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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">heritage database part 1 of 2</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">also 6/14 update</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Weyrich:</strong>&nbsp;Co-founder and first Heritage president, Weyrich was a long-time associate of the John Birch Society. Weyrich left Heritage in 1974 to found the Free Congress Foundation, an activist group that still works closely with Heritage. Convicted Nazi war criminal Lazlo Pasztor works out of FCF’s Washington office, maintaining links to Eastern European organizations with roots in wartime pro-Nazi organizations (Russ Bellant,&nbsp;<em>The Coors Connection</em>). In 1993, Weyrich launched the right-wing cable TV channel&nbsp;<strong>National Empowerment Television</strong>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to formerly conservative journalist Michael Lind (<strong>Dissent</strong>, Winter/95), Weyrich recently circulated a proposal to fellow right-wingers “that the federal government secretly lace illegal drugs with substances like rat poison and release them into the black market.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Joseph Coors:</strong>&nbsp;The beer tycoon is billed as a co-founder of Heritage for footing $250,000 of the foundation’s first-year budget. Coors and his like-minded family members have aided such rightist causes as apartheid South Africa, the Mozambican terrorists RENAMO and the Nicaraguan contras (<em>Coors Connection</em>). On the home front, Coors family members have funded the John Birch Society, James Watt’s Mountain States Legal Foundation and the right-wing Christian group Campus Crusade for Christ (<strong>Business Month</strong>, 7/90).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
Himself the owner of local news outlets, Scaife once responded to a reporter who asked him about his contributions to the right, “You fucking Communist cunt, get out of here” (<strong>Columbia Journalism Review</strong>, 7-8/81).<strong>Richard Mellon Scaife:</strong>&nbsp;Though Coors is labeled Heritage’s co-founder, Scaife contributed three times as much money in the group’s founding year, some $900,000. Scaife’s three foundations—Sarah Scaife, Carthage and Allegheny—-provided Heritage with more than $1 .6 million in 1993 alone (<strong>Wall Street Journal</strong>, 10/12/95). Scaife—who has donated more than $200 million to right-wing causes since the ‘70s—is most recently notable for funding conspiracy theorists obsessed with Vincent Foster’s suicide.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Ben Blackburn:</strong>&nbsp;Chair of Heritage from 1973 to 1982. An ex-member of the House of Representatives, Blackburn reportedly told a congressional hearing in 1972 that public housing tenants who fall behind in their rent should be hanged (<em>Coors Connection</em>).
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Ed Feulner:</strong>&nbsp;President of Heritage since 1977, Feulner’s appetite for self-aggrandizement is demonstrated by Heritage’s 1994 annual report, which features 26 photos of Feulner in 40 pages. In 1976, Feulner edited a monograph by eugenicist Roger Pearson defending Taiwan’s one-party dictatorship. The next year, when Feulner became Heritage’s president, Pearson joined the editorial board of Heritage’s magazine&nbsp;<strong>Policy Review</strong>&nbsp;(Summer/77).
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Roger Pearson:</strong>&nbsp;Pearson is best known today for publishing the journal&nbsp;<strong>Mankind Quarterly</strong>, a major outlet for eugenicists’ claims that blacks are genetically inferior to whites and Asians (Stefan Kuhl,&nbsp;<em>The Nazi Connection</em>). Before joining Policy Review’s board, Pearson co-founded the Northern League, a pagan fascist organization whose other co-founders included Hans Gunther, a noted Third Reich “racial scientist” (Robert Wistrich,&nbsp;<em>Who’s Who In Nazi Germany</em>). In 1978, Pearson was removed from Heritage’s editorial board following a&nbsp;<strong>Washington Post</strong>article (5/28/78) on his role as a principal organizer of an antisemitic conference of the World Anti-Communist League (Anderson & Anderson,&nbsp;<em>Inside the League</em>). Heritage’s current director of domestic policy studies, Stuart Butler, remained an advisor to another of Pearson’s journals until the mid-’80s.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Ernest Lefever:</strong>&nbsp;At the time a Heritage boardmember, Lefever’s 1981 nomination for assistant secretary of State for human rights was withdrawn after an article by Lefever in&nbsp;<strong>Policy Review</strong>&nbsp;showed he was opposed to the idea of diplomatic human rights efforts. During his unsuccessful confirmation hearings, Lefever’s own brother called him a racist. While Lefever considers himself an ethicist, his own organization, the Public Policy Center, took financial support from apartheid South Africa (<strong>Washington Post</strong>, 3/6/81) and supported the white minority government of Rhodesia (<strong>Wall Street Journal</strong>, 6/2/76).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
Eileen Gardner:</strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In 1985, Heritage education expert Eileen Gardner briefly worked at the Department of Education under William Bennett. She left the department after a 1983 issue of&nbsp;</span><strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Heritage Backgrounder</strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;surfaced in which Gardner had written that laws mandating special education “selfishly drained resources from the normal population.” Disabled people, she wrote, have “summoned” their disabilities, because “a person’s external circumstances fit his level of inner spiritual development.” Heritage welcomed Gardner back to her old job (</span><strong style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Washington Post</strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 5/17/85).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Sam Francis:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Heritage’s former expert on international terrorism saw his column terminated by the right-wing&nbsp;<strong>Washington Times</strong>&nbsp;in 1995, when it was revealed that he had called for whites to “reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do it in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(</span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Washington Post</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 9/24/95, 10/19/95).</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Dinesh D’Souza:</strong>&nbsp;Editor of Heritage’s&nbsp;<strong>Policy Review</strong>&nbsp;from 1985 to 1987, D’Souza is still a contributing editor at the magazine. D’Souza first gained notoriety as editor of the collegiate&nbsp;<strong>Dartmouth Review</strong>, which published under his leadership “Dis She Ain’t No Jive,” a racist parody of black students, and a puff interview of white supremacist David Duke, accompanied by a depiction of a hanging black man (John K. Wilson,&nbsp;<em>The Myth of Political Correctness</em>).</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">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,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://fair.org/home/heritage-foundation-where-have-all-the-scholars-gone/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">2/24/14</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">). 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!,&nbsp;</span><a href="https://fair.org/home/heritage-of-extremism/" target="blank" rel="noopener" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">7–8/96</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">).</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2x?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This morning, while introducing the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>’s “premier energy-and-climate-policy event in America,” Becky Norton Dunlop offered a fleeting wisp of reasoned&nbsp;reality.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>A growing economy and an improving environment go hand in hand,” Dunlop said. She wasn’t, however, referring to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj3qtLonuXQAhVFZCYKHXDuAKgQFgg4MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Feconomy%2Farticle24783388.html&usg=AFQjCNGbMh3CRGV_C1XksIM3xLAI9rp6_g&sig2=6QMvLn1Pn8cR803GjGg4WQ" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">near-exponential growth in renewable energy jobs</a>&nbsp;that have helped lift the country from the worst recession in a generation and the worst financial crisis in 75 years, the conditions that loomed over the last presidential transition. Nor was she referring to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2016/march/decoupling-of-global-emissions-and-economic-growth-confirmed.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">historic decoupling of Gross Domestic Product from greenhouse gas emissions</a>, which has shown consistent economic growth over the past five years both in the United States and globally while emissions have stabilized and slightly reduced at both&nbsp;scales.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rather, Dunlop, who is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reportedly assisting President-elect Trump’s transition efforts</a>, was referring to stripping public health and environmental oversight of fossil fuel companies and creating “an atmosphere of&nbsp;freedom.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So it proceeded throughout the “<a href="http://www.heritage.org/events/2016/12/at-the-crossroads-iii" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">At the Crossroads&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">III</span>: Energy and Climate Policy Summit</a>,” hosted by Heritage and the Texas Public Policy&nbsp;Foundation.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strong rhetoric backed by nothing besides someone else’s rhetoric. Claims based on stories from the fake news websites that populate so many Facebook feeds. Arguments based on fake science funded entirely by oil and gas&nbsp;companies.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em>Oil and coal are environmentally friendly because …&nbsp;<a href="https://grist.org/election-2016/republican-platform-declares-coal-is-clean/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">we say they’re environmentally friendly</a>&nbsp;</em>… Or,&nbsp;<em>Sea levels have been rising at the same rate for 100 years</em>. (<a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/sea-level-rise.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">About sea level rise</a>…)</font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Hosts: Heritage Foundation and The Texas Public Policy&nbsp;Foundation</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Heritage Foundation</a>&nbsp;is a conservative&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">D.C.</span>&nbsp;think tank that regularly promotes climate science denial through its publications and the public statements of its “policy&nbsp;experts.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Once seen as closely allied to the Republican Party and the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation has recently undergone a considerable shift, as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/us/politics/in-the-demint-era-at-heritage-a-shift-from-policy-to-politics.html?hp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>The New York Times</em></a>&nbsp;described: “Long known as an incubator for policy ideas and the embodiment of the party establishment, it has become more of a political organization feeding off the rising populism of the Tea Party&nbsp;movement.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Heritage Foundation has also emerged as one of the most influential forces behind&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a>'s transition team. As&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Politico&nbsp;</em></a><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-transition-heritage-foundation-231722" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reports</a>:</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Part gatekeeper, part brain trust and part boots on the ground, Heritage is both a major presence on the transition team itself and a crucial conduit between Trump’s orbit and the once-skeptical conservative leaders who ultimately helped get him&nbsp;elected.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to ExxonSecrets, Heritage Foundation has received&nbsp;<a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=42" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">$780,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998</a>. According to Greenpeace,<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/front-groups/the-heritage-foundation/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;The Heritage Foundation received $2,738,571&nbsp;from Koch foundations</a>&nbsp;between 2005 and 2011, with total Koch foundation grants between 1997 and 2014 adding up to a grand total&nbsp;$5,712,845.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/texas-public-policy-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Texas Public Policy Foundation (<span class="caps" style="">TPPF</span>)</a>&nbsp;is an Austin-based think tank that has received at least $911,499 from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch-related foundations</a>&nbsp;between 1998 and 2014 and nearly $4 million from the Donors Capital Fund and DonorsTrust, considered the “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150723185946/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/02/donors-trust-donor-capital-fund-dark-money-koch-bradley-devos" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">dark money&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">ATM</span></a>” of the Koch&nbsp;network.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Craig McDonald, director of Texans for Public Justice,&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/save/www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-billionaires-that-fund-the-texas-public-policy-foundation/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">told the&nbsp;</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/save/www.texasobserver.org/revealed-the-corporations-and-billionaires-that-fund-the-texas-public-policy-foundation/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Texas Observer</em></a>, “<span class="caps" style="">TPPF</span>'s donors are a Who's Who of Texas polluters, giant utilities and big insurance companies.&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">TPPF</span>&nbsp;is thinking the way its donors want it to&nbsp;think.”</font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Climate Denial and Dirty Energy&nbsp;Summit</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With a&nbsp;generally gloating tone, a few consistent themes were hammered over and over at this summit: that Trump would “unleash” oil and gas, that<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;Scott Pruitt</a>’s appointment<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/07/donald-trump-confirms-climate-science-denier-and-fossil-fuel-industry-stenographer-scott-pruitt-lead-epa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;to lead the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span></a>&nbsp;would mean a stripping of regulations for fossil fuel industries, and, of course, that the science of climate change was unclear, and that most climate scientists are part of a vast conspiracy started by the United Nations in the&nbsp;1970s.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After some brief introductory remarks by the Heritage and&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">TPPF</span>&nbsp;organizers, the day's sessions on Congressional updates, energy policy, the economy, and “science”&nbsp;featured a who’s who in fossil fuel–funded climate deniers. Here are some&nbsp;highlights.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honorable Mike Lee (R-<span class="caps" style="">UT</span>), Member, Senate Committee on Energy&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Natural Resources, and Chairman, Subcommittee on Water&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Power</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Lee, who has received&nbsp;<a href="http://dirtyenergymoney.org/view.php?searchvalue=Lee%2C+Mike&com=&can=N00031696&zip=&search=1&type=search#view=connections" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chevron, Koch Industries, and other dirty energy companies</a>,&nbsp;argued for the transfer of federal lands to state governments, and made the case for a “decentralization” of federal regulation of energy industries to the state&nbsp;governments.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On&nbsp;fracking:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Despite the Chicken Little predictions of so many doom and gloom environmentalists out there, oil and natural gas production has boomed over the last decade largely because of the shale evolution that has taken place because of technological&nbsp;innovation.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honorable Lamar Smith (R-<span class="caps" style="">TX</span>), Chairman, House Committee on Science, Space and&nbsp;Technology</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Smith, while taking a break from his&nbsp;<a href="http://dirtyenergymoney.org/view.php?searchvalue=Smith%2C+Lamar&com=&can=N00001811&zip=&search=1&type=search#view=connections" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ExxonMobil-funded</a>&nbsp;duties, talked about issuing subpoenas to find out what&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/21/exxon-koch-lamar-smith-exxon-knew" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate advocacy groups</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/12/who-are-rep-lamar-smith-s-expert-witnesses-house-science-committee-exxonknew-subpoenas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">state attorneys general</a>&nbsp;knew about what Exxon knew about climate&nbsp;science.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On climate&nbsp;advocates:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The environmental extremists who fight against American energy are here to stay. They are determined to stop Americans from having access to affordable&nbsp;power.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span>’s endangerment finding for carbon dioxide (<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>):</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agency wants to&nbsp; “hide information” from the American people. “They cherry picked the data.”</font></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About the Clean Power&nbsp;Plan:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The rule will have little or no impact on global temperatures. Regulations should be based on sound science, not science&nbsp;fiction.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honorable Pete Olson (R-<span class="caps" style="">TX</span>), Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Power, House Committee on Energy&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Commerce</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Olson, who called fracked oil and gas “Liquid American freedom,” spent a lot of his time talking about how unfair and overly restrictive the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span>’s clean air rules were, while also applauding the agency and giving Republicans credit for writing the Clean Air Act and taking the pollution out of the air. The oil industry (and Koch Industries) is a big fan of Rep. Olson, and shows it in the&nbsp;<a href="http://dirtyenergymoney.org/view.php?searchvalue=Olson%2C+Pete&com=&can=N00029285&zip=&search=1&type=search#view=connections" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">campaign contributions</a>&nbsp;rained down on&nbsp;him.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On climate&nbsp;science:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>There is climate change since the book of Genesis. I don’t believe that humans are about to destroy our&nbsp;Earth.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Republican environmental tradition (but note that Olson voted against ozone — or smog —&nbsp;regulations):</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We are the party through Teddy Roosevelt that made our national parks. We are a party of our sportsmen that love the outdoors. We are the party that cleaned up the smog I breathed as a child in Houston to have clean air that my kids breathe&nbsp;today.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We will not pass a country on to our kids and grandkids that resemble the days where the Cuyahoga River was on&nbsp;fire.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On nominated&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span>&nbsp;head&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Pruitt</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m excited to have him come before our committee and say things I want him to&nbsp;say.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Honorable<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-inhofe" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;James Inhofe</a>&nbsp;(R-<span class="caps" style="">OK</span>), Chairman, Senate Environment&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Public Works&nbsp;Committee</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Inhofe, the upper chamber's most recalcitrant climate denier, reminded everyone about the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/climatgate-autopsy" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Climategate non-story</a>, and promised that Congress is going to use the Congressional Review Act to legislate away rules that Congress has already given federal agencies the authority to&nbsp;write.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the Congressional Review Act (<span class="caps" style="">CRA</span>):&nbsp;</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">”[<span class="caps" style="">CRA</span>] is the vehicle that can be used if there is a regulation and you want to do away with it … the Senate can override. All it takes is 51 [votes] in the Senate to do this. We passed&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CRA</span>s on all these regulations, but the President&nbsp;vetoes.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On predicting the Trump&nbsp;victory:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I asked, Is God really going to make America change that much? God's not going to let that happen to&nbsp;America.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the United Nations and using climate change to consolidate world&nbsp;power:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Keep in mind, the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">IPCC</span>&nbsp;[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]&nbsp;is the United Nations 'power plan.' That's where it all started and it's very important that people understand&nbsp;that.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Pruitt&nbsp;</a>as director of the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>You’ll love this&nbsp;guy.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corbin J. Robinson, Jr., Principal, Quintana Capital&nbsp;Group</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0120/060.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Corbin Robinson</a>, who made his riches off coal and gas, confessed that he doesn’t know much about politics or science — “I am just a business guy trying to do my thing” — before proceeding to give a lecture on climate&nbsp;science.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speaking to the climate science deniers from the afternoon&nbsp;session:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>My guiding light in terms of understanding the science … They are the real heroes. I am here to honor&nbsp;you.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On climate&nbsp;science:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“News bulletin: the world is warming. Of course. It’s been warming since 1750 when the 'Little Ice Age' ended. Sea levels have been rising. They’ve been rising for the past 100&nbsp;years.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the media’s coverage of climate&nbsp;change:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I must say the media has done a&nbsp;marvelous job of not presenting the facts. I can't think of a more biased presentation. The educational community has not presented the facts. It is time in the next four&nbsp;years.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On his proposal for a communications&nbsp;campaign:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We need understandable bullet points. The science can’t be summarized, but the truth can be summarized … It’s time to go on offense. Develop a series of newspaper fold-outs with a series of bullet points on&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>. On&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>’s benefits for life and plant growth.&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;always was and always will be. Man exhales&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Kreutzer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Kreutzer</a>, Senior Fellow at&nbsp;The Heritage&nbsp;Foundation</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former economist with the controversial&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Berman%26_Co." target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Berman&nbsp;<span class="amp">&</span>&nbsp;Company</a>, Kreutzer spoke mainly about what he said were the economic costs and consequences of environmental regulations. He did not address President-elect Trump&nbsp;head-on.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kreutzer lamented that&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;emissions were not going to stimulate the economy. The debate, he argued, was how much regulations can hurt the economy, which he discussed without directly mentioning Trump's new anti-regulations&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">EPA</span>&nbsp;chief,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/scott-pruitt" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Pruitt</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>We at Heritage were accused of having some sort of denier economic model,” said Kreutzer, who also decried both the Lieberman-Warner and Waxman-Markey proposed cap-and-trade bills for addressing climate change. Both of those bills failed to pass, though a cap-and-trade model has been&nbsp;<a href="http://www.c2es.org/newsroom/articles/carbon-trading-under-clean-power-plan" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">quietly inserted</a>&nbsp;into President&nbsp;Obama's Clean Power Plan, which may never see the light of day in the next&nbsp;administration.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After disparaging cap-and-trade, Kreutzer moved onto the social cost of carbon, which he called&nbsp;“fiction.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-michaels" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Michaels</a>, Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/cato-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Cato&nbsp;Institute</a></font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michaels, a long-time climate change denier, introduced his talk as one for “geeks.” Thereafter, he tore into climate change and climate science&nbsp;models.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is an “epidemic of positive results in the [climate science] literature,” Michaels said, concluding this is the case due to “funding” issues, but not elaborating on what he meant by that. Michaels, of course, has admitted to taking&nbsp;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/catos-pat-michaels-admits-40-percent-of-funding-comes-from-big-oil-9db8d728a494#.2pzqmn309" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">40% of the funding</a>&nbsp;for his own work at the Cato Institute from the oil industry. The&nbsp;Koch brothers founded&nbsp;Cato.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Science is very, very sick,” opined Michaels.&nbsp;“There is a natural variability, if you will, even if you assume the later warming is anthropogenic … The best solution is to do nothing. Because doing nothing is doing&nbsp;something.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michaels then called for President-elect Trump to do as he promised on the campaign trail:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-pledges-rip-paris-climate-agreement-energy-speech-n581236" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Rip up and toss out</a>&nbsp;the United Nations Paris climate agreement. “We’re going to make climate great again,” joked&nbsp;Michaels.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like&nbsp;Kreutzer, Michaels also discussed the social cost of carbon metric, but went further. “Social cost of carbon becomes the social benefit of carbon,” he&nbsp;said.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patrick Forkin — Vice President of Strategy&nbsp;<span class="amp" style="font-style: italic;">&</span>&nbsp;Global Energy Analytics at Peabody&nbsp;Energy</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forkin stepped up&nbsp;as perhaps the coal industry's most credible spokesman, being from the industry&nbsp;itself.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal is “affordable, secure, and widely available,” Forkin said, perhaps jubiliant that the incoming president&nbsp;has promised to bring back coal mining jobs. As The Washington Post reported today, many in coal country are “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-west-virginia-coal-country-voters-are-thrilled-about-donald-trump/2016/12/06/8eb0b0ca-b8c2-11e6-b994-f45a208f7a73_story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">thrilled</a>” about Trump's looming presidency, though it remains doubtful&nbsp;as to&nbsp;<a href="http://time.com/4570070/donald-trump-coal-jobs/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">whether&nbsp;he can live up to his promise</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While praising the role of coal in the energy economy, Forkin also downplayed the future of renewable&nbsp;energy.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Our position is: There is a role for every source of energy. There is a role for renewables,” he stated. “But that role should be driven by unsubsidized free market economics. That’s not what’s been happening here in the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;In 2013, solar and wind received two-thirds of federal subsidies. In that same year, those sources only generated about 5% of electricity in the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">US</span>.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Forkin also echoed the Peabody Energy talking point about “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/19/the-truth-behind-peabodys-campaign-to-rebrand-coal-as-a-poverty-cure" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">energy poverty</a>” and how lack of access to energy —&nbsp;namely self-interested coal-powered electricity — can impact poor people. Saying he couldn’t phrasae it better himself, Forkin ended his talk by&nbsp;quoting from Trump’s energy plan,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/07/trump-energy-agenda-revealed-thomas-pyle-memo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">written by Tom Pyle</a>, a Koch-funded former&nbsp;lobbyist.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Allen Gilmer of Texas Independent Petroleum Producers Association (<span class="caps" style="">TIPPA</span>)</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gilmer of&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">TIPPA</span>&nbsp;spoke on behalf of the independent oil and gas industry, or those wildcatters who made the&nbsp;<a href="http://desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”)&nbsp;</a>revolution possible, as documented in the book&nbsp;<em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters/dp/1591846455" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Frackers</a></em>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the protagonists in that book was&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/9859" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Harold Hamm</a>, the Trump campaign's chief energy adviser and under consideration to become&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;Secretary of Energy, who also is founder and&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CEO</span>&nbsp;of the oil and natural gas company&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/15658" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Continental Resources</a>. Hamm was praised by another speaker during the Energy and Climate Policy panel, Mark Mills of the Manhattan&nbsp;Institute.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Poking fun at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/keep_it_in_the_ground/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Keep It In The Ground</a>&nbsp;campaign, Gilmer told the audience, “Keeping it in the ground is like asking 'Why don’t I just strangle my babies?'”&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-<span class="caps" style="">ND</span>), considered a finalist for the Energy Secretary and Interior Secretary jobs, recently&nbsp;<a href="https://energyindepth.org/national/democratic-senator-says-keep-it-in-the-ground-anti-energy-extremists-to-blame-for-election-losses/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lashed out at that movement</a>&nbsp;in an interview and blamed it for the Democrats electoral beating in&nbsp;November.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gilmer said that he hoped that subsidies loomed for the mom and pop side of the oil and gas&nbsp;industry.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dan Byers, Vice President of Policy for Institute for 21st Century Energy at&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;Chamber of&nbsp;Commerce</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Byers, who formerly worked for the George W. Bush White House, opened his talk by lamenting what he argued were false talking points about the energy industry, which he said “grinds my gears.” His current employer, the Institute for 21st Century Energy, is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.uschamber.com/report/sue-and-settle-regulating-behind-closed-doors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">outspoken against environmental litigation</a>, supports&nbsp;<a href="http://www.energyxxi.org/oil-exports" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">oil exports</a>, and serves as Big Business' main collective voice on energy issues in the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since Trump won, publications have run pieces saying that “Trump can’t help coal,” lamented Byers. Arguing that the narrative is “nonsense,” Byers posited that coal production would plummet by a factor of 30% if Clinton had won. Trump on the contrary, while he might not be able to turn the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;into a coal superpower, can “help coal country a&nbsp;lot.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Paris climate agreement&nbsp;came up&nbsp;too, and Byers argued that it disproportionately hurts the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>&nbsp;while the rest of the world gets to partake in “business as usual.” Byers also claimed that coal is “good for the public health of the people of India and their wellbeing” and bashed the Keep It In the Ground movement, which his group has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.energyxxi.org/energy-accountability-fracking-press-release" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">chided in the past</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>I think [Keep It In The Ground is] going to fail because it’s so intellectually indefensible, and it’s partly because of the hypocrisy,” said&nbsp;Byers.</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Willie Soon</a>,&nbsp;Astrophysicist</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon spoke first on a panel called “Climate Intimidation: Chilling Climate Science.” He played the role of victim for having been revealed by The New York Times for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">taking&nbsp;money</a>&nbsp;from the likes of Southern Company,&nbsp;ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Koch Industries</a>&nbsp;for his part-time research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He was speaking as an independent scientist at this&nbsp;event.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduced as the&nbsp;“leading authority” on the association between solar activity and Earth’s climate, Soon said, as of late he has been “living under the dark cloud of censorship and&nbsp;intimidation.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He also spoke of Greenpeace&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">USA</span>, which obtained his emails through the Freedom of Information Act, which was at the center of The Times'&nbsp;investigation.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is “unfortunate” they released emails but&nbsp;“I had nothing to hide,” he claimed, saying his motto was to “forgive all the bad people. But never&nbsp;forget.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soon had some choice words for&nbsp;another of his antagonists,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-h-gleick/heartland-institute-documents_b_1289669.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Gleick — who leaked&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-exposed-internal-documents-unmask-heart-climate-denial-machine" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">to DeSmog</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>&nbsp;documents revealing its strategy to cast doubt on climate&nbsp;science:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Such a disgraceful guy who actually used a stolen Identity in order to get private&nbsp;documents.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He concluded his remarks by talking about what Trump's electoral win could mean for him and his (very few) fellow climate change denying&nbsp;scientists.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Climate science as we know it has been dangerously corrupted by … these bullies of censorship,” he said. “They continue to hijack science for their own game. We must do something about this. Hopefully with a political win we can do something about&nbsp;this.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/william-happer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">William Happer</a>&nbsp;of Princeton&nbsp;University</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Happer is an emeritus physics professor with Princeton University and former Director of the&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;Coalition, a group formed in 2015 out of the former George C. Marshall Institute, where Happer was also previously chairman of the&nbsp;board.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>We’re doing our best to counter this myth that&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;is a dangerous pollutant,” he claimed. “It’s not a pollutant at all.” He called those&nbsp;who claim that it is are part of the&nbsp;“<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;defamation&nbsp;league.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, Happer said most of the pollution in China does not originate from the oil, gas, or coal industries. Instead, what is that pollution's point of origin? The Gobi Desert. He&nbsp;said:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>If you have a well-designed coal plant, what comes out of the stack is almost the same that comes out of a person’s breath. Most of it is water and&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>. It’s actually running, but nothing comes out of the stack. These plants are completely benign. What comes out of here is fine. It’s not a lot different from your own&nbsp;breath.”</font></p></blockquote><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/craig-idso" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Craig Idso</a>&nbsp;of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global&nbsp;Change</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Idso is the chairman and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.&nbsp;The Center's stated mission is to “separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally-charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global&nbsp;change.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The scientific evidence supporting that position [that&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;is a pollutant] is tenuous at best, ” Idso said, pointing to the reliance on computer models, as opposed to real-world&nbsp;observations.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Idso also claimed there are three chief “benefits” of&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;in the atmosphere. That is, it “increases plant productivity, enhances plant water use efficiency, and helps plants” better handle&nbsp;stresses.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Saying he was hopeful Trump would change course,&nbsp;Idso said the Obama administration has far too long “besmirched and defamed the many virtues of carbon dioxide” and that “<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;is not a pollutant. It is the very elixir of&nbsp;life.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Roy Spencer</a>&nbsp;of the University of Alabama at&nbsp;Huntsville</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spencer&nbsp;is a research scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He operates his own blog on global warming where he describes himself as a “climatologist, author, [and] former&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">NASA</span>&nbsp;scientist.” At today's panel on&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;as dangerous pollutant, Spencer acknowledged some warming is happening, but belittled the enormity of it and its current impacts on the&nbsp;planet.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The amount of warming we’re seeing … global warming is not something that anyone will feel in their lifetime,” he claimed. “it is simply too slow for anyone to feel. Nevertheless, I am one of the skeptics who believes that adding&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>&nbsp;to the atmosphere, theoretically, should cause some warming. I would expect slow warming to occur in the future — but I wouldn’t bet money on&nbsp;it.”</font></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>&nbsp;of Massachusetts Institute for&nbsp;Technology</font></h3><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<span class="caps" style="">MIT</span>) as well as the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato&nbsp;Institute.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>Climate hysteria is a classic example of how capturing a narrative can turn absurd conjectures into presumptive truth,” he said at the podium. “And once you’ve done that, you have to defend yourself against that, even though it’s&nbsp;absurd.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With a sense of satisfaction, Lindzen spoke of how both Trump and his Democratic Party opponent Hillary Clinton hardly mentioned climate change throughout their electoral&nbsp;battle.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The role of climate change in the recent presidential election was interestingly subdued,” he said. “The President-elect was dismissive, while Clinton treated the issue with&nbsp;caution.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He ended his remarks with this closing&nbsp;thought:</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>It’s time to put the brakes on the climate alarm movement. The benefits [of increased&nbsp;<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>] would be immense, and would come with immense savings and not&nbsp;expenditures.”</font></p><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the billionaire Koch brothers has launched a new effort to destroy unions.</b></font></p></div><center style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;" /></center><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;" /><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2011, Wisconsin passed Act 10, a complex bill that forced public sector unions to re-certify annually, made it harder for unions to collect dues, and eliminated the incentive of people to join unions by severely limiting issues on the bargaining table. The bill was designed to destroy public sector unions, a powerful force in Democratic politics in the state, and subsequently union membership dropped dramatically.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now out-of-state special interests and the Wisconsin GOP will use that drop in membership&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thewheelerreport.com/wheeler_docs/files/1201wrtw.PDF" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">to argue</a>&nbsp;that private sector workers deserve the same “choice.” The poison pill for private sector unions is likely be a&nbsp;<a href="http://alecexposed.org/w/images/c/c8/1R10-Right_to_Work_Act_Exposed.pdf" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">model bill</a>&nbsp;from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) with the Orwellian name of “right to work.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The A Team: Americans for Prosperity, ALEC and ACCE</font></strong></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So-called “right to work” laws allow non-union members to enjoy the benefits of union representation, like higher wages, improved working conditions and a voice in the workplace, but without paying the costs of that representation<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Supporters of the measures say they want to give workers the “freedom” not to join a union, but<a href="http://www.epi.org/publication/right-to-work-research/" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">studies have shown</a>&nbsp;that wages are lower for both union and non-union members in states with right to work laws, workers are less likely to have health insurance and more likely to have dangerous work places.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding from the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch has found its way to a multitude of think tanks, advocacy organizations and legal centers, like the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Right_to_Work_Committee" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">National Right to Work Committee</a>,&nbsp;</span>dedicated to destroying organized labor, the most powerful voice for average Americans in the workplace.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On December 1, a new 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization calling itself “Wisconsin Right to Work,</b>” popped up in Wisconsin promising to “aggressively promote sound public policies and individual freedoms from a grassroots citizen engagement organization.” The language is familiar to those who read press releases cranked out by David Koch’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Americans_for_Prosperity" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Americans for Prosperity&nbsp;</a>(AFP) group, so it is no surprise that new group is led by<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Lorri Pickens, who has worked for the Koch brothers for years, most recently as AFP’s Director of State Operations in Washington, D.C. Pickens was previously associate state director for AFP’s Wisconsin chapter from 2005 until 2009.&nbsp;</span>The group is organized as a 501 (c) 4 “social welfare” organization designed to disguise its funders. The group’s website was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/freedomtowork_domain_registration.png" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">registered</a>&nbsp;by Kurt Luidhart of the Indiana-based “<b>Prosper Group,</b>” a GOP digital media firm that Walker’s campaign hired in 2014 to run their online fundraising. Luidhart&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/luidhart_walker_tweet.png" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">attended</a>&nbsp;Walker’s election night party, and has&nbsp;<a href="http://prospergroupcorp.com/blog/june-22-2009/americans-prosperity-patients-united-now-campaign" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">previously done contract work</a>&nbsp;with AFP.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kochs and AFP have spent millions in recent years in support of Wisconsin’s GOP leadership. AFP was very active in providing astroturf or phony grassroots support for right to work&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/12/11903/michigan-passes-right-work-containing-verbatim-language-alec-model-bill" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">when the state of Michigan took it up</a>, verbatim from the ALEC bill, in 2012.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although AFP says it is not behind the Wisconsin push, the legislation has long been a priority for the Kochs, whose funding network bankrolls AFP as well as<b>&nbsp;ALEC and the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American City and County Exchange (ACCE</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">)&nbsp;</span>the new ALEC-style entity for city and county level politicians.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC and ACCE are meeting in Washington this week for the annual “State and Nation” policy summit.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12666/alec-buoyed-election-results-lays-blueprint-2015" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">CMD recently reported</a>&nbsp;that the top of the agenda items at this week’s meeting is state preemption of local ordinances to raise the wage and a new proposal fresh off the drawing board at the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Koch-funded&nbsp;<b style="box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/08/local-governments-can-increase-job-growth-and-choices-by-passing-right-to-work-laws" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Heritage Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>for local right to work laws.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin ALEC Members Enthused</font></strong></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While Walker repeatedly during the campaign that had no interest in further divisive union-busting measures, Wisconsin’s two most powerful legislative leaders, both members of ALEC, quickly followed the announcement with words of support.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Wisconsin State Journal</em>: “Sen. Fitzgerald has previously expressed his openness to a discussion of making right-to-work legislation a priority for the upcoming legislative session.” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the former ALEC state chair for Wisconsin, said earlier this year that right to work was not on the agenda for 2015, but celebrated the arrival of the group. “I have long been a supporter of right-to-work and drafted a proposal in the past,” Vos&nbsp;<a href="http://journaltimes.com/news/local/right-to-work-group-launches-after-governor-legislators-say-issue/article_79fb0d9c-4f86-513f-95ae-53b53c4aa014.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">told</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Racine Journal Times</em>. “I look forward to a healthy discussion as the case is made for the benefits of being a right-to-work state.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The day after Wisconsin Right to Work launched, ALEC member Rep. Chris Kapenga&nbsp;<a href="http://fox11online.com/2014/12/02/legislator-to-introduce-right-to-work-legislation/" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">announced</a>&nbsp;that he would be introducing a right to work bill in 2015.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pickens Is Longtime Wisconsin Activist</font></strong></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lorri Pickens,</span>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Right to Life Group, has long been active in Wisconsin politics. She was implicated in the 1997 campaign finance coordination probe that resulted in the harshest penalty ever levied for election violations in the state, and which established the legal precedent for the ongoing<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12473/reporters-guide-john-doe-investigation" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Walker criminal investigation</a>.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1997, Pickens was an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.quest-online.com/NewFiles/Quest_Newsroom_46.html" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">officer</a>&nbsp;in the group Wisconsin Coalition for&nbsp;<b>Voter Participation</b>, which illegally coordinated $200,000 worth of “issue ad” mailings with the campaign of&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Supreme Court Justice Jon Wilcox. Her husband Brent Pickens was fined $35,000 and barred from politics for five years. Wilcox’s campaign manager,<b>Mark Block,</b>&nbsp;was fined $10,000 and banned from politics for three years. Pickens was not penalized.</span></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Block would reemerge years later as the head of AFP-Wisconsin, with Lorri Pickens as associate director. Block later gained national attention in 2012 as Herman Cain’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm-22Q0PuM" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">cigarette-puffing</a>&nbsp;presidential campaign manager.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman">The Wisconsin Coalition for Voter Participation prosecution — and the 1999 Court of Appeals case that upheld it —&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/05/12475/scottwalker-john-doe-darkmoney-sixthings" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">set the stage</a>&nbsp;for the criminal investigation into coordination between Walker’s 2012 campaign and Wisconsin Club for Growth, an “independent” group led by Walker’s top campaign advisor R.J. Johnson and longtime Koch associate&nbsp;<b>Eric O’Keefe.&nbsp;</b>O’Keefe has spent an enormous amount of money fighting the probe in state and federal courts and arguing, with limited success, that the&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Wisconsin Coalition for Voter Participation</em>&nbsp;precedent is no longer valid.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Notably, Pickens worked for O’Keefe’s Sam Adams Alliance</b>&nbsp;between 2009 and 2010. The Walker probe is currently stalled pending a decision from Wisconsin appellate courts.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walker Spoke Candidly to Billionaire Funder About Plans to “Divide and Conquer” Public from Private Sector Unions</font></strong></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walker has publicly claimed that he has no intention of extending his anti-union effort to the private sector, even stating in 2012 that “private sector unions are our partners in job creation.” Yet, Walker has sung a different tune when speaking to funders in private. Just days after Walker was first sworn-in as governor, he spoke frankly about his plans to&nbsp;<b><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/167840/scott-walker-promised-500k-donor-he-would-divide-and-conquer-unions#" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid" style="box-sizing: inherit;">“divide and conquer”</a>&nbsp;Wisconsin unions in a taped conversation with billionaire GOP financier Diane Hendricks,&nbsp;</b>which became public more than a year later. Hendricks gave Walker $500,000 for his 2012 recall effort, and gave $1 million to the Republican Party of Wisconsin in 2014.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;" /></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Any chance we’ll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions?,” Hendricks asks in the January 2011 video.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Oh, yeah!” says Walker.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And become a right-to-work [state]?,” Hendricks asks.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Walker replies: “Well, we’re going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is we’re going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.... That opens the door once we do that.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some Wisconsin ALEC members have been floating the idea of right to work since<b>Republicans took control of the legislature in 2010.</b></font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman">In a December 2010 roundtable discussion, Majority Leader Senator Scott Fitzgerald, a former ALEC state chairman, was asked by Jeff Mayers of WisPolitics about making Wisconsin a right to work state.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" face="Times New Roman">Fitzgerald replied: “I just attended an American Legislative Exchange Council meeting and I was surprised about how much momentum there was in and around that discussion, nothing like I have seen before.”</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Here We Go Again”</font></strong></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many in the state feel under assault by out-of-state special interests. “Here we go again” was a common refrain.</font></p></div><div class="content-list-component mt-paragraph text" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; min-width: initial; width: 630px; line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 27px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin Gundlach is the head of the South Central Federation of Labor, which represents private sector unions in the southern part of the state. “All year round, we knock on doors in South Central Wisconsin and we ask people what is on their minds. Never have I heard anyone say ‘we need right to work’. People are worried about low wages, health care, benefits and making ends meet in this economy. Right to work will take us in the opposite direction from where people want to go.”</font></p></div><div class="tag-cloud" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" more="more" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 8px 10px 8px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5rem; visibility: visible; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4"><font size="4">More:</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2>&nbsp;<a class="tag" data-beacon="{" p="p" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/Scott%20Walker/" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; padding: 7px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; display: inline-block; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Scott Walker</a>&nbsp;<a class="tag" data-beacon="{" p="p" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/Koch%20Brothers/" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; padding: 7px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; display: inline-block; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Koch Brothers</a>&nbsp;<a class="tag" data-beacon="{" p="p" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/right%20to%20work/" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; padding: 7px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; display: inline-block; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">Right To Work</a>&nbsp;<a class="tag" data-beacon="{" p="p" mpid="mpid" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/american%20legislative%20exchange%20council/" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; padding: 7px; margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 5px; display: inline-block; background: rgb(242, 242, 242);">American Legislative Exchange Council</a></div></div><div><p><font size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h3 style="font-variant: small-caps; margin: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Number of results: 815</font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="" /></font><div style="width: 500px;"><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>605-360-3588

