. George Rogers, CEO of Wolf’s lobbying firm, Wexler Walker, told ProPublica that Wolf is currently on unpaid leave.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">As we’ve previously reported, lobbyists for the <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-watered-down-ethics-rules-let-lobbyist-help-run-agency-he-lobbied" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">construction industry</a> trade association and financial services firm <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/propublica/trump-admin-hired-another-lobbyist-to-work-at-an-agency-whose-regulations-he-onc/10155123953299445" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">TransAmerica</a> are on the team at the Department of Labor.<h2 style="margin: 25px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1;">Trump campaign vets — including very young ones</h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">The list also includes what appear to be dozens of former Trump campaign staffers, including several who graduated from college last year. One, Danny Tiso at the Department of Labor, graduated from high school in 2015, according to his LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-tiso-961512a8/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; position: relative; line-height: 1; text-decoration-line: none;">profile</a>. He worked for the Trump campaign in New Hampshire.<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">Seth Harris, who was on the first Obama-Biden transition team and later became a top Labor Department official, said it’s not uncommon to bring in campaign staff to agencies — “as long as there are senior political people to direct the junior people.”<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; line-height: 1.4;">“This is how you incorporate the people who are your strongest supporters into the government,” he said. “There are plenty of junior jobs in the government that these people can do — public-affairs jobs, special assistant jobs.”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/meet-the-right-wing-group-that-helped-pick-neil-gorsuch
<div class="mce-content-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;"><div class="layout-constrain--narrow" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 47.2222em; padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that he would only nominate a justice to the Supreme Court whose named appeared on two lists developed by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">While the Federalist Society is a conservative group that focuses closely on legal issues, Heritage takes a much wider scope, working on everything from domestic policy to foreign affairs.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Heritage, led by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, has played a major role in the Trump administration, especially on <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">staffing</a> and <a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/01/19/donald-trump-will-adopt-heritage-foundations-skinny-budget-arts-violence-against-women-funding-to-be-cut/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">policy</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/revealed-the-right-wing-movements-agenda-for-trumps-first-180-days/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">ideas</a>. Conservative activist Marjorie Dannenfelser <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">called</a> Heritage “the fulcrum” of Trump’s administration, and one source <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">told</a> Politico’s Katie Glueck that Heritage launched a “shadow transition team.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">“Perhaps Heritage’s most significant involvement during the campaign was its experts’shaping of Trump’s list of Supreme Court choices, ultimately resulting in a selection of conservative thinkers who oppose abortion rights,” Glueck adds.<div class="pull-quote--full" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" quote.png="quote.png" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" em="em" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" webkit-transform="webkit-transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" line-height="line-height" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" padding="padding" px="px" position="position" relative="relative" width="width" style="background-image: url(">Heritage is so far to the right that many Republicans have publicly complained about its extremism. <div class="pull-quotecitation" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 10px 0px 0px; line-height: 1; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;"></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Trump picked Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, from the Heritage-developed lists, which Trump assured conservatives would only include “pro-life” judges in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Heritage’s role in Gorsuch’s selection should raise doubts that Trump was looking for a mainstream nominee.<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">In fact, Heritage is so far to the right that many Republicans have <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/gop-lawmakers-jim-demint-heritage-foundation-ratings-114672" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">publicly</a> <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/brian-walsh/2013/09/12/the-senate-conservative-fund-and-the-heritage-foundation-profit-from-attacking-republicans" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">complained</a> about its extremism.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Betsy Woodruff of The Daily Beast <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/06/the-pac-too-conservative-for-the-gop.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">dubbed</a> Heritage Action, the think tank’s political arm, “The Group too Radical for Republicans,” and The Atlantic’s Molly Ball described in detail “Heritage’s transformation from august policy shop to political hit squad.”<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">DeMint, who left the Senate in 2013 to lead Heritage, was one of Congress’s most radical members and “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sen-demint-the-rights-man-in-washington/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">the primary conduit through which the Religious Right’s agenda makes its way in the halls of Congress</a>.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">He said that gay people and unmarried women who have premarital sex <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/02/demint-gays-unmarried-pregnant-women-teachers_n_748131.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">shouldn’t be allowed to teach in public schools</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sen-demint-the-rights-man-in-washington/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">led</a> the unsuccessful drive to defeat a hate crimes bill because it protected people based on sexual orientation and gender identity, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sen-demint-the-rights-man-in-washington/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">falsely claiming that it would criminalize free speech and land pastors in jail</a>.<div class="pull-quote--full" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" rightwingwatch="rightwingwatch" images="images" quote.png="quote.png" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" em="em" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" initial="initial" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" transition-duration="transition-duration" s="s" transition-property="transition-property" background-color="background-color" border-color="border-color" box-shadow="box-shadow" color="color" opacity="opacity" text-shadow="text-shadow" transform="transform" webkit-transform="webkit-transform" transition-timing-function="transition-timing-function" linear="linear" line-height="line-height" margin-bottom="margin-bottom" padding="padding" px="px" position="position" relative="relative" width="width" style="background-image: url(">Jim DeMint has said that gay people and unmarried women who have premarital sex shouldn’t be allowed to teach. <div class="pull-quote__citation" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 10px 0px 0px; line-height: 1; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase;"></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Even before DeMint took the reins, Heritage had taken anti-LGBT stances, <a href="http://cf.heritage.org/initiatives/rule-of-law/judicial-activism/cases/lawrence-v-texas" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">criticizing</a> the Supreme Court ruling that knocked down bans on gay sex, and Heritage staffer Ryan Anderson has emerged as one of the most <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/report/who-is-weaponizing-religious-liberty/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">outspoken critics</a> of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ryan-anderson-takes-break-from-war-on-marriage-equality-to-target-nondiscrimination-laws/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">marriage equality and nondiscrimination laws</a>.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">DeMint has also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/report/the-rogues-gallery-right-wing-candidates-have-a-dangerous-agenda-for-america-and-could-turn-the-senate/#demint" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">denounced</a> immigration reform, universal health care and abortion rights, which he said should be banned even in cases of rape or incest.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Heritage also tasked its analyst Jason Richwine with studying the supposed negative effects of immigration reform. Previously, Richwine wrote articles for <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s</a> racist Alt-Right website <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/ticket/heritage-immigration-study-co-author-penned-articles-nationalist-174301703.html?ref=gs" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">linking Latinos to crime</a> and authored a doctoral dissertation <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/08/heritage-study-co-author-opposed-letting-in-immigrants-with-low-iqs/?utm_term=.5f7a974bdc5e" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claiming that Latinos have a genetically inferior IQ to white people</a> and that the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants will persist in having low IQs, dragging down American society unless the U.S. adopted a more discriminating immigration policy.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Naturally, Richwine’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/05/06/conservative-leaders-slam-heritage-for-shoddy-immmigration-study/?utm_term=.f989f04ee3e1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">heavily</a> <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/scoring-immigration-reform-correctly" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">criticized</a> report for Heritage <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/08/heritage-study-co-author-opposed-letting-in-immigrants-with-low-iqs/?utm_term=.5f7a974bdc5e" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">reflected</a> his view that the U.S. should discriminate against “low-skilled” immigrants.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">The group has also tried to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/stephen-moore-climate-change-one-of-the-greatest-propaganda-campaigns-in-world-history/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">put an academic face on climate change denial</a> and emerged as one of the driving forces <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-voter-fraud-myth" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">promoting the false claim that U.S. elections are riddled with widespread voter fraud</a>, and DeMint even <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-demint-voter-id-helps-elect-more-conservative-candidates/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">admitted</a> that Heritage is promoting voter restriction laws “all over the country, because in the states where they do have voter ID laws you’ve seen, actually, elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;">Heritage is now aiming to bring its political agenda, viewed as radical and extreme even by many Republicans, not only to the Trump administration, but also to the Supreme Court.</div></div></div><div></div><div>
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Mission: The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota is an independent, non-profit, educational, and research organization that develops and actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Crime • Education • Government reform • Commerce • Natural resources • Health care • Taxes • Transportation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 212-514-8040
Fax: 212-514-8055

</div><a href="http://www.freedomhouse.org/">Freedom House</a>  Jennifer Windsor Executive Director 120 Wall Street, 26th Floor New York, NY, United States 10005 <a href="mailto:info@freedomhouse.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@freedomhouse.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Freedom House is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes democracy and freedom throughout the world. It seeks an engaged U.S. foreign policy; evaluates human rights conditions; sponsors public education campaigns; conducts training and assistance programs; and provides support for the rule of law, an independent media, and effective local governance. Established in 1941, Freedom House is based in Washington, D.C., and New York City and has overseas offices in Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Kiev, and Warsaw.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Democracy and democratization • Human rights • Free-market reforms • Independent media • Rule of law • Corruption</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 610-933-8825
Fax: 610-935-0522

</div><a href="http://www.ffvf.org/">Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge</a>  Michael E. Di Yeso President and CEO 1601 Valley Forge Road, PO Box 706 Valley Forge, PA, United States 19482 <a href="mailto:mdiyeso@ffvf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mdiyeso@ffvf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization that seeks to educate youth about America’s founding principles and the balance of rights and responsibilities of citizens. Annually, students from all 50 states participate in Freedoms Foundation’s programs, which include U.S. history, core values, the private enterprise system, and constitutional rights and citizens’ responsibilities. To date, more than 100,000 people have been reached through these education and award programs. Additionally, elementary and secondary school educators take part in graduate credit seminars and workshops on effective techniques for teaching citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: America’s founding principles • Constitutional rights • Citizenship</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-783-3870
Fax: 202-942-7649

</div><a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/">FreedomWorks</a>  Matt Kibbe President and CEO 400 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 765 Washington, DC, United States 20001 <a href="mailto:mkibbe@freedomworks.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mkibbe@freedomworks.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: FreedomWorks is a non-profit organization that fights for lower taxes, less government, and economic freedom. FreedomWorks unites the nation’s leading advocates of freedom with the power of hundreds of thousands of volunteer members from across the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Social Security reform • Tort reform • Economic growth • Welfare reform • School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-452-8200
Fax: 202-833-0388 

</div><a href="http://www.freedomworks.org/">FreedomWorks Foundation</a>  Matt Kibbe President and CEO 400 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 765 Washington, DC, United States 20001 <a href="mailto:mkibbe@freedomworks.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mkibbe@freedomworks.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: FreedomWorks Foundation provides grassroots citizens with clear, concise, and timely information on key economic issues. By making economic issues accessible to interested citizens, the Foundation fosters a more active and meaningful dialogue between elected officials and their constituents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Civil justice • Education reform • Technology policy • Environmental reform • Regulatory reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-33-42-21-16-24
Fax: 011-33-42-33-29-35

</div><a href="http://www.contribuables.org/">French Taxpayers Association</a>  Benoite Taffin Executive Director 42, rue des Jeuneurs Cedex 02 Paris 75077, France  <a href="mailto:benoitetaffin@contribuables.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">benoitetaffin@contribuables.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1990, French Taxpayers Association (Contribuables Associés) is a non-profit, non-partisan citizen organization that works for lower taxes, less wasteful spending, taxpayers’ rights, and accountable government at all levels.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Reducing public spending • Tax reform • Balanced budget • Fight against state and local work • Fight against bureaucracy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-43-1-534-51-605
Fax: 011-43-1-534-51-8506

</div><a href="http://www.hayek-institut.at/">Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut</a>  Dr. Barbara Lamprechter General Secretary Wipplingerstrasse 25 A-1010 Wien, Austria  <a href="mailto:barbara.lamprechter@hayek-institut.at" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">barbara.lamprechter@hayek-institut.at</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut promotes the ideas of the Austrian School of Economics as a viable economic alternative in Austria and elsewhere not only as a public policy think tank, but also as an academic institute. Located in Vienna, the Institut takes up topical questions concerning economic and social politics, offers studies and solutions on a scientific basis, and seeks to improve public understanding of the key economic questions to promote a free society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Fiscal policy and taxation and against tax harmonization in the European Union • Privatization • Deregulation • Labor market • Health care • European Union constitution</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-49-331-7019-0
Fax: 011-49-331-7019-188

</div><a href="http://www.fnst.org/">Friedrich Naumann Foundation</a>  Dr. Jürgen Morlok Chairman Karl Marx St. 2 14482 Potsdam, Germany  <a href="mailto:fnst@fnst.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fnst@fnst.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation is a foundation for liberal politics. Its goal is to ensure a future for liberal ideas, both at home and abroad. Therefore, its most important task is civic education in Germany.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Rule of law • Human rights and minorities • Open markets • Liberalism and social responsibility • Federalism, decentralization and civic society • Participatory local government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 204-957-1567
Fax: 204-957-1567

</div><a href="http://www.fcpp.org/">Frontier Centre for Public Policy</a>  Peter Holle President Lombard Concourse, 1 Lombard Place, Suite 25 Winnepeg, MB R3B 0XB, Canada  <a href="mailto:newideas@fcpp.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">newideas@fcpp.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s mission is to broaden the debate on the future through public policy research and education and to explore positive changes within public institutions that support economic growth and opportunity.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education • Aboriginal policy • Urban • Tax</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-246-0110
Fax: 703-246-0129

</div><a href="http://www.ff.org/">Frontiers of Freedom</a>  Sen. Malcolm Wallop Chairman PO Box 69 Oakton, VA, United States 22124 <a href="mailto:info@ff.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ff.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Frontiers of Freedom is dedicated to promoting free market principles and the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecom • Energy • Missile defense • Environmental regulation • Military transformation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-246-0110
Fax: 703-246-0129

</div><a href="http://www.ff.org/">Frontiers of Freedom Institute</a>  Sen. Malcolm Wallop Chairman 11781 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Third Floor Fairfax, VA, United States 22033 <a href="mailto:info@ff.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ff.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Frontiers of Freedom Institute is dedicated to promoting free market principles and the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecom • Energy • Missile defense • Environmental regulation • Military transformation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-809-379-1831
Fax: 011-809-379-1840

</div><a href="http://www.fudis.org/">FUDIS</a>  Pedro Dájer President Ave. Lope de Vega No. 55, Plaza Robles, Suite 302 Ensanche Naco Santo Domingo, DN, Dominican Republic  <a href="mailto:pdajer@fudis.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pdajer@fudis.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: FUDIS is a non-profit institution dedicated to developing effective public policy projects through the investigation and analysis of the diverse realities of the Dominican Republic. FUDIS was born of the need in developing countries to attack such social policy problems as education, health, poverty, among others, and to develop concrete proposals in accordance with international trends, which are simultaneously adapted to the situation of the Dominican Republic.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-986-0384
Fax: 202-986-0390

</div><a href="http://www.tfas.org/">The Fund for American Studies</a>  Roger R. Ream President 1706 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC, United States 20009 <a href="mailto:info@tfas.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@tfas.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Fund for American Studies advances the values of freedom, democracy, and a free-market economy by sponsoring educational programs of the highest quality for students with outstanding leadership potential. These programs throughout the world prepare young people for honorable leadership by educating them in the theory, practice, and benefits of a free society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Higher education • Journalism • Philanthropy • International education • Government relations</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-34-911-859-800
Fax: 011-34-911-859-806

</div><a href="http://www.fundacionburke.org/">Fundación Burke</a>  Antonio Arcones Presidente Montearag Madrid 28033, Spain  <a href="mailto:info@fundacionburke.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fundacionburke.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Fundación Burke seeks to consolidate and spread the traditional principles of conservative thought, and in that way, contribute towards a freer, more just, and virtuous society and break the left-wing cultural monopoly.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of education • Responsible society • Civil freedom</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (+593) 4 2287-078

</div><a href="http://www.ecuadorlibre.com/">Fundación Ecuador Libre</a>  Pablo Arosemena Marriott Executive Director Av. de las Americas y Eleodoro Arboleda - Edificio Las Americas  Piso 5 Ofic. 503A  Guayaquil, Ecuador  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: To promote change towards a free and open society that promotes well-being and equality of opportunities for all, based in the defense of individual liberty, justice, the free market, private property, and the rule of law.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets • Rule of Law • Civil Liberties • Private Property</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-54-114-706-0500
Fax: 011-54-114-706-0182

</div><a href="http://www.hayek.org.ar/">Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek</a>  Norberto Priú Presidente Av. Liberator 6550, 5º piso Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina  <a href="mailto:fundacionhayek@hayek.org.ar" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fundacionhayek@hayek.org.ar</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-52-55-5208-1403

</div><a href="http://fundacionidea.org.mx/">Fundación IDEA</a>  Alberto Saracho Martinez Executive Director Chapultepec 230, 5to Piso Col. Roma Norte Mexico City, DF 06700, Mexico  <a href="mailto:info@fundacionidea.org.mx" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fundacionidea.org.mx</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Fundación IDEA's mission is to design and promote innovative public policies for Mexico that create equal access to opportunities by stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty; and to be an independent source of credible analysis on current and proposed policies for both policy makers and the public.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-809-227-3250
Fax: 011-809-227-3259

</div><a href="http://www.finjus.org.do/">Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia</a>  Dr. Francisco Dominguez Brito Executive Director Ave. Gustavo Mejía Ricart, Esq. Abraham Lincoln Torre Piantini, 8vo Piso Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  <a href="mailto:jrizek@finjus.org.do" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jrizek@finjus.org.do</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia is to fortify and project a democratic institution that effectively guarantees and respects fundamental civil rights, as well as to generate a propitious atmosphere for the development of free markets.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-54-341-424-5000
Fax: 011-54-341-424-5000

</div><a href="http://www.libertad.org.ar/">Fundacion Libertad</a>  Gerardo Bongiovanni Director General Mitre 170 2000 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina  <a href="mailto:gbongiovanni@libertad.org.ar" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">gbongiovanni@libertad.org.ar</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Fundación Libertad is a private, non-profit institution working towards research and diffusion of public policy issues, specifically in the socio-economic and business areas, and working towards the promotion of the concept of a free market society. Founded in Rosario in 1988, its projects include academic courses, lectures, studies, and publications, as well as a strong presence in the media, with television and radio programs it produces.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic freedom promotion • Institutional strengthening • Crime reduction and insecurity • Judicial reform • tax reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-595-021-441-722
Fax: 011-595-021-441-722

</div><a href="http://www.fundacionlibertad.org.py/">Fundacion Libertad (Paraguay)</a>  Alfredo Luis Jaeggli Presidente Manduvirá No. 773 c/ Ayolas Asunción, Paraguay  <a href="mailto:fundlib@fundacionlibertad.org.py" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fundlib@fundacionlibertad.org.py</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Fundación Libertad aims to promote pluralism and enlightenment. It directs its efforts toward achieving the benefits of culture and the betterment of the material conditions for all Paraguayans and foreigners living within Paraguay.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-507-265-1542
Fax: 011-507-265-8842

</div><a href="http://www.fundacionlibertad.org.pa/">Fundación Libertad de Panama</a>  Roberto Brenes Pérez Presidente Apartado Postal 0832-0596 WTC Panama, Panama  <a href="mailto:info@fundacionlibertad.org.pa" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fundacionlibertad.org.pa</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Fundación Libertad de Panama is to learn, teach, defend, and diffuse the principles of individual freedom in Panama so that a society of free and responsible people can exist, flourish, and last.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-591-3-333-4555
Fax: 011-591-3-334-2353

</div><a href="http://www.fulide.org.bo/">Fundación Libertad y Democracia (FULIDE)</a>  Walter Justiniano Executive Director Av. Las Américas No.7 Casilla de Correo 180  Santa Cruz, Bolivia  <a href="mailto:fulide@fulide.org.bo" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fulide@fulide.org.bo</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: FULIDE is a non-partisan think tank that undertakes policy studies and economic analyses to advance the principles of free initiative and private property in Bolivia.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: +(56) 2 393 5367

</div><a href="http://http//fprogreso.org/indexi.html">Fundacion para el Progreso</a>  María José Cofré Director of Communications Avenida del Parque 4161  oficina 103, Ciudad Empresarial Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile 8580675 <a href="mailto:mjcofre@fprogreso.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mjcofre@fprogreso.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: To educate new generations, especially college students, on the principles, institutions and ideals of a free and responsible society, such as: personal freedom, individual responsibility, the rule of law, democracy, limited government, private property, entrepreneurship, private enterprise and a free market economy. To help young people to become freedom leaders able to articulate, promote and defend these principles, institutions and ideals. To illustrate the importance and recover the moral high ground of those principles, institutions and ideals, since they are the backbone of prosperity, peace and freedom. To keep the public aware about policies that can be dangerous to a free society, documenting and demonstrating that they may cause damage and also proposing alternative policies. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics - Principles of a Free Society - Personal Freedom - Individual Responsibility -The Rule of Law - Democracy - Limited Government - Private Property - Entrepreneurship - Private Enterprise - Free-market Economy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-502-2-331-5133
Fax: 011-502-2331-1874

</div><a href="http://www.fundesa.org.gt/">FUNDESA</a>  Edgar A. Heinemann President 10 Edif. Aseguradora General, 5 Nivel Ala Sur Guatemala, Guatemala  <a href="mailto:fundesa@fundesa.org.gt" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fundesa@fundesa.org.gt</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: FUNDESA (Fundación Para el Desarollo de Guatemala) is a private, non-profit, apolitical organization. It was founded in 1984 by individual businesspeople who believed that the rule of law and free enterprise were the keystones for Guatemala’s development.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-503-278-3366

</div><a href="http://www.fusades.org.sv/">FUSADES</a>  Antonio Cabrales Presidente Boulevard y Urbanizaci Antiguo Cuscatl, El Salvador  <a href="mailto:comunicaciones@fusades.com.sv" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">comunicaciones@fusades.com.sv</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The vision of FUSADES (the Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social) is to be a think tank and research center with high credibility, that promotes economic and social progress of all Salvadorans, through sustainable development, in a system of democracy and individual liberties. Founded in 1983 by a group of independent businessmen, FUSADES is a private, non-profit and non-political organization dedicated to the search of the common good.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-934-6101
Fax: 703-352-8678

</div><a href="http://www.fff.org/">Future of Freedom Foundation</a>  Jacob Hornberger President 11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800 Fairfax, VA, United States 22030 <a href="mailto:fff@fff.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fff@fff.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Future of Freedom Foundation’s mission is to provide an uncompromising moral, philosophical, and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: War on terrorism • Iraq War • Drug war • Education • Welfare state • Foreign policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-299-8900
Fax: 703-299-0721

</div><a href="http://www.galen.org/">Galen Institute</a>  Grace-Marie Turner President PO Box 19080 Alexandria, VA, United States 22320 <a href="mailto:galen@galen.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">galen@galen.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Galen Institute’s mission is to advance a national dialogue on fresh approaches to the many challenges facing the health care system. The Galen Institute believes that consumers and their physicians should have authority and responsibility over their own health care decisions; that a consumer-driven market will lower costs, promote innovation, expand choice, and increase access to better medical care; that the vibrant free market will encourage research and innovation and provide better access to new medical technologies; and that updating outmoded tax policy will facilitate greater access to more affordable health insurance.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Consumer-driven health care • Medicare and Medicaid reform • Health care deregulation • Privately-owned medical coverage • Public policy consensus building • Communication and public education on free-market health reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-48-58-524-4900
Fax: 011-48-58-524-4908

</div><a href="http://www.ibngr.edu.pl/">Gdansk Institute for Market Economics</a>  Dr. Maciej Grabowski Vice President ul. Do Studzienki 63 80-277 Gdansk, Poland  <a href="mailto:maciej.grabowski@ibngr.edu.pl" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">maciej.grabowski@ibngr.edu.pl</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Gdansk Institute for Market Economics concentrates its research and outreach efforts on applying theoretical knowledge and empirical studies to support of the transition to democracy and a market economy in Poland.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: European reforms • Fiscal policy and taxation • Social protection and employment • Economic institutions</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.generationopportunity.org/">Generation Opportunity</a>  Evan Feinberg President PO Box 100716 Arlington, VA, United States 22210 <a href="mailto:info@generationopportunity.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@generationopportunity.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Generation Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to educate and organize young Americans on the challenges facing our nation. We are committed to addressing and working toward solutions on immediate challenges, such as the lack of job opportunities, as well as the broader underlying issues, such as debt and federal spending, that impact our economic future and sustainability.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: _Jobs and Unemployment ~National Debt and Federal Spending ~American Competitiveness ~Education ~Energy ~Health Care</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-296-9655
Fax: 202-296-9714

</div><a href="http://www.marshall.org/">George C. Marshall Institute</a>  Jeff Kueter President 1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050 Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:info@marshall.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@marshall.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The George C. Marshall Institute is a non-profit institution dedicated to encouraging the use of sound science in making public policy. Decisions and conclusions about many public policy matters are shaped by advances in science and technology.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Global climate change • National missile defense • Civic environmentalism • Science policymaking • Bioterrorism • Space exploration</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 770-242-0001
Fax: 770-242-0501

</div><a href="http://www.georgiaopportunity.org/">Georgia Center for Opportunity</a>  Randy Hicks President 333 Research Court, Suite 210 Norcross, GA, United States 30092 <a href="mailto:randy@georgiaopportunity.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">randy@georgiaopportunity.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Georgia Center for Opportunity is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians. We research solutions to society’s most pressing challenges, promote those solutions to policymakers and the public, and help innovative social enterprises deliver results on the ground. The primary pathways to opportunity – strong families, safe communities, quality schools, stable employment, and good health – which historically gave children a chance to succeed, regardless of social and economic background, have experienced a rapid decline. We study and understand the obstacles along these pathways and work to break through the barriers that keep Georgia children and families
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Independence. Responsibility. Civil Society. Stronger Families. Collaboration. Evidence.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 404-256-4050
Fax: 404-256-9909

</div><a href="http://www.georgiapolicy.org/">Georgia Public Policy Foundation</a>  Kelly McCutchen President 3200 Cobb Galleria Parkway Suite 214 Atlanta, GA, United States 30339 <a href="mailto:info@GeorgiaPolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@GeorgiaPolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is to be the most respected and influential source of public policy research, analysis, and education in Georgia. The Foundation is a champion of personal and economic freedom and is committed to providing a free-market perspective based on the principles of limited government, respect for the lives and property of others, and responsibility and accountability for one’s actions. Its long-term goal is to make Georgia a better place to live and work for future generations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Health care • Transportation • Legal reform • Land use • Water</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-49-30-259396-0
Fax: 011-49-30-259396-25

</div>German Taxpayers Association  Dr. Karl Heinz Däke President Franzoesische Strasse 9 - 12 D-10117 Berlin, Germany  <a href="mailto:presse@steuerzahler.de" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">presse@steuerzahler.de</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The German Taxpayers Association is a non-profit, non-governmental institution that is not affiliated with any political party. It is financed only by its more than 400,000 members. It is committed to four main goals: a simple and just fiscal system, a lower tax burden, the economic usage of public funds, and an effective and modern public body.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Reduction of the national debt • Introduction of a modern and more efficient fiscal system • Prevention of the waste of public funds • Establishment of a more efficient health care system • Cutback of subsidies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.globalbritain.org/">Global Britain</a>  Ian Milne Director 57 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QL, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:globalbritain-1@globalbritain.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">globalbritain-1@globalbritain.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Global Britain conducts meticulously objective research and analysis into key aspects of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union and the United Kingdom’s relationships with the rest of the world. At the same time, Global Britain examines the feasibility of the United Kingdom’s withdrawing from the European Union, resuming her role as an independent self-governing democratic nation-state, making her own decisions, choosing her own alliances, and sitting, speaking, and voting on her own behalf in multilateral bodies such as the World Trade Organization.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: European Union • United Kingdom–European Union relations</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 1040 Brussels Schuman

</div><a href="http://www.globalisation.eu/">The Globalisation Institute</a>  Alex Singleton President BP4 1040 Brussels Schuman, Belgium  <a href="mailto:info@globalisation.eu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@globalisation.eu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Globalisation Institute is a Brussels-based think tank that promotes ideas to help Europe thrive in the global economy. Located in the heart of Brussels’ European quarter, it works by researching, developing, and promoting practical policy options that recognise political realities.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • Single market • Agriculture • Free trade • Development • Regulation • Tax</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 804-693-2645

</div><a href="http://www.gloucesterinstitute.org/">The Gloucester Institute</a>  Kay Coles James President 6496 Allmondsville Road Gloucester, VA, United States 23061 <a href="mailto:info@gloucesterinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@gloucesterinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Gloucester Institute is committed to providing an intellectually safe environment where ideas can be discussed and transformed into practical solutions that produce results.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: African-American community • Social ideas • Economic ideas • Political ideas</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 602-462-5000
Fax: 602-256-7045

</div><a href="http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/">Goldwater Institute</a>  Darcy A. Olsen President 500 East Coronado Road Phoenix, AZ, United States 85004 <a href="mailto:info@goldwaterinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@goldwaterinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Goldwater Institute is an independent, non-partisan, research, and educational organization devoted to the study of Arizona public policy. Through its research papers, editorials, and policy briefings, the Institute promotes public policy founded on the principles of limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Health/welfare/children’s issues • Transportation • Regulatory reform • Urban growth • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 808-591-9193
Fax: 808-356-1690

</div><a href="http://www.grassrootinstitute.org/">Grassroot Institute of Hawaii</a>  Keli'i Akina President 1314 South King Street, Suite 1163 Honolulu, HI, United States 96814 <a href="mailto:info@grassrootinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@grassrootinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is to improve public understanding of the critical need for individual autonomy if liberty is to prevail. Through insightful analysis, scholarly research, and thoughtful recommendations, the Institute promotes a civil society as well as individual authority, responsibility, and accountability. Its education mission encompasses public forums, speeches, and media outreach.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Hold public officials accountable • Increase parental choice in schooling • Promote consumer choice in transportation • Develop consumer choice in health care and health insurance • Design policies to reduce size and scope of government and to increase individual authority in pursuit of happiness • Annually honor heroes of individual liberty</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 605-334-9400
Fax: 605-731-0043

</div><a href="http://www.greatplainsppi.org/">Great Plains Public Policy Institute</a>  Ron Williamson President PO Box 88138 Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57109 <a href="mailto:contact@greatplainsppi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@greatplainsppi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Great Plains Public Policy Institute is to formulate and promote free enterprise solutions to public policy problems based on the principles of individual responsibility, limited government, privatization, and traditional American values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Taxation • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 317-536-1027
Fax: 317-921-9443

</div><a href="http://www.geofoundation.org/">Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation</a>  Kevin Teasley President 2540 North Capitol Avenue, Suite 101 Indianapolis, IN, United States 46208 <a href="mailto:teasleygeo@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">teasleygeo@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation (GEO) believes that all children should have access to a quality education. GEO embraces all quality educational options that enable parents to help their children learn and schools succeed. Through an aggressive community outreach and the introduction of options that empower families, GEO strives to make educational choice a reality for all families.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Charter schools • No Child Left Behind • After school tutoring • Parent training and empowerment • Tax credits</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 310-465-1470
Fax: 310-465-1471

</div><a href="http://www.acgreen.com/">A. C. Green Youth Foundation</a>  A. C. Green, Jr. President 904 Silver Spur Road, Suite 416 Rolling Hills, CA, United States 90274 <a href="mailto:info@acgreen.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@acgreen.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The goal of the A. C. Green Youth Foundation is to serve both the youth and the communities in which they live by providing information about sexual abstinence and social issues that concern young people and educating them to make responsible choices to prepare them for their future.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Summer leadership camps • Abstinence education via Web site and curriculum</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-321-8585
Fax: 703-321-8408

</div><a href="http://www.gunowners.org/">Gun Owners of America</a>  Larry Pratt Executive Director 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA, United States 22151 <a href="mailto:goamail@gunowners.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">goamail@gunowners.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: goamail@gunowners.org • www.gunowners.org Gun Owners of America exists to promote the Second Amendment in an uncompromising fashion through the concentrated efforts of 300,000 members. Firearms are viewed as a freedom issue. Gun control laws have been shown to have nothing to do with reducing crime, but they have unfailingly been the tool of tyrants. The Second Amendment is an absolute right, as evidenced by the Founders’ language, “shall not be infringed.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Repeal of all federal firearms laws • Repeal all state and local firearms laws under the terms of the 14th Amendment • Defend gun owners prosecuted for self defense uses of firearms and possession of firearms when prosecuted for violations of unconstitutional laws through the Gun Owners Foundation • Correct judicial usurpation • Remove criminal law jurisdiction from the federal level where there is no constitutional authority for it</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 808-203-6704
Fax: 808-261-7022

</div><a href="http://www.hawaiifamilyforum.org/">Hawaii Family Forum</a>  Dennis Arakaki Executive Director 6301 Pali Highway Kaneohe, HI, United States 96744 <a href="mailto:info@hawaiifamilyforum.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hawaiifamilyforum.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Hawaii Family Forum (HFF) is a non-profit, pro-family, policy education and research organization committed to the preservation and strengthening of families in Hawaii. While a legally independent entity, HFF is associated with Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is part of the network of Family Policy Councils. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Stopping the legalization of physician-assisted suicide • Traditional marriage • Parental consent laws and abortion legislation • Gambling • Protection of children from sexual exploitation • Religious freedom</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-7-095-180-2552
Fax: 011-7-095-180-2552

</div><a href="http://www.hayek.ru/">The Hayek Foundation - Moscow</a>  Yuri Petukhov Vice President and Executive Director 13, Block 1, Sedova St., Apt. 45 Moscow 129323, Russia  <a href="mailto:hayek@hayek.ru" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">hayek@hayek.ru</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Hayek Foundation’s mission is to assist Russia’s accelerated industrial development by securing the de facto established capitalist economic relations in Russia on the principles of private property, free enterprise, competitive market, individual freedom, limited government, and traditional moral values. The Foundation fosters capitalist processes in Russia through financial, political, analytical, theoretical, methodological, and informational assistance and funds research in the theory and practice of neo-liberal policies.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-377-4000
Fax: 312-377-5000

</div><a href="http://www.heartland.org/">Heartland Institute</a>  Joseph L. Bast President and CEO 19 South LaSalle, Suite 903 Chicago, IL, United States 60603 <a href="mailto:think@heartland.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">think@heartland.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Heartland Institute is an independent, non-profit center for public policy research. Heartland’s mission is to be an indispensable source of research and news for journalists and the nation’s 8,000 state and federal elected officials. It operates PolicyBot, an online database and search engine, giving customers instant access to over 8,000 documents from 300 think tanks and advocacy groups. Heartland also publishes a bimonthly magazine, three monthly newspapers, a monthly members’ newsletter, policy studies, books, videos, and other products.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • School reform • Health care • Budget and taxation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-30-210-725-8377
Fax: 011-30-210-725-7102

</div><a href="http://www.hli.gr/">Hellenic Leadership Institute</a>  Anthony Livanios President 10, Vas. Sofias Avenue 10674 Athens, Greece  <a href="mailto:info@hli.gr" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hli.gr</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Hellenic Leadership Institute promotes the principles of free enterprise, democratic society, individual liberty, and international cooperation through communication campaigns and in-depth research. It seeks to identify, recruit, and educate the future leaders of the Mediterranean region.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-548-6254

