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Richard Stern is the Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Prior to joining Heritage, Stern was a Congressional staffer for over seven years. During that time, he served as a policy staffer for the Republican Study Committee, where he was the staff lead for their Budget and Spending task force and spearheaded their work to create their FY 2020 and FY 2022 federal budgets. He also served as Legislative Director for Representative Tom McClintock of California and was a Legislative Assistant for former Representative Steve King of Iowa. Stern is a graduate of Emory University and holds a bachelor of arts in Economics.
Richard Stern
Former Director, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget
Richard Stern was Director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation.
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Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Alex Epstein had a three-word response after learning this week that Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey had included him in her investigation into climate change “fraud”: Buzz off, fascist.
Only he didn’t say “buzz.”
Mr. Epstein is a proud fossil fuel advocate, a believer that the benefits from cheap, reliable energy are more than offset by any still-under-debate problems from rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. His views are laid out in his 2014 book “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels” (Penguin Random House).
For this, he finds himself on the prosecutor’s radar. His advocacy group, the Center for Industrial Progress, was named in an April 19 subpoena issued by Ms. Healey’s office demanding 40 years of communications between ExxonMobil and a dozen free market groups and universities.
ExxonMobil released a copy of the subpoena Wednesday as part of its motion for an injunction filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in which the fossil fuel giant accused Ms. Healey of waging a politically motivated fishing expedition aimed at muzzling her ideological foes.
“Attorney General Healey is abusing the power of government to silence a speaker she disfavors,” said the motion.
Her office swung back Wednesday by accusing Exxon of engaging in “an unprecedented effort to limit the ability of state attorneys general to investigate fraud and unfair business practices and to protect Massachusetts consumers, investors and the public.”
The investigation centers on whether Exxon committed consumer and securities fraud stemming from the company’s challenging of the catastrophic climate change narrative.
“Our investigation is based, not on speculation, but on inconsistencies about climate change in Exxon documents which have been made public,” Healey spokeswoman Cyndi Roy Gonzalez said in the statement. “The First Amendment does not protect false and misleading statements in the marketplace.”
Ms. Gonzalez also called the point made by Exxon that it does not even do business in Massachusetts “completely preposterous” and “a clear attempt to delay and distract from the real issues.”
In its motion, Exxon said the Democrat Ms. Healey had made a “preordained determination” of the company’s guilt. Certainly, she has made no secret of her feelings about Exxon.
She was one of 17 attorneys general — 16 Democrats and one independent — who vowed at a March 29 press conference to use the system to pursue “fraud” allegations against fossil fuel companies and their supporters engaged in climate “denial.”
Ms. Healey said at the press event that “there’s nothing we need to worry about more than climate change.”
“Fossil fuel companies that deceived investors and consumers about the dangers of climate change should be, must be held accountable,” Ms. Healey said. “That’s why I too have joined in investigating the practices of ExxonMobil. We can all see today the troubling disconnect between what Exxon knew, what industry folks knew and what the company and industry chose to share with investors and with the American public.”
At least two other attorneys general at the press conference — New York’s Eric T. Schneiderman and the Virgin Islands’ Claude E. Walker — also have launched Exxon probes.
Exxon has moved to quash the Virgin Islands subpoena, which calls for documents and communications between the company going back 30 years with more than 100 think tanks, universities and academics.
Mr. Walker wound up dropping a subpoena in May against the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is pursuing sanctions against the prosecutor. The institute is one of the dozen groups named in the Massachusetts subpoena against Exxon.
Institute President Kent Lassman said the latest subpoena “demonstrates the growing threat to the civil liberties posed by a multistate coalition of attorneys general who choose politics over the Constitution.”
“The fight to defend free speech and the ability of all Americans to pursue the issues they believe in is essential,” Mr. Lassman said.
Exxon, which announced in 2007 that it had stopped funding free market nonprofits, issued a statement Wednesday taking issue with the assertion that it has engaged in climate “denial.”
“The great irony here is that we’ve acknowledged the risks of climate change for more than a decade, have supported a carbon tax as the better policy option and spent more than $7 billion on research and technologies to reduce emissions,” said Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers. “It should make people question what this is really all about.”
Critics of AGs United for Clean Power have accused the attorneys general of turning up the heat on Exxon in order to finagle a windfall along the lines of the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement reached with the states, which guaranteed a payout of $206 billion over 25 years.
“What makes this even more ridiculous to my mind is that ExxonMobil has not denied that somehow climate change is not taking place,” said John Malcolm, director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, which also was named in the subpoena.
“There is, however, a robust debate about what the cause of that is, how severe it is and what ought to be done about it,” Mr. Malcolm said. “It seems to me that the AGs here are going after a deep pocket and also going after, indirectly, those people who disagree with what is the politically correct view with respect to climate change.”
The other organizations named in the Massachusetts subpoena are the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, the American Enterprise Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the American Legislative Exchange Council, the American Petroleum Institute, the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University, the George C. Marshall Institute, The Heartland Institute and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
The subpoena demands what Exxon described as millions of documents dating back to Jan. 1, 1976, although the company argued in its motion that the four-year statute of limitations on potential fraud charges would exclude the vast majority of the documents.
In its motion, Exxon also cited the coalition’s involvement with climate change advocates, who prepped the attorneys general in the hours before the New York press conference. Documents show climate change groups have been advocating for state legal action against climate “deniers” as far back as a 2012 conference in La Jolla, California.
According to Exxon, the collusion between the Democratic attorneys general and climate change advocates “unmask the investigation launched by the Massachusetts Attorney General for what it is: a pretextual use of law enforcement power to deter ExxonMobil from participating in ongoing public deliberations about climate change and to fish through decades of ExxonMobil’s documents in the hope of finding some ammunition to enhance the Massachusetts Attorney General’s position in the policy debate concerning how to respond to climate change.”
Some Republicans, including attorneys general and members of Congress, have blasted the Democrat-led coalition’s pursuit of climate “fraud” as an abuse of prosecutorial power.
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Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee asked for information last month on the “coordinated efforts” against fossil fuel companies and climate skeptics by the attorneys general and climate groups. They have refused to comply with the request.
Meanwhile, Mr. Malcolm rejected the implication that Heritage Foundation scholars have challenged climate disaster scenarios in exchange for funding from fossil fuel companies.
“I don’t have any idea whether we receive a dime [from them],” said Mr. Malcolm. “But I can say this: Even if we did get money from them, the opinion of Heritage scholars are not bought and paid for. We would issue whatever opinions we would issue regardless of whether they gave us any money.”
Valerie Richardson can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.
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https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/katie-porter-heritage-witness-perjury/
**Rep. Katie Porter** (D-CA) accused a representative of the right-wing **Heritage Foundation** of falsely testifying under oath during Wednesday’s House hearing on gun violence. Congresswoman Porter, popular especially among policy wonks, is a Harvard Law graduate and a law professor.
“I respect that we have different opinions,” Rep. Porter told Amy Swearer, a Heritage Foundation legal fellow, “but we cannot have different facts. We have a duty to debate the merits of proposal. You falsely testified under oath.”
Swearer interrupted Rep. Porter, asking: “Would you like the explanation of why?”
Porter declined.
“You falsely testified under oath,” Porter repeated, when a Republican interrupted with “point of order.”
Sounding outraged, Swearer said: “I have been accused of falsely testifying under oath and I would like to address it.”
The Republican, off-camera, continued.
“The gentlewoman has accused her of perjury. Is she going to hold to that or are you going to allow the witness to respond to that accusation of criminal conduct?”
The chair was not impressed and ruled the Republican lawmaker did not have a significant point of order.
“I asked you if that bill was correct,” Rep. Porter continued. “If the bill would allow any gun owner to maintain possession and you said ‘yes.’ Yet you testified that the bill would allow people to become felons overnight. Earlier today, you testified that you hoped that this was the last time you testify before Congress. For the sake of our nation and the integrity of this Congress, I do too.”
Again outraged, Swearer declared, “I said after a mass shooting. How dare you?” she challenged Porter.
“How dare you misstate the law?” Porter replied.
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Fox’s flagship “straight news” show has a troubling record on the climate crisis
Nearly 88% of Special Report’s climate segments since 2009 either spread misinformation or perpetuated false or misleading narratives
Special PROGRAMS
CLIMATE & ENERGY
WRITTEN BY ALICIA SADOWSKI
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALLISON FISHER, REBECCA MARTIN, NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ & JANE LEE
PUBLISHED 06/16/21 12:01 PM EDT
Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier is heralded as the network’s flagship “straight news” program that firmly embodies the show’s motto of “fair, balanced, and unafraid.” Under Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier’s direction, however, Special Report has failed to meet its own standards in covering the climate crisis and environmental protection, instead providing a platform for many of the same climate denier guests and fossil fuel industry talking points featured on the network’s opinion side.
Media Matters examined Special Report with Bret Baier’s coverage related to climate change and the environment between January 1, 2009, and May 3, 2021. We counted and analyzed segments devoted to climate change or the environment and those in which a network figure discussed the issue or engaged with a guest who brought it up. We then broadly categorized the show’s misinformation and misleading narratives into five different angles of attack -- regarding climate science, the economy, the efficacy and public demand for domestic climate action, global cooperation, and the urgency of the crisis. These narratives undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and/or drives for climate action or environmental protection. We counted each angle once per segment even if it arose multiple times; segments often included more than one angle.
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KEY FINDINGS
SPECIAL REPORT IS PART OF THE DECADESLONG AND ONGOING CAMPAIGN TO DELAY CLIMATE ACTION
BAIER’S “STRAIGHT NEWS” COVERAGE OF THE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT ECHOES THE LIES OF FOX’S OPINION PERSONALITIES
SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES CLIMATE SCIENCE
SPECIAL REPORT SETS UP A FALSE CONFLICT BETWEEN A HEALTHY PLANET AND A THRIVING ECONOMY OR MISREPRESENTS THE EFFICACY AND PUBLIC DEMAND FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS
SPECIAL REPORT FUELS NATIONALISTIC AND MISLEADING NARRATIVES OPPOSING GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFORTS
SPECIAL REPORT UNDERMINES THE SERIOUSNESS AND URGENCY OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS
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METHODOLOGY
Key Findings
From January 1, 2009, to May 3, 2021, Special Report aired at least 972 segments covering stories related to climate change or the environment.
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At least 851 of those segments -- more than 87% -- featured false or misleading narratives and misinformation.
Since 2009, Fox chief political anchor Bret Baier, guest anchors, correspondents, and guests on Special Report have undermined, doubted, misrepresented, or otherwise dismissed climate science and the urgency of climate action at least 1,333 times.
Of the 851 Special Report segments that attacked or misrepresented climate change or environmental protection:
14% undermined climate science.
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29% set up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy.
43% misrepresented the efficacy of climate action or the public demand for environmental protections.
8% fueled nationalistic defenses of climate inaction and/or misled viewers about global climate efforts.
more than 5% undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis.
Special Report’s specific attacks undermining climate science were most frequent at the start of Baier’s run as anchor, which began in January 2009. The show spread nearly four times as much misinformation or false or misleading narratives attacking climate science during President Barack Obama’s first year in office (when climate legislation was being considered in Congress) than during President Donald Trump’s first year.
During President Joe Biden’s first four months in office, Special Report was already spreading climate-related misinformation and false or misleading climate narratives at more than three times its weekly rate of 2020.[SO BS SIDE EFFECT COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO FOX RAISON D'ETRE ATTACK DEMONIZE LIBS/DEMS?!
Special Report is part of the decades-long and ongoing campaign to delay climate action
In reviewing over a decade of Special Report’s climate coverage, Media Matters found at least 851 segments that featured misinformation or false or misleading narratives that undermine efforts to address the climate crisis or environmental degradation. Many of these same attacks are also heavily promoted by Fox’s opinion shows, which points to the shared talking points of the network’s “news” division and some of its most toxic prime-time personalities.
These attacks on science are not isolated incidents -- they can be contextualized within the clear template of industry-funded science denial. As early as 1977, Exxon scientists were aware of the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels, but the company spent the next two decades leading misinformation campaigns to question the scientific basis of climate change, lobbying congressional representatives to reject domestic environmental regulations and international climate treaties, and spreading narratives to falsely pit the health of the economy against the need for environmental protections.
More than four decades after Exxon’s initial discovery, Fox News has scrupulously parrotted its successful misinformation campaigns, despite international and domestic studies overwhelmingly warning of the dire consequences of fossil fuels’ contributions to climate change.Special Report’s complicity in promoting these industry narratives is part of the larger, systemic failure of the U.S. to grapple with the climate crisis, which also includes denying communities equitable access to healthy environments, often at the expense of people of color, as well as the failure to pass meaningful climate and environmental legislation in the last decade. And the same science-denial talking points featured on Special Report have even been recycled by Fox News opinion shows and other bad actors (following a similar blueprint to the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to undermine climate science) to deny the existence and seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic and to dismiss the urgency of finding solutions for this public health crisis.
Baier’s “straight news” coverage of the climate and environment echoes the lies of Fox’s opinion personalities
Media Matters’ extensive review of Special Report’s coverage of the climate crisis and environmental protections since 2009 found a persistent theme of the program sowing doubt about the existence of climate change and the efficacy of climate solutions.
Of the 851 climate or environment-related segments on Special Report that included such instances, 477 occurred during correspondent segments, 174 occurred during guest segments, and 200 were perpetuated by Baier or guest anchors. Excluding segments featuring guest anchors, Baier himself espoused or allowed 1,116 instances of climate misinformation and false or misleading narratives during the studied time period.
Week after week, year after year, Special Report viewers -- who are promised an objective and unbiased analysis of the issues -- have been inundated with misleading statements that reflect Fox’s opinion-side rhetoric: denying climate science, shirking responsibility for environmental degradation, downplaying the severity of climate change, and recklessly casting solutions as too costly or leading toward a slippery slope of tyranny. Here are the types of attacks we found.
Special Report undermines climate science
The overwhelming consensus from scientists, both domestic and abroad, is clear: Warming trends over the past century are extremely likely to be caused by human activities emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
In 2007, just two years before Bret Baier took the helm of Fox's flagship news program, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international coalition of scientists who assess peer-reviewed scientific papers to summarize knowledge of the causes of climate change, released a report stating that the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and that oceans and other ecosystems were “being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.” The report said anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions were “very likely” the cause of global average temperature rise, and it also urged policymakers to consider “a wide variety of policies and instruments” to “create the incentives for mitigation action.” These findings were strengthened in the IPCC's next six-year review in 2013, emphasizing that changes in the climate since the 1950s were “unprecedented over decades to millennia.”
Despite these direct warnings from the world’s scientific experts, Baier’s viewers have heard a different story: Special Report’s coverage of climate change and environmental degradation has flatly denied science, focused on debunked, concocted controversies that attempted to dismantle scientific consensus, and selectively reported cool weather events to dismiss warnings of dire climate change consequences.
Overall, 14% of the misinformation and misleading or false narratives about climate change spread by Special Report since 2009 have undermined the consensus and conclusions of climate science, with nearly half of that misinformation -- 46% -- occurring within the first three years of Baier's run. In fact, throughout Obama’s first term, Special Report spread two and a half times as many instances of misinformation and false or misleading narratives undermining climate science as it did during Trump’s term.
Within just his first month as anchor, Baier ran a misleading climate segment on January 28, 2009, which cited David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank funded in part by the fossil fuel industry. Kreutzer suggested that scientists were moving to use the term “climate change” instead of “global warming” to distract from cooling trends and make it “easier” to blame humans for natural environmental variation. In February 2010, Baier himself even claimed that “‘global warming,’ the phrase, has been changed really to ‘climate change’ by supporters,” and he hosted current Fox prime-time star Tucker Carlson to lament that “there’s nothing that can’t be explained by the phrase ‘climate change.’” (While Fox News is still undermining climate science by conflating weather patterns with long-term climate disruption, the term “climate change” was actually championed by longtime Republican strategist Frank Luntz in an infamous 2002 memo advising the GOP on how to cast doubt on the scientific consensus that human activity was warming the planet.)
Baier has continued to attack the science of climate change by giving climate skeptics’ opinions equal weight to peer-reviewed scientific consensus. In February 2015, Baier ran a segment that cited a “retired accountant, blogger, and self-described climate historian” who baselessly claimed that climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had been modified to be “more supportive of those who say the planet is warming and that man is directly responsible.” The segment also cited another Heritage Foundation representative, Nick Loris, who cast doubt on the human-made drivers of climate change and falsely suggested that scientists do not believe policies restricting greenhouse gas emissions would be effective.
In October 2018, the next IPCC report estimated that human activities have caused approximately 1 degree Celsius of global warming above preindustrial levels, which is already wreaking havoc on communities, causing more extreme weather events and rising oceans. The report also gave a more dire warning of the urgency of climate change, telling policymakers they had as little as 12 years to limit warming to 1.5 C before climate change and the ensuing environmental degradation reach an irreversible tipping point. The report gave special note to a change in the “frequency, intensity, spatial extent, duration, and timing of weather and climate extremes,” yet Baier’s reporting has failed to note the potential impact of climate change on extreme weather events. The program even flatly denied the existence of climate change as recently as February 2019.
Special Report dismissed the IPCC’s warnings once again, and Baier ran a segment in May 2019 that quoted Marc Morano, a fossil fuel industry-funded climate skeptic who has been described as “a central cell of the climate-denial machine.” In the segment, Morano dismissed another U.N. report warning of mass species extinction as “politics, not science.”
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CitationFrom the May 6, 2019, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
Between 2009 and 2021, Morano’s climate denial was highlighted in at least 10 segments on Special Report, similar to his frequent visits on Fox opinion shows such as Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Morano appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight in April of this year, responding to Carlson’s opening question on the Biden infrastructure bill: “How much of this bill is geared not toward cleaning up the environment, which we could badly use, but toward this global warming theory that they have? How much of it is climate-based?” Morano again argued that a focus on climate change was not due to necessity or scientific consensus, but claimed that it was simply a maneuver to accrue political power.
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CitationFrom the April 1, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
Special Report's undermining of climate science wasn’t just left to his guests or correspondent segments -- Baier himself recently engaged in the same rhetoric to doubt climate science as a figure from Fox’s opinion side, The Five’s Jesse Watters. On May 3, Watters complained that “the worst part about the whole story” is that “Biden isn’t certain schools are gonna be open this fall, because, you know, he does not have a crystal ball. But at the same breath he says if we don't spend a trillion dollars on green energy, he knows the Earth's temperature, to a degree, in a hundred years. It’s hard to square those.”
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CitationFrom the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' The Five
Baier attempted to make the same point in the next hour, asking why the Biden administration was being cautious in making predictions about school openings while citing scientific unknowns, but “they don’t have that same phrasing when talking about climate change.”
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Citation From the May 3, 2021, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
Special Report sets up a false conflict between a healthy planet and a thriving economy or misrepresents the efficacy and public demand for climate action and environmental protections
Fox News figures and other right-wing media personalities have often falsely pitted the economy against the environment, demonizing climate solutions as either too expensive or a waste of money that will not bring adequate returns in the green economy, in an effort to justify a lack of congressional action. Special Report’s coverage was no different throughout the last decade, with 29% of the misinformation or misleading narratives that it spread perpetuating that false dichotomy or failing to consider the cost of climate inaction, and 43% misrepresenting the efficacy and public demand for climate action.
Special Report often emphasized the immediate cost of climate solutions while also pushing narratives that depicted environmental regulations as ineffective or decried the supposedly “socialist” implications of climate legislation. Almost one in three of the problematic segments identified by Media Matters -- around 273 -- both undermined the efficacy of climate action and portrayed potential environmental protections as hurting the economy.
Scientists and policy experts have repeatedly warned that transitioning to a clean energy economy -- often incentivized through legislation -- is not only necessary to ensure a livable planet, but will also reduce the price of mitigation after irreversible climate impacts take hold. In 2018, the Fourth National Climate Assessment warned that the “continued warming that is projected to occur without substantial and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions is expected to cause substantial net damage to the U.S. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” Another recently published study in Scientific Reports estimated that the cost of failure to keep warming to a 1.5 C threshold rose “from 1.3 trillion dollars per year of inaction in 2010 to over 5 trillion dollars per year in 2020.”
Yet despite the long-term economic suffering promised by increasingly extreme weather and climate disasters, regional temperature changes reducing crop yields, and environmental degradation reducing tourism and recreation, much of Special Report’s climate coverage since 2009 has been fed by fossil fuel industry talking points emphasizing short-term -- and often biased -- economic costs.
Beginning during the Obama administration, Special Report relentlessly attacked the Environmental Protection Agency, framing its mitigation efforts as executive overreach without regard to the economy.
In April 2009, then-chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle declared on Special Report that the EPA’s finding that carbon dioxide could be restricted under the Clean Air Act “could hardly be more sweeping because it could affect everything from airliners to lawnmowers and almost every corner of the U.S. economy,” fearmongering that it “has the potential for shutting down or slowing down virtually all economic activity” without mentioning the environmental benefits of the proposed regulations.
In a June 2011 segment on Special Report, disgraced former Fox correspondent Doug McKelway cited the Heritage Foundation's Nick Loris, who argued that President Obama and then-Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson's carbon emission reduction policies “are intended to raise energy prices, and lower-income families pay a disproportionately higher percent of their income on energy prices,” resulting in the policies “hurting those people more than helping them.” In reality, Loris was pushing an oversimplified view of carbon pricing legislation. A study by the World Resources Institute found that legislation addressing either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade program does not “inherently help or hurt lower-income households.” Its impact depends on how the policy is designed; for example, a small portion of the revenue raised from carbon pricing could be offered as rebates to protect low-income households from increasing energy prices.
A month later, Angle appeared in another segment quoting both Loris, who claimed that the Obama administration’s plan to increase fuel efficiency standards would “be a significant ramp-up,” and the former chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, who fearmongered that the change would be costly to business and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses. In April 2014, Baier himself responded to the announcement that a federal appeals court upheld stricter emission standards from the EPA by citing complaints from anonymous “state and industry groups'' that the “new limits on toxins” would “cost billions of dollars annually to comply.”
In March 2016, current Fox prime-time host Laura Ingraham appeared on Special Report and mocked people “losing sleep over the environment every night,” declaring that the Obama administration’s environmental regulations were actually “about redistributing wealth and making America poorer.” Baier failed to push back on this absurd framing.
During the Trump administration, however, it became clear that Special Report was complicit in the demise of the network’s “news side,” serving as an echo chamber of misinformation to advance the GOP agenda. In Obama’s first term, Special Report worked to oppose the administration’s efforts to curb climate change, spreading one and a half times more misinformation and false or misleading narratives about than it did during the Trump presidency, when the show championed positive coverage of the short-term economic benefits of rolling back Obama-era regulations. During Trump’s final year in office, Special Report -- seemingly sympathetic to the president’s apathetic stance on the climate -- spread the least amount of misinformation or misleading narratives about climate change during the studied time period, with only 52 instances.
One segment from December 2016 demonstrates how the show used misinformation and dubious claims to pave the way for Trump’s deregulatory agenda. Correspondent James Rosen cited the conservative American Action Forum’s claim that “recent EPA rules on heavy trucks pushed the total regulatory price tag over the next 10 years over the $1 trillion mark,” requiring “every man, woman, and child in our regulation nation to cough up $3,080 a piece to satisfy it.” The heavy trucks regulation in question -- an increase in the fuel efficiency standards -- would ultimately have reduced global warming emissions by 1.1 billion tonnes and saved the trucking industry $170 billion per year. Despite AAF Director of Regulatory Policy Sam Batkins admitting that the group does little research to check whether cost estimates fit reality, Rosen assured viewers that “Mr. Trump has vowed to carry a war of attrition to the regulatory beast.”
Special Report’s focus on the perceived economic disruption and “socialist” implications of climate legislation has dogged Democratic efforts at climate mitigation, demonizing all legislation -- from Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal to the Green New Deal to Biden’s more moderate 2021 climate plan -- as radical attempts to wreak havoc on the American economy and livelihoods.
Attacking and spreading misinformation about the Green New Deal has been Fox News’ priority for the past two years; when it was first introduced, the network aired far more segments than its cable network counterparts on the proposal. As the flagship program of Fox’s “news” division, Special Report made no effort to differentiate itself from the network’s opinion coverage, with Baier characterizing the deal as “one of the most controversial political manifestos” and suggesting that the expensive price tag would lead to wasteful spending as part of “the Democrats' campaign against the prosperous.”
In February 2019, Baier hosted Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemmingway to complain that “there is not really a case being made for why you would need to upend your lives, destroy life as you know it, destroy wealth, destroy job opportunities, get rid of massive industries that employ thousands and millions of people, and for what?” Hemingway concluded that polls showing American support for the deal could only be attributed to pollsters asking people if they “want free things,” referring to the Green New Deal’s proposed guaranteed “economic security." Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York dismissed public support for funding the deal, claiming that “the idea that most Americans would think that climate change is a World War II-like crisis is really unlikely.”
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These pointed attacks on the Green New Deal reflect the rhetoric often espoused on Fox opinion shows, such as by Sean Hannity, who referenced the Green New Deal in relation to Biden on April 20, 2020, claiming that “there are no moderates in today's radical, extreme Democratic socialist party.” In July 2020, Hannity lambasted Biden for “taking his cues from the most radical, the most extreme socialist extremist that this party has ever embraced, the Democratic modern socialist party.” Hannity then complained about the price tag of the climate proposal, exclaiming that it would “turn America into a socialist, bankrupt hellhole.”
Baier did not push back in January after Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel used language similar to Hannity’s rants to attack the incoming Biden administration and the climate bill, stating that she would not “cede our country to the far left who want to turn toward socialism, institute the Green New Deal, and remake America as we know it.”
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Special Report fuels nationalistic and misleading narratives opposing global climate efforts
Efforts to prevent and counter the worst consequences of global climate change have to be negotiated at the international level and require unprecedented cooperation between countries in order to succeed. But in covering those efforts, such as the U.S. signing on to the Paris climate agreement under Obama, Baier and his guests on Special Report insteadechoed isolationist narratives to undermine global mitigation efforts. Like Fox opinion-side personalities, they suggested that international mitigation efforts are detrimental to the U.S. economy, that they favor China and India over America, and that global cooperation would fail to stave off the worst effects of climate change. Statements that fueled these nationalistic and misleading narratives opposed to global climate efforts constituted 8% of the total misinformation and false narratives spread on Special Report during the studied time period.
In an appearance on Special Report in December 2009, the late conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer repeated one of the most prevalent talking points used to oppose climate action, suggesting that an international climate agreement would “mean a serious constriction of the U.S. economy, a lowering of our standard of living.” This claim is false and driven by a flailing fossil fuel industry attempting to distract from its own “terminal decline” by scapegoating climate mitigation efforts.
This line of attack was echoed on the network’s opinion side as recently as this year, when climate denier Marc Morano appeared on the January 21 episode of Fox & Friends First to claim that rejoining the Paris agreement is “climate virtue signaling” that will “hammer middle America, blue-collar America, [and] Americans on middle class and lower income.” In reality, committing to Paris emission reductions and building a 100% clean energy economy would create up to 25 million well-paid American jobs, and clean energy jobs are “more likely to be unionized and come with health care and retirement benefits than the rest of the private sector.”
In a May 2014 appearance on Special Report, Krauthammer pushed the idea that international agreements, specifically the Paris climate accord, would benefit China at the expense of American prosperity because China lacked a legally binding commitment to emissions reductions. Krauthammer stated, “As we dismantle the coal plants in our country, China and India together are adding one coal fire plant every other week. The net effect is to shift the U.S. coal energy generating industry from here to India and China. It will have zero effect.”
This argument was repeated on the May 31, 2017, edition of Fox & Friends, when Fox Business host Stuart Varney denigrated the Paris climate accord as an “unequal” agreement meant to “take money and resources off Europe and America” to “give it to other countries,” including China. More recently, Fox opinion host Laura Ingraham expanded upon this argument in April, characterizing global cooperation on climate as tentative at best, with each nation pursuing “what’s in its best interest.” Ingraham then dismissed Biden’s “grand” climate plans as ineffective for failing to reduce global temperatures “at all.”
These are bad-faith arguments and they do not account for the fact that not only has the U.S. caused more global warming than any other country and maintains the higher per capita emissions rates, but it also lags behind China on substantive commitments to renewable energy and technology. Furthermore, climate change and its disruptions transcend national borders and are intrinsically linked to the public health, socioeconomic well-being, and growth of every nation.
In yet another appearance on Special Report in May 2017 dismissing the impact of Trump’s promise to pull out of the Paris accord, Krauthammer advanced the argument that U.S. participation in the “extremely weak” agreement was inconsequential, and he claimed it only made a “marginal difference” if “we are in it or out of it.” This sentiment on climate policy efficacy was also echoed this year on Fox’s opinion side by Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg on the January 21 edition of Fox & Friends. He argued that rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost a fortune and cut almost nothing, so basically achieve almost nothing to fix climate change.”
These arguments exploit legitimate concerns of the Paris agreement --that measures agreed to at the accord will not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- not to garner support for the strengthening of global commitments, but to gripe about the inherent complexities of any global treaty and ultimately erode support for addressing the climate crisis on any level. Despite Paris’ shortcomings, the U.S.’s participation in the agreement — as the second biggest greenhouse gas emitter — represented a critical step toward global climate mitigation. As international markets transition toward clean energy, it is imperative that the United States can advocate for American jobs and workers. Moreover, global emissions reductions work -- in 2016, global emissions flat-lined for the third year in a row even as the global economy grew, partly because the U.S. and China cut their emissions.