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>First Freedoms Foundation of South Dakota&nbsp;</b>
Douglas T. Loen
Executive Director
3908 South Lisanne Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57103
<a href="mailto:dtl_653@msn.com" style="font-weight: bold;">dtl_653@msn.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>+372.6949.340
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;+372.6949.342

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.icds.ee/index.php?id=71&no_cache=1&L=1" style="">International Centre for Defence Studies</a>&nbsp;</b>
Matthew Bryza
Director
Toom-Ruutli 12-6
Tallinn, Estonia 10130
<a href="mailto:info@icds.ee" style="font-weight: bold;">info@icds.ee</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the ICDS is to become the regional hub of first choice for the security and defence communities of Estonia and her Euro-Atlantic Allies in accessing cutting edge analysis of international security and defence issues. The threefold purpose of ICDS research is to: Strengthen Estonia’s defence sector by identifying best practices; Sharpen strategic thinking in NATO and the EU on security issues in the Baltic-Nordic region; and Deepen appreciation for Estonia’s contributions to Euro-Atlantic security through Estonia’s participation in international military operations; leadership on cyber security; and experience with security, political, and economic reforms. ICDS will accomplish this mission by being a credible thought leader for two audiences: Estonian and Euro-Atlantic.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Defense Management: Estonia's national security; international coalition military operations. Security policy: Baltic-Nordic; Cyber Security; Russian external security politices; Energy security; Eastern partnership and Balkan countries' security.</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>614-340-9817

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ohioconstitution.org/" style="">The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law&nbsp;</a></b>
Maurice A. Thompson
Executive Director
208 East State Street
Columbus, OH, United States 43215
<a href="mailto:mthompson@ohioconstitution.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mthompson@ohioconstitution.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is non-profit, non-partisan legal center dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse. The 1851 Center litigates constitutional issues related to property rights, voting rights, regulation, taxation, and search and seizures.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School Choice • Challenging Unconstitutional Labor Policy • Defending Property Rights • Fighting Unfair Taxation • Protecting Referendum Rights • Safeguarding Election Rights</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-807-2070
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-807-2073

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.60plus.org/" style="">60 Plus Association</a>&nbsp;</b>
Amy Noone Frederick
President
515 King Street, Suite 315
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:info@60plus.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@60plus.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The 60 Plus Association is a non-partisan, non-profit organization supporting a free-enterprise, less-government, and less-taxes approach to seniors issues. 60 Plus publishes a newsletter, Senior Voice, produces a Congressional Scorecard, and presents the Guardian of Senior Rights Award to legislators in the U.S. Congress who vote to support seniors. Called a conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 60 Plus endorses the personalization of Social Security and works actively for the repeal of the estate (death) tax.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Repeal of the estate (death) tax • Social Security reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Electricity deregulation • Opposition to judicial usurpation • Eliminating federal funding of advocacy organizations</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>888-577-2966
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;605-335-3643

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.abstinence.net/" style="">Abstinence Clearinghouse</a>&nbsp;</b>
Leslee Unruh
President
801 East 41st Street
Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57105
<a href="mailto:info@abstinence.net" style="font-weight: bold;">info@abstinence.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Abstinence Clearinghouse serves as an association for the abstinence community. The Clearinghouse is a non-profit, educational organization that promotes the appreciation for and practice of sexual abstinence through distribution of age-appropriate, factual and medically-accurate materials. The Clearinghouse was founded to provide a central location where curricula, speakers, and materials on character, relationship, and abstinence programs could be accessed. The Clearinghouse serves agencies and individuals on national, state, and local level, as well as internationally. In addition to the South Dakota office, there is also a Washington, D.C., office.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-364-4401
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-364-4098

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aim.org/" style="">Accuracy in Media</a>&nbsp;</b>
Cliff Kincaid
Editor
4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC, United States 20008
<a href="mailto:info@aim.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aim.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;War on Islamic terrorism • Corruption in government • Traditional values</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>616-454-3080
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;616-454-9454

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acton.org/" style="">Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rev. Robert A. Sirico
President
98 E. Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI, United States 49503
<a href="mailto:info@acton.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@acton.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. With its commitment to pursue a society that is free and virtuous, the Acton Institute is a leading voice in the national environmental and social policy debate. It is uniquely positioned to comment on the sound economic and moral foundations necessary to sustain humane environmental and social policies.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Business ethics • Globalization • Educational choice • Technology and regulation • Environmental stewardship • Effective compassion</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-20-7222-4995
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-44-20-7222-7544

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.adamsmith.org/" style="">The Adam Smith Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Madsen Pirie
President
23 Great Smith Street
London SW1P 3BL, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@adamsmith.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@adamsmith.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) is the United Kingdom’s leading innovator of market economic policies. Named after the great Scottish economist and author of The Wealth of Nations, the Institute’s guiding principles are free markets and a free society. ASI researches practical ways to spread choice, extend competition and markets, and roll back big government, high taxes, and intrusive regulation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Health care • Taxes • Regulation • Public sector employment • Transportation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(804)-289-8008

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Adam Smith Program&nbsp;</b>
Sandra Peart
Dean, Jepson School of Leadership Studies&nbsp;
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA, United States 23173
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Adam Smith Program at the University of Richmond seeks to preserve the study of the history of economic thought. It aims as a place to which visitors and students alike can come and connect with others and engage in stimulating conservations about the continuing importance of classical liberalism in economic and political analysis today.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;economics *economic thought</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-385-51-626-582
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-385-51-626-582

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.adriaticinstitute.org/" style="">Adriatic Institute for Public Policy</a>&nbsp;</b>
Natasha Srdoc
Co-Founder and President
Markovici 15
51000 Rijeka, Croatia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:Natasha@adriaticinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">Natasha@adriaticinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Adriatic Institute for Public Policy (AI) is an independent free-market think tank founded in 2004 in Rijeka, Croatia, and dedicated to advancing economic freedom and advocating free-market reforms in Croatia and southeast Europe. AI focuses on promoting innovative thinking and advancing principled and pro-growth solutions that have been successfully implemented in eastern Europe’s post-communist countries.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Rule of law • Judicial reform • Property rights • Combating corruption • Tax reform • Labor law • Privatization • Pension reform • Health care • Education • Government reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>317-684-3300

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.advanceamerica.com/" style="">Advance America</a>&nbsp;</b>
Eric Miller
Attorney & Founder
101 W. Ohio St, Suite 660
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46204
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Advance America, formerly Citizens Concerned for the Constitution, is dedicated to informing and educating the citizens of Indiana as to how their government works and what they can do to make a difference on issues of importance to them.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Advance America is the state's largest pro-family, pro-church, pro-private and home school, and pro-tax reform organization. Advance America was founded in 1980 by attorney Eric Miller with just 10 people. Today, the grassroots network includes over 45,000 families, 1,500 businesses, and over 3,700 churches around the state. Advance America is a nonpartisan, tax-exempt, educational organization and as such does not endorse any candidate or political party.</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>501-588-4245

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.advancearkansas.org/" style="">Advance Arkansas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dan Greenberg
President
55 Fontenay Circle
Little Rock, AR, United States 72223
<a href="mailto:advancearkansas@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">advancearkansas@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Institute is a nonprofit research and educational organization committed to advancing public policy based on free markets, individual liberty, and limited, transparent government. The Institute will: ¦Analyze key bills at the committee and floor levels; alert legislators and others via email/print bulletins about bill merits and demerits with appropriate discussion and commentary, so that legislators and the public will ideally be fully informed about the consequences of relevant government actions. ¦Similarly, alert activists, legislators, journalists, public officials, and other citizens with frequent and brief bulletins (or in some cases, longer analyses) that explain legislative activities. ¦Produce proposals that can be drafted and filed by legislators, as well as appropriate discussion and commentary on these proposals. ¦Provide testimony at legislative committee hearings on bills that are especially consistent or inconsistent with the Institute’s mission, either directly or via recruitment of experts. ¦Speak to the media as a source of knowledgeable, nonpartisan commentary on public policy. ¦More generally, coordinate other activities that inform the public about the virtues of limited and constitutional government, individual freedom, and a free society.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free markets, individual liberty, limited government.</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-27-83-776-3820

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fightingmalaria.org/" style="">Africa Fighting Malaria</a>&nbsp;</b>
Richard Tren
Director
PO Box 17156
Congella 4013, South Africa&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:rtren@fightingmalaria.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rtren@fightingmalaria.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Africa Fighting Malaria is a health advocacy group based in South Africa and the United States. It promotes effective interventions to prevent the spread of malaria and effective treatments for malaria patients. Because of the strong correlation between reduced disease burden and increased economic freedom, Africa Fighting Malaria promotes market-based solutions and economic freedom as the best ways to ensure improved welfare and longer life expectancy in poor countries.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Increasing understanding and acceptance of the insecticide DDT for malaria control • Promoting market-based solutions to health care problems • Challenging donor aid organizations to change the way they fund malaria control</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>205-870-9900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;205-870-4407

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alabamapolicy.org/" style="">Alabama Policy Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary J. Palmer
President
402 Office Park Drive, Suite 300
Birmingham, AL, United States 35223
<a href="mailto:info@alabamapolicy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@alabamapolicy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Alabama Policy Institute (API) is a non-profit, research and educational institute dedicated to influencing public policy by identifying, developing, and promoting innovative policy ideas and by providing fact-based, objective analysis of key issues. The mission of API is to provide information to the people of Alabama about the legislative issues being debated in Montgomery and Washington, D.C., and to be a reliable resource to our elected representatives on public policy issues. API provides timely, understandable, and objective research and analysis of issues through publications, articles, media interviews, and API updates.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Accountability in state government • Lowering Alabama’s tax burden • Education reform • Federal marriage amendment • National Fatherhood Initiative</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>205-870-9900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;205-870-4407

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alabamarighttoknow.org/" style="">Alabama Right to Know</a>&nbsp;</b>


402 Office Park Dr., Suite 300
Birmingham, AL, United States 35223
<a href="mailto:info@alabamapolicy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@alabamapolicy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Welcome to Alabama Right to Know, where we believe you deserve the Right to Know what is happening in the Alabama Legislative System.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
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</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alaskafamilycouncil.org/" style="">Alaska Family Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jim Minnery
President
P.O. Box 231425
Anchorage, AK, United States 99523
<a href="mailto:info@alaskafamilycouncil.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@alaskafamilycouncil.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Alaska Family Council is to strengthen and protect Alaskan families through public policy education, issue research and grassroots advocacy
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;• Abstinence • Christians and Politics • Defense of Marriage • Education & School Choice • Gambling • Judicial Activism• Pornography & Obscenity • Religious Liberty • Sanctity of Life</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>907-334-5853

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alaskapolicyforum.org/" style="">Alaska Policy Forum</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Boyle
Executive Director
201 Barrow Street #8
Anchorage, AK, United States 99501
<a href="mailto:info@alaskapolicyforum.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@alaskapolicyforum.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;APF pursues this vision by conducting timely, relevant and accurate research and providing free market, Alaskan solutions in the most effective means possible to policymakers at the state and local level.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care • Energy • Resource Development • Economics • Accountability</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-355-422-5021
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-355-422-5021

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.balkannetwork.org/Albania1.htm" style="">Albania Center for Economic Research</a>&nbsp;</b>
Zef Preci
Director
I.Qemali Str. Bldg. No.34/1
Fifth Floor, Apt. 4
Tirana, Albania&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:zpreci@interalb.net" style="font-weight: bold;">zpreci@interalb.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Established in 1992, Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER) is Albania’s first independent, non-governmental organization dedicated to the value of democracy and market economy. ACER has undertaken research, policy analysis, and advocacy in support of small and medium enterprises as well as non-governmental and private sector development during the democratic transition.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
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</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alblib.org/" style="">Albanian Liberal Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Adri Nurellari

Shoqata Libertariane Shqiptare
Kutia Postale 2193
Tirane, Albania&nbsp;
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Albanian Liberal Institute (ALI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that aspires to defend, disseminate, advance, promote, and integrate the ideas of classical liberalism into Albanian society. ALI is composed of a large group of committed, like-minded young professionals who have joined forces to advocate liberalism for the benefit of the country. The members are mainly employed in the third sector, in the university as lecturers, or in the media. Most have been actively engaged in the Albanian civil society in the past.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>403-646-3088
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;403-646-5938

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.apri.ca/" style="">Alberta Property Rights Initiative</a>&nbsp;</b>
Neil Wilson
Chairman
Box 834
Nanton, AB T0L 1R0, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:newilson@platinum.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">newilson@platinum.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 2006, the Alberta Property Rights Initiative is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Its aims are to provide a common central organization for various concerned property groups who wish to promote entrenchment in law the full protection of property rights for the benefit of all Albertans. The Initiative seeks to build political support to pass a property rights clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to guarantee that if private property is taken for public use, the owner will receive full, fair, and timely market compensation. The Initiative also promotes an Alberta Property Rights Preservation Bill to protect property owners through provincial legislation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Property rights</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>412-440-0079
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;412-440-0085

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alleghenyinstitute.org/" style="">Allegheny Institute for Public Policy</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jake Haulk, Ph.D.
President
305 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard, Suite 208
Pittsburgh, PA, United States 15234
<a href="mailto:aipp@alleghenyinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">aipp@alleghenyinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Allegheny Institute is a non-profit, research, and education organization. Its mission is to defend the interests of taxpayers, citizens, and businesses against an increasingly burdensome and intrusive government. To that end, the Allegheny Institute formulates and advocates public policies that roll back the size and scope of local government as well as create a more accountable government. Its efforts are guided by the principles of free enterprise, property rights, civil society, and individual freedom that are the bedrock upon which America was founded.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Transportation • Surface, water and air • Economic freedom • Free market driven economic development • Deregulation • Education reform modeled on The Heritage Foundation “No Excuses” campaign • Infrastructure • Sports facilities</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-835-5233
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;480-444-0025

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/" style="">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan Sears
President, CEO, and General Counsel
15100 North 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ, United States 85260
<a href="mailto:info@telladf.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@telladf.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Alliance Defending Freedom is a servant ministry building an alliance to keep the door open for the spread of the Gospel by transforming the legal system and advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family. Recognizing the need for a strong, coordinated legal defense against growing attacks on religious freedom, more than 30 prominent Christian leaders launched Alliance Defending Freedom in 1994. Over the past 18 years, this unique legal ministry has brought together thousands of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations that work tirelessly to advocate for the right of people to freely live out their faith in America and around the world.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religious freedom • Sanctity of human life • Traditional family values</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>303-573-1603
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;720-266-6798

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acescholarships.org/" style="">Alliance for Choice in Education (ACE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Norton Rainey
Executive Director
1201 East Colfax Avenue, Suite 302
Denver, CO, United States 80218
<a href="mailto:nrainey@acescholarships.org" style="font-weight: bold;">nrainey@acescholarships.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ACE is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 by Denver businessman and philanthropist, Alex Cranberg, whose vision was to ensure that children of Colorado’s low-income families had access to quality K–12 education through scholarships.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education reform • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-934-1212
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-934-1211&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.allianceformarriage.org/" style="">Alliance for Marriage</a>&nbsp;</b>
Matthew E. Daniels, J.D., Ph.D.
President and Founder
PO Box 2490
Merrifield, VA, United States 22116
<a href="mailto:info@allianceformarriage.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@allianceformarriage.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Alliance for Marriage (AFM) is a non-partisan research and education organization dedicated to promoting marriage and addressing the epidemic of fatherless families in the United States. AFM seeks to educate the public, the media, elected officials, and civil society leaders on the benefits of marriage for children, adults and society, and to promote reforms designed to strengthen the institution of marriage and restore a culture of married fatherhood in American society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage and family policy • Education • Tax reform • Media coverage of marriage and families • Judicial reform • Marriage building programs • Public policy and civil society reforms</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-280-1990

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.allianceforschoolchoice.org/" style="">Alliance for School Choice</a>&nbsp;</b>
Charles Hokanson
President
1660 L Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@allianceforschoolchoice.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@allianceforschoolchoice.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Alliance for School Choice is to improve our nation’s system of K–12 education by advancing public policy that empowers parents, particularly in low-income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Education reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>559-499-1776&nbsp;
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;559-499-1703

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.schoolandstate.org/" style="">Alliance for the Separation of School & State</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan Schaeffer
President
1071 North Fulton Avenue
Fresno, CA, United States 93728
<a href="mailto:contact@schoolandstate.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@schoolandstate.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Alliance for Separation of School & State is to inform Americans how education can be improved—especially for the poor—by ending state, local, and federal government involvement in school attendance, content, teacher and institutional approval, and financing.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Separation of school and state • Parental rights and obligations in education • Full parental school choice • Repeal school content and standards mandates • Return school attendance decisions to parents</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-92-300-441-4814

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.asinstitute.org/" style="">Alternate Solutions Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Khalil Ahmad
Executive Director
Room 32, Third Floor, Landmark Plaza, Jail Road
Lahore-54000, Pakistan&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@asinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@asinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Alternate Solutions Institute, Pakistan’s first free-market think tank, is an independent, registered, non-profit, non-governmental, educational, and research entity established for the “welfare of the people by the people,” based on mutual help and cooperation, free from any political or partisan influence. The Institute is based on the values of limited government, rule of law, protection of property rights, market economy, individual freedom, and private initiative.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economy • Education • Health • Law • Environment</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-503-278-00-04
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-503-278-29-12

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americalibre.org/" style="">The América Libre Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Juan José Daboub
Executive Director
Avenida Miramundo y Calle Tacuba No. 27
Bosques de Santa Elena II, Urbanización Santa Elena
Antiguo Cuscatlán, La Libertad, El Salvador&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@americalibre.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@americalibre.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The América Libre Institute is a think tank dedicated to the creation of new ideas and the implementation of public policies for those democratic countries and institutions working to advance their citizens through liberty.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-299-9030
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-452-8631

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aale.org/" style="">American Academy for Liberal Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Charles Butterworth
Acting President
526 King Street, Suite 203
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:aaleinfo@aale.org" style="font-weight: bold;">aaleinfo@aale.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Academy for Liberal Education is a national organization dedicated to strengthening and promoting liberal arts education through accreditation and research.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Educational effectiveness assessment (postsecondary) • Charter schools (secondary) • Distance learning (postsecondary) • Higher education • Liberal/general education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>206-236-3046
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;206-236-3288

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.towardtradition.org/" style="">American Alliance of Jews and Christians</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rabbi Daniel Lapin
President
PO Box 58
Mercer Island, WA, United States 98040
<a href="mailto:mail@towardtradition.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@towardtradition.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;American Alliance of Jews and Christians is a national coalition of Jews and Christians seeking to advance the nation toward traditional, faith-based American principles of constitutional and limited government, the rule of law, representative democracy, free markets, a strong military, and a moral public culture.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;The Ethical Capitalism Institute • Traditional marriage • Opposing the marginalization of Judeo-Christian views in public life • Moving American Jews away from their embraced secular liberalism • Moral defense of free market and private property</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>423-629-4280&nbsp;
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;423-622-7461&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aacs.org/" style="">American Association of Christian Schools</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Keith Wiebe
President
602 Belvoir Avenue
East Ridge, TN, United States 37412
<a href="mailto:lpotter@aacs.org" style="font-weight: bold;">lpotter@aacs.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1972, the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) serves over 200,000 students and teachers in member schools throughout the United States. The general purpose and objectives of AACS are to aid in promoting, establishing, advancing, and developing Christian schools in America. AACS provides practical assistance to members —academically, legally and legislatively—through a number of services and publications.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Tuition tax credits • Restoring religious freedom</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>757-226-2489
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;757-226-2836

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aclj.org/" style="">American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Jay Alan Sekulow
Chief Counsel
PO Box 90555
Washington, DC, United States 20090-0555
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ACLJ engages in litigation, provides legal services, renders advice, counsels clients, and supports attorneys who are involved in defending the religious and civil liberties of Americans. ACLJ has a national network of attorneys who are committed to the defense of Judeo-Christian values. It cooperates with other organizations that are committed to a similar mission and serves the public through educational efforts regarding First Amendment and religious freedom issues, as well as pro-family and pro-life concerns.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Protecting the U.S. Constitution • Protecting religious liberty • Fighting to protect life • Fighting to protect the religious rights of Americans</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>916-444-2278
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;916-444-2279

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acrc1.org/" style="">American Civil Rights Coalition</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ward Connerly
Chairman
PO Box 188350
Sacramento, CA, United States 95818
<a href="mailto:feedback@acrc1.org" style="font-weight: bold;">feedback@acrc1.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Civil Rights Coalition (ACRC) is a grassroots advocacy organization focused on the elimination of racial and gender preferences. Working with activists in different states and in Washington, DC, ACRC seeks to duplicate the California Civil Rights Initiative’s success in other states and at the federal level. ACRC focuses on providing assistance and guidance to individuals and groups in other states who are interested in pursuing anti-preference legislation or ballot initiatives; advocating the elimination of racial and gender preferences in federal programs and policies; and monitoring California’s Proposition 209 lawsuits and future implementation efforts.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Racial privacy initiative • Legislation concerning racial preferences and classifications</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>916-444-2278
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;916-444-2279

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acri.org/" style="">American Civil Rights Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ward Connerly
Chairman
PO Box 188350
Sacramento, CA, United States 95818
<a href="mailto:feedback@acri.org" style="font-weight: bold;">feedback@acri.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to educating the American public about the problems created by racial and gender preferences in government programs and policies. ACRI members believe that civil rights are individual rights and that government policies should not advocate group rights over individual rights. Based in Sacramento, California, ACRI’s focus is on three areas: assisting organizations in other states with their efforts to educate the public about racial and gender preferences, assisting federal representatives with public education on the issue, and monitoring implementation and legal action on California’s Proposition 209.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Racial preferences, quotas, and set-asides • Race relations • Educational reform • Racial classification on government forms</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-807-0242
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-683-1703

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.theacru.org/" style="">American Civil Rights Union</a>&nbsp;</b>
Susan A. Carleson
Chairman and CEO
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 960
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
<a href="mailto:info@theacru.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@theacru.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the American Civil Rights Union is to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution based on the original intent of the Founders and to oppose the ACLU when necessary.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Scouting Legal Defense • Amicus curiae briefs in Second Amendment cases • Amicus curiae briefs in property rights cases • Amicus curiae briefs in Tenth Amendment cases • Continue ACLU watch</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-836-8602
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-836-8606

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.conservative.org/" style="">American Conservative Union (ACU)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Al Cardenas
Chairman
1007 Cameron Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:acu@conservative.org" style="font-weight: bold;">acu@conservative.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ACU is a conservative lobbying organization that seeks to communicate and to advance the goals and principles of conservatism through one multi-issue, umbrella organization. ACU’s statement of principles details its support of capitalism, belief in the doctrine of original intent of the Framers of the Constitution, confidence in traditional moral values, and commitment to a strong national defense. Annually since 1971, ACU has published ratings of Congress. Based on actual votes cast on a wide range of issues, each member of the House and Senate is rated on a 0 to 100 scale, designed to indicate the strength of their adherence to conservative principles.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Defense and national security • Tax reform • Campaign finance reform • Education reform • National sovereignty • Protecting Medicare and Social Security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-836-8602
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-836-8606

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acuf.org/" style="">American Conservative Union Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Cleta Mitchell
Chairman&nbsp;
1007 Cameron Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF) is America’s oldest and largest conservative education organization. ACUF seeks to train the next generation of conservative leaders by providing them the intellectual tools necessary to be successful. Through its “Conservative University,” ACUF presents a short conservative curriculum of key books and courses.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-293-5811
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-785-8165