</div><a href="http://info@heritageforamerica.org/">Heritage Action for America</a>  Michael A. Needham Chief Executive Officer 321 D Street NE Washington, DC, United States 20002 <a href="mailto:info@heritageforamerica.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@heritageforamerica.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Heritage Action for America is a unique combination of top-notch conservative policy analysis, a widely respected government relations team and dedicated grassroots activists that advance conservative policy. As a 501(c)(4) organization, Heritage Action for America allows unprecedented coordination and communication with concerned citizens who want to be part of their national dialogue. The mission of Heritage Action is to speak directly to the American people and help them break through the establishment in Washington to hold Congress accountable to conservative principles. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health Policy • Governtment Spending and Acountability • Debt • Energy and Environment Policy • Defense • Grass Roots Strategy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-546-4400
Fax: 202-546-8328

</div><a href="http://www.heritage.org/">The Heritage Foundation</a>  Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. President 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC, United States 20002 <a href="mailto:info@heritage.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@heritage.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: American leadership • Education • Energy and environment • Entitlements • Enterpreneurship • Family and religion • First principles • Health care • Judicial system • National security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-535-8774
Fax: 703-535-8776

</div><a href="http://www.highfrontier.org/">High Frontier</a>  Henry Cooper Director 500 North Washington Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:high.frontier@verizon.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">high.frontier@verizon.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: High Frontier was formed to examine the potential for defending America against missile attack. High Frontier played a principal role in developing the basis for President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). As a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization, High Frontier continues to inform the public about the clear, present, and growing threat of ballistic missiles and their weapons of mass destruction and to recommend cost-effective defense concepts that can be deployed in the near future.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Ballistic missile defense • Terrorism • Defense spending • Proliferation • Military readiness • Weapons of mass destruction</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-717-6481

</div><a href="http://www.hacer.org/">Hispanic American Center for Economic Research</a>  Alejandro Chafuen, Ph.D Chairman 910 17th Street, NW, Suite 422 Washington, DC, United States 20006-2605 <a href="mailto:info@hacer.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hacer.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Hispanic American Center for Economic Research’s goal is to promote the study of issues pertinent to the countries of Hispanic America as well as Hispanic Americans living in the United States, especially as they relate to the values of personal and economic liberty, limited government under the rule of law, and individual responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Security and defense • Economic forecasting • Political forecasting • Policy reform expertise • Rule of law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-625-6766
Fax: 202-625-6767

</div><a href="http://www.hcreo.org/">Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options</a>  Anthony J. Colón President  2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 408 Washington, DC, United States 20037 <a href="mailto:info@hcreo.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hcreo.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options is to improve educational outcomes for Hispanic children by empowering families through parental choice in education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Parental empowerment through school choice • Building and developing membership • Working with and through like-minded organizations • Geographic target expansions • K–12 projects that will increase the educational outcomes of Latino Children</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-338-5600
Fax: 540-338-2733

</div><a href="http://www.hslda.org/">Home School Legal Defense Association</a>  J. Michael Smith President PO Box 3000 Purcellville, VA, United States 20134 <a href="mailto:info@hslda.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hslda.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) works to preserve freedom, protect families, and promote home schooling. HSLDA secures home school freedoms by defending and representing families in court, in state legislatures, in Congress, in the media, and through research.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Home schooling freedom • Parental rights • Fourth Amendment protection of homes • Registration of voters • Protection of marriage</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 519-913-0318
Fax: 519-913-0321

</div><a href="http://www.hslda.ca/">Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada</a>  Paul D. Faris Executive Director 32B - 980 Adelaide Street South London, ON N6E 1R3, Canada  <a href="mailto:info@hslda.ca" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hslda.ca</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada seeks to preserve and advance the fundamental, God-given, constitutional right of parents and others legally responsible for their children to direct their education. In so doing, it relies on two fundamental freedoms: parental rights and religious freedom.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Homeschool research • Parental rights • Religious freedom • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-852-2547-8313
Fax: 011-852-2548-6319

</div><a href="http://www.hku.hk/hkcer">The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research</a>  Y.C. Richard Wong Director The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong, China  <a href="mailto:hkcer@econ.hku.hk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">hkcer@econ.hku.hk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The organization’s mission is to enhance knowledge of economic affairs and develop alternative policy choices.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional development • Regional economic integration • Fiscal policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 650-723-1754
Fax: 650-723-1687

</div><a href="http://www.hoover.org/">Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace</a>  John Raisian Director 434 Galvez Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA, United States 94305-6010 <a href="mailto:horaney@hoover.stanford.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">horaney@hoover.stanford.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Hoover Institution is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs. With its world-renowed group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society. The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom, private enterprise, and representative govenment were fundamental to the vision of the Institution’s founder. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit governmental intrusion into the lives of individuals.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic growth, productivity growth, human capital accumulation • The rule of law, importance of property rights, assessment of commerce regulation • Size and effectiveness of government • American individualism and philosophic value • Evolving democratic capitalism and the historical end of communism • National security, international rivalries, and global cooperation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 815-964-5819
Fax: 815-965-1826

</div><a href="http://www.profam.org/">The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society</a>  Allan C. Carlson President 934 North Main Street Rockford, IL, United States 61103 <a href="mailto:info@profam.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@profam.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society is to reinforce the family as the first and irreplaceable social unit, to renew the religious foundation of virtue and liberty, and to restore the education of the young in the obligations of free men and women.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Family • Children • Religion • Divorce • Homosexuality</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 916-444-9950
Fax: 916-444-9823

</div><a href="http://www.hjta.org/">Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association</a>  Jon Coupal President 921 11th Street, Suite 1201 Sacramento, CA, United States 95814 <a href="mailto:jon@hjta.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jon@hjta.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is dedicated to the protection of Proposition 13 and the advancement of taxpayers’ rights including the right to limited taxation, the right to vote on tax increases, and the right of economical, equitable, and efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Protect Proposition 13 • Tax and expenditure limitation ballot measures • Address waste, fraud, and abuse in California state and local government • Legislative report card • California state budget • Political reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-974-2400
Fax: 202-974-2410

</div><a href="http://www.hudson.org/">Hudson Institute</a>  Kenneth R. Weinstein Chief Executive Officer 1015 15th Street, NW, Sixth Floor  Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:info@hudson.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@hudson.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Islam • Middle East policy • European studies • Eurasian policy • Latin American studies • U.S.-Asia relations • Human rights and religious freedom • Global food issues • Environmental studies • Philanthropy and civic renewal • Global prosperity • Foreign aid and economic development • United Nations • Labor and employment policy • Economic policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.rnh.is/">Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth (RNH)</a>  Jonas Sigurgeirsson Managing Director Fákafeni 11 108 Reykjavik Sími, Iceland 615 11 22 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth (RNH, Rannsoknarsetur um nyskopun og hagvoxt) is a think tank which seeks to explore how innovation and economic growth are either encouraged or stifled. A special emphasis is on research of the ways in which free individuals can by spontaneous co-operation, free trade instead of commands, satisfy their needs and improve their lives.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: 1.Taxation and the Distribution of Income 2.Natural Resources and the Environment 3.Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4.Victims of 20th Century Totalitarianism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 208.258.2280
Fax: 208.965.8111

</div><a href="http://www.idahofreedom.net/">Idaho Freedom Foundation</a>  Wayne Hoffman President 2404 Bank Drive, Ste. 314 Boise, ID, United States 83705  <a href="mailto:wayne@idahofreedom.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wayne@idahofreedom.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Idaho Freedom Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational and research organization that develops and advocates the principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, economic freedom, and limited government. The Foundation’s mission is to keep Idaho free by generating research and data on key issues, and recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, media and the citizens of Idaho
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, economic freedom, and limited government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 630-790-8370
Fax: 630-790-8390

</div><a href="http://www.illinoisfamily.org/">Illinois Family Institute</a>  David Smith Executive Director 799 West Roosevelt Road Building 3, Suite 208 Glen Ellyn, IL, United States 60137 <a href="mailto:info@illinoisfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@illinoisfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is to create an environment where families can flourish by equipping churches and influencing public policymakers through leadership, information, and training. IFI’s work includes social policy research and publications and educating and mobilizing citizens for social action.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Defending marriage • Homosexual agenda • Decency/pornography • Education • Religious freedom</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-346-5700
Fax: 312-346-5755

</div><a href="http://www.illinoispolicyinstitute.org/">Illinois Policy Institute</a>  John Tillman CEO 190 South LaSalle Street Suite 2130 Chicago, IL, United States 60603 <a href="mailto:jtillman@illinoispolicyinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jtillman@illinoispolicyinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Illinois Policy Institute’s mission is to preserve and strengthen the societal foundations of the Land of Lincoln. Through the promotion of the benefits of limited government, competitive private enterprise, as well as Illinois’ critical cultural and political institutions via rigorous inquiry, debate, and writing the Institute strives to unleash the full potential of the citizens of Illinois to lead good and productive lives.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Economic and fiscal issues • Education reform • Illinois and the world • Technology and the world</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 217-528-8800
Fax: 217-528-8808

</div><a href="http://www.illinoispolicyinstitute.org/">Illinois Policy Insitute - Springfield</a>  Kristina Rasmussen Executive Vice President 802 South 2nd Street 2nd Floor Springfield, IL, United States 62704 <a href="mailto:krasmussen@illinoispolicyinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">krasmussen@illinoispolicyinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Illinois Policy Institute’s mission is to preserve and strengthen the societal foundations of the Land of Lincoln. Through the promotion of the benefits of limited government, competitive private enterprise, as well as Illinois’ critical cultural and political institutions via rigorous inquiry, debate, and writing the Institute strives to unleash the full potential of the citizens of Illinois to lead good and productive lives. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Economic and fiscal issues • Education reform • Illinois and the world • Technology and the world</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-427-0087
Fax: 312-427-5139

</div><a href="http://www.ntui.org/">Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation</a>  Jim Tobin President 407 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1170 Chicago, IL, United States 60605 <a href="mailto:itef@ntui.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">itef@ntui.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation (ITEF) is a non-profit, charitable 501 (c) (3) organization conducting research on facts, methods, and principles of taxation, government spending and public attitudes on these subjects. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Government Spending • Public Attitudes on Taxation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-233-21-417-094

</div><a href="http://www.imanighana.com/">IMANI Center for Policy and Education</a>  Franklin Cudjoe President No 14 Yeboah Street, Chantan Achimota-Accra, Ghana  <a href="mailto:franklin@imanighana.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">franklin@imanighana.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: IMANI Center for Policy and Education seeks to stimulate public discussion of the promotion of economic prosperity rights, the rule of law, open and unconditional trade, free speech, and decentralization of power and resources.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Politics • Health • International relations • Development • Economics • Free trade</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 303-279-6536
Fax: 303-279-4176

</div><a href="http://www.i2i.org/">Independence Institute</a>  Jon Charles Caldara President 727 E. 16th Avenue Denver, CO, United States 80203 <a href="mailto:jon@i2i.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jon@i2i.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Independence Institute is a Colorado-based think tank founded on the principle of individual responsibility and the small-government philosophy of the Declaration of Independence. The Institute publishes issues papers, editorials, books, and op-eds. It also holds legislative briefings, symposiums, and produces a weekly PBS television program.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Transportation • Fiscal policy • Health care • Second Amendment • Property rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 510-632-1366
Fax: 510-568-6040

</div><a href="http://www.independent.org/">The Independent Institute</a>  David J. Theroux Founder and President 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, United States 94621-1428 <a href="mailto:info@independent.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@independent.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Independent Institute is a non-partisan, scholarly, public policy research and educational organization that sponsors comprehensive studies of social and economic issues. Institute studies are widely distributed as books --The Independent Review (quarterly journal), Independent Policy Reports, The Lighthouse (weekly email newsletter), and other publications -- and form the basis for numerous conferences and media programs for leaders in academia, business, policymaking, the media as well as the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation • Money, banking, and finance • Environment • Employment and unemployment • Criminal justice and liability • Health care</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-857-5201
Fax: 202-429-9574

</div><a href="http://www.iwf.org/">Independent Women's Forum (IWF)</a>  Sabrina Schaeffer Executive Director 1875 I Street NW, Suite 500  Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:info@iwf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@iwf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Independent Women’s Forum was established to combat the women-as-victim, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism. IWF seeks to restore, strengthen, and extend that which promotes women’s well being by advancing the principles of self-reliance, political freedom, economic liberty, and personal responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Women and workplace • School choice • International women’s freedom • Social Security reform • Taxes • Personal responsibility and self respect among women</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 317-423-9178
Fax: 314-423-9421

</div><a href="http://www.hoosierfamily.org/">Indiana Family Institute</a>  Curt Smith President 155 East Market Street, Suite 307 Indianapolis, IN, United States 46204 <a href="mailto:ifi@hoosierfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ifi@hoosierfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Indiana Family Institute is a faith-based, non-partisan public education and research organization. Its mission is two-fold: to preserve pro-family policy already within state government and push for additional policies that will strengthen Indiana families and to work with churches, lay leaders, government, groups, and organizations to promote and implement effective marriage ministry and marriage enrichment programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Divorce • Same-sex marriage • Abortion • Family values • Relationship skills education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (260) 417-4094

</div><a href="http://www.inpolicy.org/">Indiana Policy Review Foundation</a>  T. Craig Ladwig Director PO Box 5166 Fort Wayne, IN, United States 46895 <a href="mailto:Director@inpolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">Director@inpolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation is to marshal the best thought on governmental, economic, and educational issues at the state and municipal levels. The Foundation seeks to accomplish this in ways that exalt the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property, and speech; emphasize the primacy of the individual in addressing public concerns; and recognize that equality of opportunity is sacrificed in pursuit of equality of results.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property • Land use • Municipal annexation • Hiring quotas • Local government • Education funding</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 213-617-0414
Fax: 213-617-1314

</div><a href="http://cspc.org/irf.html">Individual Rights Foundation</a>  Manuel S. Klausner General Counsel PO 361269 Los Angeles, CA, United States 90036 <a href="mailto:mklaus@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mklaus@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Individual Rights Foundation (IRF) is the legal arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. IRF litigates to defend individual rights with particular focus on free speech and civil rights, including challenges to governmental racial preferences, governmental ideological and political discrimination, and misuse of public funds for partisan political advocacy in election campaigns.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Combating racial preferences • Combating political and ideological discrimination in public schools and universities • Supporting the Boy Scouts in defending their First Amendment rights • Combating the use of taxpayer funds for partisan and political advocacy • Defending controversial speech from intimidation by threats of defamation suits • Defending free speech from infringement by overly-broad interpretations of sexual harassment law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 213-740-6495
Fax: 213-740-6650

</div><a href="http://www.iandrinstitute.org/">Initiative and Referendum Institute</a>  M. Dane Waters Founder and Chairman USC School of Law Los Angeles, CA, United States 90089-0071 <a href="mailto:mdanewaters@iandrinstitute.org," times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mdanewaters@iandrinstitute.org,</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1998, the Initiative and Referendum Institute (IRI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to tracking political trends on its award-winning Web site and through its Ballotwatch service. The mission of IRI is to research and develop clear analysis of the initiative process and its use; to inform and educate the public about the process and its effects; and to provide effective leadership in litigation, defending the initiative process and the right of citizens to reform their government. IRI provides expert opinion for journalists and policymakers, hosts international conferences, and publishes policy monographs, reference books, and scholarly work. IRI is active in Europe through its sister organization, IRI-Europe, based in Amsterdam.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Study of initiative, referendum and recall</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-234-1-823-093
Fax: 011-435-806-1178

</div><a href="http://www.ippanigeria.org/">Initiative for Public Policy Analysis</a>  Thompson Ayodele Coordinator PO Box 6434, Somolu  Lagos, Nigeria  <a href="mailto:info@ippanigeria.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ippanigeria.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) is a private, non-profit organization involved in research, education, and publication on matters affecting the freedom of individuals. Its objective is to provide market-oriented analysis of current and emerging policy issues, with a view to influencing the public debate and the political decision making process. In order to safeguard its independence the IPPA does not accept government funds, relying instead entirely on the financial support of individuals, foundations, and other private organizations.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.institutconstant.ch/">Institut Constant de Rebecque</a>  Pierre Bessard Executive Director 19, boulevard de Grancy 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland  <a href="mailto:ic@institutconstant.ch" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ic@institutconstant.ch</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Through a network of thinkers, researchers, and young scholars, the Institut Constant de Rebecque promotes in Switzerland a climate of opinion favorable to individual growth, private initiative, and free enterprise. To that end, the Institut develops innovative and sustainable solutions to current challenges and broadens the public debate.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Privacy • Free trade • Private property • Institutional competition</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.laboursetocqueville.fr/">Institut de Formation Politique</a>  Alexandre Pesey Executive Director 32, rue des Bruyères 93210 Sèvres, France  <a href="mailto:contact@laboursetocqueville.fr" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@laboursetocqueville.fr</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Tocqueville Fellowship was created to enable young people promising to meet with U.S. political players and learn the techniques used in the United States by civil society to uphold the values ??of freedom and responsibility. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-33-42-33-29-15
Fax: 011-33-40-26-47-19

</div><a href="http://www.ifrap.org/">Institut Français pour la Recherche sur les Administrations et les Politiques Publiques (iFRAP)</a>  Bernard Zimmern President and Founder 5, rue Cadet 75009 Paris, France  <a href="mailto:contact@ifrap.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@ifrap.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: iFRAP seeks to alert civil society to the problems of the control of use of public funds, the reform of the state, and the creation of enterprises.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Enterprise • Job creation • Unemployment • Public expenditures • Health • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 212-246-3942
Fax: 212-541-6665

</div><a href="http://www.americanvalues.org/">Institute for American Values</a>  David Blankenhorn President 1841 Broadway, Suite 211 New York, NY, United States 10023 <a href="mailto:info@americanvalues.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@americanvalues.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for American Values, founded in 1987, is a private, non-partisan organization devoted to research, publication, and public education on major issues of family well being and civil society. The Institute’s immediate mission is to examine the status and future of the family as a social institution. Its larger mission is to examine the social sources of competence, character, and citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Parenting and children • Marriage and divorce • Human person • International civil society • At-risk youth • Just war</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 800-326-0263
Fax: 510-238-8440

</div><a href="http://www.icspress.com/">Institute for Contemporary Studies</a>  Robert B. Hawkins, Jr. President and CEO 3100 Harrison Street Oakland, CA, United States 94611 <a href="mailto:mail@icspress.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@icspress.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS) believes that men and women who control their lives through self-governing institutions live more productive lives. The information age is ushering in exciting new possibilities for people everywhere to expand their self-governing capabilities. These possibilities will only be realized when people have the necessary knowledge, practical information, and leadership. ICS is committed to promoting self-governing ways of life by working on all three of these important components.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Empowerment • Governance and leadership • Educational choice • Civic education • Entrepreneurship • Environment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.icasinc.org/">Institute for Corean-American Studies</a>  Synja P. Kim President and Chairman 965 Clover Court Blue Bell, PA, United States 19422 <a href="mailto:icas@icasinc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">icas@icasinc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Established in 1973, Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) is a non-profit, non-partisan, and private educational and research organization incorporated in Pennsylvania to enhance cooperation and to pursue peace and prosperity in association with people of mutual interests, with a special emphasis on multilateral relations between the United States and Asia–Pacific Rim nations. ICAS is not an agent of any government and is solely supported by voluntary contributions. ICAS maintains a roster of Fellows from around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: International relations • Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia • Economy and security • Arms control • Immigration and citizenship • American founding principles</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://http//idea.org.kz">Institute for Development and Economic Affairs</a>  Pavel Koktyshev Director Almaty, 050000 Zhanna gasir 33/1, Kazakhstan  <a href="mailto:koktyshev@gmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">koktyshev@gmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: We want Kazakhstan to be a safe and prosperous country where everyone has the opportunity for self-development, a wide range of individual rights and freedoms and protected from violence to life and private property, where the talents of every citizen to assess where the government focuses on its primary function - protecting life and property of citizens. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Individual Liberty ~ Free Markets ~ Rule of Law ~ Private Property ~ Entrepreneurship ~ Limited Government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-33-620-89-4856
Fax: 011-33-442-59-3887

</div><a href="http://www.ieseurope.org/">Institute for Economic Studies–Europe</a>  Pierre Garello Director 33 Boulevard Marius Richard Marseille 13012, France  <a href="mailto:pierregarello@hotmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pierregarello@hotmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The aim of the Institute for Economic Studies–Europe is to stand at the center of a worldwide network of students, scholars, and other intellectuals. Since 1989, the Institute has aimed at discovering, developing, and supporting the most outstanding people it could find among students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in exploring and applying the principles of classical liberalism. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Individual rights • Private property, contracts, and the rule of law • Voluntarism in human relations • Free market mechanism in economic affairs • Free movement of goods, ideas, and people</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202.621.2950
Fax: 713-974-1918

</div><a href="http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/">Institute for Energy Research</a>  Thomas J. Pyle President 1155 15th St NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:bcole@ierdc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">bcole@ierdc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1989, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) conducts historical research and evaluates public policies in the oil, gas, coal, orimulsion, and electric markets. Through publications, speeches, and media attention, IER articulates free market positions that respect private property rights and promote efficient outcomes for energy consumers and producers. Funding for the Institute is entirely through the tax-deductible contributions of individuals, foundations, and corporations. Government funding is neither solicited nor accepted to retain IER’s status as a private-sector institution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-962-7877

</div><a href="http://www.tifwe.org/">Institute for Faith, Work & Economics</a>  Hugh C. Whelchel Executive Director 8400 Westpark Drive Suite 100 McLean, VA, United States 22102 <a href="mailto:info@tifwe.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@tifwe.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Our mission is to educate and inspire Christians to live out a Biblical theology that integrates faith, work, and economics.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Debt, Economic Philosophy, Equality, Foundational Principles, Freedom, Image of God, Law, Limited Government, Private Property, Public Choice, Scarcity, Taxes, The Poor, Wealth Creation, Work</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 617-492-2116
Fax: 617-492-8242

</div><a href="http://www.ifpa.org/">Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis</a>  Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. President 675 Massachusetts Avenue, Tenth Floor Cambridge, MA, United States 02139 <a href="mailto:mail@ifpa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@ifpa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1976, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) is an independent and non-partisan research and strategic planning organization that specializes in issues of national security, foreign policy, political economics, and government-industrial relations. Building on thorough and innovative analysis, the Institute and its small-business subsidiary, National Security Planning Associates (NSPA), provide tailored briefings for government agencies, military planners, and corporate executives; public forums for the broader discussion of issues critical to the U.S. policy-planning process; reports, point papers, policy recommendations, and monograph- or book-length studies for dissemination to a wide audience of key policymakers; major conferences, seminars, training workshops, and simulation exercises; and quick-reaction assessments of breaking events.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: National security strategy and planning • Euro-Atlantic security policies and institutions • Asian-Pacific, Middle East and Persian Gulf security • Counterproliferation policies and strategies • Theater missile defense • Geopolitical energy security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-429-6610
Fax: 202-861-1973

</div><a href="http://www.forhealthfreedom.org/">Institute for Health Freedom</a>  Sue Blevins President 1875 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:feedback@forhealthfreedom.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">feedback@forhealthfreedom.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom and bringing this issue to the forefront of America’s health policy debate. The Institute does not endorse any health care treatment, product, provider, or organization. Through its research, publications, and public policy debates, IHF provides a forum for exchanging ideas about health freedom and works with scholars and policy experts in the areas of economics, health care, law, philosophy, and the sciences to foster public debate. Research and analyses are published via policy briefings, newspaper editorials, television appearances, professional conferences, public meetings, and the IHF Web site.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Medical privacy • Medicare • Children’s health care • Health insurance • FDA • Medical Savings Accounts</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-993-4880
Fax: 703-993-4890

</div><a href="http://www.theihs.org/">Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)</a>  Marty Zupan President 3301 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 440 Arlington, VA, United States 22201-4432 <a href="mailto:ihs@gmu.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ihs@gmu.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of IHS is to support the achievement of a freer society by facilitating the development of students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and who demonstrate the potential to advance the principles and practice of freedom. IHS awards scholarships to university students from around the world and sponsors the attendance of hundreds of students at its summer seminars and other programs designed to assist students into careers in academia, journalism, policy, and film. IHS hosts a job bank and provides other intellectual and career resources on its Web sites,theihs.org and libertyguide.com.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-682-9320 
Fax: 703-682-9321

</div><a href="http://www.ij.org/">Institute for Justice</a>  William H. Mellor President and General Counsel 901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900 Arlington, VA, United States 22203 <a href="mailto:general@ij.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">general@ij.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice (IJ) advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their own destinies as free and responsible members of society. It litigates to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties, and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. In addition, it trains law students, lawyers, and policy activists in the tactics of public interest litigation to advance individual rights. Through these activities, IJ challenges the ideology of the welfare state and illustrates and extends the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Property rights • First Amendment • Economic liberty</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 480-557-8300
Fax: 480-557-8305

</div><a href="http://www.ij.org/arizona">Institute for Justice - Arizona Chapter</a>  Tim Keller Executive Director 398 South Mill Avenue, Suite 301 Tempe, AZ, United States 85281 <a href="mailto:tkeller@ij.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tkeller@ij.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter advances a rule of law under which Arizonans can control their own destinies as free and responsible citizens. The Arizona Chapter works to vindicate the Arizona Constitution’s protections of individual liberty by leveraging resources through a network of volunteer lawyers and working closely with like-minded policy organizations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 612-435-3451
Fax: 612-435-5875

</div><a href="http://www.ij.org/minnesota/">Institute for Justice - Minnesota Chapter</a>  Lee McGrath Executive Director 1600 Rand Tower, 527 Marquette Avenue Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402-1330 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Justice (IJ) Minnesota Chapter is to advance a rule of law under which Minnesotans and all Americans may realize their aspirations as free and responsible members of civil society. Collaborating with IJ’s other offices and like-minded organizations and individuals, IJ-Minnesota litigates in courts in Minnesota and around the country to establish greater protection of liberties under state constitutions and strengthen rights under the U.S. Constitution.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 206-341-9300
Fax: 206-341-9311

</div><a href="http://www.ij.org/washington">Institute for Justice - Washington Chapter</a>  William Maurer Executive Director 811 First Avenue, Suite 625 Seattle, WA, United States 98104 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for Justice Washington Chapter (IJ-WA) works to vindicate the constitutional rights of the residents of the Evergreen State. From its offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, IJ-WA litigates in the areas of economic liberty, educational choice, property rights, and free speech. The Washington Chapter specifically concentrates on cases involving those rights secured by the Washington State Constitution.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 773-834-3129
Fax: 773-834-3130

</div><a href="http://www.ij.org/clinic">Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship</a>  Elizabeth Milnikel Director The University of Chicago Law School, Arthur Kane Center for Clinical Legal Studies 6020 South University Avenue Chicago, IL, United States 60637-2704 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Clinic is a joint project of the Institute for Justice (IJ), the nation’s premier public interest advocate for economic liberty, and the University of Chicago Law School, one of the world’s leading legal academies. The IJ Clinic teams lower-income entrepreneurs with some of the nation’s brightest law students to provide entry-level business people with the legal support they need to pursue their dreams.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Legal support for lower-income entrepreneurs</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-51-1-616-6100
Fax: 011-51-1-616-6190

</div><a href="http://www.ild.org.pe/">Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD)</a>  Hernando de Soto President Las Begonias 441, Office 901, San Isidro Lima 27, Peru  <a href="mailto:hds@ild.org.pe" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">hds@ild.org.pe</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: ILD provides governments with the technical assistance—and the local capacity—to furnish all their citizens with the crucial legal tools to gain access to the market and thus pull themselves out of poverty. These include inclusive property systems to hold and leverage their assets, legal forms to organize their businesses, devices to identify themselves, and operate in expanded markets.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Institutional reform/implementation • Capital formation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-506-438-2464
Fax: 011-506-438-2444

</div><a href="http://www.inlap.org/">Institute for Liberty and Policy Analysis (INLAP)</a>  Rigoberto Stewart President and CEO PO Box 329-4050 Alajuela, Costa Rica  <a href="mailto:info@inlap.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@inlap.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: In order to create an environment in which the citizens of Costa Rica can achieve their spiritual, intellectual and material potential, INLAP’s mission is to defend and promote all aspects of individual liberty through public policy analysis and educational activities. The Institute adheres to the principles of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, and absolute respect for private property.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-359-2-952-62-66
Fax: 011-359-2-952-35-03

</div><a href="http://www.ime-bg.org/">Institute for Market Economics (IME)</a>  Svetla Kostadinova Executive Director 61 Patriarh Evtimii Boulevard 1463 Sofia, Bulgaria  <a href="mailto:mail@ime.bg" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@ime.bg</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: IME is the first independent economic think tank in Bulgaria. IME’s mission is to elaborate and advocate market approaches to challenges citizens and businesses encounter pursuing their undertakings. IME objectives are to provide independent assessment and analysis of the government’s economic policies, to be a focal point for an exchange of views on market economics and relevant policy issues, and to serve as an internationally supported Bulgarian think tank that is widely respected for its expertise. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Monitoring economic policies • Cost-benefit analysis of regulations • Free movement of capital, goods and people • Lower and flatter taxes (income, corporate and social welfare contributions) • Shadow and informal economy – impacts and policy recommendations • Public education in market economics and economic liberty • Market reforms in the financial sector - Public Education in Market Economics and Economic Liberty - Market Reforms in the Financial Sector</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 785-864-3701
Fax: 785-864-3683

</div><a href="http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/">Institute for Policy and Social Research (IPSR)</a>  Steven Maynard-Moody Director 1541 Lilac Lane 607 Blake Hall Lawrence, KS, United States 66044-3177 <a href="mailto:ipsr@ku.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ipsr@ku.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: IPSR brings together social scientists from a broad range of disciplines to pursue and conduct sponsored research at the international, national, regional, state, and local levels. IPSR-affiliated faculty represent disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, geography, political science, public administration, social welfare, sociology, and urban planning.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Metropolitan studies • Economic and business analysis • International policy • Environment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 972-874-5139
Fax: 972-874-5144

</div><a href="http://www.ipi.org/">Institute for Policy Innovation</a>  Tom Giovanetti President 1660 South Stemmons Freeway, Suite 475 Lewisville, TX, United States 75067 <a href="mailto:tomg@ipi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tomg@ipi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is a non-profit educational organization that conducts research and develops and promotes innovative and non-partisan solutions to today’s public policy problems. Its focus is on developing new approaches to governing that harness the strengths of individual choice, limited government, and free markets. IPI emphasizes getting its studies into the hands of the press and policymakers so that the ideas they contain can be applied to the challenges facing us today.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Estate tax reform • Privatizing Social Security disability • Social Security reform • Education choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 01.43.80.55.18

</div><a href="http://www.irefeurope.org/">Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Affairs</a>  35 avenue Mac-Mahon Paris, France 75017  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The decisions about economic policy in our societies are subject to the monopoly of the State. The information and debate about those decisions are frequently distorted by the media. In order to fight against this state of affairs, IREF is aiming to influence the public discussion about economic policy, with the help of rigorous analysis and empirical evidence. Originality and innovation are the guiding principles of our experts. But we do not limit ourselves only to theoretical analysis. IREF is also eager to formulate proposals for practical reforms. IREF’s proposals. You can find those proposals in our publications.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation *Economic Policy Issues *private pension funds *private health insurance *privatization of public companies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-659-0581
Fax: 202-659-0582

</div><a href="http://www.i4rc.org/">The Institute for Responsible Citizenship</a>  William A. Keyes, IV President 1227 25th Street, NW, Sixth Floor Washington, DC, United States 20037 <a href="mailto:william_a_keyes@yahoo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">william_a_keyes@yahoo.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for Responsible Citizenship identifies (minority) students of impeccable character, unblemished reputation, and demonstrated ability who are interested in careers in law, public service, education, journalism, business, and the ministry; arranges internships to help the students prepare for such careers; provides academic training that will inspire them to be responsible citizens throughout their productive lives; and equips them to be catalysts for improved race relations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Flat tax • Social Security reform • Affirmative action • Multiculturalism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 914-686-7112
Fax: 914-686-0581

</div><a href="http://www.socioeconomic.org/">Institute for SocioEconomic Studies</a>  Helen Gibbs Communications Director 10 New King Street White Plains, NY, United States 10604 <a href="mailto:mail@socioeconomic.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@socioeconomic.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the non-profit Institute for SocioEconomic Studies is to conduct research, to educate, and pto romote understanding in areas such as the quality of life, social motivation, poverty, urban regeneration, the problems of the elderly, economic development, and health care reform.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Consumer-based health care reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-381-81-241-504
Fax: 011-381-81-243-544

</div><a href="http://isspm.org/">Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses</a>  Veselin Vukotic President POD Ljubovic Lamela C 1 i II 81000 Podogorica, Montenegro  <a href="mailto:vukotic@cg.yu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">vukotic@cg.yu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses is to provide sound, unbiased research that will contribute to Montenegro’s economic transformation and will change the current mindset, as well as to train today’s young people how to function successfully in the new environment.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Development of statistics and macroeconomic modeling and projections • Poverty and social issues • Pension reform • Capital market and banking sector development • Economic sectors analysis • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 636-949-4742
Fax: 636-949-4992

</div><a href="http://www.lindenwood.edu/academics/isee.asp">Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment</a>  Kenneth W. Chilton, Ph.D. Director Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway St. Charles, MO, United States 63301 <a href="mailto:kchilton@lindenwood.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">kchilton@lindenwood.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute’s mission is to improve student and public understanding of the basic economic concepts that can be used to guide effective and efficient environmental policymaking.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy resources • Clean air • Sustainable development • Private conservation • Climate change</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 414-288-5775
Fax: 414-288-6199

</div><a href="http://www.itlmuonline.org/">Institute for the Transformation of Learning</a>  Howard L. Fuller Founder and Director 750 North 18th Street Milwaukee, WI, United States 53233 <a href="mailto:fullerweb@yahoo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fullerweb@yahoo.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for the Transformation of Learning is an education reform organization working across system boundaries to develop a new community of learning infrastructures that build and maintain learning environments focusing on student achievement. The Institute also works to empower families, particularly low-income families, to choose the best options for their children.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Developing a school development and design center • Providing technical assistance to charter schools • Education reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-471-8750
Fax: 703-471-8409