Special Report undermines the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis
Baier and his guests made statements that undermined the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis in more than 5% of Special Report’s misinformation and false or misleading narratives around climate change.
These bad-faith arguments have also come from Fox’s opinion side, which has framed the idea of addressing climate change as requiring personal sacrifice from individual viewers. Special Report suggested climate-conscious consumers should not own pets, should limit their hamburger intake, should accept rougher toilet paper, and should feel guilt for using water at hotels or pumping gas for their car. These segments’ reckless linking of personal consumer choices to environmental protection lets the real culprits -- the 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions -- escape responsibility for the worst impacts of climate change, while discouraging popular support for climate action.
Special Report also followed Fox’s signature strategy of focusing on some prominent people’s actions to deflect from those individuals’ concerns about the climate, using charges of hypocrisy as a smokescreen for climate inaction. Baier dedicated segments to personal carbon footprints, pointing to Obama traveling to an Earth Day rally; first lady Michelle Obama flying to Copenhagen to advocate for Chicago to host the Olympics; Prince Charles encouraging environmental awareness; Hillary Clinton traveling during her presidential campaign; and, most recently, Biden administration climate envoy John Kerry using a private jet.
On the February 4 edition of Special Report, correspondent Kristin Fisher noted that Kerry was “not necessarily leading by example by taking a private plane to Iceland to accept an environmental award.” Later in the episode, Fox contributor Byron York said that “he's got a government plane now, and you don't marry into a billionaire family if you want to fly commercial.”
This coverage on Fox’s flagship “straight news” show echoed a line of attacks on Kerry from Fox’s opinion hosts, such as Sean Hannity’s January 28 statement that “it’s almost as if John Kerry isn’t that concerned about the environment after all” and Tucker Carlson’s February 3 accusation that Kerry was being “hypocritical.” These personal attacks and red herring arguments serve dual roles -- to villainize and discredit specific activists while trivializing the urgency of the climate crisis. It is a well-worn tactic, as demonstrated by Special Report, that is used across the network’s opinion and “straight news” programming.]GORE TENN HOUSE]
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Conclusion
Climate scientists have overwhelmingly warned for years that unless immediate action is taken to address the climate crisis, irreversible environmental consequences will impact every aspect of our daily lives -- ranging from an exacerbated refugee crisis to devastating economic impacts to irreversible environmental degradation.
The stakes for news media to cover this issue seriously and responsibly could not be higher as Biden attempts to simultaneously reestablish United States' leadership in global mitigation and advocate for bold climate legislation, while the deadline to limit global warming to 1.5 C draws closer.
Yet climate coverage on Special Report with Bret Baier has been characterized by blatantly false, biased, and desperate attempts to undermine climate change action and environmental protections. Ultimately, Special Report is another extension of Fox News’ climate denial machine, serving to sow misinformation and doubt to defend the politicians who actively prevent any climate mitigation.
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Media Matters searched transcripts in the Nexis database for Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier for any of the terms and any derivations of the terms climate change, global warming, climate, global temperatures, climate science, climate scientist, Paris climate, climate accord, Paris accord, climate agreement, Paris agreement, climate deal, climate crisis, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, green new deal, climate conference, climate plan, carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, green, Keystone Pipeline, Dakota Pipeline, or energy from January 1, 2009, through May 3, 2021.
We included any segment when climate change or environmental protection was the stated topic of discussion...
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https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/demoted-nyt-editor-has-long-history-of-lapses-in-judgment/
list of f/us includes?
he called opponents of fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal “the political fringes,” “groups more on the fringe” and (in the words of anonymous officials) “a small fringe” (FAIR.org, 2/10/15). At the time, fast track was opposed by a majority of the House of Representatives.
He treated the poor and middle class as interchangeable terms, writing that “President Obama’s push for a new ‘middle-class economics’ [would] help make the politics of rich and poor a central issue,” and presenting Mitt Romney “vowing a campaign to ‘end the scourge of poverty’” as an example of the same phenomenon as “Mitch McConnell … encourag[ing] the Republican troops to refocus policy on the stagnant middle class” (FAIR.org, 1/23/15).
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, 2/24/14). 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!, 7–8/96).
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pruitt announce sci sup at heritage, eboy
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heritage circled the wagons when AG Mass and NY went after Exxon knew, CEI, claimed 1st amend (also pac leg)
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heritage BS
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-centuries-of-corporate-personhood-11548978712
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trumps-religious-right-team-schemes-to-legally-erase-trans-identity
New York Times reported on Sunday that the Trump administration is considering a proposal by one of the administration’s highest-ranking Religious Right activists to virtually erase transgender people from legal recognition and protection by the federal government. The memoproposing the change is just the latest indication of just how completely the Religious Right has come to dominate policy-making in the administration of Donald Trump.
The push by the Department of Health and Human Services to impose a trans-denying definition of “sex” onto federal civil rights law “would essentially eradicate federal recognition” of an estimated 1.4 million transgender Americans, according to the Times story.
The effort is being led by Roger Severino, who has taken the anti-LGBT agenda of his former employer, the Heritage Foundation, into the Trump administration as director of the civil rights division at HHS.When he was named to that position, a dozen U.S. senators objected, citing Severino’s “long history of making bigoted statements toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and attacking women’s access to health care services and reproductive rights.”
One of Severino’s former colleagues at the Heritage Foundation, Ryan Anderson, is at the forefront of the Religious Right’s anti-trans crusade. Anderson’s latest book is “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.” Anderson argues that gender cannot be severed from biological sex, and that “taking our sexual embodiment seriously in public policy is not discriminatory.”
That language is strikingly similar to Anderson’s approach to sexual orientation, suggesting that if Religious Right activists in the Trump administration are successful in wiping out legal recognition based on gender identity, they may be willing to try the same with regard to sexual orientation.
Anderson is not a conservative willing to seek “compromise” in the form of religious exemptions to non-discrimination laws. He says that “sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) laws” are “bad public policy” and argues against legal protection for LGBTQ people from discrimination:
Sexual orientation and gender identity refers not only to thoughts and inclinations, but also to behavior, and it is reasonable for citizens to make distinctions based on actions. However, SOGI laws would prohibit reasonable decisions made in response to behaviors that are fraught with moral weight.
Indeed, Religious Right groups like the Family Research Council, which has also placed staff in positions in the Trump administration, deny the very existence of gay identity as well as transgender identity.
The Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg argues that the idea of a gay identity is “empirically false” and urges religious conservatives not to use terms like gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, preferring constructs like “people who engage in homosexual conduct” or “people who identify as homosexual.” This echoes the practice of the Catholic and Mormon hierarchies, which use terms such as “people with same-sex attractions.” Sprigg and FRC similarly argue that transgender identity is “an objective falsehood—which no law should force others to affirm.”
Sprigg was one of the speakers in a session on “gender ideology” at the World Congress of Families global summit held in Moldova in September. His talking points included a denial that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is a form of sex discrimination. The session was moderated by Australian Patrick Byrne, author of a new book, “Transgender: One Shade of Gray.” Byrne said that laws against anti-trans discrimination are “authoritarian” and said the solution is to write the definition of man and woman into law, saying, “if you do that, you block the whole agenda.” That is precisely what Severino seems to be trying to accomplish via executive action.
The National Center for Transgender Equality denounced the “terrifying memo” being circulated within the Trump administration, calling it “a direct attack on trans people.” But Severino cannot unilaterally reverse federal court precedents, noted NCTE:
You should know that this rule will not eliminate the precedents set by dozens of federal courts over the last two decades affirming the full rights and identities of transgender people. It will not undo the consensus of the medical providers and scientists across the globe who see transgender people, know transgender people, and urge everyone to accept us for who we are. And no rule—no administration—can erase the experiences of transgender people and our families.
As a presidential candidate, Trump once held up a rainbow flag, and some of his apologists claimed that he would be the most pro-gay president ever. In truth, the anti-LGBTQ writing was on the wall once Trump decided that his route to the White House depended on a strategic alliance with the Religious Right. In return for his promises to give them the Supreme Court of their dreams and make them more politically powerful by removing legal restrictions on politicking by churches, Religious Right leaders helped generate a massive pro-Trump vote among white evangelicals. Since his election Trump has been returning the favor, giving the Religious Right whatever it wants, and reversing Obama administration pro-LGBTQ policies. In return, religious conservatives have remained his most ferocious defenders, regularly denouncing his opponents as evil, even Satanic.
Tags: Roger Severino Ryan AndersonAnti-GayAnti-LGBTtransgender rightsTrump Administration
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https://www.ecowatch.com/land-and-water-conservation-fund-2604912470.html
Is the United States About to Lose Its Best Conservation Program?
By Tara Lohan...
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talk radio 2011
the past few years, conservative radio hosts like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin have been preaching the messages of prominent conservative advocacy groups—and encouraging their listeners to open their wallets to show their support.
According to Politico, that's because these groups, whether listeners know it or not, are paying high sponsorship fees to these programs for on-air plugs and promotional tie-ins that are often woven so seamlessly into the show that they don’t seem like advertisements. This practice was just exposed in a newly-published investigation by Politico into the history and business of these right-wing talk show endorsements.
“People don’t realize is that (big time political talk show hosts) are radio personalities—they are in the same business that people like Casey Kasem are in—and what they do is no different than people who broadcast from used car lots or restaurants or who endorse the local roofer or gardener,” Michael Harrison, founder and publisher of TALKERS Magazine, told Politico.
The Heritage Foundation has a sponsorship deal with Limbaugh’s and Hannity’s shows, while Beck endorses FreedomWorks and Levin has signed with Americans for Prosperity. The groups said that they sought out these hosts because they already preached a message similar to their own, and also because of the enduring power that right-wing talk radio. These shows shows “are really the vanguard of the conservative free market, freedom movement in America these days,” said Americans for Prosperity president Tim Phillips.
Heritage pioneered the sponsorship model back in 2008, partly in order to widen its appeal outside the beltway, says Politico. The group first paid $1.2 million to sponsor shows hosted by Hannity and Laura Ingraham, later dropping Ingraham in 2009 and striking a $3.3 million deal with Premiere Radio Networks which syndicated Limbaugh’s program and had acquired Hannity’s, with “roughly” $2 million going to the former show and $1.3 million to the latter.
FreedomWorks based their own deal with Beck off of Heritage’s sponsorship and in 2010 paid $1.4 million in “advertising services” to Rebecca Hagelin, who set up Heritage’s deals with Limbaugh and Hannity, and is now helping FreedomWorks “with several marketing initiatives, including Beck,” according to a spokesman.
Most of the deals give sponsorship groups a certain number of “live-reads,” in which the show’s host uses a script, outline, or specific set of talking points to deliver an ad for the group. Some deals also include “embedded ads,” in which the sponsor’s message is woven into the show. And these deals don’t just get advertisements for the sponsors, either—the hosts also make the point of defending the groups if they happen to come under fire in the news.
Some tea party leaders aren’t too pleased with the sponsorship arrangements, though, believing that “the deals smack of the pay-to-play politics that tea partiers allege has undermined the credibility of the conservative establishment,” says Politico. Other conservative figures fear that grassroots activists might not be aware of the financial terms behind the endorsements. “I wish more of the grassroots knew the reality that this wasn’t Rush or Sean or Beck saying these things out of the goodness of their hearts,” said one conservative leader.
Regardless, these groups’ sponsorships have clearly been worth the price of doing business. Heritage estimates that since signing with Hannity and Limbaugh two years ago, it has added 40,000 new memberships starting at the $25 level. FreedomWorks said that in the three months after its Beck sponsorship started in April 2010, its website had a huge spike in traffic which led to 50,000 new email sign-ups. The endorsement deal was also a “major part” of FreedomWorks nearly doubling its fundraising from $7.6 million in 2009 to $13.8 million in 2010. (Americans for Prosperity wouldn’t divulge any details of its Levin deal to Politico).
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. EPA chief Scott Pruitt is expected to roll out plans soon to restrict the agency's use of science in rulemakings, pitting him against critics who say it would threaten public health and environmental protections.
In a closed-door meeting at the Heritage Foundation on Monday, Pruitt told a group of conservatives that he has plans for additional science reform at the agency, according to multiple attendees. EPA hasn't formally shared details of the plan, but it's widely expected to resemble an effort that Republican lawmakers and conservative groups have been pushing for years. It's been met with staunch resistance from Democrats and many scientists.
The plan could come "sooner rather than later," said Steve Milloy, who served on Trump's EPA transition team and attended the meeting at the Heritage Foundation.
EPA did not respond to a request for comment. And Milloy cautioned that he did not know the specifics of the plan and said he was not authorized to discuss the meeting.
The initiative is expected to require EPA — when issuing rules — to rely only on scientific studies where the underlying data are made public. It's an idea that House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has been championing for years. He and others argue that EPA has been crafting regulations based on "secret science" to advance its regulatory agenda.
Smith, one of the leading opponents of mainstream climate science in Congress, has repeatedly accused federal climate scientists of engaging in a massive conspiracy to falsify climate data. And he has repeatedly introduced bills that would require EPA to publicize data it uses when crafting regulations.
Those efforts died when President Obama was in the White House, and Smith's newest legislative push doesn't appear to be moving even though Republicans control both chambers of Congress. The House passed a bill dubbed the "Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) Act" — requiring that EPA rules be based on science for which underlying data is publicly available and reproducible — last March. But the measure has gone nowhere since it was referred to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Smith has tried to push the idea elsewhere, too. In comments on the 2019 budget proposal, the GOP majority on the Science panel led by Smith suggested that EPA's funding should be contingent on the administrator's "requiring that all scientific and technical information and data relied on to support a risk, exposure, or hazard assessment; criteria document; standard; limitation; regulation; regulatory impact analysis; or guidance issued by the EPA is made publicly available."
Smith did not respond to a request for comment.
Critics on the left and in the scientific community see the effort as an attempt to hinder EPA from issuing rules.
"A lot of the data that EPA uses to protect public health and ensure that we have clean air and clean water relies on data that cannot be publicly released," said Yogin Kothari with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Many scientific studies rely on data that can't be made public for reasons like patient privacy concerns or industry confidentiality.
"If EPA doesn't have data to move forward with a public protection for a safeguard, it doesn't have to do that at all," said Kothari. "It really hamstrings the ability of the EPA to do anything, to fulfill its mission."
Publishing raw data also opens scientists up to attacks from industry, which can twist or distort data to shape a deregulatory agenda, said Betsy Southerland, a former senior EPA official in the Office of Water who worked on a staff analysis of the "HONEST Act."
Southerland, who left EPA last summer, said the effort is deceptive and is not about transparency, but about sidelining peer-reviewed science that supports regulation of pollution. She said there are numerous examples of groundbreaking studies that are not replicable, such as human health studies after the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima or the ecological effects of the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In many of the older studies, there are a plethora of people, including some who are dead, who could no longer be tracked down.
"This is just done to paralyze rulemaking," she said. "It's another obstacle that would make it so hard and so difficult to go forward with rulemaking that in the end, the only thing that would happen — in the best case you would greatly delay rulemaking; in the worst case you would just prevent it. It would be such an obstacle you couldn't overcome it."
Publicizing the data in some EPA actions, which often come after years of research, could be extensive. For example, risk assessments for certain chemicals sometimes cite hundreds or even thousands of studies, all of which would have to be tracked down for data collection, according to the EPA analysis of the "HONEST Act."
Requiring data transparency would cost hundreds of millions of dollars because it would require EPA staff to track down data from study authors and create an online management system to store and present those data, the analysis found. In addition, EPA staff would have to spend time redacting personally identifiable information in the studies, and study authors would likely require payments for preparing and sending their data.
EPA career staff estimated that Smith's legislation would add $250 million in costs annually for the first few years after it was implemented, Southerland said. That estimate was dismissed by senior EPA officials who said those costs were inflated and that the agency would not use many studies to which the rule would apply, but they did not provide evidence, she said. EPA's analysis of Smith's bill was published by the radio program "Marketplace."
Milloy, who has long pushed for EPA to stop issuing regulations unless the underlying scientific data are made public, said the science reform effort could be done through a directive, in the same way that Pruitt reshaped EPA's science advisory panels.
The overhaul of those committees is another area where Pruitt came through on one of Smith's longtime priorities.
In October, Smith was seated front and center at an event where Pruitt announced that he would reform the advisory panels to bar researchers who take government funding. Critics said that move skewed the advice EPA is getting by making it tough for researchers who rely on public funding to participate, but keeping industry-funded scientists on board.
Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.
"Pruitt did a great job in cleaning up the science advisory boards, and if he does that kind of work on this, that's fantastic," Milloy saidof the expected science data reform effort. "My goal is to make sure EPA does not rely on scientific studies unless the data is made available for replication by somebody."
Kothari of the Union of Concerned Scientists called it "alarming" that the Trump administration's science agenda "is being run by the chairman of the Science Committee, given that he has continued to not care about how science informs policymaking."
"This is the second thing now that this administrator will be implementing based on legislation that was never enacted," Kothari said. "It's just another excuse for Pruitt's EPA to really abrogate EPA's responsibility to protect human health and the environment."
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https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-under-siege-2444990496.html
50+ Interviews With EPA Staff: Trump Poses 'Greatest Threat' to Agency in 47-Year History
From repealing and replacing Obamacare to constructing that border wall, President Donald Trump has broken a lot of promises that he made on the campaign trail. However, there is one area where Trump has been seemingly true to the his word—crippling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
According to the first of a series of reports from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), the Trump administration poses the greatest threat to the EPA's 47-year history.
The group's stunning analysis, The EPA Under Siege, draws on institutional history and the insight of more than 50 interviews with long-term EPA staff, who are unidentified in the report for their protection. The report's authors have identified plummeting morale, mutual distrust between political appointees and career staff, and
paralysis of operations within the EPA under current Administrator Scott Pruitt.
"Twice before, presidential administrations in North America have targeted their own environmental agencies with comparable aggression, in the early Reagan administration (1981-1983) and under Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2006-2015)," the EDGI report's authors state. "Trump's assault is on track to surpass these."
The EDGI is an international coalition of academics and nonprofits organizations that formed after Trump's election to address potential threats to federal environmental and energy policy. You may know of their detailed work on tracking changes to federal websites.
There are many unsettling revelations from the report, but this section says it all:
"From their front row seats, many agency veterans now think they see a gathering profile of the Trump administration's long game: to abolish the EPA. 'I think there'sa general consensus among the career people,' one tells us, 'that at bottom they're basically trying to destroy the place.' Another, working in a different office, elaborates: 'I think this is just phase one … I think there's a much bigger master plan [discernible] if you read into what came out of restructuring ... we're going to be structured out. I think they're either going to break us up again and send us back to the ... programs we came from, or combine us with Energy or strip even further programs from us so that there's just a real exceedingly small base that's doing this work. I think the plan is to get rid of EPA.'"
Here are some of the other allegations from the EPA staff (you can read the whole collection of quotes here):
Pruitt has never met with environmental groups."I don't believe he's met with any environmental groups to date, so he's still kind of sticking with his core business, government groups." Almost no one interviewed in the report has had contact with Pruitt himself or seen him around the office. Rather, they take note of his frequent trips around the country and visits with like-minded constituencies, such as Western governors, farmers and coal miners.
Pruitt has banned staff from taking notes."There's a premium on, I would say secrecy. Meaning senior managers that are going into meetings with Pruitt…. aren't [allowed to compile] written materials. They're asked not to take notes, not to take a computer in and type notes… Everything is just verbal. If it's just verbal, then there's no record that you can get a FOIA to see what happened."
Pruitt has requested around-the-clock security."Pruitt is requesting in the 2018 budget that he have a security team, 24/7, made up of 10 people because he feels his life is I guess at risk because there's such internal hatred at EPA. This is scary and unfounded."
Pruitt's first speech to the agencywas carefully stage-managed to avoid dissent.His speech also never alluded to the EPA's longstanding work in safeguarding human health, science, scientists, ecology or even climate change. One staff member recalled, "I can say that many of us were seething after watching his speech. Well, watching it 'live' from the EPA TV. Junior staff were not permitted to attend in person. All staff were provided with the opportunity to rsvp to attend but apparently the rsvp list was reviewed with a fine toothed comb so only those certain to not cause a disruption during the speech, would be there. I assume that means old people with suits (which is what we saw on the EPA tv while watching the speech). Yes, I too was wondering when he would mention human health. Apparently never!"
Trump's visit to the EPA was met with frustration from staff employees.During Trump's March 28 visit to the agency's headquarters to sign "new energy revolution" executive order to undo Obama's climate policies he was flanked by coal miners, Pruitt, Vice President Mike Pence and the new Secretaries of Energy Rick Perry and Interior Ryan Zinke. However, few people at the EPA were invited. One interviewee said, "We were frankly insulted that the President would come to EPA to announce that he is overturning the work to battle the most urgent environmental problem of our generation—climate change. It was beyond comprehension that an Administration could be so arrogant and callous." Another veteran official described it as an "in-your-face, insulting [a] thing as I've experienced in my time here."
Some staff believe that Trump's draconian 2018 EPA budget proposal was influenced by conservative think-tanks.One EPA worker's "personal opinion" was that "it's all from theHeritage Foundation's report, almost verbatim ... they just literally went through the list and said well this is climate change, boom this goes. EJ [environmental justice] we couldn't care less about that, this goes."
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Right-Wing Op-Eds Pushed False Claim that Paris Agreement Would Be Economically Disastrous
Conservative op-ed writers falsely claimed that the Paris accord would impose massive costs on U.S. businesses and families.
In an opinion piece in The Washington Times, Ed Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, argued that the U.S. should withdraw from the agreement, adding, "As economist Nicolas Loris and U.N. expert Brett Schaefer recently noted, 'The U.S. regulations alone would increase energy costs for U.S. families and businesses, causing an overall average shortfall of nearly 400,000 jobs and total income loss of more than $20,000 for a family of four by the year 2035.'" The figures were based on a 2016 Heritage Foundation report that claimed former President Obama's keystone policy for meeting Paris obligations, the Clean Power Plan, would cause an "aggregate gross domestic product loss of more than $2.5 trillion" by 2035. And Loris, who also works for the Heritage Foundation, penned his own opinion piece in the Boston Herald claiming, "Compliance with the Paris agreement will cost the global economy trillions of dollars over the next 80 years."
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staffers saw letter weyrich and _ led to founding coors, scaife$
http://www.wnyc.org/story/on-the-media-2017-05-05
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https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government
Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed “ethnic cleansing” in a plot to “liquidate” the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-cum-survivalist multi-tool. A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense contractors. An “evangelist” and lobbyist for Palantir, the Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies. And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently graduated from high school.
These are some of the people the Trump administration has hired for positions across the federal government, according to documents received by ProPublica through public-records requests.
While President Trump has not moved to fill many jobs that require Senate confirmation, he has quietly installed hundreds of officials to serve as his eyes and ears at every major federal agency, from the Pentagon to the Department of Interior.
Unlike appointees exposed to the scrutiny of the Senate, members of these so-called “beachhead teams” have operated largely in the shadows, with the White House declining to publicly reveal their identities.
While some names have previously dribbled out in the press, we are publishing a list of more than 400 hires, providing the most complete accounting so far of who Trump has brought into the federal government.
The White House said in January that around 520 staffers were being hired for the beachhead teams.
The list we obtained includes obscure campaign staffers, contributors to Breitbart and others who have embraced conspiracy theories, as well as dozens of Washington insiders who could be reasonably characterized as part of the “swamp” Trump pledged to drain.
The list is striking for how many former lobbyists it contains: We found at least 36, spanning industries from health insurance and pharmaceuticals to construction, energy and finance. Many of them lobbied in the same areas that are regulated by the agencies they have now joined.
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That figure is almost certainly an undercount since we only included those who formally registered as lobbyists, a process increasingly avoided by many in Washington.
During the campaign, Trump said he would have “no problem” banning lobbyists from his administration. But they have nonetheless ended up in senior roles, aided by Trump’s weakening of Obama-era ethics rules that modestly limited lobbyists’ role in government.
The White House didn’t respond to requests for comment.
There are many former congressional staffers, several top officials from the George W. Bush administration, and even a handful of holdovers from the Obama administration. The list also includes at least eight staffers drawn from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that forged close ties to the new administration during the transition.
Much about the role of the beachhead teams at various federal agencies is unclear. But close observers of the early weeks of the Trump administration believe they have taken on considerable influence in the absence of high-level political appointees.
“If the public and Senate is in the dark about a team created without a Senate confirmation process, no one will be permitted to shed light on who is hopelessly conflicted or who is obviously unqualified — and who is both,” said Jeff Hauser, director of the Revolving Door Project at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The beachhead team members are temporary employees serving for stints of four to eight months, but many are expected to move into permanent jobs. The Trump administration’s model is based on plans developed but never used by the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Mitt Romney.
“The beachhead teams involve people with considerable authority over the federal government,” said Max Stier, the CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan group that advises presidential candidates on smooth transitions. “We need clarity about what they’re doing and what their role is going to be.”
The Obama administration also hired temporary staffers after the inauguration. But Trump has brought in many more, Stier said.
The new list of names was provided to us by the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources agency. We received additional names from other federal agencies in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. At least a few people on the list have changed agencies or left the administration, including, for example, the young Department of Housing and Urban Development staffer who was fired after his anti-Trump writings during the campaign came to light.
Here is a run-down of some of the Trump hires.
The Breitbart wing
Curtis Ellis was a columnist for WorldNetDaily, a website best known for its enthusiastic embrace of the false notion that President Obama was born outside the United States. A column headlined the “The Radical Left’s Ethnic Cleansing of America” won Ellis an admiring interview with Steve Bannon, now Trump’s top aide. He is a longtime critic of trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Ellis was hired Jan. 20 as a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department. Asked about his role in a brief phone interview Tuesday, he said: “Nothing I can tell you.”
Jon Perdue, a self-described guerrilla warfare expert and fellow at a little-known security think tank, wrote a book called “The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism.” He is also a onetime contributor to Breitbart.
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Perdue was featured on CNBC’s reality series “Make Me a Millionaire Inventor” for his invention, the Packbow, which Perdue came up with while studying “collapsed societies, and what people who lived in those societies came up with to either defend themselves or to survive.” It’s a bow and arrow that doubles as a compass, tent pole, walking stick, spearfishing rig, and water purification tablet receptacle.
Perdue was hired as a special assistant at the Treasury Department. The agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
John Jaggers ran the Trump campaign in Maryland and Virginia, where he made headlines for endorsing the conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton was “very, very sick and they’re covering it up.” As he put it last August: “The woman who seeks to be the first female president of the United States wears a wool coat at every single thing. Have you ever stopped to wonder why? It’s a big deal, folks.”
Jaggers was hired Jan. 20 as senior adviser at the General Services Administration, which oversees tens of billions of dollars of government procurement every year. But records show he left the job on March 3. He declined to comment.
Swamp denizens, including health care lobbyists hired by HHS Secretary Tom Price
Alexandra Campau, hired at the department of Health and Human Services, was formerly a lobbyist in Washington for the law firm Cozen O’Connor. According to disclosure records, her firm’s clients included a licensee of insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Fresenius Medical Care, a German company that specializes in medical supplies for renal dialysis.
Timothy Clark, a senior adviser to HHS Secretary Tom Price, ran his own political consulting firm in California. His past clients included PhRMA, the powerful trade group that represents the pharmaceutical industry.
Keagan Lenihan, also a senior adviser to Price, was a director of government relations at McKesson Specialty Health, a firm that supports independent health providers. Disclosure records show Lenihan directly lobbied HHS. For Lenihan, the new post represents a return trip through the revolving door between government and the private sector, and a reunion with an old boss. Before registering as a lobbyist, she was a senior legislative assistant for Price, when the now-HHS secretary was in Congress.
Asked about the three HHS staffers, an agency spokeswoman said: “We are not confirming or commenting on personnel at this time.”
Justin Mikolay, hired at the Department of Defense, was previously a registered lobbyist for Palantir. His title at the tech firm was “evangelist.” Mikolay lobbied for the “procurement/deployment of the Palantir Government software platform” throughout intelligence and defense agencies, according to disclosure records.
Mikolay was a speechwriter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta between 2011 and 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mikolay also previously served as a speechwriter for current Secretary of Defense James Mattis. He declined to comment.
Chad Wolf, a Bush-era Transportation Security Administration official turned lobbyist, is currently serving as an adviser to the TSA at the Department of Homeland Security. His clients have included defense and homeland security contractors.
Reached Tuesday, Wolf declined to comment. George Rogers, CEO of Wolf’s lobbying firm, Wexler Walker, told ProPublica that Wolf is currently on unpaid leave.
As we’ve previously reported, lobbyists for the construction industry trade association and financial services firm TransAmerica are on the team at the Department of Labor.
Trump campaign vets — including very young ones
The list also includes what appear to be dozens of former Trump campaign staffers, including several who graduated from college last year. One, Danny Tiso at the Department of Labor, graduated from high school in 2015, according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked for the Trump campaign in New Hampshire.
Seth Harris, who was on the first Obama-Biden transition team and later became a top Labor Department official, said it’s not uncommon to bring in campaign staff to agencies — “as long as there are senior political people to direct the junior people.”
“This is how you incorporate the people who are your strongest supporters into the government,” he said. “There are plenty of junior jobs in the government that these people can do — public-affairs jobs, special assistant jobs.”
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/meet-the-right-wing-group-that-helped-pick-neil-gorsuch
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump said that he would only nominate a justice to the Supreme Court whose named appeared on two lists developed by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
While the Federalist Society is a conservative group that focuses closely on legal issues, Heritage takes a much wider scope, working on everything from domestic policy to foreign affairs.