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.accf.org/" style="">American Council for Capital Formation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mark A. Bloomfield
President
1750 K Street, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:mbloomfield@accf.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mbloomfield@accf.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is to promote economic growth in the U.S. and abroad through effective advocacy of policies to facilitate capital formation. The ACCF, with its bipartisan approach and breadth and diversity of support in the business community, has much experience working with policymakers and the media. To meet its goals, the ACCF sponsors new research on economic, regulatory, and environmental policies, publishes concise and effective summaries of the analyses, and ensures that the research results reach appropriate policymakers, media representatives, and business leaders.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(6)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax reform • Taxation of savings • Pension reform • Estate taxation • Export taxation • Climate policy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-467-6787
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-467-6784

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.goacta.org/" style="">American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Anne D. Neal
President
1726 M Street, NW, Suite 802
Washington, DC, United States 20036-4525
<a href="mailto:info@goacta.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@goacta.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ACTA is a non-profit educational organization committed to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability on America’s colleges and university campuses. It supports programs and policies that encourage high academic standards, strong curricula, and the free exchange of ideas.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Academic excellence • Academic freedom • Accountability</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>212-362-7044
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;212-362-4919

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acsh.org/" style="">American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan
President
1995 Broadway, Second Floor
New York, NY, United States 10023-5860
<a href="mailto:acsh@acsh.org" style="font-weight: bold;">acsh@acsh.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ACSH’s primary aim is to help American consumers distinguish significant health hazards from hypothetical or trivial health risks. ACSH further seeks to ensure that both individual health decisions and public health policies are based on sound scientific evidence rather than on hyperbole about risk, fears, guesswork, lobbying, and/or propaganda.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Food safety and nutrition • Science and technology • Pharmaceuticals • Disease, lifestyle factors and health • Chemicals, the environment and human health • Public health and regulatory policies</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-519-7000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-519-8627

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ojc.org/adi" style="">American Defense Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Capt. Eugene B. McDaniel, USN (Ret.)
President
1055 North Fairfax Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:rdt2@americandefinst.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rdt2@americandefinst.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Defense Institute (ADI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the public—especially the young—concerning the importance of a strong national defense to protect freedom and democracy. ADI believes that providing young Americans with the necessary training and incentive now is an investment in strong leadership for the future of the nation. ADI was founded on the belief that American moral and military strength are essential for peace.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Defense • National security • Prisoners of war • Foreign policy • Military voters</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-862-5800
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-862-7177

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aei.org/" style="">American Enterprise Institute (AEI)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Arthur Brooks
President
1150 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@aei.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aei.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Enterprise Institute, founded in 1943, sponsors original research on government policy, the American economy, and American politics. AEI research aims to preserve and to strengthen the foundations of a free society—limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense—through scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., AEI is one of America’s largest and most respected think tanks.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic policy • Foreign and defense policy • Social and political studies</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>662-844-5036
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;662-842-7798

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.afa.net/" style="">American Family Association</a>&nbsp;</b>
Donald Wildmon
Chairman
PO Drawer 2440, 107 Parkgate Drive
Tupelo, MS, United States 38803
<a href="mailto:buddy@afa.net" style="font-weight: bold;">buddy@afa.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1977 by Don Wildmon, American Family Association (AFA) informs, motivates and equips God’s people to take action on issues that threaten to undermine and destroy America’s families and the Godly values upon which our nation was founded. As a result of the proactive efforts of God’s people, AFA is a multi-faceted organization that works hard on many fronts to promote and defend the sanctity of family, of marriage, and of life itself.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Keeping the doors open for the Gospel to be freely proclaimed • Defending and promoting traditional marriage • Fighting the advance of the radical homosexual agenda • Promoting the sanctity of human life • Educating the public on the influence of television and other media—including pornography—on our society • Urging the church to remain faithful to the authority of the Bible</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>662-844-5036
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;662-842-7798&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.afa.net/" style="">American Family Association Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rev. Donald Wildmon
Chairman
PO Drawer 2440
107 Parkgate Drive
Tupelo, MS, United States 38803
<a href="mailto:buddy@afa.net" style="font-weight: bold;">buddy@afa.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Family Association Foundation is a Christian organization dedicated to promoting the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on television and other media. The Foundation believes that the entertainment industry, through its various products, has played a major role in the decline of those values on which our country was founded and which keep a society and its families strong and healthy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Church in America • Culture and society • Education • Entertainment industry • Marriage and family • Gambling • Homosexual agenda • Money and finance • Pornography • Pro-life • Global religious persecution</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>989-835-7978
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;810-222-5109

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.afamichigan.org/" style="">American Family Association of Michigan</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary Glenn
President
PO Box 1904
Midland, MI, United States 48641-1904
<a href="mailto:info@afamichigan.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@afamichigan.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;State marriage protection amendment • Internet pornography • Preserving traditional family values</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>516-944-3544

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.afany.org/" style="">American Family Association of New York</a>&nbsp;</b>
Frank Russo
State Director
PO Box 203
Port Washington, NY, United States 11050
<a href="mailto:fjrussojr@cs.com" style="font-weight: bold;">fjrussojr@cs.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The purpose of the American Family Association of New York is to educate its members and the general public on matters pertaining to the family and factors that affect the family in positive or negative ways and to encourage actions conducive to building strong families. The Association produces and airs a weekly public access cable television program on various cable systems throughout New York State and issues a newsletter approximately three times per year free of charge to those interested.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Right to life • Traditional marriage • Reducing New York income and property taxes • Requiring all child abuse to be reported to law enforcement, not just parental abuse • Media bias</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-543-1006
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-543-1007

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.afpc.org/" style="">American Foreign Policy Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Herman Pirchner, Jr.
President
509 C Street, NE
Washington, DC, United States 20002
<a href="mailto:afpc@afpc.org" style="font-weight: bold;">afpc@afpc.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Foreign Policy Council’s mission is to bring information to those who make or influence the foreign policy of the United States and to assist leaders in the former USSR and other parts of the world in building democracies and market economies.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Russia • Foreign aid • China • Missile defense • Central Asia • Middle East</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>413-528-1216
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;413-528-0103

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aier.org/" style="">American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Charles Murray
CEO
PO Box 1000
Great Barrington, MA, United States 01230
<a href="mailto:info@aier.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aier.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Organized in 1933 as a private, independent, scientific, and educational charitable organization, AIER plans its research to help individuals protect their personal interests and those of the nation. Experience shows that economic information is most useful when it comes from an objective source free of either commercial or political special interests. Neither the Institute nor members of its staff may profit from organizations that may benefit from the results of its research.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Fiat currency and inflation • Property rights • Social Security reform • Research methodology • Tax reform • IMF reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-562-7752
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;541-273-6496

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fullemployment.org/" style="">American Institute for Full Employment</a>&nbsp;</b>
Theodore David Abram
Executive Director
2636 Biehn Street
Klamath Falls, OR, United States 97601
<a href="mailto:info@fullemployment.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fullemployment.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the American Institute for Full Employment is to develop the concepts needed to achieve full employment in America and to do so in a fashion that will utilize and enhance free enterprise and minimize or eliminate governmental involvement or influence. “Full employment” means universal access to jobs with career potential, and adequate retirement benefits, for all who can work, especially those who are receiving public assistance as a substitute for the opportunities and rewards of paid work.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Welfare • Unemployment • Social Security • Food stamps • High school economic textbooks • Mentoring • Community outreach</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-518-2388.

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americanissuesproject.org/" style="">American Issues Project</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ed Failor
Mr. Ed Failor
301 West Platt Street, Suite #353
Tampa, FL, United States 33606
<a href="mailto:http://twitter.com/#!/AmericanIssues" style="font-weight: bold;">http://twitter.com/#!/AmericanIssues</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;We believe in and will champion the conservative values that make the United States of America a blessed nation: small government, a strong and ready national defense, low taxes, and a government that encourages entrepreneurship and new job creation in America. We also know how critical it is for America to win the war against the radical Islamic extremists abroad so we do not have to fight them here on American soil.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economy • Health Care • Limited Government • Taxes • Energy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>360-687-3087
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;360-687-2973

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.landrights.org/" style="">American Land Rights Association (ALRA)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Chuck Cushman
Founder and Executive Director
30218 NE 82nd Avenue
PO Box 400
Battle Ground, WA, United States 98604
<a href="mailto:alra@pacifier.com" style="font-weight: bold;">alra@pacifier.com&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Dedicated to the wise use of America’s resources, ALRA is a national clearinghouse and support coalition encouraging private property ownership, family recreation, multiple use of federal lands, commodity production, and access to federally-controlled lands. Its purpose is to oppose selfish, single-use, restrictive land designations that damage local economies, schools, and roads in rural America. ALRA maintains a fax/e-mail communication network; organizes coalitions to fight property rights threats; sponsors special events, rallies, and conferences; carries out grassroots training and campaigns in teamwork with allied groups; and has a speakers bureau.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Oppose land acquisition trust funds that permit eminent domain • No net loss of private property • Private property rights • Oppose land acquisition • Access to federal land and resources • Endangered Species Act reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>801-694-8380

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americanlandscouncil.org/" style="">American Lands Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ken Ivory
President
, 0, United States&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ken@americanlandscouncil.org" style="font-weight: bold;">ken@americanlandscouncil.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Lands Council coordinates the concerted efforts of state, county, and local governments, businesses, organizations, and individuals to secure and defend local control of land access, land use, and land ownership through (i) Education, (ii) Political Persuasion, (iii) Legislation (local, state and national), and (iv) Litigation.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)4&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health of public lands ~Local control of land use, land access, and land ownership</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-373-0933
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-373-0927

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alec.org/" style="">American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ronald Scheberle
Executive Director&nbsp;
2900 Crystal Drive, 6th Floor
Arlington, VA, United States 22202
<a href="mailto:contact@alec.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@alec.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ALEC’s mission is to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty through a non-partisan partnership among America’s state legislators and concerned members of the private sector, the federal government, and the general public.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Disorder in the court • Education reform • Energy sustainability • Health care reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>540-338-1251
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;540-338-2326

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://americanmajority.org/" style="">American Majority</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ned Ryun
President&nbsp;
PO Box 87
Purcellville, VA, United States 20134
<a href="mailto:americanmajority.org/contact/" style="font-weight: bold;">americanmajority.org/contact/</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;American Majority is a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to train and equip a national network of leaders committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market. Headquartered in Purcellville, Virginia, we currently have state offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas, with plans to open additional state offices in 2011. Beyond our state offices, we also have certified trainers (Mechanics) across the country who train activists in their local community.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Political Training • Activist Training • Campus Activism • Constitutional Issues • New/Social Media Training</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>540-341-8911
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;540-341-8917

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americanpolicy.org/" style="">American Policy Center</a>&nbsp;</b>
Thomas DeWeese
President
70 Main Street, Suite 23
Warrenton, VA, United States 20186
<a href="mailto:ampolicycenter@hotmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">ampolicycenter@hotmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Policy Center (APC) is a grassroots, activist organization located in suburban Washington, D.C. Since 1986, APC has been the leader in the fight to preserve private property rights against government land grabs; protect national sovereignty from the threat of the United Nations; protect privacy rights and stop national ID cards; and restore academic-based education and eliminate federal intrusions like Goals 2000, School-to-Work, and outcome-based education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Get the United States out of the United Nations • Reduce the federal role in education and return control to local schools • Stop the spread of Sustainable Development policy • Stop federal land grabs and radical environmental policies not based on sound science • Prevent federal data banks from intruding in the personal lives of Americans</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-522-VOTE
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;440-572-2128

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aproundtable.org/" style="">American Policy Roundtable</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Zanotti
President
11288 Alameda Drive
Strongsville, OH, United States 44149-3001
<a href="mailto:info@aproundtable.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aproundtable.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;As a non-profit, non-partisan, research, and education organization dedicated to restoring traditional principles to public policy, the American Policy Roundtable conducts research on local, state, and federal policy issues and then communicates that information through “The Public Square” radio programs and its Web site. The Roundtable also maintains ongoing dialogue with business leaders, clergy, lawmakers, and families across Ohio, Florida, and Tennessee through seminars, publications, and special projects.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • School choice • Religious liberty • Tax reform • Judicial reform • Term limits</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-546-5200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-546-2100

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ascfusa.org/" style="">American Security Council Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michael Fumento
Director of Research and Education
1239 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
Washington, DC, United States 20003
<a href="mailto:press@ascfusa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">press@ascfusa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The role of the American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) is to educate and inform Americans about the global challenges to the national security, economic security, and moral leadership of the United States. To this end, the ASCF sponsors research, holds conferences, and publishes books, monographs, and articles. Distinguished scholars, policymakers, lawmakers, and citizens participate in these activities.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Counter terrorism • National security • China • Energy security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-243-2104
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-243-2105

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.tfp.org/" style="">American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mario Navarro da Costa
Director, Washington Bureau
1344 Merrie Ridge Road
McLean, VA, United States 22101
<a href="mailto:american.tfp@pobox.com" style="font-weight: bold;">american.tfp@pobox.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (American TFP) is a civic, cultural, and non-partisan 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. The Society does this by studying both the foundations of America’s traditions, to invigorate them, and the components of disintegration, to counteract them. Crusade, its bimonthly magazine, analyzes and comments on national and international events, culture, history, and Catholic social doctrine, among other topics.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Oppose same-sex marriage • Ballistic missile defense • judicial activism • Blasphemy in the culture • Abortion</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-302-1000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;571-480-4140

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.radioamerica.org/" style="">American Studies Center—Radio America</a>&nbsp;</b>
James Roberts
President
1100 North Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
<a href="mailto:jroberts@radioamerica.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jroberts@radioamerica.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;A project of the American Studies Center, Radio America produces and distributes programs reflecting a commitment to traditional American values, limited government, and the free market.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Media • War on terrorism • Defense and intelligence • Taxation • American government • Government spending</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>212-870-2760
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;212-870-2720

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.historytextbooks.org/" style="">American Textbook Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gilbert T. Sewall
Director
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1948
New York, NY, United States 10115
<a href="mailto:atc@columbia.edu" style="font-weight: bold;">atc@columbia.edu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Textbook Council was established to advance the quality of history textbooks. The Council endorses the production of textbooks that embody vivid narrative style, stress significant people and events, and promote better understanding of all cultures, including America’s, on the principle that improved textbooks will advance the curriculum, stimulate student learning, and encourage educational achievement for children of all backgrounds. It also provides a forum for educators and others interested in improving the educational materials and maintains a clearinghouse of information about social studies textbooks consulted by educators and policymakers at all levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;History and social studies curriculum and textbooks • Development of improved instructional materials in history and social studies • Civic and character education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-682-1163
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-682-1022

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.atra.org/" style="">American Tort Reform Association</a>&nbsp;</b>
Sherman Joyce
President
1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:sjoyce@atra.org" style="font-weight: bold;">sjoyce@atra.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) is a national advocate for civil justice reform. Founded in 1986, ATRA seeks to bring greater fairness, predictability, and efficiency to the civil justice system through public education and legislation. ATRA’s membership includes non-profits, small and large companies, as well as state and national trade, business, and professional associations.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(6)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Medical liability • Class action reform • Asbestos litigation reform • Lawsuit abuse reduction</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-324-7829
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;713-963-8403

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fairtax.org/" style="">Americans for Fair Taxation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Leo Linbeck, Jr.
Chairman
PO Box 27487
Houston, TX, United States 77227-7487
<a href="mailto:info@fairtax.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fairtax.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans For Fair Taxation was formed in 1995 as a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization solely dedicated to replacing the current tax system.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-383-0880
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-383-5288

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.getliberty.org/" style="">Americans for Limited Government</a>&nbsp;</b>
Nathan Mehrens
President
10332 Main Street, Box 326
Fairfax, VA, United States 22030
<a href="mailto:info@getliberty.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@getliberty.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Limited Government specializes in political action. In states across the nation, Americans for Limited Government works with local groups, using the direct initiative process to make serious changes in public policy and put the people back in charge of state politics.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Government ethics • Judicial reform • Property rights • School choice • Tax and spending reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>866-730-0150

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tim Phillips
President
2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
<a href="mailto:info@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>267-885-634

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/pennsylvania" style="">Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania&nbsp;</a></b>
Jennifer Stefano
State Director
Box 843
Washington Crossing, PA, United States 18977
<a href="mailto:jstefano@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jstefano@afphq.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity is a grassroots movement of over 2.3 million activists nation wide who advocate and promote limited government, lower taxes, and more freedom.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Limited government, freedom, economic growth, lower taxes.</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>602-478-0146

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aztaxpayers.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Arizona</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tom Jenney
State Director
One East Camelback Road, Suite 550
Phoenix, AZ, United States 85012
<a href="mailto:infoAZ@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoAZ@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Limited government spending • Property tax reform • Personal and corporate tax rate reform • Interstate health insurance competition • School vouchers • Taxpayer-funded lobbying</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>479-531-9778

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/arkansas" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Arkansas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Teresa Crossland-Oelke
State Director
1800 South 52nd Street, Suite 300
Rogers, AR, United States 72758
<a href="mailto:infoAR@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoAR@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Education • Energy • Health/Welfare • Limited Government • Spending • Taxes
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>805-384-4510

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – California</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Spady
State Director
2073 Santo Domingo
Camarillo, CA, United States 93012
<a href="mailto:infoCA@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoCA@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>561-627-2734
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;561- 625-9230

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Florida</a>&nbsp;</b>
Apryl Marie Fogel
State Director
3910 RCA Boulevard, Suite 1015
Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United States 33410
<a href="mailto:infoFL@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoFL@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer protection • Property rights issues • School choice • End wasteful spending</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-224-3200

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tim Phillips
President
2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
<a href="mailto:info@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP Foundation educates and engages citizens on economic policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory responsibility. The Foundation’s educational programs and analyses help policymakers, the media, and individual citizens understand why sound fiscal and regulatory policy is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>770) 315-4304

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Georgia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Virginia Galloway
State Director
44 Darby’s Crossing Drive, Suite 102G
Hiram, GA, United States 30141
<a href="mailto:infoGA@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoGA@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Zero-based budgeting • End wasteful spending</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>312-768-2373

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Illinois</a>&nbsp;</b>
Joe Calomino
State Director
200 South Wacker, Suite 4000
Chicago, IL, United States 60606
<a href="mailto:infoIL@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoIL@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Transparency • Earmarks • Zero-based budgeting • Health care • Charter schools • Excise taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>785-354-4237
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;785-354-4239

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Kansas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan Cobb
State Director
2348 SW Topeka, Suite 201
Topeka, KS, United States 66611
<a href="mailto:infoKS@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoKS@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Reduce taxes • Limit budget growth • Transparency • Taxpayer-funded lobbying</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>207-504-0020

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/maine" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Maine</a>&nbsp;</b>
Trevor Bragdon
State Director - Maine
PO Box 391
Augusta, ME, United States 04332
<a href="mailto:infoAR@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoAR@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>517-853-9073
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;517-827-0630

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/michigan" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Michigan</a>&nbsp;</b>
Scott Hagerstrom
State Director
222 West Genesee Street
Lansing, MI, United States 48933
<a href="mailto:infoMI@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoMI@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Stop new taxes • Transparency • Right-to-work</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>888-332-3811

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Missouri</a>&nbsp;</b>
Carl Bearden
State Director
PO Box 1661
Saint Charles, MO, United States 63302
<a href="mailto:infoMO@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoMO@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sunset earnings taxes • Lower taxes • Education reform • Taxpayer-funded lobbying</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>201-487-8844
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;201-487-8853

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – New Jersey</a>&nbsp;</b>
Steve Lonegan
State Director
24 River Road, Suite 205
Bogota, NJ, United States 07603
<a href="mailto:infoNJ@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoNJ@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Local government • Tax issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>919-839-1011
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;919-839-1012

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – North Carolina</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dallas Woodhouse
State Director
225 Hillsborough Street, Suite 190
Raleigh, NC, United States 27603
<a href="mailto:infoNC@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoNC@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Lower taxes • Charter schools • Eminent domain • Property taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>701-223-9887
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;701-258-3779

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – North Dakota</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dustin Gawrylow
State Director
1720 Burnt Boat Drive, Suite 102
Bismarck, ND, United States 58503
<a href="mailto:infoND@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoND@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax issues • Government spending • Education reform • Transparency</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>513-703-6227

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/ohio" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Ohio</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rebecca Heimlich&nbsp;
State Director
Loveland, OH, United States 45140
<a href="mailto:infoOH@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoOH@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Death tax • Transparency</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>405-514-0514

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/oklahoma" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Oklahoma</a>&nbsp;</b>
Stuart Jolly
State Director
1050 East 2nd Street, #106
Edmond, OK, United States 73034
<a href="mailto:infoOK@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoOK@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Education funding • Tax issues • Earmarks • Tort reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>541-729-6229

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Oregon</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jeff Kropf
State Director
4181 Cascade Highway, SE
PO Box 130
Sublimity, OR, United States 97385
<a href="mailto:infoOR@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoOR@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Property rights • Excise taxes • Taxpayer protections • Transportation reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>605-332-2848
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;605-332-2842

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – South Dakota</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dustin Gawrylow
State Director
196 East Sixth Street
Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57104
<a href="mailto:infoSD@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoSD@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax issues • Government spending • Education reform • Transparency</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>512-476-5905
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;512-476-5906

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Texas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Peggy Venable
Director
807 Brazos Street, Suite 210
Austin, TX, United States 78701
<a href="mailto:texas@AFPhq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">texas@AFPhq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Taxpayer protections • Transparency • Tax issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>414-475-2975
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;414-475-2976

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="">Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin</a>&nbsp;</b>
Matt Seaholm
State Director
1126 South 70th Street, Suite S219A
Milwaukee, WI, United States 53214
<a href="mailto:infoWI@afphq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">infoWI@afphq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care • Tax issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-785-0266
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-785-0261

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.atr.org/" style="">Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Grover Norquist
President
722 12th Street NW, Suite 400&nbsp;
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:friends@atr.org" style="font-weight: bold;">friends@atr.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ATR is a coalition of taxpayer groups opposing any and all tax increases at the state, federal, and local levels. It works with state tax groups to ask all candidates for office to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge committing officeholders to oppose tax increases. ATR publicizes the Cost of Government Day each year—the day until which Americans must work to pay the cost of taxes and regulations. ATR also coordinates the Reagan Legacy Project urging Congress and state legislatures to name memorials after President Reagan.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Opposing all tax increases • Supporting moves toward a flat tax • Reforming state pensions • Paycheck protection legislation • Constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds vote for tax increases • Electronic commerce—opposing taxes on the internet</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-785-0266
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-785-0261

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.atr.org/" style="">Americans for Tax Reform Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Grover Norquist
President
722 12th Street NW, Suite 400&nbsp;
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:friends@atr.org" style="font-weight: bold;">friends@atr.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Tax Reform Foundation (ATRF) serves as a national, information clearinghouse for the grassroots taxpayers’ movement working with state and county-level groups. ATRF is a non-profit, research, and education organization that works to highlight the true cost of government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer Protection Pledge • Social Security privatization • 2/3 supermajority to raise taxes • State-level taxpayer legislation • Cost of Government Day</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>877-285-0111
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-318-7803

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.techleadership.org/" style="">Americans for Technology Leadership</a>&nbsp;</b>
Randy Skoglund
Executive Director
1401 K Street, NW, Suite 502
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:rskoglund@techleadership.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rskoglund@techleadership.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Americans for Technology Leadership (ATL) is a broad-based coalition of technology professionals, consumers, and organizations dedicated to limiting government regulation of technology and to fostering competitive market solutions to public policy issues affecting the technology industry. ATL believes that this approach will ensure that all Americans are able to take advantage of the benefits of the technologies that are shaping the new economy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Intellectual property • Cyber security • Spyware • Procurement issues • Antitrust • E-commerce</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-289-1478
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;312-492-7235

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aul.org/" style="">Americans United for Life (AUL)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Ph.D.
President
655 15th Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:info@aul.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aul.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Americans United for Life is to protect every person in America from abortion and euthanasia through law and education. AUL is a non-sectarian, non-partisan, public-interest, non-profit group that specializes in legislation, litigation, and education. Founded in 1971, AUL focuses on initiatives that will change public policy and opinion on sanctity of human life issues in the short term, while laying the groundwork for comprehensive protection of human life over the long term. AUL serves pro-life legislators, lobbyists, and leaders at the state and national levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Abortion and its effects • Preventing legalized assisted suicide • The abortion-breast cancer link • Fetal-homicide legislation • Defending pro-life legislation in the courts • Dispelling the myth that abortion is a necessary evil • Educating state legislators</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-331-2261

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americasfuture.org/" style="">America’s Future Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Roger Custer
Executive Director
1899 L Street, Floor 12
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@americasfuture.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@americasfuture.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;America’s Future Foundation educates and mobilizes today’s young Americans and tomorrow’s leaders in support of limited government, free markets, personal responsibility, moral virtue, world leadership, and technological progress. Through its educational and outreach programs, the Foundation provides the mechanism to harness the political and social energy of like-minded young professionals, broadcasting its positive message nationwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>084- 244954

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.andeslibres.com/" style="">Andes Libres</a>&nbsp;</b>
Edwar Enrique Escalante
Executive Director
Jose Gabriel Cosio 404-B, Urb. Magisterial.&nbsp;
Cusco, Peru&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:andes.libres@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">andes.libres@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Issue opinions with assessments and proposals for solving public problems with the vision of a free society. We have promoted the integration of Peru and more remote areas of the benefits of economic growth to the world, the limitation of the State , removing barriers and regulations to private initiative , combating crime and narco - terrorism, efficiency in the delivery of services such as health and education , strengthening property rights for the poorest communities and investments necessary for development, among many other subjects of interest to society. Free Andes spread the ideas of liberty through seminars, workshops and meetings, and constantly doing media also through national and international level. In the same line Free Andes organizes educational and training program to expand Freedom through rigorous academic programs to identify and strengthen the talents of many young Peruvians.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free Markets • Limited Government • Narcoterrorism • Privatization • Property Rights • Education • Health Care Reform • Economic Growth • Globalization • Anti-Corruption •</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>0036-1-482-7703

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ajtk.hu/" style="">Antall Jozef Knowledge Centre of Political and Social Science&nbsp;</a></b>
Dr. Klara Antall
Founder
1093 Közraktár u. 4-6.
Budapest, Hungary&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ajtk@uni-corvinus.hu" style="font-weight: bold;">ajtk@uni-corvinus.hu&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Antall of Political and Social Science Knowledge Center is independent of parties and ideologies think-tank organization which has as its primary objective the Antall tradition embodied spirituality care, education, research, publishing three devices through the system Feladataink között kap helyet az Antall-hagyaték kezelése, feldolgozása, és kutathatóvá tétele. Tasks will be located between the Antall estate management, processing, and making searchable. The Antall Knowledge Center activities: • Theoretical and practical training; • Studies and surveys; • Publication of research results; • Organization of conferences; • High level of political and social sciences, as well as the distribution of other works; • A public awareness and interest in the political science knowledge.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Democracy and democratic institutions Government *International relations *International trade Military/defense policy National security/alliances *Energy security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>602-346-5061
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;602-346-5059

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.azfreeenterpriseclub.org/" style="">Arizona Free Enterprise Club</a>&nbsp;</b>
Steve Voeller
President
PO Box 32935
Phoenix, AZ, United States 85064
<a href="mailto:steve@azfreeenterpriseclub.org" style="font-weight: bold;">steve@azfreeenterpriseclub.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club is to advance policies that promote economic growth, limited government, fiscal restraint, and lower taxes for all Arizonans.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;State fiscal policy • Tax cuts • Spending limits</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>501-375-7000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;501-375 7040

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familycouncil.org/" style="">Arkansas Family Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jerry Cox
President & Executive Director
414 South Pulaski, Suite 2
Little Rock, AR, United States 72201
<a href="mailto:info@familycouncil.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@familycouncil.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Arkansas Family Council (AFC) was established in 1989 in association with Focus on the Family and Dr. James Dobson. AFC is a conservative, research, and education organization dedicated to upholding traditional values. Its mission is to promote, protect, and strengthen traditional family values in Arkansas as part of the overall effort to prevent the “great unraveling” of American culture and to champion the values that have made Arkansas and the nation great.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Parental rights • Voter education • Home schooling • Abstinence and out-of-wedlock births • Traditional values in schools</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>501-537-0825

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.arkansaspolicyfoundation.org/" style="">Arkansas Policy Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Hon. Greg J. Kaza
Executive Director
111 Center Street, Suite 1200
Little Rock, AR, United States 72201
<a href="mailto:kaza@arkansaspolicyfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">kaza@arkansaspolicyfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1995, the Arkansas Policy Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, public policy think tank committed to the goals of economic growth, individual opportunity, and education reform. The Policy Foundation emphasizes the importance of peer-reviewed research.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education reform • Tax policy • Transparency of government • Business cycle research effect on revenues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>501-312-5961

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.thearkansasproject.com/" style="">The Arkansas Project</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Kinkade
Editor
Kinkade Communications, LLC
1818 N. Taylor PMB 220
Little Rock, AR, United States 72207
<a href="mailto:david.kinkade@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">david.kinkade@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Arkansas Project was launched in 2008 as a source for incisive commentary and reporting on Arkansas government, politics, media and more. In 2011, The Arkansas Project became an affiliate of the Advance Arkansas Institute.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>877-289-5411
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;419-289-5425

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ashbrook.org/" style="">John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs</a>&nbsp;</b>
Roger L. Beckett
Executive Director
Ashland University
401 College Avenue
Ashland, OH, United States 44805
<a href="mailto:info@ashbrook.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ashbrook.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University is an academic forum for the study, research, and discussion of the principles and practices of American constitutional government and politics. The Ashbrook Center’s programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and civic morality, which together constitute America’s democratic way of life. It sponsors the Ashbrook Scholar program, publishes scholarly monographs and books, hosts a series of campus lectures and conferences, and provides internship opportunities for students interested in careers related to public affairs.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Foreign policy • Race and ethnicity • Future of conservatism • Education • Homeland security • Electoral college</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-81-3-5570-0321
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-81-3-5570-7168

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.asianforum.jp/" style="">Asian Forum Japan</a>&nbsp;</b>
Katsumasa Horiguchi
Chairman
No. 2 Nakata Building 3F
1-3-15 Akasaka, Minato-KU
Tokyo 107-0052, Japan&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@asianforum.jp" style="font-weight: bold;">info@asianforum.jp</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Asian Forum Japan consistently maintains its principle of “meeting the needs of the times” through proposing diplomatic and national security policies for the Asia–Pacific region, especially those involving Japan, the United States, and China.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;National security • U.S.–China relations • U.S. national security • U.S. conservatism • Public order and freedom in the U.S. • Political funding • Asian economic block • Japan-U.S. policy coordination</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>208-344-5581
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;208-344-5582

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.ati-taxinfo.com/index.html" style="">Associated Taxpayers of Idaho</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ben Davenport
President
PO Box 1665
Boise, ID, United States 83701
<a href="mailto:bdavenport@ati-taxinfo.com" style="font-weight: bold;">bdavenport@ati-taxinfo.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ATI provides objective, historical and current tax and fiscal research from a taxpayer's perspective. ATI’s credible information and taxpayer advocacy make it an extremely effective participant in the formation of Idaho's public finance policy. ATI represents its members at meetings of legislative tax committees, the State Tax Commission, the Governor's Office, city/county officials and other public entities. ATI also works closely with industry trade associations, chambers of commerce, a variety of civic groups, the media and many others. ATI is an active member of the National Taxpayers Conference (NTC), a national network of longtime taxpayers associations. It is also a member of the Government Research Association, a national professional association of individuals engaged in public finance research. ATI combines this national expertise with its own to maximize member services.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxpayer Advocacy, Tax Research</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>571-765-3907