</div><a href="http://www.youthdevelopment.org/">Institute for Youth Development</a>  W. Shepherd Smith President PO Box 16560 Washington, DC, United States 20041 <a href="mailto:info@youthdevelopment.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@youthdevelopment.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute for Youth Development (IYD) encourages young people to avoid behaviors that jeopardize their health and well being by promoting integrated prevention messages and skills. IYD conducts research, promotes messages, and devises comprehensive programs targeting American youth to avoid five interconnected unhealthy risk behaviors: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco, and violence. IYD believes that if parents and adults provide children and teens with consistent risk-avoidance messages, young people are capable of choosing to avoid these behaviors altogether, especially if they are empowered by positive relationships with parents and family.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Youth and tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, sexual activity, and violence • Risk behavior interconnections • Age of risk behavior debut • Parent/child connections as protective for youth risk behavior • Parent education • Role of the faith community in helping youth avoid harmful behaviors</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7799-8900
Fax: 011-44-20-7799-2137

</div><a href="http://www.iea.org.uk/">Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)</a>  Mark Littlewood Director General 2 Lord North Street London SW1P 3LB, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:mlittlewood@iea.org.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mlittlewood@iea.org.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Institute of Economic Affairs is to improve public understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society, with particular reference to the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: European Union • Regulation • Public services • Morals and markets</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-233-21-776-641

</div>Institute of Economic Affairs - Ghana  Charles Mensa Executive Director PO Box 01936 Christianborg, Accra, Ghana  <a href="mailto:cmensa@africaonline.com.gh" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cmensa@africaonline.com.gh</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) targets unpopular laws that have high probabilities of being changed, such as those affecting business registration, imports, exchange rates, privatization, foreign investments, and banking. Short policy reports containing cost/benefit analyses of existing or proposed legislation are being distributed to key decision makers ranging from the head of state, the cabinet, parliament, regional assemblies, the judiciary, the diplomatic corps, political parties, associations, and unions to church leaders, academics, and journalists. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-61-3-9600-4744
Fax: 011-61-3-9602-4989

</div><a href="http://www.ipa.org.au/">Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)</a>  John Roskam Executive Director Level 2/410 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia  <a href="mailto:comments@ipa.org.au" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">comments@ipa.org.au</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: IPA is an independent, non-profit, public policy think tank dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom. It believes in the free market of ideas, the free flow of capital, a limited and efficient government, the rule of law, and representative democracy. These are the ideas that, throughout history, have proven themselves to be most dynamic, liberating, and exciting.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 907-771-2444
Fax: 907-771-2466

</div><a href="http://www.institutenorth.org/">Institute of the North</a>  Nils Andreassen Managing Director 509 West Third Avenue, Suite 107 Anchorage, AK, United States 99501 <a href="mailto:akdialogue@institutenorth.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">akdialogue@institutenorth.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded by former Alaska Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel, the Institute of the North focuses on strategic issues affecting Alaska, national energy and defense policy, the Arctic, and management of commonly-owned land, the seas, and resources worldwide.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy and public lands • Arctic policy and infrastructure • Missile defense • Law of the sea • Alaska statehood compact • Common property regimes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-462-2101
Fax: 202-464-0335

</div><a href="http://www.iwp.edu/">The Institute of World Politics (IWP)</a>  John Lenczowski President 1521 16th Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:info@iwp.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@iwp.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Institute of World Politics is a graduate school of statecraft and national security affairs dedicated to helping develop leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft based on knowledge and appreciation of the principles of the American political economy and the Western moral tradition. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: National security • Intelligence and counterintelligence • Statecraft and U.S. foreign policy • Regime change and democracy building • International relations • Public diplomacy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-682-4131
Fax: 202-682-4136

</div><a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a>  Mark Tooley President 1023 15th Street, NW, Suite 601 Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:info@theird.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@theird.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) monitors and counters the political influences of the religious left. IRD helps members of mainline churches work to reclaim their denominations from far-left church officials, critiques radical feminist theology, defends orthodox Christianity as a force for societal cohesion and renewal, and works to defend persecuted Christians overseas.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: International religious liberty • Defending marriage • Radical feminism • War on terror • Religious-left lobbying in Washington • Islam • Church reform • Historic Christian doctrine and democracy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 212-627-1985
Fax: 212-627-2184

</div><a href="http://www.firstthings.com/">Institute on Religion and Public Life (RPL)</a>  Joseph Bottum Editor 156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 400 New York, NY, United States 10010 <a href="mailto:ft@firstthings.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ft@firstthings.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: An inter-religious, non-partisan, research, and educational institute, the Institute on Religion and Public Life’s purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of public life. Politics is in large part a function of culture and at the heart of culture are beliefs and practices that are religious in nature. RPL aims to strengthen religion’s role in support of a free and just social order, including an appropriate political economy for such an order. Not limited to the American experiment in representative democracy, RPL is international in its concern for the religious dimensions of cultural, political, and economic developments in the modern world. To advance its mission, it publishes a monthly journal, First Things.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Judicial usurpation • Christians and Israel • Christian unity • School choice • Urban underclass</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-57-218-3858
Fax: 011-57-218-3621

</div><a href="http://www.icpcolombia.org/">Instituto de Ciencia Politica</a>  Marcela Prieto Executive Director Cr 11 No. 86 - 32 Office 502 Bogotá, Colombia  <a href="mailto:marcela.prieto@icpcolombia.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">marcela.prieto@icpcolombia.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Instituto de Ciencia Politica (the Political Science Institute) is a non-profit organization founded in Bogota, Colombia, by businessmen, politicians, academicians, writers, journalists, and other personnel belonging to diverse political sources, united by the initiative of Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, in order to study, advance, and disseminate the principles of democratic pluralism and the values of the free market.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-51-3335-1588
Fax: 011-51-3335-1588

</div><a href="http://www.iee.com.br/">Instituto de Estudos Empresariais</a>  Giancarlo Mandelli President Alameda Coelho Neto, 20/302 Porto Alegre, RS 91340-340, Brazil  <a href="mailto:iee@iee.com.br" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">iee@iee.com.br</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Instituto de Estudos Empresariais is to form entrepreneurial leaders committed to a social and political organizational model for Brazil based on the democratic ideal of individual freedom subordinated to the rule of law.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-511-475-9752
Fax: 011-511-475-9752

</div><a href="http://www.ileperu.org/">Instituto de Libre Empresa (ILE)</a>  Jose Luis Tapia Rocha General Director Calle Barajas N° 522 San Borja, Lima, 41, Peru  <a href="mailto:info@ileperu.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ileperu.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Instituto de Libre Empresa (the Free Enterprise Institute) was founded in 1998 and is a non-profit Peruvian think tank, based in Lima, that promotes a capitalist system of free enterprise in order to achieve real progress in Peru. ILE seeks to put in practice the values and virtues of limited government, private property, and free markets.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • Christianism • Economics • Politics • International trade • Economic and social policies • Ethics and law • Management</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.ipea.org.mx/">Instituto de Pensamiento Estrategico Agora (IPEA)</a>  Armando Regil President Campos Eliseos 268-202 Col. Chapultepec Polanco C.P. 11560 Del. Migeul Hidalgo, Mexico D.F. <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: IPEA is a non-profit and independent public policy, market-oriented Think Tank, which aims to train a new generation of policy entrepreneurs and leaders in promoting the principles that sustain a free and prosperous society. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Democratic Society and Rule of Law Economic Development and Adaptability *Education for the consolidation of human potential *Governability, Democracy and Civil Society *Social cohesion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-593-4-288-1011
Fax: 011-593-4-288-5991

</div><a href="http://www.ieep.org.ec/">Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica (IEEP)</a>  Dora Ampuero Executive Director Higueras 106 y Manuel Rendón Guayaquil 09-01-1628, Ecuador  <a href="mailto:dora_ampuero@ieep.org.ec" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">dora_ampuero@ieep.org.ec</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica is a think tank focused on public policy analysis and spreading freedom ideas in Ecuador. It was founded in 1991 by Dora de Ampuero as a private, independent, non-profit organization. IEEP finances its activities through voluntary donations of individuals, enterprises, and foundations. IEEP carries out investigations regarding socio-economic problems that affect Ecuador within a framework of respect to individual liberties, private property, free markets, and a limited and responsible government.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-55-21-2539-1115
Fax: 011-55-21-2539-1115

</div><a href="http://www.institutoliberal.org.br/">Instituto Liberal</a>  Arthur Chagas Diniz President Rua Professor Alfredo Gomes 28 - Botafogo 22251-080 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  <a href="mailto:ilrj@gbl.com.br" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ilrj@gbl.com.br</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Instituto Liberal exists to persuade Brazilian society of the advantages of a liberal order.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Deregulation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-5551-3331-8135
Fax: 011-5551-3384-7158

</div><a href="http://www.il-rs.org.br/">Instituto Liberdade do Rio Grande do Sul (IL-RS)</a>  Margaret Tse CEO Av. Ipiranga 6681 Building 96B, Room 107 Tecnopuc CEP 90619-900 Porto Alegre RS, Brazil  <a href="mailto:t.margaret@gmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">t.margaret@gmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Instituto Liberdade do Rio Grande do Sul is a Brazilian private, non-profit think tank headquartered in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the southern region of Brazil. It is non-partisan, not subordinated to any national or international organization, and supported by private contributions of individuals and institutions.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-57-310-575-5429

</div><a href="http://www.libertadyprogreso.net/">Instituto Libertad y Progreso (ILP)</a>  Andrés Mejía Vergnaud Executive Director Calle 81 # 7-33, Ap. 201 Bogotá, Colombia  <a href="mailto:andres@libertadyprogreso.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">andres@libertadyprogreso.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: ILP was created with the purpose of promoting the ideas of classical liberalism and its application to human problems and public policy topics.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/">Intellectual Takeout</a>  Devin C. Foley President 207 Chestnut St, Suite 200 Chaska, MN, United States 55318 <a href="mailto:Devin.Foley@intellectualtakeout.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">Devin.Foley@intellectualtakeout.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-254-20-273-1497
Fax: 011-254-20-272-3258

</div><a href="http://www.irenkenya.org/">Inter Region Economic Network (IREN)</a>  James S. Shikwati Director PO Box 135, GPO Code 00100 Nairobi, Kenya  <a href="mailto:james@irenkenya.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">james@irenkenya.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Inter Region Economic Network is an independent and non-partisan think tank which promotes policies geared towards the creation of a free Africa.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 302-652-4600
Fax: 302-652-1760

</div><a href="http://www.isi.org/">Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)</a>  Christopher Long President & Chief Executive Officer 3901 Centerville Road PO Box 4431 Wilmington, DE, United States 19807 <a href="mailto:isi@isi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">isi@isi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to instill in successive generations a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free society. Through its integrated program of lectures, conferences, publications, and fellowships, ISI works to educate for liberty—to identify the best and brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders an allegiance to the American ideal of ordered liberty. To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to deepen the next generation’s appreciation of the nation’s founding principles—limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and moral standards.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Western civilization studies • Quality of higher education • Political correctness on campus • Student journalism • America’s civic literacy • Donor intent in higher education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 520-991-0109
Fax: 520-529-2768

</div><a href="http://www.ifreeweb.org/">International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics</a>  Vernon L. Smith Founder and President 2122 East Camino El Ganado Tucson, AZ, United States 85718 <a href="mailto:info@ifreeweb.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ifreeweb.org </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) was established in 1997 by Nobel Laureate in Economics Dr. Vernon L. Smith. IFREE is a grant-making institution that supports experimental research projects, faculty teaching, student learning, postdoctoral positions, seminars and workshops, demonstration programs, outreach activities, and the application of experimental economic research to important public policy questions.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy market liberalization • Economic education • Neuroeconomics • Economic systems design • Experimental economic research • Economics of religion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-544-6610
Fax: 202-478-1955

</div><a href="http://www.iipi.org/">International Intellectual Property Institute</a>  Brad Huther CEO and President 1629 K Street, Suite 600 Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:bhuther@iipi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">bhuther@iipi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: As an international development organization and think tank, the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) is dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of the use of intellectual property as a tool for economic growth, particularly in developing countries. Since 1998, the Institute has been engaged in a wide range of activities both abroad and within the United States, including critical research, public education, policy and training workshops, technical assistance, institution building, and consultative services.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Intellectual property – patents, copyrights and trademarks • Public sector innovation by the private sector through formal technology transfer systems • Intellectual property rights • Private industries based on intellectual property assets • Regional and international cooperation in harmonizing patent administration and laws</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-408-9450
Fax: 202-408-9462

</div><a href="http://www.iri.org/">International Republican Institute (IRI)</a>  Lorne Craner President 1225 Eye Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:iri@iri.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">iri@iri.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The International Republican Institute promotes democracy, free markets, and the rule of law in more than 35 countries in every region of the world. IRI plays a valuable role in helping bring greater stability to the world. Stable democracies not only further the cause of peace but also enhance American opportunities for business investment and trade. Its programs are non-partisan and adhere to fundamental principles such as individual liberty, the rule of law, and the entrepreneurial spirit that fosters economic development. IRI is not part of the Republican Party.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Democracy • Free markets • Rule of law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 515-263-3495
Fax: 515-263-3498

</div><a href="http://www.ifpc.org/">Iowa Family Policy Center</a>  Charles D. Hurley President 1100 North Hickory, Suite 107 Pleasant Hill, IA, United States 50327 <a href="mailto:info@ifpc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ifpc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Iowa Family Policy Center is to strengthen Iowa’s families through research, education, civic activism, and public policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Community marriage agreements • Covenant marriage legislation • Education reform • Gambling repeal • Defense of Marriage Act</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413

</div><a href="http://www.taxrelief.org/">Iowans for Tax Relief</a>  Jeffrey R. Boeyink President 2610 Park Avenue Muscatine, IA, United States 52761 <a href="mailto:itr@taxrelief.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">itr@taxrelief.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Iowans for Tax Relief’s primary purpose is to limit total government spending and total taxes for the benefit of all the people. Responsible limits on taxes and spending are needed to protect freedom, provide jobs, increase incentives and opportunities, control inflation, reduce interest rates, and achieve a better life for all. The organization supports U.S. and Iowa constitutional amendments to prevent any increase in—and preferably reduce—the percentage of the people’s income taken by government.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: State and federal tax reform • Constitutional limits on taxation • Economic growth</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-955-7174
Fax: 202-785-0261

</div><a href="http://www.islamicinstitute.org/">Islamic Free Market Institute</a>  Khalid Saffuri Chairman 1920 L Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:general@islamicinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">general@islamicinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI) is establishing a network of think tanks, advocacy groups, political organizations, and local community centers to engage American Muslims in the political process. IFMI is also organizing domestic forums to promote the conservative agenda among American Muslim scholars.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Researching and mapping Muslim community demographic trends • Disseminating information about Islamic views on free trade, monetary policy, banking, abortion, the death penalty, and crime</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.icsep.org.il/">Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress</a>  Daniel Doron Director PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59 Mevasseret-Zion, Israel  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
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</div><a href="http://www.icsep.org.il/">Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress</a>  Daniel Doron Director PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59 Mevasseret-Zion, Israel  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
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</div><a href="http://www.icsep.org.il/">Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress</a>  Daniel Doron Director PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59 Mevasseret-Zion, Israel  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
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Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-39-011-070-2087
Fax: 011-39-011-437-1384

</div><a href="http://www.brunoleoni.it/">Istituto Bruno Leoni</a>  Alberto Mingardi Managing Director Via Bossi 1 10144 Turin, Italy  <a href="mailto:info@brunoleoni.it" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@brunoleoni.it</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Istituto Bruno Leoni promotes a public discussion of awareness and information on the themes of the environment, competition, energy, market liberalization, taxation, privatization and reform of the social state.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Globalization • Competition • Market liberalization • Culture theory • Welfare • Taxes • Retirement • Climate • Energy • Environment • Health</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-993-2327
Fax: 703-993-2334

</div><a href="http://www.gmu.edu/jbc">The James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy</a>  Tyler Cowen, Ph.D. Director Buchanan House MSN 1D3 George Mason University Fairfax, VA, United States 22030 <a href="mailto:tcowen@gmu.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tcowen@gmu.edu </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Buchanan Center is named in honor of James M. Buchanan, a Nobel prize-winning economist and George Mason University professor emeritus, whose work has enriched understanding of the interrelationship between politics, law, and the economy. The Center builds on that legacy with a commitment to rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarship. The Center and George Mason faculty work together to build and apply an understanding of how individuals cooperate through the market and political processes. The Center is committed to innovative research and education.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Scholarship in economics, law, and politics</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 812-232-2434
Fax: 812-235-3685

</div><a href="http://www.jamesmadisoncenter.org/">James Madison Center for Free Speech</a>  James Bopp, Jr. General Counsel 1 South Sixth Street Terre Haute, IN, United States 47807 <a href="mailto:jboppjr@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jboppjr@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the James Madison Center for Free Speech is to support litigation and public education activities in order to defend the rights of political expression and association by citizens and citizen groups as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional rights • First Amendment • Campaign finance reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 850-386-3131
Fax: 850-386-1807

</div><a href="http://www.jamesmadison.org/">James Madison Institute</a>  J. Robert McClure, III President & CEO 100 North Duval Street Tallahassee, FL, United States 32301 <a href="mailto:jmi@jamesmadison.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jmi@jamesmadison.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The James Madison Institute’s mission is to keep the citizens of Florida informed about their government and to shape the state’s future through the advancement of practical free-market ideas on public policy issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Health care reform • Property rights • Taxation • Budget</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-483-8888
Fax: 202-483-8337

</div><a href="http://www.jamestown.org/">Jamestown Foundation</a>  Glen E. Howard President 4516 43rd Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20016 <a href="mailto:pubs@jamestown.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pubs@jamestown.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Jamestown Foundation’s mission is to inform and educate policymakers and the broader policy community about events and trends in those societies that are strategically or tactically important to the United States and that frequently restrict access to such information. Utilizing indigenous and primary sources, Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter, or agenda. It is often the only source of information that should be, but is not always, available through official or intelligence channels, especially in regard to Eurasia and terrorism.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Foreign policy and international relations • Russia and Eurasia • Middle East • China • Terrorism and international crime • Chechnya</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-81-3-5545-7280
Fax: 011-81-3-5545-0931

</div><a href="http://www.jtr.gr.jp/">Japanese for Tax Reform</a>  Masaru Uchiyama President 2 Nakata Building, Seventh Floor, 1-3-15 Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo 107-0052, Japan  <a href="mailto:info@jtr.gr.jp" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@jtr.gr.jp</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Japanese for Tax Reform (JTR) seeks to stimulate thinking in individuals, civic groups, businesses, and policy groups in order to create a new Japan, where the consensus to oppose tax increases flourishes.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Taxpayer protection</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-972-2-561-1689

</div><a href="http://www.jims-israel.org/">Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies</a>  Corinne Sauer Executive Director Rehov Yitzchak Elchanan 2 Jerusalem, Israel  <a href="mailto:contact@jims-israel.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@jims-israel.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) is an independent, non-profit economic policy think tank whose mission is to discover practical ways to promote free markets and limited government in Israel and the region.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Labor market reform • Welfare reform • Tax reform • Defense economics • Free trade • Privatization</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 704-233-1776
Fax: 704-233-1787

</div><a href="http://www.jessehelmscenter.org/">The Jesse Helms Center</a>  John Dodd President PO Box 247 Wingate, NC, United States 28174 <a href="mailto:ckphifer@jessehelmscenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ckphifer@jessehelmscenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Jesse Helms Center is to promote the principles of free enterprise and the traditional American values upon which former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms built his life and career. Founded in 1988, the Helms Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization supported by tax-deductible donations. Its work involves education, historical preservation, and public policy promotion through a variety of programs for students, scholars, and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting a foreign policy that protects the national sovereignty of the United States • Teaching principles of free enterprise to the next generation • Character education programs for young people • Teacher workshops on the United States’ founding principles • Promoting an accurate portrayal of Senator Helms’ life and career</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-667-3900
Fax: 202-667-0601

</div><a href="http://www.jinsa.org/">Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)</a>  Michael Makovsky Dhief Executive Officer and Executive Director 1307 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:info@jinsa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@jinsa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: JINSA’s role is to educate the American public about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability so that our vital interests as Americans can be safeguarded. It also works to inform the American defense community about the role Israel and other trustworthy allies play in bolstering democratic interests around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: War on terrorism • Homeland security • U.S.–Israel strategic cooperation • Halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction • State of American defense</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-638-2411
Fax: 202-638-6694

</div><a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/">Jewish Policy Center</a>  Matthew Brooks Executive Director 50 F Street, NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC, United States 20001 <a href="mailto:info@jewishpolicycenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@jewishpolicycenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Four thousand years of Jewish history suggest possible solutions to current issues based on a solid foundation of moral values, respect for the dignity and independence of the individual, and a concern for the building and continuation of healthy communities. The Jewish Policy Center’s mission is to create, articulate, continually examine, and advocate conservative approaches to social, economic, and foreign policy issues from the perspective of the Jewish community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Jewish communal affairs • Affirmative action • Welfare reform • First Amendment • War on terror</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 215-987-3000
Fax: 215-207-9370

</div><a href="http://www.johnjayinstitute.org/">The John Jay Institute </a> Alan R. Crippen President PO Box 28221 Philadelphia, PA, United States 19131 <a href="mailto:acrippen@johnjayinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">acrippen@johnjayinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The John Jay Institute for Faith, Society and Law is a para-academic center that is committed to advancing the knowledge and piety of the Christian faith as it pertains to the ordering of society, politics, and law. This educational task involves the rediscovery, recollection, and understanding of our religious, cultural, social, economic, and political heritage with relevant application to the pressing moral, social, and economic concerns facing America today.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious heritage • Cultural heritage • Social heritage • Economic heritage • Political heritage</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-828-3876
Fax: 919-821-5117

</div><a href="http://www.johnlocke.org/">John Locke Foundation</a>  John Hood President 200 West Morgan Street, Suite 200 Raleigh, NC, United States 27601 <a href="mailto:jhood@johnlocke.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jhood@johnlocke.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The John Locke Foundation (JLF) develops and promotes solutions to North Carolina’s most critical challenges. An independent think tank based in Raleigh, JLF seeks to transform state and local government through competition, innovation, freedom, and personal responsibility in order to strike a better balance between the public sector and private institutions of family, faith, community, and enterprise. JLF is a source of cutting-edge research, a publisher of news and documentaries, and a catalyst for change.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: North Carolina state government spending • K–12 education reform • Taxes • Health care • Medicaid • Transportation policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-834-2099

</div><a href="http://www.nccivitas.org/">John W. Pope Civitas Institute</a>  Francis De Luca President 100 South Harrington St. Raleigh, NC, United States 27603 <a href="mailto:max@civitas.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">max@civitas.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Civitas Institute is a research and public policy organization dedicated to serving the common good of North Carolina by providing conservative solutions to the state’s most pressing challenges. The Institute carries out its mission by conducting sound research and analysis of public policy issues; conducting monthly tracking polls; hosting seminars for newly elected officials, community leaders, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as candidates; and communicating with the public and elected officials through the news media, the Civitas Web site, newsletters, and a monthly magazine.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Budget • Taxes • Education • Environment • Life and family issues • Immigration • Health care • Jobs</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-532-3600
Fax: 919-532-0679

</div><a href="http://www.popecenter.org/">The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</a>  Jane S. Shaw Executive Vice President 200 West Morgan Street, Suite 110 Raleigh, NC, United States 27601 <a href="mailto:info@popecenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@popecenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is a non-profit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Higher education • Governance • Curriculum • Financing • Access • Accountability • Faculty research • Administrative policies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 603-224-4450
Fax: 603-224-4329

</div><a href="http://www.jbartlett.org/">The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy</a>  Charles M. Arlinghaus President 7 South State Street PO Box 897 Concord, NH, United States 03302 <a href="mailto:jbartlett@jbartlett.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jbartlett@jbartlett.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan, independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues that affect the quality of life for New Hampshire’s citizens. To improve economic prosperity and the general welfare, the Center provides information, research, and analysis to decision makers. The Center has as its core beliefs individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and an appreciation of the role of the free enterprise system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • State-local fiscal structure • Health • New Hampshire’s economy and public policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-34-655-46-6150
Fax: 011-34-91-365-3240

</div><a href="http://www.juandemariana.org/">The Juan de Mariana Institute</a>  Gabriel Calzada Director Calle del Madrid 28005, Spain  <a href="mailto:info@juandemariana.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@juandemariana.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Juan de Mariana Institute is a private, independent, not-for-profit think tank. With the aim of maintaining complete independence, the Institute does not accept subsidies or donations from any government or political party. The Institute aims to become a reference point in the debate of ideas and public policies with the view to promote a free society in which individuals suffer from the least possible institutional coercion.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-593-8442
Fax: 202-646-5199

</div><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/">Judicial Watch, Inc.</a>  Tom Fitton President 425 Third Street SW, Suite 800 Washington, DC, United States 20024 <a href="mailto:info@judicialwatch.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@judicialwatch.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Judicial Watch, a conservative, non-partisan, educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability, and integrity in government, politics, and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Investigation of corruption by government officials, judges, and politicians • Court monitoring projects in California and Texas • Open Records Project, providing consultation and assistance to conservative groups • Whistleblower protection and representation • Educational forums with international government and judicial representatives</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 301-258-2852
Fax: 301-330-3440

</div><a href="http://www.junkscience.com/">Junkscience.com</a>  Steven Milloy Founder and Publisher 12309 Briar Bush Lane Potomac, MD, United States 20854 <a href="mailto:junkman@junkscience.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">junkman@junkscience.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Junkscience.com seeks to provide its online community of users with a rich collection of resources for highlighting, exposing, and debunking the faulty scientific data, studies, and analyses that are used to further special agendas.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Junk science • Global warming • Public health priorities • Risk • Health scares</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 973-539-5280

</div><a href="http://www.justfacts.com/">Just Facts</a>  James D. Agresti President 641 Shunpike Rd #286 Chatham, NJ, United States 07928 <a href="mailto:info@justfacts.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@justfacts.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Just Facts is to research, document, and publish verifiable facts on the critical public policy issues of our time. We exist to equip people with information they can confidently use to make informed decisions in their personal lives, occupations, and in voting booths. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: National Debt • Pollution • Climate Change • Health Care • Gun Control • Social Security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 403-475-3622

</div><a href="http://www.jccf.ca/">Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms</a>  John Carpay President #253, 7620 Elbow Drive SW Calgary, Albert T2V 1K2, Canada  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The JCCF’s vision is for a Canada where: * each and every Canadian is treated equally by governments and by the courts, regardless of race, ancestry, ethnicity, age, gender, beliefs, or other personal characteristics. * all Canadians are free to express peacefully their thoughts, opinions and beliefs without fear of persecution or oppression. every person has the knowledge and the perseverance to control his or her own destiny as a free and responsible member of our society. * every Canadian has the understanding and determination to recognize, protect and preserve their human rights and constitutional freedoms. * people can enjoy economic liberty and individual freedom as responsible members of a free society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:  Individual Freedom * Freedom of Religion and Conscience * Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression * Freedom of Peaceful Assembly * Freedom of Association * Equality before the law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-904-7313
Fax: 703-478-9679

</div><a href="http://www.justicefellowship.org/">Justice Fellowship</a>  Pat Nolan President 1856 Old Reston Avenue Reston, VA, United States 20190 <a href="mailto:pnolan@justicefellowship.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pnolan@justicefellowship.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Justice Fellowship is a non-profit online community of Christians working to reform the criminal justice system to reflect Biblically-based principles of restorative justice for America’s criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious Freedom Restoration Act • Criminal justice research • Juvenile justice • Engaging the church in restorative justice • Victims’ rights legislation • Model criminal justice legislation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 210-614-7157
Fax: 210-614-6656

</div><a href="http://www.txjf.org/">The Justice Foundation</a>  Allan Parker, Jr. President 8122 Datapoint Drive, Suite 812 San Antonio, TX, United States 78229 <a href="mailto:aparker@txjf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">aparker@txjf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Justice Foundation seeks to mobilize citizens, through financial and service contributions, to provide free legal representation in landmark cases to protect and restore justice.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Free markets • Private property • Parental school choice • Parental rights in education • Enforcing laws to protect women’s health secondary email: info@txjf.org</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.kaltax.org/">Kalamazoo County Taxpayers Association</a>  PO Box 50122 Kalamazoo, MI, United States 49005-0122 <a href="mailto:stoptaxes@yahoo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">stoptaxes@yahoo.com </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Kalamazoo County Taxpayers Association is a non-partisan, taxpayer-advocacy organization. It was formed in 1995 to give taxpayers a voice in the taxing and spending decisions of local governments and schools. With a dues-paying membership of more than 400 people, the Association is the largest organization devoted to public policy in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Local government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 316-634-0218
Fax: 316-440-4806

</div><a href="http://www.kansaspolicy.org/">Kansas Policy Institute</a>  Dave Trabert President 250 North Water Street, Suite 216  Wichita, KS, United States 67202-1215 <a href="mailto:information@kansaspolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">information@kansaspolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Kansas Policy Institute is an independent non-profit organization that advocates for free enterprise solutions and the protection of personal freedom. Our work is focused on state and local economic issues in Kansas with particular emphasis on education, fiscal policy and health care. We empower citizens and legislators with credible research and creative ideas to promote a low-tax, pro-growth environment that preserves the ability to provide high quality services..
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education • Fiscal Policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 316-684-0082
Fax: 316-684-7527

</div><a href="http://www.kansastaxpayers.com/">Kansas Taxpayers Network</a>  Karl Peterjohn Executive Director PO Box 20050 Wichita, KS, United States 67208 <a href="mailto:info@kansastaxpayers.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@kansastaxpayers.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Kansas Taxpayers Network is dedicated to providing Kansas taxpayers with a strong voice addressing state and local government issues. A non-partisan citizens organization, Kansas Taxpayers Network promotes limited taxes and a strong free market environment and seeks to empower voters. It also advocates privatization, eliminating unnecessary government spending, and ending burdensome bureaucratic regulations. It believes that Kansans “cannot tax ourselves rich or spend ourselves wealthy.”
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Statewide fiscal issues • Spending/tax limitation - TABOR • Limiting property tax growth • Limiting local government’s expansion of tax authority • Monitoring Kansas government growth</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: +386 (0) 13602 884

</div><a href="http://www.katoliski-institut.si/">Katoliski Institut </a> Tomaž Šimec Catholic Institute, Ciril-Metodov trg 9  Ljubljana, Slovenia 1000 <a href="mailto:info@kat-inst.si" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@kat-inst.si</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Catholic Institute is the first step towards the founding of a catholic university. The Institute was founded by the Slovenska škofovska konferenca (Slovenian Episcopal Conference), whose membership includes all Slovenian dioceses. The Institute is engaged in research and development activities in the social sciences and humanities. Its primary mission, however, is to form institutions or faculties (schools) of higher education in most diverse fields of study and research, as well as university-level libraries, research centers and student dormitories, all of which will ultimately combine, in accordance with the appropriate legislation of the Republic of Slovenia, into an internationally recognized catholic university in Slovenia. Currently the Institute comprises the Faculty of Business Studies, the research library Studia Slovenica and the Institute for Human Rights Law.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education *Catholic education *Catholic university *Research in social sciences *research in humanities *business studies *human rights law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-438-7179
Fax: 859-971-0688

</div><a href="http://www.kentuckyteachers.org/">Kentucky Association of Professional Educators (KAPE)</a>  Ruth Green Director PO Box 24506 Lexington, KY, United States 40524 <a href="mailto:info@kentuckyteachers.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@kentuckyteachers.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: KAPE is organized to promote the professional status and growth of educators and the welfare of students. KAPE is committed to providing our students the best possible education in an uninterrupted environment. KAPE believes that public schools, their administrations, instructional services, and curriculum are accountable to the citizens of the local communities they serve. KAPE does not endorse, contribute to, or lobby for controversial social issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-254-20-2-719-933
Fax: 011-254-20-271-9951

</div><a href="http://www.kippra.org/">Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)</a>  Moses M. Ikiara Executive Director Bishops Garden Towers, Bishops Road PO Box 56445 Nairobi, Kenya  <a href="mailto:mmikiara@kippra.or.ke" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mmikiara@kippra.or.ke</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) is an autonomous public institute whose primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector in order to contribute to achievement of national development goals.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 616-546-3580
Fax: 616-546-3586

</div><a href="http://www.kidshopeusa.org/">KIDS HOPE USA</a>  Virgil Gulker Executive Director 100 South Pine Street Zeeland, MI, United States 49464 <a href="mailto:vgulker@kidshopeusa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">vgulker@kidshopeusa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: KIDS HOPE USA teaches churches to recruit, screen, train, match, and supervise their own members for one-to-one relationships with at-risk public elementary school children. KIDS HOPE USA is “one child...one hour...one church...one school.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Faith-based responses to child and family needs</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 612-573-2020
Fax: 612-573-2021

</div><a href="http://www.kidsfirstmn.org/">KidsFirst Scholarship Fund</a>  Crissy Finch Executive Director 800 Nicollet Mall, Suite 2680 Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402 <a href="mailto:cfinch@kidsfirstmn.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cfinch@kidsfirstmn.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: KidsFirst’s mission is to empower low-income parents living in the Twin Cities by giving them the opportunity to choose the school that best fits the needs of their child.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-600-7300

</div><a href="http://www.kirbycenter.hillsdale.edu/">The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies & Citizenship</a>  David J. Bobb, Ph.D. Director and Lecturer in Politics 227 Massachusetts Ave, NE Washington, DC, United States 20002 <a href="mailto:kirbycenter@hillsdale.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">kirbycenter@hillsdale.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Through teaching the principles and practices of American constitutionalism, the Kirby Center seeks to inspire all Americans to be worthy of the blessings of liberty. America’s Founders understood that the preservation of free government would depend on the capacity of the American people to remain faithful to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They understood as well that this fidelity would not be easy or automatic. The American experiment in liberty was staked upon a certain kind of education—an education aimed at providing citizens the knowledge and character required for self-government. With the teaching of Hillsdale College students its primary purpose, the Kirby Center is dedicated to the goal of re-establishing the fundamental conditions of freedom: true civic education in our schools and universities; a pride in self-government within society; and an understanding among our elected leaders of enduring constitutional principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 615-460-0100

</div>Laffer Associates  Paige Anderson Assistant to Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D. 2909 Poston Avenue #200 Nashville, TN, United States 37203-6302 <a href="mailto:PAnderson@laffer.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">PAnderson@laffer.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-554-6100
Fax: 703-554-6119

</div><a href="http://www.landmarklegal.org/">Landmark Legal Foundation</a>  Mark R. Levin President 19415 Deerfield Avenue, Suite 312 Leesburg, VA, United States 20176 <a href="mailto:eric@landmarklegal.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">eric@landmarklegal.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Landmark Legal Foundation promotes and defends the Constitution and individual liberty. The organization litigates cases involving school choice, private property rights, free enterprise, free speech, and tax limitation. Landmark also promotes government accountability and exposes official corruption through litigation and public education. Landmark has fought for more than a quarter century to preserve—and to apply anew—the constitutional principles on which America was founded and which are the origin of the nation’s enduring greatness.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Property rights • Public integrity • Free speech • Tax limitation • Free enterprise • Preserving American founding principles</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-247-2000
Fax: 703-247-2001