Heritage, led by former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, has played a major role in the Trump administration, especially on staffing and policy ideas. Conservative activist Marjorie Dannenfelser calledHeritage “the fulcrum” of Trump’s administration, and one source told Politico’s Katie Glueck that Heritage launched a “shadow transition team.”
“Perhaps Heritage’s most significant involvement during the campaign was its experts’ shaping of Trump’s list of Supreme Court choices, ultimately resulting in a selection of conservative thinkers who oppose abortion rights,” Glueck adds.
Heritage is so far to the right that many Republicans have publicly complained about its extremism.
Trump picked Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, from the Heritage-developed lists, which Trump assured conservatives would only include “pro-life” judges in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia.
Heritage’s role in Gorsuch’s selection should raise doubts that Trump was looking for a mainstream nominee.
In fact, Heritage is so far to the right that many Republicans have publicly complained about its extremism.
Betsy Woodruff of The Daily Beast dubbed Heritage Action, the think tank’s political arm, “The Group too Radical for Republicans,” and The Atlantic’s Molly Ball described in detail “Heritage’s transformation from august policy shop to political hit squad.”
DeMint, who left the Senate in 2013 to lead Heritage, was one of Congress’s most radical members and “the primary conduit through which the Religious Right’s agenda makes its way in the halls of Congress.”
He said that gay people and unmarried women who have premarital sex shouldn’t be allowed to teach in public schools and led the unsuccessful drive to defeat a hate crimes bill because it protected people based on sexual orientation and gender identity, falsely claiming that it would criminalize free speech and land pastors in jail.
Jim DeMint has said that gay people and unmarried women who have premarital sex shouldn’t be allowed to teach.
Even before DeMint took the reins, Heritage had taken anti-LGBT stances, criticizing the Supreme Court ruling that knocked down bans on gay sex, and Heritage staffer Ryan Anderson has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of marriage equality and nondiscrimination laws.
DeMint has also denounced immigration reform, universal health care and abortion rights, which he said should be banned even in cases of rape or incest.
Heritage also tasked its analyst Jason Richwine with studying the supposed negative effects of immigration reform. Previously, Richwine wrote articles for White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s racist Alt-Right website linking Latinos to crime and authored a doctoral dissertation claiming that Latinos have a genetically inferior IQ to white people and that the children and grandchildren of Latino immigrants will persist in having low IQs, dragging down American society unless the U.S. adopted a more discriminating immigration policy.
Naturally, Richwine’s heavily criticized report for Heritage reflected his view that the U.S. should discriminate against “low-skilled” immigrants.
The group has also tried to put an academic face on climate change denialand emerged as one of the driving forces promoting the false claim that U.S. elections are riddled with widespread voter fraud, and DeMint even admitted that Heritage is promoting voter restriction laws “all over the country, because in the states where they do have voter ID laws you’ve seen, actually, elections begin to change towards more conservative candidates.”
Heritage is now aiming to bring its political agenda, viewed as radical and extreme even by many Republicans, not only to the Trump administration, but also to the Supreme Court.
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Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Annette Meeks
CEO
900 Second Avenue South
Suite 570
Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402
Info@freedomfoundationofminnesota.com
Mission: The Freedom Foundation of Minnesota is an independent, non-profit, educational, and research organization that develops and actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Crime • Education • Government reform • Commerce • Natural resources • Health care • Taxes • Transportation
Phone:212-514-8040
Fax: 212-514-8055
Jennifer Windsor
Executive Director
120 Wall Street, 26th Floor
New York, NY, United States 10005
info@freedomhouse.org
Mission: Freedom House is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes democracy and freedom throughout the world. It seeks an engaged U.S. foreign policy; evaluates human rights conditions; sponsors public education campaigns; conducts training and assistance programs; and provides support for the rule of law, an independent media, and effective local governance. Established in 1941, Freedom House is based in Washington, D.C., and New York City and has overseas offices in Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Kiev, and Warsaw.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Democracy and democratization • Human rights • Free-market reforms • Independent media • Rule of law • Corruption
Phone:610-933-8825
Fax: 610-935-0522
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge
Michael E. Di Yeso
President and CEO
1601 Valley Forge Road, PO Box 706
Valley Forge, PA, United States 19482
mdiyeso@ffvf.org
Mission: Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization that seeks to educate youth about America’s founding principles and the balance of rights and responsibilities of citizens. Annually, students from all 50 states participate in Freedoms Foundation’s programs, which include U.S. history, core values, the private enterprise system, and constitutional rights and citizens’ responsibilities. To date, more than 100,000 people have been reached through these education and award programs. Additionally, elementary and secondary school educators take part in graduate credit seminars and workshops on effective techniques for teaching citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: America’s founding principles • Constitutional rights • Citizenship
Phone:202-783-3870
Fax: 202-942-7649
Matt Kibbe
President and CEO
400 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 765
Washington, DC, United States 20001
mkibbe@freedomworks.org
Mission: FreedomWorks is a non-profit organization that fights for lower taxes, less government, and economic freedom. FreedomWorks unites the nation’s leading advocates of freedom with the power of hundreds of thousands of volunteer members from across the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Social Security reform • Tort reform • Economic growth • Welfare reform • School choice
Phone:202-452-8200
Fax: 202-833-0388
Matt Kibbe
President and CEO
400 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 765
Washington, DC, United States 20001
mkibbe@freedomworks.org
Mission: FreedomWorks Foundation provides grassroots citizens with clear, concise, and timely information on key economic issues. By making economic issues accessible to interested citizens, the Foundation fosters a more active and meaningful dialogue between elected officials and their constituents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Civil justice • Education reform • Technology policy • Environmental reform • Regulatory reform
Phone:011-33-42-21-16-24
Fax: 011-33-42-33-29-35
Benoite Taffin
Executive Director
42, rue des Jeuneurs
Cedex 02
Paris 75077, France
benoitetaffin@contribuables.org
Mission: Founded in 1990, French Taxpayers Association (Contribuables Associés) is a non-profit, non-partisan citizen organization that works for lower taxes, less wasteful spending, taxpayers’ rights, and accountable government at all levels.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Reducing public spending • Tax reform • Balanced budget • Fight against state and local work • Fight against bureaucracy
Phone:011-43-1-534-51-605
Fax: 011-43-1-534-51-8506
Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut
Dr. Barbara Lamprechter
General Secretary
Wipplingerstrasse 25
A-1010 Wien, Austria
barbara.lamprechter@hayek-institut.at
Mission: The Friedrich A. v. Hayek Institut promotes the ideas of the Austrian School of Economics as a viable economic alternative in Austria and elsewhere not only as a public policy think tank, but also as an academic institute. Located in Vienna, the Institut takes up topical questions concerning economic and social politics, offers studies and solutions on a scientific basis, and seeks to improve public understanding of the key economic questions to promote a free society.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Fiscal policy and taxation and against tax harmonization in the European Union • Privatization • Deregulation • Labor market • Health care • European Union constitution
Phone:011-49-331-7019-0
Fax: 011-49-331-7019-188
Dr. Jürgen Morlok
Chairman
Karl Marx St. 2
14482 Potsdam, Germany
fnst@fnst.org
Mission: The Friedrich Naumann Foundation is a foundation for liberal politics. Its goal is to ensure a future for liberal ideas, both at home and abroad. Therefore, its most important task is civic education in Germany.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Rule of law • Human rights and minorities • Open markets • Liberalism and social responsibility • Federalism, decentralization and civic society • Participatory local government
Phone:204-957-1567
Fax: 204-957-1567
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Peter Holle
President
Lombard Concourse, 1 Lombard Place, Suite 25
Winnepeg, MB R3B 0XB, Canada
newideas@fcpp.org
Mission: Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s mission is to broaden the debate on the future through public policy research and education and to explore positive changes within public institutions that support economic growth and opportunity.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education • Aboriginal policy • Urban • Tax
Phone:703-246-0110
Fax: 703-246-0129
Sen. Malcolm Wallop
Chairman
PO Box 69
Oakton, VA, United States 22124
info@ff.org
Mission: Frontiers of Freedom is dedicated to promoting free market principles and the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecom • Energy • Missile defense • Environmental regulation • Military transformation
Phone:703-246-0110
Fax: 703-246-0129
Frontiers of Freedom Institute
Sen. Malcolm Wallop
Chairman
11781 Lee Jackson Memorial Highway, Third Floor
Fairfax, VA, United States 22033
info@ff.org
Mission: Frontiers of Freedom Institute is dedicated to promoting free market principles and the ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecom • Energy • Missile defense • Environmental regulation • Military transformation
Phone:011-809-379-1831
Fax: 011-809-379-1840
Pedro Dájer
President
Ave. Lope de Vega No. 55, Plaza Robles, Suite 302
Ensanche Naco
Santo Domingo, DN, Dominican Republic
pdajer@fudis.org
Mission: FUDIS is a non-profit institution dedicated to developing effective public policy projects through the investigation and analysis of the diverse realities of the Dominican Republic. FUDIS was born of the need in developing countries to attack such social policy problems as education, health, poverty, among others, and to develop concrete proposals in accordance with international trends, which are simultaneously adapted to the situation of the Dominican Republic.
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Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:202-986-0384
Fax: 202-986-0390
Roger R. Ream
President
1706 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20009
info@tfas.org
Mission: The Fund for American Studies advances the values of freedom, democracy, and a free-market economy by sponsoring educational programs of the highest quality for students with outstanding leadership potential. These programs throughout the world prepare young people for honorable leadership by educating them in the theory, practice, and benefits of a free society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Higher education • Journalism • Philanthropy • International education • Government relations
Phone:011-34-911-859-800
Fax: 011-34-911-859-806
Antonio Arcones
Presidente
Montearag
Madrid 28033, Spain
info@fundacionburke.org
Mission: Fundación Burke seeks to consolidate and spread the traditional principles of conservative thought, and in that way, contribute towards a freer, more just, and virtuous society and break the left-wing cultural monopoly.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of education • Responsible society • Civil freedom
Phone:(+593) 4 2287-078
Pablo Arosemena Marriott
Executive Director
Av. de las Americas y Eleodoro Arboleda - Edificio Las Americas
Piso 5 Ofic. 503A
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Mission: To promote change towards a free and open society that promotes well-being and equality of opportunities for all, based in the defense of individual liberty, justice, the free market, private property, and the rule of law.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets • Rule of Law • Civil Liberties • Private Property
Phone:011-54-114-706-0500
Fax: 011-54-114-706-0182
Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek
Norberto Priú
Presidente
Av. Liberator 6550, 5º piso
Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina
fundacionhayek@hayek.org.ar
Mission:
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Phone:011-52-55-5208-1403
Alberto Saracho Martinez
Executive Director
Chapultepec 230, 5to Piso
Col. Roma Norte
Mexico City, DF 06700, Mexico
info@fundacionidea.org.mx
Mission: Fundación IDEA's mission is to design and promote innovative public policies for Mexico that create equal access to opportunities by stimulating economic growth and reducing poverty; and to be an independent source of credible analysis on current and proposed policies for both policy makers and the public.
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Phone:011-809-227-3250
Fax: 011-809-227-3259
Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia
Dr. Francisco Dominguez Brito
Executive Director
Ave. Gustavo Mejía Ricart, Esq. Abraham Lincoln
Torre Piantini, 8vo Piso
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
jrizek@finjus.org.do
Mission: The mission of Fundación Institucionalidad y Justicia is to fortify and project a democratic institution that effectively guarantees and respects fundamental civil rights, as well as to generate a propitious atmosphere for the development of free markets.
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Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:011-54-341-424-5000
Fax: 011-54-341-424-5000
Gerardo Bongiovanni
Director General
Mitre 170
2000 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
gbongiovanni@libertad.org.ar
Mission: Fundación Libertad is a private, non-profit institution working towards research and diffusion of public policy issues, specifically in the socio-economic and business areas, and working towards the promotion of the concept of a free market society. Founded in Rosario in 1988, its projects include academic courses, lectures, studies, and publications, as well as a strong presence in the media, with television and radio programs it produces.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic freedom promotion • Institutional strengthening • Crime reduction and insecurity • Judicial reform • tax reform
Phone:011-595-021-441-722
Fax: 011-595-021-441-722
Alfredo Luis Jaeggli
Presidente
Manduvirá No. 773 c/ Ayolas
Asunción, Paraguay
fundlib@fundacionlibertad.org.py
Mission: Fundación Libertad aims to promote pluralism and enlightenment. It directs its efforts toward achieving the benefits of culture and the betterment of the material conditions for all Paraguayans and foreigners living within Paraguay.
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Phone:011-507-265-1542
Fax: 011-507-265-8842
Roberto Brenes Pérez
Presidente
Apartado Postal 0832-0596
WTC Panama, Panama
info@fundacionlibertad.org.pa
Mission: The mission of Fundación Libertad de Panama is to learn, teach, defend, and diffuse the principles of individual freedom in Panama so that a society of free and responsible people can exist, flourish, and last.
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Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:011-591-3-333-4555
Fax: 011-591-3-334-2353
Fundación Libertad y Democracia (FULIDE)
Walter Justiniano
Executive Director
Av. Las Américas No.7
Casilla de Correo 180
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
fulide@fulide.org.bo
Mission: FULIDE is a non-partisan think tank that undertakes policy studies and economic analyses to advance the principles of free initiative and private property in Bolivia.
Tax Status:
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Phone:+(56) 2 393 5367
María José Cofré
Director of Communications
Avenida del Parque 4161
oficina 103, Ciudad Empresarial
Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile 8580675
mjcofre@fprogreso.org
Mission: To educate new generations, especially college students, on the principles, institutions and ideals of a free and responsible society, such as: personal freedom, individual responsibility, the rule of law, democracy, limited government, private property, entrepreneurship, private enterprise and a free market economy. To help young people to become freedom leaders able to articulate, promote and defend these principles, institutions and ideals. To illustrate the importance and recover the moral high ground of those principles, institutions and ideals, since they are the backbone of prosperity, peace and freedom. To keep the public aware about policies that can be dangerous to a free society, documenting and demonstrating that they may cause damage and also proposing alternative policies.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics - Principles of a Free Society - Personal Freedom - Individual Responsibility -The Rule of Law - Democracy - Limited Government - Private Property - Entrepreneurship - Private Enterprise - Free-market Economy
Phone:011-502-2-331-5133
Fax: 011-502-2331-1874
Edgar A. Heinemann
President
10 Edif. Aseguradora General, 5 Nivel Ala
Sur Guatemala, Guatemala
fundesa@fundesa.org.gt
Mission: FUNDESA (Fundación Para el Desarollo de Guatemala) is a private, non-profit, apolitical organization. It was founded in 1984 by individual businesspeople who believed that the rule of law and free enterprise were the keystones for Guatemala’s development.
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Phone:011-503-278-3366
Antonio Cabrales
Presidente
Boulevard y Urbanizaci
Antiguo Cuscatl, El Salvador
comunicaciones@fusades.com.sv
Mission: The vision of FUSADES (the Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social) is to be a think tank and research center with high credibility, that promotes economic and social progress of all Salvadorans, through sustainable development, in a system of democracy and individual liberties. Founded in 1983 by a group of independent businessmen, FUSADES is a private, non-profit and non-political organization dedicated to the search of the common good.
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Phone:703-934-6101
Fax: 703-352-8678
Jacob Hornberger
President
11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800
Fairfax, VA, United States 22030
fff@fff.org
Mission: The Future of Freedom Foundation’s mission is to provide an uncompromising moral, philosophical, and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: War on terrorism • Iraq War • Drug war • Education • Welfare state • Foreign policy
Phone:703-299-8900
Fax: 703-299-0721
Grace-Marie Turner
President
PO Box 19080
Alexandria, VA, United States 22320
galen@galen.org
Mission: The Galen Institute’s mission is to advance a national dialogue on fresh approaches to the many challenges facing the health care system. The Galen Institute believes that consumers and their physicians should have authority and responsibility over their own health care decisions; that a consumer-driven market will lower costs, promote innovation, expand choice, and increase access to better medical care; that the vibrant free market will encourage research and innovation and provide better access to new medical technologies; and that updating outmoded tax policy will facilitate greater access to more affordable health insurance.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Consumer-driven health care • Medicare and Medicaid reform • Health care deregulation • Privately-owned medical coverage • Public policy consensus building • Communication and public education on free-market health reform
Phone:011-48-58-524-4900
Fax: 011-48-58-524-4908
Gdansk Institute for Market Economics
Dr. Maciej Grabowski
Vice President
ul. Do Studzienki 63
80-277 Gdansk, Poland
maciej.grabowski@ibngr.edu.pl
Mission: The Gdansk Institute for Market Economics concentrates its research and outreach efforts on applying theoretical knowledge and empirical studies to support of the transition to democracy and a market economy in Poland.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: European reforms • Fiscal policy and taxation • Social protection and employment • Economic institutions
Phone:
Evan Feinberg
President
PO Box 100716
Arlington, VA, United States 22210
info@generationopportunity.org
Mission: Generation Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to educate and organize young Americans on the challenges facing our nation. We are committed to addressing and working toward solutions on immediate challenges, such as the lack of job opportunities, as well as the broader underlying issues, such as debt and federal spending, that impact our economic future and sustainability.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: ~Jobs and Unemployment ~National Debt and Federal Spending ~American Competitiveness ~Education ~Energy ~Health Care
Phone:202-296-9655
Fax: 202-296-9714
Jeff Kueter
President
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC, United States 20006
info@marshall.org
Mission: The George C. Marshall Institute is a non-profit institution dedicated to encouraging the use of sound science in making public policy. Decisions and conclusions about many public policy matters are shaped by advances in science and technology.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Global climate change • National missile defense • Civic environmentalism • Science policymaking • Bioterrorism • Space exploration
Phone:770-242-0001
Fax: 770-242-0501
Georgia Center for Opportunity
Randy Hicks
President
333 Research Court, Suite 210
Norcross, GA, United States 30092
randy@georgiaopportunity.org
Mission: Georgia Center for Opportunity is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians. We research solutions to society’s most pressing challenges, promote those solutions to policymakers and the public, and help innovative social enterprises deliver results on the ground. The primary pathways to opportunity – strong families, safe communities, quality schools, stable employment, and good health – which historically gave children a chance to succeed, regardless of social and economic background, have experienced a rapid decline. We study and understand the obstacles along these pathways and work to break through the barriers that keep Georgia children and families
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Independence. Responsibility. Civil Society. Stronger Families. Collaboration. Evidence.
Phone:404-256-4050
Fax: 404-256-9909
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Kelly McCutchen
President
3200 Cobb Galleria Parkway
Suite 214
Atlanta, GA, United States 30339
info@GeorgiaPolicy.org
Mission: The mission of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation is to be the most respected and influential source of public policy research, analysis, and education in Georgia. The Foundation is a champion of personal and economic freedom and is committed to providing a free-market perspective based on the principles of limited government, respect for the lives and property of others, and responsibility and accountability for one’s actions. Its long-term goal is to make Georgia a better place to live and work for future generations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Health care • Transportation • Legal reform • Land use • Water
Phone:011-49-30-259396-0
Fax: 011-49-30-259396-25
German Taxpayers Association
Dr. Karl Heinz Däke
President
Franzoesische Strasse 9 - 12
D-10117 Berlin, Germany
presse@steuerzahler.de
Mission: The German Taxpayers Association is a non-profit, non-governmental institution that is not affiliated with any political party. It is financed only by its more than 400,000 members. It is committed to four main goals: a simple and just fiscal system, a lower tax burden, the economic usage of public funds, and an effective and modern public body.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Reduction of the national debt • Introduction of a modern and more efficient fiscal system • Prevention of the waste of public funds • Establishment of a more efficient health care system • Cutback of subsidies
Phone:
Ian Milne
Director
57 Tufton Street
London SW1P 3QL, United Kingdom
globalbritain-1@globalbritain.org
Mission: Global Britain conducts meticulously objective research and analysis into key aspects of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union and the United Kingdom’s relationships with the rest of the world. At the same time, Global Britain examines the feasibility of the United Kingdom’s withdrawing from the European Union, resuming her role as an independent self-governing democratic nation-state, making her own decisions, choosing her own alliances, and sitting, speaking, and voting on her own behalf in multilateral bodies such as the World Trade Organization.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: European Union • United Kingdom–European Union relations
Phone:1040 Brussels Schuman
Alex Singleton
President
BP4
1040 Brussels Schuman, Belgium
info@globalisation.eu
Mission: The Globalisation Institute is a Brussels-based think tank that promotes ideas to help Europe thrive in the global economy. Located in the heart of Brussels’ European quarter, it works by researching, developing, and promoting practical policy options that recognise political realities.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • Single market • Agriculture • Free trade • Development • Regulation • Tax
Phone:804-693-2645
Kay Coles James
President
6496 Allmondsville Road
Gloucester, VA, United States 23061
info@gloucesterinstitute.org
Mission: The Gloucester Institute is committed to providing an intellectually safe environment where ideas can be discussed and transformed into practical solutions that produce results.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: African-American community • Social ideas • Economic ideas • Political ideas
Phone:602-462-5000
Fax: 602-256-7045
Darcy A. Olsen
President
500 East Coronado Road
Phoenix, AZ, United States 85004
info@goldwaterinstitute.org
Mission: The Goldwater Institute is an independent, non-partisan, research, and educational organization devoted to the study of Arizona public policy. Through its research papers, editorials, and policy briefings, the Institute promotes public policy founded on the principles of limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Health/welfare/children’s issues • Transportation • Regulatory reform • Urban growth • Education
Phone:808-591-9193
Fax: 808-356-1690
Keli'i Akina
President
1314 South King Street, Suite 1163
Honolulu, HI, United States 96814
info@grassrootinstitute.org
Mission: The mission of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii is to improve public understanding of the critical need for individual autonomy if liberty is to prevail. Through insightful analysis, scholarly research, and thoughtful recommendations, the Institute promotes a civil society as well as individual authority, responsibility, and accountability. Its education mission encompasses public forums, speeches, and media outreach.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Hold public officials accountable • Increase parental choice in schooling • Promote consumer choice in transportation • Develop consumer choice in health care and health insurance • Design policies to reduce size and scope of government and to increase individual authority in pursuit of happiness • Annually honor heroes of individual liberty
Phone:605-334-9400
Fax: 605-731-0043
Great Plains Public Policy Institute
Ron Williamson
President
PO Box 88138
Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57109
contact@greatplainsppi.org
Mission: The mission of the Great Plains Public Policy Institute is to formulate and promote free enterprise solutions to public policy problems based on the principles of individual responsibility, limited government, privatization, and traditional American values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Taxation • Education
Phone:317-536-1027
Fax: 317-921-9443
Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation
Kevin Teasley
President
2540 North Capitol Avenue, Suite 101
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46208
teasleygeo@aol.com
Mission: The Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation (GEO) believes that all children should have access to a quality education. GEO embraces all quality educational options that enable parents to help their children learn and schools succeed. Through an aggressive community outreach and the introduction of options that empower families, GEO strives to make educational choice a reality for all families.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Charter schools • No Child Left Behind • After school tutoring • Parent training and empowerment • Tax credits
Phone:310-465-1470
Fax: 310-465-1471
A. C. Green, Jr.
President
904 Silver Spur Road, Suite 416
Rolling Hills, CA, United States 90274
info@acgreen.com
Mission: The goal of the A. C. Green Youth Foundation is to serve both the youth and the communities in which they live by providing information about sexual abstinence and social issues that concern young people and educating them to make responsible choices to prepare them for their future.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Summer leadership camps • Abstinence education via Web site and curriculum
Phone:703-321-8585
Fax: 703-321-8408
Larry Pratt
Executive Director
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102
Springfield, VA, United States 22151
goamail@gunowners.org
Mission: goamail@gunowners.org • www.gunowners.org Gun Owners of America exists to promote the Second Amendment in an uncompromising fashion through the concentrated efforts of 300,000 members. Firearms are viewed as a freedom issue. Gun control laws have been shown to have nothing to do with reducing crime, but they have unfailingly been the tool of tyrants. The Second Amendment is an absolute right, as evidenced by the Founders’ language, “shall not be infringed.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Repeal of all federal firearms laws • Repeal all state and local firearms laws under the terms of the 14th Amendment • Defend gun owners prosecuted for self defense uses of firearms and possession of firearms when prosecuted for violations of unconstitutional laws through the Gun Owners Foundation • Correct judicial usurpation • Remove criminal law jurisdiction from the federal level where there is no constitutional authority for it
Phone:808-203-6704
Fax: 808-261-7022
Dennis Arakaki
Executive Director
6301 Pali Highway
Kaneohe, HI, United States 96744
info@hawaiifamilyforum.org
Mission: Hawaii Family Forum (HFF) is a non-profit, pro-family, policy education and research organization committed to the preservation and strengthening of families in Hawaii. While a legally independent entity, HFF is associated with Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is part of the network of Family Policy Councils.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Stopping the legalization of physician-assisted suicide • Traditional marriage • Parental consent laws and abortion legislation • Gambling • Protection of children from sexual exploitation • Religious freedom
Phone:011-7-095-180-2552
Fax: 011-7-095-180-2552
Yuri Petukhov
Vice President and Executive Director
13, Block 1, Sedova St., Apt. 45
Moscow 129323, Russia
hayek@hayek.ru
Mission: The Hayek Foundation’s mission is to assist Russia’s accelerated industrial development by securing the de facto established capitalist economic relations in Russia on the principles of private property, free enterprise, competitive market, individual freedom, limited government, and traditional moral values. The Foundation fosters capitalist processes in Russia through financial, political, analytical, theoretical, methodological, and informational assistance and funds research in the theory and practice of neo-liberal policies.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:312-377-4000
Fax: 312-377-5000
Joseph L. Bast
President and CEO
19 South LaSalle, Suite 903
Chicago, IL, United States 60603
think@heartland.org
Mission: The Heartland Institute is an independent, non-profit center for public policy research. Heartland’s mission is to be an indispensable source of research and news for journalists and the nation’s 8,000 state and federal elected officials. It operates PolicyBot, an online database and search engine, giving customers instant access to over 8,000 documents from 300 think tanks and advocacy groups. Heartland also publishes a bimonthly magazine, three monthly newspapers, a monthly members’ newsletter, policy studies, books, videos, and other products.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • School reform • Health care • Budget and taxation
Phone:011-30-210-725-8377
Fax: 011-30-210-725-7102
Anthony Livanios
President
10, Vas. Sofias Avenue
10674 Athens, Greece
info@hli.gr
Mission: The Hellenic Leadership Institute promotes the principles of free enterprise, democratic society, individual liberty, and international cooperation through communication campaigns and in-depth research. It seeks to identify, recruit, and educate the future leaders of the Mediterranean region.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:202-548-6254
Michael A. Needham
Chief Executive Officer
321 D Street NE
Washington, DC, United States 20002
info@heritageforamerica.org
Mission: Heritage Action for America is a unique combination of top-notch conservative policy analysis, a widely respected government relations team and dedicated grassroots activists that advance conservative policy. As a 501(c)(4) organization, Heritage Action for America allows unprecedented coordination and communication with concerned citizens who want to be part of their national dialogue. The mission of Heritage Action is to speak directly to the American people and help them break through the establishment in Washington to hold Congress accountable to conservative principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health Policy • Governtment Spending and Acountability • Debt • Energy and Environment Policy • Defense • Grass Roots Strategy
Phone:202-546-4400
Fax: 202-546-8328
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D.