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Association for American Innovation&nbsp;</b>
Alan Cobb
Executive Director
, AL, United States&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:acobb@aforai.org" style="font-weight: bold;">acobb@aforai.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)6&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-90-312-2308703
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-90-312-2308003

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.liberal.org.tr/" style="">Association for Liberal Thinking</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ozelm Caglar Yilmaz
General Coordinator
GMK Bulvari 108/17, Maltepe
Ankara, 06570, Turkey&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ozlemcaglar@liberal-dt.org.tr" style="font-weight: bold;">ozlemcaglar@liberal-dt.org.tr</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Association for Liberal Thinking (ALT) is to promote values and institutions such as liberty, justice, peace, human rights, the rule of law, tolerance, liberal democracy, private property, and the free market. ALT encourages academic researchers to find effective solutions to Turkey’s political and economic problems within the classical liberal thought. ALT has no direct links with any political movement.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Freedom and constitutional democracy • Economic freedom • Political and economic liberalization of Turkey within the process of European Union membership • Legal and social barriers before entrepreneurship • Freedom of religion</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>949-595-7979
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;949-595-7970

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aaeteachers.org/" style="">Association of American Educators (AAE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary Beckner
Executive Director
27405 Puerta Real, Suite 230
Mission Viejo, CA, United States 92691
<a href="mailto:info@aaeteachers.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@aaeteachers.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Association of American Educators serves as a national, professional alternative to teacher unions, offering many of the same benefits of the unions—without the politics. AAE serves as a new national voice for educators who envision a future where professional teachers will be free to control their own careers—a future where true professionals can negotiate their own decisions about use of time, resources, and teaching methodologies.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(6)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Promoting character education • Fighting federal intervention in public education • Establishing state affiliates of the AAE • Promoting higher entrance and career professional standards for teachers</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>520-327-4845
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;520-325-4230

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aapsonline.org/" style="">Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Executive Director
1601 North Tucson Boulevard, Suite 9
Tucson, AZ, United States 85716
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Since 1943, AAPS has been the only national association of physicians in all specialties dedicated to preserving and protecting the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship. AAPS believes this patient-physician relationship must be free from all third-party interference—whether from the government, from insurance companies, or from health care plans. It believes patients’ ability to choose their physicians and the care that’s best for their needs is inviolable.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Arbitrary prosecutions • Free-market insurance reform • Professional liability issues • Sham peer review • Government intrusions into patient-physician relationship and loss of medical privacy • Erosion of physical activity</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>719-528-6906
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;719-531-0631

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.acsi.org/" style="">Association of Christian Schools International</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ken Smitherman
President
PO Box 65130
Colorado Springs, CO, United States 80962-5130
<a href="mailto:ken_smitherman@acsi.org" style="font-weight: bold;">ken_smitherman@acsi.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is to enable Christian educators and schools worldwide to prepare students for life. ACSI provides an array of services and programs through its departments and regional offices.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Strengthen urban school services • Strengthen administrative leadership • Develop new Christian textbooks • Strengthen international Christian schools • Achieve national recognition for preschool accreditation • Promote K–12 Christian school accreditation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>410-705-6360
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;410-760-9164

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.mdfamilies.org/" style="">Association of Maryland Families</a>&nbsp;</b>
Derek McCoy
President
PO Box 106&nbsp;
Annapolis, MD, United States 21404
<a href="mailto:director@mdfamilies.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@mdfamilies.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Association of Maryland Families is to serve as a resource and a voice for pastors and to equip, encourage, and exhort Christians and others who care about the moral fabric of our nation to be responsible, informed, and involved citizens. Our purpose is to educate voters and politicians to keep their commitment to both liberty and law, so that America may continue to be one nation under God.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Family • Abortion • Embryonic stem cell research • Homosexuality • Marriage</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-331-2763
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;405-321-8897

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.professionaloklahomaeducators.org/" style="">Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ginger Elaine Tinney
Executive Director
PO Box 667
Norman, OK, United States 73070-0667
<a href="mailto:info@professionaloklahomaeducators.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@professionaloklahomaeducators.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Advancing Oklahoma education through integrity, professionalism, and excellence, thereby providing the best learning environment for each Oklahoma child. APOE will not resort to strikes, threats of work stoppage, slow downs, or other militant action. Educators should be free from all forms of compulsory membership. Educators should not be forced to join or otherwise pay dues to a labor union. Public schools should be under the control of and accountable only to the taxpayers in the communities they serve. Education should aim to improve a young person's character as well as his or her intellect. APOE will not endorse or financially support any political candidate for local, state, or federal office, but will instead encourage individual members to become actively involved in the political process.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>902-429-1143
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;902-425-1393

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.aims.ca/" style="">Atlantic Institute for Market Studies</a>&nbsp;</b>
Charles Cirtwell
President & CEO
2000 Barrington Street, Suite 1302
Cogswell Tower
Halifax NS B3J 3K1, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:aims@aims.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">aims@aims.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) is an independent, non-partisan social and economic policy think tank based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. AIMS is a distinctive Atlantic Canadian voice on public policy regionally, nationally, and internationally. The Institute sets the benchmark on public policy by drawing together the freshest, most forward-looking thinking available from some of the world’s foremost experts and applying that thinking to current challenges.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education reform • Electricity • Health care • Fishing and farming</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>914-834-3322
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;914-833-1022

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.atlanticlegal.org/" style="">Atlantic Legal Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
William H. Slattery
President
2039 Palmer Avenue, Suite 104
Larchmont, NY, United States 10538
<a href="mailto:atlanticlegal@atlanticlegal.org" style="font-weight: bold;">atlanticlegal@atlanticlegal.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Atlantic Legal Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest law firm whose mission is to advance the rule of law by advocating limited, effective government, free enterprise, individual liberty, school choice, and sound science.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Science and the law • Property rights • Student rights • Illegal government regulations • Affirmative action • Political correctness</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-449-8449
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-449-8459

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.atlasusa.org/" style="">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Ph.D.
President
1201 L Street NW
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:events@atlasusa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">events@atlasusa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Atlas Economic Research Foundation is a service organization that helps expand and strengthen the international network of think tanks devoted to the principles of a free society. Atlas raises funds from donors who believe think tanks can play a positive role in advancing freedom in all parts of the world, and then it invests in young institutes and programs to assist them. Atlas provides consultations to aspiring think tank entrepreneurs, runs workshops, administers prize programs, and acts as an information hub for the international freedom movement.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding think tank network devoted to freedom • Free-market solutions to poverty • Rule of law • Corporate social responsibility • Health and welfare • Economics and security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>512-368-4213

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.austin-institute.org/" style="">Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture</a>&nbsp;</b>
Andrew Litschi
Director
1611 West Ave
Austin, TX, United States 78701
<a href="mailto:info@austin-institute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@austin-institute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Austin Institute’s mission is to be a leading resource for tested, rigorous academic research on questions of family, sexuality, social structures and human relationships.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp; Family Stability * Culture and Community * Marriage and Family Structure * Citizenship and Civil Society</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-41-44-445-9000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-41-44-445-9001

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.avenir-suisse.ch/" style="">Avenir Suisse</a>&nbsp;</b>
Thomas Held
Managing Director
Giessereistrasse 5
Zurich CH-8005, Switzerland&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:thomas.held@avenir-suisse.ch" style="font-weight: bold;">thomas.held@avenir-suisse.ch</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Avenir Suisse was founded in 1999 by 14 internationally operating Swiss companies. As an independent think tank designed after the Anglo-Saxon model, Avenir Suisse is involved in promoting the social and economic development of Switzerland. Avenir Suisse defines relevant issues at an early point in time and shows where action is required. The think tank adds new impulses to the discourse and offers possible solutions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>415-986-5650
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;415-986-5358

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.basicfund.org/" style="">The BASIC Fund</a>&nbsp;</b>
Meghan Magilligan
Administrative Director
268 Bush Street, Suite 2717
San Francisco, CA, United States 94104
<a href="mailto:meghan@basicfund.org" style="font-weight: bold;">meghan@basicfund.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The BASIC (Bay Area Scholarships for Inner-City Children) Fund is a privately funded program whose mission is to broaden the educational opportunities for inner-city children by helping low-income families afford the cost of tuition at private schools in the Bay Area. The program is available to students entering kindergarten through eighth grade to attend private schools in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. The program provides scholarships to help families send their children to the private school of their choice. The BASIC Fund scholarships are awarded on the basis of financial need.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.beacontn.org" style="">Beacon Center of Tennessee</a>&nbsp;</b>
Justin Owen
President & CEO
P.O. Box 198646
Nashville, TN, United States 37219
<a href="mailto:info@beacontn.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@beacontn.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Beacon Center of Tennessee is to change lives through public policy. The Beacon Center, founded as the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan 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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Personal freedom, limited government, economic growth, reduced tax, education, healthcare, property rights</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>617-573-8050
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;617-994-4279

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.beaconhill.org/" style="">The Beacon Hill Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
David G. Tuerck, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA, United States 02108
<a href="mailto:bhi@beaconhill.org" style="font-weight: bold;">bhi@beaconhill.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Grounded in the principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets, The Beacon Hill Institute engages in rigorous economic research and conducts educational programs for the purpose of producing and disseminating readable analyses of current public policy issues to voters, taxpayers, opinion leaders, and policymakers.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxes • Education • Competitiveness/development • Tort reform • Regulation • Government efficiency</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-955-0095
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-955-0090

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.becketfund.org/" style="">The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty</a>&nbsp;</b>
William P. Mumma
President
3000 K Street NW, Suite 220
Washington, DC, United States 20007
<a href="mailto:mail@becketfund.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@becketfund.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a bipartisan, ecumenical, public interest law firm that protects the free expression of all religious traditions. The three guiding principles of the Fund’s mission are: freedom of religion is a basic human right that no government may lawfully deny; religious expression—from all traditions—is a natural part of life in civilized society and religious arguments, on all sides of a question, are a normal and healthy element in public debate; and religious people and institutions are entitled to participate in government affairs on an equal basis with everyone else and should not be excluded for professing their faith.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religious land use • International religious freedom • State “Blaine Amendments” • Church autonomy/free association • Religion in public life • Religion in prisons</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>713-866-6252
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;713-866-6253

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.bellwetherforum.org/" style="">Bellwether Forum</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert W. Painter
President
945 McKinney Street, Suite 410
Houston, TX, United States 77002
<a href="mailto:info@bellwetherforum.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@bellwetherforum.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Bellwether Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes political, policy, and career leadership and education. The Forum’s programs target working young professionals, but are open to everyone. Bellwether Forum is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but sponsors programs from coast to coast and even abroad.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding number of young professionals involved in the conservative movement • Offering evening classes in various cities through the Bellwether University program • Providing networking opportunities to introduce young professionals to the new face of conservatism • Pairing college student leaders with young professionals to transition from college to community involvement • Teaching base government and civics to disadvantaged young adults • Establishing strategic relationships with conservative organizations abroad</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-478-9677
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-478-9678

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.bestfriendsfoundation.org/" style="">Best Friends Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elayne Bennett
Founder and President
5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC, United States 20015
<a href="mailto:webmaster@bestfriendsfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">webmaster@bestfriendsfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Best Friends Foundation is an educational foundation that operates the Best Friends Program in Washington, D.C., area schools and trains educators to teach its self-respect through self-restraint curriculum throughout the country. As a character-building and youth-development program with a message of abstinence from sex, drugs, and alcohol, Best Friends has offered guidance to adolescent girls since 1987 and to adolescent boys since 2001. The Foundation is supported by grants from private foundations, corporations, and individual donors and receives no government funds.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Reducing teen pregnancy • Reducing drug and alcohol abuse by adolescents</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-488-7000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-488-0806

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.beverlylahayeinstitute.org/" style="">Beverly LaHaye Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Senior Fellow
1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:jcrouse@cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jcrouse@cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Beverly LaHaye Institute is to conduct, promote, and disseminate research and analysis that increase understanding of women’s concerns and issues, help preserve and strengthen the family, undergird the Judeo-Christian foundation of American culture, strengthen marriage and protect children, and strengthen culture and society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Family and Marriage issues • Religion and public life • Welfare reform • Child well being, poverty, and single parenting • Sex trafficking • Abstinence and cohabitation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-894-1776
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-894-1791

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/" style="">The Bill of Rights Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tony Woodlief
Interim Director
200 North Glebe Road, Suite 1050
Arlington, VA, United States 22203
<a href="mailto:info@billofrightsinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@billofrightsinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Bill of Rights Institute’s mission is to educate high school students and teachers about America’s founding principles through programs that teach the words and ideas of the Founders, the liberties and freedoms guaranteed in our founding documents, and how America’s founding principles affect and shape a free society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Bill of Rights • U.S. Constitution • Founders’ lives and writings • American civic values • What it means to be an American</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>716-854-0869
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;716-854-0877

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.bisonfund.com/" style="">The BISON Scholarship Fund</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kathleen M. Christy
Executive Director
PO Box 1134
Buffalo, NY, United States 14205
<a href="mailto:info@bisonfund.com" style="font-weight: bold;">info@bisonfund.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1995, the BISON Scholarship Fund is a privately funded scholarship program for low-income children. BISON is designed to give parents a full range of choices about their children’s education. Families awarded a BISON scholarship will be able to enroll their child in a private grammar school (grades K–8) of their choice in the Buffalo area.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-546-4304
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-546-4305

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.baeo.org/" style="">Black Alliance for Educational Options - D.C. Chapter</a>&nbsp;</b>
Virginia F. Walden-Ford
Chairman of the Board
809 Virginia Avenue, SE
Washington, DC, United States 20003
<a href="mailto:wdcbaeo@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">wdcbaeo@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>414-444-6086
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;414-449-2507

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.baeo.org/" style="">Black Alliance for Educational Options - Milwaukee Chapter</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Deborah McGriff
Board Chair
3290 North 44th Street
Milwaukee, WI, United States 53216
<a href="mailto:dmmcgriff@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">dmmcgriff@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>937-222-7990
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;937-222-7992

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.baeo.org/" style="">Black Alliance for Educational Options - Montgomery County Chapter</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tracie F. Craft
State Director
1 Elizabeth Place, SE Pavilion, Second Floor
Dayton, OH, United States 45418
<a href="mailto:tracie@baeo.org" style="font-weight: bold;">tracie@baeo.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>215-851-1795
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;215-564-9376

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.baeo.org/" style="">Black Alliance for Educational Options - Philadelphia Chapter</a>&nbsp;</b>
Darlene Callands-Curry
President and CEO
1207 Chestnut Street, Second Floor
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19107
<a href="mailto:darlene@baeo.org" style="font-weight: bold;">darlene@baeo.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>270-782-2140
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;305-675-0220

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.bipps.org/" style="">Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jim Waters
President
PO Box 11706
Lexington, KY, United States 40577-1706
<a href="mailto:jwaters@freedomkentucky.com" style="font-weight: bold;">jwaters@freedomkentucky.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Bluegrass Institute is an independent, non-partisan association of writers, speakers, and thinkers dedicated to empowering Kentuckians to take back their freedoms.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Equal Opportunity in Education • Government Transparency and Accountability• Fiscal Responsibility in State Spending</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-20-7287-4414
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-44-20-7287-5522

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.brugesgroup.com/" style="">The Bruges Group</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert Oulds
Director
227 Linen Hall
162-168 Regent Street
London W1B 5TB, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@brugesgroup.com" style="font-weight: bold;">info@brugesgroup.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Bruges Group is an independent all-party think tank. Its independence allows it to follow its own policy agenda and put the national interest above party and political considerations.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Alternatives to the European Union • Civil liberties • Corruption • Defense • Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>614-224-4422
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;614-224-4644

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/" style="">The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert Alt
President
88 East Broad Street, Suite 1120
Columbus, OH, United States 43215-3506
<a href="mailto:info@buckeyeinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@buckeyeinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;To research and promote market-oriented solutions to build a more prosperous and free Ohio.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic Freedom • Competitiveness • Job Creation • Entrepreneurship • Government Transparency • Government Accountability</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>510-635-6892
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;510-568-6040

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.lewissociety.org/" style="">C.S. Lewis Society of California</a>&nbsp;</b>
David J. Theroux
Founder and President
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA, United States 94621-1428
<a href="mailto:info@lewissociety.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@lewissociety.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The C.S. Lewis Society’s extensive and immensely popular work very effectively champions objective truth, goodness, natural law, literary excellence, reason, science, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and Christian faith. The Society is an educational and cultural organization of people interested in events, publications, and other developments that advance deeper understanding of the ideas of C. S. Lewis and others who articulately critique the materialism, reductionism, scientism, collectivism, statism, and de-humanization of the modern era. In so doing, the organization seeks to boldly advance public understanding of the enduring cultural, historical, literary, theological, philosophical, social, and economic issues of mankind.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Science • Family, culture, and community • Economic/political thought • Crime, justice, and the law • Religion/public life</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>302-535-6523
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;302-734-1190

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.caesarrodney.org/" style="">Caesar Rodney Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
James Ursomarso&nbsp;
Chairman and CEO
PO Box 795
Dover, DE, United States 19903
<a href="mailto:bek@kidner.com" style="font-weight: bold;">bek@kidner.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is non-partisan, non-profit public policy group intent upon affecting measured improvement in the socio-economic well being at all levels and strata of Delaware society through debates, town hall meetings, workshops, research papers, editorials, an active website, and other events and publications. CRI promotes an understanding of our nation’s founding principles of limited government, individual initiative, personal responsibility, private property, the rule of law and free-markets. We champion public policies that embody those principles.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Energy • Education • Health Care • Economics • State and Local Government • Taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>951-354-8362
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;951-353-8347

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.californiafamily.org/" style="">California Family Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ron Prentice
Chief Executive Officer
PO Box 20012
Riverside, CA, United States 92516
<a href="mailto:ronp@californiafamily.org" style="font-weight: bold;">ronp@californiafamily.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the California Family Council (CFC) is to protect and foster Judeo-Christian principles in California’s laws for the benefit of its families. CFC’s foundational pillars affirm life is from God, and the life in a womb—though perhaps unplanned—is a baby deserving of protection; marriage between a man and a woman is God’s design, and only in the union of a man and a woman can a godly legacy be fruitfully multiplied; marriage is the building block of a stable society, and from the commitment of a man and woman in marriage comes the best opportunity for children to thrive; and parents have the responsibility of nurturing their children and equipping their children with a world view. CFC serves to maintain this freedom, exposing and opposing legislation that attempts to usurp the authority of parents in child-rearing.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>805-445-9483

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cppf.us/" style="">California Public Policy Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
John Kurzweil
President
PO Box 931
Camarillo, CA, United States 93011
<a href="mailto:calprev@cppf.us" style="font-weight: bold;">calprev@cppf.us</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Since its founding in 1986, California Public Policy Foundation (CPPF), a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization, has provided California with a responsible, articulate, effective voice—primarily through its flagship publication California Political Review Magazine—for limited government, individual responsibility, self-reliance, and personal virtue. CPPF’s mission is building communications networks that unify California’s conservative movement and make it more effective.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;The rule of law and judicial activism • Religious freedom • Freedom of association</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>410-752-5887
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;410-539-3973

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.calvertinstitute.org/" style="">The Calvert Institute for Policy Research</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Douglas P. Munro
President
8 West Hamilton Street
Baltimore, MD, United States 21201
<a href="mailto:info@calvertinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@calvertinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is an independent, non-partisan, public policy research institution committed to generating new ideas based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and personal responsibility. The Institute seeks to make Maryland worthy of its fond nickname, “The Free State.” The Calvert Institute serves as a clearinghouse for public policy information on the benefit of a society based upon restricted government. All of the Institute’s publications are available to the general public upon request.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education - teacher certification • Maryland business taxation • Neighborhood governance and sub-local institutions • Medical malpractice reform • Curbing abusive consent decrees • Criminal justice reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.calwatchdog.com/" style="">CalWatchDog.com</a>&nbsp;</b>
Brian Calle
Editor-in-Chief
660 J Street, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA, United States 95814
<a href="mailto:briancalle@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">briancalle@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CalWatchdog’s mission is to uncover governmental waste and shine the light on the misuse of taxpayer dollars. As part of a new wave of nonprofit, Web-based journalism, CalWatchdog adheres to traditional journalistic standards and focuses on improving government transparency.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-19-0442-4134

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cre.org.uk/" style="">Campaign for Real Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Nick Seaton
Chairman
18 Westlands Grove
York YO31 1EF, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:cred@cre.org.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">cred@cre.org.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Campaign for Real Education was formed in 1987 by 14 parents and teachers who were concerned about falling standards and damaging changes in state education, which were being forced through without any evidence to support them. Since then, the Campaign has been contacted by thousands of parents, teachers, and academics with similar concerns. It now has a nationwide network of supporters and important links with like-minded people in other countries, such as America, Australia, and Switzerland. The Campaign’s main objectives are to raise standards and improve choice in state education. It is non-profit and not affiliated to any political party.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Education reform • Education standards</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-671-8800
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-671-8899

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cwfpac.com/" style="">Campaign for Working Families</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary L. Bauer
Chairman
2800 Shirlington Road, Suite 930
Arlington, VA, United States 22206
<a href="mailto:info@mail.cwfpac.com" style="font-weight: bold;">info@mail.cwfpac.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Campaign for Working Families is a non-partisan political action committee dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life, and pro-free enterprise candidates to federal and state offices.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Pro-family • Pro-free enterprise</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>416-599-0283
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;416-599-9283

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ctf.ca/" style="">Canadian Tax Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Timothy J. Winter
Treasurer
595 Bay Street, Suite 1200
Toronto, ON M5G 2N5, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:twinter@ctf.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">twinter@ctf.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Canadian Tax Foundation’s aim is to help establish a tax system in Canada that is both equitable and conducive to economic strength and prosperity. To this end, the Foundation sponsors or directly carries out expert research in the fields of taxation and public finance, publishes the results of that research, and provides opportunities for discussion of tax issues among business and professional people, academics, and government officials.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>604-608-6770
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;604-608-6773

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.taxpayer.com/" style="">Canadian Taxpayers Federation</a>&nbsp;</b>
John Williamson
Federal Director
PO Box 20539
Howe Street RPO
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2N8, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:jwilliamson@taxpayer.com" style="font-weight: bold;">jwilliamson@taxpayer.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is a federally incorporated, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to being a watchdog on government spending and taxation. CTF was founded in Saskatchewan in 1991.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-483-6900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-483-6990

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/" style="">Capital Research Center (CRC)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Terrence Scanlon
President
1513 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:contact@capitalresearch.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@capitalresearch.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CRC studies critical issues in philanthropy, with a focus on foundations and non-profit “public interest” and advocacy organizations, their agendas (open and hidden), sources of funding, and impact on public policy and society. CRC supports a free market, limited government, and individual liberty. These principles promote enterprise, economic growth, and wealth creation, which make philanthropy possible.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Revival of private charity • Charity’s role in the post-welfare state • Corporate giving to advocacy groups • Monitoring left-wing advocacy groups • Monitoring education reform groups • Monitoring environmental groups</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>916-498-1940
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;916-448-2888

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.capitolresource.org/" style="">Capitol Resource Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Karen England
Executive Director
660 J Street, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA, United States 95814
<a href="mailto:kengland@capitolresource.org" style="font-weight: bold;">kengland@capitolresource.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Capitol Resource Institute is a non-profit organization engaged in coalition-building, media outreach, lobbying, and legislative tracking. The organization is dedicated to the principles of traditional families, parental rights, limited government, and citizen responsibility.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage • Education • Parental rights • Gambling • Health • Privacy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-367-0333
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-396-8668

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/" style="">Cardinal Newman Society</a>&nbsp;</b>
Patrick Reilly
President and CEO
9720 Capital Court, Suite 201
Manassas, VA, United States 20110
<a href="mailto:info@cardinalnewmansociety.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cardinalnewmansociety.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1993, the Cardinal Newman Society is dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity at America’s 224 Catholic colleges and universities. The Society focuses its work on assisting students, alumni, and school officials, urging fidelity to the magisterium of the Catholic Church, and on researching activities both on campus and in the classroom.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Higher education • Religion and public life</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-29-2081-0800

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.careforthefamily.org.uk/" style="">Care for the Family</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rob Parsons
Founder
Garth House, Leon Avenue
Cardiff CF15 7RG, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:mail@cff.org.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@cff.org.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Care for the Family is a national charity that aims to promote strong family life and to help those hurting because of family breakdown.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Family • Bereavement</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>503-242-0900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;503-242-3822

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cascadepolicy.org/" style="">Cascade Policy Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
John A. Charles, Jr.
President
4850 SW Scholls Ferry Road, Suite 103
Portland, OR, United States 97225
<a href="mailto:info@cascadepolicy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cascadepolicy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Cascade Policy Institute, founded in January 1991, is a non-profit, research, and educational organization focusing on Oregon 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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education reform • Urban growth • Transit • Social Security privatization • Health care reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-682-9320
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-682-9321

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.castlecoalition.org/" style="">Castle Coalition</a>&nbsp;</b>
Steven Anderson
Director
901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA, United States 22203&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@castlecoalition.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@castlecoalition.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Castle Coalition is the Institute for Justice’s nationwide, grassroots, property rights activism project. The Castle Coalition teaches home and small business owners how to protect themselves and stand up to the greedy governments and developers who seek to use eminent domain to take private property for their own gain.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Property rights • Eminent domain abuse</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-393-7002
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-393-7004

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.c-fam.org/" style="">Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Austin Ruse
President
666 11th Street, NW, Suite 450
Washington, DC, United States 20001
<a href="mailto:info@c-fam.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@c-fam.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;C-FAM’s mission is to monitor the evolving international debate on social policy and to assist nations to more deeply understand these difficult issues.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;International social policy • Abortion • Marriage • Stem-cell research</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>215-877-9099
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;215-701-6577

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cathmed.org/" style="">Catholic Medical Association</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kathleen M. Raviele, M.D.
President
333 East Lancaster Avenue, #348
Wynnewood, PA, United States 19096-1929
<a href="mailto:info@cathmed.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cathmed.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Catholic physicians in the United States and Canada come together in the Catholic Medical Association in order to grow in the spirit of Christ in our personal and professional lives, to bring His Spirit to all that is touched by their science and art, and to assist the Vicar of Christ, the Bishops, and the whole Christian community with leadership, especially with the particular knowledge, skill, and experience that Christian physicians have.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-842-0200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-842-3490

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cato.org/" style="">Cato Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
John A. Allison
President & CEO
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20001
<a href="mailto:media@cato.org" style="font-weight: bold;">media@cato.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social Security choice • School choice • Limited government • Free trade and global economic liberty • Foreign policy of strategic independence • Market-oriented health care reforms like HSAs</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-499-4232

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.causeofaction.org/" style="">Cause of Action</a>&nbsp;</b>
Reed Rubenstein
Executive Director
1919 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Suite 650
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:contact@causeofaction.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@causeofaction.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Cause of Action is a non-partisan organization that uses public advocacy and legal reform tools to ensure greater transparency in government, protect taxpayer interests and promote economic freedom. We at Cause of Action are dedicated to attacking waste, fraud, mismanagement and corruption in the federal government. Our mission is to expose the ways our government is playing politics in its use of taxpayer dollars, in its decision-making on behalf of individual Americans, and how it seeks to burden the companies that employ us and make our lives better. Cause of Action seeks to prevent the federal government from politicizing agencies, rules and spending by bringing transparency to the federal grant and rule-making processes through legal and communications tools.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>602-424-2525

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.azpolicy.org/" style="">Center for Arizona Policy</a>&nbsp;</b>
Cathi Herrod
President and General Counsel
7227 North 16th Street, Suite 250
Phoenix, AZ, United States 85020
<a href="mailto:info@azpolicy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@azpolicy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Arizona Policy is a non-profit, research, and education organization committed to strengthening the family and restoring traditional moral principles to the public policy and cultural arenas. As part of a 50-state partnership associated with Focus on the Family, the Center works to provide quality research and factual information to policymakers on vital issues affecting the family, to equip concerned citizens and churches to be persuasive advocates for the family, and to be a voice for the family by communicating truth through the media.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Traditional marriage • Gambling • School choice • Pornography • Covenant marriage</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>847-317-8180
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;847-317-8101

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cbhd.org/" style="">The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity</a>&nbsp;</b>
C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D.
Director
Trinity International University
2065 Half Day Road
Deerfield, IL, United States 60015
<a href="mailto:info@cbhd.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cbhd.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity addresses the pressing bioethical challenges of our day, including managed care, end-of-life treatment, genetic intervention, euthanasia and suicide, reproductive technologies, and alternative medicine. The Center affirms human dignity through bioethics by providing educational opportunities, renewing health care professionalism, encouraging ethical scientific research, informing public policy, and equipping the world to uphold the God-given dignity of human beings.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Biotechnology • Clinical/bedside ethics in health care • Genetics • End-of-life/palliative care • Reproductive technologies • Cloning/stem cell research</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-375-7831
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-375-782

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://centerforcollegeaffordability.org/" style="">The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Richard Vedder
Director
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW Suite 910
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:theccap@centerforcollegeaffordability.org" style="font-weight: bold;">theccap@centerforcollegeaffordability.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 2006, The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) is an independent, not-for-profit research center based in Washington, DC. The CCAP exists to help facilitate a broader dialogue on the issues and problems facing the institutes of higher education in the United States.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Student Financial Aid Policy • Rising Costs of College • Causes of Higher Education • Inefficiences Productivity of Staff and Faculty Members • For Profit Education • Accreditation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-894-6800
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-894-6811

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.campaignfreedom.org/" style="">Center for Competitive Politics</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bradley A. Smith
Chairman and Co-Founder
124 S. West Street, Suite 201
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:info@campaignfreedom.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@campaignfreedom.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) is a non-profit organization founded in November 2005 by former FEC Chairman Bradley A. Smith, professor of law at Capital University Law School and of counsel to Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, and Stephen M. Hoersting, campaign finance attorney and former general counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. CCP’s mission, through legal briefs, studies, historical and constitutional analyses, and media communication is to educate the public on the actual effects of money in politics and on the results of a more free and competitive electoral process.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Campaign finance reform • Elections</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>425-455-5038
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;425-451-3959

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan Gottlieb
President
12500 NE Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA, United States 98005
<a href="mailto:contact@cdfe.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@cdfe.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was established to publish and disseminate information regarding the principles upon which the American free enterprise system was founded, to relate the application of those principles to contemporary American society, to engage in and foster research and study of issues relating to economics, economic trends, and governmental regulatory bodies and their interaction with the free market, and to defend the right of individual Americans and American business to participate in the free market without hindrance by government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Eco-terrorism • Energy policy • Economic growth • Farm policy • Forest policy • Sustained development</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>1-201-692-9408