</div><a href="http://www.leadershipinstitute.org/">Leadership Institute</a>  Morton C. Blackwell President 1101 North Highland Street Arlington, VA, United States 22201 <a href="mailto:mblackwell@limail.us" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mblackwell@limail.us</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Leadership Institute is a national training organization for preparing future generations of conservative leaders. It is devoted to the task of identifying, recruiting, training, and placing philosophically committed conservatives in positions of influence in the public policy process. Since its founding in 1979, more than 80,000 young adherents of the principles of limited government, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional family values have been given the skills necessary for successful and effective leadership.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Political education and training • Organizing independent conservative student groups on campuses • Helping to form new conservative student newspapers and magazines • Helping citizens become more effective • Getting more conservatives to become TV journalists • Matching conservative job seekers with employers</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 360-687-3087
Fax: 360-687-2973

</div><a href="http://www.landrights.org/">League of Private Property Voters</a>  Chuck Cushman Chairman PO Box 423 Battle Ground, WA, United States 98604 <a href="mailto:ccushman@pacifier.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ccushman@pacifier.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The League of Private Property Voters (LPPV) is a nationwide, non-profit coalition of organizations and individuals organized in 1990. LPPV has developed and publishes the Private Property Congressional Vote Index, a congressional vote scorecard designed to let the public know how each U.S. Representative and Senator voted on important private property and federal land-use issues. The Vote Index is co-sponsored by over 600 land-use groups across the country. LPPV’s mission is to provide citizens with the tools to hold their Senators and Congressmen accountable for their votes.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Congressional vote ratings • No net loss of private land • Land acquisition • Private property rights • Access to federal land and resources • Endangered Species Act reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 610-793-1800
Fax: 610-793-1415

</div><a href="http://www.letfreedomringusa.com/">Let Freedom Ring</a>  Colin A. Hanna President 603 Fairway Drive West Chester, PA, United States 19382 <a href="mailto:webmaster@letfreedomringusa.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">webmaster@letfreedomringusa.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Let Freedom Ring is to promote a constitutional government, economic freedom, and traditional values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitution • Limited government • Separation of powers • Free enterprise • Social Security • Family values • Abortion • Religious liberty</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-522-5828
Fax: 703-522-5837

</div><a href="http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/">Lexington Institute</a>  Merrick Carey Chief Executive Officer 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 900 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 <a href="mailto:mail@lexingtoninstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@lexingtoninstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Lexington Institute’s goal is to inform and shape the public debate of national priorities in areas of surpassing importance to the future success of democracy, such as education policy, tax reform, regulatory philosophy, and national defense. The Institute strives to find non-governmental, market-based solutions to public policy challenges from the belief and conviction that a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity. By promoting America’s ability to project power around the globe, the Institute seeks not only to defend the homeland of democracy, but also to sustain the international stability in which other free-market democracies may thrive.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: National security and defense • Alliance relations • Naval strike forum • Immigration • Cuba • Education reform • Regulation • International economics and trade • Postal reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-41-44-364-16-66
Fax: 011-41-44-364-16-69

</div><a href="http://eng.libinst.ch/">Liberales Institut</a>  Pierre Bessard Executive Director Vogelsangstrasse 52 CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland  <a href="mailto:libinst@libinst.ch" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">libinst@libinst.ch</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberales Institut aims to advance and disseminate liberal ideas. Resting on the classical liberal tradition, its guiding principles are the three concepts of “openness, diversity and autonomy,” with the focus on individual autonomy based on property and the law of contract, as well as the free exchange of ideas and material goods on open markets under a liberal, democratic, and non-centralized system of government. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax competition • Non-centralism • Free market • Classical liberalism • Individual rights • Secrets of Swiss success</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-420-226-518-888
Fax: 011-420-226-518-813

</div><a href="http://www.libinst.cz/">Liberální Institut</a>  Miroslav Ševcík Director Spalena 51, Praha 1 Prague, Czech Republic  <a href="mailto:info@libinst.cz" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@libinst.cz</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberální Institut is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit think tank for the development, dissemination, and application of classical liberal ideas and programs based on the principles of classical liberalism.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Macroeconomic development • Regulation and deregulation • Public finance • Business cycles and money supply • International financial markets</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-56-2-377-4800
Fax: 011-56-2-207-7723

</div><a href="http://www.lyd.com/">Libertad y Desarrollo</a>  Luis Larrain Arroyo Executive Director Alcantara 498 Las Condes, Chile  <a href="mailto:lyd@lyd.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lyd@lyd.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Libertad y Desarrollo is a private research and study center independent of any political, religious, business, and governmental affiliations. The institute is dedicated to the analysis of public policies and to promoting the values and principles of a free society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Justice, rule of law • Small and efficient government • Economic growth and deregulation • Education • Private solution to public social problems • Delinquency and crime</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-33-6-29-62-06-79

</div><a href="http://www.liberte-cherie.com/">Liberté Chérie</a>  Vincent Ginocchio President 39, rue Henri Barbusse 92000 Nanterre, France  <a href="mailto:liberte@liberte-cherie.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">liberte@liberte-cherie.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberté Chérie is an unusual activist group—somewhere between a grassroots operation and a think tank. Its mission is to criticize and fight against anti-free-market and socialist ideas that are spread by leftist unions, politicians, and organizations. It is the only French classic liberal association that is able to set off important street rallies and tackle complex themes. Numerous articles about economic and social issues-—union reform, the welfare system, education, health care, unemployment, and liberalization in general—can be found on its Web site.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Union reform • Education system • Health care system • Pension reform • Unemployment • Public monopolies liberalization</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 317-842-0880
Fax: 317-577-6060

</div><a href="http://www.libertyfund.org/">Liberty Fund, Inc.</a>  Chris Talley President 8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300 Indianapolis, IN, United States 46250-1684 <a href="mailto:webmaster@libertyfund.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">webmaster@libertyfund.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberty Fund is a private educational foundation that encourages the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. It develops, supervises, and finances its own educational activities to foster thought and encourage discourse on enduring issues pertaining to liberty.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 972-941-4444
Fax: 972-423-6162

</div><a href="http://www.libertyinstitute.org/">Liberty Institute</a>  Kelly Shackelford President 2001 Plano Parkway, Suite 1600 Plano, TX, United States 75075 <a href="mailto:info@libertyinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@libertyinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberty Institute was founded as Free Market Foundation in 1972 as a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization dedicated to protecting freedoms and strengthening families. The Liberty Institute's mission is to strengthen and protect the individual and family by supporting principles that promote responsible citizenship, limited government, free enterprise, private property ownership, limited taxation, and Judeo-Christian values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-family issues • Religious freedom • Parental rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-91-11-2507-9214
Fax: 011-91-11-2507-9101

</div><a href="http://www.libertyindia.org/">Liberty Institute (India)</a>  Barun S. Mitra Director C-4/8 Sahyadri, Plot-5, Sector-12, Dwarka New Delhi 110045, India  <a href="mailto:info@libertyindia.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@libertyindia.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Liberty Institute in New Delhi, India, is an independent think tank dedicated to empowering the people by harnessing the power of the market. It seeks to uphold the four institutional pillars of a free society—individual rights, rule of law, limited government, and free market.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Development economics • Education • Environment • Health • Security • Trade</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 800-847-0227

</div><a href="http://www.libertymatters.org/">Liberty Matters</a>  Dan Byfield President PO Box 1207 Taylor, TX, United States 76574 <a href="mailto:info@libertymatters.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@libertymatters.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Liberty Matter's mission is to inform and inspire the individual to preserve liberty, the principles of freedom, our Constitution and private property rights for all generations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional issues • Property rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-759-4278
Fax: 703-759-5494

</div><a href="http://www.lincolnreview.org/">Lincoln Institute for Research and Education</a>  J. A. Parker President PO Box 254 Great Falls, VA, United States 22066 <a href="mailto:jparker@lincolnreview.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jparker@lincolnreview.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Lincoln Institute for Research and Education was founded in 1978 to study public policy issues that affect the lives of black middle America and to make its findings available to elected officials and the public. It is dedicated to seeking ways to improve the standard of living, quality of life, and freedom for all Americans. Through its research and education program, the Institute transmits pro-private enterprise views on public policy issues to policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Inflation • Education • National defense • Criminal justice • Health • Culture</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 717-671-0776
Fax: 717-671-1176

</div><a href="http://www.lincolninstitute.org/">Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research</a>  Lowman S. Henry Chairman and CEO Olde Liberty Square 4807 Jonestown Road, Suite #242 Harrisburg, PA, United States 17109 <a href="mailto:lhenry@lincolninstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lhenry@lincolninstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research is to promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research and related educational programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax cuts/reform • Business climate • Education • Right to work • Regulatory reform • Health care</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-606-0951
Fax: 312-606-0879

</div>Lincoln Legal Foundation  Joseph A. Morris President and General Counsel 39 South La Salle Street, Suite 500 Chicago, IL, United States 60603-1605 <a href="mailto:MRDchicago@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">MRDchicago@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Lincoln Legal Foundation seeks to defend individual liberty, private property and the free market, limited constitutional government, the federal system, and American national sovereignty through litigation, legal and public policy research and analysis, and education of the bench, bar, and public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Free speech, including commercial speech • Property rights • Tort reform • Rights of victims of crime • Terrorism and homeland security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-852-8101-2112
Fax: 011-852-3105-2186

</div><a href="http://www.lionrockinstitute.org/">The Lion Rock Institute</a>  G. Andrew Work Co-Founder and Director Rm 1903, Kai Tak Commercial Building, 317-319 Des Voeux Road Central Hong Kong, China  <a href="mailto:info@lionrockinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@lionrockinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Lion Rock Institute seeks to have a direct and demonstrable impact on government policy, to educate policymakers, active political participants, and the general public on the benefit of adopting free market values in building a prosperous Hong Kong, and to promote Hong Kong’s best free market practices to the world.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free market • Government policy • Economic policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-370-5-25-26-255

</div><a href="http://www.freema.org/">Lithuanian Free Market Institute</a>  Elena Leontjeva Founder and Chairman of the Board 16a Jasinskio Street LT-01112 Vilnius, Lithuania  <a href="mailto:LFMI@freema.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">LFMI@freema.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) is a private, non-profit, apolitical organization established in 1990 to promote the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy • Employment regulation • Energy policy • Knowledge economy • Health • Land market • Economic policy • Transport policy • State finances • Competition • Privatization • Pension reform • Business deregulation • Anti-corruption • Education • Monetary policy • Poverty • Law-making • NGO regulation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 512-832-4702
Fax: 512-832-9905

</div><a href="http://www.lonestarfoundation.org/">The Lone Star Foundation and Report</a>  David Hartman Chairman 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 333 Austin, TX, United States 78758 <a href="mailto:lutz@lonestarreport.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lutz@lonestarreport.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: To balance progress and prosperity of Texas and its communities, it is necessary to formulate a common vision, common goals, and the policies needed to achieve these ends. The Lone Star Foundation is a Texas-based think tank devoted to providing the resources and research needed for the development of public policy based on traditional Texas values of family, freedom, free enterprise, and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Border adjusted federal taxation reform • Reform of federal taxation and appropriate scoring • Texas state public school and general taxation reform • Comprehensive federal finance reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 225-344-8533
Fax: 225-344-9006

</div><a href="http://www.lafamilyforum.org/">Louisiana Family Forum</a>  Reverend Gene Mills Executive Director 655 Saint Ferdinand Street Baton Rouge, LA, United States 70802 <a href="mailto:info@lafamilyforum.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@lafamilyforum.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Louisiana Family Forum seeks to persuasively present Biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, education, communications, and networking.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and the traditional family • Sexual abstinence outside of marriage • Community Marriage Agreements • Covenant marriage • Educational issues • Sanctity of life issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 609-688-8779 x. 313
Fax: 609-688-1027

</div><a href="http://www.loveandfidelity.org/">Love and Fidelity Network</a>  Caitlin Seery Director of Programs 16 Stockton St Princeton, NJ, United States 08540 <a href="mailto:info@loveandfidelity.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@loveandfidelity.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Love and Fidelity Network’s mission is to equip college students with the arguments, resources, and support they need to uphold the institution of marriage, the special role of the family, and sexual integrity within their university communities. We aim to build a network that will become the nucleus of an articulate and effective new generation of leaders who will advocate for marriage, family, love and fidelity on college campuses and in the public square.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues:  Marriage * Family * Fidelity * Sexual Integrity</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 608-279-6239
Fax: 608-255-0788

</div><a href="http://www.lburnsinstitute.org/">Lucy Burns Institute</a>  Leslie Graves President PO Box 2134 Madison, WI, United States 53701 <a href="mailto:lbgraves@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lbgraves@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is dedicated to sharing information, guidance, practical advice, legal developments, and news about open records at the state and local level. LBI is also developing materials for ordinary citizens who want to use the Internet to share information about local units of government—cities, counties, and school districts.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Transparency • Open records</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 334-321-2100
Fax: 334-321-2119

</div><a href="http://www.mises.org/">Ludwig von Mises Institute</a>  Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. President 518 West Magnolia Avenue Auburn, AL, United States 36832 <a href="mailto:contact@mises.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@mises.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Mises Institute is to restore a high place for theory in economics and the social sciences, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, and to draw attention to neglected traditions in Western philosophy. In this cause, the Mises Institute works to advance the Austrian School of economics and the Misesian tradition and, in application, defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive. The Institute funds graduate students; directs their education; sponsors faculty research; hosts conferences, seminars, and summer schools; and publishes books, journals, and newsletters.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Opposing war • Abolishing the central bank • Restoring freedom of association and contract • Eliminating taxes and spending • Establishing laissez-faire • Delegitimizing the central state • Classical liberalism • Libertarian political theory</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-32-27-43-41-55
Fax: 011-32-27-42-17-85

</div><a href="http://www.vonmisesinstitute-europe.org/">Ludwig von Mises Institute–Europe</a>  Annette Godart-van der Kroon President Place des chasseurs Ardennais 20 1030 - Brussels, Belgium  <a href="mailto:info@vonmisesinstitute-europe.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@vonmisesinstitute-europe.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The principal goal of the Ludwig von Mises Institute–Europe (LVMI-Europe) is to become the best known liberal think tank in Europe, aiming to foster respect for individual liberty and the free market and to promote the rule of law in a free society. LVMI-Europe also seeks to be the interface between the academic world and the business world.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: The enlargement of Estonia, Central Asia, Turkey, and Ukraine • European economy • Entrepreneurial climate • Transport, logistics, and infrastructure • Transatlantic relations</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 608-237-7290

</div><a href="http://maciverinstitute.com/">MacIver Institute</a>  Brett Healy President 44 East Mifflin Street, Suite 201 Madison, WI, United States 53703 <a href="mailto:info@maciverinstitute.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@maciverinstitute.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based think tank that promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics • Health Care Reform • Education • Transportation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 989-631-0900
Fax: 989-631-0964

</div><a href="http://www.mackinac.org/">Mackinac Center for Public Policy</a>  Joseph G. Lehman President 140 West Main Street PO Box 568 Midland, MI, United States 48640 <a href="mailto:mcpp@mackinac.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mcpp@mackinac.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a non-partisan, research, and educational organization devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions. The Mackinac Center assists policymakers, scholars, business people, the media, and the public by providing objective analysis of Michigan issues. The goal of all Center reports, commentaries, and educational programs is to equip Michigan citizens and other decision makers to better evaluate policy options.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education and school choice • Labor law • Privatization • Economic development</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 207-945-6893
Fax: 207-945-6583

</div><a href="http://www.mecsf.org/">Maine Children's Scholarship Fund</a>  Betsy Chapman President 27 State Street, Suite 64A PO Box 913 Bangor, ME, United States 04401-0913 <a href="mailto:mecsf@midmaine.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mecsf@midmaine.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Maine Children’s Scholarship Fund is to increase parental involvement by low-income parents in their children’s education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 207-321-2550
Fax: 207-773-4385

</div><a href="http://www.mainepolicy.org/">The Maine Heritage Policy Center</a>  PO Box 7829 Portland, ME, United States 04112 <a href="mailto:info@mainepolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mainepolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Maine Heritage Policy Center is an independent, non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to the study of state and local public policy issues. Founded in 2002, the Center seeks to explore and advance policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care reform • Tax reform • Education issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 212-599-7000
Fax: 212-599-3494

</div><a href="http://www.manhattaninstitute.org/">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>  Lawrence J. Mone President 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY, United States 10017 <a href="mailto:mi@manhattan-institute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mi@manhattan-institute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Manhattan Institute is a non-partisan, independent, research, and educational organization supported by tax-deductible gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations. The Institute’s goal is to develop and encourage public policies at all levels of government that allow individuals the greatest scope for achieving their potential, both as participants in a productive economy and as members of a functioning society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Education • Urban innovation • Legal reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 814-833-3200
Fax: 814-833-4844

</div><a href="http://www.mbausa.org/">Manufacturer & Business Association</a>  2171 West 38th St Erie, PA, United States 16508 <a href="mailto:mbainfo@mbausa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mbainfo@mbausa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Manufacturer & Business Association, with offices in Erie, Williamsport, and Harrisburg, is dedicated to providing information and services to its members that will assist them in the pursuit of their business and community interests.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-319-6215
Fax: 202-319-4459

</div><a href="http://www.marriagewatch.org/">The Marriage Law Project</a>  Robert Destro Principal Investigator & Project Director Columbus School of Law 3600 John McCormack Road, NE Washington, DC, United States 20064 <a href="mailto:nell@law.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nell@law.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Marriage Law Project’s mission is to reaffirm the legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Project operates as a part of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion of The Catholic University of America. Its offices are in Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Reaffirm the legal definition of marriage</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 301-469-5870
Fax: 301-469-5871

</div><a href="http://www.marriagesavers.org/">Marriage Savers</a>  Michael J. McManus President 9311 Harrington Drive Potomac, MD, United States 20854-4510 <a href="mailto:infor@marriagesavers.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">infor@marriagesavers.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Marriage Savers’ goal is to radically reduce the divorce rate and to increase the marriage rate. The organization has helped the clergy of 188 cities adopt a “Community Marriage Policy” in which the pastors from a cross-section of denominations agree on a set of strategies aimed at offering couples thorough marriage preparation, the enrichment of existing marriages, the saving of troubled ones, and help for stepfamilies to be successful parents and partners. An independent study estimates that Marriage Savers has saved 50,000 marriages. It does so in part by training Mentor Couples to assist other couples in every stage of the marital life cycle.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Promote “Healthy Marriage Initiatives” involving houses of worship • Encourage marriage between unwed couples, especially those who have children • Replace no-fault divorce with “mutual consent” divorce • Create a video series for churches to train marriage mentor couples • Create a national association of “community marriage policies”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 410-296-5621
Fax: 410-296-5625

</div><a href="http://www.mbrg.org/">Maryland Business for Responsive Government</a>  Robert O. C. Worcester President 1122 Kenilworth Drive, Suite 503 Baltimore, MD, United States 21204 <a href="mailto:rocworcester@mbrg.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">rocworcester@mbrg.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The purpose of Maryland Business for Responsive Government is to improve the role of business in the formulation of Maryland’s public policy. This is achieved through economic and political education of elected and appointed officials; holding elected officials accountable for their business-related votes; publication of timely, scholarly research; and the support of pro-business candidates of both parties.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Transportation • Tax policy • Labor • Regulation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 240-686-3510
Fax: 240-686-3511

</div><a href="http://www.mdpolicy.org/">The Maryland Public Policy Institute</a>  Christopher B. Summers President PO Box 195 Germantown, MD, United States 20875-0195 <a href="mailto:info@mdpolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mdpolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Maryland Public Policy Institute is to formulate and promote public policies at the state and local government level based on principles of free enterprise, limited government, and a civil society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Health care • Transportation • Budget and fiscal issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-554-2964

</div><a href="http://www.mdtaxes.org/">Maryland Taxpayers Association</a>  Dee Hodges President 9613-C Harford Road Baltimore, MD, United States 21234 <a href="mailto:mta@rstarmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mta@rstarmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Maryland Taxpayers Association (MTA) is a statewide, non-partisan organization of Maryland taxpayers and county taxpayer organizations working to promote effective, fiscally efficient government. MTA provides expert testimony before the Maryland legislature on bills of concern and carries out investigations of government waste. MTA hosts lectures and other public events, publishes the MTA Newsletter, advises the press on current issues affecting the Maryland taxpayer, and provides educational resources on tax issues for students, teachers, and concerned citizens around the state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes in Maryland</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 781-569-0400
Fax: 781-569-0215

</div><a href="http://www.mafamily.org/">Massachusetts Family Institute</a>  Kris Mineau President 100 Sylvan Road, Suite 625 Woburn, MA, United States 01801 <a href="mailto:info@mafamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mafamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to strengthening the family and affirming the Judeo-Christian values upon which it is based. It seeks to reduce barriers to family stability and to create a political and social environment where families can thrive and prosper. MFI engages in research and education on a wide range of public health, safety, and policy issues to help strengthen family bonds.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Preserving the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman • Strengthening marriages by encouraging church involvement before and after the wedding through counseling and mentoring • Upholding the value of human life from conception until natural death • Teaching and advancing premarital abstinence • Protecting children from the dangers of the internet and sexual predators • Exposing the dangers, and opposing the expansion, of gambling</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (610)-519-4500

</div><a href="http://www1.villanova.edu/">The Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good</a>  Colleen A. Sheehan, Ph.D Director  800 E. Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA, United States 19085 <a href="mailto:colleen.sheehan@villanova.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">colleen.sheehan@villanova.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University promotes inquiry into the principles and processes of free government and seeks to advance understanding of the responsibilities of statesmen and citizens of constitutional democratic societies.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: civil society *political philosophy *rule of law *free market *civic responsibility *religious liberty *federalism *limited government *the Constitution *natural rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-64-09-627-3261
Fax: 011-64-09-627-3264

</div><a href="http://www.maxim.org.nz/">The Maxim Institute</a>  Greg Fleming Chief Executive Officer 49 Cape Horn Road Hillsborough, Auckland 1041, New Zealand  <a href="mailto:director@maxim.org.nz" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">director@maxim.org.nz</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Maxim Institute is an independent research and public policy think tank committed to fostering ideas and leadership that enable freedom, justice, and compassion to flourish in New Zealand.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Civil society • Welfare • Family and marriage</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 571-267-3500
Fax: 703-683-9736

</div><a href="http://www.mediaresearch.org/">Media Research Center (MRC)</a>  L. Brent Bozell, III President 1900 Campus Commons Dr., Suite 600 Reston, VA, United States 20191 <a href="mailto:mrc@mediaresearch.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mrc@mediaresearch.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: MRC was established as a media watchdog organization in 1987 with a mission to bring political balance and responsibility to the nation’s news media. Today, MRC’s research and analysis operation exposes and neutralizes liberal bias in the news and entertainment media. MRC publishes newsletters, monographs, and books; produces a nationally syndicated column and regular op-ed pieces; provides research to other conservatives combating media bias; hosts two political Internet Web sites—www.MediaResearch.org and www.CNSNews.com; and provides spokespersons for television, radio, and print interviews to advance and defend the conservative movement.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Media bias • Politics in entertainment • Media bias in economic issues • Political balance in the media • Free enterprise • News and reporting</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 901-842-5327
Fax: 901-842-5331

</div><a href="http://www.memphisscholarships.org/">Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST)</a>  Mandy Yandell Executive Director 850 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Suite 220 Memphis, TN, United States 38120 <a href="mailto:myandell@memphisscholarships.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">myandell@memphisscholarships.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST) provides scholarships and tuition assistance to Memphis children in order to give parents the opportunity to choose the most appropriate school for their children. By providing educational opportunities to families in need, MOST also seeks to promote excellence in education..
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-993-4930
Fax: 703-993-4935

</div><a href="http://www.mercatus.org/">Mercatus Center at George Mason University</a>  Tyler Cowen, Ph. D. General Director 3434 Washington Blvd, 4th Floor Arlington, VA, United States 22201 <a href="mailto:mercatus@mercatus.gmu.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mercatus@mercatus.gmu.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Mercatus Center at George Mason University conducts scholarly research into the institutions that advance prosperity and liberty and spreads this knowledge to decision makers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Working to improve government accountability and transparency on a federal and state level • Increasing awareness about how economic insights can point to solutions of public policy problems • Improving the state of knowledge and debate about regulations and their impact upon society • Understanding the basic cultural, political, economic, and legal institutions that must be in place to enable people to engage in cooperation for mutual advantage, and to help others apply this understanding to foreign aid and domestic policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 517-374-1171
Fax: 517-374-6112

</div><a href="http://www.michiganfamily.org/">Michigan Family Forum</a>  Brad Snavely Executive Director PO Box 15216 Lansing, MI, United States 48901-5216 <a href="mailto:info@michiganfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@michiganfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Michigan Family Forum (MFF) is to stimulate cultural renewal by strengthening Michigan families through public advocacy, education, and collaboration. This mission is accomplished by aggressively promoting a positive legislative agenda and providing thoughtful, cutting-edge research focused on four key areas: protecting children, strengthening marriage, promoting responsible fatherhood, and honoring elders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and marriage enrichment • Well-being of children • Fatherhood • Abstinence • Pornography • Elders • Limited government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 479-927-3315

</div>Mid-American Policy Institute  Stuart Buck 4531 Stonecrest Springdale, AR, United States 72762 <a href="mailto:stuartbuck@gmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">stuartbuck@gmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 301-907-0947
Fax: 301-951-0539

</div><a href="http://www.minaret.org/">Minaret of Freedom Institute</a>  Dr. I. Dean Ahmad President 4323 Rosedale Avenue Bethesda, MD, United States 20814 <a href="mailto:mfi@minaret.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mfi@minaret.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Minaret of Freedom Institute is to discover and publish the political-economic policy implications of Islamic law and their consequences on the economic well being of the community; to promote the establishment of free trade and justice (an essential common interest of Islam and the West); to educate Islamic religious and community leaders in economics and in the fact that liberty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the achievement of a good society; and (building upon the words of Thomas Jefferson) to wage unending holy struggle against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious freedom • Church-state relations • Terrorism and international crime • Middle East • Constitutional law • Property rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 612-789-8811
Fax: 612-789-8858

</div><a href="http://www.mfc.org/">Minnesota Family Council</a>  Thomas Prichard President 2855 Anthony Place South, Suite 150 Minneapolis, MN, United States 55418 <a href="mailto:tom@mfc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tom@mfc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) is a non-profit, non-partisan, pro-family organization dedicated to strengthening families by grounding public policy in the Judeo-Christian principles upon which American government and society are founded. The Council is building a grassroots network of families and individuals concerned about traditional values, educating and training citizens for political and community involvement, and actively promoting key issues in the Minnesota legislature, the U.S. Congress, and the media. MFC also publishes a monthly newspaper, Pro-Family News.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform/school choice • Divorce law reform • Family tax relief/charity tax credit • Parental rights • Abstinence education • Marriage protection/promotion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 651 294 3593
Fax: 651 294 3596 

</div><a href="http://www.mnfmi.org/">The Minnesota Free Market Institute</a>  Kimberly Crockett President and General Counsel 17900 Shavers Lake Drive Wayzata, MN, United States 55391 <a href="mailto:info@mnfreemarketinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mnfreemarketinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Minnesota Free Market Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to expanding liberty and free markets. It conducts research, publishes materials, and conducts public forums to involve Minnesotans in free market reforms that will enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Education • Health care • Transportation • Economic competitiveness</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-299-0060
Fax: 703-783-6300

</div><a href="http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/">Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA)</a>  Riki Ellison President and Founder 515 King Street, Suite 320 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:info@missiledefenseadvocacy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@missiledefenseadvocacy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 2002, MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization and does not support or endorse any specific system or political affiliation. Its mission is to reflect the American public’s opinion on missile defense and to build broad, public support for the development, testing, deployment, and evolution of a robust missile defense system. It is MDAA’s goal to bring the American public support of missile defense to the attention of national, state, and local decision makers for their consideration.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Deployment of missile defense system • Continued deployment, evolution, and development of missile defense • International cooperation of missile defense • Evolution of missile defense</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 601-969-1300
Fax: 601-969-1600

</div><a href="http://www.mspolicy.org/">Mississippi Center for Public Policy</a>  Forest M. Thigpen President 520 George Street Jackson, MS, United States 39202 <a href="mailto:thigpen@mspolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">thigpen@mspolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Mississippi Center for Public Policy promotes limited government, free markets, and strong traditional families.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: State spending • Charter schools • Education reform • Health care reform • Welfare reform • Marriage promotion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.moeagle.org/">Missouri Eagle Forum</a>  Lois Linton Vice President Pillar in the Valley, 229 Chesterfield Business Parkway Chesterfield, MO, United States 63005 <a href="mailto:eagle.forum@charter.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">eagle.forum@charter.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 636-536-0014

</div><a href="http://www.missourifamily.org/">Missouri Family Policy Council</a>  Joe Ortwerth Executive Director 229 Chesterfield Business Parkway Chesterfield , MO, United States 63005 <a href="mailto:info@missourifamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@missourifamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Missouri Family Policy Council (MoFPC) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting Biblical principles in our government and Judeo-Christian values in our culture that support and encourage strong healthy families. 
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and Family • Religious Liberty • Christian Citizenship • Protection of Life</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-32-2506-40-06
Fax: 011-32-2506-40-09

</div><a href="http://www.institutmolinari.org/">The Molinari Economic Institute</a>  Cecile Philippe Directeur général Rue de Luxembourg 23 bte 1 1000 Brussels, Belgium  <a href="mailto:cecile@institutmolinari.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cecile@institutmolinari.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Molinari Economic Institute is an independent, not-for-profit research and educational institute. The Institute offers relevant solutions in the public policy debates of France by focusing on the importance of markets.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Environment • Market flexibility • Competition</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 406-628-1141
Fax: 406-628-1171

</div><a href="http://www.montanafamily.org/">Montana Family Foundation</a>  Jeff Laszloffy President PO Box 485 Laurel, MT, United States 59044 <a href="mailto:jeff@montanafamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jeff@montanafamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Montana Family Foundation is a non-profit, research and education organization, working in association with Focus On The Family, to support, protect and strengthen Montana families.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Family</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 406-219-0508

</div><a href="http://www.montanapolicy.org/">Montana Policy Institute</a>  Carl Graham CEO 67 W. Kagy Blvd Ste. B Bozeman, MT, United States 59715 <a href="mailto:cgraham@montanapolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cgraham@montanapolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Montana Policy Institute (MPI) is a free market think tank focused on Montana issues and Montana solutions. A tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation, MPI is dedicated to providing information and ideas to Montana citizens and policymakers. MPI seeks to broaden the debate beyond looking to government for solutions to state challenges and to make state and local government more accountable to the people they serve. MPI’s goal is to become the premier resource for free market, individual liberty, educational, and informational products. MPI’s efforts will result in concrete actions that promote the liberty, prosperity, and quality of life for all Montanans.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Climate change • Taxpayers’ bill of rights (TABOR) • Government transparency</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 514-273-0969
Fax: 514-273-2581

</div><a href="http://www.iedm.org/">The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)</a>  Michel Kelly Gagnon President & CEO 910 Peel Street, Suite 600 Montreal, QC H3C 2H8, Canada  <a href="mailto:mkellygagnon@iedm.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mkellygagnon@iedm.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: MEI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and educational institute. MEI wants to make itself known as the initiator of relevant and original solutions in the public policy debates of Quebec by focusing in particular on the importance of wealth creation.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care reform • School performance evaluation • Tax burden and public finances • Effect of over-regulation • Free trade and globalization issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 303-292-2021
Fax: 303-292-1980

</div><a href="http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/">Mountain States Legal Foundation</a>  William Perry Pendley President and Chief Legal Officer 2596 South Lewis Way Lakewood, CO, United States 80227 <a href="mailto:info@mountainstateslegal.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mountainstateslegal.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Mountain States Legal Foundation seeks the proper application of the Constitution and interpretation of the law in the courts, administrative agencies and other forums. Specifically, it provides a strong and effective voice for freedom of enterprise, the rights of private property ownership, and the multiple use of federal and state resources, and also champions the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution in support of individual and business enterprises against unwarranted government intrusion.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of enterprise • Private property rights - takings • Access to and use of federal and state lands and resources • Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws • Rights and liberties guaranteed by the constitution • Limited and ethical government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 323-650-3850

</div><a href="http://www.movingpictureinstitute.org/">Moving Picture Institute</a>  Rob Pfaltzgraff Executive Director Tribeca Film Center 375 Greenwich Street New York, NY, United States 10013 <a href="mailto:info@thempi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@thempi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Moving Picture Institute identifies and nurtures promising filmmakers who are committed to protecting and sustaining a free society and supports their work through grants, travel scholarships, awards, internships, training workshops, and networking opportunities.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 646-742-2845
Fax: 646-742-2851

</div><a href="http://www.murrayhillinstitute.org/">Murray Hill Institute</a>  Kathleen McGarry President 243 Lexington Avenue New York, NY, United States 10016 <a href="mailto:mentoring@murrayhillinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mentoring@murrayhillinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Murray Hill Institute is devoted to the study of the distinct contribution that women make to society. The Institute addresses the varied needs of professional women, as well as university students preparing for professional life. Through conferences, lectures, seminars, and publications, the Institute explores and promotes an eminently positive feminism. The programs sponsored by Murray Hill Institute are inspired by the thought and work of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, a personal Prelature of the Catholic Church. The programs offered by the Institute are open to individuals of all races, creeds, and ethnic backgrounds.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Professional development seminars • Mentoring program • Networking for junior professional women</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 917.551.6770 

</div><a href="http://www.nas.org/">National Association of Scholars (NAS)</a>  Dr. Peter W. Wood President 8 W. 38TH ST. SUITE 503  New York, NY, United States 10018  <a href="mailto:contact@nas.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@nas.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Association of Scholars consists of professors, graduate students, and administrators committed to rational discourse as the foundation for academic life in a free society. NAS works to enrich the substance and strengthen the integrity of scholarship and teaching, convinced that only through an informed understanding of the Western intellectual heritage and the realities of the contemporary world can citizen and scholar be equipped to sustain Western civilization’s achievements.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic standards • Politicization of academic life • Curriculum reform • Teacher education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 225-778-0169

</div><a href="http://www.nbhe.net/">National Black Home Educators</a>  Eric Burges Co-Founder 13434 Plank Road, PMB 110 Baker, LA, United States 70714 <a href="mailto:contact@nbhe.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@nbhe.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Black Home Educators (NBHE) is a resource network established to encourage, support, and offer fellowship to families who are exploring benefits of home education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic standards • Politicization of academic life • Curriculum reform • Teacher education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 972-386-6272
Fax: 972-386-0924