President
214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC, United States 20002
info@heritage.org
Mission: Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute—a think tank—whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: American leadership • Education • Energy and environment • Entitlements • Enterpreneurship • Family and religion • First principles • Health care • Judicial system • National security
Phone:703-535-8774
Fax: 703-535-8776
Henry Cooper
Director
500 North Washington Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
high.frontier@verizon.net
Mission: High Frontier was formed to examine the potential for defending America against missile attack. High Frontier played a principal role in developing the basis for President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). As a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization, High Frontier continues to inform the public about the clear, present, and growing threat of ballistic missiles and their weapons of mass destruction and to recommend cost-effective defense concepts that can be deployed in the near future.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Ballistic missile defense • Terrorism • Defense spending • Proliferation • Military readiness • Weapons of mass destruction
Phone:703-717-6481
Hispanic American Center for Economic Research
Alejandro Chafuen, Ph.D
Chairman
910 17th Street, NW, Suite 422
Washington, DC, United States 20006-2605
info@hacer.org
Mission: The Hispanic American Center for Economic Research’s goal is to promote the study of issues pertinent to the countries of Hispanic America as well as Hispanic Americans living in the United States, especially as they relate to the values of personal and economic liberty, limited government under the rule of law, and individual responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Security and defense • Economic forecasting • Political forecasting • Policy reform expertise • Rule of law
Phone:202-625-6766
Fax: 202-625-6767
Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options
Anthony J. Colón
President
2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 408
Washington, DC, United States 20037
info@hcreo.org
Mission: The mission of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options is to improve educational outcomes for Hispanic children by empowering families through parental choice in education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Parental empowerment through school choice • Building and developing membership • Working with and through like-minded organizations • Geographic target expansions • K–12 projects that will increase the educational outcomes of Latino Children
Phone:540-338-5600
Fax: 540-338-2733
Home School Legal Defense Association
J. Michael Smith
President
PO Box 3000
Purcellville, VA, United States 20134
info@hslda.org
Mission: The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) works to preserve freedom, protect families, and promote home schooling. HSLDA secures home school freedoms by defending and representing families in court, in state legislatures, in Congress, in the media, and through research.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Home schooling freedom • Parental rights • Fourth Amendment protection of homes • Registration of voters • Protection of marriage
Phone:519-913-0318
Fax: 519-913-0321
Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada
Paul D. Faris
Executive Director
32B - 980 Adelaide Street South
London, ON N6E 1R3, Canada
info@hslda.ca
Mission: The Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada seeks to preserve and advance the fundamental, God-given, constitutional right of parents and others legally responsible for their children to direct their education. In so doing, it relies on two fundamental freedoms: parental rights and religious freedom.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Homeschool research • Parental rights • Religious freedom • Education
Phone:011-852-2547-8313
Fax: 011-852-2548-6319
The Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research
Y.C. Richard Wong
Director
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong, China
hkcer@econ.hku.hk
Mission: The organization’s mission is to enhance knowledge of economic affairs and develop alternative policy choices.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional development • Regional economic integration • Fiscal policy
Phone:650-723-1754
Fax: 650-723-1687
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
John Raisian
Director
434 Galvez Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, United States 94305-6010
horaney@hoover.stanford.edu
Mission: The Hoover Institution is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs. With its world-renowed group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research, the Institution puts its accumulated knowledge to work as a prominent contributor to the world marketplace of ideas defining a free society. The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom, private enterprise, and representative govenment were fundamental to the vision of the Institution’s founder. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit governmental intrusion into the lives of individuals.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic growth, productivity growth, human capital accumulation • The rule of law, importance of property rights, assessment of commerce regulation • Size and effectiveness of government • American individualism and philosophic value • Evolving democratic capitalism and the historical end of communism • National security, international rivalries, and global cooperation
Phone:815-964-5819
Fax: 815-965-1826
The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society
Allan C. Carlson
President
934 North Main Street
Rockford, IL, United States 61103
info@profam.org
Mission: The mission of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society is to reinforce the family as the first and irreplaceable social unit, to renew the religious foundation of virtue and liberty, and to restore the education of the young in the obligations of free men and women.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Family • Children • Religion • Divorce • Homosexuality
Phone:916-444-9950
Fax: 916-444-9823
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
Jon Coupal
President
921 11th Street, Suite 1201
Sacramento, CA, United States 95814
jon@hjta.org
Mission: The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is dedicated to the protection of Proposition 13 and the advancement of taxpayers’ rights including the right to limited taxation, the right to vote on tax increases, and the right of economical, equitable, and efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Protect Proposition 13 • Tax and expenditure limitation ballot measures • Address waste, fraud, and abuse in California state and local government • Legislative report card • California state budget • Political reform
Phone:202-974-2400
Fax: 202-974-2410
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Chief Executive Officer
1015 15th Street, NW, Sixth Floor
Washington, DC, United States 20005
info@hudson.org
Mission: Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Islam • Middle East policy • European studies • Eurasian policy • Latin American studies • U.S.-Asia relations • Human rights and religious freedom • Global food issues • Environmental studies • Philanthropy and civic renewal • Global prosperity • Foreign aid and economic development • United Nations • Labor and employment policy • Economic policy
Phone:
Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth (RNH)
Jonas Sigurgeirsson
Managing Director
Fákafeni 11
108 Reykjavik
Sími, Iceland 615 11 22
Mission: The Icelandic Research Centre for Innovation and Economic Growth (RNH, Rannsoknarsetur um nyskopun og hagvoxt) is a think tank which seeks to explore how innovation and economic growth are either encouraged or stifled. A special emphasis is on research of the ways in which free individuals can by spontaneous co-operation, free trade instead of commands, satisfy their needs and improve their lives.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: 1.Taxation and the Distribution of Income 2.Natural Resources and the Environment 3.Innovation and Entrepreneurship 4.Victims of 20th Century Totalitarianism
Phone:208.258.2280
Fax: 208.965.8111
Wayne Hoffman
President
2404 Bank Drive, Ste. 314
Boise, ID, United States 83705
wayne@idahofreedom.net
Mission: The Idaho Freedom Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational and research organization that develops and advocates the principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, economic freedom, and limited government. The Foundation’s mission is to keep Idaho free by generating research and data on key issues, and recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, media and the citizens of Idaho
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, economic freedom, and limited government
Phone:630-790-8370
Fax: 630-790-8390
David Smith
Executive Director
799 West Roosevelt Road
Building 3, Suite 208
Glen Ellyn, IL, United States 60137
info@illinoisfamily.org
Mission: The mission of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is to create an environment where families can flourish by equipping churches and influencing public policymakers through leadership, information, and training. IFI’s work includes social policy research and publications and educating and mobilizing citizens for social action.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Defending marriage • Homosexual agenda • Decency/pornography • Education • Religious freedom
Phone:312-346-5700
Fax: 312-346-5755
John Tillman
CEO
190 South LaSalle Street
Suite 2130
Chicago, IL, United States 60603
jtillman@illinoispolicyinstitute.org
Mission: The Illinois Policy Institute’s mission is to preserve and strengthen the societal foundations of the Land of Lincoln. Through the promotion of the benefits of limited government, competitive private enterprise, as well as Illinois’ critical cultural and political institutions via rigorous inquiry, debate, and writing the Institute strives to unleash the full potential of the citizens of Illinois to lead good and productive lives.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Economic and fiscal issues • Education reform • Illinois and the world • Technology and the world
Phone:217-528-8800
Fax: 217-528-8808
Illinois Policy Insitute - Springfield
Kristina Rasmussen
Executive Vice President
802 South 2nd Street
2nd Floor
Springfield, IL, United States 62704
krasmussen@illinoispolicyinstitute.org
Mission: The Illinois Policy Institute’s mission is to preserve and strengthen the societal foundations of the Land of Lincoln. Through the promotion of the benefits of limited government, competitive private enterprise, as well as Illinois’ critical cultural and political institutions via rigorous inquiry, debate, and writing the Institute strives to unleash the full potential of the citizens of Illinois to lead good and productive lives.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Economic and fiscal issues • Education reform • Illinois and the world • Technology and the world
Phone:312-427-0087
Fax: 312-427-5139
Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation
Jim Tobin
President
407 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1170
Chicago, IL, United States 60605
itef@ntui.org
Mission: The Illinois Taxpayer Education Foundation (ITEF) is a non-profit, charitable 501 (c) (3) organization conducting research on facts, methods, and principles of taxation, government spending and public attitudes on these subjects.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Government Spending • Public Attitudes on Taxation
Phone:011-233-21-417-094
IMANI Center for Policy and Education
Franklin Cudjoe
President
No 14 Yeboah Street, Chantan
Achimota-Accra, Ghana
franklin@imanighana.org
Mission: IMANI Center for Policy and Education seeks to stimulate public discussion of the promotion of economic prosperity rights, the rule of law, open and unconditional trade, free speech, and decentralization of power and resources.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Politics • Health • International relations • Development • Economics • Free trade
Phone:303-279-6536
Fax: 303-279-4176
Jon Charles Caldara
President
727 E. 16th Avenue
Denver, CO, United States 80203
jon@i2i.org
Mission: The Independence Institute is a Colorado-based think tank founded on the principle of individual responsibility and the small-government philosophy of the Declaration of Independence. The Institute publishes issues papers, editorials, books, and op-eds. It also holds legislative briefings, symposiums, and produces a weekly PBS television program.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Transportation • Fiscal policy • Health care • Second Amendment • Property rights
Phone:510-632-1366
Fax: 510-568-6040
David J. Theroux
Founder and President
100 Swan Way
Oakland, CA, United States 94621-1428
info@independent.org
Mission: The Independent Institute is a non-partisan, scholarly, public policy research and educational organization that sponsors comprehensive studies of social and economic issues. Institute studies are widely distributed as books --The Independent Review (quarterly journal), Independent Policy Reports, The Lighthouse (weekly email newsletter), and other publications -- and form the basis for numerous conferences and media programs for leaders in academia, business, policymaking, the media as well as the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation • Money, banking, and finance • Environment • Employment and unemployment • Criminal justice and liability • Health care
Phone:202-857-5201
Fax: 202-429-9574
Independent Women's Forum (IWF)
Sabrina Schaeffer
Executive Director
1875 I Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, United States 20006
info@iwf.org
Mission: The Independent Women’s Forum was established to combat the women-as-victim, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism. IWF seeks to restore, strengthen, and extend that which promotes women’s well being by advancing the principles of self-reliance, political freedom, economic liberty, and personal responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Women and workplace • School choice • International women’s freedom • Social Security reform • Taxes • Personal responsibility and self respect among women
Phone:317-423-9178
Fax: 314-423-9421
Curt Smith
President
155 East Market Street, Suite 307
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46204
ifi@hoosierfamily.org
Mission: The Indiana Family Institute is a faith-based, non-partisan public education and research organization. Its mission is two-fold: to preserve pro-family policy already within state government and push for additional policies that will strengthen Indiana families and to work with churches, lay leaders, government, groups, and organizations to promote and implement effective marriage ministry and marriage enrichment programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Divorce • Same-sex marriage • Abortion • Family values • Relationship skills education
Phone:(260) 417-4094
Indiana Policy Review Foundation
T. Craig Ladwig
Director
PO Box 5166
Fort Wayne, IN, United States 46895
Director@inpolicy.org
Mission: The mission of the Indiana Policy Review Foundation is to marshal the best thought on governmental, economic, and educational issues at the state and municipal levels. The Foundation seeks to accomplish this in ways that exalt the truths of the Declaration of Independence, especially as they apply to the interrelated freedoms of religion, property, and speech; emphasize the primacy of the individual in addressing public concerns; and recognize that equality of opportunity is sacrificed in pursuit of equality of results.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property • Land use • Municipal annexation • Hiring quotas • Local government • Education funding
Phone:213-617-0414
Fax: 213-617-1314
Manuel S. Klausner
General Counsel
PO 361269
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90036
mklaus@aol.com
Mission: The Individual Rights Foundation (IRF) is the legal arm of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. IRF litigates to defend individual rights with particular focus on free speech and civil rights, including challenges to governmental racial preferences, governmental ideological and political discrimination, and misuse of public funds for partisan political advocacy in election campaigns.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Combating racial preferences • Combating political and ideological discrimination in public schools and universities • Supporting the Boy Scouts in defending their First Amendment rights • Combating the use of taxpayer funds for partisan and political advocacy • Defending controversial speech from intimidation by threats of defamation suits • Defending free speech from infringement by overly-broad interpretations of sexual harassment law
Phone:213-740-6495
Fax: 213-740-6650
Initiative and Referendum Institute
M. Dane Waters
Founder and Chairman
USC School of Law
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90089-0071
mdanewaters@iandrinstitute.org,
Mission: Founded in 1998, the Initiative and Referendum Institute (IRI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to tracking political trends on its award-winning Web site and through its Ballotwatch service. The mission of IRI is to research and develop clear analysis of the initiative process and its use; to inform and educate the public about the process and its effects; and to provide effective leadership in litigation, defending the initiative process and the right of citizens to reform their government. IRI provides expert opinion for journalists and policymakers, hosts international conferences, and publishes policy monographs, reference books, and scholarly work. IRI is active in Europe through its sister organization, IRI-Europe, based in Amsterdam.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Study of initiative, referendum and recall
Phone:011-234-1-823-093
Fax: 011-435-806-1178
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis
Thompson Ayodele
Coordinator
PO Box 6434, Somolu
Lagos, Nigeria
info@ippanigeria.org
Mission: The Initiative for Public Policy Analysis (IPPA) is a private, non-profit organization involved in research, education, and publication on matters affecting the freedom of individuals. Its objective is to provide market-oriented analysis of current and emerging policy issues, with a view to influencing the public debate and the political decision making process. In order to safeguard its independence the IPPA does not accept government funds, relying instead entirely on the financial support of individuals, foundations, and other private organizations.
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Pierre Bessard
Executive Director
19, boulevard de Grancy
1006 Lausanne, Switzerland
ic@institutconstant.ch
Mission: Through a network of thinkers, researchers, and young scholars, the Institut Constant de Rebecque promotes in Switzerland a climate of opinion favorable to individual growth, private initiative, and free enterprise. To that end, the Institut develops innovative and sustainable solutions to current challenges and broadens the public debate.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Privacy • Free trade • Private property • Institutional competition
Phone:
Institut de Formation Politique
Alexandre Pesey
Executive Director
32, rue des Bruyères
93210 Sèvres, France
contact@laboursetocqueville.fr
Mission: The Tocqueville Fellowship was created to enable young people promising to meet with U.S. political players and learn the techniques used in the United States by civil society to uphold the values ??of freedom and responsibility.
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Phone:011-33-42-33-29-15
Fax: 011-33-40-26-47-19
Institut Français pour la Recherche sur les Administrations et les Politiques Publiques (iFRAP)
Bernard Zimmern
President and Founder
5, rue Cadet
75009 Paris, France
contact@ifrap.org
Mission: iFRAP seeks to alert civil society to the problems of the control of use of public funds, the reform of the state, and the creation of enterprises.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Enterprise • Job creation • Unemployment • Public expenditures • Health • Education
Phone:212-246-3942
Fax: 212-541-6665
David Blankenhorn
President
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY, United States 10023
info@americanvalues.org
Mission: The Institute for American Values, founded in 1987, is a private, non-partisan organization devoted to research, publication, and public education on major issues of family well being and civil society. The Institute’s immediate mission is to examine the status and future of the family as a social institution. Its larger mission is to examine the social sources of competence, character, and citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Parenting and children • Marriage and divorce • Human person • International civil society • At-risk youth • Just war
Phone:800-326-0263
Fax: 510-238-8440
Institute for Contemporary Studies
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr.
President and CEO
3100 Harrison Street
Oakland, CA, United States 94611
mail@icspress.com
Mission: The Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS) believes that men and women who control their lives through self-governing institutions live more productive lives. The information age is ushering in exciting new possibilities for people everywhere to expand their self-governing capabilities. These possibilities will only be realized when people have the necessary knowledge, practical information, and leadership. ICS is committed to promoting self-governing ways of life by working on all three of these important components.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Empowerment • Governance and leadership • Educational choice • Civic education • Entrepreneurship • Environment
Phone:
Institute for Corean-American Studies
Synja P. Kim
President and Chairman
965 Clover Court
Blue Bell, PA, United States 19422
icas@icasinc.org
Mission: Established in 1973, Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) is a non-profit, non-partisan, and private educational and research organization incorporated in Pennsylvania to enhance cooperation and to pursue peace and prosperity in association with people of mutual interests, with a special emphasis on multilateral relations between the United States and Asia–Pacific Rim nations. ICAS is not an agent of any government and is solely supported by voluntary contributions. ICAS maintains a roster of Fellows from around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: International relations • Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia • Economy and security • Arms control • Immigration and citizenship • American founding principles
Phone:
Institute for Development and Economic Affairs
Pavel Koktyshev
Director
Almaty, 050000
Zhanna gasir 33/1, Kazakhstan
koktyshev@gmail.com
Mission: We want Kazakhstan to be a safe and prosperous country where everyone has the opportunity for self-development, a wide range of individual rights and freedoms and protected from violence to life and private property, where the talents of every citizen to assess where the government focuses on its primary function - protecting life and property of citizens.
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Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Individual Liberty ~ Free Markets ~ Rule of Law ~ Private Property ~ Entrepreneurship ~ Limited Government
Phone:011-33-620-89-4856
Fax: 011-33-442-59-3887
Institute for Economic Studies–Europe
Pierre Garello
Director
33 Boulevard Marius Richard
Marseille 13012, France
pierregarello@hotmail.com
Mission: The aim of the Institute for Economic Studies–Europe is to stand at the center of a worldwide network of students, scholars, and other intellectuals. Since 1989, the Institute has aimed at discovering, developing, and supporting the most outstanding people it could find among students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in exploring and applying the principles of classical liberalism.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Individual rights • Private property, contracts, and the rule of law • Voluntarism in human relations • Free market mechanism in economic affairs • Free movement of goods, ideas, and people
Phone:202.621.2950
Fax: 713-974-1918
Thomas J. Pyle
President
1155 15th St NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC, United States 20005
bcole@ierdc.org
Mission: Founded in 1989, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) conducts historical research and evaluates public policies in the oil, gas, coal, orimulsion, and electric markets. Through publications, speeches, and media attention, IER articulates free market positions that respect private property rights and promote efficient outcomes for energy consumers and producers. Funding for the Institute is entirely through the tax-deductible contributions of individuals, foundations, and corporations. Government funding is neither solicited nor accepted to retain IER’s status as a private-sector institution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy policy
Phone:703-962-7877
Institute for Faith, Work & Economics
Hugh C. Whelchel
Executive Director
8400 Westpark Drive
Suite 100
McLean, VA, United States 22102
info@tifwe.org
Mission: Our mission is to educate and inspire Christians to live out a Biblical theology that integrates faith, work, and economics.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Debt, Economic Philosophy, Equality, Foundational Principles, Freedom, Image of God, Law, Limited Government, Private Property, Public Choice, Scarcity, Taxes, The Poor, Wealth Creation, Work
Phone:617-492-2116
Fax: 617-492-8242
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
President
675 Massachusetts Avenue, Tenth Floor
Cambridge, MA, United States 02139
mail@ifpa.org
Mission: Founded in 1976, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) is an independent and non-partisan research and strategic planning organization that specializes in issues of national security, foreign policy, political economics, and government-industrial relations. Building on thorough and innovative analysis, the Institute and its small-business subsidiary, National Security Planning Associates (NSPA), provide tailored briefings for government agencies, military planners, and corporate executives; public forums for the broader discussion of issues critical to the U.S. policy-planning process; reports, point papers, policy recommendations, and monograph- or book-length studies for dissemination to a wide audience of key policymakers; major conferences, seminars, training workshops, and simulation exercises; and quick-reaction assessments of breaking events.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: National security strategy and planning • Euro-Atlantic security policies and institutions • Asian-Pacific, Middle East and Persian Gulf security • Counterproliferation policies and strategies • Theater missile defense • Geopolitical energy security
Phone:202-429-6610
Fax: 202-861-1973
Sue Blevins
President
1875 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, United States 20006
feedback@forhealthfreedom.org
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Health Freedom (IHF) is to present the ethical and economic case for strengthening personal health freedom and bringing this issue to the forefront of America’s health policy debate. The Institute does not endorse any health care treatment, product, provider, or organization. Through its research, publications, and public policy debates, IHF provides a forum for exchanging ideas about health freedom and works with scholars and policy experts in the areas of economics, health care, law, philosophy, and the sciences to foster public debate. Research and analyses are published via policy briefings, newspaper editorials, television appearances, professional conferences, public meetings, and the IHF Web site.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Medical privacy • Medicare • Children’s health care • Health insurance • FDA • Medical Savings Accounts
Phone:703-993-4880
Fax: 703-993-4890
Institute for Humane Studies (IHS)
Marty Zupan
President
3301 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 440
Arlington, VA, United States 22201-4432
ihs@gmu.edu
Mission: The mission of IHS is to support the achievement of a freer society by facilitating the development of students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty and who demonstrate the potential to advance the principles and practice of freedom. IHS awards scholarships to university students from around the world and sponsors the attendance of hundreds of students at its summer seminars and other programs designed to assist students into careers in academia, journalism, policy, and film. IHS hosts a job bank and provides other intellectual and career resources on its Web sites,theihs.org and libertyguide.com.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:703-682-9320
Fax: 703-682-9321
William H. Mellor
President and General Counsel
901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900
Arlington, VA, United States 22203
general@ij.org
Mission: Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice (IJ) advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their own destinies as free and responsible members of society. It litigates to secure economic liberty, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties, and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government. In addition, it trains law students, lawyers, and policy activists in the tactics of public interest litigation to advance individual rights. Through these activities, IJ challenges the ideology of the welfare state and illustrates and extends the benefits of freedom to those whose full enjoyment of liberty is denied by government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Property rights • First Amendment • Economic liberty
Phone:480-557-8300
Fax: 480-557-8305
Institute for Justice - Arizona Chapter
Tim Keller
Executive Director
398 South Mill Avenue, Suite 301
Tempe, AZ, United States 85281
tkeller@ij.org
Mission: Through strategic litigation, training, communication, and outreach, the Institute for Justice Arizona Chapter advances a rule of law under which Arizonans can control their own destinies as free and responsible citizens. The Arizona Chapter works to vindicate the Arizona Constitution’s protections of individual liberty by leveraging resources through a network of volunteer lawyers and working closely with like-minded policy organizations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech
Phone:612-435-3451
Fax: 612-435-5875
Institute for Justice - Minnesota Chapter
Lee McGrath
Executive Director
1600 Rand Tower, 527 Marquette Avenue
Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402-1330
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Justice (IJ) Minnesota Chapter is to advance a rule of law under which Minnesotans and all Americans may realize their aspirations as free and responsible members of civil society. Collaborating with IJ’s other offices and like-minded organizations and individuals, IJ-Minnesota litigates in courts in Minnesota and around the country to establish greater protection of liberties under state constitutions and strengthen rights under the U.S. Constitution.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech
Phone:206-341-9300
Fax: 206-341-9311
Institute for Justice - Washington Chapter
William Maurer
Executive Director
811 First Avenue, Suite 625
Seattle, WA, United States 98104
Mission: The Institute for Justice Washington Chapter (IJ-WA) works to vindicate the constitutional rights of the residents of the Evergreen State. From its offices in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, IJ-WA litigates in the areas of economic liberty, educational choice, property rights, and free speech. The Washington Chapter specifically concentrates on cases involving those rights secured by the Washington State Constitution.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Private property rights • Economic liberty • School choice • Free speech
Phone:773-834-3129
Fax: 773-834-3130
Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship
Elizabeth Milnikel
Director
The University of Chicago Law School, Arthur Kane Center for Clinical Legal Studies
6020 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL, United States 60637-2704
Mission: The Clinic is a joint project of the Institute for Justice (IJ), the nation’s premier public interest advocate for economic liberty, and the University of Chicago Law School, one of the world’s leading legal academies. The IJ Clinic teams lower-income entrepreneurs with some of the nation’s brightest law students to provide entry-level business people with the legal support they need to pursue their dreams.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Legal support for lower-income entrepreneurs
Phone:011-51-1-616-6100
Fax: 011-51-1-616-6190
Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD)
Hernando de Soto
President
Las Begonias 441, Office 901, San Isidro
Lima 27, Peru
hds@ild.org.pe
Mission: ILD provides governments with the technical assistance—and the local capacity—to furnish all their citizens with the crucial legal tools to gain access to the market and thus pull themselves out of poverty. These include inclusive property systems to hold and leverage their assets, legal forms to organize their businesses, devices to identify themselves, and operate in expanded markets.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Institutional reform/implementation • Capital formation
Phone:011-506-438-2464
Fax: 011-506-438-2444
Institute for Liberty and Policy Analysis (INLAP)
Rigoberto Stewart
President and CEO
PO Box 329-4050
Alajuela, Costa Rica
info@inlap.org
Mission: In order to create an environment in which the citizens of Costa Rica can achieve their spiritual, intellectual and material potential, INLAP’s mission is to defend and promote all aspects of individual liberty through public policy analysis and educational activities. The Institute adheres to the principles of individual liberty, free markets, limited government, and absolute respect for private property.
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Phone:011-359-2-952-62-66
Fax: 011-359-2-952-35-03
Institute for Market Economics (IME)
Svetla Kostadinova
Executive Director
61 Patriarh Evtimii Boulevard
1463 Sofia, Bulgaria
mail@ime.bg
Mission: IME is the first independent economic think tank in Bulgaria. IME’s mission is to elaborate and advocate market approaches to challenges citizens and businesses encounter pursuing their undertakings. IME objectives are to provide independent assessment and analysis of the government’s economic policies, to be a focal point for an exchange of views on market economics and relevant policy issues, and to serve as an internationally supported Bulgarian think tank that is widely respected for its expertise.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Monitoring economic policies • Cost-benefit analysis of regulations • Free movement of capital, goods and people • Lower and flatter taxes (income, corporate and social welfare contributions) • Shadow and informal economy – impacts and policy recommendations • Public education in market economics and economic liberty • Market reforms in the financial sector - Public Education in Market Economics and Economic Liberty - Market Reforms in the Financial Sector
Phone:785-864-3701
Fax: 785-864-3683
Institute for Policy and Social Research (IPSR)
Steven Maynard-Moody
Director
1541 Lilac Lane
607 Blake Hall
Lawrence, KS, United States 66044-3177
ipsr@ku.edu
Mission: IPSR brings together social scientists from a broad range of disciplines to pursue and conduct sponsored research at the international, national, regional, state, and local levels. IPSR-affiliated faculty represent disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, geography, political science, public administration, social welfare, sociology, and urban planning.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Metropolitan studies • Economic and business analysis • International policy • Environment
Phone:972-874-5139
Fax: 972-874-5144
Institute for Policy Innovation
Tom Giovanetti
President
1660 South Stemmons Freeway, Suite 475
Lewisville, TX, United States 75067
tomg@ipi.org
Mission: Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is a non-profit educational organization that conducts research and develops and promotes innovative and non-partisan solutions to today’s public policy problems. Its focus is on developing new approaches to governing that harness the strengths of individual choice, limited government, and free markets. IPI emphasizes getting its studies into the hands of the press and policymakers so that the ideas they contain can be applied to the challenges facing us today.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Estate tax reform • Privatizing Social Security disability • Social Security reform • Education choice
Phone:01.43.80.55.18
Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Affairs
35 avenue Mac-Mahon
Paris, France 75017
Mission: The decisions about economic policy in our societies are subject to the monopoly of the State. The information and debate about those decisions are frequently distorted by the media. In order to fight against this state of affairs, IREF is aiming to influence the public discussion about economic policy, with the help of rigorous analysis and empirical evidence. Originality and innovation are the guiding principles of our experts. But we do not limit ourselves only to theoretical analysis. IREF is also eager to formulate proposals for practical reforms. IREF’s proposals. You can find those proposals in our publications.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *Taxation *Economic Policy Issues *private pension funds *private health insurance *privatization of public companies
Phone:202-659-0581
Fax: 202-659-0582
The Institute for Responsible Citizenship
William A. Keyes, IV
President
1227 25th Street, NW, Sixth Floor
Washington, DC, United States 20037
Mission: The Institute for Responsible Citizenship identifies (minority) students of impeccable character, unblemished reputation, and demonstrated ability who are interested in careers in law, public service, education, journalism, business, and the ministry; arranges internships to help the students prepare for such careers; provides academic training that will inspire them to be responsible citizens throughout their productive lives; and equips them to be catalysts for improved race relations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Flat tax • Social Security reform • Affirmative action • Multiculturalism
Phone:914-686-7112
Fax: 914-686-0581
Institute for SocioEconomic Studies
Helen Gibbs
Communications Director
10 New King Street
White Plains, NY, United States 10604
mail@socioeconomic.org
Mission: The mission of the non-profit Institute for SocioEconomic Studies is to conduct research, to educate, and pto romote understanding in areas such as the quality of life, social motivation, poverty, urban regeneration, the problems of the elderly, economic development, and health care reform.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Consumer-based health care reform
Phone:011-381-81-241-504
Fax: 011-381-81-243-544
Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses
Veselin Vukotic
President
POD Ljubovic Lamela C 1 i II
81000 Podogorica, Montenegro
vukotic@cg.yu
Mission: The mission of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses is to provide sound, unbiased research that will contribute to Montenegro’s economic transformation and will change the current mindset, as well as to train today’s young people how to function successfully in the new environment.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Development of statistics and macroeconomic modeling and projections • Poverty and social issues • Pension reform • Capital market and banking sector development • Economic sectors analysis • Education
Phone:636-949-4742
Fax: 636-949-4992
Institute for Study of Economics and the Environment
Kenneth W. Chilton, Ph.D.
Director
Lindenwood University, 209 South Kingshighway
St. Charles, MO, United States 63301
kchilton@lindenwood.edu
Mission: The Institute’s mission is to improve student and public understanding of the basic economic concepts that can be used to guide effective and efficient environmental policymaking.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Energy resources • Clean air • Sustainable development • Private conservation • Climate change
Phone:414-288-5775
Fax: 414-288-6199
Institute for the Transformation of Learning
Howard L. Fuller
Founder and Director
750 North 18th Street
Milwaukee, WI, United States 53233
fullerweb@yahoo.com
Mission: The Institute for the Transformation of Learning is an education reform organization working across system boundaries to develop a new community of learning infrastructures that build and maintain learning environments focusing on student achievement. The Institute also works to empower families, particularly low-income families, to choose the best options for their children.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Developing a school development and design center • Providing technical assistance to charter schools • Education reform
Phone:703-471-8750
Fax: 703-471-8409
Institute for Youth Development
W. Shepherd Smith
President
PO Box 16560
Washington, DC, United States 20041
info@youthdevelopment.org
Mission: The Institute for Youth Development (IYD) encourages young people to avoid behaviors that jeopardize their health and well being by promoting integrated prevention messages and skills. IYD conducts research, promotes messages, and devises comprehensive programs targeting American youth to avoid five interconnected unhealthy risk behaviors: alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco, and violence. IYD believes that if parents and adults provide children and teens with consistent risk-avoidance messages, young people are capable of choosing to avoid these behaviors altogether, especially if they are empowered by positive relationships with parents and family.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Youth and tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, sexual activity, and violence • Risk behavior interconnections • Age of risk behavior debut • Parent/child connections as protective for youth risk behavior • Parent education • Role of the faith community in helping youth avoid harmful behaviors
Phone:011-44-20-7799-8900
Fax: 011-44-20-7799-2137
Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA)
Mark Littlewood
Director General
2 Lord North Street
London SW1P 3LB, United Kingdom
mlittlewood@iea.org.uk
Mission: The mission of the Institute of Economic Affairs is to improve public understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society, with particular reference to the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.