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cerge-ei.cz/" style="">Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Petra Weissova
Deputy Director of Development and Public Relations&nbsp;
CERGE-EI Foundation 715 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ, United States 07666-3318
<a href="mailto:foundation@cerge-ei.cz" style="font-weight: bold;">foundation@cerge-ei.cz&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CERGE-EI's mission is to contribute to progress and stability in the region through its efforts to: -Educate economists in modern economic theory and applications to serve academia, government and industry in a region where such skills are critically lacking. -Create an intellectual environment that emphasizes Western ideals of free and open inquiry and nondiscrimination in a region where such concepts were repressed for decades. -Integrate top economists from around the world in common research and educational endeavors, enabling all traditions to learn from one another. -Serve as a model and resource for reform of economic education and scholarship in the post-communist transition economies. -Understand basic economic phenomena by applying rigorous analytical methods to theoretical, applied and policy-related fields, especially with respect to transition and development issues. -Inform public debate by disseminating policy-relevant research findings through seminars, symposia, conferences, and publications. -Provide a physical environment including state-of the art technical resources to promote inquiry into all areas of economics.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;economics *economic and political thought *free speech *open inquiry *post-communist tranision economies</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>301-986-8088
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;301-986-1826

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.edreform.com/" style="">The Center for Education Reform</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jeanne Allen
President
4825 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 220
Bethesda, MD, United States 20814
<a href="mailto:cer@edreform.com" style="font-weight: bold;">cer@edreform.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Education Reform is a national voice for more choices in education and more rigor in education programs, both of which are key to more effective schooling. It delivers practical, research-based information and assistance to engage a diverse lay audience—including parents, policymakers, and education reform groups—in taking action to ensure that U.S. schools are delivering a high quality education for all children in grades K–12.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Charter schools • Charter school law • Accountability, standards and testing</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-442-0066
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-442-0449

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ceousa.org/" style="">Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Roger Clegg
President & General Counsel
700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 231
Falls Church, VA, United States 22043
<a href="mailto:RClegg@ceousa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">RClegg@ceousa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CEO conducts research and education on issues related to race, ethnicity, and assimilation. As the only think tank devoted exclusively to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony, the Center for Equal Opportunity is uniquely positioned to counter the divisive impact of race conscious public policies. CEO focuses on three areas in particular: racial preferences, immigration and assimilation, and multicultural education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Civil rights • Bilingual education • Immigration and assimilation • Affirmative action</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-551-9200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-296-3880

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cepa.org/" style="">Center for European Policy Analysis</a>&nbsp;</b>
A. Wess Mitchell
President
1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 550
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:info@cepa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cepa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research institute dedicated to the study of Central Europe. In its work on this region, CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Central European affairs • U.S.-Central European relations • Economics • Geopolitics</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-285-0244

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/" style="">Center for Freedom and Prosperity</a>&nbsp;</b>
Andrew F. Quinlan
President and CEO
PO Box 10882
Alexandria, VA, United States 22310-9998
<a href="mailto:info@freedomandprosperity.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@freedomandprosperity.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) is a free-market, pro-tax reform organization that is leading the fight against global taxation schemes. As part of its efforts to promote limited government, CF&P works to protect American taxpayers from the anti-tax competition and pro-tax harmonization schemes of international bureaucracies such as the United Nations, European Union, and Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Updated several times each day, the CF&P-sponsored Market Center Blog is a must-read for free-market advocates and supporters of limited government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Defend and promote tax competition • Create a more simple and fair tax code • Promote economic competition and the entrepreneurial spirit • Reduce the size of government • Protect financial privacy, personal privacy, property rights and free association • Advocate global free market principles and encourage free and open trade</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-466-8185
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-466-8076

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cis.org/" style="">Center for Immigration Studies</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mark Krikorian
Executive Director
1522 K Street, NW, Suite 820
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:center@cis.org" style="font-weight: bold;">center@cis.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;It is the Center’s mission to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest. The Center is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants, but a warmer welcome for those admitted.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Immigration • Citizenship • National security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-535-5836
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-535-5838

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cfif.org/" style="">Center for Individual Freedom</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jeffrey L. Mazzella
Executive Director
113 South Columbus Street, Suite 310
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:info@cfif.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cfif.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The Center seeks to focus public, legislative, and judicial attention on the rule of law as embodied in the federal and state constitutions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Freedom • Constitutional law • Individual Rights</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-833-8400
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-833-8410

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cir-usa.org/" style="">Center for Individual Rights (CIR)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Terence J. Pell
Chief Executive Officer
1233 20th Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:pell@cir-usa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">pell@cir-usa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CIR is a non-profit, public interest law firm whose mission is to advance a broad, civil libertarian conception of individual rights against intrusive bureaucracies, meddlesome interest groups, and statist ideologues and activists. CIR believes that the principal purpose of the law, and especially of the Constitution, is to restrain these forces. It pursues this mission through the direct litigation of precedent-setting cases, primarily in federal court, concentrating on areas of the law where individual rights are particularly at risk—freedom of speech, civil rights, and sexual harassment law.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Ending racial preferences • Free speech • Political correctness in higher education • Disparate treatment of religious groups • Unconstitutionality of hate crime laws • Extending&nbsp;<i>Hopwood</i>&nbsp;ruling to other states</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-721-9200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-721-9250

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cipe.org/" style="">Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
John Sullivan
Executive Director
1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:cipe@cipe.org" style="font-weight: bold;">cipe@cipe.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CIPE’s mission is to build democratic development through market-oriented economic reform and support for private sector development worldwide.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Corporate governance • Anti-corruption • Regulatory and institutional reform • Support for the formalization of the informal sector • Entrepreneurship • Economic education for journalists</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-642-1070
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-642-1075

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.clsnet.org/" style="">Center for Law and Religious Freedom</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gregory S. Baylor
Director
8001 Braddock Road, Suite 300
Springfield, VA, United States 22151
<a href="mailto:clshq@clsnet.org" style="font-weight: bold;">clshq@clsnet.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Law and Religious Freedom (CLRF) has been a respected voice in the First Amendment arena since 1975. CLRFs primary mission is to defend and advance the religious freedom of all Americans and to defend the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. The Center pursues its mission through legislative advocacy, “test case” litigation, friend-of-the-court briefs, and providing information to members and the general public.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Hiring rights of religious groups • Religious groups’ access to government-funded social services • Freedom of religious speech • Rights of conscience of health care providers • Protection for pregnancy resource center</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>206-283-7036
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;206-283-6536

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.centerltc.org/" style="">Center for Long-Term Care Financing</a>&nbsp;</b>
Stephen Moses
President
2212 Queen Anne Avenue North, Suite 110
Seattle, WA, United States 98109
<a href="mailto:info@centerltc.com" style="font-weight: bold;">info@centerltc.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Long-Term Care Financing encourages financing of long-term care through private insurance and home equity conversion. The Center discourages excessive and unnecessary dependency on public welfare (Medicaid) financing of long-term care. It advises public policymakers and legislators on ways and means to control Medicaid long-term care expenditures and encourage private sector alternatives for financing long-term care.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Encourage private long-term care insurance • Encourage home equity conversion as a funding source for long-term care • Discourage Medicaid estate planning • Promote responsible state Medicaid eligibility rules to target the program to the needy and encourage others to plan early and save, invest, or insure for long-term care • Educate the public, policymakers and legislators about long-term care service delivery and financing</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>636-240-63699

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//marriagepolicy.org/" style="">Center for Marriage Policy</a>&nbsp;</b>
Cynthia Davis
Executive Director
1008 Highway K
O'Fallon, MO, United States 63366
<a href="mailto:cynthia4missouri@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">cynthia4missouri@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Marriage Policy (CFMP) was founded with the knowledge that heterosexual marriage is the structural prerequisite for a successful economy, limited purposeful government, low taxes, balanced state and federal budgets, freedom, and an internationally-competitive nation. Marriage-absence is the primary driver of America’s self-compounding intergenerational socioeconomic and governance problems: ?Poverty and across-the-board growth in runaway social entitlement spending ?Lack of health care coverage ?Insufficient assets for retirement ?The shrinking middle class ?Growing numbers of struggling unmarried mothers requiring costly governmental husbandry, and unmarried men unable to support two households ?Growing tax burdens and fewer taxpayers, driving politicized class-warfare between rich and poor ?Sexualizing of children, child abuse, and child neglect ?Participation in the underground economies of crime, drugs, gambling, prostitution, and pornography ?High incarceration rates and the shifting of taxpayers to tax-burdens. ?High taxes on business, and subsequent exodus of jobs and factories to foreign soil. ?An overall moral decline affecting our nation at every level ?Children’s psychological problems, poor school performance, involvement in gangs and the drug culture, teen pregnancy, incarceration, and failure to enter the workforce and advance to higher income levels ?Disassociation from society and government ?The perceived need for abortion ?Low happiness levels and feeling of security for both adults and children ?An overall breakdown in ethics of politics, law, business, investing, and contracts. ?Explosive growth of government Rebuilding heterosexual marriage as the social norm is the necessary structural foundation for successful American socioeconomic reconstruction. Our Foundational Principle: Marriage must be reconstituted and enframed as a sacrosanct and core cultural institution while preserving individual liberties, promoting private sector autonomy, and limiting government involvement to the fullest extent possible (favoring private sector involvement over local government, local government involvement over state, and state involvement over federal). Otherwise stated, marriage policies must share a commitment to encouraging, strengthening and preserving marriage, but accomplished in such a way so as to minimize the extent to which the government is directly involved in defining the nature and practice of marriage. CFMP engages in the creation of sound socioeconomic reconstruction policy rising from well-founded objective footings of history, peer-reviewed science, and constructionist Constitutional principles of law consistent with Judeo-Christian principles that have proven to work across all civilizations for thousands of years. Our policies address the needs and rights of Americans by addressing problems at their source.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Culture and Community ~Marriage and Family Structure ~Citizenship and Civil Society</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>571-319-0029

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cmpa.com/" style="">Center for Media and Public Affairs</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. S. Robert Lichter
President
933 North Kenmore Street
Washington, DC, United States 20037
<a href="mailto:mail@cmpa.com" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@cmpa.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a non-partisan, non-profit research and educational organization that conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media. CMPA seeks to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content. Its primary research tool is content analysis, which is applied both to news coverage and to the information content of entertainment messages. CMPA also conducts surveys to illuminate the media’s role in American society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Violence in entertainment media • Coverage of science, health, and technology issues • Politics and elections</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-347-5333

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cmrlink.org/" style="">Center for Military Readiness</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elaine Donnelly
President
PO Box 51600
Livonia, MI, United States 48151
<a href="mailto:info@cmrlink.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cmrlink.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) is an independent, public policy research, and education organization that examines military personnel issues. It publishes CMR Notes and opinion articles that analyze the consequences of unwise social engineering; provides testimony and research materials to Congress, Executive Branch agencies, and the media; and organizes policy conferences. CMR is a unique alliance of civilian and active duty and retired military people in all 50 states that promotes high standards and excellence in all forms of military training. CMR supports women in the military, but opposes combat assignments and gender-related policies that erode morale and overall readiness.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Co-ed basic training • International agreements affecting U.S. troops • Women in combat: land, sea, and air • Ongoing efforts to accommodate homosexuals in the military • Sexual misconduct and the culture of the military • Family concerns and pregnancy policies that affect readiness</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-518-6500

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cneonline.org/" style="">Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert L. Woodson, Sr.
President
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1200
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:info@cneonline.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cneonline.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CNE’s mission is to empower neighborhood leaders to promote solutions that reduce crime and violence, restore families, revitalize low-income communities, and create economic enterprise.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Youth crime and violence • Community revitalization • Welfare reform • Economic development • Family restoration • Leadership development and training</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-5411-4343-1447&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cadal.org/" style="">Center for Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gabriel C. Salvia
Chairman and General Director
Av. Roque Sáenz Peña 628 Piso 2º Oficina R
1035 Buenos Aires , Argentina&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:centro@cadal.org" style="font-weight: bold;">centro@cadal.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), with its main office in Buenos Aires and an office in Montevideo , Uruguay , is a private, non-profit, non-partisan foundation. It's founding members and officers who share a Liberal-Democratic vision, have had prior participation in other Civil Society Organizations and come from journalism, academic activities related to Latin American politics and activism in the international promotion of human rights. The mission of the Center for the Opening and the Development of Latin America is to promote: -the strengthening of democracy and rule of law; -the implementation of public policies fostering economic, social and institutional progress; -the regional integration and its opening to world trade; -the international promotion of human rights.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;-Democratic governance, economics and institutions- Freedom of the press- International Promotion of Human Rights</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>724-537-4597
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;724-537-4599

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.stvincent.edu/cpet/" style="">Center for Political and Economic Thought</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary M. Quinlivan, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Road
Latrobe, PA, United States 15650-2690
<a href="mailto:cpet@stvincent.edu" style="font-weight: bold;">cpet@stvincent.edu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College is to promote scholarship and public understanding about free market economies, stable monetary policy, limited government, and the civic and cultural heritage of America and the West.The Center also seeks to provide educational opportunities for students, faculty, and the general public in accordance with its program interests.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free trade • Privatization • Free-market solutions • Founding Fathers • Constitutional issues • Political philosophy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-45-33-93-2404
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-45-33-36-0769

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cepos.dk/" style="">Center for Political Studies (CEPOS)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Martin Agerup
President
Vestergade 16, stuen
Copenhagen K 1456, Denmark&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@cepos.dk" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cepos.dk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CEPOS is an independent, classical liberal, free-market, conservative think tank in Denmark. Founded in 2004, it produces academic research and policy analyses based on the principles of limited government, low taxes, private enterprise, and civil society. CEPOS is one of the leading voices in the Danish debate on taxation, regulation, welfare, and education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxation • Regulation • Welfare • Education • Limited government • Private enterprise</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>410-571-6300
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;410-571-6365

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cpjustice.org/" style="">Center for Public Justice</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. James W. Skillen
President
2444 Solomons Island Road, Suite 201
Annapolis, MD, United States 21401
<a href="mailto:jim@cpjustice.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jim@cpjustice.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Public Justice seeks to equip citizens, develop leaders, and shape policy in keeping with the development of a comprehensive public philosophy that orients the organization toward the purpose of serving God, advancing justice, and transforming public life.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Welfare reform/faith-based reform initiatives • Education reform • U.S. foreign policy • Health care policy • Environmental policy • Electoral reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>713-984-1343
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;713-984-0409

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.centerforrenewal.org/" style="">Center for Renewal</a>&nbsp;</b>
Barbara Elliott
President and Founder
9525 Katy Freeway, Suite 303
Houston, TX, United States 77024
<a href="mailto:belliott@centerforrenewal.org" style="font-weight: bold;">belliott@centerforrenewal.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Renewal is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower Christ-centered ministries that transform lives by encouraging effective compassion and by connecting resources to needs. It does research, writing, and speaking about these front-line “street saints” in civil renewal. The Center’s capacity-building workshops impart best practices to faith-based leaders and connect business leaders to opportunities to use their entrepreneurial skills on behalf of transformational ministries.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Faith-based initiatives • Civil society • Community renewal • Philanthropy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-502-2331-1564
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-502-2331-1664

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cien.org.gt/" style="">Center for Research on the National Economy (CIEN)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jorge Lavarreda
President
10 calle 3-17 zona 10
Edificio Aseguradora General, Nivel 5
, Guatemala&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:jlavarre@cien.org.gt" style="font-weight: bold;">jlavarre@cien.org.gt</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CIEN’s mission is to impel the economic development of Guatemala by means of the technical study of the economic and social problems of the country, the analysis and knowledge of such, and the exposition of concrete, congruent solutions with the national reality.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-835-9077
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-835-9066

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.security-policy.org/" style="">Center for Security Policy (CSP)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
President and CEO
1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 201
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:info@security-policy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@security-policy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CSP seeks to stimulate and inform the national and international debate about all aspects of security policy, notably those bearing on the foreign, defense, economic, financial, and technology interests of the U.S. It contributes to this debate by the rapid preparation and real-time dissemination of analyses and policy recommendations via computerized fax, published articles, and electronic media. The Center’s principal audience is the U.S. security policymaking community, corresponding organizations in key foreign governments, the press (domestic and foreign), the global business and financial community, and interested individuals in the public at large.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Homeland security/ballistic missile defense • Arms control and global treaties • Hollowing out of U.S. military • Middle East peace process • NATO expansion • Pacific Rim</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-887-0200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-775-3199

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csis.org/" style="">Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. John J. Hamre
President and CEO
1800 K Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:webmaster@csis.org" style="font-weight: bold;">webmaster@csis.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1962, CSIS is a non-partisan, public policy research institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. CSIS experts generate strategic analysis in key functional areas, such as international finance and trade and U.S. domestic, economic, foreign, and national security policies. The Center also convenes government, private-sector, and academic leaders from around the world to examine an array of issues and provide concrete action proposals.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;National and international security • Governance for the global age • Public policy, trade, technology, finance, and energy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-895-1493
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-396-8668

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.catholichighered.org/" style="">The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
David House, Ph.D.&nbsp;
Executive Director
9415 West Street
Manassas, VA, United States 20110
<a href="mailto:dhouse@catholichighered.org" style="font-weight: bold;">dhouse@catholichighered.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education (CACHE), a division of The Cardinal Newman Society, advises and assists academic and religious leaders in efforts to strengthen the Catholic identity and academic quality of Catholic colleges and universities.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Student Life • Government• Church/Acacdemic relations • Higher Education • Religion • Civil Society • Pornography • Marriage • Religious Liberty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>713-984-1343
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;713-984-0409

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americanidea.org/" style="">Center for the American Idea</a>&nbsp;</b>
W. Winston Elliott, III
President
9525 Katy Freeway, Suite 303
Houston, TX, United States 77024
<a href="mailto:info@americanidea.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@americanidea.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for the American Idea is a program of the Free Enterprise Institute, a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1976 and supported by foundations, businesses, and individuals. The Center’s programs assist teachers as they educate their students in the principles of American Civilization, including liberty, private property, the rule of law, constitutionally limited government, and an enduring moral order.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Character education • Western Civilization • Founding Fathers • American founding • Political philosophy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(724)-458-3332

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.visionandvalues.org/" style="">Center for Vision and Values</a>&nbsp;</b>
Lee Wishing
Administrative Director
Grove City College
Box 3147
Grove City, PA, United States 16127
<a href="mailto:lswishing@gcc.edu" style="font-weight: bold;">lswishing@gcc.edu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Center for Vision and Values seeks to educate the world about the transforming power of Christian faith and individual freedom. The mission objective of the Center is to encourage and to support Grove City College faculty and kindred scholars in faith and freedom scholarship and to teach their ideals and ideas to their students, the nation, and the world beyond.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;religious liberty family and community *education *economic thought *political thought *the Constitution *the courts *the media</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>612-338-3605
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;612-338-3621

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.americanexperiment.org/" style="">Center of the American Experiment</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mitch Pearlstein
Founder and President
12 South Sixth Street, Suite 1024
Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402
<a href="mailto:info@americanexperiment.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@americanexperiment.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Center of the American Experiment opened its doors in 1990 as a non-partisan, tax-exempt public policy and educational institution. It brings conservative and free market ideas to bear on the most difficult problems facing Minnesota and the nation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education reform • Government reform • Taxes • Marriage • Higher education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(61 3) 8650 6001

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.accpa.com.au/" style="">Centre for Corporate Public Affairs</a>&nbsp;</b>
Wayne Burns
Director
Level 9, 60 Collins St
Melbourne VIC, Australia 3000
<a href="mailto:info@accpa.com.au" style="font-weight: bold;">info@accpa.com.au&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Centre for Corporate Public Affairs is a membership-based organisation comprising major corporations and organisations, many trading internationally, in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Established in 1990, it is the only organisation of its type in the Asia Pacific region to support, advance and research corporate public affairs as a management function, encompassing government, media and stakeholder relations, corporate social responsibility/corporate citizenship, issues management, internal communications and reputation management. Membership is by organisation. The Centre has more than 120 members from the ranks of companies, industry associations and government business enterprises.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Corporate public affairs</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>514-398-5098&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/humanrights/" style="">Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism</a>&nbsp;</b>
Colleen Sheppard
Director
New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street&nbsp;
Room 604
Montreal, Quebec H3A1W9, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:Colleen.Sheppard@mcgill.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">Colleen.Sheppard@mcgill.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Centre includes: •To advance innovative research on human rights and the role of law in a legally plural world; •To enrich the nexus of scholarship and teaching by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in human rights research projects, human rights internships, international clerkships and advanced scholarship; •To communicate research results and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas through scholarly publications, public conferences, seminars, and workshops.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;human rights constitutional theory and studies</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-61-2-9438-4377
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-61-2-9439-7310

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cis.org.au/" style="">The Centre for Independent Studies</a>&nbsp;</b>
Greg Lindsay
Executive Director
Level 4, 38 Oxley Street
St. Leonards, NSW, Australia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:cis@cis.org.au" style="font-weight: bold;">cis@cis.org.au</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) is the leading independent public policy think tank within Australasia. The CIS is actively engaged in support of a free enterprise economy and a free society under limited government where individuals can prosper and fully develop their talents.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Liberal foreign policy • Economic policy • Governance • Welfare state • Community • Education • Health</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-20-7233-1050
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-44-20-7233-1050

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.crce.org.uk/" style="">Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies (CRCE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Ljubo Sirc, CBE
Founder President
57 Tufton Street
London SW1P 3QL, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:crce@trident-net.co.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">crce@trident-net.co.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CRCE researches the problems of communist economies and of economies making the transition from communism to democracies and market economies.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Post-communist economies</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-20-7222-8909

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/" style="">The Centre for Social Cohesion</a>&nbsp;</b>
Douglas Murray
Director
Clutha House
10 Storey’s Gate
London SW1P 3AY, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:douglas.murray@socialcohesion.co.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">douglas.murray@socialcohesion.co.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) is a non-partisan think tank that studies issues related to community cohesion in Britain. Headquartered in London, it was founded in 2007 by Civitas to promote new thinking that can help bring Britain’s ethnic and religious communities closer together while strengthening British traditions of openness, tolerance, and democracy. CSC studies potential challenges to liberal society, secular democracy, and religious pluralism, holding that these established liberal values make British society inclusive of diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and traditions. CSC specializes in analyzing the impact of different forms of Islamism on social cohesion.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social cohesion • Islam in the United Kingdom • Civic values • Religion • Secular democracy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-58-212-571-3357
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-58-212-576-0512

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cedice.org.ve/" style="">Centro de Divulgacion del Conocimiento Economico (CEDICE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rocio Guijarro
General Manager
Avda. Andres Eloy Blanco (Este 2)
Edificio Camara de Comercio de Caracas Nivel Auditorio
Los Caobos, Caracus, Venezuela&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:cedice@cedice.org.ve" style="font-weight: bold;">cedice@cedice.org.ve</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CEDICE, the Center for Dissemination of Economic Knowledge, is a non-profit association whose main objective is to spread economic and political knowledge by granting priority to all the conditions that allow the principles of individual liberty, limited government, and property rights.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-598-2-628-7703
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-598-2-622-0526

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ceres-uy.org/" style="">Centro De Estudios de la Realidad Economica y Social (CERES)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ernesto Talvi
Executive Director
Antonio Costa 3476
Montevideo 11300, Uruguay&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ceres@ceres-uy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">ceres@ceres-uy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CERES is an non-profit independent research center dedicated to the economic analysis of the economies of Latin America, to the design of public policies, and to the promotion of debate at local levels and in international forums.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-52-55-5985-1010
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-52-55-5985-1030

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cidac.org/" style="">Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, Asociación Civil (CIDAC)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Luis Rubio
President
Jaime Balmes 11, Edificio D, 2o. piso
Col. Los Morales Polanco
Mexico C.P. 11510, Mexico&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:rubio.l@gmail.com" style="font-weight: bold;">rubio.l@gmail.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, Asociación Civil (the Center of Research for Development or CIDAC) is a not-for-profit think tank that undertakes research and proposes viable policy options for Mexico’s economic and democratic development.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Rule of law • Democracy • Market economy • Mexico-U.S. relations</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>801-363-0946
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;801-524-4677

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.childrenfirstutah.org/" style="">Children First Utah</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert Ralphs
Executive Director
455 East South Temple Street, Suite 101
Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84111
<a href="mailto:info@childrenfirstutah.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@childrenfirstutah.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Children First Utah (CFU) is to maximize educational opportunity for children by offering tuition assistance for needy families and by promoting a diverse and competitive educational environment. CFU believes that all children, regardless of economic circumstances, deserve access to educational opportunities and that parents deserve the right to choose among the broadest possible range of educational alternatives.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Private vouchers • School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>972-298-1811
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;972-572-1515

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.todayfoundation.org/" style="">Children’s Education Fund</a>&nbsp;</b>
Richard H. Collins
Founder and Chairman
PO Box 225748
Dallas, TX, United States 75222-5748
<a href="mailto:info@todayfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@todayfoundation.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Children’s Education Fund (CEF) offers scholarships to Dallas-area students from low-income families to use toward tuition to the schools of their choice. CEF is part of the Today Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to raising the public’s and policymakers’ awareness of education, taxation and criminal justice issues.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Educate the public about school choice • Provide scholarships and technology to disadvantaged students</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>210-614-0037
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;210-614-5730

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ceofoundation.org/" style="">The Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jessica Sanchez
Program Director
8122 Datapoint, Suite 316
San Antonio, TX, United States 78229
<a href="mailto:sanchez@ceofoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">sanchez@ceofoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The goal of the Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation is to assist in equalizing educational opportunities for Bexar County students by offering low-income families an educational option normally denied them because of the cost. There are no academic qualifying criteria, either to enter or remain on the program, as the CEO scholarship is entirely need-based.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Educational choice • School vouchers</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>212-515-7100
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;212-515-7111

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.scholarshipfund.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund</a>&nbsp;</b>
Theodore J. Forstmann
Chairman and Co-Founder
8 West 38th Street, Ninth Floor
New York, NY, United States 10018
<a href="mailto:info@scholarshipfund.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@scholarshipfund.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up, not a hand out.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Educational scholarships • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>410-243-2510
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;410-243-8629

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csfbaltimore.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund – Baltimore</a>&nbsp;</b>
Paul Ellis
Executive Director
2300 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD, United States 21218
<a href="mailto:pelliscsfb@msn.com" style="font-weight: bold;">pelliscsfb@msn.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Children’s Scholarship Fund – Baltimore seeks to improve educational opportunities for needy Baltimore families by offering privately-funded tuition assistance and to promote a diverse and competitive educational environment in the city.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>704-973-4534
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;704-973-4934

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csfcharlotte.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund – Charlotte</a>&nbsp;</b>
Carla McCrorey
Program Administrator
217 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC, United States 28202
<a href="mailto:cmccrorey@fftc.org" style="font-weight: bold;">cmccrorey@fftc.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Children’s Scholarship Fund – Charlotte is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding educational opportunities to low-income families in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The tuition assistance helps nearly 400 children each year attend a private or parochial school that their families could not otherwise afford. Since 1999, families have chosen 60 tuition-based schools, both religious and secular.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>601-982-6135
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;601-362-1810

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Children's Scholarship Fund – Metro Jackson&nbsp;</b>


2906 North State Street, Suite 200
Jackson, MS, United States 39216
<a href="mailto:csf@irbyinvestments.com" style="font-weight: bold;">csf@irbyinvestments.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up—not a hand out.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Educational scholarships • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>888-332-2408
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;513-523-1547

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csfcincinnati.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund of Greater Cincinnati</a>&nbsp;</b>
Durk Rorie
President and Co-Chair
PO Box 361
Oxford, OH, United States 45056
<a href="mailto:lclaytor@woh.rr.com" style="font-weight: bold;">lclaytor@woh.rr.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) of Greater Cincinnati was founded in 1999 as an affiliate of the Children’s Scholarship Fund headquartered in New York City. The national non-profit was created by philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John Walton to encourage freedom of school choice for low-income Americans. Since 1999, using more than $100 million of their own money, Mr. Forstmann and Mr. Walton have provided partial tuition scholarships for low-income children who without assistance would be denied freedom of school choice. Currently, there are almost 29,000 children participating nationally in the CSF program.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tuition assistance • School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>402-554-8493 Ext 219
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;402-551-3426

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csfomaha.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha</a>&nbsp;</b>
Judy Tamisiea
Executive Director
3212 North 60th Street
PO Box 4130
Omaha, NE, United States 68104-0130
<a href="mailto:csfomaha@archomaha.org" style="font-weight: bold;">csfomaha@archomaha.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up, not a hand out.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education choice • School vouchers</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>215-670-8411
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;215-670-5899

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csfphiladelphia.org/" style="">Children's Scholarship Fund – Philadelphia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ina Lipman
Executive Director
PO Box 22463
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19110-2463
<a href="mailto:admin@csfphiladelphia.org" style="font-weight: bold;">admin@csfphiladelphia.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Children’s Scholarship Fund – Philadelphia is a privately funded program whose mission is to broaden educational opportunities for low-income families. The Fund provides necessary tuition assistance to help disadvantaged children in Philadelphia gain access to schools of their choice for grades K–8.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Raising funds for additional scholarships • Evaluating success of the program • Providing resources and support activities for scholarship families, students, and schools</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>719-685-9043
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;719-685-9330

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.schwarzreport.org/" style="">Christian Anti-Communism Crusade</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. David A. Noebel
Director
PO Box 129
Manitou Springs, CO, United States 80829
<a href="mailto:info@summit.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@summit.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade makes writings available both through the Internet and the monthly publication&nbsp;<i>The Schwarz Report</i>&nbsp;that expose the evils of communism.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Governance • Religious legislative issues • Church-state relations</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-622-7634
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;207-621-0035

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cclmaine.org/" style="">Christian Civic League of Maine</a>&nbsp;</b>
Carroll Conley
Executive Director
PO Box 5459
Augusta, ME, United States 04332
<a href="mailto:clccll@yahoo.com" style="font-weight: bold;">clccll@yahoo.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Christian Civic League of Maine exists for the purpose of bringing a Christian influence to the public sphere through effectively working with public policymakers and members by providing accurate, timely, and persuasive information from a Biblical perspective. Its goals are to encourage all the people of Maine in good citizenship, to elect honest and competent public officials, and to enact good laws and provide for their impartial enforcement.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Family policy • Educational choice • Human sexuality • Gambling • Sanctity of life issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-479-6900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-479-4260

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cc.org/" style="">Christian Coalition of America</a>&nbsp;</b>
Roberta Combs
President
PO Box 37030
Washington, DC, United States 20013
<a href="mailto:coalition@cc.org" style="font-weight: bold;">coalition@cc.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Christian Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots citizen organization whose mission is to represent the Christian point of view before local councils, state legislatures, and Congress; to proclaim its values in the public arena and in the media; to train leaders for effective social and political action; and to protest religious discrimination and anti-Christian bigotry.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religious persecution • American community renewal • Education reform • Religious freedom amendment • Family tax relief • Banning partial-birth abortion</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(352) 401-0029

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ccfla.org/" style="">Christian Coalition of Florida</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bill Stephens
Director
P.O. Box 520578
Longwood, FL, United States 32752
<a href="mailto:bstephens@ccfla.org" style="font-weight: bold;">bstephens@ccfla.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Purpose of the Christian Coalition is five-fold: 1. Represent Christians and advocate Christian values by petitioning our U.S. Congress, the Florida State legislatures and local councils. 2. Train Christians for effective political action, with particular emphasis on preparing them to serve as responsible citizens, activists and candidates. 3. Inform Christians in a timely manner of important issues and legislation in order to enable them to communicate with public officials at the federal, state, and local levels. 4. Effectively communicate Christian values in the public arena and speak out in the media on Christian causes and issues. 5. Engage in Christian political action in order to legally protect our freedom guaranteed under the United States Constitution&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;traditional marriage pro-life *pro-family *religious freedom *education *taxes *pornography *crime and punishment *gambling</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(727) 595-6971