</div><a href="http://www.ncpa.org/">National Center for Policy Analysis</a>  John C. Goodman, Ph.D. President 12770 Coit Road, Suite 800 Dallas, TX, United States 75251 <a href="mailto:john.goodman@ncpa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">john.goodman@ncpa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research organization, established in 1983. NCPA’s goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security • Health care • Taxes • Education • Environment/energy • Women in the economy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-543-4110
Fax: 202-543-5975

</div><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/">National Center for Public Policy Research</a>  Amy Moritz Ridenour President 501 Capitol Court NE, Suite 200 Washington, DC, United States 20002 <a href="mailto:info@nationalcenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nationalcenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. The Center believes that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment/regulation • Health care • Minority issues • Social Security • National defense • Legal reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-463-5500
Fax: 202-463-3129

</div><a href="http://www.uschamber.com/ncf">National Chamber Foundation</a>  Arthur Rothkopf Executive Vice President 1615 H Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20062 <a href="mailto:ncf@uschamber.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ncf@uschamber.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Chamber Foundation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, drives the policy debate on key issues by formulating arguments, developing options, and influencing thinking in an effort to move the American business agenda forward. The Foundation serves policymakers and the business community by providing a forum where leaders can consider and advance new ideas that benefit American business.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Travel and tourism • Counterfeiting and intellectual property theft • Corporate governance and accounting reform • International trade • Transportation • Legal reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 513-521-6227
Fax: 513-521-6337

</div><a href="http://www.nationalcoalition.org/">National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families</a>  Rick Schatz President and CEO 800 Compton Road, Suite 9224 Cincinnati, OH, United States 45231 <a href="mailto:rick@nationalcoalition.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">rick@nationalcoalition.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The vision of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF) is to move the people of God to embrace, live out, and defend the biblical truth of sexuality. NCPCF is a non-profit ministry dedicated to articulating, advancing, and defending biblical truth in the areas of sexuality, marriage, and family. Established in 1983, it is one of the largest pro-family organizations in America committed to recapturing a Christian consensus in matters of moral philosophy and related public policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Sex education in schools • Same-sex marriage • Teens and sex • Outreach to churches • Sex in the media</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-299-6633
Fax: 703-299-6004

</div><a href="http://www.adoptioncouncil.org/">National Council For Adoption</a>  Chuck Johnson President and CEO 225 North Washington Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:ncfa@adoptioncouncil.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ncfa@adoptioncouncil.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1980, the National Council For Adoption (NCFA) is a research, education, and advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the well being of children, birthparents, and adoptive families by advocating for the positive option of adoption. NCFA is an adoption advocate and expert in the halls of power and the courts of public opinion on behalf of all parties to adoption and its member adoption agencies around the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Presenting adoption as a positive option for unplanned pregnancy • Promoting adoptions of out foster care • Facilitating intercountry adoption • Making adoption more affordable through the tax credit • Promoting safe havens to prevent infanticide and unsafe infant abandonment • Preserving the option of confidentiality in adoption</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-243-0553
Fax: 703-807-2073

</div><a href="http://www.ndcf.org/">National Defense Council Foundation</a>  Jim Martin Executive Director 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 960 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 <a href="mailto:hq@ndcf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">hq@ndcf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) is a non-profit think tank studying defense and foreign affairs issues that face the U.S. Specializing in the study of special operations/low-intensity conflict, the drug war, and energy concerns, NDCF briefs Congress, the media, and members on salient matters that affect the military, political, and socioeconomic aspects of these issues. It also has an exceptional internship program and performs medical relief missions to tumultuous regions around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Small wars • Drug wars • China’s hostile military • Emerging threats to the U.S. • Energy and environment relating to national security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 301-948-0599
Fax: 301-948-4325

</div><a href="http://www.fatherhood.org/">National Fatherhood Initiative</a>  Roland Warren President 101 Lake Forest Boulevard, Suite 360 Gaithersburg, MD, United States 20877 <a href="mailto:info@fatherhood.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fatherhood.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) was founded in 1994 to stimulate a society-wide movement to confront the growing problem of father absence and is dedicated to improving the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers. A non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-partisan organization, NFI conducts public awareness campaigns promoting responsible fatherhood, organizes conferences and community fatherhood forums, provides training and resource materials to organizations seeking to establish support programs for fathers, publishes a quarterly newsletter, and distributes resources to men seeking to become more effective fathers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Fatherhood • Marriage • Abstinence promotion • Welfare reform • Work/life balance • Incarcerated fathers</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 212-232-3333
Fax: 212-232-2244

</div><a href="http://www.nfte.com/">National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship</a>  Steve Mariotti President & Founder 120 Wall Street, 29th Floor New York, NY, United States 10005 <a href="mailto:nfte@nfte.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nfte@nfte.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is to develop products and services that enable teachers and youth workers to inspire self-esteem and self-sufficiency in low-income youth by teaching entrepreneurship. NFTE runs over 200 programs per year around the world, working with at-risk children and teaching them the basics of the free enterprise system. NFTE graduates approximately 4,000 students per year with the requirement that each student start a small business.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Teaching entrepreneurship • Attracting top teachers to inner-city teaching</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 503-364-1490
Fax: 503-364-2827

</div><a href="http://www.nheri.org/">National Home Education Research Institute</a>  Brian D. Ray President PO Box 13939 Salem, OR, United States 97309 <a href="mailto:mail@nheri.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@nheri.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) is to produce high-quality research on home-based education (home schooling); to serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, home schoolers, the media, and policymakers; and to educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education. NHERI provides consultants, speakers, and expert witnesses on educational topics, specializing in home schooling.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Home school research • Parental rights and freedoms • Education excellence • Education choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 301-464-4277
Fax: 301-464-4277

</div><a href="http://www.nhinet.org/">National Humanities Institute</a>  Joseph Baldacchino President PO Box 1387 Bowie, MD, United States 20718-1387 <a href="mailto:mail@nhinet.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@nhinet.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Humanities Institute promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the humanities with emphasis on the importance of culture and society. The Institute believes that to elevate society it is necessary to change the basic orientation of the culture. Fundamentally, any real and lasting renewal of Western and American society must start in the humanities—in universities, literature and the arts—and must be based on concrete historical experience.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Ethics • Epistemology • Cultural basis of society • Constitutionalism • Civil society • National sovereignty</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-321-9606
Fax: 703-321-7342

</div><a href="http://www.nilrr.org/">National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR)</a>  Stanley Greer Program Director/Senior Research Associate 5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 510 Springfield, VA, United States 22151 <a href="mailto:research@nilrr.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">research@nilrr.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Institute for Labor Relations is associated with the National Right to Work Committee and conducts the research and analysis necessary to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism.. It's research focuses on and calls attention to important facts that are overlooked by both union and business spokesmen. NILRR's primary function is to act as a research facility that specializes in nonpartisan analysis and study for the benefit of the general public, scholars, and students.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Unions • Monopoly • Right to Work • Unions and Public Sector • Collective Bargaining • Union Investigation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-293-9181

</div><a href="http://www.nipp.org/">National Institute for Public Policy</a>  Dr. Keith B. Payne CEO and President 9302 Lee Highway, Suite 750 Fairfax, VA, United States 22031 <a href="mailto:amy.joseph@nipp.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">amy.joseph@nipp.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Institute for Public Policy is a non-profit corporation founded in 1981 to promote public education on international issues. The Institute’s focus has been on mid-to-long strategy and policy issues. This focus has enabled the National Institute to provide useful service to the U.S. national defense through both its study efforts and through direct support to the Department of Defense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Developing deterrence concepts • National missile defense • Developing U.S. security strategies toward political adversaries • Arms control • The Russian dimension of U.S. defense policy • Security issues in the south Caucasus</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 800-471-2994
Fax: 816-229-8425

</div><a href="http://www.nla.org/">National Lawyers Association</a>  Mario Mandina CEO 17201 East 40 Highway, Suite 207 Independence, MO, United States 64055 <a href="mailto:nla@nla.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nla@nla.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Association’s mission is to preserve and protect the structures of the U.S. government as established by its Founding Fathers; to promote the principles and transcendent truths set forth in the Declaration of Independence, including, but not limited to, the sanctity of life, the rule of law, equality, and justice; to improve the image of the legal profession by encouraging members to adopt and maintain the highest ethical and moral standards; to provide services, benefits, technology, education, guidance, and professional assistance to its members; and to encourage members and the legal community as a whole to earn the respect and trust of the American people by conducting themselves with professionalism and integrity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Educate attorneys and general populace about Declaration of Independence • Provide videos and lesson plans to schools for inclusion in curriculum • Education through the NLA Foundation • Preserve and protect the structure of government of the U.S. as established by the Founding Fathers • Improve the image of the legal profession by promoting and encouraging higher ethical standards</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-237-1970
Fax: 703-237-2090

</div><a href="http://www.nlpc.org/">National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC)</a>  Peter Flaherty President 107 Park Washington Court Falls Church, VA, United States 22046-4237 <a href="mailto:pflaherty@nlpc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pflaherty@nlpc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: NLPC promotes ethics in public life through research, education and legal action. NLPC’s lasting vision is a single standard of ethics. The “moral relativism” of the left has created a double standard where anything is excused as long as the politics of the perpetrator are “correct.” NLPC seeks to undermine this double standard and expose the selective indignation and hypocrisy of the left. NLPC also recognizes that the bigger the government, the more opportunities for corruption; and the more intervention in the economy, the more reason for special interests to seek influence. It believes that the best way to promote ethics is to reduce the size of government. The liberals’ solution is more laws or “better guidelines,” even as existing ones are ignored. NLPC doesn’t believe the problem is with laws, but with men and women; the missing ingredients are character, morality, and common sense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government Integrity Project • Legal Services Accountability Project • Organized Labor Accountability Project • Corporate Integrity Project</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 757-463-6133
Fax: 757-463-6055

</div><a href="http://www.nlf.net/">National Legal Foundation</a>  Steven W. Fitschen President PO Box 64427 Virginia Beach, VA, United States 23467-4427 <a href="mailto:nlf@nlf.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nlf@nlf.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1985, the National Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law and dedicated to defending religious liberties, fighting the homosexual agenda, and protecting the unborn. In 1995, the National Legal Founded in 1985, the National Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law and dedicated to defending religious liberties, fighting the homosexual agenda, and protecting the unborn. In 1995, the Foundation formed an in-house think tank, the Minuteman Institute, that concentrates on early American studies, classical liberal studies, constitutional studies, religion and society studies, pro-life studies, family studies, and a judicial monitoring project. Through its Judicial Monitoring Project, the Minuteman Institute has conducted extensive research outlining impeachment as a legitimate remedy for judicial tyranny.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Homosexual agenda • Judicial impeachment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-267-1000
Fax: 703-267-3989

</div><a href="http://www.nra.org/">National Rifle Association (NRA)</a>  David Keene President 11250 Waples Mill Road Fairfax, VA, United States 22030 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1871, the three-million-member National Rifle Association promotes the shooting sports and protects the right to keep and bear arms. NRA trains thousands of law enforcement members and tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens annually on safe and responsible firearms ownership. It houses the National Firearms Museum; related entities include the NRA Foundation and the Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Defending Second Amendment rights • Criminal justice reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-626-8800
Fax: 202-737-9189

</div><a href="http://www.nrlc.org/">National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)</a>  Dr. Wanda Franz President 512 Tenth Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20004 <a href="mailto:nrlc@nrlc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nrlc@nrlc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Right to Life Committee is a grassroots, single-issue, pro-life organization with affiliates in every state and 2,500 chapters nationwide. NRLC emphasizes education, legislation, and political action to stop abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Physician-assisted suicide • Infanticide • Medicare reform • Health care reform • Campaign finance reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-465-2349

</div><a href="http://www.nrrf.org/">The National Right to Read Foundation</a>  Robert Sweet, Jr. President and Co-Founder PO Box 560 Strasburg, VA, United States 22657 <a href="mailto:info@nrrf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nrrf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The vision of The National Right to Read Foundation is to return scientific research-based, explicit, systematic phonics instruction, along with good literature, to every elementary school in America. With 20 percent of high school graduates unable to read their own diplomas, it is a mission America cannot afford to lose.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Federal reading legislation called “Reading First” • Promote phonics instruction • Review phonics products</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-321-9820
Fax: 703-321-7342

</div><a href="http://www.nrtwc.org/">National Right to Work Committee</a>  Mark A. Mix President 8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500 Springfield, VA, United States 22160 <a href="mailto:info@nrtw.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nrtw.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Right to Work Committee is dedicated to advancing the principle that every worker must have the right—but no worker should ever be compelled—to join or financially support a labor union.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: National right-to-work law • New state right-to-work laws • Protecting current right-to-work laws • Fighting public sector monopoly bargains • Opposing compulsory unionism • End state and federal exemptions for prosecution of union violence</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-321-8510
Fax: 703-321-9613

</div><a href="http://www.nrtw.org/">National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation</a>  Mark Mix President 8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500 Springfield, VA, United States 22160 <a href="mailto:info@nrtw.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nrtw.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation has assisted 150,000 employees in nearly 300 cases nationwide.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Card check/top down organizing tactics • Misuse of compulsory dues for politics • Union control of government schools • Union violence • Monopoly bargaining • Opposing all forms of compulsory unionism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-429-0129
Fax: 202-659-5429

</div><a href="http://www.strategycenter.org/">National Strategy Information Center</a>  Roy Godson President 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:info@strategycenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@strategycenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Strategy Information Center seeks to further education on security challenges; to encourage innovations in military, intelligence, and geopolitical affairs; and to promote cooperation among democratic elements in strategic regions of the world. Leveraging its resources through partnerships with large organizations, the Center has worked closely with U.S. and foreign universities, professional associations (such as the American Bar Association Committee on Law and National Security), and business and labor organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Specializing in intelligence, international organized crime, and ethnic and religious conflict, it also promotes scholarly research and serves as a resource for the news media.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Organized crime • Intelligence reform • Civics education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 916-786-9400
Fax: 916-786-8163

</div><a href="http://www.limittaxes.org/">National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC)</a>  Lewis K. Uhler President 1700 Eureka Road, Suite 150A Roseville, CA, United States 95661 <a href="mailto:info@limittaxes.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@limittaxes.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: NTLC’S mission is to create a political and economic environment in which individual, productive citizens can enjoy the opportunity to excel, maximize their choices, and enjoy the fruits of their labors free from an intrusive, coercive government. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation and reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Presidential item veto • Limiting state and local taxation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 916-786-9400
Fax: 916-786-8163

</div><a href="http://www.limittaxes.org/">National Tax Limitation Foundation</a>  Lewis K. Uhler President 151 North Sunrise Avenue, Suite 901 Roseville, CA, United States 95661 <a href="mailto:info@limittaxes.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@limittaxes.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The National Tax Limitation Foundation engages in educational and research activities designed to facilitate structural change, reform, and discipline in government at all levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation and reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Presidential item veto • Limiting state and local taxation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-683-5700
Fax: 703-683-5722

</div><a href="http://www.ntu.org/">National Taxpayers Union (NTU)</a>  Duane Parde President 108 North Alfred Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:ntu@ntu.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ntu@ntu.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1969, the non-profit, non-partisan NTU is America’s largest taxpayer organization with members in all 50 states. Through lobbying, research, advertising, media work, and its “NTU Rates Congress” scorecard, NTU works to influence Congress and America’s state legislatures on behalf of taxpayers and mobilizes its members to help them make their voices heard. It regularly sends emails and faxes to elected leaders on issues of concern to taxpayers and provides strategic guidance to hundreds of state and local taxpayer groups across the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation amendment • Fundamental tax reform • Restraining federal spending • Tax relief • Social Security reform • Balanced budget amendment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-683-5700
Fax: 703-683-5722

</div><a href="http://www.ntu.org/">National Taxpayers Union Foundation</a>  Duane Parde President 108 North Alfred Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:ntuf@ntu.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ntuf@ntu.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1977, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) is the educational and research arm of the National Taxpayers Union. Its mission is to provide timely and innovative information promoting the benefits of lower taxes and limited government. NTUF’s papers, press releases, articles, op-eds, and issue briefs receive extensive media coverage. Many key policymakers use its research as a starting point for analysis of tax and fiscal issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic growth • Educating the public about congressional bill sponsorship and spending habits • Economic benefits of tax reform • Entitlements • Importance of limiting the size of government • Abuses in antitrust policy, regulation, and America’s legal system</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 402-551-0921
Fax: 402-551-0921

</div><a href="http://www.netaxpayers.org/">Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom</a>  Doug Kagan State Chairman PO Box 6452 Omaha, NE, United States 68106-0452 <a href="mailto:netaxpayers@cox.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">netaxpayers@cox.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom’s mission is to educate taxpayers to become knowledgeable taxpayer watchdogs who can monitor local, state, and federal taxing authorities and lobby public officials to lower taxes and decrease government spending and government regulation.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: National taxes • State taxes • Local taxes • State legislative issues • Education monitor • Illegal immigration</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-420-7498
Fax: 202-331-2139

</div><a href="http://netchoice.org/">NetChoice</a>  Steve DelBianco Executive Director 1401 K Street Northwest Suite 502 , DC, United States  <a href="mailto:info@netchoice.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@netchoice.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: NetChoice is a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers all of whom share the goal of promoting convenience, choice, and commerce on the net. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Internet Governance * Privacy * Internet Taxation * eCommerce * Web Access</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 702-222-0642
Fax: 702-227-0927

</div><a href="http://www.npri.org/">Nevada Policy Research Institute</a>  Sharon Rossie President 3155 East Patrick Lane, Suite 10 Las Vegas, NV, United States 89120 <a href="mailto:sr@npri.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">sr@npri.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI), a non-partisan, non-profit public policy and education organization founded in 1991, embraces the principles of limited government, individual responsibility, and a free and competitive market. It conducts research on public policy issues important to Nevada and disseminates the information by means of television, radio, print, and electronic media to elected officials, academicians, business leaders, NPRI members, and interested Nevadans.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Education • Labor</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-377-4000
Fax: 312-377-5000

</div><a href="http://www.newcoalition.org/">New Coalition for Economic and Social Change</a>  Lee Walker President and CEO 19 South LaSalle Street, Suite 903 Chicago, IL, United States 60603 <a href="mailto:lwalker@newcoalition.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lwalker@newcoalition.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, formed in 1993, is a non-profit organization that functions as another rung in the ladder for furthering African-American progress in America and throughout the Diaspora. Its mission is to encourage the pursuit of alternative public policies that promote economic independence and strengthen the institutions of families, schools, churches, and communities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil rights • School choice • Poverty and dependency • Welfare reform • Political correctness and multiculturalism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-995-32-998-418
Fax: 011-995-32-204-321

</div><a href="http://www.nesgeorgia.org/">New Economic School - Georgia (NESG)</a>  Gia Jandieri Vice President 4, Sanapiro St., Seventh Floor Tbilisi 0108, Georgia  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: NESG is a not-for-profit institution oriented toward creation of public opinion based on classical liberal economic thoughts (mainly Austrian and public choice schools). Its main ideas are methodological individualism, personal freedom, and limited government.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 617-695-3660
Fax: 617-695-3656

</div><a href="http://www.nelfonline.org/">New England Legal Foundation</a>  Martin J. Newhouse President 150 Lincoln Street Boston, MA, United States 02111 <a href="mailto:info@nelfonline.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nelfonline.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The New England Legal Foundation is a not-for-profit, public interest foundation whose mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of free enterprise in society and advancing free enterprise principles in the courtroom.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Labor/employment issues including overseas outsourcing • Takings, specifically regulatory takings • First Amendment/corporate speech issues • Specialized business counts</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 207-650-7335

</div><a href="http://www.nheconomics.org/">The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy </a> J. Scott Moody President PO Box 315 Woodsville, NH, United States 03785 <a href="mailto:martinsheehan@nheconomics.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">martinsheehan@nheconomics.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization based in Haverhill. The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy formulates and promotes public policies that encourage liberty in economics such as Constitutional government, fiscal federalism and balanced budgeting.To learn more about NHCEP, please visit our web site: 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Public Pensions • Federalism • State Budgets • Right to Work • Economics</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 973-781-1414
Fax: 888-453-6346

</div><a href="http://www.njfpc.org/">New Jersey Family Policy Council</a>  Len Deo President PO Box 6011 Parsippany, NJ, United States 07054 <a href="mailto:len@njfpc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">len@njfpc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the New Jersey Family Policy Council is to intervene and respond to the breakdown that the traditional family—the cornerstone of a virtuous society—is experiencing. In light of the decline in moral standards, the Council is energized by a strong desire and dedication to pursue justice and righteousness. It articulates its message through experts in law, medicine, education, media, business, government, and the church.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and divorce rate • Fatherhood • Out-of-wedlock births and sexually transmitted disease rate • Grassroots citizen education • Assault and molestation law • Internet pornography</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 505-523-8800

</div><a href="http://www.zianet.com/nmiri">New Mexico Independence Research Institute</a>  M. Gene Aldridge President and CEO 2401 Nieve Lane Las Cruces, NM, United States 88005 <a href="mailto:nmiri@zianet.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nmiri@zianet.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: New Mexico Independence Reserach Institute provides high quality, scientifically-based policy research that fosters personal responsibility, limited government, and free market economics. Its specific aims are to advance education; to further other charitable, educational, and scientific endeavors in the promotion of free enterprise and limited government; and to foster personal responsibility—all as pertaining to New Mexico and the United States.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation in New Mexico – TABOR • Education reform in New Mexico • Immigration and U.S.-Mexico border issues • Monitoring of public policy on international relations (Latin America and China especially) • Health care reform in New Mexico and the U.S. • Public policy formation for economic development that is private-sector driven</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-663-5600
Fax: 202-663-5656

</div><a href="http://www.sais-jhu.edu/">Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)</a>  Jessica P. Einhorn Dean, Professor of International Political Economy  1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:lois.weiss@jhu.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lois.weiss@jhu.edu </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1943, Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies has three primary goals: to provide a professional education that adheres to the highest standards of scholarship while taking a practical approach to preparing students for international leadership; to conduct and disseminate scholarly research related to contemporary issues of concern to the United States and other nations; and to offer mid-career educational opportunities for individuals already working in international affairs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: American foreign policy • Social change and development • International economics • Regional conflicts • Energy, science, and technology</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-887-1000
Fax: 202-887-5222

</div><a href="http://www.nixoncenter.org/">The Nixon Center</a>  Dimitri K. Simes President 1615 L Street, NW, Suite 1250 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:mail@nixoncenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@nixoncenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: A bipartisan public policy institution formed by former President Richard Nixon in 1994, The Nixon Center is committed to the analysis of challenges to U.S. policy through the prism of American national interest. The specific goal of the Center is to explore ways of enhancing American security and prosperity while taking into account the legitimate perspectives of other nations. With the end of the Cold War, the U.S. found itself without a clear-cut foreign policy direction. It is the Center’s objective to work on developing new guiding principles for U.S. global engagement in a dramatically new international environment, the principles that would combine hard-headed pragmatism and fundamental American values. The Center is a programmatically independent division of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: American national security • U.S.-China relations • U.S.-Russian relations • U.S. policy towards Iran • Caspian Basin energy geopolitics • Immigration</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-466-4406
Fax: 202-659-5429

</div><a href="http://www.npec-web.org/">Nonproliferation Policy Education Center</a>  Henry Sokolski Executive Director 1718 M Street, NW, Suite 244 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:npec@npec-web.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">npec@npec-web.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a project of the Institute for International Studies, is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates policymakers, journalists, and university professors about proliferation threats and appropriate measures to address them. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Iran and how to restrain its nuclear program • Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) • Pakistani nuclear threat • Reorganizing America’s nonproliferation bureaucracy • Security risks of nuclear power • Protecting security futures without nuclear controls</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 704-231-9767
Fax: 704-341-8615

</div><a href="http://www.nceducationalliance.org/">North Carolina Education Alliance</a>  Lindalyn Kakadelis Director 10828 Copperfield Drive Raleigh, NC, United States 28134 <a href="mailto:lkakadelis@nceducationalliance.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lkakadelis@nceducationalliance.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The North Carolina Education Alliance is a resource network for North Carolinians interested in education issues. It is dedicated to improving the quality of education for all North Carolina students.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Student achievement • Teacher quality • School funding • School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-807-0800
Fax: 919-807-0900

</div><a href="http://www.ncfamily.org/">North Carolina Family Policy Council</a>  Bill Brooks President PO Box 20607 Raleigh, NC, United States 27619 <a href="mailto:admin@ncfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">admin@ncfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the North Carolina Family Policy Council is to strengthen the family by educating North Carolinians on public policy issues that impact the family and equipping citizens to be voices of persuasion on behalf of traditional family values in their localities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Parental choice: charters, vouchers, home schooling • Abstinence • Family and children • State-sponsored gambling • State and local government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-838-5313
Fax: 919-838-5316

</div><a href="http://www.ncicl.org/">North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law</a>  Dean Webster Executive Director 225 Hillsborough Street, Suite 280 Raleigh, NC, United States 27603 <a href="mailto:info@ncicl.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ncicl.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law conducts research, educate, and advise the general public, policymakers, and the Bar on the rights of citizens under the constitutions of the United States and North Carolina. As appropriate, the Institute engages in litigation to protect these rights.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 919-838-5313
Fax: 919-838-5316

</div><a href="http://www.ncicl.org/">The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law</a>  Robert Orr Executive Director Suite 180 Six Forks Place I 333 East Six Forks Road Raleigh, NC, United States 27609 <a href="mailto:www.ncicl.org/site-info/contact" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">www.ncicl.org/site-info/contact</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-partisan organization devoted to educating the public, bar, and policymakers about constitutional issues, particularly economic and related issues, both national and in North Carolina and, when appropriate, litigating such constitutional issues. It is located in Raleigh, NC.The educational component of NCICL includes the furnishing of speakers on constitutional issues and on the work of NCICL, op-ed pieces and White Papers on constitutional issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional Law • Economic Impact of Law • Taxation/Tax Policy • Corporate Welfare • Litigation •</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 701-223-3575

</div><a href="http://www.ndfa.org/">North Dakota Family Alliance</a>  Tom Freier Executive Director 311 East Thayer Avenue, #127 Bismarck, ND, United States 58201 <a href="mailto:admin@ndfa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">admin@ndfa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: North Dakota Family Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening families in North Dakota by equipping, informing and educating policy leaders, elected officials, institutions, and concerned citizens on the issues that impact the family.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Divorce reform • Gambling • Religious freedom • Sanctity of life</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 701-223-8155

</div><a href="http://www.policynd.org/">North Dakota Policy Council</a>  Brett Narloch Executive Director PO Box 3007 Bismarck, ND, United States 58502 <a href="mailto:brenarlo@policynd.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">brenarlo@policynd.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The North Dakota Policy Council (NDPC) is a liberty-based think tank focused on North Dakota solutions to North Dakota’s problems. We provide credible nonpartisan expertise and research to help North Dakotans advocate policies that are based on individual liberty, individual responsibility, and limited government. The NDPC seeks to broaden policy debates beyond the belief that government intervention should be the avenue of first, rather than last, resort. We believe that: * Government can only give to one person what it takes away from another, and that the power to give presumes the power to take. * Policies intended to affect one person or one group can affect all people and all groups, and that these unintended consequences often cause more harm to the many than any good done for the one. * Freedom requires responsibility: where government largesse replaces individual foresight it destroys responsibility and, therefore, freedom. * All times matter. Long-term consequences are as or more important than short-term impacts. Emotional reactions are not suitable substitutes for rational solutions. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Agriculture • Budget and spending • Economic development • Eminent domain • Energy and the environment • Federalism • Government reform • Home rule • Taxes • Sustainable development</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 419-244-6711ext. 219
Fax: 419-720-0053

</div><a href="http://www.nosf.org/">Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund</a>  Ann Riddle Program Coordinator 1933 Spielbusch Avenue Toledo, OH, United States 43604 <a href="mailto:ariddle@toledodiocese.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ariddle@toledodiocese.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund (NWOSF) was established in 1999 to create a privately funded source of tuition assistance for area children seeking a non-public school education. More than $2 million was initially raised through local gifts and a match by the Children’s Scholarship Fund, a national program. Since 1999, almost 1,500 children in Lucas, Wood, and Fulton counties in Ohio have been offered educational choice.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-296-7263
Fax: 202-296-0771

</div><a href="http://www.objectivistcenter.org/">The Objectivist Center</a>  Dr. Edward L. Hudgins Executive Director 1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 425 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:toc@objectivistcenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">toc@objectivistcenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The goal of The Objectivist Center is to help create a new culture in our society—a culture in tune with the entrepreneurial spirit of the new economy and one that affirms the core Objectivist values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Defense of business against baseless prosecution • War on terrorism • Islamist vs. civilization • Postmodern, anti-Western attitudes on campus • Cutting back on the nanny state • Strengthening civil society</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: +91-11-43520020
Fax: +91-11-43520003

</div><a href="http://www.ordonline.org/">Observer Research Foundation</a>  Sunjoy Joshi Director 20, Rouse Avenue Institutional Area New Delhi, India 110 002 <a href="mailto:contactus@orfonline.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">contactus@orfonline.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: •Aid and impact formulation of policies and evolve policy alternatives. •Create a climate conducive to effective implementation of these policies. •Strengthen India's democratic institutions to enable coherent, reasoned and consistent policy-making. •Provide reasoned and consensual inputs representing a broad section of opinion to improve governance, accelerate economic development, and ensure a better quality of life for all Indians. •Monitor strategic environment. •Work towards achieving international peace, harmony, and co-operation. •Give direction to India's long-range foreign policy objectives. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-389-2-3224-457
Fax: 011-389-2-3224-457

</div><a href="http://www.oi.org.mk/">Ohrid Institute for Economic Strategies and International Affairs</a>  Biljana Janeva Executive Director Dimitrije Tucovic 24 1000 Skopje, Macedonia  <a href="mailto:info@oi.org.mk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@oi.org.mk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Ohrid Institute’s mission is to conduct high quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations. Ohrid reaches out to the public and the media to ensure that its ideas are heard and works with policymakers to ensure that they are implemented.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free-market policy • Taxes • Effective and efficient government • Foreign trade • International affairs • Economic strategies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 405-602-1667
Fax: 405-602-1238

</div><a href="http://www.ocpathink.org/">Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA)</a>  Michael Carnuccio President 1401 North Lincoln Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK, United States 73104 <a href="mailto:ocpa@ocpathink.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ocpa@ocpathink.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: OCPA’s mission is to accumulate, evaluate, and disseminate public policy ideas and information for Oklahoma consistent with the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and individual initiative.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics • Education • Governance • Justice • Culture</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-381-0044
Fax: 405-787-3900

</div><a href="http://www.okfamilypc.org/">Oklahoma Family Policy Council</a>  Michael L. Jestes Executive Director 3908 North Peniel Avenue Bethany Bank Tower, Suite 100 Bethany, OK, United States 73008-3458 <a href="mailto:info@okfamilypc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@okfamilypc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Oklahoma Family Policy Council (OFPC) is to strengthen families, to educate Oklahomans on public policy as it impacts the family, to encourage responsible citizenship, and to restore traditional, Judeo-Christian principles in American public policy. To accomplish these goals, OFPC sponsors media-driven civic initiatives, produces policy reports, educates citizens about the family impact of state and federal legislation, encourages responsible citizenship by Oklahoma’s private sector, disseminates timely information, and works to encourage cooperation among conservative, pro-family groups. OFPC is associated with Dr. James C. Dobson’s Focus on the Family, an international family ministry headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage initiative • Abstinence education • Character education • Education reform • Tax reform • Parenting and parents’ rights • Gambling</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-82-2462-5711
Fax: 011-82-2462-5718

</div>Open Family Korea  #187-23 JoongKok-3Dong Kwang Jin-Ku Seoul 143-223, Korea, South  <a href="mailto:openfamily@netsgo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">openfamily@netsgo.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Open Family, an associate office of Focus on the Family, is combating the divorce-friendly trend and all other attacks on the institution of the Korean family through resource distribution, radio broadcasts, seminars, church support, and counseling. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and divorce • Traditional family</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 503-692-9530
Fax: 503-692-9538

</div><a href="http://www.bettergovernmentproject.blogspot.com/">Oregon Better Government Project</a>  Eric Winters Vice President 19210 SW Martinazzi, PMB 422 Tualatin, OR, United States 97062 <a href="mailto:eric_winters@comcast.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">eric_winters@comcast.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Oregon Better Government Project (OBGP) is to conduct research and undertake education efforts that promote accountable, responsible, and transparent government in Oregon. To fulfill its mission, OBGP has three main activities: the Open Government Initiative, identifying where public resources have been misused; Unfunded Liabilities Databank, enforcing strict standards on accounting; and Initiative & Referendum Resource, providing advice to citizens interested in initiatives and referenda.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government spending • Transparency • Accountable government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 503-620-0258
Fax: 503-639-6891

</div><a href="http://www.oia.org/">Oregonians In Action</a>  Frank Nims Chairman PO Box 230637 Tigard, OR, United States 97281 <a href="mailto:oia@oia.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">oia@oia.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Oregonians In Action (OIA) is a statewide, non-profit, non-partisan organization fighting for property rights and balanced and realistic land-use regulations through active lobbying in legislative and regulatory arenas, networking with other organizations, and working closely with landowners. OIA works with the Oregonians In Action Legal Center and Oregonians In Action Education Center, which are separate 501(c)(3) organizations with the same concerns on these issues. The Education Center concentrates on educating the public and landowners about property rights and land-use regulatory issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Compensation for regulatory takings • Requiring notice of proposed regulations • Reforming farm/forest land zoning • Removing oppressive rural dwelling rules • Opposing high-density zoning in urban areas</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 503-620-0258
Fax: 503-639-6891

</div><a href="http://www.oia.org/lc.html">Oregonians In Action Legal Center</a>  Ross Day Director PO Box 230637 Tigard, OR, United States 97281 <a href="mailto:ross@oia.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ross@oia.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Oregonians In Action Legal Center is a statewide, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to using litigation to protect private property rights from excessive government land-use regulations. Financed entirely by private donations, the Center provides free legal services in precedent-setting property rights cases at all judicial levels, from local government hearings to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Center is involved as primary counsel in most cases, but also provides friend of the court briefs in cases handled by others.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Compensation for partial regulatory takings • Arbitrary minimum parcel size for land divisions • Getting relief from rigid ripeness criteria • Denial of farm dwellings based on income standard • Fighting wildlife overlay regulations on private land • Opposing exactions that violate Dolan v. City of Tigard</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 808-521-6745
Fax: 808-599-8690