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Policy/Priority Issues: European Union • Regulation • Public services • Morals and markets
Phone:011-233-21-776-641
Institute of Economic Affairs - Ghana
Charles Mensa
Executive Director
PO Box 01936
Christianborg, Accra, Ghana
cmensa@africaonline.com.gh
Mission: The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) targets unpopular laws that have high probabilities of being changed, such as those affecting business registration, imports, exchange rates, privatization, foreign investments, and banking. Short policy reports containing cost/benefit analyses of existing or proposed legislation are being distributed to key decision makers ranging from the head of state, the cabinet, parliament, regional assemblies, the judiciary, the diplomatic corps, political parties, associations, and unions to church leaders, academics, and journalists.
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Phone:011-61-3-9600-4744
Fax: 011-61-3-9602-4989
Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
John Roskam
Executive Director
Level 2/410 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
comments@ipa.org.au
Mission: IPA is an independent, non-profit, public policy think tank dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic and political freedom. It believes in the free market of ideas, the free flow of capital, a limited and efficient government, the rule of law, and representative democracy. These are the ideas that, throughout history, have proven themselves to be most dynamic, liberating, and exciting.
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Phone:907-771-2444
Fax: 907-771-2466
Nils Andreassen
Managing Director
509 West Third Avenue, Suite 107
Anchorage, AK, United States 99501
akdialogue@institutenorth.org
Mission: Founded by former Alaska Governor and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel, the Institute of the North focuses on strategic issues affecting Alaska, national energy and defense policy, the Arctic, and management of commonly-owned land, the seas, and resources worldwide.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy and public lands • Arctic policy and infrastructure • Missile defense • Law of the sea • Alaska statehood compact • Common property regimes
Phone:202-462-2101
Fax: 202-464-0335
The Institute of World Politics (IWP)
John Lenczowski
President
1521 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
info@iwp.edu
Mission: The Institute of World Politics is a graduate school of statecraft and national security affairs dedicated to helping develop leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft based on knowledge and appreciation of the principles of the American political economy and the Western moral tradition.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: National security • Intelligence and counterintelligence • Statecraft and U.S. foreign policy • Regime change and democracy building • International relations • Public diplomacy
Phone:202-682-4131
Fax: 202-682-4136
Institute on Religion and Democracy
Mark Tooley
President
1023 15th Street, NW, Suite 601
Washington, DC, United States 20005
info@theird.org
Mission: Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) monitors and counters the political influences of the religious left. IRD helps members of mainline churches work to reclaim their denominations from far-left church officials, critiques radical feminist theology, defends orthodox Christianity as a force for societal cohesion and renewal, and works to defend persecuted Christians overseas.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: International religious liberty • Defending marriage • Radical feminism • War on terror • Religious-left lobbying in Washington • Islam • Church reform • Historic Christian doctrine and democracy
Phone:212-627-1985
Fax: 212-627-2184
Institute on Religion and Public Life (RPL)
Joseph Bottum
Editor
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 400
New York, NY, United States 10010
ft@firstthings.com
Mission: An inter-religious, non-partisan, research, and educational institute, the Institute on Religion and Public Life’s purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of public life. Politics is in large part a function of culture and at the heart of culture are beliefs and practices that are religious in nature. RPL aims to strengthen religion’s role in support of a free and just social order, including an appropriate political economy for such an order. Not limited to the American experiment in representative democracy, RPL is international in its concern for the religious dimensions of cultural, political, and economic developments in the modern world. To advance its mission, it publishes a monthly journal, First Things.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Judicial usurpation • Christians and Israel • Christian unity • School choice • Urban underclass
Phone:011-57-218-3858
Fax: 011-57-218-3621
Marcela Prieto
Executive Director
Cr 11 No. 86 - 32 Office 502
Bogotá, Colombia
marcela.prieto@icpcolombia.org
Mission: Instituto de Ciencia Politica (the Political Science Institute) is a non-profit organization founded in Bogota, Colombia, by businessmen, politicians, academicians, writers, journalists, and other personnel belonging to diverse political sources, united by the initiative of Hernán Echavarría Olózaga, in order to study, advance, and disseminate the principles of democratic pluralism and the values of the free market.
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Phone:011-51-3335-1588
Fax: 011-51-3335-1588
Instituto de Estudos Empresariais
Giancarlo Mandelli
President
Alameda Coelho Neto, 20/302
Porto Alegre, RS 91340-340, Brazil
iee@iee.com.br
Mission: The mission of Instituto de Estudos Empresariais is to form entrepreneurial leaders committed to a social and political organizational model for Brazil based on the democratic ideal of individual freedom subordinated to the rule of law.
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Phone:011-511-475-9752
Fax: 011-511-475-9752
Instituto de Libre Empresa (ILE)
Jose Luis Tapia Rocha
General Director
Calle Barajas N° 522
San Borja, Lima, 41, Peru
info@ileperu.org
Mission: Instituto de Libre Empresa (the Free Enterprise Institute) was founded in 1998 and is a non-profit Peruvian think tank, based in Lima, that promotes a capitalist system of free enterprise in order to achieve real progress in Peru. ILE seeks to put in practice the values and virtues of limited government, private property, and free markets.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Environment • Christianism • Economics • Politics • International trade • Economic and social policies • Ethics and law • Management
Phone:
Instituto de Pensamiento Estrategico Agora (IPEA)
Armando Regil
President
Campos Eliseos 268-202
Col. Chapultepec Polanco
C.P. 11560 Del. Migeul Hidalgo, Mexico D.F.
Mission: IPEA is a non-profit and independent public policy, market-oriented Think Tank, which aims to train a new generation of policy entrepreneurs and leaders in promoting the principles that sustain a free and prosperous society.
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Policy/Priority Issues: *Democratic Society and Rule of Law *Economic Development and Adaptability *Education for the consolidation of human potential *Governability, Democracy and Civil Society *Social cohesion
Phone:011-593-4-288-1011
Fax: 011-593-4-288-5991
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica (IEEP)
Dora Ampuero
Executive Director
Higueras 106 y Manuel Rendón
Guayaquil 09-01-1628, Ecuador
Mission: The Instituto Ecuatoriano de Economia Politica is a think tank focused on public policy analysis and spreading freedom ideas in Ecuador. It was founded in 1991 by Dora de Ampuero as a private, independent, non-profit organization. IEEP finances its activities through voluntary donations of individuals, enterprises, and foundations. IEEP carries out investigations regarding socio-economic problems that affect Ecuador within a framework of respect to individual liberties, private property, free markets, and a limited and responsible government.
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Phone:011-55-21-2539-1115
Fax: 011-55-21-2539-1115
Arthur Chagas Diniz
President
Rua Professor Alfredo Gomes 28 - Botafogo
22251-080 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ilrj@gbl.com.br
Mission: Instituto Liberal exists to persuade Brazilian society of the advantages of a liberal order.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Deregulation
Phone:011-5551-3331-8135
Fax: 011-5551-3384-7158
Instituto Liberdade do Rio Grande do Sul (IL-RS)
Margaret Tse
CEO
Av. Ipiranga 6681
Building 96B, Room 107
Tecnopuc CEP 90619-900 Porto Alegre RS, Brazil
t.margaret@gmail.com
Mission: The Instituto Liberdade do Rio Grande do Sul is a Brazilian private, non-profit think tank headquartered in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the southern region of Brazil. It is non-partisan, not subordinated to any national or international organization, and supported by private contributions of individuals and institutions.
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Phone:011-57-310-575-5429
Instituto Libertad y Progreso (ILP)
Andrés Mejía Vergnaud
Executive Director
Calle 81 # 7-33, Ap. 201
Bogotá, Colombia
andres@libertadyprogreso.net
Mission: ILP was created with the purpose of promoting the ideas of classical liberalism and its application to human problems and public policy topics.
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Devin C. Foley
President
207 Chestnut St, Suite 200
Chaska, MN, United States 55318
Devin.Foley@intellectualtakeout.org
Mission:
Tax Status: 501(c)3
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Phone:011-254-20-273-1497
Fax: 011-254-20-272-3258
Inter Region Economic Network (IREN)
James S. Shikwati
Director
PO Box 135, GPO Code 00100
Nairobi, Kenya
james@irenkenya.org
Mission: The Inter Region Economic Network is an independent and non-partisan think tank which promotes policies geared towards the creation of a free Africa.
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Phone:302-652-4600
Fax: 302-652-1760
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI)
Christopher Long
President & Chief Executive Officer
3901 Centerville Road
PO Box 4431
Wilmington, DE, United States 19807
isi@isi.org
Mission: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization whose purpose is to instill in successive generations a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free society. Through its integrated program of lectures, conferences, publications, and fellowships, ISI works to educate for liberty—to identify the best and brightest college students and to nurture in these future leaders an allegiance to the American ideal of ordered liberty. To accomplish this goal, ISI seeks to deepen the next generation’s appreciation of the nation’s founding principles—limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and moral standards.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Western civilization studies • Quality of higher education • Political correctness on campus • Student journalism • America’s civic literacy • Donor intent in higher education
Phone:520-991-0109
Fax: 520-529-2768
International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics
Vernon L. Smith
Founder and President
2122 East Camino El Ganado
Tucson, AZ, United States 85718
info@ifreeweb.org
Mission: The International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) was established in 1997 by Nobel Laureate in Economics Dr. Vernon L. Smith. IFREE is a grant-making institution that supports experimental research projects, faculty teaching, student learning, postdoctoral positions, seminars and workshops, demonstration programs, outreach activities, and the application of experimental economic research to important public policy questions.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Energy market liberalization • Economic education • Neuroeconomics • Economic systems design • Experimental economic research • Economics of religion
Phone:202-544-6610
Fax: 202-478-1955
International Intellectual Property Institute
Brad Huther
CEO and President
1629 K Street, Suite 600
Washington, DC, United States 20006
bhuther@iipi.org
Mission: As an international development organization and think tank, the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI) is dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of the use of intellectual property as a tool for economic growth, particularly in developing countries. Since 1998, the Institute has been engaged in a wide range of activities both abroad and within the United States, including critical research, public education, policy and training workshops, technical assistance, institution building, and consultative services.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Intellectual property – patents, copyrights and trademarks • Public sector innovation by the private sector through formal technology transfer systems • Intellectual property rights • Private industries based on intellectual property assets • Regional and international cooperation in harmonizing patent administration and laws
Phone:202-408-9450
Fax: 202-408-9462
International Republican Institute (IRI)
Lorne Craner
President
1225 Eye Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC, United States 20005
iri@iri.org
Mission: The International Republican Institute promotes democracy, free markets, and the rule of law in more than 35 countries in every region of the world. IRI plays a valuable role in helping bring greater stability to the world. Stable democracies not only further the cause of peace but also enhance American opportunities for business investment and trade. Its programs are non-partisan and adhere to fundamental principles such as individual liberty, the rule of law, and the entrepreneurial spirit that fosters economic development. IRI is not part of the Republican Party.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Democracy • Free markets • Rule of law
Phone:515-263-3495
Fax: 515-263-3498
Charles D. Hurley
President
1100 North Hickory, Suite 107
Pleasant Hill, IA, United States 50327
info@ifpc.org
Mission: The mission of the Iowa Family Policy Center is to strengthen Iowa’s families through research, education, civic activism, and public policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Community marriage agreements • Covenant marriage legislation • Education reform • Gambling repeal • Defense of Marriage Act
Phone:877-913-3600
Fax: 563-264-2413
Jeffrey R. Boeyink
President
2610 Park Avenue
Muscatine, IA, United States 52761
itr@taxrelief.org
Mission: Iowans for Tax Relief’s primary purpose is to limit total government spending and total taxes for the benefit of all the people. Responsible limits on taxes and spending are needed to protect freedom, provide jobs, increase incentives and opportunities, control inflation, reduce interest rates, and achieve a better life for all. The organization supports U.S. and Iowa constitutional amendments to prevent any increase in—and preferably reduce—the percentage of the people’s income taken by government.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: State and federal tax reform • Constitutional limits on taxation • Economic growth
Phone:202-955-7174
Fax: 202-785-0261
Khalid Saffuri
Chairman
1920 L Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC, United States 20036
general@islamicinstitute.org
Mission: The Islamic Free Market Institute (IFMI) is establishing a network of think tanks, advocacy groups, political organizations, and local community centers to engage American Muslims in the political process. IFMI is also organizing domestic forums to promote the conservative agenda among American Muslim scholars.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Researching and mapping Muslim community demographic trends • Disseminating information about Islamic views on free trade, monetary policy, banking, abortion, the death penalty, and crime
Phone:
Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress
Daniel Doron
Director
PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59
Mevasseret-Zion, Israel
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Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress
Daniel Doron
Director
PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59
Mevasseret-Zion, Israel
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Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress
Daniel Doron
Director
PO Box 84124, Ha'dror 59
Mevasseret-Zion, Israel
Mission:
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Phone:011-39-011-070-2087
Fax: 011-39-011-437-1384
Alberto Mingardi
Managing Director
Via Bossi 1
10144 Turin, Italy
info@brunoleoni.it
Mission: The Istituto Bruno Leoni promotes a public discussion of awareness and information on the themes of the environment, competition, energy, market liberalization, taxation, privatization and reform of the social state.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Globalization • Competition • Market liberalization • Culture theory • Welfare • Taxes • Retirement • Climate • Energy • Environment • Health
Phone:703-993-2327
Fax: 703-993-2334
The James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy
Tyler Cowen, Ph.D.
Director
Buchanan House MSN 1D3
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, United States 22030
tcowen@gmu.edu
Mission: The Buchanan Center is named in honor of James M. Buchanan, a Nobel prize-winning economist and George Mason University professor emeritus, whose work has enriched understanding of the interrelationship between politics, law, and the economy. The Center builds on that legacy with a commitment to rigorous, interdisciplinary scholarship. The Center and George Mason faculty work together to build and apply an understanding of how individuals cooperate through the market and political processes. The Center is committed to innovative research and education.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Scholarship in economics, law, and politics
Phone:812-232-2434
Fax: 812-235-3685
James Madison Center for Free Speech
James Bopp, Jr.
General Counsel
1 South Sixth Street
Terre Haute, IN, United States 47807
jboppjr@aol.com
Mission: The mission of the James Madison Center for Free Speech is to support litigation and public education activities in order to defend the rights of political expression and association by citizens and citizen groups as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional rights • First Amendment • Campaign finance reform
Phone:850-386-3131
Fax: 850-386-1807
J. Robert McClure, III
President & CEO
100 North Duval Street
Tallahassee, FL, United States 32301
jmi@jamesmadison.org
Mission: The James Madison Institute’s mission is to keep the citizens of Florida informed about their government and to shape the state’s future through the advancement of practical free-market ideas on public policy issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Health care reform • Property rights • Taxation • Budget
Phone:202-483-8888
Fax: 202-483-8337
Glen E. Howard
President
4516 43rd Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20016
pubs@jamestown.org
Mission: The Jamestown Foundation’s mission is to inform and educate policymakers and the broader policy community about events and trends in those societies that are strategically or tactically important to the United States and that frequently restrict access to such information. Utilizing indigenous and primary sources, Jamestown’s material is delivered without political bias, filter, or agenda. It is often the only source of information that should be, but is not always, available through official or intelligence channels, especially in regard to Eurasia and terrorism.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Foreign policy and international relations • Russia and Eurasia • Middle East • China • Terrorism and international crime • Chechnya
Phone:011-81-3-5545-7280
Fax: 011-81-3-5545-0931
Masaru Uchiyama
President
2 Nakata Building, Seventh Floor, 1-3-15 Akasaka Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
info@jtr.gr.jp
Mission: Japanese for Tax Reform (JTR) seeks to stimulate thinking in individuals, civic groups, businesses, and policy groups in order to create a new Japan, where the consensus to oppose tax increases flourishes.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Taxpayer protection
Phone:011-972-2-561-1689
Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies
Corinne Sauer
Executive Director
Rehov Yitzchak Elchanan 2
Jerusalem, Israel
contact@jims-israel.org
Mission: The Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies (JIMS) is an independent, non-profit economic policy think tank whose mission is to discover practical ways to promote free markets and limited government in Israel and the region.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Labor market reform • Welfare reform • Tax reform • Defense economics • Free trade • Privatization
Phone:704-233-1776
Fax: 704-233-1787
John Dodd
President
PO Box 247
Wingate, NC, United States 28174
ckphifer@jessehelmscenter.org
Mission: The mission of the Jesse Helms Center is to promote the principles of free enterprise and the traditional American values upon which former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms built his life and career. Founded in 1988, the Helms Center is a non-profit, non-partisan organization supported by tax-deductible donations. Its work involves education, historical preservation, and public policy promotion through a variety of programs for students, scholars, and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting a foreign policy that protects the national sovereignty of the United States • Teaching principles of free enterprise to the next generation • Character education programs for young people • Teacher workshops on the United States’ founding principles • Promoting an accurate portrayal of Senator Helms’ life and career
Phone:202-667-3900
Fax: 202-667-0601
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
Michael Makovsky
Dhief Executive Officer and Executive Director
1307 New York Ave, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20005
info@jinsa.org
Mission: JINSA’s role is to educate the American public about the importance of an effective U.S. defense capability so that our vital interests as Americans can be safeguarded. It also works to inform the American defense community about the role Israel and other trustworthy allies play in bolstering democratic interests around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: War on terrorism • Homeland security • U.S.–Israel strategic cooperation • Halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction • State of American defense
Phone:202-638-2411
Fax: 202-638-6694
Matthew Brooks
Executive Director
50 F Street, NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC, United States 20001
info@jewishpolicycenter.org
Mission: Four thousand years of Jewish history suggest possible solutions to current issues based on a solid foundation of moral values, respect for the dignity and independence of the individual, and a concern for the building and continuation of healthy communities. The Jewish Policy Center’s mission is to create, articulate, continually examine, and advocate conservative approaches to social, economic, and foreign policy issues from the perspective of the Jewish community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Jewish communal affairs • Affirmative action • Welfare reform • First Amendment • War on terror
Phone:215-987-3000
Fax: 215-207-9370
Alan R. Crippen
President
PO Box 28221
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19131
acrippen@johnjayinstitute.org
Mission: The John Jay Institute for Faith, Society and Law is a para-academic center that is committed to advancing the knowledge and piety of the Christian faith as it pertains to the ordering of society, politics, and law. This educational task involves the rediscovery, recollection, and understanding of our religious, cultural, social, economic, and political heritage with relevant application to the pressing moral, social, and economic concerns facing America today.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious heritage • Cultural heritage • Social heritage • Economic heritage • Political heritage
Phone:919-828-3876
Fax: 919-821-5117
John Hood
President
200 West Morgan Street, Suite 200
Raleigh, NC, United States 27601
jhood@johnlocke.org
Mission: The John Locke Foundation (JLF) develops and promotes solutions to North Carolina’s most critical challenges. An independent think tank based in Raleigh, JLF seeks to transform state and local government through competition, innovation, freedom, and personal responsibility in order to strike a better balance between the public sector and private institutions of family, faith, community, and enterprise. JLF is a source of cutting-edge research, a publisher of news and documentaries, and a catalyst for change.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: North Carolina state government spending • K–12 education reform • Taxes • Health care • Medicaid • Transportation policy
Phone:919-834-2099
John W. Pope Civitas Institute
Francis De Luca
President
100 South Harrington St.
Raleigh, NC, United States 27603
max@civitas.org
Mission: Civitas Institute is a research and public policy organization dedicated to serving the common good of North Carolina by providing conservative solutions to the state’s most pressing challenges. The Institute carries out its mission by conducting sound research and analysis of public policy issues; conducting monthly tracking polls; hosting seminars for newly elected officials, community leaders, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as candidates; and communicating with the public and elected officials through the news media, the Civitas Web site, newsletters, and a monthly magazine.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Budget • Taxes • Education • Environment • Life and family issues • Immigration • Health care • Jobs
Phone:919-532-3600
Fax: 919-532-0679
The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
Jane S. Shaw
Executive Vice President
200 West Morgan Street, Suite 110
Raleigh, NC, United States 27601
info@popecenter.org
Mission: The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is a non-profit institute dedicated to improving higher education in North Carolina and the nation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Higher education • Governance • Curriculum • Financing • Access • Accountability • Faculty research • Administrative policies
Phone:603-224-4450
Fax: 603-224-4329
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
Charles M. Arlinghaus
President
7 South State Street
PO Box 897
Concord, NH, United States 03302
jbartlett@jbartlett.org
Mission: The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan, independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues that affect the quality of life for New Hampshire’s citizens. To improve economic prosperity and the general welfare, the Center provides information, research, and analysis to decision makers. The Center has as its core beliefs individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and an appreciation of the role of the free enterprise system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • State-local fiscal structure • Health • New Hampshire’s economy and public policy
Phone:011-34-655-46-6150
Fax: 011-34-91-365-3240
Gabriel Calzada
Director
Calle del
Madrid 28005, Spain
info@juandemariana.org
Mission: The Juan de Mariana Institute is a private, independent, not-for-profit think tank. With the aim of maintaining complete independence, the Institute does not accept subsidies or donations from any government or political party. The Institute aims to become a reference point in the debate of ideas and public policies with the view to promote a free society in which individuals suffer from the least possible institutional coercion.
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Phone:888-593-8442
Fax: 202-646-5199
Tom Fitton
President
425 Third Street SW, Suite 800
Washington, DC, United States 20024
info@judicialwatch.org
Mission: Judicial Watch, a conservative, non-partisan, educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability, and integrity in government, politics, and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Investigation of corruption by government officials, judges, and politicians • Court monitoring projects in California and Texas • Open Records Project, providing consultation and assistance to conservative groups • Whistleblower protection and representation • Educational forums with international government and judicial representatives
Phone:301-258-2852
Fax: 301-330-3440
Steven Milloy
Founder and Publisher
12309 Briar Bush Lane
Potomac, MD, United States 20854
junkman@junkscience.com
Mission: Junkscience.com seeks to provide its online community of users with a rich collection of resources for highlighting, exposing, and debunking the faulty scientific data, studies, and analyses that are used to further special agendas.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Junk science • Global warming • Public health priorities • Risk • Health scares
Phone:973-539-5280
James D. Agresti
President
641 Shunpike Rd #286
Chatham, NJ, United States 07928
info@justfacts.com
Mission: The mission of Just Facts is to research, document, and publish verifiable facts on the critical public policy issues of our time. We exist to equip people with information they can confidently use to make informed decisions in their personal lives, occupations, and in voting booths.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: National Debt • Pollution • Climate Change • Health Care • Gun Control • Social Security
Phone:403-475-3622
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
John Carpay
President
#253, 7620 Elbow Drive SW
Calgary, Albert T2V 1K2, Canada
Mission: The JCCF’s vision is for a Canada where: * each and every Canadian is treated equally by governments and by the courts, regardless of race, ancestry, ethnicity, age, gender, beliefs, or other personal characteristics. * all Canadians are free to express peacefully their thoughts, opinions and beliefs without fear of persecution or oppression. every person has the knowledge and the perseverance to control his or her own destiny as a free and responsible member of our society. * every Canadian has the understanding and determination to recognize, protect and preserve their human rights and constitutional freedoms. * people can enjoy economic liberty and individual freedom as responsible members of a free society.
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Policy/Priority Issues: * Individual Freedom * Freedom of Religion and Conscience * Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression * Freedom of Peaceful Assembly * Freedom of Association * Equality before the law
Phone:703-904-7313
Fax: 703-478-9679
Pat Nolan
President
1856 Old Reston Avenue
Reston, VA, United States 20190
pnolan@justicefellowship.org
Mission: Justice Fellowship is a non-profit online community of Christians working to reform the criminal justice system to reflect Biblically-based principles of restorative justice for America’s criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious Freedom Restoration Act • Criminal justice research • Juvenile justice • Engaging the church in restorative justice • Victims’ rights legislation • Model criminal justice legislation
Phone:210-614-7157
Fax: 210-614-6656
Allan Parker, Jr.
President
8122 Datapoint Drive, Suite 812
San Antonio, TX, United States 78229
aparker@txjf.org
Mission: The Justice Foundation seeks to mobilize citizens, through financial and service contributions, to provide free legal representation in landmark cases to protect and restore justice.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Free markets • Private property • Parental school choice • Parental rights in education • Enforcing laws to protect women’s health secondary email: info@txjf.org
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Kalamazoo County Taxpayers Association
PO Box 50122
Kalamazoo, MI, United States 49005-0122
stoptaxes@yahoo.com
Mission: The Kalamazoo County Taxpayers Association is a non-partisan, taxpayer-advocacy organization. It was formed in 1995 to give taxpayers a voice in the taxing and spending decisions of local governments and schools. With a dues-paying membership of more than 400 people, the Association is the largest organization devoted to public policy in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Local government
Phone:316-634-0218
Fax: 316-440-4806
Dave Trabert
President
250 North Water Street, Suite 216
Wichita, KS, United States 67202-1215
information@kansaspolicy.org
Mission: Kansas Policy Institute is an independent non-profit organization that advocates for free enterprise solutions and the protection of personal freedom. Our work is focused on state and local economic issues in Kansas with particular emphasis on education, fiscal policy and health care. We empower citizens and legislators with credible research and creative ideas to promote a low-tax, pro-growth environment that preserves the ability to provide high quality services..
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education • Fiscal Policy
Phone:316-684-0082
Fax: 316-684-7527
Karl Peterjohn
Executive Director
PO Box 20050
Wichita, KS, United States 67208
info@kansastaxpayers.com
Mission: The Kansas Taxpayers Network is dedicated to providing Kansas taxpayers with a strong voice addressing state and local government issues. A non-partisan citizens organization, Kansas Taxpayers Network promotes limited taxes and a strong free market environment and seeks to empower voters. It also advocates privatization, eliminating unnecessary government spending, and ending burdensome bureaucratic regulations. It believes that Kansans “cannot tax ourselves rich or spend ourselves wealthy.”
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Policy/Priority Issues: Statewide fiscal issues • Spending/tax limitation - TABOR • Limiting property tax growth • Limiting local government’s expansion of tax authority • Monitoring Kansas government growth
Phone:+386 (0) 13602 884
Tomaž Šimec
Catholic Institute, Ciril-Metodov trg 9
Ljubljana, Slovenia 1000
info@kat-inst.si
Mission: The Catholic Institute is the first step towards the founding of a catholic university. The Institute was founded by the Slovenska škofovska konferenca (Slovenian Episcopal Conference), whose membership includes all Slovenian dioceses. The Institute is engaged in research and development activities in the social sciences and humanities. Its primary mission, however, is to form institutions or faculties (schools) of higher education in most diverse fields of study and research, as well as university-level libraries, research centers and student dormitories, all of which will ultimately combine, in accordance with the appropriate legislation of the Republic of Slovenia, into an internationally recognized catholic university in Slovenia. Currently the Institute comprises the Faculty of Business Studies, the research library Studia Slovenica and the Institute for Human Rights Law.
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Policy/Priority Issues: *Education *Catholic education *Catholic university *Research in social sciences *research in humanities *business studies *human rights law
Phone:888-438-7179
Fax: 859-971-0688
Kentucky Association of Professional Educators (KAPE)
Ruth Green
Director
PO Box 24506
Lexington, KY, United States 40524
info@kentuckyteachers.org
Mission: KAPE is organized to promote the professional status and growth of educators and the welfare of students. KAPE is committed to providing our students the best possible education in an uninterrupted environment. KAPE believes that public schools, their administrations, instructional services, and curriculum are accountable to the citizens of the local communities they serve. KAPE does not endorse, contribute to, or lobby for controversial social issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education
Phone:011-254-20-2-719-933
Fax: 011-254-20-271-9951
Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
Moses M. Ikiara
Executive Director
Bishops Garden Towers, Bishops Road
PO Box 56445
Nairobi, Kenya
mmikiara@kippra.or.ke
Mission: Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) is an autonomous public institute whose primary mission is to provide quality public policy advice to the government of Kenya and to the private sector in order to contribute to achievement of national development goals.
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Phone:616-546-3580
Fax: 616-546-3586
Virgil Gulker
Executive Director
100 South Pine Street
Zeeland, MI, United States 49464
vgulker@kidshopeusa.org
Mission: KIDS HOPE USA teaches churches to recruit, screen, train, match, and supervise their own members for one-to-one relationships with at-risk public elementary school children. KIDS HOPE USA is “one child...one hour...one church...one school.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Faith-based responses to child and family needs
Phone:612-573-2020
Fax: 612-573-2021
Crissy Finch
Executive Director
800 Nicollet Mall, Suite 2680
Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402
cfinch@kidsfirstmn.org
Mission: KidsFirst’s mission is to empower low-income parents living in the Twin Cities by giving them the opportunity to choose the school that best fits the needs of their child.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice
Phone:202-600-7300
The Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies & Citizenship
David J. Bobb, Ph.D.
Director and Lecturer in Politics
227 Massachusetts Ave, NE
Washington, DC, United States 20002
kirbycenter@hillsdale.edu
Mission: Through teaching the principles and practices of American constitutionalism, the Kirby Center seeks to inspire all Americans to be worthy of the blessings of liberty. America’s Founders understood that the preservation of free government would depend on the capacity of the American people to remain faithful to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They understood as well that this fidelity would not be easy or automatic. The American experiment in liberty was staked upon a certain kind of education—an education aimed at providing citizens the knowledge and character required for self-government. With the teaching of Hillsdale College students its primary purpose, the Kirby Center is dedicated to the goal of re-establishing the fundamental conditions of freedom: true civic education in our schools and universities; a pride in self-government within society; and an understanding among our elected leaders of enduring constitutional principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
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Phone:615-460-0100
Laffer Associates
Paige Anderson
Assistant to Arthur B. Laffer, Ph.D.