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ccpcfl.org/" style="">Christian Coalition of Pinellas County</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ron
Co-Chair
13563 Cordova Dr.
Largo, FL, United States 33774
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;1. Defend all human Life, all moral Liberties and all legal pursuits. 2. Inform Christians about timely and pending legislation; information both for and against. 3. Defend Marriage and Family Values with no apology. 4. Return tax funded Public Education to local and parental control. 5. Protect Religious Freedom. 6. Protect communities from further expansion of Gambling. 7. Protect innocent life from conception to natural death. 8. Punish Criminals and defend victim's rights. 9. Publish and distribute non-partisan Voter Guides.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;religious freedom federal healthcare *homosexual agenda *federal spending *abortion *stem-cell research *gambling *cap and trade</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>786-519-1649

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ccsouthfla.org/" style="">Christian Coalition/ Faith and Freedom Coalition of South Florida</a>&nbsp;</b>


PO Box 557953&nbsp;
Miami, FL, United States 33355
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Christian Coalition of South Florida is a grassroots organization dedicated to serving as a watchdog and political activist and lobyist on Christian/Conservative moral values and principles. Our key emphasis is on: Ensuring that our moral values and principles are protected Ensuring that Christian and Conservatives are elected to political office by helping candidates runing for political office ensure a victory on election day. We are opposed to expanded gambling in any form We are pro-life and support the sanctity of life issues and oppose the recent contraception mandate by President We oppose radical stance of the homosexual lobbyist effort to introcuce their agenda into the public schools.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;right to life traditional marriage *HHS contraception mandate *gambling *religious freedom</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>941-351-8967

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.sarasotachristiancoalition.com/" style="">Christian Coalition/Faith and Freedom Coalition of Sarasota County</a>&nbsp;</b>


, FL, United States&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:dcc733@verizon.net" style="font-weight: bold;">dcc733@verizon.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Christian Coalition of Sarasota County, as chartered by the Florida Christian Coalition, exists to give pro-life, pro-family citizens a concerted voice in government and the community through information and action. We have monthly meetings with government leaders as speakers, we conduct candidate forums before elections, and distribute Voter Guides that define candidates' positions on pertinent issues. We also provide churches and others with issues/news from a Christian perspective and help them conduct voter registration drives. We also stand against anti-Christian bias in the media and the culture. And, we encourage and assist in communicating with our elected officials on key moral issues.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;religious freedom federal healthcare *homosexual agenda *federal spending *abortion *stem-cell research *gambling *cap and trade</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>440-250-9566
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;440-250-9584

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ceai.org/" style="">Christian Educators Association International</a>&nbsp;</b>
Finn Laursen
Executive Director
PO Box 45610
Westlake, OH, United States 44145
<a href="mailto:doreen@ceai.org" style="font-weight: bold;">doreen@ceai.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is to encourage, equip and empower Christian educators in public and private schools. CEAI’s vision is to demonstrate God’s love and truth to the public school community.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Unions - forced union states • Legal rights for educators in public schools • Curriculum issues in public schools • Homosexual agenda in public schools • Parents legal rights in public schools • Teaching origins in the classroom</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>310-474-9055

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.chenmd.org/" style="">Christian Home Educators Network</a>&nbsp;</b>


PO Box 2010
Ellicott City, MD, United States 21043
<a href="mailto:chenchair@chenmd.org" style="font-weight: bold;">chenchair@chenmd.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Christian Home Educators Network’s mission is evangelizing, equipping, and disciplining children so that the church remains faithful into the next generation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-642-1070
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-642-1075

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.clsnet.org/" style="">Christian Legal Society</a>&nbsp;</b>
Samuel Casey
Executive Director
8001 Braddock Road, Suite 300
Springfield, VA, United States 22151
<a href="mailto:clshq@clsnet.org" style="font-weight: bold;">clshq@clsnet.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Christian Legal Society is a national, grassroots network of lawyers, law students, and others who are committed to proclaiming, loving and serving Jesus Christ through the practice of law, by advocating religious freedom, the sanctity of life, biblical conflict reconciliation, and by providing legal assistance for the poor and needy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religious liberty for all Americans • Inalienable right to life from conception until natural death • Preservation of marriage as a union between one man and one woman • Legal aid for the poor and needy • Health care right of conscience • Ethics in the marketplace</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.christusmedicus.com/" style="">Christus Medicus Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michael J. O'Dea
Executive Director
PO Box 2606
Southfield, MI, United States 48037
<a href="mailto:mikeodea@christusmedicus.com" style="font-weight: bold;">mikeodea@christusmedicus.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Christus Medicus Foundation’s mission is to educate religious leaders, policymakers, health care professionals, and the American people on the need to reclaim control of what Americans finance in health care by reforming corporate and public policy to allow faith-based organizations, families, and individuals a “conscientious choice” in selecting health plans.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Faith-based health plans • Health care right of conscience protection • Association health plans • Protection of parental rights • Tort reform • Tax Fairness in health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-467-5300
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-467-4253

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cagw.org/" style="">Citizens Against Government Waste</a>&nbsp;</b>
Thomas A. Schatz
President
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1075
Washington, DC, United States 20004
<a href="mailto:grassroots@cagw.org" style="font-weight: bold;">grassroots@cagw.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens Against Government Waste educates Americans about waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Corporate welfare • Agriculture • Internal Revenue Service • Government waste • Medicare • Procurement reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Citizens Against Higher Taxes&nbsp;</b>
James H. Broussard
Chairman
PO Box 343
Hershey, PA, United States 17033
<a href="mailto:caht99@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">caht99@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens Against Higher Taxes is a statewide grassroots organization working for taxpayers’ rights, limited government, and the market economy in Pennsylvania. It cooperates with some 250 local taxpayer groups to elect pro-taxpayer and pro-reform school boards.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Cutting taxes • Limiting government spending • Initiative and referendum • Controlling the unchecked power of teachers unions • Electing pro-taxpayer candidates through its state political action committee</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>425-454-4911
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;425-451-3959

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ccrkba.org/" style="">Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman
12500 Northeast Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA, United States 98005
<a href="mailto:info@ccrkba.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ccrkba.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms provides information, books and articles on the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms and on current and proposed legislation affecting that right.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Legislation and information concerning the Second Amendment</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>651-646-8935
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;651-646-0100

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cchconline.org/" style="">Citizens' Council on Health Care</a>&nbsp;</b>
Twila J. Brase, R.N.
President
1954 University Avenue West, Suite 8
St. Paul, MN, United States 55104
<a href="mailto:info@cchconline.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cchconline.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Citizens’ Council on Health Care is to enable individual control of health care decisions by supporting free market principles.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care reform • Evidence-based medicine • Consumer-driven health care • Patient privacy/autonomy • Genetic research • Medical errors/patient safety</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>513-733-5775
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;513-733-5794

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ccv.org/" style="">Citizens for Community Values</a>&nbsp;</b>
Phil Burress
President
11175 Reading Road, Suite 103
Cincinnati, OH, United States 45241
<a href="mailto:info@ccv.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ccv.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens for Community Values (CCV) seeks to promote Judeo-Christian moral values and to reduce destructive behaviors contrary to those values. CCV carries out this mission through education, active community partnership, and individual empowerment at the local, state, and national levels.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pornography and sexually-oriented businesses • Children • Family-friends airwaves • Protection of traditional marriage • Homosexual agenda • Victims of destructive behavior</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>314-997-6361
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;314-997-6321

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.educational-freedom.org/" style="">Citizens for Educational Freedom</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mae Duggan
President
9333 Clayton Road
St. Louis, MO, United States 63124
<a href="mailto:CitEdFree@educational-freedom.org" style="font-weight: bold;">CitEdFree@educational-freedom.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens for Educational Freedom’s goals are to give parents the means to direct the educational and moral development of their children; to improve educational quality for all children through competition; and to save taxpayers billions of dollars, as most vouchers are for amounts below the cost of a public school education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School Choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>540-338-7431

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.loudouncpr.org/" style="">Citizens for Property Rights</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jack Shockey
President
PO Box 70
Hamilton, VA, United States 20159
<a href="mailto:cpr@loudouncpr.org" style="font-weight: bold;">cpr@loudouncpr.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens for Property Rights is a grass roots organization that is a broad-based coalition of Loudoun County, Virginia, citizens, farmers, homeowners, property owners, local businessmen, lenders, professionals, retired people, and merchants. It is comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents from both western and eastern Loudoun.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Property rights • Taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-492-1776
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-910-7728

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.citizensincharge.org/" style="">Citizens in Charge Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Paul Jacob
President
2050 Old Bridge Road
Suite 103
Lake Ridge, VA, United States 22192
<a href="mailto:paul@citizensincharge.org" style="font-weight: bold;">paul@citizensincharge.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Citizens in Charge is a 501 (c) (4) citizen-powered advocacy organization that serves as a partner to Citizens in Charge Foundation in protecting and expanding the initiative and referendum process. The organization works with activists, legislators, media, opinion leaders and voters to protect the initiative and referendum process where it exists in 26 states and to expand the process to the 26 states where voters currently lack that right. Citizens in Charge offers an online legislative action center (Action Team) that: •Gives supporters timely email alerts about legislation and events concerning the ballot initiative process in their state, county and city; •Allows leaders to network, sharing ideas across state-lines; •Promotes citizen contact with legislators regarding specific bills and support for the initiative process; and •Provides tools for recruiting other friends and relatives in support of ballot initiative rights.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Ballot Initiative Referendum *Recall process</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-47-40-00-22-77

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.civita.no/" style="">Civita</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kristin Clemet
Managing Director
Akersgt 20
Oslo N-0158, Norway&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:kristin@civita.no" style="font-weight: bold;">kristin@civita.no</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Civita’s mission is to promote political reform and discussion that emphasize the values of free markets, entrepreneurship, economic growth, freedom, the individual, human rights, civil society, and democracy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-20-7799-6677
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-44-20-7799-6688

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.civitas.org.uk/" style="">Civitas: The Institute for the Study of Civil Society</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Green
Director
55 Tufton Street
London SW1P 3QL, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@civitas.org.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">info@civitas.org.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The underlying purpose of Civitas is to deepen public understanding of the legal, institutional, and moral framework that makes a free and democratic society possible. In particular, the goal of Civitas’s studies is a better division of responsibilities between government and civil society. The term civil society is intended to emphasize that in social affairs the alternatives to government are not exhausted by commercial services alone; there are also mutual, church, and charitable organizations, quite apart from the informal support of neighbors and within the family.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health • Welfare • Family • Crime • Education • Culture</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-318-0730
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-318-8867

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cblpi.org/" style="">Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michelle Easton
President
112 Elden Street, Suite P
Herndon, VA, United States 20170
<a href="mailto:info@cblpi.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cblpi.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s goals are to prepare young women for effective conservative leadership and to promote school choice opportunities for all K–12 grade children in America. The Institute reaches out to support and encourage women all over the nation, especially young women in school, with their lecture program, mentoring lunches, issue seminars, conferences, publications, intern program, and Conservative Women’s Network. They systematically send talented conservative women before national audiences, promote their books, and advance their careers. Through grassroots policy work, writing, conferences, and a scholarship program, the Institute promotes school choice and academically-rigorous schools.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Promoting conservative women as role models • Women’s studies programs and gender equity education • Developing writing, speaking, leadership skills in young women • Academic standards, tests, and accountability systems • School choice • Children First private scholarships</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>909-621-6825
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;909-626-8724

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.claremont.org/" style="">Claremont Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Brian T. Kennedy
President
937 West Foothill Boulevard, Suite E
Claremont, CA, United States 91711
<a href="mailto:bkennedy@claremont.org" style="font-weight: bold;">bkennedy@claremont.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Claremont Institute finds the answers to America’s problems in the principles on which our nation was founded. These principles are expressed most eloquently in the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that “all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights....” To recover the founding principles in our political life means recovering a limited and accountable government that respects private property, promotes stable family life, and maintains a strong defense. Through its books, policy briefings, conferences, and seminars, as well as the World Wide Web, the Institute engages Americans in an informed discussion of the principles and policies necessary to rebuild our civic institutions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Ballistic missile defense • The American founding • Family and culture • Civil rights/racial preferences • Immigration • War on terrorism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-955-5500
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-955-9466

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.clubforgrowth.org/" style="">Club for Growth</a>&nbsp;</b>
Chris Chocola
President
2001 L Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@clubforgrowth.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@clubforgrowth.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Club for Growth is a national network of thousands of Americans, from all walks of life, who believe that prosperity and opportunity come through economic freedom. The Club works to promote public policies that promote economic growth primarily through legislative involvement, issue advocacy, research, training, and educational activity.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Taxes • Cutting government spending • Limited government • Death tax • Social Security reform • Free trade • Legal reform • School choice • Regulation • Deregulation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>877-267-6397
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-683-7045

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/" style="">CNSNews.com</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michael Chapman
Managing Editor
325 South Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CNSNews.com is an online news source for citizens, news organizations, and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than on spin. It serves as an alternative news source that looks for those stories that are too often ignored or under-reported, endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story, and debunks popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues. CNSNews.com copy may be used, reproduced, rebroadcast and/or republished by any private or public news organization at no cost, but with appropriate editorial credit assigned as a professional courtesy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Politics • Culture • World affairs • General interest news</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-479-2873

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.urbancure.org/" style="">Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Star Parker
President
722 12th Street, NW Fourth Floor
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:starparker@urbancure.org" style="font-weight: bold;">starparker@urbancure.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education is a faith- and market-based think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social Security reform • Family life • Welfare reform • Federal marriage amendment</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-837-0030
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-837-0031

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Coalitions for America&nbsp;</b>
Eric Licht
President
1423 Powhatan Street, #2
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Coalitions for America’s mission is to bring about public policy that enhances free enterprise, limited government, strong national defense, and traditional values.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social issues • Economic issues • Defense and foreign policy issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>877-239-7355
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;719-213-2647

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cofamily.org/" style="">Colorado Family Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jim Pfaff
President/CEO
PO Box 558
Castle Rock, CO, United States 80104
<a href="mailto:info@cofamily.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cofamily.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Colorado Family Institute is committed to restoring and defending traditional moral principles in the culture by advocating for sound public policy. Our goal is to support Colorado families by restoring the foundational values essential for the wellbeing of society.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)4&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage and Family • Protection of Life • Religious Freedom • Role of the Judiciary • Education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-429-2737
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-429-9574

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cfact.org/" style="">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Rothbard
President
PO Box 65722
Washington, DC, United States 20035
<a href="mailto:info@cfact.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cfact.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CFACT was created in 1985 to offer a positive new voice on consumer and environmental issues. It boldly proclaims that the cherished American values of competition, progress, political and economic freedom, and genuine environmental stewardship can and do offer the best hope for protecting not only the earth and its wildlife, but even more importantly, its people. CFACT’s overall mission is to enhance the fruitfulness of the earth and all its inhabitants, and does this by working to promote free market and safe technological solutions to a wide variety of public interest concerns.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Energy production • Climate change • Land use and property rights • Transportation • Habitat and wildlife • Government regulation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>704-598-3717

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cmre.org/" style="">Committee for Monetary Research and Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elizabeth Currier
President
10004 Greenwood Court
Charlotte, NC, United States 28215
<a href="mailto:cmre@bellsouth.net" style="font-weight: bold;">cmre@bellsouth.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE) is engaged in education on currency markets and the principles of sound money. To fulfill its purpose, CMRE conducts meetings and publishes educational materials. Committee meetings cover such issues as prospects for inflation or deflation; direction of the bond, stock, and currency markets; and conditions in the banking industry and markets around the world.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Currencies • International credits • Euro development • Role of the dollar in international markets • Markets inflation/deflation • Federal Reserve System/banking</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>973-229-2618

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.csinj.org/" style="">Common Sense Institute of New Jersey</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jerry Cantrell
President
2 Berry Lane
Suite B
Randolph, NJ, United States 07869
<a href="mailto:jcantrell@csinj.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jcantrell@csinj.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Common Sense Institute of New Jersey is a nonprofit research and education organization that conducts scholarly research and analysis of New Jersey public policy. The Institute’s mission is to explore and advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic opportunity. Institute staff will pursue 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.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Transparency • Taxes • Land Use • Regulation • Economic Development • Environment • Health & Welfare • Education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>717-671-1901
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;717-671-1905

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/" style="">Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives</a>&nbsp;</b>
Matthew J. Brouillette
President
225 State Street, Suite 302
Harrisburg, PA, United States 17101
<a href="mailto:info@commonwealthfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@commonwealthfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Commonwealth Foundation is to improve the quality of life for all Pennsylvanians by advancing public policies based on the founding principles of limited constitutional government, economic and political freedom, and individual responsibility for one’s actions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tax and fiscal policy • Education policy • Labor policy • Tax and expenditure limitations • Health care policy • Business climate issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-331-1010
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-331-0640

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cei.org/" style="">Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
President
1899 L Street, NW 12th Floor
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@cei.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cei.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CEI is a non-profit public policy group committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government. It believes that consumers are best helped not by government regulation, but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free marketplace. CEI produces groundbreaking research on regulatory issues, promotes its ideas and solutions to the public and the media, and works with policymakers to ensure an effective and powerful voice for economic freedom.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Global warming and energy use • Safety issues: automobile, food and drug • Chemical and environmental risk • Internet and e-commerce issues • Regulatory reform issues • Free-market environmentalism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>571-384-2449

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.concernedveteransforamerica.org/" style="">Concerned Veterans for America</a>&nbsp;</b>
Pete Hegseth
Chief Executive Officer
1405 S. Fern St. #197
Arlington, VA, United States 22202
<a href="mailto:info@concernedveteransforamerica.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@concernedveteransforamerica.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Our mission is to advocate for policies that will preserve the freedom and liberty we and our families so proudly fought and sacrificed to defend. The goal of Concerned Veterans For America is to translate the experience, concerns, and hopes of our fellow veterans and their families into a common vision of liberty and freedom. We will provide a new and unique perspective on the issues that threaten to cripple not only our economic and national security, but the spirit of opportunity and liberty that we fought to defend and all Americans cherish. Our task will be to bring that fresh perspective to the American people and our leaders. We will lead.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Debt ~Unemployment ~Government Spending</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-488-7000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-488-0806

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America (CWA)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Peggy Nance
CEO
1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:mail@cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of CWA is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>205-413-1894
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;205-942-9916

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://alabama.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Alabama</a>&nbsp;</b>
Valerie Askew
Director
PO Box 59511
Birmingham, AL, United States 35259
<a href="mailto:director@alabama.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@alabama.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Alabama is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>559 359-8884

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://california.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of California</a>&nbsp;</b>
Patricia Thompson
Director
PO Box 2678
Porterville, CA, United States 93258
<a href="mailto:c.director@california.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">c.director@california.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(760) 595-5065

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//states.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=casd" style="">Concerned Women for America of California - Southern Counties</a>&nbsp;</b>
Ruth Smith
Director
PO Box 2678
Porterville, CA, United States 93258
<a href="mailto:s.director@california.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">s.director@california.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California – Southern Counties is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>407-697-5929

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://florida.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Florida</a>&nbsp;</b>
Terri Johannessen
Director
PO Box 140063
Orlando, FL, United States 32814
<a href="mailto:director@florida.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@florida.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>770-617-1987
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;770-617-1987

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://georgia.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Georgia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tanya Ditty
Director
Box 671374
Marietta, GA, United States 30066
<a href="mailto:director@georgia.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@georgia.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Georgia is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>808-965-9834

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=hihi" style="">Concerned Women for America of Hawaii</a>&nbsp;</b>
Barbara Ferraro
Director
PO Box 10732&nbsp;
Hilo, HI, United States 96721
<a href="mailto:director@hi.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@hi.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of New York is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>708-371-7810
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;708-371-7896

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=il" style="">Concerned Women for America of Illinois</a>&nbsp;</b>
Colleen Nolan
State Director
PO Box 188
Palos Heights, IL, United States 60463
<a href="mailto:director@illinois.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@illinois.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Illinois is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>515-259-0087

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://iowa.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Iowa</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tamara Scott
Director
PO Box 616&nbsp;
Ankeny, IA, United States 50021
<a href="mailto:director@iowa.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@iowa.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Iowa is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>913-491-1380
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;913-491-1380

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://kansas.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Kansas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Judy Smith
Director
PO Box 11233, Shawnee
Mission, KS, United States 66211
<a href="mailto:director@kansas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@kansas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Kansas is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>318-458-9447

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://la.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Louisiana</a>&nbsp;</b>
Sonya Hodnett
State Director
PO Box 44492
Shreveport, LA, United States 71104
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Vision of Concerned Women for America of Louisiana is to educate, equip, empower and encourage our citizens making them responsive to and responsible for the moral climate of our state. We desire to stand in the strength of the Biblical principles of our faith and the power of prayer. We will work to develop effective leadership that will help reverse the decline of moral values in our communities, state and nation.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>207-465-6015

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://maine.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Maine</a>&nbsp;</b>
Penny Morrell
Director
PO Box 451
Manchester, ME, United States 04351
<a href="mailto:director@maine.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@maine.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Maine is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>301-884-9463
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;301-884-2391

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://maryland.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Maryland</a>&nbsp;</b>
Evalena Gray
Director
PO Box 504
Charlotte Hall, MD, United States 20622
<a href="mailto:director@maryland.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@maryland.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Maryland is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>314-608-0168

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://missouri.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Missouri</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bev Ehlen
Director
PO Box 22014
St. Louis, MO, United States 63126
<a href="mailto:director@missouri.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@missouri.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Missouri is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>406-598-6658

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://montana.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Montana</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tonya Shellnut
Director
PO Box 1141
Laurel, MT, United States 59044
<a href="mailto:director@montana.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@montana.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Montana is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>603-370-9743

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/states/details.asp?organization=nh" style="">Concerned Women for America of New Hampshire</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elaine Driscoll
Director
PO Box 38
Auburn, NH, United States 03032
<a href="mailto:director@newhampshire.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@newhampshire.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;he mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>518-229-5757

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://newyork.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of New York</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michelle Mulledy
Director
PO Box 782
Clifton Park, NY, United States 12065
<a href="mailto:director@newyork.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@newyork.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of New York is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>704-542-6984

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://northcarolina.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of North Carolina</a>&nbsp;</b>
Sherri Miller
Director
PO Box 472903
Charlotte, NC, United States 28247
<a href="mailto:director@northcarolina.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@northcarolina.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Carolina is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>701-331-0946

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://northdakota.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of North Dakota</a>&nbsp;</b>
Janne Myrdal
Director
PO Box 213
Park River, ND, United States 58270
<a href="mailto:director@northdakota.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@northdakota.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Dakota is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>513-545-2850

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://ohio.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Ohio</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bobbi Radeck
Director
7723 Tylers Place Boulevard, #278
West Chester, OH, United States 45069
<a href="mailto:director@ohio.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@ohio.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Ohio is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>405-748-0150

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://oklahoma.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Oklahoma</a>&nbsp;</b>
Sheridan Crenshaw
Director
PO Box 20585
Oklahoma City, OK, United States 73156
<a href="mailto:director@oklahoma.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@oklahoma.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Oklahoma is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>541-928-7578

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://oregon.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Oregon</a>&nbsp;</b>
Karen Elliott
Associate Director
PO Box 3070
Albany, OR, United States 97321
<a href="mailto:associate@oregon.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">associate@oregon.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Oregon is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>724-452-7325
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;724-452-7325

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://pennsylvania.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Pennsylvania</a>&nbsp;</b>
Nancy Staible
Director
PO Box 96
Zelienople, PA, United States 16063
<a href="mailto:director@pennsylvania.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@pennsylvania.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Pennsylvania is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>605-380-6914

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://southdakota.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of South Dakota</a>&nbsp;</b>
Linda Schauer
Director
PO Box 343
Leola, SD, United States 57456
<a href="mailto:director@southdakota.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@southdakota.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of South Dakota is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>972-835-9506

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://texas.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Texas</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michelle Smith
Director
PO Box 1746&nbsp;
Rockwall, TX, United States 75087
<a href="mailto:director@texas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@texas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>972-835-9506

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=etx" style="">Concerned Women for America of Texas - East</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michelle Smith
Director
PO Box 1746
Rockwall, TX, United States 75087
<a href="mailto:director@texas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@texas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - East is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>214-542-6248

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=ntx" style="">Concerned Women for America of Texas - North</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kia Mutranowski
Director
PO Box 1746
Rockwall, TX, United States 75087
<a href="mailto:n.director@texas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">n.director@texas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - North is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>832-443-8109

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=stx" style="">Concerned Women for America of Texas - South</a>&nbsp;</b>
Beverly Roberts
Director
PO Box 1746
Rockwall, TX, United States 75087
<a href="mailto:s.director@texas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">s.director@texas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - South is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>806-928-0664

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/state-details.asp?organization=wtx" style="">Concerned Women for America of Texas-West</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kerri Ann Thompson
Director
PO Box 1746
Rockwall, TX, United States 75087
<a href="mailto:w.director@texas.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">w.director@texas.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas-West is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>434-401-8852

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://states.cwfa.org/states/detailsnew.asp?organization=va" style="">Concerned Women for America of Virginia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Janet Robey
Director
PO Box 1465&nbsp;
Bedford, VA, United States 24523
<a href="mailto:director@virginia.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@virginia.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>425-869-1923

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://washington.cwfa.org/" style="">Concerned Women for America of Washington</a>&nbsp;</b>
Maureen Richardson
Director
PO Box 143
Woodinville, WA, United States 98072
<a href="mailto:director@washington.cwfa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">director@washington.cwfa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Washington is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>212-598-4000
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;212-598-4141

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.core-online.org/" style="">Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Niger Innis
National Spokesman
817 Broadway, Third Floor
New York, NY, United States 10003
<a href="mailto:core@core-online.org" style="font-weight: bold;">core@core-online.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;CORE seeks to establish, in practice, the inalienable right for all people to determine their own destiny, to decide for themselves what social and political organizations can operate in their best interest, and to do so without gratuitous and inhibiting influence from those whose interest is diametrically opposed to theirs.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Legal defense for victims of violence • Immigration assistance • Substance abuse • Discrimination • Racial hatred on the Internet</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-837-8817
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-837-8812

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.conginst.org/" style="">The Congressional Institute, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mark Strand
Executive Director
1001 North Fairfax Street, #410&nbsp;
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:info@conginst.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@conginst.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Congressional Institute is dedicated to helping Members of Congress better serve the nation and to helping the public better understand public policy debates and the operations of the national legislature. Through the sponsorship of Member and staff educational conferences and seminars, values-based research, and its Internet sites, the Institute seeks to further discourse on issues of public importance.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Congress • Social Security • Results Act • Public judgment</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-938-9626

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.conservativeusa.org/" style="">The Conservative Caucus, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Howard Phillips
Chairman
450 Maple Avenue East
Vienna, VA, United States 22180
<a href="mailto:corndorf@cais.com" style="font-weight: bold;">corndorf@cais.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The goal of The Conservative Caucus is to restore the Republic by limiting the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, constitutional functions and returning American jurisprudence to its Biblical, common law foundation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Passage of the Constitution Restoration Act (CRA) • Opposition to military draft • Withdrawal from U.N., WTO, NAFTA, IMF, World Bank • Reversal of U.S. trade, economic, and defense policies which benefit Red China • Repeal of Reagan–Clinton taxes on Social Security benefits • Opposition to federal funding of pro-abortion and homosexual activist groups</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>314-434-7028
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;314-878-6294

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.stdepidemic.com/" style="">Constitutional Coalition</a>&nbsp;</b>
Donna H. Hearne&nbsp;
Executive Director
15820 Clayton Road
PO Box 37054
St. Louis, MO, United States 63141
<a href="mailto:freedombasics@sbcglobal.net" style="font-weight: bold;">freedombasics@sbcglobal.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Constitutional Coalition addresses vital contemporary topics from a constitutional perspective. Government, taxes, national defense, education, family needs, property rights, environment, and other issues that impact cities of the state are researched and then presented in an understandable format through seminars and publications.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Sexually transmitted diseases • Property rights • Reclaiming constitutional thinking and world view • State governmental issues • Environment</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>301-606-7364
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;301-665-3851

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.chcchoices.org/" style="">Consumers for Health Care Choices</a>&nbsp;</b>
Greg Scandlen
President and CEO
PO Box 4955
Hagerstown, MD, United States 21742
<a href="mailto:support@chcchoices.org" style="font-weight: bold;">support@chcchoices.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Consumers for Health Care Choices (CHCC) is a not-for-profit, grassroots organization that represents the views of the health care consumer to policymakers and industry leaders. The membership consists of consumers from all walks of life and all professions from across the nation. Members with expertise in health care issues are encouraged to take an active role in the organization’s efforts—giving speeches, writing articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor on behalf of empowered health care consumers.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-942-7699
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-942-7692

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.consumersrightsleague.org/" style="">Consumers Rights League</a>&nbsp;</b>
Terry Kibbe
Chief Public Advocate
601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
North Building, Suite 700
Washington, DC, United States 20004
<a href="mailto:info@consumersrightsleague.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@consumersrightsleague.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Consumers Rights League (CRL) is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization dedicated to preserving consumer choice in the marketplace. CRL works with consumers, presents facts, and produces quality research that thoroughly documents the real-world choices and challenges consumers face; reports the benefits enjoyed by an overwhelming majority of consumers; and seeks to “pull back the curtain” to reveal the agenda-driven research distributed by many of these self-described consumer advocacy groups.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Democratization of credit • Housing crisis</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-496-9199
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-496-9299

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cordellhullinstitute.org/" style="">Cordell Hull Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Hugh Corbet
President
1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 960
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:hugh.corbet@cordellhullinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">hugh.corbet@cordellhullinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Cordell Hull Institute’s mission is to promote a strategic approach to the liberalization of international trade and investment. Its approach is based on the convergence of long-term national interests and the maintenance, development, and extension of the World Trade Organization, as founded on free trade principles, private enterprise, and open competition.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;International trade • Integrating developing countries into the world economy • reform of the “escape clauses” in the World Trade Organization system</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>208-939-662

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cornerstoneofidaho.org/" style="">Cornerstone Institute of Idaho</a>&nbsp;</b>
Doug Barth
Executive Director
PO Box 653
Eagle, ID, United States 83616
<a href="mailto:info@cornerstoneofidaho.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@cornerstoneofidaho.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Cornerstone Institute of Idaho is committed to strengthening the traditional family as the cornerstone of civilization and to restoring time-honored principles to the roles of family, church, and government. The Institute is a non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to strengthening families in Idaho. Established in association with Focus on the Family, it links together experts in law, medicine, media, and education to help families deal with the problems facing Idaho, its communities, and the nation. Established in association with Focus on the Family, Cornerstone links together experts in law, medicine, media and education to help families deal with the problems facing our communities, our state and our nation.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religious freedom • Pro-life • Defense of marriage • Choice in education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>603-228-4794
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;603-228-6069

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.nhcornerstone.org/" style="">Cornerstone Policy Research</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kevin H. Smith
Executive Director
136 North Main Street, Suite 2
Concord, NH, United States 03301
<a href="mailto:cornerstone@nhcornerstone.org" style="font-weight: bold;">cornerstone@nhcornerstone.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Cornerstone Policy Research is a non-partisan, non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to building strong families, restoring traditional principles to public policy, and preserving free enterprise—all of which are the cornerstone of a free and prosperous society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Securing the definition of marriage • Abstinence • Tax burden on families • Judicial reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-836-6200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-836-6550

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cahi.org/" style="">Council for Affordable Health Insurance</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Merrill Matthews
Director
127 South Peyton Street, Suite 210
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:mail@cahi.org" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@cahi.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) exists to develop and promote free market solutions to America’s health care challenges, so that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health insurance • Tax credits • Health Savings Accounts • Medical liability reform • Protect reinsurance • Long-term care • Underwriting</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-467-5300
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-467-4253