</div><a href="http://www.csis.org/pacfor/">Pacific Forum CSIS</a>  Lloyd R. Vasey, USN (Ret.) Founder and Senior Policy Advisor 1001 Bishop Street, Pauahi Tower, Suite 1150 Honolulu, HI, United States 96813 <a href="mailto:pacforum@hawaii.rr.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pacforum@hawaii.rr.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Based in Honolulu, the Pacific Forum CSIS is a non-profit, private, public policy research institute that operates as the Asia–Pacific arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1975, the Forum seeks to stimulate cooperative policies in the Asia–Pacific region through debate and analyses undertaken with the region’s leaders in the academic, government, and corporate arenas, while promoting greater public awareness of national security issues at home and abroad. The Forum’s programs encompass current and emerging political, security, economic-business, and ocean policy issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Multilateral security mechanisms • Bilateral relationships in East Asia • Comparative political economics in East Asia • Nuclear energy, non-proliferation and transparency</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 916-857-6900
Fax: 916-857-6902

</div><a href="http://www.pacificjustice.org/">Pacific Justice Institute</a>  Brad W. Dacus, Esq. President PO Box 276600 Sacramento, CA, United States 95827 <a href="mailto:braddacus@pacificjustice.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">braddacus@pacificjustice.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Pacific Justice Institute exists to protect and empower individuals, families, churches, companies, and other institutions to claim and utilize their religious freedoms, parental rights, and other civil liberties.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Homosexual marriage • Parental rights in public schools • Reforming child protective services/crisis counseling • Churches and land use issues • Religious freedoms in the workplace • Rights of union dues objectors</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 916-419-7111
Fax: 916-419-7747

</div><a href="http://www.pacificlegal.org/">Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF)</a>  Rob L. Rivett President 3900 Lennane Drive, Suite 200 Sacramento, CA, United States 95834 <a href="mailto:plf@pacificlegal.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">plf@pacificlegal.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Pacific Legal Foundation is America’s trusted champion of constitutional rights, fighting and winning decisive actions in the courts of law and the court of public opinion to rescue liberty from the grasp of government power. PLF is distinguished for its winning record, its strong strategic sense of direction and its unwavering commitment to the principles of freedom. It is renowned for battling those who would tread on individual liberty; for confronting government bureaucrats who confiscate private property rights; for opposing government programs that grant special preferences on the basis of race and sex; and for challenging misguided environmental laws that degrade human values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Endangered Species Act • Clean Water Act • Economic liberties • Equal protection • Water rights • Land use</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 415-989-0833
Fax: 415-989-2411

</div><a href="http://www.pacificresearch.org/">Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI)</a>  Sally C. Pipes President and CEO 755 Sansome Street, Suite 450 San Francisco, CA, United States 94111 <a href="mailto:spipes@pacificresearch.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">spipes@pacificresearch.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Pacific Research Institute promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. By focusing on public policy issues such as education, the environment, economics, and social welfare, PRI strives to foster a better understanding of the principles of a free society among leaders in government, academia, the media, and the business community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education reform • Technology studies • Environment • Business and economic studies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 561-907-7715

</div><a href="http://http//ccpbc.org/">Palm Beach Faith and Freedom Coalition</a>  Christopher M. Milu Palm Beach County Field Director  Palm Beach, FL, United States  <a href="mailto:christopherm@flfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">christopherm@flfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Palm Beach Faith and Freedom Coalition serves to inform voters about important issues. Visit us frequently for educational information and to find out how you can become active in your county, state, and national political issues. Help us to keep America One Nation Under God. Our Principles: Respect for the sanctity and dignity of life, family, and marriage as the foundations of a free society Limited government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility to unleash the creative energy of entrepreneurs Education reform that puts children first Help the poor, the needy, and those who have been left behind Free markets and free minds to create opportunity for all Victory in the struggle with terrorism and tyranny while supporting our democratic allies, including Israel Our Goals: Mobilize and train people of faith to be effective citizens Speak out in the public arena and in the media on behalf of common-sense values Influence legislation and enact sound public policy at every level of government Train citizens for effective civic action Protest bigotry and discrimination against people of faith 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: right-to-life traditional marriage *family issues *limited government *taxation *spending *entrepreneurship *education *poverty *free-markets *terrorism *Israel</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 803-708-0673

</div><a href="http://www.palmettopolicy.org/">Palmetto Policy Forum</a>  Ellen E. Weaver President & CEO 1201 Lincoln St, Ste. 302 Columbia, SC, United States 29201 <a href="mailto:ellen@palmettopolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ellen@palmettopolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: This group of free market, fiscal and cultural South Carolina conservatives has banded together to research and promote policies that will make South Carolina a beacon of freedom to the nation and unleash opportunity for every citizen.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Competitive Federalism Education *Medicaid</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-595-21-220-015
Fax: 011-595-21-203-542

</div><a href="http://www.ceppro.org.py/">Paraguayan Center for Promotion of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (CEPPRO)</a>  Lorenzo Livieres Guggiari Executive Director Manuel Perez 632/e Toledo y Misiones Asunci, Paraguay  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: CEPPRO is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent, interdisciplinary and multi-sectorial institution that is open to the community. It is not identified with one economic, social or political sector in particular, but considers in a balanced way the spectrum of the different interests in society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Rule of law</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 937-228-7223
Fax: 937-226-1887

</div><a href="http://www.pacedayton.org/">Parents Advancing Choice in Education, Inc. (PACE)</a>  Bonnie E. Smith Director of Programs 40 South Perry Street, Suite 120 Dayton, OH, United States 45402 <a href="mailto:georgeloney@pacedayton.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">georgeloney@pacedayton.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: PACE’s mission is to help families exercise choice for their children while helping schools to adopt strategies for educational improvement. PACE attempts to provide the most comprehensive resources for education.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 719-473-5430
Fax: 719-473-5435

</div><a href="http://www.parentschallenge.org/">Parents Challenge</a>  Evelyn D. Taylor Executive Director 115 North Union Colorado Springs, CO, United States 80909 <a href="mailto:evelyn@parentschallenge.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">evelyn@parentschallenge.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Parents Challenge is dedicated to improved academic achievement of all children, but especially those in low socio-economic circumstances who are performing at alarmingly and unacceptably poor levels. Since parents are the most important educators of and decision makers for their children, Parents Challenge informs, motivates, activates, and empowers them to become more engaged in and have more control over their children’s’ education with the goal and expectation that those children will make meaningful academic progress.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Parental involvement in education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-383-0908
Fax: 703-383-5288

</div><a href="http://www.picfoundation.org/">Parents in Charge Foundation</a>  Bill Wilson Co-founder 9900 Main Street, Suite 303 Fairfax, VA, United States 22031 <a href="mailto:info@picfoundation.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@picfoundation.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Parents in Charge is dedicated to informing the public on issues affecting education at the state level and presenting alternative concepts of school and educational choice to the public, elected officials, and the media.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 213-403-1300
Fax: 213-403-1301

</div><a href="http://www.parentstv.org/">Parents Television Council</a>  Brent Bozell Founder 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2075 Los Angeles, CA, United States 90017 <a href="mailto:editor@parentstv.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">editor@parentstv.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Established in 1995, the Hollywood-focused mission of the Parents Television Council (PTC) is to bring America’s demand for values-driven television programming to the entertainment industry. The Council offers private-sector solutions to restore television to its roots as an independent and socially responsible entertainment medium. PTC agrees that parents have the greatest responsibility when it comes to monitoring the viewing habits of their children, but the Council challenges actors, writers, producers, musicians, game makers, and advertisers to get serious about the vital role they play in shaping America’s culture.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Restoring the “family hour” to prime time TV • Television ratings • Video games • Music • FCC issues pertaining to indecency</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 414-263-2970
Fax: 414-263-2975

</div><a href="http://www.pave.org/">Partners Advancing Values in Education</a>  Daniel McKinley President & CEO 135 West Wells Street, Suite 850  Milwaukee, WI, United States 53203 <a href="mailto:mckinleyd@pave.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mckinleyd@pave.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Partners Advancing Values in Education (PAVE) makes excellent educational opportunities possible for low-income families in Milwaukee, WI.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Schools • Scholarships for low-income children</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (202)-349-5880

</div>Patients First Now  Catherine Hamilton 1726 M Street NW Washginton, DC, United States 20036 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Patients First is a project of Americans for Prosperity ® (AFP), a 501(c)4 non-profit organization recognized by the IRS. AFP is the nation’s premier grassroots organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP has more than 500,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 23 state chapters. For more information about AFP, please visit www.americansforprosperity.org.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Healthcare</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (504) 920-4727

</div><a href="http://www.pelicaninstitute.org/">Pelican Institute for Public Policy</a>  Kevin Kane President 201 Saint Charles Avenue, Suite 2500 New Orleans, LA, United States 70170 <a href="mailto:kkane@pelicaninstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">kkane@pelicaninstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Pelican Institute for Public Policy is a non-profit research and education institution that conducts scholarly research and analysis of Louisiana public policy. The Institute’s mission is to advance sound policies based on the principles of free enterprise, individual liberty, and limited government. The Institute pursues this mission by conducting timely research on important issues and then marketing the findings to elected leaders, the media, business leaders, community organizations, and individual citizens.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government spending • Transparency • Education • Taxes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 724-864-5989

</div><a href="http://www.eagleforumpa.org/">Pennsylvania Eagle Forum</a>  Fran Bevan State Leader 640 Stonebridge Drive North Huntingdon, PA, United States 15642 <a href="mailto:fran@eagleforumpa.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fran@eagleforumpa.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Border security • Family • Constitution • Marriage • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 717-545-0600
Fax: 717-545-8107

</div><a href="http://www.pafamily.org/">Pennsylvania Family Institute</a>  Michael Geer President 23 North Front Street Harrisburg, PA, United States 17101 <a href="mailto:mail@pafamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@pafamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Pennsylvania Family Institute’s mission is to strengthen families by restoring to public life the traditional, foundational principles and values essential for the well being of society using a fourfold strategy of raising media awareness of the importance of the family; conducting family-impact analysis and research and giving testimony in Harrisburg; communicating with the grassroots, informing them of trends in culture and public policy; and encouraging voting and responsible citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Parental rights in education • Divorce reform • Gambling • Day care • Abortion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-894-8400

</div><a href="http://www.thephilanthropicenterprise.org/">The Philanthropic Enterprise</a>  Lenore T. Ealy, Ph.D. Executive Director 109 North Henry Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:info@thephilanthropicenterprise.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@thephilanthropicenterprise.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Philanthropic Enterprise is a research and education institute that seeks to strengthen our understanding of the free society and how philanthropy and voluntary social cooperation promote human flourishing. 
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Culture, community, and demographic change ~ Civil Society ~ Economics of development</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-822-8333
Fax: 202-822-8325

</div><a href="http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/">The Philanthropy Roundtable</a>  Adam Meyerson President 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 503 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:main@philanthropyroundtable.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">main@philanthropyroundtable.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of individual donors, foundation trustees and staff, and corporate giving executives. Its mission is to foster excellence in philanthropy, to help donors achieve their philanthropic intent, and to assist donors in advancing freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Marriage and family • War on terrorism • Environmental stewardship • Character-based social services • Public policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 617-723-2277
Fax: 617-723-1880

</div><a href="http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/">Pioneer Institute</a>  Jim Stergios Executive Director 85 Devonshire Street, Eighth Floor Boston, MA, United States 02109 <a href="mailto:jstergios@pioneerinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jstergios@pioneerinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1988, Pioneer Institute is a non-partisan public policy think tank committed to keeping Massachusetts economically competitive and strengthening the core values of an open society. To inspire market-driven policy reforms, Pioneer promotes individual freedom and responsibility and limited, accountable government. The Institute has changed the intellectual climate in Massachusetts by commissioning timely and rigorous academic studies from leading scholars. Pioneer injects new ideas into the public debate through forums and lectures, transcripts, the media, and outreach to legislators, business groups and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School reform • School choice • Vouchers • Government reform • Limited government • Economic freedom</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 402-452-3737
Fax: 402-452-3676

</div><a href="http://www.platteinstitute.org/">Platte Institute for Economic Research</a>  John S. McCollister  Executive Director 10050 Regency Circle, Suite 120 Omaha, NE, United States 68114 <a href="mailto:John.McCollister@PlatteInstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">John.McCollister@PlatteInstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Platte Institute for Economic Research is a non-partisan research and education organization whose mission is to advance public policy alternatives that foster limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise for Nebraska.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy and spending • Enhancing Nebraska’s educational structure • Evaluating ways to control health care spending • Improving state water resource management</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 714-641-6913
Fax: 714-641-3128

</div><a href="http://www.policyandtaxationgroup.com/">Policy and Taxation Group</a>  Patricia M. Soldano President 151 Kalmus Drive, Suite J-1 Costa Mesa, CA, United States 92626 <a href="mailto:pmsoldano@policyandtaxationgroup.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pmsoldano@policyandtaxationgroup.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Policy and Taxation Group is dedicated to the repeal of the gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax and the elimination of the destructive effect that those taxes have on families, family businesses, job creation, the national economy, and government revenues. The organization advocates the repeal of the death tax through lobbying legislators and executive branch officials.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Permanent repeal of the estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7340-2650
Fax: 011-44-20-7222-5859

</div><a href="http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/">Policy Exchange</a>  Anthony Browne Director Clutha House 10 Storey's Gate London SW1P 3AY, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:info@policyexchange.org.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@policyexchange.org.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Policy Exchange is an independent think tank whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas that will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence, and an enterprise culture. Policy Exchange is committed to an evidence-based approach to policy development. It works in partnership with academics and other experts and commission major studies involving thorough empirical research of alternative policy outcomes. Policy Exchange believes that the policy experience of other countries offers important lessons for government in the United Kingdom. It also believes that government has much to learn from business and the voluntary sector.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Local government • Education • Housing • Crime and justice • Economic competitiveness • Welfare • Terrorism and security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 310-316-6888
Fax: 310-316-6888

</div><a href="http://www.kapitalizm.republika.pl/">Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education</a>  John M. Malek Founder and President 3128 Pacific Coast Highway, #16 Torrance, CA, United States 90505 <a href="mailto:pafere@cox.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pafere@cox.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education is to propagate the understanding of basic economics by explaining the relationship between the human nature and economic mechanisms and phenomena; debunking economic myths while proposing alternatives enlightened by economic facts and principles; showing the role of freedom, individual responsibility, market order, as well as limited government under rule of law; and exposing the role of ethics in reducing socio-economic problems such as unemployment and poverty and in the achievement of a better quality life.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Free markets • Promotion and sponsorship of original writings as well as translation into Polish of great thinkers</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 704-779-2824
Fax: 704-896-0788

</div>Political Economy Research Institute  Dr. Jack Sommer President 9211 North Tryon Street, Number 4-187 Charlotte, NC, United States 28262-8463 <a href="mailto:jacksommer@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jacksommer@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) seeks to foster the growth of individual liberty and personal responsibility by supporting the early careers of scholars dedicated to the exploration of these subjects. PERI’s “Legacy of Liberty” Fellowship program is the vehicle for delivering this support.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Restoration of meaning in higher education • Promotion of greater public understanding of science • Developing rationales and processes for privatizing public services</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-622-5240
Fax: 540-622-2728

</div><a href="http://www.pop.org/">Population Research Institute</a>  Steven W. Mosher President 1190 Progress Drive, Suite 2D PO Box 1559 Front Royal, VA, United States 22630 <a href="mailto:pri@pop.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pri@pop.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Population Research Institute is dedicated to stopping human rights abuses committed in the name of “family planning” and, through research and education, to dispelling the myth of “overpopulation.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Stem cell research • Ending abusive family planning programs • Mexico City policy • Federal marriage amendment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 877-478-0100
Fax: 703-834-3658

</div><a href="http://www.pfm.org/">Prison Fellowship Ministries</a>  Hon. Mark L. Earley President and Chief Executive Officer 44180 Riverside Parkway Lansdowne, VA, United States 20176 <a href="mailto:mark_earley@pfm.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mark_earley@pfm.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of Prison Fellowship Ministries is to exhort, equip, and assist churches in their ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families and in churches’ promotion of biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Prisoner reentry • Faith-based and community initiative • Sentencing reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 615-778-0803
Fax: 615-778-0149

</div><a href="http://www.teacherspet.org/">Professional Educators of Tennessee (PET)</a>  John "J.C" Bowman Executive Director 810 Cresent Centre Drive, Suite 130 Four Corporate Center Franklin, TN, United States 37067 <a href="mailto:pet@teacherspet.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pet@teacherspet.com </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The purpose of PET is to maintain high standards of professional ethics among educators, to regain public confidence in education, to further professional status and professional compensation for educators, to promote activities, services, and training for educators, to protect the rights of individual educators, and to create a climate of cooperation and mutual respect among educators, legislators, school-board members, students, and parents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of access to schools • Teaching standards • Student behavioral standards</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-289-8928
Fax: 202-289-6079

</div><a href="http://www.pff.org/">The Progress & Freedom Foundation</a>  W. Kenneth Ferree President 1444 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:mail@pff.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@pff.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) studies technology and its implications for public policy. The Foundation believes the digital revolution is creating changes in society that cause power to migrate away from large, centralized institutions and to move closer to the people; in that sense, the digital revolution inherently favors personal freedom. PFF’s public policy studies examine the implications of this phenomenon for government with an eye toward producing government structures that are smaller, less bureaucratic, and less intrusive in cultural and economic affairs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecommunications policy • First Amendment, encryption, and privacy • Market structure of the communications industry • Competition in electric energy • Medical innovation and regulation • Intellectual property • E-commerce • Social implications of the digital revolution</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-289-8928
Fax: 202-289-6079

</div><a href="http://www.pff.org/">The Progress & Freedom Foundation</a>  Adam D. Thierer President 1444 Eye Street NW, Suite 459 Washington, DC, United States 20005 <a href="mailto:mail@pff.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@pff.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. Its mission is to educate policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government, free markets, and individual sovereignty. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Anti Trust • Broadband • Net Neutrality • FCC Policy• Media Regulation • Commerce • First Amendment Free Speech • Digital Media</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7870-5303
Fax: 011-44-20-7630-8124

</div><a href="http://www.progressive-vision.org/">Progressive Vision</a>  Shane Frith Director Suite 111, 95 Wilton Road London SW1V 1BZ, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:shane.frith@progressive-vision.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">shane.frith@progressive-vision.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Progressive Vision is a campaigning think tank that investigates and advocates radical, liberal solutions to the problems facing British society today. Progressive Vision asserts that a dramatic extension of personal freedom would not only lead to more fulfilling lives for individual men and women, but also to a more peaceful, tolerant, and wealthier society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Broadcasting • Climate change • Crime • Education • Finance industry • Gambling • Health • Housing • Postal services • Taxation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-543-4110
Fax: 202-543-5975

</div><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/">Project 21</a>  David W. Almasi Director 501 Capitol Court NE, Suite 200 Washington, DC, United States 20002 <a href="mailto:project21@nationalcenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">project21@nationalcenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Project 21 is a leadership network of black conservatives dedicated to working with the media and the black community to recognize and foster diversity of political opinion in the African-American community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Environmental justice/overregulation • Morality/integrity • Civil rights/affirmative action • Judiciary • Election reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 901-843-3661

</div><a href="http://www.rhodes.edu/24035.asp">Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy</a>  Daniel Cullen Director 2000 N. Parkway Memphis, TN, United States 38112 <a href="mailto:cullen@rhodes.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cullen@rhodes.edu </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy aims to unite the purposes of liberal education and civic education by fostering teaching and research on American ideas and institutions and their sources in the tradition of Western political thought and practice. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: constitutionalism rule of law *democracy *civil society *political philosophy *first principles *political and economic thought</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 847-729-3298
Fax: 847-729-9744

</div><a href="http://www.projectreality.org/">Project Reality</a>  Libby Gray Macke Director 1701 East Lake Avenue, Suite 371 Glenview, IL, United States 60025 <a href="mailto:info@projectreality.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@projectreality.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Since 1985, Project Reality has been at the forefront of the national field of adolescent health education with the promotion of abstinence-centered programs in the public schools. Its mission is to give a positive presentation of the benefits of abstinence through curricula, presentations and materials in order to help teens choose abstinence from sexual activity and from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Project Reality’s values- and character-based curricula emphasize abstinence until marriage as the best choice and the healthiest lifestyle for adolescents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abstinence-until-marriage education • Expanding the Illinois Abstinence Coalition • Expanding the National Abstinence Clearinghouse Coalition • Power of Abstinence seminars for adults • Reality Check youth rallies • Media promotion of abstinence until marriage • Drug and alcohol abuse</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 601-956-8636

</div><a href="http://www.prolifemississippi.org/">Pro-Life Mississippi</a>  Dana Chisholm President 114 Office Park Plaza, Suite B Jackson, MS, United States 39206 <a href="mailto:plm@prolifemississippi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">plm@prolifemississippi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Pro-Life Mississippi is an organization of diverse and caring Christians. We are drawn together by our commitment to the sanctity of human life from fertilization to natural death. On behalf of those who cannont speak for themselves, we are a voice against abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research. Our concern is to reach the state with the truth about these issues by educating its citizens, influencing political change within the government of Mississippi and taking the pro-life message directly to those who threaten innocent life. The key to the success of our mission is to work with the churches of Mississippi in action against these sins.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Abortion ~ Euthanasia ~ Infanticide ~ Stem Cell Research ~ Cloning ~ Contraceptive Pills</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 949-296-6209

</div><a href="http://www.theprometheusinstitute.org/">Prometheus Institute</a>  Matt Harrison Executive Director 82 Clouds View Irvine, CA, United States 92603 <a href="mailto:matt@readpi.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">matt@readpi.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: To pioneer creative campaigns to engage, educate, inspire, and empower young Americans to increase the freedom in their lives.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: • Defense • Education • Environment • Health Care • Social Security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 406-587-9591
Fax: 406-586-7555

</div><a href="http://www.perc.org/">Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)</a>  Terry Anderson Executive Director 2048 Analysis Drive, Suite A Bozeman, MT, United States 59718 <a href="mailto:perc@perc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">perc@perc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: PERC is a non-profit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets. PERC is motivated by three basic principles: private property rights and markets encourage stewardship of resources; government control and government subsidies often degrade the environment; and polluters should be liable for harm they cause others. Reflecting these principles, PERC’s activities fall into three areas: research and policy analysis; outreach, especially to policymakers and journalists; and environmental education for students and teachers at all levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Endangered species • Public land management • Water and air pollution • Community management of natural resources • Environmental education • Environmental entrepreneurs</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 518-696-5748

</div><a href="http://www.prfamerica.org/">Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.</a>  Carol W. LaGrasse President and Founder PO Box 75 Stoney Creek, NY, United States 12878 <a href="mailto:lagrasse@prfamerica.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">lagrasse@prfamerica.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Property Rights Foundation of America is to defend and enhance private property rights to the fullest extent, as guaranteed in the United States Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Zoning and building codes • National Heritage Areas • Conservation easements and land trusts • Biosphere reserve • Eminent domain • Government land acquisition and rural depopulation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 610-825-7690
Fax: 610-825-7692

</div><a href="http://www.providenceforum.org/">The Providence Forum </a> Peter A. Lillback President 2002 Renaissance Boulevard, Suite 230 King of Prussia, PA, United States 19406 <a href="mailto:info@providenceforum.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@providenceforum.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Providence Forum is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to re-instill and promote a Judeo-Christian worldview within our culture. With emphasis on the historical Judeo-Christian roots of our nation, the Forum intends to advance the faith, ethics and moral values which are consistent with the spirit of our nation's founding. The purpose of The Providence Forum is to demonstrably acknowledge that the Providence of God is at work, and at times serves as a call to action. It is our belief that the Lord has called The Providence Forum into being "for such a time as this". (Esther 4:14)
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: American History • American Founding • Political Theory</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 319-385-3462
Fax: 319-385-3799

</div><a href="http://www.limitedgovernment.org/">Public Interest Institute</a>  Don Racheter, Ph.D. President 600 North Jackson Street Mount Pleasant, IA, United States 52641-1328 <a href="mailto:public.interest.institute@limitedgovernment.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">public.interest.institute@limitedgovernment.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Public Interest Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research organization located on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The Institute promotes the importance of a free enterprise economic system and limited government in society based upon individual freedom and liberty. It believes that ideas have consequences and involved individuals can make a difference.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Spending • Regulation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.thepublicnotice.org/">Public Notice</a>  Gretchen Hamel Executive Director , DC, United States  <a href="mailto:info@thepublicnotice.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@thepublicnotice.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Our goal is to provide Americans with clear, unbiased, and useful information about key economic and fiscal issues. Because America's future should rest in the capable hands of a knowledgeable people. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Advancing Open Markets and Economic Growth</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 518-465-7511
Fax: 518-432-4537

</div><a href="http://www.ppinys.org/">Public Policy Institute of New York State</a>  Steve Taylor Director of Research 152 Washington Avenue Albany, NY, United States 12210-2289 <a href="mailto:steve.taylor@bcnys.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">steve.taylor@bcnys.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1981, the Public Policy Institute is a research and educational organization whose purpose is to formulate and promote public policies that will restore New York’s economic competitiveness. The Institute accomplishes this mission by conducting timely, in-depth research addressing key state policy issues. These findings are effectively communicated to the Institute’s primary audiences: members of the New York state legislature, key legislative staff members, policymakers in the executive branch, the state’s news media, and the academic and policy communities. The Institute is affiliated with The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: State tax reform and budget priorities • Economic competitiveness and growth</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-242-3575
Fax: 703-242-3579

</div><a href="http://www.psrf.org/">Public Service Research Council</a>  David Y. Denholm President 320-D Maple Avenue East Vienna, VA, United States 22180 <a href="mailto:info@psrf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@psrf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Public Service Research Council is a national citizens lobby founded in 1973 to oppose public sector union control of the size, cost, and quality of public services and union special interest influence on public policy. The Council sponsors Americans Against Union Control of Government, monitors legislation at the state and federal level, and mobilizes grassroots action against pro-union bills and in support for bills to roll back existing union special privileges and legal immunities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Public-sector union bargaining • Strikes against government • Prevailing wage laws • Project labor agreements • Living wage laws • Union political activity</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-242-3575
Fax: 703-242-3579

</div><a href="http://www.psrf.org/">Public Service Research Foundation</a>  David Y. Denholm President 320-D Maple Avenue East Vienna, VA, United States 22180 <a href="mailto:info@psrf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@psrf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Public Service Research Foundation (PSRF) is an independent research and educational organization studying the impact of unions in government on government and union special interest influence on public policy. It conducts and sponsors research on unionism, publishes Government Union Review, a quarterly journal, and distributes information through exhibits at conventions of public officials. PSRF supports and encourages professional educator groups as an alternative to teacher unionism, provides speakers for meetings of business, civic and political groups and provides information to news media.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Public-sector unionism • Public-sector collective bargaining • Prevailing wage laws • Union influence on public policy • Teacher union influence on education • Compulsory unionism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-525-5717

</div><a href="http://www.rstreet.org/">R Street Institute</a>  Eli Lehrer President 1015 1/2 7th Street NW Third Floor Washington, DC, United States 20001 <a href="mailto:elehrer@rstreet.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">elehrer@rstreet.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: R Street supports free markets; limited, effective government; and responsible environmental stewardship. It strives to craft pragmatic solutions to domestic policy challenges involving regulation, public health, the environment, entitlements reform, and the federal budget.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-46-8-587-05-400
Fax: 011-46-8-587-05-405

</div><a href="http://www.ratioinstitutet.nu/">The Ratio Institute</a>  Nils Karlson President and CEO PO Box 5095 SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden  <a href="mailto:nils.karlson@ratioinstitutet.nu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">nils.karlson@ratioinstitutet.nu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Ratio Institute is an independent research institute and academic publishing house. Its mission is to develop and distribute new knowledge about market processes and economic development, the values and institutions of a free society, and social dynamics and political change.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: The crises of the welfare state • Taxes • Dignity and liberty • Economic growth • Economic freedom • Political change</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 717-238-1878

</div><a href="http://www.paschoolchoice.org/">REACH Foundation</a>  Andrew T. LeFevre Executive Director PO Box 1283 Harrisburg, PA, United States 17108 <a href="mailto:eloudenslager@paschoolchoice.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">eloudenslager@paschoolchoice.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: REACH (Road to Educational Achievement through CHoice) Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth of educational options available to families in Pennsylvania so that each child is able to attend a school that best fits his/her needs. REACH is working to educate the media, parents, and elected officials on other ways to give parents a choice in their child’s education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 310-391-2245
Fax: 310-391-4395

</div><a href="http://www.reason.org/">Reason Foundation</a>  David Nott President 5737 Mesmer Avenue Los Angeles, CA, United States 90230-6316 <a href="mailto:david.nott@reason.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">david.nott@reason.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Reason Foundation is a national research and educational organization. Its purpose is to advance the ideas of individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law. The world leader in privatization, Reason is known for practical and innovative public policy ideas that emphasize competition, transparency, and accountability for results. It conducts extensive research on issues of California and federal law and policy. Through cutting-edge policy research and the nationally recognized magazine, Reason, the Foundation uses journalism and public policy to change the frameworks and actions of policymakers, journalists, and opinion leaders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Budgets and fiscal reform • Surface transportation • K–12 education • Housing and land use • Environmental policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.redrana.org/">Red de Amigos de la Naturaleza (RANA)</a>  George Chapas Executive Director 12 Calle 1-48 zona 10 , Guatemala  <a href="mailto:informacion@redrana.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">informacion@redrana.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Expand the parameters of the discussion of environmental issues and propose alternative solutions from a different perspective, that of classical liberal thought, whose foundation is respect and adherence to the principles of freedom and individual responsibility, property rights, government limited and the free market.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Market Environmental Sustainability, Property Rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7799-6699
Fax: 011-44-20-7233-4446

</div><a href="http://www.reform.co.uk/">Reform</a>  Andrew Haldenby Director 45 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3LT, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:info@reform.co.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@reform.co.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Reform is an independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity. Its aim is to produce research of outstanding quality on the core issues of the economy, health, education, and law and order on the right balance between government and individual and to communicate it to politicians and opinion formers in order to create a consensus for reform.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health • Economy • Education • Welfare • Government • Criminal justice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-370-4200

</div><a href="http://www.rfcnet.org/">Religious Freedom Coalition</a>  William J. Murray Chairman PO Box 77511 Washington, DC, United States 20013 <a href="mailto:wmurray@rfcnet.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wmurray@rfcnet.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC) is a social conservative advocacy organization that works to inform the Congress and general public of alternatives to the liberal agenda. RFC holds the Bible as being the highest standard to which government can be held and maintains that the church, not big government, is the answer to most social problems.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Protecting children, born and unborn • Protecting the right of citizens to pray at public events • Protecting religious symbols from secular destruction • Preserving the family as the basic social unit • Saving America’s children from the public school system • Stopping the homosexual and feminist agenda from overtaking American families</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-844-641-4300
Fax: 011-844-641-4300

</div>Research Center for Entrepreneurship Development  89, B3, Khu Do Thi Moi Dai Kim, Hoang Mai Hoang Mai Hanoi 04, Vietnam  <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Research Center for Entrepreneurship Development (RCED) is a non-government research and educational network devoted to entrepreneurial development of the private sector in Vietnam.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 804-397-7581

</div><a href="http://www.rftv.net/">Restore the Founders' Vision</a>  Patrick McSweeney President PO Box 1861 Midlothian, VA, United States 23113 <a href="mailto:info@rtfv.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@rtfv.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Our Mission is to re-establish in the minds of Americans the principles shared by the Founders of the Republic that our right to life, liberty and property is God-given, that government is established by the people to safeguard our rights and that government must be limited so that our freedom can be preserved.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited Government • Founding Principles • Constitutionalism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-766-6360
Fax: 703-766-6501

</div><a href="http://www.retiresafe.org/">RetireSafe</a>  Michelle Plasari President 1900 Campus Commons Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA, United States 20191 <a href="mailto:info@retiresafe.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@retiresafe.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: RetireSafe is a grassroots action network promoting dynamic, pro-growth solutions to America’s retirement security challenges. This grassroots network consists of all generations of citizens, united in the belief that more choice and control over their retirement will produce prosperity for young and old. It seeks retirement security through policies that encourage economic growth, wealth creation, and individual choice and control. Central to this is the ownership of retirement assets and the ability to pass those assets from generation to generation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security • Medicare • Financial and savings security • Health Savings Accounts • Tax reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 401-429-6115

</div><a href="http://rifreedom.org/">Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity</a>  Michael Stenhouse Chief Executive Officer P.O. Box 10069 Cranston, RI, United States 02910 <a href="mailto:info@rifreedom.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@rifreedom.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity is Rhode Island’s leading free-enterprise public policy think tank. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the RI Center for Freedom is dedicated to providing concerned citizens, the media, and public officials with empirical research data, while also advancing free-market solutions to public policy issues in the state. Balancing the debate, changing minds, and building a growing network of people who are informed and passionate about free-market ideas are the vital roles that the Center for Freedom will play in the Ocean State!
Tax Status: 501(C)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic Growth * Jobs * School Choice * Medicaid * Pension Reform * Federalism * Labor Issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 505-264-6090
Fax: 505-213-0300

</div><a href="http://www.riograndefoundation.org/">Rio Grande Foundation</a>  Paul J. Gessing President PO Box 40336 Albuquerque, NM, United States 87196 <a href="mailto:info@riograndefoundation.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@riograndefoundation.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy. Through its research papers, workshops, editorials, and policy briefings, the Foundation promotes public policy founded upon the principles of limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility. To promote these principles and to assist New Mexico leaders in developing policies based on a limited government and free market approach, the Rio Grande Foundation relies solely on contributions from the private sector to fund its activities and neither seeks nor accepts government funding.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy • Medicaid • School choice • Smart growth • Water • Tax and spending limitations • Economic development • Energy and environment • Telecommunication • Privatization</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 815-964-5053
Fax: 815-964-9403

</div><a href="http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/">Rockford Institute</a>  Dr. Thomas Fleming President 928 North Main Street Rockford, IL, United States 61103 <a href="mailto:info@rockfordinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@rockfordinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Rockford Institute’s chief activity is the publication of the monthly magazine, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. In addition, the Institute operates an op-ed service, a summer school, a speakers bureau, and an audiotape lecture series; holds regular conferences throughout the year at home and abroad, including the John Randolph Club; and publishes several books annually.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Classical education • Authentic federalism • America-first economic and foreign policy • Insurgent Islam • The restoration of Christendom • The primacy of the family</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 303-292-1800
Fax: 303-429-5795

</div><a href="http://www.rmfc.org/">Rocky Mountain Family Council</a>  Jim Chapman Executive Director 8704 Yates Drive, Suite 205 Westminster, CO, United States 80031 <a href="mailto:rmfc@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">rmfc@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Rocky Mountain Family Council (RMFC) exists to promote renewal in families, marriages, education, and government throughout the Rocky Mountain region. This is accomplished through communication with the Colorado legislature and through RMFC’s charter school and marriage projects.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Divorce reform • Charter schools • Family tax relief • Parental notice and consent • Same sex marriage • Domestic partner benefit policies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-40-21-211-1477
Fax: 011-40-21-211-1477