2909 Poston Avenue #200
Nashville, TN, United States 37203-6302
PAnderson@laffer.com
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Phone:703-554-6100
Fax: 703-554-6119
Mark R. Levin
President
19415 Deerfield Avenue, Suite 312
Leesburg, VA, United States 20176
eric@landmarklegal.org
Mission: Landmark Legal Foundation promotes and defends the Constitution and individual liberty. The organization litigates cases involving school choice, private property rights, free enterprise, free speech, and tax limitation. Landmark also promotes government accountability and exposes official corruption through litigation and public education. Landmark has fought for more than a quarter century to preserve—and to apply anew—the constitutional principles on which America was founded and which are the origin of the nation’s enduring greatness.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Property rights • Public integrity • Free speech • Tax limitation • Free enterprise • Preserving American founding principles
Phone:703-247-2000
Fax: 703-247-2001
Morton C. Blackwell
President
1101 North Highland Street
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
mblackwell@limail.us
Mission: The Leadership Institute is a national training organization for preparing future generations of conservative leaders. It is devoted to the task of identifying, recruiting, training, and placing philosophically committed conservatives in positions of influence in the public policy process. Since its founding in 1979, more than 80,000 young adherents of the principles of limited government, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and traditional family values have been given the skills necessary for successful and effective leadership.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Political education and training • Organizing independent conservative student groups on campuses • Helping to form new conservative student newspapers and magazines • Helping citizens become more effective • Getting more conservatives to become TV journalists • Matching conservative job seekers with employers
Phone:360-687-3087
Fax: 360-687-2973
League of Private Property Voters
Chuck Cushman
Chairman
PO Box 423
Battle Ground, WA, United States 98604
ccushman@pacifier.com
Mission: The League of Private Property Voters (LPPV) is a nationwide, non-profit coalition of organizations and individuals organized in 1990. LPPV has developed and publishes the Private Property Congressional Vote Index, a congressional vote scorecard designed to let the public know how each U.S. Representative and Senator voted on important private property and federal land-use issues. The Vote Index is co-sponsored by over 600 land-use groups across the country. LPPV’s mission is to provide citizens with the tools to hold their Senators and Congressmen accountable for their votes.
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Policy/Priority Issues: Congressional vote ratings • No net loss of private land • Land acquisition • Private property rights • Access to federal land and resources • Endangered Species Act reform
Phone:610-793-1800
Fax: 610-793-1415
Colin A. Hanna
President
603 Fairway Drive
West Chester, PA, United States 19382
webmaster@letfreedomringusa.com
Mission: The mission of Let Freedom Ring is to promote a constitutional government, economic freedom, and traditional values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitution • Limited government • Separation of powers • Free enterprise • Social Security • Family values • Abortion • Religious liberty
Phone:703-522-5828
Fax: 703-522-5837
Merrick Carey
Chief Executive Officer
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 900
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
mail@lexingtoninstitute.org
Mission: The Lexington Institute’s goal is to inform and shape the public debate of national priorities in areas of surpassing importance to the future success of democracy, such as education policy, tax reform, regulatory philosophy, and national defense. The Institute strives to find non-governmental, market-based solutions to public policy challenges from the belief and conviction that a dynamic private sector is the greatest engine for social progress and economic prosperity. By promoting America’s ability to project power around the globe, the Institute seeks not only to defend the homeland of democracy, but also to sustain the international stability in which other free-market democracies may thrive.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: National security and defense • Alliance relations • Naval strike forum • Immigration • Cuba • Education reform • Regulation • International economics and trade • Postal reform
Phone:011-41-44-364-16-66
Fax: 011-41-44-364-16-69
Pierre Bessard
Executive Director
Vogelsangstrasse 52
CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland
libinst@libinst.ch
Mission: Liberales Institut aims to advance and disseminate liberal ideas. Resting on the classical liberal tradition, its guiding principles are the three concepts of “openness, diversity and autonomy,” with the focus on individual autonomy based on property and the law of contract, as well as the free exchange of ideas and material goods on open markets under a liberal, democratic, and non-centralized system of government.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax competition • Non-centralism • Free market • Classical liberalism • Individual rights • Secrets of Swiss success
Phone:011-420-226-518-888
Fax: 011-420-226-518-813
Miroslav Ševcík
Director
Spalena 51, Praha 1
Prague, Czech Republic
info@libinst.cz
Mission: Liberální Institut is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit think tank for the development, dissemination, and application of classical liberal ideas and programs based on the principles of classical liberalism.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Macroeconomic development • Regulation and deregulation • Public finance • Business cycles and money supply • International financial markets
Phone:011-56-2-377-4800
Fax: 011-56-2-207-7723
Luis Larrain Arroyo
Executive Director
Alcantara 498
Las Condes, Chile
lyd@lyd.com
Mission: Libertad y Desarrollo is a private research and study center independent of any political, religious, business, and governmental affiliations. The institute is dedicated to the analysis of public policies and to promoting the values and principles of a free society.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Justice, rule of law • Small and efficient government • Economic growth and deregulation • Education • Private solution to public social problems • Delinquency and crime
Phone:011-33-6-29-62-06-79
Vincent Ginocchio
President
39, rue Henri Barbusse
92000 Nanterre, France
liberte@liberte-cherie.com
Mission: Liberté Chérie is an unusual activist group—somewhere between a grassroots operation and a think tank. Its mission is to criticize and fight against anti-free-market and socialist ideas that are spread by leftist unions, politicians, and organizations. It is the only French classic liberal association that is able to set off important street rallies and tackle complex themes. Numerous articles about economic and social issues-—union reform, the welfare system, education, health care, unemployment, and liberalization in general—can be found on its Web site.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Union reform • Education system • Health care system • Pension reform • Unemployment • Public monopolies liberalization
Phone:317-842-0880
Fax: 317-577-6060
Chris Talley
President
8335 Allison Pointe Trail, Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46250-1684
webmaster@libertyfund.org
Mission: Liberty Fund is a private educational foundation that encourages the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. It develops, supervises, and finances its own educational activities to foster thought and encourage discourse on enduring issues pertaining to liberty.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:972-941-4444
Fax: 972-423-6162
Kelly Shackelford
President
2001 Plano Parkway, Suite 1600
Plano, TX, United States 75075
info@libertyinstitute.org
Mission: Liberty Institute was founded as Free Market Foundation in 1972 as a 501(c)(3) non- profit organization dedicated to protecting freedoms and strengthening families. The Liberty Institute's mission is to strengthen and protect the individual and family by supporting principles that promote responsible citizenship, limited government, free enterprise, private property ownership, limited taxation, and Judeo-Christian values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-family issues • Religious freedom • Parental rights
Phone:011-91-11-2507-9214
Fax: 011-91-11-2507-9101
Barun S. Mitra
Director
C-4/8 Sahyadri, Plot-5, Sector-12, Dwarka
New Delhi 110045, India
info@libertyindia.org
Mission: The Liberty Institute in New Delhi, India, is an independent think tank dedicated to empowering the people by harnessing the power of the market. It seeks to uphold the four institutional pillars of a free society—individual rights, rule of law, limited government, and free market.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Development economics • Education • Environment • Health • Security • Trade
Phone:800-847-0227
Dan Byfield
President
PO Box 1207
Taylor, TX, United States 76574
info@libertymatters.org
Mission: Liberty Matter's mission is to inform and inspire the individual to preserve liberty, the principles of freedom, our Constitution and private property rights for all generations.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional issues • Property rights
Phone:703-759-4278
Fax: 703-759-5494
Lincoln Institute for Research and Education
J. A. Parker
President
PO Box 254
Great Falls, VA, United States 22066
jparker@lincolnreview.org
Mission: The Lincoln Institute for Research and Education was founded in 1978 to study public policy issues that affect the lives of black middle America and to make its findings available to elected officials and the public. It is dedicated to seeking ways to improve the standard of living, quality of life, and freedom for all Americans. Through its research and education program, the Institute transmits pro-private enterprise views on public policy issues to policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Inflation • Education • National defense • Criminal justice • Health • Culture
Phone:717-671-0776
Fax: 717-671-1176
Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research
Lowman S. Henry
Chairman and CEO
Olde Liberty Square
4807 Jonestown Road, Suite #242
Harrisburg, PA, United States 17109
lhenry@lincolninstitute.org
Mission: The mission of the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research is to promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research and related educational programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax cuts/reform • Business climate • Education • Right to work • Regulatory reform • Health care
Phone:312-606-0951
Fax: 312-606-0879
Lincoln Legal Foundation
Joseph A. Morris
President and General Counsel
39 South La Salle Street, Suite 500
Chicago, IL, United States 60603-1605
MRDchicago@aol.com
Mission: The Lincoln Legal Foundation seeks to defend individual liberty, private property and the free market, limited constitutional government, the federal system, and American national sovereignty through litigation, legal and public policy research and analysis, and education of the bench, bar, and public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Free speech, including commercial speech • Property rights • Tort reform • Rights of victims of crime • Terrorism and homeland security
Phone:011-852-8101-2112
Fax: 011-852-3105-2186
G. Andrew Work
Co-Founder and Director
Rm 1903, Kai Tak Commercial Building, 317-319 Des Voeux Road Central
Hong Kong, China
info@lionrockinstitute.org
Mission: The Lion Rock Institute seeks to have a direct and demonstrable impact on government policy, to educate policymakers, active political participants, and the general public on the benefit of adopting free market values in building a prosperous Hong Kong, and to promote Hong Kong’s best free market practices to the world.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free market • Government policy • Economic policy
Phone:011-370-5-25-26-255
Lithuanian Free Market Institute
Elena Leontjeva
Founder and Chairman of the Board
16a Jasinskio Street
LT-01112 Vilnius, Lithuania
LFMI@freema.org
Mission: The Lithuanian Free Market Institute (LFMI) is a private, non-profit, apolitical organization established in 1990 to promote the ideas of individual freedom and responsibility, free markets, and limited government.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy • Employment regulation • Energy policy • Knowledge economy • Health • Land market • Economic policy • Transport policy • State finances • Competition • Privatization • Pension reform • Business deregulation • Anti-corruption • Education • Monetary policy • Poverty • Law-making • NGO regulation
Phone:512-832-4702
Fax: 512-832-9905
The Lone Star Foundation and Report
David Hartman
Chairman
10711 Burnet Road, Suite 333
Austin, TX, United States 78758
lutz@lonestarreport.org
Mission: To balance progress and prosperity of Texas and its communities, it is necessary to formulate a common vision, common goals, and the policies needed to achieve these ends. The Lone Star Foundation is a Texas-based think tank devoted to providing the resources and research needed for the development of public policy based on traditional Texas values of family, freedom, free enterprise, and the Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Border adjusted federal taxation reform • Reform of federal taxation and appropriate scoring • Texas state public school and general taxation reform • Comprehensive federal finance reform
Phone:225-344-8533
Fax: 225-344-9006
Reverend Gene Mills
Executive Director
655 Saint Ferdinand Street
Baton Rouge, LA, United States 70802
info@lafamilyforum.org
Mission: The Louisiana Family Forum seeks to persuasively present Biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, education, communications, and networking.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and the traditional family • Sexual abstinence outside of marriage • Community Marriage Agreements • Covenant marriage • Educational issues • Sanctity of life issues
Phone:609-688-8779 x. 313
Fax: 609-688-1027
Caitlin Seery
Director of Programs
16 Stockton St
Princeton, NJ, United States 08540
info@loveandfidelity.org
Mission: The Love and Fidelity Network’s mission is to equip college students with the arguments, resources, and support they need to uphold the institution of marriage, the special role of the family, and sexual integrity within their university communities. We aim to build a network that will become the nucleus of an articulate and effective new generation of leaders who will advocate for marriage, family, love and fidelity on college campuses and in the public square.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: * Marriage * Family * Fidelity * Sexual Integrity
Phone:608-279-6239
Fax: 608-255-0788
Leslie Graves
President
PO Box 2134
Madison, WI, United States 53701
lbgraves@aol.com
Mission: Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is dedicated to sharing information, guidance, practical advice, legal developments, and news about open records at the state and local level. LBI is also developing materials for ordinary citizens who want to use the Internet to share information about local units of government—cities, counties, and school districts.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Transparency • Open records
Phone:334-321-2100
Fax: 334-321-2119
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
President
518 West Magnolia Avenue
Auburn, AL, United States 36832
contact@mises.org
Mission: The mission of the Mises Institute is to restore a high place for theory in economics and the social sciences, to encourage a revival of critical historical research, and to draw attention to neglected traditions in Western philosophy. In this cause, the Mises Institute works to advance the Austrian School of economics and the Misesian tradition and, in application, defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive. The Institute funds graduate students; directs their education; sponsors faculty research; hosts conferences, seminars, and summer schools; and publishes books, journals, and newsletters.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Opposing war • Abolishing the central bank • Restoring freedom of association and contract • Eliminating taxes and spending • Establishing laissez-faire • Delegitimizing the central state • Classical liberalism • Libertarian political theory
Phone:011-32-27-43-41-55
Fax: 011-32-27-42-17-85
Ludwig von Mises Institute–Europe
Annette Godart-van der Kroon
President
Place des chasseurs Ardennais 20
1030 - Brussels, Belgium
info@vonmisesinstitute-europe.org
Mission: The principal goal of the Ludwig von Mises Institute–Europe (LVMI-Europe) is to become the best known liberal think tank in Europe, aiming to foster respect for individual liberty and the free market and to promote the rule of law in a free society. LVMI-Europe also seeks to be the interface between the academic world and the business world.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: The enlargement of Estonia, Central Asia, Turkey, and Ukraine • European economy • Entrepreneurial climate • Transport, logistics, and infrastructure • Transatlantic relations
Phone:608-237-7290
Brett Healy
President
44 East Mifflin Street, Suite 201
Madison, WI, United States 53703
info@maciverinstitute.com
Mission: The John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy is a Wisconsin-based think tank that promotes free markets, individual freedom, personal responsibility and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics • Health Care Reform • Education • Transportation
Phone:989-631-0900
Fax: 989-631-0964
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Joseph G. Lehman
President
140 West Main Street
PO Box 568
Midland, MI, United States 48640
mcpp@mackinac.org
Mission: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a non-partisan, research, and educational organization devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions. The Mackinac Center assists policymakers, scholars, business people, the media, and the public by providing objective analysis of Michigan issues. The goal of all Center reports, commentaries, and educational programs is to equip Michigan citizens and other decision makers to better evaluate policy options.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education and school choice • Labor law • Privatization • Economic development
Phone:207-945-6893
Fax: 207-945-6583
Maine Children's Scholarship Fund
Betsy Chapman
President
27 State Street, Suite 64A
PO Box 913
Bangor, ME, United States 04401-0913
mecsf@midmaine.com
Mission: The mission of the Maine Children’s Scholarship Fund is to increase parental involvement by low-income parents in their children’s education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice
Phone:207-321-2550
Fax: 207-773-4385
The Maine Heritage Policy Center
PO Box 7829
Portland, ME, United States 04112
info@mainepolicy.org
Mission: The Maine Heritage Policy Center is an independent, non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to the study of state and local public policy issues. Founded in 2002, the Center seeks to explore and advance policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care reform • Tax reform • Education issues
Phone:212-599-7000
Fax: 212-599-3494
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Lawrence J. Mone
President
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY, United States 10017
mi@manhattan-institute.org
Mission: The Manhattan Institute is a non-partisan, independent, research, and educational organization supported by tax-deductible gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations. The Institute’s goal is to develop and encourage public policies at all levels of government that allow individuals the greatest scope for achieving their potential, both as participants in a productive economy and as members of a functioning society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Education • Urban innovation • Legal reform
Phone:814-833-3200
Fax: 814-833-4844
Manufacturer & Business Association
2171 West 38th St
Erie, PA, United States 16508
mbainfo@mbausa.org
Mission: The Manufacturer & Business Association, with offices in Erie, Williamsport, and Harrisburg, is dedicated to providing information and services to its members that will assist them in the pursuit of their business and community interests.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:202-319-6215
Fax: 202-319-4459
Robert Destro
Principal Investigator & Project Director
Columbus School of Law
3600 John McCormack Road, NE
Washington, DC, United States 20064
nell@law.edu
Mission: The Marriage Law Project’s mission is to reaffirm the legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Project operates as a part of the Interdisciplinary Program in Law and Religion of The Catholic University of America. Its offices are in Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Reaffirm the legal definition of marriage
Phone:301-469-5870
Fax: 301-469-5871
Michael J. McManus
President
9311 Harrington Drive
Potomac, MD, United States 20854-4510
infor@marriagesavers.org
Mission: Marriage Savers’ goal is to radically reduce the divorce rate and to increase the marriage rate. The organization has helped the clergy of 188 cities adopt a “Community Marriage Policy” in which the pastors from a cross-section of denominations agree on a set of strategies aimed at offering couples thorough marriage preparation, the enrichment of existing marriages, the saving of troubled ones, and help for stepfamilies to be successful parents and partners. An independent study estimates that Marriage Savers has saved 50,000 marriages. It does so in part by training Mentor Couples to assist other couples in every stage of the marital life cycle.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Promote “Healthy Marriage Initiatives” involving houses of worship • Encourage marriage between unwed couples, especially those who have children • Replace no-fault divorce with “mutual consent” divorce • Create a video series for churches to train marriage mentor couples • Create a national association of “community marriage policies”
Phone:410-296-5621
Fax: 410-296-5625
Maryland Business for Responsive Government
Robert O. C. Worcester
President
1122 Kenilworth Drive, Suite 503
Baltimore, MD, United States 21204
rocworcester@mbrg.org
Mission: The purpose of Maryland Business for Responsive Government is to improve the role of business in the formulation of Maryland’s public policy. This is achieved through economic and political education of elected and appointed officials; holding elected officials accountable for their business-related votes; publication of timely, scholarly research; and the support of pro-business candidates of both parties.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Transportation • Tax policy • Labor • Regulation
Phone:240-686-3510
Fax: 240-686-3511
The Maryland Public Policy Institute
Christopher B. Summers
President
PO Box 195
Germantown, MD, United States 20875-0195
info@mdpolicy.org
Mission: The mission of the Maryland Public Policy Institute is to formulate and promote public policies at the state and local government level based on principles of free enterprise, limited government, and a civil society.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Health care • Transportation • Budget and fiscal issues
Phone:540-554-2964
Maryland Taxpayers Association
Dee Hodges
President
9613-C Harford Road
Baltimore, MD, United States 21234
mta@rstarmail.com
Mission: The Maryland Taxpayers Association (MTA) is a statewide, non-partisan organization of Maryland taxpayers and county taxpayer organizations working to promote effective, fiscally efficient government. MTA provides expert testimony before the Maryland legislature on bills of concern and carries out investigations of government waste. MTA hosts lectures and other public events, publishes the MTA Newsletter, advises the press on current issues affecting the Maryland taxpayer, and provides educational resources on tax issues for students, teachers, and concerned citizens around the state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes in Maryland
Phone:781-569-0400
Fax: 781-569-0215
Massachusetts Family Institute
Kris Mineau
President
100 Sylvan Road, Suite 625
Woburn, MA, United States 01801
info@mafamily.org
Mission: The Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to strengthening the family and affirming the Judeo-Christian values upon which it is based. It seeks to reduce barriers to family stability and to create a political and social environment where families can thrive and prosper. MFI engages in research and education on a wide range of public health, safety, and policy issues to help strengthen family bonds.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Preserving the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman • Strengthening marriages by encouraging church involvement before and after the wedding through counseling and mentoring • Upholding the value of human life from conception until natural death • Teaching and advancing premarital abstinence • Protecting children from the dangers of the internet and sexual predators • Exposing the dangers, and opposing the expansion, of gambling
Phone:(610)-519-4500
The Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good
Colleen A. Sheehan, Ph.D
Director
800 E. Lancaster Avenue
Villanova, PA, United States 19085
colleen.sheehan@villanova.edu
Mission: The Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good at Villanova University promotes inquiry into the principles and processes of free government and seeks to advance understanding of the responsibilities of statesmen and citizens of constitutional democratic societies.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *civil society *political philosophy *rule of law *free market *civic responsibility *religious liberty *federalism *limited government *the Constitution *natural rights
Phone:011-64-09-627-3261
Fax: 011-64-09-627-3264
Greg Fleming
Chief Executive Officer
49 Cape Horn Road
Hillsborough, Auckland 1041, New Zealand
director@maxim.org.nz
Mission: Maxim Institute is an independent research and public policy think tank committed to fostering ideas and leadership that enable freedom, justice, and compassion to flourish in New Zealand.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Civil society • Welfare • Family and marriage
Phone:571-267-3500
Fax: 703-683-9736
L. Brent Bozell, III
President
1900 Campus Commons Dr., Suite 600
Reston, VA, United States 20191
mrc@mediaresearch.org
Mission: MRC was established as a media watchdog organization in 1987 with a mission to bring political balance and responsibility to the nation’s news media. Today, MRC’s research and analysis operation exposes and neutralizes liberal bias in the news and entertainment media. MRC publishes newsletters, monographs, and books; produces a nationally syndicated column and regular op-ed pieces; provides research to other conservatives combating media bias; hosts two political Internet Web sites—www.MediaResearch.org and www.CNSNews.com; and provides spokespersons for television, radio, and print interviews to advance and defend the conservative movement.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Media bias • Politics in entertainment • Media bias in economic issues • Political balance in the media • Free enterprise • News and reporting
Phone:901-842-5327
Fax: 901-842-5331
Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST)
Mandy Yandell
Executive Director
850 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Suite 220
Memphis, TN, United States 38120
myandell@memphisscholarships.org
Mission: Memphis Opportunity Scholarship Trust (MOST) provides scholarships and tuition assistance to Memphis children in order to give parents the opportunity to choose the most appropriate school for their children. By providing educational opportunities to families in need, MOST also seeks to promote excellence in education..
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice
Phone:703-993-4930
Fax: 703-993-4935
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Tyler Cowen, Ph. D.
General Director
3434 Washington Blvd, 4th Floor
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
mercatus@mercatus.gmu.edu
Mission: The Mercatus Center at George Mason University conducts scholarly research into the institutions that advance prosperity and liberty and spreads this knowledge to decision makers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Working to improve government accountability and transparency on a federal and state level • Increasing awareness about how economic insights can point to solutions of public policy problems • Improving the state of knowledge and debate about regulations and their impact upon society • Understanding the basic cultural, political, economic, and legal institutions that must be in place to enable people to engage in cooperation for mutual advantage, and to help others apply this understanding to foreign aid and domestic policy
Phone:517-374-1171
Fax: 517-374-6112
Brad Snavely
Executive Director
PO Box 15216
Lansing, MI, United States 48901-5216
info@michiganfamily.org
Mission: The mission of the Michigan Family Forum (MFF) is to stimulate cultural renewal by strengthening Michigan families through public advocacy, education, and collaboration. This mission is accomplished by aggressively promoting a positive legislative agenda and providing thoughtful, cutting-edge research focused on four key areas: protecting children, strengthening marriage, promoting responsible fatherhood, and honoring elders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and marriage enrichment • Well-being of children • Fatherhood • Abstinence • Pornography • Elders • Limited government
Phone:479-927-3315
Mid-American Policy Institute
Stuart Buck
4531 Stonecrest
Springdale, AR, United States 72762
stuartbuck@gmail.com
Mission:
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Phone:301-907-0947
Fax: 301-951-0539
Dr. I. Dean Ahmad
President
4323 Rosedale Avenue
Bethesda, MD, United States 20814
mfi@minaret.org
Mission: The mission of the Minaret of Freedom Institute is to discover and publish the political-economic policy implications of Islamic law and their consequences on the economic well being of the community; to promote the establishment of free trade and justice (an essential common interest of Islam and the West); to educate Islamic religious and community leaders in economics and in the fact that liberty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the achievement of a good society; and (building upon the words of Thomas Jefferson) to wage unending holy struggle against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious freedom • Church-state relations • Terrorism and international crime • Middle East • Constitutional law • Property rights
Phone:612-789-8811
Fax: 612-789-8858
Thomas Prichard
President
2855 Anthony Place South, Suite 150
Minneapolis, MN, United States 55418
tom@mfc.org
Mission: The Minnesota Family Council (MFC) is a non-profit, non-partisan, pro-family organization dedicated to strengthening families by grounding public policy in the Judeo-Christian principles upon which American government and society are founded. The Council is building a grassroots network of families and individuals concerned about traditional values, educating and training citizens for political and community involvement, and actively promoting key issues in the Minnesota legislature, the U.S. Congress, and the media. MFC also publishes a monthly newspaper, Pro-Family News.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform/school choice • Divorce law reform • Family tax relief/charity tax credit • Parental rights • Abstinence education • Marriage protection/promotion
Phone:651 294 3593
Fax: 651 294 3596
The Minnesota Free Market Institute
Kimberly Crockett
President and General Counsel
17900 Shavers Lake Drive
Wayzata, MN, United States 55391
info@mnfreemarketinstitute.org
Mission: The Minnesota Free Market Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to expanding liberty and free markets. It conducts research, publishes materials, and conducts public forums to involve Minnesotans in free market reforms that will enhance the quality of life for all citizens of the state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Education • Health care • Transportation • Economic competitiveness
Phone:703-299-0060
Fax: 703-783-6300
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA)
Riki Ellison
President and Founder
515 King Street, Suite 320
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
info@missiledefenseadvocacy.org
Mission: Founded in 2002, MDAA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization and does not support or endorse any specific system or political affiliation. Its mission is to reflect the American public’s opinion on missile defense and to build broad, public support for the development, testing, deployment, and evolution of a robust missile defense system. It is MDAA’s goal to bring the American public support of missile defense to the attention of national, state, and local decision makers for their consideration.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Deployment of missile defense system • Continued deployment, evolution, and development of missile defense • International cooperation of missile defense • Evolution of missile defense
Phone:601-969-1300
Fax: 601-969-1600
Mississippi Center for Public Policy
Forest M. Thigpen
President
520 George Street
Jackson, MS, United States 39202
thigpen@mspolicy.org
Mission: Mississippi Center for Public Policy promotes limited government, free markets, and strong traditional families.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: State spending • Charter schools • Education reform • Health care reform • Welfare reform • Marriage promotion
Phone:
Lois Linton
Vice President
Pillar in the Valley, 229 Chesterfield Business Parkway
Chesterfield, MO, United States 63005
eagle.forum@charter.net
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:636-536-0014
Missouri Family Policy Council
Joe Ortwerth
Executive Director
229 Chesterfield Business Parkway
Chesterfield , MO, United States 63005
info@missourifamily.org
Mission: The Missouri Family Policy Council (MoFPC) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting Biblical principles in our government and Judeo-Christian values in our culture that support and encourage strong healthy families.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and Family • Religious Liberty • Christian Citizenship • Protection of Life
Phone:011-32-2506-40-06
Fax: 011-32-2506-40-09
The Molinari Economic Institute
Cecile Philippe
Directeur général
Rue de Luxembourg 23 bte 1
1000 Brussels, Belgium
cecile@institutmolinari.org
Mission: The Molinari Economic Institute is an independent, not-for-profit research and educational institute. The Institute offers relevant solutions in the public policy debates of France by focusing on the importance of markets.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Environment • Market flexibility • Competition
Phone:406-628-1141
Fax: 406-628-1171
Jeff Laszloffy
President
PO Box 485
Laurel, MT, United States 59044
jeff@montanafamily.org
Mission: The Montana Family Foundation is a non-profit, research and education organization, working in association with Focus On The Family, to support, protect and strengthen Montana families.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Family
Phone:406-219-0508
Carl Graham
CEO
67 W. Kagy Blvd Ste. B
Bozeman, MT, United States 59715
cgraham@montanapolicy.org
Mission: The Montana Policy Institute (MPI) is a free market think tank focused on Montana issues and Montana solutions. A tax-exempt, nonprofit corporation, MPI is dedicated to providing information and ideas to Montana citizens and policymakers. MPI seeks to broaden the debate beyond looking to government for solutions to state challenges and to make state and local government more accountable to the people they serve. MPI’s goal is to become the premier resource for free market, individual liberty, educational, and informational products. MPI’s efforts will result in concrete actions that promote the liberty, prosperity, and quality of life for all Montanans.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Climate change • Taxpayers’ bill of rights (TABOR) • Government transparency
Phone:514-273-0969
Fax: 514-273-2581
The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)
Michel Kelly Gagnon
President & CEO
910 Peel Street, Suite 600
Montreal, QC H3C 2H8, Canada
mkellygagnon@iedm.org
Mission: MEI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research and educational institute. MEI wants to make itself known as the initiator of relevant and original solutions in the public policy debates of Quebec by focusing in particular on the importance of wealth creation.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care reform • School performance evaluation • Tax burden and public finances • Effect of over-regulation • Free trade and globalization issues
Phone:303-292-2021
Fax: 303-292-1980
Mountain States Legal Foundation
William Perry Pendley
President and Chief Legal Officer
2596 South Lewis Way
Lakewood, CO, United States 80227
info@mountainstateslegal.org
Mission: Mountain States Legal Foundation seeks the proper application of the Constitution and interpretation of the law in the courts, administrative agencies and other forums. Specifically, it provides a strong and effective voice for freedom of enterprise, the rights of private property ownership, and the multiple use of federal and state resources, and also champions the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution in support of individual and business enterprises against unwarranted government intrusion.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of enterprise • Private property rights - takings • Access to and use of federal and state lands and resources • Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws • Rights and liberties guaranteed by the constitution • Limited and ethical government
Phone:323-650-3850
Rob Pfaltzgraff
Executive Director
Tribeca Film Center
375 Greenwich Street
New York, NY, United States 10013
info@thempi.org
Mission: The Moving Picture Institute identifies and nurtures promising filmmakers who are committed to protecting and sustaining a free society and supports their work through grants, travel scholarships, awards, internships, training workshops, and networking opportunities.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:646-742-2845
Fax: 646-742-2851
Kathleen McGarry
President
243 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY, United States 10016
mentoring@murrayhillinstitute.org
Mission: Murray Hill Institute is devoted to the study of the distinct contribution that women make to society. The Institute addresses the varied needs of professional women, as well as university students preparing for professional life. Through conferences, lectures, seminars, and publications, the Institute explores and promotes an eminently positive feminism. The programs sponsored by Murray Hill Institute are inspired by the thought and work of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei, a personal Prelature of the Catholic Church. The programs offered by the Institute are open to individuals of all races, creeds, and ethnic backgrounds.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Professional development seminars • Mentoring program • Networking for junior professional women
Phone:917.551.6770
National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Dr. Peter W. Wood
President
8 W. 38TH ST.
SUITE 503
New York, NY, United States 10018
contact@nas.org
Mission: The National Association of Scholars consists of professors, graduate students, and administrators committed to rational discourse as the foundation for academic life in a free society. NAS works to enrich the substance and strengthen the integrity of scholarship and teaching, convinced that only through an informed understanding of the Western intellectual heritage and the realities of the contemporary world can citizen and scholar be equipped to sustain Western civilization’s achievements.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic standards • Politicization of academic life • Curriculum reform • Teacher education
Phone:225-778-0169
Eric Burges
Co-Founder
13434 Plank Road, PMB 110
Baker, LA, United States 70714
contact@nbhe.net
Mission: The National Black Home Educators (NBHE) is a resource network established to encourage, support, and offer fellowship to families who are exploring benefits of home education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic standards • Politicization of academic life • Curriculum reform • Teacher education
Phone:972-386-6272
Fax: 972-386-0924
National Center for Policy Analysis
John C. Goodman, Ph.D.