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cagw.org/" style="">Council for Citizens Against Government Waste</a>&nbsp;</b>
Thomas A. Schatz
President
1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:membership@cagw.org" style="font-weight: bold;">membership@cagw.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Council serves as the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste and tabulates annual congressional ratings, which measure the willingness of each member of Congress to fight government waste and reduce the federal deficit.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Corporate welfare • Government waste • Procurement reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>916-446-0345
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;916-446-1194

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.cjlf.org/" style="">Criminal Justice Legal Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michael D. Rushford
President
PO Box 1199
Sacramento, CA, United States 95812
<a href="mailto:rushford@cjlf.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rushford@cjlf.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF) is the only non-profit, public interest law organization in the U.S. focusing exclusively on improving the government’s ability to protect public from crime. The Foundation’s award-winning legal staff joins criminal cases before the nation’s highest courts to encourage decisions that balance the interests of criminal defendants with those of crime victims and law-abiding society. Scholarly Foundation studies on criminal justice policy have encouraged significant reforms by Congress, state legislatures, and municipal governments to enhance the effectiveness of police and prosecutors and restore common sense to the rules governing criminal trials, appeals, and sentencing. The Foundation’s aggressive participation in the public debate on crime and law enforcement has provided the national media with a balancing perspective to the widely publicized views of criminal rights and civil liberties advocates.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Anti-terrorism • Incarcerating habitual criminals • Death penalty enforcement • Restoring state policy powers • Limiting activist federal judges • Shortening criminal appeals</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-832-3895
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-832-3897

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.dcparentsforschoolchoice.com/" style="">D.C. Parents for School Choice, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Virginia F. Walden-Ford
Executive Director
PO Box 29219
Washington, DC, United States 20017
<a href="mailto:GFWalden@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">GFWalden@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;D.C. Parents for School Choice was founded in 1998 to train, empower, and organize parents in the District of Columbia to make informed educational decisions for their children in order to increase their chances for success.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;School choice • Parental involvement in education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-752-6562
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;323-556-2559

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/" style="">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Horowitz
President
4401 Wilshire Boulevard, Fourth Floor
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90010
<a href="mailto:info@horowitzfreedomcenter.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@horowitzfreedomcenter.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) focuses on the radical culture that emerged from the 1960s, its grip on the institutions of higher learning, and its attack on America’s heritage. The Center provides a variety of forums for the discussions and analysis of today’s most pressing values issues.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Academic freedom • Constitutional rights • The war at home and abroad</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>302-542-5106
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;302-875-8288

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.delawarefamilies.org/" style="">Delaware Family Policy Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
Nicole Thies
Executive Director
Dover, DE, United States 19901
<a href="mailto:nicole@delawarefamilies.org" style="font-weight: bold;">nicole@delawarefamilies.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Delaware Family Policy Council is to strengthen, nurture, and shield families by developing faith-based alliances with churches, pro-family organizations, community and civic leaders, and religious organizations. Its goal is to educate, equip, unify, and engage the citizens of Delaware in advocating for family values and preserving the integrity of the family as an institution.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage • Parenting • Relationships • Family</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>206-292-0401
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;206-682-5320

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.discovery.org/" style="">Discovery Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bruce Chapman
President
208 Columbia Street
Seattle, WA, United States 98104
<a href="mailto:info@discovery.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@discovery.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Discovery Institute’s mission is to make practical a positive vision of the future. The Institute does this by discovering and promoting ideas that can chart the future in the common-sense tradition of representative government, the free market, and individual liberty. This mission is promoted through books, reports, legislative testimony, articles, public conferences, and debates, plus media coverage and Discovery’s own publications and Web site.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Science and culture • Environment • Defense • Technology • Future of law • Regionalism • Individual liberty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>303-726-9731
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;877-756-8936

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://docs4patientcare.org/" style="">Docs4Patient Care</a>&nbsp;</b>
Hal Scherz M.D.
President
PO Box 28415
Atlanta, GA, United States 30358
<a href="mailto:halscherz@docs4patientcare.org" style="font-weight: bold;">halscherz@docs4patientcare.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Docs4Patient care is an organization of concerned physicians committed to the establishment of a health care system that preserves the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, promotes quality of care, supports affordable access to all Americans, and protects patients' freedom of choice. We urge patients and physicians to get involved in order to preserve the good qualities of our healthcare system, address the problems, while preventing its bureaucratic destruction.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health Care • Health Insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • Health Policy Reform • Medical Liability • Doctor Patient Relationship</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-535-3563
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-535-3564

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.donorstrust.org/" style="">DonorsTrust</a>&nbsp;</b>
Whitney Ball
Executive Director
109 North Henry Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:whitb@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">whitb@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;DonorsTrust is a public charity whose mission is to ensure the intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise. As such, DonorsTrust provides an innovative charitable vehicle for donors who wish to safeguard their charitable intent to fund organizations that under gird America’s founding principles.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-44-191-222-3503

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest" style="">E.G. West Centre</a>&nbsp;</b>
Prof. James Tooley, Ph.D.
Director
School of Education
University of Newcastle
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:egwest@ncl.ac.uk" style="font-weight: bold;">egwest@ncl.ac.uk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The E. G. West Centre’s mission is to develop knowledge and understanding of the role of non-state education in achieving “Education for All.”
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Non-state education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>618-462-5415
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;618-462-8909

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eagleforum.org/" style="">Eagle Forum</a>&nbsp;</b>
Phyllis Schlafly
President
PO Box 618
Alton, IL, United States 62002
<a href="mailto:eagle@eagleforum.org" style="font-weight: bold;">eagle@eagleforum.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-544-0353
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-547-6996

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.eagleforum.org/" style="">Eagle Forum Washington, D.C.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Glyn Wright
Executive Director
316 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 203
Washington, DC, United States 20003
<a href="mailto:glyn@eagleforum.org" style="font-weight: bold;">glyn@eagleforum.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Eagle Forum's Mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policy making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Immigration • Taxation • Free Enterprise • Health Care Reform • Right to Life • Second Amendment • Education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>205-879-7096
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;205-871-2859

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.alabamaeagle.org/" style="">Eagle Forum of Alabama</a>&nbsp;</b>
Eunie Smith
President
4200 Stone River Circle
Birmingham, AL, United States 35213
<a href="mailto:alaeagle@charter.net" style="font-weight: bold;">alaeagle@charter.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Eagle Forum of Alabama is to equip citizens with timely, reliable information from a conservative, constitutional point of view on public policy issues that affect the family so that they will know how, when, and where to express themselves and make their voices heard. Such participation in the process of self-government is essential for America to continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise. Influencing the education of children in these principles is a high priority.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Judicial supremacy • Illegal immigration • Family Protection Act • Education • National sovereignty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.georgiaeagle.org/" style="">Eagle Forum of Georgia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Sue Ella Deadwyler
Director
4168 Rue Antoinette
Stone Mountain, GA, United States 30083
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.iowaeagleforum.com/" style="">Eagle Forum of Iowa</a>&nbsp;</b>
State Sen. Kitty Rehberg
President
2279 310th Street
Rowley, IA, United States 52329
<a href="mailto:krehberg@peoplepc.com" style="font-weight: bold;">krehberg@peoplepc.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eagleforumofsacramento.com/" style="">Eagle Forum of Sacramento</a>&nbsp;</b>
Georgiana Preskar
Director
Sacramento, CA, United States&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:glee16@surewest.net" style="font-weight: bold;">glee16@surewest.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eagleforumofwisconsin.org/" style="">Eagle Forum of Wisconsin</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dottie Feder
President
PO Box 86
Brookfield, WI, United States 53008-0086
<a href="mailto:eagles@eagleforumofwisconsin.org" style="font-weight: bold;">eagles@eagleforumofwisconsin.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;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.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-234-5860
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-328-0466

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Eastern European Studies Centre&nbsp;</b>
Erika Veberyte
Counselor
2300 Clarendon Boulevard Suite 302
Arlington, VA, United States 302
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-976-70112940
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-976-70137010

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://ebi.mn/" style="">EBI Think Tank Institute&nbsp;</a></b>
Battsetseg Shagdar&nbsp;
CEO
PO BOX-2590
Building Daily News. R-503&nbsp;
Sukhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ebithinktank@yahoo.com" style="font-weight: bold;">ebithinktank@yahoo.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;EBI’s mission is to discover, develop and support young people who can advance the institute vision of a society of free enterprise and development of democracy to identify, recruit, train, and place young outstanding people in politics and government to increase the number and effectiveness of public policy leaders for the purpose of Helping and Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today in Mongolia.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Property Rights • Democracy • Free Markets/Free Enterprise • Limited Government • Tradtional Values</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>914-694-3372
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;914-694-2386

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.manhattanville.edu/" style="">Economic Freedom Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Edward W. Ryan
Director
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY, United States 10577
<a href="mailto:edwryan@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">edwryan@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Economic Freedom Institute (EFI) provides a forum for the study, analysis, and discussion of the nature of economic freedom and its implications. The Institute fosters the exchange and development of ideas concerning policies and programs of importance in regional, national, and international arenas. Open to a variety of viewpoints and philosophies, EFI includes scholars, corporate executives, and officials from labor unions, non-profit institutions, and various levels of government. EFI’s primary audience is Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic freedom • The role of government in the economy • Regulation of free enterprise • International trade</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-31-70-3925180
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-31-70-3651809

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.burkestichting.nl/" style="">Edmund Burke Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bart J. Spruyt, Ph.D.
Director
Postbus 10498
2501 HL, The Hague, Netherlands&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:spruyt@burkestichting.nl" style="font-weight: bold;">spruyt@burkestichting.nl</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Edmund Burke Foundation is to spread throughout the Netherlands the conservative message of a free and decent society of strong and civilized citizens, strong civic organizations, the free market, and a small but effective government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Multicultural society • Education • Free market – blessings and conditions • Public health • Relationship between the U.S. and Europe • Family law</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>505-797-4002
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;505-797-1984

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.educatenm.org/" style="">Educate New Mexico</a>&nbsp;</b>
Daniel Ulibarri
Executive Director
PO Box 794
Albuquerque, NM, United States 87103
<a href="mailto:daniel@educatenm.org" style="font-weight: bold;">daniel@educatenm.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Educate New Mexico believes that in order to foster academic growth, those bearing the responsibility of the child’s education should be as informed as possible on all aspects of that education: where the child can receive the best possible education; laws and policies affecting education; available financial aid and scholarship opportunities to help pay for schooling; extra-curricular activities and homework assistance—having a solid understanding of all these areas is necessary for children’s academic success.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Education reform • Tuition assistance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-248-2611
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-525-8841

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.education-consumers.com/" style="">Education Consumers Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
J. E. Stone, Ed.D.
President
1655 North Fort Meyer Drive, Suite 700
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
<a href="mailto:professor@education-consumers.org" style="font-weight: bold;">professor@education-consumers.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Education Consumers Foundation is dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of education’s consumers. It works in behalf of the parties who furnish the students and the money, not those that benefit financially from the reputation and growth of the industry.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Teacher training and licensure • Teacher and school effectiveness and accountability • Educational research • Education choice, business partnerships, and interest groups</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>208-514-4704
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;208-514-4701

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.edexidaho.org/" style="">Education Excellence Idaho</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gale L. Pooley, Ph.D.
President
PO Box 222
Eagle, ID, United States 83616
<a href="mailto:info@edexidaho.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@edexidaho.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Education Excellence Idaho’s mission is to create the best environment for choice and opportunity to thrive in education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • School choice • Education innovation • Accountability</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>616-459-2222
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;616-588-6335

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.educationfreedomfund.org/" style="">The Education Freedom Fund</a>&nbsp;</b>
Chuck Gaidica
Co-Chairman
PO Box 230078
Grand Rapids, MI, United States 49523-0078
<a href="mailto:info@educationfreedomfund.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@educationfreedomfund.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Education Freedom Fund’s mission is to provide low-income Michigan families with a choice in the schools their children attend by giving tuition assistance through scholarships.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tuition assistance • School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-252-3280
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;301-468-3249

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.educationindustry.org/" style="">Education Industry Association</a>&nbsp;</b>
Steve Pines
Executive Director
5909 Barbados Place, Suite 202
Rockville, MD, United States 20852
<a href="mailto:spines@educationindustry.org" style="font-weight: bold;">spines@educationindustry.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Education Industry Association is a professional network of education businesses dedicated to delivering and advancing the education of children and youth by promoting education reform through entrepreneurship.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(6)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Promoting education reform through entrepreneurship</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-244-7535
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-244-7584

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.educationpolicy.org/" style="">Education Policy Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Myron Lieberman
Chairman
4401-A Connecticut Avenue, NW
PMB 294
Washington, DC, United States 20008-2322
<a href="mailto:lieberman@educationpolicy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">lieberman@educationpolicy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Education Policy Institute (EPI) seeks to improve education through research, policy analysis, and the development of responsible alternatives to existing policies and practices. In these activities, EPI strives to promote greater parental choice in education, a more competitive education industry, an enlarged role for the for-profit sector, and other policies that address the problems of both public and private schools.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education vouchers • Tuition tax credits • Obstacles to a competitive education industry • Employment relations in education • Interest group impact on education • Education reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>317-951-8781
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;317-951-8783

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.choicetrust.org/" style="">The Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert Hoy
Executive Director
One North Capitol Avenue, Suite 1250
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46204
<a href="mailto:rhoy@choicetrust.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rhoy@choicetrust.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust provides tuition assistance to low-income students, serves as a model for research and legislation, and encourages all schools to improve by introducing competition into the system. The CHOICE Trust is making a difference in the lives of children and families in the Indianapolis community. The program, founded in 1991, has provided scholarship grants to students of lower-income families enabling them to attend private, parochial, or out-of-district public elementary schools of their choice. To date, CHOICE has funded more than 15,000 years of education to students attending a wide range of schools.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Tuition assistance • School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>518-434-3100
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;518-434-3130

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.empirecenter.org/" style="">Empire Center for Public Policy</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tim Hoefer
Executive Director
PO Box 7113
Albany, NY, United States 12224
<a href="mailto:info@empirecenter.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@empirecenter.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Empire Center for New York State Policy is an independent, non-partisan, free market-oriented, research organization devoted to promoting new and different policy approaches to the many challenges facing New York State.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education • Health care • Civil justice reform • Tax and spending policies • Economic growth • Public pension reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-463-7650
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-463-7107

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://epionline.org/" style="">Employment Policies Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michael Saltsman
Research Fellow
1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:Saltsman@epionline.org" style="font-weight: bold;">Saltsman@epionline.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Employment Policies Institute is a non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular, EPI focuses on issues that affect entry-level employment. Among other issues, EPI research has quantified the impact of new labor costs on job creation, explored the connection between entry-level employment and welfare reform, and analyzed the demographic distribution of mandated benefits. EPI sponsors nonpartisan research which is conducted by independent economists at major universities around the country.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Minimum wage policies • National and state unemployment and teen unemployment rates • Health care mandates • Living wage policies • Paid sick leave mandates</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ernonline.org/" style="">Empowerment Resource Network</a>&nbsp;</b>
Karen M. Woods
Executive Director
PO Box 5091
North Muskegon, MI, United States 49445-5091
<a href="mailto:info@ernonline.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ernonline.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Empowerment Resource Network (ERN) is to build economic capacity and develop entrepreneurial skill sets among families living in low-income communities. ERN is a resource hub for state legislators, grassroots organizations, and other civic leaders promoting American family and community renewal of civil society in the 21st century.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Home ownership • Urban enterprise • Welfare reform • Family preservation • Education • Technology development</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>417-831-9505
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;417-831-6165

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.enactus.org/" style="">Enactus</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alvin Rohrs
President and CEO
1959 East Kerr Street
Springfield, MO, United States 65803-4775
<a href="mailto:contact@enactus.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@enactus.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;SIFE teams are challenged to find creative ways to teach children about the global economy, provide necessary assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs, present effective solutions for small business owners to increase profits, help low-income families achieve financial independence, and emphasize the importance of ethical and moral business practices.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Market economics • Success skills • Entrepreneurship • Financial literacy • Business ethics</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-506-245-2222
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-506-430-7979

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.enfoque.org/" style="">Enfoque a la Familia</a>&nbsp;</b>


, Costa Rica&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@enfoque.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@enfoque.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>888-744-0004&nbsp;
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;571-333-5685&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.enough.org/" style="">Enough Is Enough</a>&nbsp;</b>
Donna Rice Hughes
President and Chairman
746 Walker Road, Suite 116
Great Falls, VA, United States 22066
<a href="mailto:ricehughes@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">ricehughes@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Enough Is Enough’s mission is to make the Internet safer for children and families. It is dedicated to continue raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography and sexual predators and to advancing solutions that promote equality, fairness, and respect for human dignity with shared responsibility between the public, technology, and the law. Enough Is Enough stands for freedom of speech as defined by the Constitution; for a culture where all people are respected and valued; for a childhood with a protected period of innocence; for healthy sexuality; and for a society free from sexual exploitation.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Make the Internet safe for children • Family-friendly technology solutions • Legal solutions to stop the sexual exploitation and victimization of children using the Internet</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>416-964-9223 ext. 232
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;416-964-8239

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.environmentprobe.org/" style="">Environmental Probe</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elizabeth Brubaker
Executive Director
225 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto, ON M5S 2M6, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:ElizabethBrubaker@nextcity.com" style="font-weight: bold;">ElizabethBrubaker@nextcity.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Environment Probe is a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation, a Toronto-based environmental and public policy research institute. The organization works to expose government policies that harm not only Canada’s forests, fisheries, waterways, and other natural resources, but also the economy. It is committed to developing and promoting alternative resource policies that are environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Privatizing and regulating water and wastewater utilities • Promoting full cost pricing of water and wastewater services • Controlling the environmental impacts of farms • Establishing property rights in fisheries</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.esipri.org/" style="">Environmental Sciences Independent Peer Review Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Bob Alberts

1240 West Sims Way, #148
Port Townsend, WA, United States 98368
<a href="mailto:information@esipri.org" style="font-weight: bold;">information@esipri.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>802-695-1448
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;802-695-1436

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ethanallen.org/" style="">Ethan Allen Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Rob Roper
President
P.O. Box 543
Minneapolis, VT, United States 05601
<a href="mailto:eai@ethanallen.org" style="font-weight: bold;">eai@ethanallen.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Ethan Allen Institute is to influence public policy in Vermont by helping its people to better understand and put into practice the fundamentals of a free society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Fiscal policy • Education • Environment • Health care • Constitutional issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-682-1200
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-408-0632

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eppc.org/" style="">Ethics and Public Policy Center</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. M. Edward Whelan III
President
1730 M Street Northwest, Suite 910&nbsp;
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:ethics@eppc.org" style="font-weight: bold;">ethics@eppc.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing, publication, and conferences. EPPC affirms the political relevance of the great Western ethical imperatives—respect for the dignity of every person, individual freedom and responsibility, justice, the rule of law, and limited government. It maintains that moral reasoning is an essential complement to empirical calculation in the shaping of public policy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Stem cell research/cloning • Marriage amendment • Just war theory • Religious freedom • Church-state relations • Constitutional law</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-46-8-83-8773
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-46-8-33-8168

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eudoxa.se/" style="">The Eudoxa Think Tank</a>&nbsp;</b>
Waldemar Ingdahl
Director
Sveavagen 133
Stockholm SE-113 46, Sweden&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:waldemar.ingdahl@eudoxa.se" style="font-weight: bold;">waldemar.ingdahl@eudoxa.se</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of The Eudoxa Think Tank is to assess the impact on society of emerging technology (genetics, robotics, information technology, nanotechnology) from a free market perspective. Eudoxa promotes a free market view on the environment and in biopolitics.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Technology and liberty • Biotechnology and genetics • Societal impact of emerging technologies • Free market and environment • Future scenario planning for policy purposes • Health care policy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-331-4062-3023
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-331-4062-3025

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.eurolibnetwork.net/" style="">Eurolib Network</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jacob Arfwedson
Editorial Director
31, bd de la Tour-Maubourg
75007 Paris, France&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:contact@eurolibnetwork.net" style="font-weight: bold;">contact@eurolibnetwork.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Eurolib Network seeks to help intellectuals, public policy leaders, academics, and journalists to gain access to the latest developments in the international free-market movement. It is a European initiative that lets members discover the intellectual wealth of think tanks worldwide that share the values of liberty and individual rights and that are striving to build open and prosperous societies based on free markets and free trade.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-32-2-289-1350

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ecipe.org/" style="">European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Fredrik Erixon
Director and Co-Founder
Rue Belliard 4-6
1040 Brussels, Belgium&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@ecipe.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ecipe.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;ECIPE is an independent and non-profit policy research think tank dedicated to trade policy and other international economic policy issues of importance to Europe.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;European trade policy • Regulatory policy • Common Agricultural Policy • International trade policy • Education • Health care • Foreign aid • Global economic governance</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-43 699 10 305505

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.e-growth.eu/" style="">European Coalition for Economic Growth</a>&nbsp;</b>
Barbara Kolm
President
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna,, Austria&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:barbara.kolm@e-growth.eu" style="font-weight: bold;">barbara.kolm@e-growth.eu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The principle mission of the European Coalition for Economic Growth (ECEG) is to work with public policy organizations advocating free markets and limited government, and unbiased and economic climate control, and to assist them in developing and sharing economic education programs. Greater economic literacy among the public, opinion leaders, politicians, and bureaucrats will lead to better public policies which will result in more economic opportunity for everyone.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free Markets • Limited Government • Free Europe • Health Policy • Climate Control • Economic Growth</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>973-273-7217
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;973-273-7222

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.nje3.org/" style="">Excellent Education for Everyone</a>&nbsp;</b>
Peter Denton
Founder and Chairman
45 Academy Street, Suite 501
Newark, NJ, United States 07102
<a href="mailto:derrell@nje3.org" style="font-weight: bold;">derrell@nje3.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Excellent Education for Everyone (E3) is a coalition of New Jersey citizens from across the political spectrum and from all races, all religions, all ethnic groups, and all regions of the state dedicated to improving education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-421-2-48-291-585
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-421-2-48-291-243

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.hayek.sk/" style="">F. A. Hayek Foundation, Bratislava</a>&nbsp;</b>
Martin Chren
Director
Jasikova 6
821 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, The&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:hayek@hayek.sk" style="font-weight: bold;">hayek@hayek.sk</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The core mission of the F. A. Hayek Foundation is to establish a tradition of liberal thinking in Slovakia—an approach that had never existed in Slovakia before. From this liberal tradition, the Foundation seeks to offer practical reform proposals for market solutions to economic and social problems; to widen and propagate throughout Slovakia classical liberal ideas; to provide a platform to change the opinions of experts and the broader public; and to develop the basic liberal ideas and values. The Foundation also is strongly focused on real results and impacts of its activities; as its motto says: “Courageous Thinking – Successful Reforms.”
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social Security reform • Tax and public finance • Education • Classical liberalism • Business environment/regulation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-34-91-576-68-57; (+34) 91 576 68 57
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-34-91-575-46-95

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fundacionfaes.org/" style="">FAES Fundación</a>&nbsp;</b>
Javier Zarzalejos
Secretary General
c/ María de Molina 40 - 6ª planta
28006, Madrid, Spain&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:fundacionfaes@fundacionfaes.org" style="font-weight: bold;">fundacionfaes@fundacionfaes.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;FAES is a non-profit, private think tank. Linked to the Spanish center-right party, Partido Popular, FAES has been headed by José María Anzar since its creation in 1989. By creating, promoting, and spreading ideas based on political, intellectual, and economic freedom, it seeks to strengthen the values of Western freedom, democracy, and humanism.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic reforms • Constitutional stability • War against terrorism • Transatlantic partnership • Opportunity-based society • Democracy in Latin America</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>770-622-1501

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ffcoalition.com/" style="">Faith & Freedom Coalition</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary Max
Executive Director&nbsp;
P.O. BOX 957736
DULUTH, GA, United States 30095
<a href="mailto:INFO@FFCOALITION.COM" style="font-weight: bold;">INFO@FFCOALITION.COM</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;We believe that the greatness of America lies not in the federal government but in the character of our people — the simple virtues of faith, hard work, marriage, family, personal responsibility, and helping the least among us. If we lose sight of these values, America will cease to be great. Never before has it been more critical for us to speak out for these values. That is why the Faith and Freedom Coalition is committed to educating, equipping, and mobilizing people of faith and like-minded individuals to be effective citizens. Together we will influence public policy and enact legislation that strengthens families, promotes time-honored values, protects the dignity of life and marriage, lowers the tax burden on small business and families, and requires government to tighten its belt and live within its means.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)4&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;sanctity of life marriage *limited government *taxation *education *poverty *free-markets *Israel *terrorism and national security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-731-5328

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.faithandfreedom.us/" style="">Faith and Freedom Network</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary Randall
Lobbyist and Director
PO Box 399
Bellevue, WA, United States 98009
<a href="mailto:info@faithandfreedom.us" style="font-weight: bold;">info@faithandfreedom.us</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Faith and Freedom Network (formerly Washington Evangelicals for Responsible Government) is to present to the Washington state legislature and government agencies an evangelical Christian perspective on issues being considered and to inform interested citizens and groups about issues that affect them.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Same sex marriage • Pro-life issues • Conscience clause for churches and hospitals • Pornography exposed to children - library filters • Embryonic stem cell research • Church property taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-289-8775
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-289-2502

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.frinstitute.org/" style="">Faith and Reason Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert Royal
President
1413 K Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC, United States 20005-3490
<a href="mailto:info@frinstitute.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@frinstitute.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Faith and Reason Institute aims at bringing both faith and reason to bear on all the issues that confront the nation. It is the first Washington think tank devoted to encouraging both of these essential dimensions of our existence. The Institute seeks to recover the ancient Western understanding of human knowledge and divine revelation as coordinate calls upon the human spirit that need to be translated into everyday practice. Unlike other institutions interested in religion, it addresses questions of economics, politics, public policy, science, technology, the environment, and public culture from the perspectives of both faith and reason. The Institute conducts a program of research, conferences, seminars, and publishing aimed at introducing better ideas of faith and reason to the culture as a whole.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Religion and Western civilization • Character and culture • Law and religion • Alternatives to public education • Catholicism and the American Public Square • Religion and globalization</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>425-679-5671
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;425-679-5675

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familiesnorthwest.org/" style="">Families Northwest</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jeff Kemp
President
PO Box 40584
Bellevue, WA, United States 98015-4584
<a href="mailto:info@familiesnorthwest.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@familiesnorthwest.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Families Northwest exists to encourage the development of communities where families are valued and nurtured. It is an information, research, and communications organization that strives to multiply its efforts on behalf of families by networking with various leaders in state government, the media, churches, and businesses who Families Northwest believes can help change hearts and attitudes about the importance of family on a larger scale. Families Northwest also comments on public policy, informs citizens about community issues, produces public service announcements on family relationships, and promotes civic responsibility, family-friendly business practices, and marriage-strengthening principles.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage and divorce • Increasing family time together • Parental rights • Family-friendly business • Abstinence education and healthy relationships • Strengthening roles of both mothers and fathers</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>615-591-2090

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.factn.org/" style="">Family Action Council of Tennessee</a>&nbsp;</b>
David Fowler
Executive Director
2479 Murfreesboro Rd #362
Nashville, TN, United States 37217
<a href="mailto:info@factn.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@factn.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Family Action Council of Tennessee (FACT)'s mission is to promote and defend a culture that values the traditional family, for the sake of the common good. We believe that healthy families and communities come about when basic values from the Bible are embraced and upheld. Even those who may not believe everything in the Bible have found it hard to overlook its long track record of creating stable societies. Neglecting commonsense biblical values contributes to many of our nation’s current ills like crime, disease, divorce, “unwanted” pregnancies, teen suicide and academic failure.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage and Family • Right to Life • Adoption • Religious Liberty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-292-2113
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;402-435-3280

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familyfirst.org/" style="">Family First</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dave Bydalek
Executive Director
610 J Street, Suite 10
Lincoln, NE, United States 68508
<a href="mailto:nebfirst@familyfirst.org" style="font-weight: bold;">nebfirst@familyfirst.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Family First is a non-profit, family policy council affiliated with Focus on the Family and is particularly concerned with public policy issues that affect families in Nebraska. Family First links experts in law, medicine, media, and education to help families deal with the problems facing Nebraska communities, the state, and the nation. Its mission is to equip and encourage the citizens of Nebraska to create communities where families are once again valued, nurtured, and strengthened. From rising crime rates among youth, illegitimate births, and skyrocketing divorce statistics, American public policy and culture have shifted away from the Judeo-Christian values upon which the nation was founded.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Fatherhood • Marriage and divorce • Abstinence • Family tax issues • Same-sex marriage and marriage amendment • Traditional family values</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>606-255-5400
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;606-233-3330

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.tffky.org/" style="">The Family Foundation of Kentucky</a>&nbsp;</b>
Kent Ostrander
Executive Director
PO Box 22100
Lexington, KY, United States 40522
<a href="mailto:tffky@mis.net" style="font-weight: bold;">tffky@mis.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Foundation of Kentucky is a non-profit, educational organization that works in the public policy arena to strengthen families and protect the values that make families strong in Kentucky.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Gambling • Homosexuality • Abstinence education • Striptease regulation • Pornography • Alcohol • Hate crimes law • Healthcare • Sanctity of life • Education • Taxation</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>804-343-0010
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;804-343-0050

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familyfoundation.org/" style="">The Family Foundation of Virginia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Victoria Cobb
Director of Legislative Affairs
One Capitol Square, 830 East Main Street, Suite 1201
Richmond, VA, United States 23219
<a href="mailto:vafamily@familyfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">vafamily@familyfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Foundation of Virginia is a non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to strengthen the family by improving public policy through research, education, and civic activism. The Foundation researches the issues being debated in Richmond and provides analysis and ideas to both citizens and elected officials.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Life • Marriage • Taxes • Religious liberty • Pornography • School choice</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>877-33-FAMILY
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;860-548-9545

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.ctfamily.org/" style="">Family Institute of Connecticut</a>&nbsp;</b>
Peter Wolfgang
Executive Director
PO Box 260210
Hartford, CT, United States 06126
<a href="mailto:info@ctfamily.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@ctfamily.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Institute of Connecticut’s mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society and to promote sound ethical and moral values in our culture and government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage savers • Fatherhood movement • Educational improvement through school choice and scholarships • Defense of marriage (oppose same-sex marriage)</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>304-982-2803

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familypolicywv.com/" style="">The Family Policy Council of West Virginia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jeremy Dys
Executive Director
PO Box 566
Charleston, WV, United States 25322
<a href="mailto:info@familypolicywv.com" style="font-weight: bold;">info@familypolicywv.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Policy Council of West Virginia is a servant organization that advocates for policies that embrace the sanctity of human life, enrich marriage, and safeguard religious freedom. Our passion is to advance, defend, and equip West Virginia's families.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)4&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Right to Life • Marriage and Family • Religious Liberty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>425-608-0242

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fpiw.org/" style="">The Family Policy Institute of Washington</a>&nbsp;</b>
Joseph Backholm
Executive Director
16108 Ash Way, Suite 111A
Lynnwood, WA, United States 98087
<a href="mailto:jbackholm@fpiw.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jbackholm@fpiw.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Policy Institute of Washington is a non-profit organization that believes strong families are the foundation of a strong and healthy state. Therefore, we are fully committed to promoting public policy that encourages families to form, grow, and endure. The FPIW advocates for life, marriage, religious freedom and parental rights in the halls of government as well as in media, churches, schools, and community forums throughout our state.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3 and 501(c)4&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Right to Life • Marriage and Family • Parent Rights • Religious Liberty • Judicial Watch</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-656-5384