</div><a href="http://www.sar.org.ro/">Romanian Academic Society</a>  Alina Mungiu Pippidi Executive President 61 Mihai Eminescu Bucuresti 2, 020071, Romania  <a href="mailto:office@sar.org.ro" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">office@sar.org.ro</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Romanian Academic Society (SAR) aims to further the ideas of freedom, democracy, and good governance in Eastern Europe.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Policy Analysis • Governance • European studies</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-40-92-153619 
Fax: 011-40-68-153619

</div>Romanian Institute for Study of Public Choice  Paul Fudulu Nicopole 59 Brasov 2200 , Romania  <a href="mailto:fududup@yahoo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">fududup@yahoo.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 909-621-8159
Fax: 909-607-4288

</div><a href="http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/rose/">Rose Institute of State and Local Government</a>  Dr. Ralph A. Rossum Director Claremont McKenna College 340 East Ninth Street Claremont, CA, United States 91711-6420 <a href="mailto:roseinstitute@claremontmckenna.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">roseinstitute@claremontmckenna.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Using computer technology, students, and faculty, the Rose Institute advances knowledge about politics and helps create services that make the political process more democratic. Through the development of large computerized databases and advanced geographic retrieval systems, students become involved in projects focusing on such topics as redistricting, fiscal analysis, California demographics, survey research, and legal and regulatory analysis and, therefore, contribute to a better understanding of many aspects of California’s state and local government.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: State and local government • State fiscal policy • Regulation • Elections</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 231-972-5590
Fax: 231-972-8078

</div><a href="http://www.kirkcenter.org/">The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal</a>  Annette Y. Kirk President PO Box 4 Mecosta, MI, United States 49332 <a href="mailto:info@kirkcenter.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@kirkcenter.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Continuing in the tradition of the American writer and thinker Russell Kirk, the Center’s mission is to strengthen the foundations—cultural, economic, and religious—of Western civilization and the American experience within it. Its programs and publications have a particular focus on moral imagination and right reason. They celebrate and defend the “permanent things”—all that makes human life worth living, particularly the bedrock principles that have traditionally supported and maintained the health of society’s central institutions—family, church, and school.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 434-978-3888
Fax: 434-978-1789

</div><a href="http://www.rutherford.org/">The Rutherford Institute</a>  John Whitehead President PO Box 7482 Charlottesville, VA, United States 22906 <a href="mailto:staff@rutherford.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">staff@rutherford.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 1982 by constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute is a civil liberties organization that provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. The Institute has emerged as one of the nation’s leading advocates of civil liberties and human rights, litigating in the courts and educating the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States and around the world. The Institute’s mission is twofold: to provide legal services in the defense of religious and civil liberties and to educate the public on important issues affecting their constitutional freedoms.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of speech • Freedom of religion • Sanctity of human life • School choice • Right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure • Rights within the workplace</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 317-472-2050
Fax: 317-925-0679

</div><a href="http://www.sipr.org/">Sagamore Institute for Policy Research</a>  Deborah J. Daniels President 1630 North Meridian Street, Suite 450 Indianapolis, IN, United States 46202 <a href="mailto:info@sipr.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@sipr.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Sagamore Institute is to provide high-quality, independent research and analysis, developing innovative and collaborative approaches to issues of public significance.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil society • Education reform • Immigration • Criminal justice policy • Global trade</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 312-920-0080
Fax: 312-920-0090

</div><a href="http://www.samadamsalliance.org/">The Sam Adams Alliance</a>  Eric O'Keefe Chairman and CEO 400 West Erie, Suite 407 Chicago, IL, United States 60654 <a href="mailto:info@samadamsalliance.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@samadamsalliance.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Sam Adams Alliance aims to revive the principles of its namesake by connecting and supporting citizen leaders who are working to defend liberty, to hold the government accountable, and to protect the rights of taxpayers starting at the state and local level. The Alliance serves as a national network for citizens who are ready to take action and take back politics in their own communities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government reform • Transparency • Property rights • Fiscal responsibility • Free speech</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 858-320-7515
Fax: 858-453-0607

</div><a href="http://www.sandiegoinstitute.com/">The San Diego Institute for Policy Research</a>  W. Erik Bruvold President and CEO 8910 University Center Lane, Suite 220 San Diego, CA, United States 92122 <a href="mailto:info@sandiegoinstitute.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@sandiegoinstitute.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The San Diego Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan organization that formulates and promotes high quality economic, policy, and public opinion research so as to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of local governments in San Diego County, California, and to improve the quality of life enjoyed by the region’s citizens.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Municipal finance • Public pensions • Government efficiency</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 973-497-4279
Fax: 973-497-4282

</div><a href="http://www.rcan.org/icsf">The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children</a>  Lorraine Cunningham Executive Director PO Box 9500 Newark, NJ, United States 07104 <a href="mailto:cunninlo@rcan.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cunninlo@rcan.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children provides scholarships for needy children who attend private and parochial schools. Its mission is to provide disadvantaged youngsters with a sound values-based education in a safe environment.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 414-319-9160
Fax: 414-765-0220

</div><a href="http://www.schoolchoicewi.org/">School Choice Wisconsin</a>  Susan Mitchell President 2025 North Summit Avenue, Suite 103 Milwaukee, WI, United States 53202 <a href="mailto:scw@parentchoice.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">scw@parentchoice.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: School Choice Wisconsin is a non-profit organization that seeks to ensure an honest debate about school choice by providing accurate information on the impact of school choice on families, communities, and schools.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-920-2744
Fax: 408-715-5657

</div><a href="http://www.sepp.org/">The Science and Environmental Policy Project</a>  S. Fred Singer President 1600 South Eads Street, Suite 712-S Arlington, VA, United States 22202-2907 <a href="mailto:comments@sepp.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">comments@sepp.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is an international association of mainly physical scientists and engineers concerned with the responsible use of scientific information in the development of environmental policies. SEEP publishes scientific reports, holds briefings, and issues a weekly e-mail bulletin to some 2,000 addresses.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Climate change • Control of greenhouse gases • Energy policy • Future energy sources • Nuclear radiation effects • Nuclear terrorism threats</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-375-17-284-55-46
Fax: 011-375-289-5009

</div><a href="http://www.liberty-belarus.info/">Scientific Research Mises Center</a>  Jaroslav Romanchuk President Krasnaya str. 21A/8 Minsk 220005, Belarus  <a href="mailto:jaroslavroman@gmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jaroslavroman@gmail.com </a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Scientific Research Mises Center seeks to advance ideas and ideals of free market democratic society based on individual choice and personal responsibility; to create an open community of people who share those ideas; to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to promote the original ideas of limited government, individual liberty, and private property; and to assist in formation of the national elite that will be able to ensure stable and safe and consistent development of the Belarusian society towards freedom and democracy in the family of like-minded countries.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax and budgetary reform • Privatization and building institutions of free market economy • Advocacy of philosophy and ideology of capitalism • Business climate reform as a means to limit the government • Application of Austrian school of economics to countries in transition • Pension and social security reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 228-990-7246
Fax: 228-875-2613

</div>Second Amendment and Firearms Education  Aletta Viola Donigan President 1816 Bienville Boulevard Ocean Springs, MS, United States 39564 <a href="mailto:aletta@artrageousdesign.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">aletta@artrageousdesign.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Firearms training and education to women and children</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 425-454-7012
Fax: 425-451-3959

</div><a href="http://www.saf.org/">Second Amendment Foundation</a>  Alan Gottlieb Founder James Madison Building 12500 NE Tenth Place Bellevue, WA, United States 98005 <a href="mailto:adminforweb@saf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">adminforweb@saf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about America’s constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, SAF carries out many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Right to keep and bear arms • Gun control • Crime • Self defense • Homeland security</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 800-325-9891

</div><a href="http://www.senior.org/">The Seniors Coalition</a>  Mary Martin Chairman of the Board and Executive Director 4401 Fair Lakes Court, Suite 201 Fairfax, VA, United States 22033 <a href="mailto:tsc@senior.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tsc@senior.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Seniors Coalition is a non-profit, non-partisan, education, and issue advocacy organization that represents the interests and concerns of America’s senior citizens at both the state and federal levels. Its mission is to protect the quality of life and economic well being that older Americans have earned, while supporting common sense solutions to the challenges of the future. The Coalition was founded as a public advocacy group during the fight to repeal the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1989. Since then, it has grown rapidly and expanded its advocacy to include a wide range of other important issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Medicare • Social Security • Long-term care • Pharmaceutical issues • Tax reform • Regulatory reform • FDA drug approval • Low-cost generic drugs</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 724-458-3394
Fax: 724-458-2181

</div><a href="http://www.shenangoinstitute.org/">Shenango Institute for Public Policy</a>  Paul Kengor President PO Box 245 Grove City, PA, United States 16127 <a href="mailto:sipp@shenangoinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">sipp@shenangoinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Shenango Institute for Public Policy (SIPP) is to formulate and promote public policies at the local government level based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and responsibility, and a respect for traditional values. Focusing on the central-western Pennsylvania area, including Lawrence, Mercer, Butler, and Venango counties, SIPP supports private sector solutions to social and economic problems; competitive market processes in the delivery of government services; a requirement that governments prove that benefits outweigh costs before embarking on public works projects; and evaluation of social services on the basis of outcomes rather than inputs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Privatization • Trade • Taxes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 314-726-5655
Fax: 314-726-5656

</div><a href="http://www.showmeinstitute.org/">The Show-Me Institute</a>  Brenda Talent President 4512 West Pine Boulevard St. Louis, MO, United States 63108 <a href="mailto:info@showmeinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@showmeinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Show-Me Institute is a research and educational institute dedicated to improving the quality of life for all citizens of Missouri by advancing sensible, well-researched solutions to state and local policy issues. The Institute’s scholars study public policy problems and develop proposals to increase economic opportunity for ordinary Missourians.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation and budget • Property rights • Education • Regulation • Technology</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-421-2-48-291-585
Fax: 011-421-2-48-291-243

</div><a href="http://www.zdps.sk/">Slovak Taxpayers Association</a>  Martin Chren Secretary General Jasikova 6 821 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, The  <a href="mailto:hayek@hayek.sk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">hayek@hayek.sk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Slovak Taxpayers Association is the protection of taxpayers’ interests by supporting initiatives in reducing tax rates, public expenditures, and balancing the state budget.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Flat tax • Government spending • Tax Freedom Day • Decreasing the tax burden</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-242-5840
Fax: 703-242-5841

</div><a href="http://www.sbecouncil.org/">Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council</a>  Karen Kerrigan President & CEO 2944 Hunter Mill Road, Suite 204 Oakton, VA, United States 22124 <a href="mailto:membership@sbecouncil.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">membership@sbecouncil.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) works to influence legislation and policies that help to create a favorable and productive environment for small businesses and entrepreneurship. By educating policymakers, legislators, the media and the public about the critical role that small businesses play in the economy—and how government actions can positively or negatively affect the small business community—SBE Council strives to establish a solid public policy foundation upon which entrepreneurial activity and small businesses can survive and flourish.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes and spending • Health care • Trade • Regulation • Energy and environment • Telecommunications and the Internet</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 510-885-2640
Fax: 510-885-4222

</div><a href="http://www.thesmithcenter.org/">Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies</a>  Dr. Stephen Shmanske Director College of Business and Economics California State University, East Bay Hayward, CA, United States 94542 <a href="mailto:charles.baird@csueastbay.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">charles.baird@csueastbay.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies seeks to foster a better understanding of classical liberalism among college students and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tax reform • Labor law reform • State spending limits</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-207-637-4356
Fax: 011-44-207-436-8530

</div><a href="http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/">The Social Affairs Unit</a>  Micheal Mosbacher Director 314-322 Regent Street London, W1B 5SA, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:info@socialaffairsunit.org.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@socialaffairsunit.org.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Social Affairs Unit addresses social, economic, and cultural issues with an emphasis on the value of personal responsibility. It researches, challenges, and debates issues, always seeking to draw out the role of the individual’s obligations. The Social Affairs Unit identifies research with a potential to inform public policy and translates it from academic discourse into public debate. The ideas it promotes come largely from historians, sociologists, and philosophers as well as medical doctors and scientists.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economy • Personal responsibility • Welfare reform • British society and culture</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-207-222-7060
Fax: 011-44-207-222-3010

</div><a href="http://www.smf.co.uk/">Social Market Foundation</a>  Philip Collins Director 11 Tufton Street Westminster, London SW1P 3QB, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:pcollins@smf.co.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">pcollins@smf.co.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Social Market Foundation (SMF) was established in 1989 to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas. Steering an independent course between political parties and conflicting ideologies, SMF has been an influential voice in recent health, education, welfare and pensions policy reform. SMF’s current work reflects a commitment to understanding how individuals, society, and the state can work together to achieve the common goal of creating a just and free society.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Reinventing government • Health care • Regional pay and regulation • Limited government • Consumer culture</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 419-372-2536
Fax: 419-372-8738

</div><a href="http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sppc">Social Philosophy and Policy Center</a>  Fred D. Miller, Jr. Executive Director Bowling Green State University 225 Troupe Avenue Bowling Green, OH, United States 43403 <a href="mailto:mdilsav@bgsu.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mdilsav@bgsu.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Social Philosophy and Policy Center is dedicated to the examination of public policy issues from a philosophical perspective. It is distinctive in its focus upon the ethical aspects of public policy questions. This emphasis reflects the belief that policy questions cannot be adequately addressed by empirical investigation alone. Factual research can reveal the optimal or efficient policy by which certain public ends can be attained, yet the validity of those ends is still open to question from an ethical standpoint. The methodology of the Center is interdisciplinary, in that ethical analysis is informed by the results of economics, jurisprudence, and political science.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Tax policy • American historiography • Property rights • Welfare reform • Economic policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 519-884-3166
Fax: 519-884-7054

</div><a href="http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/">Society for Quality Education</a>  Malkin Dare President 335 Marlowe Drive Waterloo, ON N2L 5A5, Canada  <a href="mailto:info@societyforqualityeducation.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@societyforqualityeducation.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Society for Quality Education (SQE) is an organization of parents, educators, and citizens who believe the poor quality of the Canadian education system can no longer be ignored. SQE seeks to significantly improve student learning in Canada.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 609-882-1071

</div><a href="http://www.solutionsfornewjersey.com/">Solutions for New Jersey</a>  Richard J. LaRossa CEO & Executive Director 150 Bull Run Road, Suite B Trenton, NJ, United States 08638-1316 <a href="mailto:solutionsfornewjersey@gmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">solutionsfornewjersey@gmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Solutions mission is to identify economic issues and conditions facing the State of New Jersey, evaluate the causes and propose innovative, cost-effective ways to resolve them. In short, a fiscally responsible “think tank” devoted solely to New Jersey!
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Property taxes • School Funding • Hospital Charity Care • Waste, fraud and abuse • Pension funding • State Debt • Crime and political corruption • Over-regulation • Affordable Housing.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 803-779-5022
Fax: 803-779-4953

</div><a href="http://www.scpolicycouncil.com/">South Carolina Policy Council</a>  Ashley Landess President 1323 Pendleton Street Columbia, SC, United States 29201 <a href="mailto:mem@scpolicycouncil.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mem@scpolicycouncil.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Established in 1986, the South Carolina Policy Council is a non-partisan, tax-exempt public policy research and education foundation whose mission is to educate its members and all South Carolinians about state and local public policy based on the traditional South Carolina values of individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government reduction • Tax and budget reform • Anti-lottery • Environmental issues • Unionization and right to work • Education reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 605-335-8100
Fax: 605-336-1926

</div><a href="http://www.sdfamily.org/">South Dakota Family Policy Council</a>  Chris Hupke President 3500 South Phillips Avenue, Suite 110 Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57105 <a href="mailto:mail@sdfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@sdfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The South Dakota Family Policy Council provides research and analysis of family issues through various publications and media efforts, facilitates action by pro-family citizens and grassroots groups, and lobbies for pro-family interests in Pierre, the state capital.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage/divorce • Video gambling • School choice • Abstinence • Pornography • Government waste</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 404-257-9667
Fax: 404-257-0049

</div><a href="http://www.southeasternlegal.org/">Southeastern Legal Foundation</a>  Shannon L. Goessling, Esq. Executive Director 6100 Lake Forrest Drive, NW, Suite 520 Atlanta, GA, United States 30328 <a href="mailto:jayers@southeasternlegal.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jayers@southeasternlegal.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Southeastern Legal Foundation is an Atlanta-based public interest law firm that advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Environment • Family • Taxes • Limited government • Property rights</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-239-9350
Fax: 212-515-7126

</div><a href="http://www.sccsf.org/">Southern California Children's Scholarship Fund</a>  Erica Macias Program Director 1015 Gayley Avenue, Suite 1118 Los Angeles, CA, United States 90024 <a href="mailto:info@sccsf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@sccsf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Southern California Children’s Scholarship Fund seeks to increase educational opportunities to K–8 children in southern California from low-income families through partial tuition scholarships.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 407-985-3509

</div><a href="http://www.spaceandscience.net/">Space and Science Corporation</a>  John L. Casey President PO Box 607841 Orlando, FL, United States 32860 <a href="mailto:mail@spaceandscience.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@spaceandscience.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC) is a leading independent US climate research company. It is the foremost institution in the United States dedicated to the analysis and planning for the next climate change - forecast to be one of decades of record cold weather. The SSRC maintains active communication channels with some of the world's best experts in the field of solar physics and climate research pertaining to the matter of the next climate change. In addition it has a dedicated list of "Supporting Researchers" who have committed their name and assistance to the mission of the SSRC. The SSRC also updates key US government leaders of the status of climate change activity centered on its area of expertise. The SSRC possesses the capability to conduct planning and research on how best to prepare individuals, businesses, and governments at all levels for the next climate change to a period of long lasting and potentially dangerous colder weather.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: _Environment ~Global Warming</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 817-332-8550
Fax: 817-332-8825

</div><a href="http://www.starcsffw.org/">STAR Sponsor Program/Children's Scholarship Fund - Fort Worth</a>  Patty Myers Executive Director 316 Bailey Avenue, Suite 109 Fort Worth, TX, United States 76107 <a href="mailto:starcsf@lycos.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">starcsf@lycos.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: STAR Sponsorship Program, Inc./Children’s Scholarship Fund - Fort Worth is dedicated to increasing educational options for children in Tarrant County, Texas, whose parents do not have the financial means to provide the education best suited to their children’s unique needs. The Program believes the well being of the entire community is enhanced when children are given a quality education that allows them to achieve to their utmost ability. To this end, it encourages partnerships with schools, parents, community organizations, and concerned citizens in supporting children to achieve the American dream.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.statebudgetsolutions.org/">State Budget Solutions</a>  Bob Williams President 4701 Cox Road, Suite 301 Glen Allen, VA, United States 23060 <a href="mailto:info@statebudgetsolutions.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@statebudgetsolutions.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Launched in 2010, State Budget Solutions (SBS) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit with the mission to change the way state and local governments do business by reforming their approach to budgeting. 
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: State & Local Budgets</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 510-965-9700
Fax: 510-965-9701

</div><a href="http://www.spn.org/">State Policy Network (SPN)</a>  Tracie Sharp President 2020 North 14th Street, Suite 250 Arlington, VA, United States 22201 <a href="mailto:sharp@spn.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">sharp@spn.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: SPN is the professional service organization for America’s state-based, free market think tank community. Its work advances a free society by providing leadership development, management training, and networking opportunities for think tank professionals and promoting strategic partnerships among market-oriented organizations. Founded in 1992, SPN is the only group in the country dedicated solely to improving the practical effectiveness of independent, non-profit, market-oriented, state-based think tanks. SPN’s programs enable these organizations to better educate local citizens, policymakers, and opinion leaders about market-oriented alternatives to state and local policy challenges.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Leadership training • Fundraising training • Networking events • State think tank start-up training • Board/trustee training</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-223-3193
Fax: 202-872-4014

</div><a href="http://www.stats.org/">Statistical Assessment Service</a>  S. Robert Lichter President 2100 L Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC, United States 20037 <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Statistical Assessment Service (or STATS) is a research organization dedicated to improving public understanding of scientific and statistical information. STATS monitors and evaluates research information at its source, consults journalists about the methodology and possible controversy behind particular research, matches journalists to appropriate experts, informs the policymaking debate, and educates journalists about sound research practice in preparing for tomorrow’s stories.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Misrepresentation of scientific data • Health scares • Crime and youth violence • Environment • Biotechnology • Urban myths and legends • Gender issues • Drug use and abuse • Polls and surveys</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 970-871-9936
Fax: 970-870-0571

</div><a href="http://www.steamboatinstitute.org/">The Steamboat Institute</a>  Rick Akin President PO Box 883037 Steamboat Springs, CO, United States 88 <a href="mailto:info@steamboatinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@steamboatinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Steamboat Institute is an educational organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code–and we are here to educate. We are here to help provide tools, information, and inspiration to those who hold the Founding Principles of the nation dear. The Steamboat Institute has no paid staff. It is organized and operated by folks like you with full-time careers and small businesses–folks who are concerned about preserving the greatness of this country. Like the Founders, we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to this task. We invite you to join us.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited Government • Lower Taxes • Free Markets • Strong National Defense • Individual Rights & Responsibilities</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: +46 708 922 188

</div><a href="http://www.freeworldforum.org/">The Stockholm Free World Forum</a>  Stefan Olsson Director Kungsgatan 60  Box 3037 SE-103 61  Stockholm, Sweden  <a href="mailto:info@frivarld.se" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@frivarld.se</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: While the world is more free today than it was ten, twenty or thirty years ago, there are still nearly two billion people living under oppression who are denied the fundamental freedoms of assemble, religion, thought and expression. The Stockholm Free World Forum (SFWF) champions individual liberty and believes this is a fundamental right that transcends national borders, religious faith, age, gender and ethnicity. We believe in free societies, free individuals and free markets. We consider these values as absolute and valid in all places and in every time. The think tank thus aspires to stimulate a vibrant discussion on which ideas and perspectives of liberty should determine Swedish foreign- and security policy. Through hosting seminars, writing reports, publishing books and a weekly online magazine, as well as opining in the news media the SFWF aspires to promote freedom. We bring to the fore vital policy issues to our domestic as well as our foreign audiences.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets • Press Freedom • Freedom of Speech • Democracy and Representative Government • Religious Freedom • Freedom of Assembly • NATO • Afghanistan • The Middle East</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7354-8888
Fax: 011-44-20-7359-8888

</div><a href="http://www.stockholm-network.org/">Stockholm Network</a>  Cara Walker Head of Communications 35 Britannia Row London N1 8QH, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:info@stockholm-network.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@stockholm-network.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Stockholm Network is the leading pan-European think tank and market-oriented network. It is a one-stop shop for organizations seeking to work with Europe’s brightest policymakers and thinkers. The Stockholm Network brings together more than 130 market-oriented think tanks from across Europe, giving it the capacity to deliver local messages and locally-tailored global messages across the European Union and beyond.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: European welfare • European pension • European health systems • Property rights • European energy • Globalization • Trade • Competition</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 503-585-9383
Fax: 503-399-1698

</div><a href="http://www.strongerfamilies.com/">Stronger Families for Oregon</a>  Mike Howden Executive Director PO Box 948 Salem, OR, United States 97308 <a href="mailto:michael@oregonfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">michael@oregonfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Stronger Families promotes ideas that build dynamic marriages, effective fathers, and healthy teen choices while reducing the causes of family breakdown. Stronger Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes its work through trend analysis, resource development, and community based strategies. It was established in response to the mounting evidence that family breakdown is at the root of the deterioration of family strength and child well being.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abstinence education • Marriage enrichment • Fatherlessness • Juvenile crime • Gambling • Pornography/adult businesses</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 888-527-3321

</div><a href="http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/">Students for Academic Freedom</a>  Sara Dogan National Campus Director PO Box 1623 Ballwin, MO, United States 63011 <a href="mailto:sara@studentsforacademicfreedom.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">sara@studentsforacademicfreedom.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Students for Academic Freedom is a movement dedicated to the ideas that a university is an educational institution not a political party, that its resources and authority should be used for learning and the pursuit of knowledge—not to indoctrinate students in a political ideology, and that the principles of academic freedom and a good education require that students have access to a diversity of viewpoints in courses, in required reading texts, and in campus activities programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic freedom • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-875-3370
Fax: 703-875-3375

</div><a href="http://www.sba-list.org/">Susan B. Anthony List</a>  Marjorie Dannenfelser President 1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1070 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 <a href="mailto:information@sba-list.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">information@sba-list.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Susan B. Anthony List is a non-profit membership organization with a connected political action committee (SBA List Candidate Fund) dedicated to training pro-life activists and candidates, advocating the passage of pro-life legislation in Congress, and increasing the percentage of pro-life women in Congress.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 717-361-8905
Fax: 717-361-8945

</div><a href="http://www.susvalleypolicy.org/">Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy</a>  Dr. Charles E. Greenawalt Senior Fellow and Director of Research Projects PO Box 338 Hershey, PA, United States 17033 <a href="mailto:susvalley@susvalleypolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">susvalley@susvalleypolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy (SVCPP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that was established to help Pennsylvanians build a brighter future. The mission of SVCPP is to serve as a source of informed public policy information, discussion, and debate on matters of local government in central Pennsylvania. Its values are accountability, economy, efficiency, and responsiveness in local government, with an emphasis on free market principles and the role and responsibilities of citizenship that form the foundation of our political structure.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Lawsuit abuse • Government policy • Tax relief</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 801-355-1272
Fax: 801-355-1705

</div><a href="http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/">The Sutherland Institute</a>  Paul T. Mero President Gateway Tower West Building 15 West South Temple, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84101 <a href="mailto:si@sutherlandinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">si@sutherlandinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Sutherland Institute is to improve the state’s economic, social, and political climate by disseminating workable ideas to decision makers in Utah—government officials as well as business and education leaders. Sutherland does this by publishing and disseminating policy papers, brochures, books, and newsletters; by holding conferences and seminars for legislators and the general public; and by furnishing speakers, articles, and opinion pieces to the local media. Sutherland’s strategy includes touching on today’s critical issues as well as setting the agenda for future policy debates.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform/school choice • Free-market growth • Tax limitation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-46-8-613-17-00
Fax: 011-46-8-613-17-60

</div><a href="http://www.skattebetalarna.se/">Swedish Taxpayers Association</a>  Robert Gidehag President Box 3319 103 66 Stockholm, Sweden  <a href="mailto:info@skattebetalarna.se" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@skattebetalarna.se</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Swedish Taxpayers Association strives to influence public opinion and decision makers and to get taxes reduced to levels that do not exceed the European average; to introduce a simple, transparent tax system and fiscal legislation; to improve the law on tax issues for individuals and companies; and to create a more efficient public sector.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Abolish capital tax • Abolish real estate tax • Abolish national income tax • Reduce local income taxes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-464-6200
Fax: 202-464-6201

</div><a href="http://www.taxfoundation.org/">Tax Foundation</a>  Scott A. Hodge President 529 14th Street, NW Suite 420 Washington, DC, United States 20045-1000 <a href="mailto:tf@taxfoundation.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tf@taxfoundation.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Tax Foundation, founded in 1937, is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization that monitors fiscal issues at all levels of government. Serving as a national clearinghouse for providing citizens with a better understanding of their tax system and the effects of tax policy, the Foundation analyzes data from all levels of government, explores the effect of tax policy on businesses and individuals alike, and channels this information to the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Corporate and individual income taxes • Excise taxes • Federal tax and budget reform/cuts/compliance • International taxation • State taxes and state allocation of federal taxes • Tax Freedom Day</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-845-330-9554

</div><a href="http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/">The Taxpayers' Alliance</a>  Andrew Allum Chairman 55 Tufton Street  London SSW1P 3QL, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:info@taxpayersalliance.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@taxpayersalliance.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) is Britain’s independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes. TPA’s mission is to reverse the perception that big government is necessary and irreversible, to explain the benefits of a low-tax economy, and to give taxpayers a voice in the corridors of power.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Limited government • Low-tax economy • European Union tax harmonization • Wasteful spending</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-49-89-126-00-820
Fax: 011-49-89-126-00-827

</div><a href="http://www.taxpayers-europe.com/">Taxpayers Association of Europe</a>  Rolf von Hohenhau President Nymphenburger Strasse 118 80636 Munich, Germany  <a href="mailto:taebdst@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">taebdst@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Taxpayers Association of Europe supports legislation to limit tax burdens, prevent unjust harassment by tax collectors, and provide clear information about government taxation and expenditure.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation • Deregulation • Limited government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-546-8500
Fax: 202-546-8511

</div><a href="http://www.taxpayer.net/">Taxpayers for Common Sense </a> Ryan Alexander President 651 Pennsylvania Ave, SE Washington, DC, United States 20003 <a href="mailto:ryan@taxpayer.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ryan@taxpayer.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Taxpayers for Common Sense is an independent and non-partisan voice for taxpayers working to increase transparency and expose and eliminate wasteful and corrupt subsidies, earmarks, and corporate welfare. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: taxes earmarks *spending *corporate welfare *waste</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 651-294-3590
Fax: 651-294-3596

</div><a href="http://www.taxpayersleague.org/">Taxpayers League of Minnesota</a>  Phil Krinkie President PO Box 120444 St. Paul, MN, United States 55112 <a href="mailto:tlm@taxpayersleague.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tlm@taxpayersleague.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Taxpayers League of Minnesota fights for lower taxes, limited government, and the basic constitutional principles of the Founding Fathers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayers Bill of Rights • No new taxes • Government reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 920-434-3100
Fax: 920-434-4177

</div><a href="http://www.taxpayersnetwork.org/">Taxpayers Network, Inc. (TNI)</a>  Amy McGee Polasky Executive Director 721 Cardinal Lane, Suite 105 Green Bay, WI, United States 54313 <a href="mailto:mail@taxpayersnetwork.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@taxpayersnetwork.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: TNI is a non-profit organization educating America’s citizens about a common sense, free enterprise system with economic opportunity and limited government. Founded in 1992 with the intent to bring selected public policy ideas from the east coast think tanks to the Midwest, TNI is now a nationwide organization with some 90,000 members in 47 states. TNI works to educate its members, citizen groups, the general public, and elected officials about pressing issues in public policy and solutions to public policy problems.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-229-0254

</div><a href="http://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/">Taxpayers Protection Alliance</a>  David E. Williams President 815 King Street, Suite 309 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 <a href="mailto:davidwilliams@protectingtaxpayers.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">davidwilliams@protectingtaxpayers.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy. Through its network of taxpayers and citizen activists, TPA will hold politicians accountable for the effects of their policies and will offer real solutions to run-away deficits and debt.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Government Waste, fraud, abuse • Budget • Earmarks • Transparency • Regulation • Privacy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 573-893-6914
Fax: 573-634-4406

</div><a href="http://www.motaxpayers.com/">Taxpayers Research Institute of Missouri</a>  Ray McCarty Executive Director 3234 West Truman Boulevard Jefferson City, MO, United States 65109 <a href="mailto:rmccarty@aimo.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">rmccarty@aimo.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 847-256-8476
Fax: 847-256-8482

</div>TEACH America  Patrick J. Keleher, Jr. President Georgetown Square 522 Fourth Street Wilmette, IL, United States 60091 <a href="mailto:teach522@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">teach522@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: TEACH America was created in 1990 as a non-profit organization to implement consumer-driven, family-centered solutions to chronic education problems. A national coalition—bipartisan and multi-ethnic—of parents, community and business leaders, educators, and general taxpayers, it develops and leads public policy initiatives on issues such as parental choice, parental rights, charter schools, privatization, alternative teacher certification, teacher formation and development, teacher private practice, applied education ethics, and private school scholarships (through its FOCUS —Family Options for Children Urban Scholarships—Fund division).
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • School finance and taxes • Privately funded scholarships • Issues in higher education • Teacher private practice</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 509-482-2868
Fax: 509-482-7994

</div><a href="http://www.teen-aid.org/">Teen-Aid, Inc.</a>  LeAnna Benn National Director 723 East Jackson Spokane, WA, United States 99207 <a href="mailto:teenaid@teen-aid.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">teenaid@teen-aid.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Teen-Aid is a non-profit organization started in 1981 for the specific purpose of reducing out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies and their many consequences. It supports abstinence education, which stresses character development and connection to parents. Teen-Aid produces curricula materials for public and private schools as well as offering materials developed by others but which still convey the skills and integrity of abstinence, fidelity, and character.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: AIDS - A.B.C.D. Policy • Abstinence • Marriage • Comprehensive sex education • Evaluation on best practices</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 706-367-1334
Fax: 706-367-2502

</div><a href="http://www.teenpact.com/">TeenPact Leadership School</a>  Tim G. Echols President PO Box 9 Jefferson, GA, United States 30549 <a href="mailto:knowmore@teenpact.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">knowmore@teenpact.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: TeenPact’s major objective is to break down the intimidation that many have about involvement in our civil government. TeenPact wants students to see that the future of our country is dependent upon their involvement. Participants in TeenPact’s programs learn the basics of parliamentary procedure and debate, write bills and work to see them passed by TeenPact Legislative sessions, and are introduced to and learn their way around our nation’s state capitals. TeenPacters are given the opportunity not only to hear presentations by important and influential people in their states but also to interact with them personally.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Training and educating young people in civic education • Establishing distant learning courses in government and politics • Starting C. S. Lewis Societies on college campuses in cooperation with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 615-383-6431
Fax: 615-383-6432

</div><a href="http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/">Tennessee Center for Policy Research</a>  Justin Owen Acting Executive Director PO Box 121331 Nashville, TN, United States 37212 <a href="mailto:info@tennesseepolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@tennesseepolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to providing concerned citizens, the media and public leaders with expert empirical research and timely free market policy solutions to public policy issues in Tennessee. The Center generates and encourages public policy remedies grounded in the capacity of private enterprise, the ingenuity of individuals, and the abilities of active communities to achieve a freer, more prosperous Tennessee.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Spending restraint/budget reduction • Eminent domain • School choice/vouchers • Privatization • Consumer-directed health care/ Medicaid reform • Technology</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 
Fax: 615-360-9005 

</div><a href="http://www.tneagleforum.org/">Tennessee Eagle Forum</a>  Bobbie Patray State President 3216 Bluewater Trace Nashville, TN, United States 37217 <a href="mailto:bobbie@tneagleforum.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">bobbie@tneagleforum.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 512-236-0201
Fax: 512-236-0221