President
12770 Coit Road, Suite 800
Dallas, TX, United States 75251
john.goodman@ncpa.org
Mission: The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research organization, established in 1983. NCPA’s goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security • Health care • Taxes • Education • Environment/energy • Women in the economy
Phone:202-543-4110
Fax: 202-543-5975
National Center for Public Policy Research
Amy Moritz Ridenour
President
501 Capitol Court NE, Suite 200
Washington, DC, United States 20002
info@nationalcenter.org
Mission: The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. The Center believes that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Environment/regulation • Health care • Minority issues • Social Security • National defense • Legal reform
Phone:202-463-5500
Fax: 202-463-3129
Arthur Rothkopf
Executive Vice President
1615 H Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20062
ncf@uschamber.com
Mission: The National Chamber Foundation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, drives the policy debate on key issues by formulating arguments, developing options, and influencing thinking in an effort to move the American business agenda forward. The Foundation serves policymakers and the business community by providing a forum where leaders can consider and advance new ideas that benefit American business.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Travel and tourism • Counterfeiting and intellectual property theft • Corporate governance and accounting reform • International trade • Transportation • Legal reform
Phone:513-521-6227
Fax: 513-521-6337
National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families
Rick Schatz
President and CEO
800 Compton Road, Suite 9224
Cincinnati, OH, United States 45231
rick@nationalcoalition.org
Mission: The vision of the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families (NCPCF) is to move the people of God to embrace, live out, and defend the biblical truth of sexuality. NCPCF is a non-profit ministry dedicated to articulating, advancing, and defending biblical truth in the areas of sexuality, marriage, and family. Established in 1983, it is one of the largest pro-family organizations in America committed to recapturing a Christian consensus in matters of moral philosophy and related public policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Sex education in schools • Same-sex marriage • Teens and sex • Outreach to churches • Sex in the media
Phone:703-299-6633
Fax: 703-299-6004
Chuck Johnson
President and CEO
225 North Washington Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
ncfa@adoptioncouncil.org
Mission: Founded in 1980, the National Council For Adoption (NCFA) is a research, education, and advocacy organization whose mission is to promote the well being of children, birthparents, and adoptive families by advocating for the positive option of adoption. NCFA is an adoption advocate and expert in the halls of power and the courts of public opinion on behalf of all parties to adoption and its member adoption agencies around the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Presenting adoption as a positive option for unplanned pregnancy • Promoting adoptions of out foster care • Facilitating intercountry adoption • Making adoption more affordable through the tax credit • Promoting safe havens to prevent infanticide and unsafe infant abandonment • Preserving the option of confidentiality in adoption
Phone:703-243-0553
Fax: 703-807-2073
National Defense Council Foundation
Jim Martin
Executive Director
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 960
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
hq@ndcf.org
Mission: The National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) is a non-profit think tank studying defense and foreign affairs issues that face the U.S. Specializing in the study of special operations/low-intensity conflict, the drug war, and energy concerns, NDCF briefs Congress, the media, and members on salient matters that affect the military, political, and socioeconomic aspects of these issues. It also has an exceptional internship program and performs medical relief missions to tumultuous regions around the world.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Small wars • Drug wars • China’s hostile military • Emerging threats to the U.S. • Energy and environment relating to national security
Phone:301-948-0599
Fax: 301-948-4325
National Fatherhood Initiative
Roland Warren
President
101 Lake Forest Boulevard, Suite 360
Gaithersburg, MD, United States 20877
info@fatherhood.org
Mission: The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) was founded in 1994 to stimulate a society-wide movement to confront the growing problem of father absence and is dedicated to improving the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers. A non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-partisan organization, NFI conducts public awareness campaigns promoting responsible fatherhood, organizes conferences and community fatherhood forums, provides training and resource materials to organizations seeking to establish support programs for fathers, publishes a quarterly newsletter, and distributes resources to men seeking to become more effective fathers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Fatherhood • Marriage • Abstinence promotion • Welfare reform • Work/life balance • Incarcerated fathers
Phone:212-232-3333
Fax: 212-232-2244
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
Steve Mariotti
President & Founder
120 Wall Street, 29th Floor
New York, NY, United States 10005
nfte@nfte.com
Mission: The mission of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is to develop products and services that enable teachers and youth workers to inspire self-esteem and self-sufficiency in low-income youth by teaching entrepreneurship. NFTE runs over 200 programs per year around the world, working with at-risk children and teaching them the basics of the free enterprise system. NFTE graduates approximately 4,000 students per year with the requirement that each student start a small business.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Teaching entrepreneurship • Attracting top teachers to inner-city teaching
Phone:503-364-1490
Fax: 503-364-2827
National Home Education Research Institute
Brian D. Ray
President
PO Box 13939
Salem, OR, United States 97309
mail@nheri.org
Mission: The mission of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) is to produce high-quality research on home-based education (home schooling); to serve as a clearinghouse of research for the public, researchers, home schoolers, the media, and policymakers; and to educate the public concerning the findings of all research on home education. NHERI provides consultants, speakers, and expert witnesses on educational topics, specializing in home schooling.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Home school research • Parental rights and freedoms • Education excellence • Education choice
Phone:301-464-4277
Fax: 301-464-4277
Joseph Baldacchino
President
PO Box 1387
Bowie, MD, United States 20718-1387
mail@nhinet.org
Mission: The National Humanities Institute promotes research, publishing, and teaching in the humanities with emphasis on the importance of culture and society. The Institute believes that to elevate society it is necessary to change the basic orientation of the culture. Fundamentally, any real and lasting renewal of Western and American society must start in the humanities—in universities, literature and the arts—and must be based on concrete historical experience.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Ethics • Epistemology • Cultural basis of society • Constitutionalism • Civil society • National sovereignty
Phone:703-321-9606
Fax: 703-321-7342
National Institute for Labor Relations Research (NILRR)
Stanley Greer
Program Director/Senior Research Associate
5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 510
Springfield, VA, United States 22151
research@nilrr.org
Mission: The National Institute for Labor Relations is associated with the National Right to Work Committee and conducts the research and analysis necessary to expose the inequities of compulsory unionism.. It's research focuses on and calls attention to important facts that are overlooked by both union and business spokesmen. NILRR's primary function is to act as a research facility that specializes in nonpartisan analysis and study for the benefit of the general public, scholars, and students.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Unions • Monopoly • Right to Work • Unions and Public Sector • Collective Bargaining • Union Investigation
Phone:703-293-9181
National Institute for Public Policy
Dr. Keith B. Payne
CEO and President
9302 Lee Highway, Suite 750
Fairfax, VA, United States 22031
amy.joseph@nipp.org
Mission: The National Institute for Public Policy is a non-profit corporation founded in 1981 to promote public education on international issues. The Institute’s focus has been on mid-to-long strategy and policy issues. This focus has enabled the National Institute to provide useful service to the U.S. national defense through both its study efforts and through direct support to the Department of Defense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Developing deterrence concepts • National missile defense • Developing U.S. security strategies toward political adversaries • Arms control • The Russian dimension of U.S. defense policy • Security issues in the south Caucasus
Phone:800-471-2994
Fax: 816-229-8425
Mario Mandina
CEO
17201 East 40 Highway, Suite 207
Independence, MO, United States 64055
nla@nla.org
Mission: The Association’s mission is to preserve and protect the structures of the U.S. government as established by its Founding Fathers; to promote the principles and transcendent truths set forth in the Declaration of Independence, including, but not limited to, the sanctity of life, the rule of law, equality, and justice; to improve the image of the legal profession by encouraging members to adopt and maintain the highest ethical and moral standards; to provide services, benefits, technology, education, guidance, and professional assistance to its members; and to encourage members and the legal community as a whole to earn the respect and trust of the American people by conducting themselves with professionalism and integrity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6)
Policy/Priority Issues: Educate attorneys and general populace about Declaration of Independence • Provide videos and lesson plans to schools for inclusion in curriculum • Education through the NLA Foundation • Preserve and protect the structure of government of the U.S. as established by the Founding Fathers • Improve the image of the legal profession by promoting and encouraging higher ethical standards
Phone:703-237-1970
Fax: 703-237-2090
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC)
Peter Flaherty
President
107 Park Washington Court
Falls Church, VA, United States 22046-4237
pflaherty@nlpc.org
Mission: NLPC promotes ethics in public life through research, education and legal action. NLPC’s lasting vision is a single standard of ethics. The “moral relativism” of the left has created a double standard where anything is excused as long as the politics of the perpetrator are “correct.” NLPC seeks to undermine this double standard and expose the selective indignation and hypocrisy of the left. NLPC also recognizes that the bigger the government, the more opportunities for corruption; and the more intervention in the economy, the more reason for special interests to seek influence. It believes that the best way to promote ethics is to reduce the size of government. The liberals’ solution is more laws or “better guidelines,” even as existing ones are ignored. NLPC doesn’t believe the problem is with laws, but with men and women; the missing ingredients are character, morality, and common sense.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Government Integrity Project • Legal Services Accountability Project • Organized Labor Accountability Project • Corporate Integrity Project
Phone:757-463-6133
Fax: 757-463-6055
Steven W. Fitschen
President
PO Box 64427
Virginia Beach, VA, United States 23467-4427
nlf@nlf.net
Mission: Founded in 1985, the National Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law and dedicated to defending religious liberties, fighting the homosexual agenda, and protecting the unborn. In 1995, the National Legal Founded in 1985, the National Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm specializing in constitutional law and dedicated to defending religious liberties, fighting the homosexual agenda, and protecting the unborn. In 1995, the Foundation formed an in-house think tank, the Minuteman Institute, that concentrates on early American studies, classical liberal studies, constitutional studies, religion and society studies, pro-life studies, family studies, and a judicial monitoring project. Through its Judicial Monitoring Project, the Minuteman Institute has conducted extensive research outlining impeachment as a legitimate remedy for judicial tyranny.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Homosexual agenda • Judicial impeachment
Phone:703-267-1000
Fax: 703-267-3989
National Rifle Association (NRA)
David Keene
President
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA, United States 22030
Mission: Founded in 1871, the three-million-member National Rifle Association promotes the shooting sports and protects the right to keep and bear arms. NRA trains thousands of law enforcement members and tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens annually on safe and responsible firearms ownership. It houses the National Firearms Museum; related entities include the NRA Foundation and the Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense Fund.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Defending Second Amendment rights • Criminal justice reform
Phone:202-626-8800
Fax: 202-737-9189
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)
Dr. Wanda Franz
President
512 Tenth Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20004
nrlc@nrlc.org
Mission: The National Right to Life Committee is a grassroots, single-issue, pro-life organization with affiliates in every state and 2,500 chapters nationwide. NRLC emphasizes education, legislation, and political action to stop abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Physician-assisted suicide • Infanticide • Medicare reform • Health care reform • Campaign finance reform
Phone:540-465-2349
The National Right to Read Foundation
Robert Sweet, Jr.
President and Co-Founder
PO Box 560
Strasburg, VA, United States 22657
info@nrrf.org
Mission: The vision of The National Right to Read Foundation is to return scientific research-based, explicit, systematic phonics instruction, along with good literature, to every elementary school in America. With 20 percent of high school graduates unable to read their own diplomas, it is a mission America cannot afford to lose.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Federal reading legislation called “Reading First” • Promote phonics instruction • Review phonics products
Phone:703-321-9820
Fax: 703-321-7342
National Right to Work Committee
Mark A. Mix
President
8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500
Springfield, VA, United States 22160
info@nrtw.org
Mission: The National Right to Work Committee is dedicated to advancing the principle that every worker must have the right—but no worker should ever be compelled—to join or financially support a labor union.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: National right-to-work law • New state right-to-work laws • Protecting current right-to-work laws • Fighting public sector monopoly bargains • Opposing compulsory unionism • End state and federal exemptions for prosecution of union violence
Phone:703-321-8510
Fax: 703-321-9613
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
Mark Mix
President
8001 Braddock Road, Suite 500
Springfield, VA, United States 22160
info@nrtw.org
Mission: The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation has assisted 150,000 employees in nearly 300 cases nationwide.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Card check/top down organizing tactics • Misuse of compulsory dues for politics • Union control of government schools • Union violence • Monopoly bargaining • Opposing all forms of compulsory unionism
Phone:202-429-0129
Fax: 202-659-5429
National Strategy Information Center
Roy Godson
President
1730 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, United States 20036
info@strategycenter.org
Mission: The National Strategy Information Center seeks to further education on security challenges; to encourage innovations in military, intelligence, and geopolitical affairs; and to promote cooperation among democratic elements in strategic regions of the world. Leveraging its resources through partnerships with large organizations, the Center has worked closely with U.S. and foreign universities, professional associations (such as the American Bar Association Committee on Law and National Security), and business and labor organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Specializing in intelligence, international organized crime, and ethnic and religious conflict, it also promotes scholarly research and serves as a resource for the news media.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Organized crime • Intelligence reform • Civics education
Phone:916-786-9400
Fax: 916-786-8163
National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC)
Lewis K. Uhler
President
1700 Eureka Road, Suite 150A
Roseville, CA, United States 95661
info@limittaxes.org
Mission: NTLC’S mission is to create a political and economic environment in which individual, productive citizens can enjoy the opportunity to excel, maximize their choices, and enjoy the fruits of their labors free from an intrusive, coercive government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation and reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Presidential item veto • Limiting state and local taxation
Phone:916-786-9400
Fax: 916-786-8163
National Tax Limitation Foundation
Lewis K. Uhler
President
151 North Sunrise Avenue, Suite 901
Roseville, CA, United States 95661
info@limittaxes.org
Mission: The National Tax Limitation Foundation engages in educational and research activities designed to facilitate structural change, reform, and discipline in government at all levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation and reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Presidential item veto • Limiting state and local taxation
Phone:703-683-5700
Fax: 703-683-5722
National Taxpayers Union (NTU)
Duane Parde
President
108 North Alfred Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
ntu@ntu.org
Mission: Founded in 1969, the non-profit, non-partisan NTU is America’s largest taxpayer organization with members in all 50 states. Through lobbying, research, advertising, media work, and its “NTU Rates Congress” scorecard, NTU works to influence Congress and America’s state legislatures on behalf of taxpayers and mobilizes its members to help them make their voices heard. It regularly sends emails and faxes to elected leaders on issues of concern to taxpayers and provides strategic guidance to hundreds of state and local taxpayer groups across the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax limitation amendment • Fundamental tax reform • Restraining federal spending • Tax relief • Social Security reform • Balanced budget amendment
Phone:703-683-5700
Fax: 703-683-5722
National Taxpayers Union Foundation
Duane Parde
President
108 North Alfred Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
ntuf@ntu.org
Mission: Founded in 1977, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) is the educational and research arm of the National Taxpayers Union. Its mission is to provide timely and innovative information promoting the benefits of lower taxes and limited government. NTUF’s papers, press releases, articles, op-eds, and issue briefs receive extensive media coverage. Many key policymakers use its research as a starting point for analysis of tax and fiscal issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic growth • Educating the public about congressional bill sponsorship and spending habits • Economic benefits of tax reform • Entitlements • Importance of limiting the size of government • Abuses in antitrust policy, regulation, and America’s legal system
Phone:402-551-0921
Fax: 402-551-0921
Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom
Doug Kagan
State Chairman
PO Box 6452
Omaha, NE, United States 68106-0452
netaxpayers@cox.net
Mission: Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom’s mission is to educate taxpayers to become knowledgeable taxpayer watchdogs who can monitor local, state, and federal taxing authorities and lobby public officials to lower taxes and decrease government spending and government regulation.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: National taxes • State taxes • Local taxes • State legislative issues • Education monitor • Illegal immigration
Phone:202-420-7498
Fax: 202-331-2139
Steve DelBianco
Executive Director
1401 K Street Northwest
Suite 502
, DC, United States
info@netchoice.org
Mission: NetChoice is a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers all of whom share the goal of promoting convenience, choice, and commerce on the net.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Internet Governance * Privacy * Internet Taxation * eCommerce * Web Access
Phone:702-222-0642
Fax: 702-227-0927
Nevada Policy Research Institute
Sharon Rossie
President
3155 East Patrick Lane, Suite 10
Las Vegas, NV, United States 89120
sr@npri.org
Mission: The Nevada Policy Research Institute (NPRI), a non-partisan, non-profit public policy and education organization founded in 1991, embraces the principles of limited government, individual responsibility, and a free and competitive market. It conducts research on public policy issues important to Nevada and disseminates the information by means of television, radio, print, and electronic media to elected officials, academicians, business leaders, NPRI members, and interested Nevadans.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Education • Labor
Phone:312-377-4000
Fax: 312-377-5000
New Coalition for Economic and Social Change
Lee Walker
President and CEO
19 South LaSalle Street, Suite 903
Chicago, IL, United States 60603
lwalker@newcoalition.org
Mission: The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, formed in 1993, is a non-profit organization that functions as another rung in the ladder for furthering African-American progress in America and throughout the Diaspora. Its mission is to encourage the pursuit of alternative public policies that promote economic independence and strengthen the institutions of families, schools, churches, and communities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil rights • School choice • Poverty and dependency • Welfare reform • Political correctness and multiculturalism
Phone:011-995-32-998-418
Fax: 011-995-32-204-321
New Economic School - Georgia (NESG)
Gia Jandieri
Vice President
4, Sanapiro St., Seventh Floor
Tbilisi 0108, Georgia
Mission: NESG is a not-for-profit institution oriented toward creation of public opinion based on classical liberal economic thoughts (mainly Austrian and public choice schools). Its main ideas are methodological individualism, personal freedom, and limited government.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:617-695-3660
Fax: 617-695-3656
Martin J. Newhouse
President
150 Lincoln Street
Boston, MA, United States 02111
info@nelfonline.org
Mission: The New England Legal Foundation is a not-for-profit, public interest foundation whose mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of free enterprise in society and advancing free enterprise principles in the courtroom.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Labor/employment issues including overseas outsourcing • Takings, specifically regulatory takings • First Amendment/corporate speech issues • Specialized business counts
Phone:207-650-7335
The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy
J. Scott Moody
President
PO Box 315
Woodsville, NH, United States 03785
martinsheehan@nheconomics.org
Mission: The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization based in Haverhill. The New Hampshire Center for Economic Policy formulates and promotes public policies that encourage liberty in economics such as Constitutional government, fiscal federalism and balanced budgeting.To learn more about NHCEP, please visit our web site:
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Public Pensions • Federalism • State Budgets • Right to Work • Economics
Phone:973-781-1414
Fax: 888-453-6346
New Jersey Family Policy Council
Len Deo
President
PO Box 6011
Parsippany, NJ, United States 07054
len@njfpc.org
Mission: The mission of the New Jersey Family Policy Council is to intervene and respond to the breakdown that the traditional family—the cornerstone of a virtuous society—is experiencing. In light of the decline in moral standards, the Council is energized by a strong desire and dedication to pursue justice and righteousness. It articulates its message through experts in law, medicine, education, media, business, government, and the church.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and divorce rate • Fatherhood • Out-of-wedlock births and sexually transmitted disease rate • Grassroots citizen education • Assault and molestation law • Internet pornography
Phone:505-523-8800
New Mexico Independence Research Institute
M. Gene Aldridge
President and CEO
2401 Nieve Lane
Las Cruces, NM, United States 88005
nmiri@zianet.com
Mission: New Mexico Independence Reserach Institute provides high quality, scientifically-based policy research that fosters personal responsibility, limited government, and free market economics. Its specific aims are to advance education; to further other charitable, educational, and scientific endeavors in the promotion of free enterprise and limited government; and to foster personal responsibility—all as pertaining to New Mexico and the United States.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation in New Mexico – TABOR • Education reform in New Mexico • Immigration and U.S.-Mexico border issues • Monitoring of public policy on international relations (Latin America and China especially) • Health care reform in New Mexico and the U.S. • Public policy formation for economic development that is private-sector driven
Phone:202-663-5600
Fax: 202-663-5656
Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Jessica P. Einhorn
Dean, Professor of International Political Economy
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
lois.weiss@jhu.edu
Mission: Founded in 1943, Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies has three primary goals: to provide a professional education that adheres to the highest standards of scholarship while taking a practical approach to preparing students for international leadership; to conduct and disseminate scholarly research related to contemporary issues of concern to the United States and other nations; and to offer mid-career educational opportunities for individuals already working in international affairs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: American foreign policy • Social change and development • International economics • Regional conflicts • Energy, science, and technology
Phone:202-887-1000
Fax: 202-887-5222
Dimitri K. Simes
President
1615 L Street, NW, Suite 1250
Washington, DC, United States 20036
mail@nixoncenter.org
Mission: A bipartisan public policy institution formed by former President Richard Nixon in 1994, The Nixon Center is committed to the analysis of challenges to U.S. policy through the prism of American national interest. The specific goal of the Center is to explore ways of enhancing American security and prosperity while taking into account the legitimate perspectives of other nations. With the end of the Cold War, the U.S. found itself without a clear-cut foreign policy direction. It is the Center’s objective to work on developing new guiding principles for U.S. global engagement in a dramatically new international environment, the principles that would combine hard-headed pragmatism and fundamental American values. The Center is a programmatically independent division of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: American national security • U.S.-China relations • U.S.-Russian relations • U.S. policy towards Iran • Caspian Basin energy geopolitics • Immigration
Phone:202-466-4406
Fax: 202-659-5429
Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
Henry Sokolski
Executive Director
1718 M Street, NW, Suite 244
Washington, DC, United States 20036
npec@npec-web.org
Mission: The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a project of the Institute for International Studies, is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates policymakers, journalists, and university professors about proliferation threats and appropriate measures to address them.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Iran and how to restrain its nuclear program • Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) • Pakistani nuclear threat • Reorganizing America’s nonproliferation bureaucracy • Security risks of nuclear power • Protecting security futures without nuclear controls
Phone:704-231-9767
Fax: 704-341-8615
North Carolina Education Alliance
Lindalyn Kakadelis
Director
10828 Copperfield Drive
Raleigh, NC, United States 28134
lkakadelis@nceducationalliance.org
Mission: The North Carolina Education Alliance is a resource network for North Carolinians interested in education issues. It is dedicated to improving the quality of education for all North Carolina students.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Student achievement • Teacher quality • School funding • School choice
Phone:919-807-0800
Fax: 919-807-0900
North Carolina Family Policy Council
Bill Brooks
President
PO Box 20607
Raleigh, NC, United States 27619
admin@ncfamily.org
Mission: The mission of the North Carolina Family Policy Council is to strengthen the family by educating North Carolinians on public policy issues that impact the family and equipping citizens to be voices of persuasion on behalf of traditional family values in their localities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Parental choice: charters, vouchers, home schooling • Abstinence • Family and children • State-sponsored gambling • State and local government
Phone:919-838-5313
Fax: 919-838-5316
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Dean Webster
Executive Director
225 Hillsborough Street, Suite 280
Raleigh, NC, United States 27603
info@ncicl.org
Mission: The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law conducts research, educate, and advise the general public, policymakers, and the Bar on the rights of citizens under the constitutions of the United States and North Carolina. As appropriate, the Institute engages in litigation to protect these rights.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional law
Phone:919-838-5313
Fax: 919-838-5316
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Robert Orr
Executive Director
Suite 180 Six Forks Place I
333 East Six Forks Road
Raleigh, NC, United States 27609
www.ncicl.org/site-info/contact
Mission: The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-partisan organization devoted to educating the public, bar, and policymakers about constitutional issues, particularly economic and related issues, both national and in North Carolina and, when appropriate, litigating such constitutional issues. It is located in Raleigh, NC.The educational component of NCICL includes the furnishing of speakers on constitutional issues and on the work of NCICL, op-ed pieces and White Papers on constitutional issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Constitutional Law • Economic Impact of Law • Taxation/Tax Policy • Corporate Welfare • Litigation •
Phone:701-223-3575
Tom Freier
Executive Director
311 East Thayer Avenue, #127
Bismarck, ND, United States 58201
admin@ndfa.org
Mission: North Dakota Family Alliance is a non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening families in North Dakota by equipping, informing and educating policy leaders, elected officials, institutions, and concerned citizens on the issues that impact the family.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Divorce reform • Gambling • Religious freedom • Sanctity of life
Phone:701-223-8155
Brett Narloch
Executive Director
PO Box 3007
Bismarck, ND, United States 58502
brenarlo@policynd.org
Mission: The North Dakota Policy Council (NDPC) is a liberty-based think tank focused on North Dakota solutions to North Dakota’s problems. We provide credible nonpartisan expertise and research to help North Dakotans advocate policies that are based on individual liberty, individual responsibility, and limited government. The NDPC seeks to broaden policy debates beyond the belief that government intervention should be the avenue of first, rather than last, resort. We believe that: * Government can only give to one person what it takes away from another, and that the power to give presumes the power to take. * Policies intended to affect one person or one group can affect all people and all groups, and that these unintended consequences often cause more harm to the many than any good done for the one. * Freedom requires responsibility: where government largesse replaces individual foresight it destroys responsibility and, therefore, freedom. * All times matter. Long-term consequences are as or more important than short-term impacts. Emotional reactions are not suitable substitutes for rational solutions.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Agriculture • Budget and spending • Economic development • Eminent domain • Energy and the environment • Federalism • Government reform • Home rule • Taxes • Sustainable development
Phone:419-244-6711ext. 219
Fax: 419-720-0053
Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund
Ann Riddle
Program Coordinator
1933 Spielbusch Avenue
Toledo, OH, United States 43604
ariddle@toledodiocese.org
Mission: The Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund (NWOSF) was established in 1999 to create a privately funded source of tuition assistance for area children seeking a non-public school education. More than $2 million was initially raised through local gifts and a match by the Children’s Scholarship Fund, a national program. Since 1999, almost 1,500 children in Lucas, Wood, and Fulton counties in Ohio have been offered educational choice.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice
Phone:202-296-7263
Fax: 202-296-0771
Dr. Edward L. Hudgins
Executive Director
1001 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 425
Washington, DC, United States 20036
toc@objectivistcenter.org
Mission: The goal of The Objectivist Center is to help create a new culture in our society—a culture in tune with the entrepreneurial spirit of the new economy and one that affirms the core Objectivist values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Defense of business against baseless prosecution • War on terrorism • Islamist vs. civilization • Postmodern, anti-Western attitudes on campus • Cutting back on the nanny state • Strengthening civil society
Phone:+91-11-43520020
Fax: +91-11-43520003
Sunjoy Joshi
Director
20, Rouse Avenue Institutional Area
New Delhi, India 110 002
contactus@orfonline.org
Mission: •Aid and impact formulation of policies and evolve policy alternatives. •Create a climate conducive to effective implementation of these policies. •Strengthen India's democratic institutions to enable coherent, reasoned and consistent policy-making. •Provide reasoned and consensual inputs representing a broad section of opinion to improve governance, accelerate economic development, and ensure a better quality of life for all Indians. •Monitor strategic environment. •Work towards achieving international peace, harmony, and co-operation. •Give direction to India's long-range foreign policy objectives.