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.familypolicy.net/" style="">Family Policy Network</a>&nbsp;</b>
Joe Glover
Founder and President
PO Box 1199
Forest, VA, United States 24551-1199
<a href="mailto:mail@familypolicy.net" style="font-weight: bold;">mail@familypolicy.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Family Policy Network (FPN) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Christians and confronting the culture on the important moral issues of the day.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Definition of the family • Human sexuality • Religious liberties</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-393-2100
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-393-2134

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.frc.org/" style="">Family Research Council (FRC)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tony Perkins
President
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20001
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Research Council champions marriage and family as the foundation of civilization, the seedbed of virtue, and the wellspring of society. The Council shapes public debate and formulates public policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. Believing that God is the author of life, liberty, and the family, FRC promotes the Judeo-Christian world view as the basis for a just, free, and stable society.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage • Cloning/stem cell research • Abortion • Judicial activism • Pornography/sex trafficking • Religious liberties</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>608-256-3228
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;608-256-3370

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fri-wi.org/" style="">The Family Research Institute of Wisconsin, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Julaine K. Appling
Executive Director
222 South Hamilton Street, Suite 23, PO Box 2075
Madison, WI, United States 53703-3321
<a href="mailto:julaine@fri-wii.org" style="font-weight: bold;">julaine@fri-wii.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Family Research Institute of Wisconsin’s mission is to inform Wisconsin’s citizens, churches, and policymakers about the importance of pro-family legislative and cultural issues of our day in a way that will inspire these groups to be involves in strengthening and protecting marriage and family in Wisconsin.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Preservation of traditional marriage and family • Banning of human embryonic stem-cell research • Banning of human cloning • Advocating for abstinence-only education programs in public schools</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-822-8138
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-296-8061

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/" style="">The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies</a>&nbsp;</b>
Eugene B. Meyer
President
1015 18th Street, NW, Suite 425
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:fedsoc@radix.net" style="font-weight: bold;">fedsoc@radix.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Federalist Society is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to the Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Rule of law • Constitutional law</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-772-0400
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-772-0401

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fightforchildren.org/" style="">Fight for Children, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Michela English
President & CEO
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 1080
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:fcc.email@fightforchildren.org" style="font-weight: bold;">fcc.email@fightforchildren.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Fight For Children is to create brighter futures for children by supporting organizations, initiatives, and programs that provide quality education options and health care opportunities. Founded in 1990, it has raised over $105 million through contributions, matching grants, and public policy initiatives to support more than 140 organizations in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education for children • Health care for children</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>928-779-0052
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;928-774-8589

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.instflag.org/" style="">The Flagstaff Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Richard L. Bolin
Director
PO Box 986
Flagstaff, AZ, United States 86002-0986
<a href="mailto:instflag@aol.com" style="font-weight: bold;">instflag@aol.com</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1976, The Flagstaff Institute is a non-profit research institution dedicated to improved world trade and business. It specializes in research on trade flows of manufactured goods around the world, especially those from the developing countries to the advanced nations. Since 1985, it has managed the private non-profit World Economic Processing Zones Association (WEPZA). The Institute seeks to protect free zone incentives in poor countries, enhance communications among members and users of economic processing zones and free zones, and organize members to coordinate policies to have influence on World Trade Organizations decisions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic processing zones and free zones • World Trade Organization</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>407-251-5130
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;407-251-0023

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.flfamily.org/" style="">Florida Family Policy Council</a>&nbsp;</b>
John T. Stemberger
President and General Counsel
4853 South Orange Avenue, Suite C
Orlando, FL, United States 32806
<a href="mailto:info@flfamily.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@flfamily.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Florida Family Policy Council seeks to educate and inform citizens about public policy issues in Florida that would impact marriage, children, and families. Its mission is to strengthen Florida’s families through public policy education, issue research, and grassroots advocacy.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Abortion • Stem-cell research • Euthanasia • Marriage • Abstinence education • Pornography and obscenity laws • School choice • Church/state issues • Religious liberty</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>850-222-5052
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;850-222-7476

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.floridataxwatch.org/" style="">Florida TaxWatch Research Institute, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dominic M. Calabro
President and CEO
106 North Bronough Street
Tallahassee, FL, United States 32302-2209
<a href="mailto:dcalabro@floridataxwatch.org" style="font-weight: bold;">dcalabro@floridataxwatch.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Florida TaxWatch’s mission is to provide the citizens of Florida with high quality independent research and education on government revenues, expenditures, taxation, policies, and programs to promote the effective and efficient use of taxpayer’s dollars and to increase the productivity and accountability of Florida government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Minimum wage • Substitute business communications tax • Educational reform • Florida’s constitutional amendment process</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>719-531-3400
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;719-548-4525

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.family.org/" style="">Focus on the Family</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jim Daly
President
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs, CO, United States 80920
<a href="mailto:corrdpt@fotf.org" style="font-weight: bold;">corrdpt@fotf.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family’s primary reason for existence is to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in disseminating the Gospel of Jesus Christ to as many people as possible, and, specifically, to accomplish that objective by helping to preserve traditional values and the instruction of the family.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage/divorce • Life issues • Education • Gender issues • Sexuality • Gambling</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-27-31-716-3300
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-27-31-766-1113

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.safamily.org.za/" style="">Focus on the Family Africa</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Amon Kasambala
CEO
Private Bag x1023
Hillcrest 3650, South Africa&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:correspondence@fotf.co.za" style="font-weight: bold;">correspondence@fotf.co.za</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family Africa seeks to be sensitive to the needs of families in southern Africa and meet those needs with strong, biblically-based advice and resources. That advice is distributed through constituent services, resources, radio broadcasts, and educational programs.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Traditional family • Christian ministry • Youth abstinence</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-61-1300-300-361
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-61-9546-5045&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.families.org.au/" style="">Focus on the Family Australia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Victor Andrew Boutros
CEO
PO Box 5210
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:response@families.org.au" style="font-weight: bold;">response@families.org.au</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family Australia opened its doors in 1993 when former director Glenn Williams decided that Pro-Fam Australia could benefit from becoming a Focus on the Family associate office. Since then, Focus on the Family Australia has developed an anti-drug program, created a Web presence, placed Focus on the Family programs on more than 100 stations, and reached out to families throughout the country.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Traditional family • Anti-drugs • Christian ministry</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>1-604-539-7900
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;1-604-539-7999

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fotf.ca/" style="">Focus on the Family Canada</a>&nbsp;</b>


Station Terminal, PO Box 9800
Vancouver, BC V6B 4G3, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:letters@fotf.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">letters@fotf.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-20-2-270-9896
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-20-2-270-9683

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Focus on the Family Egypt&nbsp;</b>
Sami Yacoub
Director
PO Box 1101
Helipolis Bahri 11737, Egypt&nbsp;
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family Egypt is committed to five major areas of ministry: pro-life protection, pastoral support, teen programs, a family resource center, and a church-society-family advocacy program. The organization, which opened its doors in 2002, wants to protect pre-born children by providing crises pregnancy care, by educating Christian leaders, young couples, and teenagers, and by encouraging a pro-life way of thinking in Egypt.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Pro-life • Christian ministry • Family</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-353-1-806-6288

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.family.ie/" style="">Focus on the Family Ireland</a>&nbsp;</b>
Mervyn Nutley
Director
Unit 11, The Plaza, Main Street
Blanchardstown
Dublin 15, Ireland&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@family.ie" style="font-weight: bold;">info@family.ie</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family Ireland is a wholly-Irish organization run and staffed by Irish people but with the backup and support of Focus on the Family’s offices around the world. Focus on the Family Ireland is founded on, and guided by, Christian principles and values. It aims to reach people at every stage of life from young children, through teens and young adults, to parents and grandparents with timely advice, resources, and programs.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Marriage and parenting • Family • Christian faith</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-6-03-5882-3343
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-6-03-5882-3533

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.family.org.my/" style="">Focus on the Family Malaysia</a>&nbsp;</b>
Lee Wee Min
Executive Director
39, Jalan Bandar Enambelas, Pusat Bandar Puchong
47100 Puchong, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:focus@family.org.my" style="font-weight: bold;">focus@family.org.my</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family Malaysia is concerned with the disintegration of the institution of the family and weakening of family values and relationships in Malaysia. The office recognizes the eternal value of the family as the basic functional unit of society with meaningful roles, rights, and responsibilities. On the political front, Focus on the Family Malaysia works closely with the government of Malaysia under the Ministry of Women and Family Development. The area of involvement includes the drafting of family policies, planning of a national family day and special events, developing programs and campaigns to strengthen families, and translating resources into Malay.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Traditional family • Women and children • Christian ministry</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-64-800-200-362

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.focus.org.nz/" style="">Focus on the Family New Zealand</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tim Sisarich
Director
PO Box 37955
Parnell
Aukland, New Zealand&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@focus.org.nz" style="font-weight: bold;">info@focus.org.nz</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Focus on the Family New Zealand has been serving New Zealand families since Ian and Mary Grant officially opened the office doors in 1999. Serving families’ needs has involved mailing a quarterly newsletter, producing a daily radio program, running a church family representative program, and setting up church resource stands.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Traditional family • Christian ministry</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-65-6336-1444
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-65-6491-0707

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.family.org.sg/" style="">Focus on the Family Singapore</a>&nbsp;</b>


9 Bishan Place
Junction 8 Shopping Centre, #08-03
Singapore 579837, Singapore&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:focus@family.org.sg" style="font-weight: bold;">focus@family.org.sg</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;As incorporated in the Singapore 21 Family Values, Focus on the Family Singapore believes there is no substitute for a strong family. It is within the family that husbands and wives, siblings, parents and children, and young and old learn to grow together and care for one another. A loving and secure family can make all the difference in helping individuals withstand the tremendous pressures of the 21st century. The organization’s mission is to strengthen the institution of family by working alongside families to enrich them.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Parenting • Families • Sexuality</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>303-494-0280
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;303-494-0280

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.forourgrandchildren.org/" style="">For Our Grandchildren</a>&nbsp;</b>
Leanne Abdnor&nbsp;
President
128 Iroquois Drive
Boulder, CO, United States 80303
<a href="mailto:labdnor@forourgrandchildren.org" style="font-weight: bold;">labdnor@forourgrandchildren.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of For Our Grandchildren is to educate the American public about the problems ahead in Social Security and the options for reform, including voluntary Personal Retirement Accounts.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Social Security reform</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-223-5452
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-223-9226

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.edexcellence.net/" style="">Thomas B. Fordham Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Chester E. Finn, Jr.
President
1701 K Street, NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC, United States 20006
<a href="mailto:backtalk@edexcellence.net" style="font-weight: bold;">backtalk@edexcellence.net</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Through research, analysis, advocacy, and action, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation strives to improve primary–secondary education and close America’s most vexing achievement gaps by raising standards, strengthening accountability, and expanding the quantity and quality of education options for children. The Foundation advances the reform of American education, nationally and in Ohio, by engaging in solid, cutting-edge research; disseminating information, analysis, opinion, criticism, and encouragement; supporting quality schools and organizations across the nation; sponsoring charter schools in Ohio and building their academic excellence; and engaging federal, state, and local policymakers to embrace promising reform strategies.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Charters and choice in public schools • School standards and accountability • Teacher quality • Special education • Curriculum and instruction</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-296-3322

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/" style="">The Foreign Policy Initiative</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jamie M. Fly
Policy Director&nbsp;
1718 M Street, N.W.&nbsp;
Number 234
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@foreignpolicyi.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@foreignpolicyi.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;In 2009 the United States--and its democratic allies--face many foreign policy challenges. They come from rising and resurgent powers, including China and Russia. They come from other autocracies that violate the rights of their citizens. They come from rogue states that work with each other in ways inimical to our interests and principles, and that sponsor terrorism and pursue weapons of mass destruction. They come from Al Qaeda and its affiliates who continue to plot attacks against the United States and our allies. They come from failed states that serve as havens for terrorists and criminals and spread instability to their neighbors. The United States faces these challenges while engaged in military operations across the globe, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. The sacrifice of American lives and significant economic expenditure in these conflicts has led to warnings of U.S. strategic overreach, and calls for American retrenchment. There are those who hope we can just return to normalcy--to pre-9/11 levels of defense spending and pre-9/11 tactics. They argue for a retreat from America’s global commitments and a renewed focus on problems at home, an understandable if mistaken response to these difficult economic times.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;continued U.S. engagement - robust support for America’s democratic allies - Human Rights - a strong military defense budget - international economic engagement</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>215-732-3774
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;215-732-4401

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fpri.org/" style="">Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Alan Luxenberg
President
1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19102
<a href="mailto:fpri@fpri.org" style="font-weight: bold;">fpri@fpri.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Founded in 1955, FPRI is dedicated to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests abroad. The Institute works in three areas: research, publication, and education.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;U.S. foreign policy • U.S. defense posture • Secondary school teacher training in history/U.S. foreign policy • Terrorism, counter-terrorism, and homeland security • Middle East diplomacy • East Asian security</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(989) 837-4255

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//www.northwood.edu/" style="">Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise</a>&nbsp;</b>
Glenn Moots
Director
4000 Whiting Dr
Midland, MI, United States 48640
<a href="mailto:moots@northwood.edu" style="font-weight: bold;">moots@northwood.edu&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise at Northwood University provides resources for understanding and practicing the principles and virtues promoting liberty, ethical conduct, and free enterprise. forum programming is designed to cultivate citizens best able to maintain the rights and responsibilites of a constitutional republic oconsistent with America's Founding Principles.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;ethics free enterprise *the Founding *constitutionalism *first principles *free society</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-207-0190
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-207-0191

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/" style="">Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Clifford D. May
Executive Director
PO Box 33249
Washington, DC, United States 20033
<a href="mailto:info@defenddemocracy.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@defenddemocracy.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a policy institute that focuses on terrorism, the ideologies that drive terrorism, and the policies that can best eradicate terrorism. In addition, FDD promotes freedom, human rights, and the building of democratic institutions. Those affiliated with FDD believe that terrorism is always wrong—that no grievance or complaint justifies the intentional killing of non-combatant men, women, and children—and that democratic societies have a right to defend themselves and an obligation to defend one another.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Global war on terrorism • Promoting democracy and freedom • National security • International relations</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-331-1333
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-436-9477

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.democracy-africa.org/" style="">The Foundation for Democracy in Africa</a>&nbsp;</b>
Fred O. Oladeinde
President
1200 G Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC, United States 20005
<a href="mailto:comments@democracy-africa.org" style="font-weight: bold;">comments@democracy-africa.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Foundation for Democracy in Africa (FDA) was formed in 1994 with the sole mission of helping to integrate African countries into the mainstream of the global economy. It does this by educating leaders in the concepts of democratic capitalism and by promoting this concept among the population at large along with helping African people deal with the challenges arising from the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Africa’s inclusion in the global economy • Democratic capitalism and free enterprise • Economic development • Civil society inclusion in development initiatives • Transportation and international trade • Employment in African development</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>800-960-4FEE
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;914-591-8910

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fee.org/" style="">Foundation for Economic Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Lawrence Reed
President
<b>Main Office:</b>
30 South Broadway
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY, United States 10533
<a href="mailto:support@fee.org" style="font-weight: bold;">support@fee.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is devoted to educating people, especially young people, in the principles of free-market economics and individual liberty. FEE is not concerned directly with policy. Rather, it is concerned with ideas—ideas that in the long run will promote policies consistent with free markets and individual liberty. FEE publishes a monthly journal,&nbsp;<i>Ideas on Liberty</i>.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic education • Individual freedom</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>914-591-7230

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fee.org/" style="">Foundation for Economic Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Lawrence Reed
President
<b>Branch Office:</b>
260 Peachtree Street, NW, Suite 2200
Atlanta, GA, United States 30303
<a href="mailto:support@fee.org" style="font-weight: bold;">support@fee.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is devoted to educating people, especially young people, in the principles of free-market economics and individual liberty. FEE is not concerned directly with policy. Rather, it is concerned with ideas—ideas that in the long run will promote policies consistent with free markets and individual liberty. FEE publishes a monthly journal,&nbsp;<i>Ideas on Liberty</i>.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic education • Individual freedom</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>518-383-2598
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;518-383-2841

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.nyfera.org/" style="">Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability</a>&nbsp;</b>
Thomas W. Carroll
President
4 Chelsea Park, Second Floor
Clifton Park, NY, United States 12065
<a href="mailto:info@nyfera.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@nyfera.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability is to improve the quality of education in New York by promoting accountability, stimulating innovation, and supporting school choice efforts across the state.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Charter schools • Education unions and interest groups • Federal education policy • Public finance and administration of schools • School choice • Educational standards, curriculum, and testing</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>317-681-0745
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;317-681-0945

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.edchoice.org/" style="">The Foundation for Educational Choice</a>&nbsp;</b>
Robert C. Enlow
President and CEO
One American Square, Suite 2420
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46282
<a href="mailto:rcenlow@friedmanfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rcenlow@friedmanfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, dubbed “the nation’s leading voucher advocates” by The Wall Street Journal, is a non-profit organization established in 1996. The origins of the foundation lie in the Friedmans’ long-standing concern about the serious deficiencies in America’s elementary and secondary public schools. The best way to improve the quality of education, they believe, is to enable all parents with the freedom to choose the schools that their children attend. The Friedman Foundation builds upon this vision, clarifies its meaning to the public and amplifies the national call for true education reform through school choice.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;K–12 Education • Parental choice • Teachers unions and teachers • Entrepreneurship in schools</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>850-391-4090
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;786-664-1794

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://http//excelined.org" style="">Foundation for Excellence in Education</a>&nbsp;</b>
Patricia Levesque
Executive Director
PO Box 10691
Tallahassee, FL, United States 32302-2691
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Launched by Jeb Bush in 2007, the Foundation for Excellence in Education seeks to identify, reward, and foster replication of excellence in education. The Foundation hopes that by defining, sharing, and adopting the characteristics of greatness in education, public schools can be transformed into world-class learning institutions.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>201-368-2100
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;201-368-3438

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fffe.org/" style="">Foundation for Free Enterprise</a>&nbsp;</b>
Elizabeth Napoli
Interim President
South 61 Paramus Road
PO Box 768
Paramus, NJ, United States 07653-0768
<a href="mailto:info@fffe.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fffe.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Foundation for Free Enterprise is to provide leadership in furthering the understanding and appreciation of the free-market system by educating young people and others who will influence the future concerning free-market economics, limited government, individual self-reliance, and the preservation of the entrepreneurial spirit.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free-enterprise education • Educational resource bank • Seminars for business leaders on free-market effectiveness • Video conferencing capability • Student internship program</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>239-244-8808
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;239-217-4397

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.floridafga.org/" style="">Foundation for Government Accountability</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tarren Bragdon
Chief Executive Officer
15275 Collier Boulevard, Suite 201-279
Naples, FL, United States 34119
<a href="mailto:info@floridafga.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@floridafga.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) believes personal liberty and private enterprise are key to states’ economic future. To advance this vision, FGA develops and promotes public policies that achieve limited, constitutional government and a robust economy that will be an engine for job creation across the states.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Free Markets, Welfare Reform, Health Care Reform, Transparency</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>215-717-3473
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;212-717-3440

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.thefire.org/" style="">The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
Greg Lukianoff
President
601 Walnut Street, Suite 510
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19106
<a href="mailto:fire@thefire.org" style="font-weight: bold;">fire@thefire.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s increasingly repressive and partisan colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE is not merely another voice in “the culture wars.” It exists for nothing less than to restore to institutions of higher education—through accurate exposure of abuses, strategic and tactical efficiency, a media network, and legal assistance to those helpless before the winds of campus orthodoxy—the core values of liberty, dignity, open debate, and respect of private conscience.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Legal inequality and double standards in the academy • Equal rights on campus for the politically incorrect • Academic freedom and due process • Rights of private and religious conscience • Freedom of speech on campus • Sensitivity training, thought reform, and indoctrination</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>406-585-1776
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;406-585-3000

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.free-eco.org/" style="">Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)</a>&nbsp;</b>
John A. Baden, Ph.D.
Chairman
662 Ferguson Road
Bozeman, MT, United States 59718
<a href="mailto:jbaden@free-eco.org" style="font-weight: bold;">jbaden@free-eco.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;FREE advances conservation and environmental values by applying modern science and America’s founding ideals to policy debates. As “intellectual entrepreneurs,” FREE explains how economic incentives, secure property rights, the rule of law, and responsible prosperity foster a healthy environment. While its seminars are explicitly pro-environment, they explain why ecological values are not the only important ones. FREE stresses that trade-offs among competing values are inescapable. The organization shows why it is ethically and materially irresponsible to pretend such choices can be avoided. FREE conducts seminars and conferences and produces books and articles. It focuses on four main audiences: federal judges, law professors, business leaders, and environmental entrepreneurs.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Environmental economics • Science and risk analysis • Biotechnology and genetics • Terrorism • Energy • Civil liberties</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>530-757-4630
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;530-757-4636

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fte.org/" style="">Foundation for Teaching Economics</a>&nbsp;</b>
Gary M. Walton
President
260 Russell Boulevard, Suite B
Davis, CA, United States 95616-3839
<a href="mailto:information@fte.org" style="font-weight: bold;">information@fte.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Foundation for Teaching Economics is a non-profit entity organized for the purpose of introducing young individuals, selected for their leadership potential, to an economic way of thinking about national and international issues and to promote excellence in economic education by helping teachers of economics become more effective educators.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic education in secondary schools • Capitalism and how it benefits the poor • Using experimental education to promote economics</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>(+502) 2338-7700
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;(+502) 2334-6896&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://https//www.ufm.edu/index.php" style="">Francisco Marroquin University&nbsp;</a></b>


Calle Manuel F. Ayau (6 Calle final), zona 10
Guatemala 01010, Guatemala&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:inf@ufm.edu" style="font-weight: bold;">inf@ufm.edu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;economics *free enterprise *political philosophy *economic philosophy *democracy *education</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-49-30-20-60-57-0
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-49-30-20-60-57-57

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.frankfurter-institut.de/" style="">Frankfurter Institut - Stiftung Marktwirtschaft und Politik</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Bernd Raffelhüschen
Director
Charlottenstrasse 60
10117 Berlin, Germany&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@stiftung-marktwirtschaft.de" style="font-weight: bold;">info@stiftung-marktwirtschaft.de</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Frankfurter Institut and its scientific adviser, the Kronberger Circle, studies politics, economics, and science. The think tank believes in a free market economy and has ideas for a trend-setting economic policy. Through publications, meetings, and discussions, the Institut hopes to influence decision makers in politics and society. The Institut is concerned with fundamental questions of administrative policy, but also with those ranges within which the action need is particularly urgent and against which there is particularly large resistance to change: the job market and social politics as well as federalism.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Federalism • Germany economic policy • Free market economy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>571-384-2090
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;571-384-2093

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.franklincenterhq.org/" style="">Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jason Stverak
President
1229 King St, 3rd Floor
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:info@franklincenterhq.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@franklincenterhq.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity was founded in 2009 to address falling standards in the media as well as a steep falloff in reporting on state government and provides professional training; research, editorial, multimedia and technical support; and assistance with marketing and promoting the work of a nationwide network of nonprofit reporters. Supplementing these efforts is our newly launched Citizen Watchdog program that trains ordinary citizens to report from local communities. Specializing in state and local government, Franklin Center has focused its efforts on reaching maximum penetration within small and mid-sized media markets – on driving a conversation about transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility at the grassroots level and putting a human face on public policy. We specialize in reaching a layman’s audience through local media, coordinating our nationwide network to ensure that we are hitting this audience in every state.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)3&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>604-688-0221
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;604-688-8539

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/" style="">The Fraser Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Dr. Michael A. Walker&nbsp;
Executive Director
1770 Burrard Street, Fourth Floor
Vancouver, BC V6J 3G7, Canada&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@fraserinstitute.ca" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fraserinstitute.ca</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Fraser Institute is an independent Canadian economic and social research and educational organization. It has as its objective the redirection of public attention to the role of competitive markets in providing for the well being of Canadians.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Health care • Education • Economic freedom • Fiscal issues • Taxation • Environmental and regulatory issues</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-624-3011
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;202-303-2134

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.frcaction.org/" style="">FRC Action</a>&nbsp;</b>
Tony Perkins
President
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20001
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;FRC Action (formerly American Renewal) was created in 1992 to educate the general public and cultural leaders about traditional American values, to promote the philosophy of the Founding Fathers concerning the nature of ordered liberty, and to assist other non-profit organizations in meeting the same objectives. FRC Action has underwritten the costs of video campaigns on public policy issues, supported the drafting and placement of policy advocacy advertising, and undertaken efforts to provide the nation’s political parties with information regarding traditional American values. The organization also lobbies Congress on such issues as abortion, religious persecution, and the defense of marriage.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Partial-birth abortion • U.S.-China policy • Religious persecution • Traditional family and heterosexual marriage</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-837-0030
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-837-0031

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.freecongress.org/" style="">Free Congress Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jim Gilmore
President and CEO
1423 Powhatan Street, #2
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
<a href="mailto:nnn@freecongress.org" style="font-weight: bold;">nnn@freecongress.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Free Congress Foundation is dedicated to conservative governance, traditional values, and institutional reform. It is politically conservative—but more than that, it is culturally conservative. The Free Congress Foundation stands firm for the nation’s great, traditional, Judeo-Christian culture against the long slide into cultural and moral decay of political correctness. The Foundation embraces the concept of coalition-building focused on particular issues.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Judicial activism • Technology policy • Privacy issues • Voters’ rights • Cultural conservatism • Grassroots organizing</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-381-11-187-245

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fmc.org.yu/" style="">Free Market Center</a>&nbsp;</b>
Miroslav Prokopijevic
President
Francuska 59
Belgrade 11000, Serbia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:info@fmc.org.yu" style="font-weight: bold;">info@fmc.org.yu</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Free Market Center (FMC) is a non-profit, tax-exempt NGO dedicated to researching and broadening ideas related to the free market economy. Its program is consistent with classical principles of individual liberty, free market economy, limited government, and peaceful cooperation. To that end, FMC strives to achieve greater involvement not only of leading liberal authors, but also of the intelligent, concerned lay public, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and students in questions of market policy and the proper role of government.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-27-11-884-0270
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;011-27-11-884-5672

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.freemarketfoundation.com/" style="">Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa</a>&nbsp;</b>
Leon Louw
Executive Director
PO Box 785121
Sandton 2146, South Africa&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:fmf@mweb.co.za" style="font-weight: bold;">fmf@mweb.co.za</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The mission of the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa is to conduct and promote technical and public policy research in the field of economics, to promote the interests of members by working for an economic and business environment that will facilitate the achievement of high economic growth in Southern Africa, to promote and foster economic freedom in Southern Africa and market economies internationally, and to educate the general public regarding sound economic principles by conducting courses, workshops, seminars, and conferences and by the dissemination of literature.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Economic freedom • Private health care versus national health • Freedom to work • Privatization of state assets and removal of state monopolies • Abolition of exchange control and deregulation of financial markets • Repeal of compulsory schooling laws</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>011-386-41-755-591

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.fsi-institute.si/" style="">The Free Society Institute</a>&nbsp;</b>
Matej Steinbacher
CEO
Prvomajska ulica 7
Slovenska Bistrica 2310, Slovenia&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:matej.steinbacher@fsi-institute.si" style="font-weight: bold;">matej.steinbacher@fsi-institute.si</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Free Society Institute is a non-partisan research and policy think tank whose mission is to promote free market principles, limited government, individual freedom, free enterprises, rule of law, and individual initiative.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b></font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>703-356-6912
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;703-356-5085

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.freespeechcoalition.org/" style="">Free Speech Coalition, Inc.</a>&nbsp;</b>
William J. Olson
Legal Co-Counsel
8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070
McLean, VA, United States 22102-3860
<a href="mailto:contactfsc@freespeechcoalition.org" style="font-weight: bold;">contactfsc@freespeechcoalition.org&nbsp;</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Free Speech Coalition, founded in 1993, is a non-partisan group of ideologically diverse non-profit organizations and the for-profit organizations that help them raise funds and implement programs. Its purpose is to protect the First Amendment rights of non-profits and reduce or eliminate the excessive regulatory burdens they face, including the costly and duplicative fund-raising registration requirements now required in almost every state.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Attack over-reaching state charitable solicitation laws • Protecting non-profit donor lists • Opposing restrictions on non-profit issue advocacy • Defend constitutional rights of advocacy organizations • Preserve access of advocacy organizations to non-profit postal rate</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>301-984-8253
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;301-299-5007

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.freestatefoundation.org/" style="">The Free State Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Randolph J. May
President
P. O. Box 60680
Potomac, MD, United States 20859
<a href="mailto:rmay@freestatefoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">rmay@freestatefoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Free State Foundation is a non-profit Maryland-based think tank. Its purpose to promote, through research and educational activities, understanding of free market, limited government, and rule of law principles in Maryland and throughout the United States.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Internet • Regulation and deregulation • Communications taxes</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>202-331-2777&nbsp;

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://freedomaction.org/" style="">Freedom Action</a>&nbsp;</b>
Coley Jackson
President
1899 L Street Northwest
Suite 1250
Washington, DC, United States 20036
<a href="mailto:info@freedomaction.org" style="font-weight: bold;">info@freedomaction.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;We believe that the federal government has grown far beyond its constitutional authority. It taxes and spends too much of the people’s money, and what it doesn’t take it tries to control through regulations. We believe that it is once again time to stand up for freedom and to put government back inside its constitutional limits. Let’s face it: the believers in more and bigger government are in power in Congress and the Administration. They are aided by the special interests seeking handouts (of the people’s money) that have taken over Washington—environmental pressure groups, big business, labor unions, government workers, lawyers, and lobbyists. Freedom Action's goal is to create a gathering of grassroots activists and make their voices heard above the special interests and big government advocates. We want to mobilize the tens of millions of Americans who believe in freedom and the Constitution in the way that MoveOn has mobilized the big government advocates. Freedom Action’s immediate political goals are to preserve individual rights and to stop the expansion of federal government regulation, spending, and taxation that are being pushed by President Barack Obama and the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, as well as some Republicans.&nbsp;
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(4)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;Individual Rights • Free Markets • Limited Government • Deregulation • Energy</font></div><div style="float: right;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Phone:&nbsp;</strong>360-956-3482
<b>Fax:</b>&nbsp;360-352-1874

</font></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.myfreedomfoundation.org/" style="">Freedom Foundation</a>&nbsp;</b>
Jonathan Bechtle&nbsp;
Chief Executive Officer
PO Box 552
Olympia, WA, United States 98507
<a href="mailto:tengland@myfreedomfoundation.org" style="font-weight: bold;">tengland@myfreedomfoundation.org</a>
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<b>Mission:</b>&nbsp;The Freedom Foundation’s (previously known as Evergreen Freedom Foundation) mission is to advance individual liberty, free enterprise, and responsible government. Its efforts center on public policy research and alternatives in these core areas: Washington state budget and tax policy, welfare reform, health care reform, education, and citizenship and governance issues. Essential to the organization are core governing principles that guide its work and help it achieve its mission.
<b>Tax Status:</b>&nbsp;501(c)(3)&nbsp;
<b>Policy/Priority Issues:</b>&nbsp;State budget and taxes • Education • Health care • Citizenship/governance • Teachers’ unions • Welfare reform</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>