</div><a href="http://www.empowertexans.com/">Texans for Fiscal Responsibility</a>  Michael Quinn Sullivan President and CEO PO Box 200248 Austin, TX, United States 78720 <a href="mailto:info@empowertexans.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@empowertexans.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility is a project of Empower Texans. Empower Texans exists to create and sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within all levels of government in Texas, to ensure the greatest amounts of economic and personal liberty, and to promote public policies that provide individuals with the freedom to use their strengths and talents in pursuit of greater opportunities. The organization believes that if government and taxes are allowed to grow without restraint, the economy will contract, thereby limiting opportunities for all Texans.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Fiscal Responsibility</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 512-474-1798
Fax: 512-482-8355

</div><a href="http://www.txcc.org/">Texas Conservative Coalition</a>  John Colyandro Executive Director PO Box 2659 Austin, TX, United States 78768 <a href="mailto:john.colyandro@txcc.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">john.colyandro@txcc.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Texas Conservative Coalition is an organization of and for Texas state legislators committed to shaping public policy for the good of all Texans through the promotion of conservative principles—limited government, free enterprise, individual liberties, and traditional family values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Family • Health care policy • Education • State finance issues • Agency oversight • Environmental issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 512-474-6042
Fax: 512-482-8355

</div><a href="http://www.txccri.org/">The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute</a>  John Colyandro Executive Director 910 Congress Avenue Austin, TX, United States 78701 <a href="mailto:john.colyandro@txccri.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">john.colyandro@txccri.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute (TCCRI) is committed to shaping public policy through a principled approach to government. The organization was founded on the conservative principles of limited government, individual liberties, free enterprise, and traditional values. TCCRI is dedicated to the education of policymakers and elected officials in state government on the benefits of the application of those principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Health and human services • Public education and public school finance • Land use • General government appropriations</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 972-250-0734
Fax: 972-380-2853

</div><a href="http://www.texaseagle.org/">Texas Eagle Forum</a>  Cathie Adams Director PO Box 795354 Dallas, TX, United States 75379 <a href="mailto:torch@texaseagle.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">torch@texaseagle.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 512-472-2700
Fax: 512-472-2728

</div><a href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/">Texas Public Policy Foundation</a>  Brooke L. Rollins President 900 Congress Avenue, Suite 400 Austin, TX, United States 78701 <a href="mailto:info@texaspolicy.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@texaspolicy.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on major issues and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The work of the Foundation is conducted by academics across Texas and is funded by hundreds of individuals, foundations, and corporations. The public is demanding a different direction for their government and the Texas Public Policy Foundation is providing the research that enables policymakers to chart that new course.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes and spending • Education reform • Health care • Water • Worker’s compensation • Insurance</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 956-519-4200

</div><a href="http://www.thelibreinitiative.com/contact-us#">The Libre Initiative</a>  Daniel Garza Executive Director 3805 Plantation Grove Boulevard Suite 51 Mission, TX, United States 78572 <a href="mailto:info@thelibreinitiative.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@thelibreinitiative.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Founded in 2011, The LIBRE Initiative is a 501(c)4 non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization that advances the principles and values of economic freedom to empower the U.S. Hispanic community so it can thrive and contribute to a more prosperous America. LIBRE is dedicated to informing the U.S. Hispanic community about the benefits of a constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, sound money supply and free enterprise through a variety of community events, research and policy initiatives that protect our economic freedom. Our mission is to equip the Hispanic community with the tools they need to be prosperous. We are committed to developing a network of Hispanic pro-liberty activists across the United States so that our message reaches every corner of the country. 
Tax Status: 501(c)4 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education * Immigration * Economic Growth * Jobs * Poverty * Overregulation * Tax Policy * Healthcare * Government Cronyism *</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 440-552-2017

</div><a href="http://www.ohioprosperityinitiative.org/">The Ohio Prosperity Initiative</a>  Jack Boyle Executive Director PO Box 6597 Columbus, OH, United States 43206 <a href="mailto:jackboyle@ohioprosperityinitiative.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jackboyle@ohioprosperityinitiative.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Ohio Prosperity Initiative is a statewide organization of Ohio citizens which works to reduce the influence of government in the operation of Ohio's economy in the form of excess taxation and over regulation. OPI's members believe that individual citizens operating in the context of free markets make better decisions about the allocation of resources and the direction of investment, than does government. OPI's members believe that Ohio's state and local tax regime has put its citizens at a serious disadvantage when competing with the economies of other states and that this disadvantage is a material cause in the out-migration of almost 500,000 Ohioans in the past dozen years. OPI will work to overturn counter-productive state policies and taxes, and to enact new ones which makes Ohio competitive once again among the states of the nation, in order to return Ohio to the prosperity it has enjoyed for most of its history.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic Growth * Tax Reform * Death Tax * Jobs * Regulatory Reform *</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 610-642-0618
Fax: 610-642-2654

</div><a href="http://www.wynnewood.org./">The Wynnewood Institute</a>  Thomas Patrick Burke President 104 Haverford Road Wynnewood, PA, United States 19096 <a href="mailto:wynnewood@wynnewood.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wynnewood@wynnewood.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Wynnewood Institute is an independent, academic, non-partisan, non-profit organization concerned with the fundamental questions and the current problems of Western civilization. Our focus is on ideas. With regard to the role of government, our point of departure is the philosophy of true or "classical" liberalism, including a strong defense. Our cultural perspective is an open-minded conservatism. We offer courses, seminars and public lectures by prominent thinkers; and we conduct research on basic questions concerning justice, human rights and civil rights, as well as the implications of science for human values
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Rethinking justice, human rights and civil rights; Science and human values</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-440-9447
Fax: 703-455-1531

</div><a href="http://www.thomasjeffersoninst.org/">Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy</a>  Michael W. Thompson President 9035 Golden Sunset Lane Springfield, VA, United States 22153 <a href="mailto:info@thomasjeffersoninst.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@thomasjeffersoninst.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is to provide Virginia’s political, business, and academic communities with thoughtful, realistic, useful, and non-partisan analysis of public policy issues confronting the Commonwealth. These alternative policy ideas focus on state and local issues and are based on the Institute’s belief in free markets, limited government, and individual responsibility. The general areas of interest for the Institute are reforming government, economic development, excellence in education, and improving health and welfare.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Budget reform • Education reform • Government spending accountability</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 541-347-1517
Fax: 305-422-0379

</div><a href="http://www.ti.org/">Thoreau Institute</a>  Randal O'Toole Director/Economist PO Box 1590 Bandon, OR, United States 97411 <a href="mailto:rot@ti.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">rot@ti.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Thoreau Institute seeks solutions to environmental problems that rely on markets and incentives rather than bureaucracy and big government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Land-use planning • Urban transportation • National forest management • National park management • Wildlife and endangered species</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-46-8-587-89-800
Fax: 011-46-8-587-89-855

</div><a href="http://www.timbro.se/">Timbro</a>  Maria Rankka President Kungsgatan 60 Box 3037 SE-103 61 Stockholm, Sweden  <a href="mailto:info@timbro.se" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@timbro.se</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Timbro is a think tank devoted to innovating economic and social policies founded on free-market principles. For over 25 years Timbro has helped to incubate the ideas and shape the opinions that guide Swedish enterprise.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Governance • Free market • Taxes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 972-298-1811
Fax: 972-572-1515

</div><a href="http://www.todayfoundation.org/">The Today Foundation</a>  Gary Griffith President PO Box 225748 Dallas, TX, United States 75222-5748 <a href="mailto:info@todayfoundation.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@todayfoundation.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Today Foundation’s mission is improving the quality of life for all Americans. This is accomplished by investing the Foundation’s resources in programs designed to either expand the opportunity for everyone to participate in the American dream or to remove the barriers that prevent someone from doing so.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Educational reform • Anti-crime initiatives • Drug-prevention • Technology • Tax reform • Dallas Children’s Scholarship Fund</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-294-6046

</div><a href="http://www.townhall.com/">Townhall.com</a>  Jonathan Garthwaite Editor-in-chief 1901 North Moore Street, Suite 205 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 <a href="mailto:info@townhall.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@townhall.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Townhall’s mission is to use 21st century communications to call people together for informed, thoughtful, and civil discussions on issues of public importance and to mobilize, equip, and activate these people to act on their beliefs. Townhall believes that the best public policy solutions are those that are in concert with the following guiding principles: the balance of power between people and governments should be heavily tilted in favor of the people; a national government’s first priority is to defend its people and homeland; and long-standing moral and ethical values are the bedrock of any civil, prosperous, and sustainable society and these values should be preserved.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security reform • Tax reform • Media • Culture • Law • Government</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-243-2104
Fax: 703-243-2105

</div><a href="http://www.tfp.org/">Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.</a>  Raymond E. Drake President 1344 Merrie Ridge Road McLean, VA, United States 22101 <a href="mailto:tfp.inc@pobox.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tfp.inc@pobox.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) is a non-partisan civic and cultural organization that, inspired by the traditional teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, works to defend and promote the principles of private ownership, family, and Christian values. TFP does this by studying both the foundations of America’s traditions—to invigorate them—and the components of disintegration—to counteract them.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting the traditional family • Opposing same-sex marriage, abortion, and euthanasia • Blasphemy in the culture • Ballistic missile defense</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-547-8570
Fax: 202-546-6403

</div><a href="http://www.traditionalvalues.org/">Traditional Values Coalition</a>  Rev. Lou Sheldon Chairman 139 C Street, SE Washington, DC, United States 20003 <a href="mailto:tvcwashdc@traditionalvalues.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tvcwashdc@traditionalvalues.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) is the largest non-denominational grassroots organization that works to preserve the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which America was founded. Established in 1980 by Rev. Lou Sheldon, TVC speaks on behalf of over 43,000 churches across the United State regarding pro-family legislation and policy. With an emphasis on the restoration of the values needed to maintain strong, unified families, the Coalition focuses upon issues such as marriage, religious liberty, the homosexual agenda, the right to life, pornography, education, and family tax relief.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Religious liberty • Homosexual activism • Abortion • Pornography • Family issues</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 847-483-4004

</div><a href="http://www.turningpointusa.net/">Turning Point USA</a>  Charlie Kirk Founder & President 217 1/2 Illinois Street Lemont, IL, United States 60439 <a href="mailto:charlie.kirk@turningpointusa.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">charlie.kirk@turningpointusa.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Turning Point USA educates students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and capitalism. Through non-partisan debate, dialogue, and discussion, Turning Point USA believes that every young person can be enlightened to true free market values. WE BELIEVE: In Fiscal Responsibility A country, business, or family should not spend more money than it takes in. High debts ruin economic potential, plague private investment, and jeopardize the future generations chance to enjoy prosperity. WE BELIEVE: An Informed Electorate The greatest solution to combating generational theft is an electorate that understands the issues, civics, and basic governmental policy. Turning Point USA is helping students stand up for their beliefs through innovative activism projects that inspire and educate their peers. WE BELIEVE: In the Power of the Youth With over 46 million younger voters eligible to vote in 2012 alone and millions more each year, younger generations are this country’s fastest growing demographic. If we do not target the youth, debts will become a thing of habit, and our republic forever lost. WE BELIEVE: In an Independent Approach Turning Point USA does not stand on party, but rather on principle. Both sides of the aisle are responsible for reckless spending and trillion dollar deficits. It is now time for a resurgent citizen force to take action against such politicians by educating the electorate about the theft that has been occurring. WE BELIEVE: That Tomorrow is Brighter No matter how deep the hole, or gloomy the day, never bet against America. The power of freedom and liberty is a force that can overcome a government bureaucrat, agency, or even politician. The root of Turning Point USA is an optimistic approach, and the core belief that tomorrow will be more prosperous.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: _The Economy ~Federal Spending ~Free Enterprise</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-546-7079

</div>U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation  Dane vonBreichenruchardt President 263 Kentucky Avenue, SE Washington, DC, United States 20003 <a href="mailto:usbor@aol.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">usbor@aol.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation is a non-partisan public interest advocacy organization seeking remedies at law on targeted legal issues that contravene the Bill of Rights and related constitutional law. The Foundation offers legal counsel and representation to affected public and private entities and supplemental expert legal consulting to principal counselors including research, strategy development, brief preparations, oral arguments, and filings of amicus curiae briefs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Second Amendment • Civil asset forfeiture • Property rights • First Amendment • Privacy • Regulatory reform</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-833-0100
Fax: 202-833-0108

</div><a href="http://www.usefoundation.org/">U.S. English Foundation</a>  Mauro E. Mujica Chairman and CEO 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1050 Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:info@usenglish.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@usenglish.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The U.S. English Foundation has several missions: to help improve the teaching of English to immigrants—to allow them to enjoy the economic opportunities available in this country; to study language policy and its effects around the world—so that the lessons learned through the experiences of other countries can be applied to the United States; and to raise public awareness through the media about the importance of our common language.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Legal defense of official English issues • Promotion of innovative and effective English language teaching programs • Research on topics including immigration, language learning and assimilation</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-833-0100
Fax: 202-833-0108

</div><a href="http://www.usenglish.org/">U.S. English, Inc.</a>  Mauro E. Mujica Chairman and CEO 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1050 Washington, DC, United States 20006 <a href="mailto:info@usenglish.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@usenglish.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: U.S. English, Inc., is the nation’s oldest and largest non-partisan citizens action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Passage of common language legislation • Reform of bilingual education • Reduction in multilingual government and voting • Maintaining language requirements</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-383-0907
Fax: 703-383-5288

</div><a href="http://www.ustl.org/">U.S. Term Limits</a>  Philip Blumel President 9900 Main Street, Suite 303 Fairfax, VA, United States 22031 <a href="mailto:info@ustl.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ustl.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Focusing on Congress and state legislatures, U.S. Term Limits is an issue advocacy organization that provides information to the public on officeholders’ and candidates’ positions on term limits and their willingness to limit their own terms. The organization also works to restore citizen control of government by limiting the terms of politicians at the local, state, and congressional levels. 
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Term Limits</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-380-44-230-9178
Fax: 011-380-44-235-6505

</div><a href="http://www.ucipr.kiev.ua/">Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research</a>  Kostyantyn Mykhailychenko Executive Director 4/26, Pyrogova Street, Suite 20 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine  <a href="mailto:ucipr@ucipr.kiev.ua" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ucipr@ucipr.kiev.ua</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 516-292-1224
Fax: 516-292-9019

</div><a href="http://www.unyce.org/">United New Yorkers for Choice in Education</a>  Tim Mulhearn President PO Box 4096 Hempstead, NY, United States 11551-4096 <a href="mailto:unyce@earthlink.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">unyce@earthlink.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The guiding principle behind United New Yorkers for Choice in Education is that parents should be given the realistic opportunity to choose where their children are educated. To say that parents already have this right—but then to deny them the financial means to exercise it—is to effectively deny that right. The members of UNYCE believe that the best way to insure that parents are empowered to exercise their choice of schools is through a system of scholarships, either publicly or privately financed. Such scholarships give the parents the widest range of options in the selection process.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: State income tax credit for education contributions</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-457-1700
Fax: 202-429-6063

</div><a href="http://www.usip.org/">United States Institute of Peace</a>  Richard H. Solomon President 1200 17th Street, NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:usiprequests@usip.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">usiprequests@usip.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, non-partisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen the nation’s capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict. Established in 1984, the Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including grants, fellowships, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and other educational activities. The Institute’s board of directors is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 760-788-6624
Fax: 760-788-6414

</div><a href="http://www.usjf.net/">United States Justice Foundation</a>  Gary Kreep Executive Director 932 D Street, Suite 2 Ramona, CA, United States 92065 <a href="mailto:info@usjf.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@usjf.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is a non-profit, public interest, legal action organization dedicated to litigating and instructing, informing, and educating the public on significant legal issues confronting America. USJF has contributed directly and indirectly to legal defense efforts in many celebrated cases involving fundamental conservative principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Parental rights • Property rights • First Amendment rights of pro-life picketers • Privacy rights • Government harassment of government critics • Constitution</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: (632) 927-9686 
Fax: (632) 920-5463

</div><a href="http://www.econ.upd.edu.ph/">University of the Philippines School of Economics</a>  Ramon Clarete, Ph.D Dean School of Economics, University of the Philippines  Guerrero corner Osmeña Sts. Room No. 203 Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines  <a href="mailto:dean@econ.upd.edu.ph" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">dean@econ.upd.edu.ph</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) provides instruction leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics. UPSE was established in 1965. The Department of Economics is responsible for the academic degree programs, while the Economics Research Center oversees the School’s research projects. A third functional department, the Public Affairs Office, coordinates the School’s various extension, training and public service activities. These are the three pillars the UPSE is known for. Now nearing its 50th year of existence, UPSE adheres to international standards of excellence and constantly introduces innovations in teaching, research and public service. The School is dedicated to making its teaching of economics compare with the best globally. 
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: economics *economic theory *education *finance *poverty and inequality *international trade *health economics</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 215-663-9494
Fax: 215-663-9444

</div><a href="http://www.urbanfamilycouncil.org/">Urban Family Council</a>  Chris A. Pender, Sr. President PO Box 11415 Philadelphia, PA, United States 19111 <a href="mailto:tmahan@urbanfamily.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">tmahan@urbanfamily.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Urban Family Council (UFC) is to advocate for life, marriage, and family by educating, persuading, and building interracial and cross-cultural partnerships in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. UFC is an independent, donor-supported, faith-based, non-profit agency.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Charter-based classroom abstinence education to middle and high school youth ages 12–19 • Educational and enrichment services to youth in the classroom and after school and to their parents • Advocating for the sanctity of life • Defending marriage and seeking to persuade the culture that marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman • Helping fathers take emotional and fiscal responsibility for their children • Engaging the culture on issues of traditional family values</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.utaheagleforum.org/">Utah Eagle Forum</a>  Gayle Ruzicka President , UT, United States  <a href="mailto:utaheagles@utaheagleforum.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">utaheagles@utaheagleforum.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 801-972-8814
Fax: 801-973-2324

</div><a href="http://www.utahtaxpayers.org/">Utah Taxpayers Association</a>  Howard Stephenson President 1578 West 1700 South, Suite 201 Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84104 <a href="mailto:taxwatch@utahtaxpayers.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">taxwatch@utahtaxpayers.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Utah Taxpayers Association advocates for lower taxes and sound tax policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • State income tax index • Sales tax • Fighting tax increases • Transportation funding • Government regulation in telecommunications and recreation centers</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-608-6186
Fax: 202-608-6136

</div><a href="http://www.victimsofcommunism.org/">Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation</a>  Dr. Lee Edwards Chairman 1521 16th Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:info@victimsofcommunism.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@victimsofcommunism.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was established to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism, to honor those who successfully resisted communist tyranny, to educate current and future generations about the winning of the Cold War, and to document communism’s continuing crimes against humanity. In 2007, the Foundation dedicated a Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in the nation’s capital regarding this epic struggle of the 20th century.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Human rights violations in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 804-732-8993

</div><a href="http://www.nas.org/">Virginia Association of Scholars</a>  Carey E. Stronach President 2241 Buckner Street Petersburg, VA, United States 23805 <a href="mailto:cestronach@comcast.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">cestronach@comcast.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Virginia Association of Scholars (VAS) is an organization whose members believe that rational discourse is the foundation of academic life and that reasoned scholarship is essential to a free and democratic society. To this end, VAS seeks to foster and protect academic freedom, substance, and integrity in scholarship, respect for our Western intellectual heritage, and rigorous standards of merit and excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic self-governance. Concomitantly, VAS opposes unequivocally the ideological corruption of learning, teaching, and scholarship, the intimidation of students and faculty who voice unfashionable views, and the treatment of students, faculty, and others as ciphers or symbols of groups instead of as individuals worthy of individual consideration.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.vaef.org/">Virginia Eagle Forum</a>  Helen Blackwell Chairman PO Box 100874 Arlington, VA, United States 22201 <a href="mailto:helen.blackwell@verizon.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">helen.blackwell@verizon.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 540-245-1776

</div><a href="http://www.virginiainstitute.org/">Virginia Institute for Public Policy</a>  John Taylor President 282 Bald Rock Road Verona, VA, United States 24482 <a href="mailto:jtaylor@virginiainstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jtaylor@virginiainstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Virginia Institute for Public Policy is an independent non-partisan research organization committed to the goals of individual opportunity and economic growth. Through research, policy recommendations and symposia, the Institute works ahead of the political process to lay the intellectual foundation for a society dedicated to individual liberty, free enterprise, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Federalism • Reforming the Law of Takings in Virginia • Taxpayers Bill of Rights for Virginia • Contract with Virginia • Tuition tax credit for K–12 education • Intellectual diversity on Virginia’s public college and university campuses</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 817-441-6044
Fax: 817-441-6866

</div><a href="http://www.wallbuilders.com/">WallBuilders</a>  David Barton President and Founder PO Box 397 Aledo, TX, United States 76008 <a href="mailto:info@wallbuilders.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@wallbuilders.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: WallBuilders’ goal is to exert direct and positive influence in government, education, and the family by educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of the country, providing information to federal, state, and local officials as they develop public policies that reflect Biblical values, and encouraging Christians to be involved in the civic arena.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Judicial restraint • Family • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 206-634-0589
Fax: 206-633-3561

</div><a href="http://www.wacharterschools.org/">Washington Charter School Resource Center</a>  Jim and Fawn Spady Co-Directors 4426 Second Avenue, NE Seattle, WA, United States 98105-6191 <a href="mailto:jimspady@wacharterschools.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">jimspady@wacharterschools.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Washington Charter School Resource Center (WCSRC) is to educate the general public and the public education community about the benefits of charter public schools and to assist parents, educators, and community leaders who want to create a new charter public school or convert a traditional public school to a charter public school.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Informing the general public about the benefits of charter schools • Providing technical assistance to “charter starters” • Providing credit enhancement to “charter starters”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.waeagles.com/">Washington Eagle Forum</a>  Cindy Honcoop State Director , WA, United States  <a href="mailto:waeagles@juno.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">waeagles@juno.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-588-0302
Fax: 202-588-0371

</div><a href="http://www.wlf.org/">Washington Legal Foundation (WLF)</a>  Daniel Popeo Chairman and General Counsel 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:info@wlf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@wlf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: National in scope and fully independent, WLF is committed to working with leaders in government and the legal system to maintain balance in the courts and strengthen America’s free enterprise system. The Foundation’s goal is to defend and promote the principles of freedom and justice. WLF has developed into the nation’s preeminent center for public interest law, advocating free enterprise principles, responsible government, property rights, a strong national security and defense, and a balanced civil and criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil justice reform • National security • FDA bureaucracy • Commercial free speech • IPP securities/class actions • Business civil liberties</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 206- 937-9691
Fax: 206-624-8038

</div><a href="http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/">Washington Policy Center</a>  Daniel Mead Smith President PO Box 3643 Seattle, WA, United States 98124-3643 <a href="mailto:wpc@washingtonpolicy.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wpc@washingtonpolicy.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Washington Policy Center is a statewide, non-profit, research, and education organization based in Seattle that publishes studies on a variety of issues, sponsors events and conferences, and educates citizens on public policy issues facing Washington state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Competitive bidding for government services • Government regulations • Tax and budget policy • Small business and entrepreneurial issues • Free market environmental solutions • Education</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 206-467-7088
Fax: 206-467-6957

</div><a href="http://www.researchcouncil.org/">Washington Research Council</a>  Richard S. Davis President 108 South Washington Street, Suite 406 Seattle, WA, United States 98104 <a href="mailto:wrc@researchcouncil.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wrc@researchcouncil.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF) is a non-partisan organization established in 1993 to increase educational opportunities for low-income students and families in Washington, D.C. To accomplish this, it operates two distinct scholarship programs, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and the Signature Scholarship Program. WSF is the largest K-12 scholarship-granting organization in D.C., distributing nearly $53 million in privately and publicly funded scholarships and serving more than 6,500 students. Over 90 percent of its graduates have gone on to college.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Transportation • Housing • Land use and rural development • Education and charter schools • Economic forecasting</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 202-222-0535
Fax: 202-222-0543

</div><a href="http://www.washingtonscholarshipfund.org/">Washington Scholarship Fund</a>  Gregory Cork President & CEO 1100 17th Street, NW, Suite 330 Washington, DC, United States 20036 <a href="mailto:bdavis@washingtonscholarshipfund.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">bdavis@washingtonscholarshipfund.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Washington Scholarship Fund is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing hope, opportunity and access to low-income families in our Nation's Capital. Through privately funded scholarships, it enables families to place their K-12 students in the educational environment they believe is best suited to help their children reach their fullest potential. We focus on elementary and secondary education because the earlier a child receives sound schooling, the better. Our entering scholarships are available for students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. For continuing students, we offer support for high school tuition as well. WSF assists more than 1,200 scholarship recipients enrolled in 130-plus schools as well as homeschool environments. Over 23,000 applications have been submitted for scholarship assistance since 1997-98, and WSF still receives about 8-10 applications for every scholarship it awards. Applicants are chosen by lottery and allowed to choose any school environment a family desires.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Private K–12 scholarship funding • Maintaining and expanding K–12 scholarship availability • Analysis of effects of program on scholarship students • Low-income family motivations for exercising school choice • Low-income family needs for successful private school experiences</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 714-435-2885
Fax: 714-435-0523

</div><a href="http://www.webwisekids.org/">Web Wise Kids, Inc.</a>  Judi Westberg-Warren President PO Box 27203 Santa Ana, CA, United States 92799 <a href="mailto:info@webwisekids.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@webwisekids.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Web Wise Kids (WWK) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to equip children to make wise choices on the Internet. WWK offers a unique approach by using an interactive CD-ROM computer game called Missing. This educational game is based on a true story of a 14-year-old boy who was persuaded to meet a predator personally. While playing the game, children learn the consequences of dangerous online behavior. Players are often encouraged to design their own guidelines for Internet safety. WWK facilitates Internet safety workshops and training for teachers, law enforcement, and other youth leaders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Reaching children with the message of Internet safety</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 314-935-5630
Fax: 314-935-5688

</div><a href="http://csab.wustl.edu/">Weidenbaum Center</a>  Steven S. Smith Director Washington University Campus Box 1027 St. Louis, MO, United States 63130 <a href="mailto:smith@wc.wustl.edu" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">smith@wc.wustl.edu</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Weidenbaum Center is to improve public understanding of the private enterprise system in a global context, thereby fostering a policy environment within which the U.S. market economy can prosper. This mission is accomplished by providing relevant, timely, and credible research on American business and the private enterprise system. Weidenbaum’s research efforts are focused on four primary program areas: regulation, environment, global marketplace, and management issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Climate change • Environmental federalism • Reform of environmental regulation • Regulatory budgeting/accounting • Regulatory reform • Effects of trade side agreements</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 914-749-3963
Fax: 914-749-3944

</div><a href="http://www.westchesterinstitute.net/">The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person</a>  Rev. Thomas Berg, L.C., Ph.D. Executive Director 582 Columbus Avenue PO Box 78 Thornwood, NY, United States 10594 <a href="mailto:info@westchesterinstitute.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@westchesterinstitute.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person was founded in 1998 to renew, deepen, and promote the Western tradition of moral reflection. It pursues its objectives in cultural, political, and academic settings. Through seminars, lectures, and research fellowships, it seeks to reinvigorate contemporary moral discourse at all levels. The Institute’s endeavors are philosophically centered, yet interdisciplinary in approach. Drawing on resources of various methods and schools of thought, it strives to elucidate the “perennial and Catholic” view of the human person and explore its applications to contemporary concerns.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Educating working professionals and academics in the art of natural law moral reasoning • Ongoing diagnosis of contemporary moral culture • The ontological and moral status of the human embryo • Non-embryonic sources of human pluripotent/multipotent stem cells</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-288-2885

</div><a href="http://www.westminster-institute.org/">Westminster Institute</a>  Anna Bekele Executive Director 6729 Curran St McLean, VA, United States 22201 <a href="mailto:ab@westminster-institute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">ab@westminster-institute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Promoting individual dignity and freedom for people throughout the world by sponsoring high-quality independent research with a particular focus on the threats from extremism and radical ideologies.
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious Liberty</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 608-256-3228
Fax: 608-256-3370

</div><a href="http://www.wifamilycouncil.org/">Wisconsin Family Council</a>  Julaine K. Appling Executive Director PO Box 2075 Madison, WI, United States 53701-2075 <a href="mailto:info@wifamilycouncil.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@wifamilycouncil.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Wisconsin Family Council’s mission is to forward Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin. WFC largely accomplishes this mission by informing Wisconsin citizens, churches, and policymakers about important pro-family legislative and cultural issues so that they will be inspired to be involved in preserving and strengthening marriage and family in Wisconsin.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Family • Marriage • Abortion • Abstinence education • Sexuality • Religious freedoms</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 262-367-9940
Fax: 262-242-6459

</div><a href="http://www.wpri.org/">Wisconsin Policy Research Institute</a>  Mike Nichols President PO Box 382 Hartland, WI, United States 53029 <a href="mailto:wpri@wpri.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wpri@wpri.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) is a non-profit organization established to study public policy issues affecting the state of Wisconsin. WPRI’s goal is to provide non-partisan research on key issues that affect state citizens so that their elected representatives are able to make informed decisions to improve the quality of life and future of the state. The Institute’s major priority is to improve the accountability of Wisconsin’s government based on the belief that the views of the citizens of Wisconsin should guide the decisions of government officials.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: State budget and economy • Taxes and spending • Education • Health care • Welfare • Public opinion</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 303-679-0980
Fax: 303-679-0985

</div><a href="http://www.wepza.org/">World Economic Processing Zones Association (WEPZA)</a>  Robert C. Haywood Director PO Box 3808 Evergreen, CO, United States 80437-3808 <a href="mailto:director@wepza.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">director@wepza.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: WEPZA is the private non-profit World Association of Economic Processing Zones and Free Trade Zones. An independent association dedicated to the improvement of the efficiency of all economic processing zones, it has 47 members operating 150 industrial free zone sites in 42 countries.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic processing zones • Market research • Trade • International tax policy</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-46-70-325-00-11
Fax: 011-46-8-765-3002

</div><a href="http://www.worldtaxpayers.org/">World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)</a>  Bjorn Tarras-Wahlberg President Strandvagen 5 B 11456 Stockholm, Sweden  <a href="mailto:btw@worldtaxpayers.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">btw@worldtaxpayers.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: WTA works towards a society with lower taxes and more individual freedom. It seeks to stimulate efficiency and economy in the public sector. It supports legislation to limit tax burdens, prevent unjust harassment by tax collectors, and provide clear information about government taxation and expenditure.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Deregulation • Personal liberty • Welfare • Economic development • Government spending</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 307-577-8000
Fax: 307-577-8000

</div><a href="http://www.wba.vcn.com/">Wyoming Business Alliance / Wyoming Heritage Foundation</a>  Bill Schilling President 145 South Durbin Street, Suite 101 Casper, WY, United States 82601 <a href="mailto:wyhf@qwest.net" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wyhf@qwest.net</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Wyoming Business Alliance’s believes that a strong economy is the key to job creation, educational opportunities, recreation, quality of life, and a means to provide a higher standard of living for all.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues:</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 307-632-7020
Fax: 307-632-7024

</div><a href="http://www.wyliberty.org/">Wyoming Liberty Group</a>  Susan Gore 1902 Thomes Avenue Suite 201 Cheyenne, WY, United States 82001 <a href="mailto:susan.gore@wyliberty.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">susan.gore@wyliberty.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Wyoming Liberty Group, formerly Cowboy State Policy Institute, is a non-profit, research, and educational organization to focus on Wyoming state and local issues. The Institute’s mission is to explore and advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Education • Second Amendment</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 307-286-3411

</div><a href="http://www.wyomingpolicy.org/">Wyoming Policy Institute</a>  Janie White Executive Director PO Box 2325 Cheyenne, WY, United States 82003 <a href="mailto:wyomingpolicy@hotmail.com" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">wyomingpolicy@hotmail.com</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Wyoming Policy Institute is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating Wyoming citizens on research that supports free market principles; government fiscal responsibility; a limited transparent accountable government; strong families; and individual responsibility. 
Tax Status: 501(c)3 
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited and Transparent Government, Healthcare, Land and Water, Strong Families, How the Legislature works, Education, State Sovereignty, Free market/Competition, Constitutional Classes</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 860-297-4271
Fax: 860-987-6218

</div><a href="http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/">Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies</a>  Fergus Cullen Executive Director PO Box 261660 Trinity College Hartford, CT, United States 06126-0660 <a href="mailto:info@yankeeinstitute.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">info@yankeeinstitute.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies produces public policy studies, white papers, seminars and news media communications on issues affecting the future of Connecticut and the nation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Analysis of state budget • Analysis of state income tax</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 703-318-9608
Fax: 703-318-9122

</div><a href="http://www.yaf.org/">Young America's Foundation</a>  Ron Robinson President F.M. Kirby Freedom Center 110 Elden Street Herndon, VA, United States 20170 <a href="mailto:yaf@yaf.org" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">yaf@yaf.org</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values. YAF operates Ronald Reagan’s Western White House, Rancho del Cielo, in Santa Barbara, California, as a premier presidential historic site.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3) 
Policy/Priority Issues: Reagan legacy and freedom • Political correctness • 9/11 and the war on terrorism • National conservative high school and college conferences • FreedomFest conference • National Journalism Center</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 011-44-20-7993-8496

</div><a href="http://www.ybf.org.uk/">The Young Britons' Foundation</a>  Donal Blaney Chief Executive Warwick House, Fourth Floor 25 - 27 Buckingham Palace Road London SW1W 0PP, United Kingdom  <a href="mailto:donal@ybf.org.uk" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">donal@ybf.org.uk</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The mission of the Young Britons’ Foundation is to educate, inform, support, train, and develop the talents of young conservative and classical liberal activists and supporters to enable them to promote themselves, shared beliefs, and the cause of the conservative and classical movement more effectively in the media, the political world, and the environment beyond, and to ensure a proper balance of political debate and understanding in schools, colleges, universities, and the wider arena.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Ensuring the U.K.’s financial stability and growth • Fostering closer links within the conservative movement in the U.S. and U.K. • Exposing bias in schools, colleges, and universities • Training a cadre of principled activists • Placing trained activists in academia, the media, Parliament, and public affairs • Campaigning to promote traditional values and free markets and to oppose political correctness, the United Nations, and the euro</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" float="float" right="right">Phone: 

</div><a href="http://www.zippazambia.org/">Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis (ZIPPA)</a>  Muyanda Mwanalushi CEO PO Box 20516 KITWE, Zambia  <a href="mailto:zippa@zamnet.zm" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" style="font-weight: bold;">zippa@zamnet.zm</a> <div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" padding-bottom="padding-bottom" px="px" border-bottom="border-bottom" solid="solid" black="black" margin-bottom="margin-bottom">
Mission: The Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis seeks to promote wider appreciation of the key role of free markets and competition in economic development.
Tax Status: 
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic development • Social policy legislation • Urban development • Property rights • Rule of law</div></div><div>
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