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Phone:011-389-2-3224-457
Fax: 011-389-2-3224-457
Ohrid Institute for Economic Strategies and International Affairs
Biljana Janeva
Executive Director
Dimitrije Tucovic 24
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
info@oi.org.mk
Mission: Ohrid Institute’s mission is to conduct high quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations. Ohrid reaches out to the public and the media to ensure that its ideas are heard and works with policymakers to ensure that they are implemented.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free-market policy • Taxes • Effective and efficient government • Foreign trade • International affairs • Economic strategies
Phone:405-602-1667
Fax: 405-602-1238
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA)
Michael Carnuccio
President
1401 North Lincoln Boulevard
Oklahoma City, OK, United States 73104
ocpa@ocpathink.org
Mission: OCPA’s mission is to accumulate, evaluate, and disseminate public policy ideas and information for Oklahoma consistent with the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and individual initiative.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Economics • Education • Governance • Justice • Culture
Phone:888-381-0044
Fax: 405-787-3900
Oklahoma Family Policy Council
Michael L. Jestes
Executive Director
3908 North Peniel Avenue
Bethany Bank Tower, Suite 100
Bethany, OK, United States 73008-3458
info@okfamilypc.org
Mission: The mission of the Oklahoma Family Policy Council (OFPC) is to strengthen families, to educate Oklahomans on public policy as it impacts the family, to encourage responsible citizenship, and to restore traditional, Judeo-Christian principles in American public policy. To accomplish these goals, OFPC sponsors media-driven civic initiatives, produces policy reports, educates citizens about the family impact of state and federal legislation, encourages responsible citizenship by Oklahoma’s private sector, disseminates timely information, and works to encourage cooperation among conservative, pro-family groups. OFPC is associated with Dr. James C. Dobson’s Focus on the Family, an international family ministry headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage initiative • Abstinence education • Character education • Education reform • Tax reform • Parenting and parents’ rights • Gambling
Phone:011-82-2462-5711
Fax: 011-82-2462-5718
Open Family Korea
#187-23 JoongKok-3Dong
Kwang Jin-Ku
Seoul 143-223, Korea, South
openfamily@netsgo.com
Mission: Open Family, an associate office of Focus on the Family, is combating the divorce-friendly trend and all other attacks on the institution of the Korean family through resource distribution, radio broadcasts, seminars, church support, and counseling.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and divorce • Traditional family
Phone:503-692-9530
Fax: 503-692-9538
Oregon Better Government Project
Eric Winters
Vice President
19210 SW Martinazzi, PMB 422
Tualatin, OR, United States 97062
Mission: The mission of the Oregon Better Government Project (OBGP) is to conduct research and undertake education efforts that promote accountable, responsible, and transparent government in Oregon. To fulfill its mission, OBGP has three main activities: the Open Government Initiative, identifying where public resources have been misused; Unfunded Liabilities Databank, enforcing strict standards on accounting; and Initiative & Referendum Resource, providing advice to citizens interested in initiatives and referenda.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Government spending • Transparency • Accountable government
Phone:503-620-0258
Fax: 503-639-6891
Frank Nims
Chairman
PO Box 230637
Tigard, OR, United States 97281
oia@oia.org
Mission: Oregonians In Action (OIA) is a statewide, non-profit, non-partisan organization fighting for property rights and balanced and realistic land-use regulations through active lobbying in legislative and regulatory arenas, networking with other organizations, and working closely with landowners. OIA works with the Oregonians In Action Legal Center and Oregonians In Action Education Center, which are separate 501(c)(3) organizations with the same concerns on these issues. The Education Center concentrates on educating the public and landowners about property rights and land-use regulatory issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Compensation for regulatory takings • Requiring notice of proposed regulations • Reforming farm/forest land zoning • Removing oppressive rural dwelling rules • Opposing high-density zoning in urban areas
Phone:503-620-0258
Fax: 503-639-6891
Oregonians In Action Legal Center
Ross Day
Director
PO Box 230637
Tigard, OR, United States 97281
ross@oia.org
Mission: The Oregonians In Action Legal Center is a statewide, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to using litigation to protect private property rights from excessive government land-use regulations. Financed entirely by private donations, the Center provides free legal services in precedent-setting property rights cases at all judicial levels, from local government hearings to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Center is involved as primary counsel in most cases, but also provides friend of the court briefs in cases handled by others.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Compensation for partial regulatory takings • Arbitrary minimum parcel size for land divisions • Getting relief from rigid ripeness criteria • Denial of farm dwellings based on income standard • Fighting wildlife overlay regulations on private land • Opposing exactions that violate Dolan v. City of Tigard
Phone:808-521-6745
Fax: 808-599-8690
Lloyd R. Vasey, USN (Ret.)
Founder and Senior Policy Advisor
1001 Bishop Street, Pauahi Tower, Suite 1150
Honolulu, HI, United States 96813
pacforum@hawaii.rr.com
Mission: Based in Honolulu, the Pacific Forum CSIS is a non-profit, private, public policy research institute that operates as the Asia–Pacific arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1975, the Forum seeks to stimulate cooperative policies in the Asia–Pacific region through debate and analyses undertaken with the region’s leaders in the academic, government, and corporate arenas, while promoting greater public awareness of national security issues at home and abroad. The Forum’s programs encompass current and emerging political, security, economic-business, and ocean policy issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Multilateral security mechanisms • Bilateral relationships in East Asia • Comparative political economics in East Asia • Nuclear energy, non-proliferation and transparency
Phone:916-857-6900
Fax: 916-857-6902
Brad W. Dacus, Esq.
President
PO Box 276600
Sacramento, CA, United States 95827
braddacus@pacificjustice.org
Mission: Pacific Justice Institute exists to protect and empower individuals, families, churches, companies, and other institutions to claim and utilize their religious freedoms, parental rights, and other civil liberties.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Homosexual marriage • Parental rights in public schools • Reforming child protective services/crisis counseling • Churches and land use issues • Religious freedoms in the workplace • Rights of union dues objectors
Phone:916-419-7111
Fax: 916-419-7747
Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF)
Rob L. Rivett
President
3900 Lennane Drive, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA, United States 95834
plf@pacificlegal.org
Mission: Pacific Legal Foundation is America’s trusted champion of constitutional rights, fighting and winning decisive actions in the courts of law and the court of public opinion to rescue liberty from the grasp of government power. PLF is distinguished for its winning record, its strong strategic sense of direction and its unwavering commitment to the principles of freedom. It is renowned for battling those who would tread on individual liberty; for confronting government bureaucrats who confiscate private property rights; for opposing government programs that grant special preferences on the basis of race and sex; and for challenging misguided environmental laws that degrade human values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Endangered Species Act • Clean Water Act • Economic liberties • Equal protection • Water rights • Land use
Phone:415-989-0833
Fax: 415-989-2411
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI)
Sally C. Pipes
President and CEO
755 Sansome Street, Suite 450
San Francisco, CA, United States 94111
spipes@pacificresearch.org
Mission: Pacific Research Institute promotes the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility. The Institute believes these principles are best encouraged through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiative, and limited government. By focusing on public policy issues such as education, the environment, economics, and social welfare, PRI strives to foster a better understanding of the principles of a free society among leaders in government, academia, the media, and the business community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Education reform • Technology studies • Environment • Business and economic studies
Phone:561-907-7715
Palm Beach Faith and Freedom Coalition
Christopher M. Milu
Palm Beach County Field Director
Palm Beach, FL, United States
christopherm@flfamily.org
Mission: The Palm Beach Faith and Freedom Coalition serves to inform voters about important issues. Visit us frequently for educational information and to find out how you can become active in your county, state, and national political issues. Help us to keep America One Nation Under God. Our Principles: Respect for the sanctity and dignity of life, family, and marriage as the foundations of a free society Limited government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility to unleash the creative energy of entrepreneurs Education reform that puts children first Help the poor, the needy, and those who have been left behind Free markets and free minds to create opportunity for all Victory in the struggle with terrorism and tyranny while supporting our democratic allies, including Israel Our Goals: Mobilize and train people of faith to be effective citizens Speak out in the public arena and in the media on behalf of common-sense values Influence legislation and enact sound public policy at every level of government Train citizens for effective civic action Protest bigotry and discrimination against people of faith
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *right-to-life *traditional marriage *family issues *limited government *taxation *spending *entrepreneurship *education *poverty *free-markets *terrorism *Israel
Phone:803-708-0673
Ellen E. Weaver
President & CEO
1201 Lincoln St, Ste. 302
Columbia, SC, United States 29201
ellen@palmettopolicy.org
Mission: This group of free market, fiscal and cultural South Carolina conservatives has banded together to research and promote policies that will make South Carolina a beacon of freedom to the nation and unleash opportunity for every citizen.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: *Competitive Federalism *Education *Medicaid
Phone:011-595-21-220-015
Fax: 011-595-21-203-542
Paraguayan Center for Promotion of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (CEPPRO)
Lorenzo Livieres Guggiari
Executive Director
Manuel Perez 632/e Toledo y Misiones
Asunci, Paraguay
Mission: CEPPRO is a non-profit, non-governmental, independent, interdisciplinary and multi-sectorial institution that is open to the community. It is not identified with one economic, social or political sector in particular, but considers in a balanced way the spectrum of the different interests in society.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free markets • Rule of law
Phone:937-228-7223
Fax: 937-226-1887
Parents Advancing Choice in Education, Inc. (PACE)
Bonnie E. Smith
Director of Programs
40 South Perry Street, Suite 120
Dayton, OH, United States 45402
georgeloney@pacedayton.org
Mission: PACE’s mission is to help families exercise choice for their children while helping schools to adopt strategies for educational improvement. PACE attempts to provide the most comprehensive resources for education.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:719-473-5430
Fax: 719-473-5435
Evelyn D. Taylor
Executive Director
115 North Union
Colorado Springs, CO, United States 80909
evelyn@parentschallenge.org
Mission: Parents Challenge is dedicated to improved academic achievement of all children, but especially those in low socio-economic circumstances who are performing at alarmingly and unacceptably poor levels. Since parents are the most important educators of and decision makers for their children, Parents Challenge informs, motivates, activates, and empowers them to become more engaged in and have more control over their children’s’ education with the goal and expectation that those children will make meaningful academic progress.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Parental involvement in education
Phone:703-383-0908
Fax: 703-383-5288
Bill Wilson
Co-founder
9900 Main Street, Suite 303
Fairfax, VA, United States 22031
info@picfoundation.org
Mission: Parents in Charge is dedicated to informing the public on issues affecting education at the state level and presenting alternative concepts of school and educational choice to the public, elected officials, and the media.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Education
Phone:213-403-1300
Fax: 213-403-1301
Brent Bozell
Founder
707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2075
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90017
editor@parentstv.org
Mission: Established in 1995, the Hollywood-focused mission of the Parents Television Council (PTC) is to bring America’s demand for values-driven television programming to the entertainment industry. The Council offers private-sector solutions to restore television to its roots as an independent and socially responsible entertainment medium. PTC agrees that parents have the greatest responsibility when it comes to monitoring the viewing habits of their children, but the Council challenges actors, writers, producers, musicians, game makers, and advertisers to get serious about the vital role they play in shaping America’s culture.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Restoring the “family hour” to prime time TV • Television ratings • Video games • Music • FCC issues pertaining to indecency
Phone:414-263-2970
Fax: 414-263-2975
Partners Advancing Values in Education
Daniel McKinley
President & CEO
135 West Wells Street, Suite 850
Milwaukee, WI, United States 53203
mckinleyd@pave.org
Mission: Partners Advancing Values in Education (PAVE) makes excellent educational opportunities possible for low-income families in Milwaukee, WI.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Schools • Scholarships for low-income children
Phone:(202)-349-5880
Patients First Now
Catherine Hamilton
1726 M Street NW
Washginton, DC, United States 20036
Mission: Patients First is a project of Americans for Prosperity ® (AFP), a 501(c)4 non-profit organization recognized by the IRS. AFP is the nation’s premier grassroots organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP has more than 500,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 23 state chapters. For more information about AFP, please visit www.americansforprosperity.org.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Healthcare
Phone:(504) 920-4727
Pelican Institute for Public Policy
Kevin Kane
President
201 Saint Charles Avenue, Suite 2500
New Orleans, LA, United States 70170
kkane@pelicaninstitute.org
Mission: The Pelican Institute for Public Policy is a non-profit research and education institution that conducts scholarly research and analysis of Louisiana public policy. The Institute’s mission is to advance sound policies based on the principles of free enterprise, individual liberty, and limited government. The Institute pursues this mission by conducting timely research on important issues and then marketing the findings to elected leaders, the media, business leaders, community organizations, and individual citizens.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Government spending • Transparency • Education • Taxes
Phone:724-864-5989
Fran Bevan
State Leader
640 Stonebridge Drive
North Huntingdon, PA, United States 15642
fran@eagleforumpa.org
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Border security • Family • Constitution • Marriage • Education
Phone:717-545-0600
Fax: 717-545-8107
Michael Geer
President
23 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA, United States 17101
mail@pafamily.org
Mission: The Pennsylvania Family Institute’s mission is to strengthen families by restoring to public life the traditional, foundational principles and values essential for the well being of society using a fourfold strategy of raising media awareness of the importance of the family; conducting family-impact analysis and research and giving testimony in Harrisburg; communicating with the grassroots, informing them of trends in culture and public policy; and encouraging voting and responsible citizenship.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Parental rights in education • Divorce reform • Gambling • Day care • Abortion
Phone:888-894-8400
Lenore T. Ealy, Ph.D.
Executive Director
109 North Henry Street
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
info@thephilanthropicenterprise.org
Mission: The Philanthropic Enterprise is a research and education institute that seeks to strengthen our understanding of the free society and how philanthropy and voluntary social cooperation promote human flourishing.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Culture, community, and demographic change ~ Civil Society ~ Economics of development
Phone:202-822-8333
Fax: 202-822-8325
Adam Meyerson
President
1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 503
Washington, DC, United States 20036
main@philanthropyroundtable.org
Mission: The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of individual donors, foundation trustees and staff, and corporate giving executives. Its mission is to foster excellence in philanthropy, to help donors achieve their philanthropic intent, and to assist donors in advancing freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Marriage and family • War on terrorism • Environmental stewardship • Character-based social services • Public policy
Phone:617-723-2277
Fax: 617-723-1880
Jim Stergios
Executive Director
85 Devonshire Street, Eighth Floor
Boston, MA, United States 02109
jstergios@pioneerinstitute.org
Mission: Founded in 1988, Pioneer Institute is a non-partisan public policy think tank committed to keeping Massachusetts economically competitive and strengthening the core values of an open society. To inspire market-driven policy reforms, Pioneer promotes individual freedom and responsibility and limited, accountable government. The Institute has changed the intellectual climate in Massachusetts by commissioning timely and rigorous academic studies from leading scholars. Pioneer injects new ideas into the public debate through forums and lectures, transcripts, the media, and outreach to legislators, business groups and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School reform • School choice • Vouchers • Government reform • Limited government • Economic freedom
Phone:402-452-3737
Fax: 402-452-3676
Platte Institute for Economic Research
John S. McCollister
Executive Director
10050 Regency Circle, Suite 120
Omaha, NE, United States 68114
John.McCollister@PlatteInstitute.org
Mission: The Platte Institute for Economic Research is a non-partisan research and education organization whose mission is to advance public policy alternatives that foster limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise for Nebraska.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy and spending • Enhancing Nebraska’s educational structure • Evaluating ways to control health care spending • Improving state water resource management
Phone:714-641-6913
Fax: 714-641-3128
Patricia M. Soldano
President
151 Kalmus Drive, Suite J-1
Costa Mesa, CA, United States 92626
pmsoldano@policyandtaxationgroup.com
Mission: The Policy and Taxation Group is dedicated to the repeal of the gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax and the elimination of the destructive effect that those taxes have on families, family businesses, job creation, the national economy, and government revenues. The organization advocates the repeal of the death tax through lobbying legislators and executive branch officials.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Permanent repeal of the estate, gift and generation-skipping taxes
Phone:011-44-20-7340-2650
Fax: 011-44-20-7222-5859
Anthony Browne
Director
Clutha House
10 Storey's Gate
London SW1P 3AY, United Kingdom
info@policyexchange.org.uk
Mission: Policy Exchange is an independent think tank whose mission is to develop and promote new policy ideas that will foster a free society based on strong communities, personal freedom, limited government, national self-confidence, and an enterprise culture. Policy Exchange is committed to an evidence-based approach to policy development. It works in partnership with academics and other experts and commission major studies involving thorough empirical research of alternative policy outcomes. Policy Exchange believes that the policy experience of other countries offers important lessons for government in the United Kingdom. It also believes that government has much to learn from business and the voluntary sector.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Local government • Education • Housing • Crime and justice • Economic competitiveness • Welfare • Terrorism and security
Phone:310-316-6888
Fax: 310-316-6888
Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education
John M. Malek
Founder and President
3128 Pacific Coast Highway, #16
Torrance, CA, United States 90505
pafere@cox.net
Mission: The mission of the Polish-American Foundation for Economic Research and Education is to propagate the understanding of basic economics by explaining the relationship between the human nature and economic mechanisms and phenomena; debunking economic myths while proposing alternatives enlightened by economic facts and principles; showing the role of freedom, individual responsibility, market order, as well as limited government under rule of law; and exposing the role of ethics in reducing socio-economic problems such as unemployment and poverty and in the achievement of a better quality life.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government • Free markets • Promotion and sponsorship of original writings as well as translation into Polish of great thinkers
Phone:704-779-2824
Fax: 704-896-0788
Political Economy Research Institute
Dr. Jack Sommer
President
9211 North Tryon Street, Number 4-187
Charlotte, NC, United States 28262-8463
jacksommer@aol.com
Mission: The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) seeks to foster the growth of individual liberty and personal responsibility by supporting the early careers of scholars dedicated to the exploration of these subjects. PERI’s “Legacy of Liberty” Fellowship program is the vehicle for delivering this support.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Restoration of meaning in higher education • Promotion of greater public understanding of science • Developing rationales and processes for privatizing public services
Phone:540-622-5240
Fax: 540-622-2728
Steven W. Mosher
President
1190 Progress Drive, Suite 2D
PO Box 1559
Front Royal, VA, United States 22630
pri@pop.org
Mission: Population Research Institute is dedicated to stopping human rights abuses committed in the name of “family planning” and, through research and education, to dispelling the myth of “overpopulation.”
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion • Stem cell research • Ending abusive family planning programs • Mexico City policy • Federal marriage amendment
Phone:877-478-0100
Fax: 703-834-3658
Hon. Mark L. Earley
President and Chief Executive Officer
44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA, United States 20176
Mission: The mission of Prison Fellowship Ministries is to exhort, equip, and assist churches in their ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims, and their families and in churches’ promotion of biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Prisoner reentry • Faith-based and community initiative • Sentencing reform
Phone:615-778-0803
Fax: 615-778-0149
Professional Educators of Tennessee (PET)
John "J.C" Bowman
Executive Director
810 Cresent Centre Drive, Suite 130
Four Corporate Center
Franklin, TN, United States 37067
pet@teacherspet.com
Mission: The purpose of PET is to maintain high standards of professional ethics among educators, to regain public confidence in education, to further professional status and professional compensation for educators, to promote activities, services, and training for educators, to protect the rights of individual educators, and to create a climate of cooperation and mutual respect among educators, legislators, school-board members, students, and parents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6)
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of access to schools • Teaching standards • Student behavioral standards
Phone:202-289-8928
Fax: 202-289-6079
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
W. Kenneth Ferree
President
1444 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, United States 20005
mail@pff.org
Mission: The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) studies technology and its implications for public policy. The Foundation believes the digital revolution is creating changes in society that cause power to migrate away from large, centralized institutions and to move closer to the people; in that sense, the digital revolution inherently favors personal freedom. PFF’s public policy studies examine the implications of this phenomenon for government with an eye toward producing government structures that are smaller, less bureaucratic, and less intrusive in cultural and economic affairs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Telecommunications policy • First Amendment, encryption, and privacy • Market structure of the communications industry • Competition in electric energy • Medical innovation and regulation • Intellectual property • E-commerce • Social implications of the digital revolution
Phone:202-289-8928
Fax: 202-289-6079
The Progress & Freedom Foundation
Adam D. Thierer
President
1444 Eye Street NW, Suite 459
Washington, DC, United States 20005
mail@pff.org
Mission: The Progress & Freedom Foundation is a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy. Its mission is to educate policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public about issues associated with technological change, based on a philosophy of limited government, free markets, and individual sovereignty.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Anti Trust • Broadband • Net Neutrality • FCC Policy• Media Regulation • Commerce • First Amendment Free Speech • Digital Media
Phone:011-44-20-7870-5303
Fax: 011-44-20-7630-8124
Shane Frith
Director
Suite 111, 95 Wilton Road
London SW1V 1BZ, United Kingdom
shane.frith@progressive-vision.org
Mission: Progressive Vision is a campaigning think tank that investigates and advocates radical, liberal solutions to the problems facing British society today. Progressive Vision asserts that a dramatic extension of personal freedom would not only lead to more fulfilling lives for individual men and women, but also to a more peaceful, tolerant, and wealthier society.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Broadcasting • Climate change • Crime • Education • Finance industry • Gambling • Health • Housing • Postal services • Taxation
Phone:202-543-4110
Fax: 202-543-5975
David W. Almasi
Director
501 Capitol Court NE, Suite 200
Washington, DC, United States 20002
project21@nationalcenter.org
Mission: Project 21 is a leadership network of black conservatives dedicated to working with the media and the black community to recognize and foster diversity of political opinion in the African-American community.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Environmental justice/overregulation • Morality/integrity • Civil rights/affirmative action • Judiciary • Election reform
Phone:901-843-3661
Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy
Daniel Cullen
Director
2000 N. Parkway
Memphis, TN, United States 38112
cullen@rhodes.edu
Mission: The Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy aims to unite the purposes of liberal education and civic education by fostering teaching and research on American ideas and institutions and their sources in the tradition of Western political thought and practice.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *constitutionalism *rule of law *democracy *civil society *political philosophy *first principles *political and economic thought
Phone:847-729-3298
Fax: 847-729-9744
Libby Gray Macke
Director
1701 East Lake Avenue, Suite 371
Glenview, IL, United States 60025
info@projectreality.org
Mission: Since 1985, Project Reality has been at the forefront of the national field of adolescent health education with the promotion of abstinence-centered programs in the public schools. Its mission is to give a positive presentation of the benefits of abstinence through curricula, presentations and materials in order to help teens choose abstinence from sexual activity and from the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Project Reality’s values- and character-based curricula emphasize abstinence until marriage as the best choice and the healthiest lifestyle for adolescents.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Abstinence-until-marriage education • Expanding the Illinois Abstinence Coalition • Expanding the National Abstinence Clearinghouse Coalition • Power of Abstinence seminars for adults • Reality Check youth rallies • Media promotion of abstinence until marriage • Drug and alcohol abuse
Phone:601-956-8636
Dana Chisholm
President
114 Office Park Plaza, Suite B
Jackson, MS, United States 39206
plm@prolifemississippi.org
Mission: Pro-Life Mississippi is an organization of diverse and caring Christians. We are drawn together by our commitment to the sanctity of human life from fertilization to natural death. On behalf of those who cannont speak for themselves, we are a voice against abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research. Our concern is to reach the state with the truth about these issues by educating its citizens, influencing political change within the government of Mississippi and taking the pro-life message directly to those who threaten innocent life. The key to the success of our mission is to work with the churches of Mississippi in action against these sins.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: ~ Abortion ~ Euthanasia ~ Infanticide ~ Stem Cell Research ~ Cloning ~ Contraceptive Pills
Phone:949-296-6209
Matt Harrison
Executive Director
82 Clouds View
Irvine, CA, United States 92603
matt@readpi.org
Mission: To pioneer creative campaigns to engage, educate, inspire, and empower young Americans to increase the freedom in their lives.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: • Defense • Education • Environment • Health Care • Social Security
Phone:406-587-9591
Fax: 406-586-7555
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC)
Terry Anderson
Executive Director
2048 Analysis Drive, Suite A
Bozeman, MT, United States 59718
perc@perc.org
Mission: PERC is a non-profit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through property rights and markets. PERC is motivated by three basic principles: private property rights and markets encourage stewardship of resources; government control and government subsidies often degrade the environment; and polluters should be liable for harm they cause others. Reflecting these principles, PERC’s activities fall into three areas: research and policy analysis; outreach, especially to policymakers and journalists; and environmental education for students and teachers at all levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Endangered species • Public land management • Water and air pollution • Community management of natural resources • Environmental education • Environmental entrepreneurs
Phone:518-696-5748
Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc.
Carol W. LaGrasse
President and Founder
PO Box 75
Stoney Creek, NY, United States 12878
lagrasse@prfamerica.org
Mission: The mission of the Property Rights Foundation of America is to defend and enhance private property rights to the fullest extent, as guaranteed in the United States Constitution.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Zoning and building codes • National Heritage Areas • Conservation easements and land trusts • Biosphere reserve • Eminent domain • Government land acquisition and rural depopulation
Phone:610-825-7690
Fax: 610-825-7692
Peter A. Lillback
President
2002 Renaissance Boulevard, Suite 230
King of Prussia, PA, United States 19406
info@providenceforum.org
Mission: The Providence Forum is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to re-instill and promote a Judeo-Christian worldview within our culture. With emphasis on the historical Judeo-Christian roots of our nation, the Forum intends to advance the faith, ethics and moral values which are consistent with the spirit of our nation's founding. The purpose of The Providence Forum is to demonstrably acknowledge that the Providence of God is at work, and at times serves as a call to action. It is our belief that the Lord has called The Providence Forum into being "for such a time as this". (Esther 4:14)
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: American History • American Founding • Political Theory
Phone:319-385-3462
Fax: 319-385-3799
Don Racheter, Ph.D.
President
600 North Jackson Street
Mount Pleasant, IA, United States 52641-1328
public.interest.institute@limitedgovernment.org
Mission: Public Interest Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research organization located on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The Institute promotes the importance of a free enterprise economic system and limited government in society based upon individual freedom and liberty. It believes that ideas have consequences and involved individuals can make a difference.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Spending • Regulation
Phone:
Gretchen Hamel
Executive Director
, DC, United States
info@thepublicnotice.org
Mission: Our goal is to provide Americans with clear, unbiased, and useful information about key economic and fiscal issues. Because America's future should rest in the capable hands of a knowledgeable people.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *Advancing Open Markets and Economic Growth
Phone:518-465-7511
Fax: 518-432-4537
Public Policy Institute of New York State
Steve Taylor
Director of Research
152 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY, United States 12210-2289
steve.taylor@bcnys.org
Mission: Founded in 1981, the Public Policy Institute is a research and educational organization whose purpose is to formulate and promote public policies that will restore New York’s economic competitiveness. The Institute accomplishes this mission by conducting timely, in-depth research addressing key state policy issues. These findings are effectively communicated to the Institute’s primary audiences: members of the New York state legislature, key legislative staff members, policymakers in the executive branch, the state’s news media, and the academic and policy communities. The Institute is affiliated with The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: State tax reform and budget priorities • Economic competitiveness and growth
Phone:703-242-3575
Fax: 703-242-3579
Public Service Research Council
David Y. Denholm
President
320-D Maple Avenue East
Vienna, VA, United States 22180
info@psrf.org
Mission: Public Service Research Council is a national citizens lobby founded in 1973 to oppose public sector union control of the size, cost, and quality of public services and union special interest influence on public policy. The Council sponsors Americans Against Union Control of Government, monitors legislation at the state and federal level, and mobilizes grassroots action against pro-union bills and in support for bills to roll back existing union special privileges and legal immunities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Public-sector union bargaining • Strikes against government • Prevailing wage laws • Project labor agreements • Living wage laws • Union political activity
Phone:703-242-3575
Fax: 703-242-3579
Public Service Research Foundation
David Y. Denholm
President
320-D Maple Avenue East
Vienna, VA, United States 22180
info@psrf.org
Mission: Public Service Research Foundation (PSRF) is an independent research and educational organization studying the impact of unions in government on government and union special interest influence on public policy. It conducts and sponsors research on unionism, publishes Government Union Review, a quarterly journal, and distributes information through exhibits at conventions of public officials. PSRF supports and encourages professional educator groups as an alternative to teacher unionism, provides speakers for meetings of business, civic and political groups and provides information to news media.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Public-sector unionism • Public-sector collective bargaining • Prevailing wage laws • Union influence on public policy • Teacher union influence on education • Compulsory unionism
Phone:202-525-5717
Eli Lehrer
President
1015 1/2 7th Street NW
Third Floor
Washington, DC, United States 20001
elehrer@rstreet.org
Mission: R Street supports free markets; limited, effective government; and responsible environmental stewardship. It strives to craft pragmatic solutions to domestic policy challenges involving regulation, public health, the environment, entitlements reform, and the federal budget.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets
Phone:011-46-8-587-05-400
Fax: 011-46-8-587-05-405
Nils Karlson
President and CEO
PO Box 5095
SE-102 42 Stockholm, Sweden
nils.karlson@ratioinstitutet.nu
Mission: The Ratio Institute is an independent research institute and academic publishing house. Its mission is to develop and distribute new knowledge about market processes and economic development, the values and institutions of a free society, and social dynamics and political change.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: The crises of the welfare state • Taxes • Dignity and liberty • Economic growth • Economic freedom • Political change
Phone:717-238-1878
Andrew T. LeFevre
Executive Director
PO Box 1283
Harrisburg, PA, United States 17108
eloudenslager@paschoolchoice.org
Mission: REACH (Road to Educational Achievement through CHoice) Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the growth of educational options available to families in Pennsylvania so that each child is able to attend a school that best fits his/her needs. REACH is working to educate the media, parents, and elected officials on other ways to give parents a choice in their child’s education.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education
Phone:310-391-2245
Fax: 310-391-4395
David Nott
President
5737 Mesmer Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90230-6316
david.nott@reason.org
Mission: Reason Foundation is a national research and educational organization. Its purpose is to advance the ideas of individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law. The world leader in privatization, Reason is known for practical and innovative public policy ideas that emphasize competition, transparency, and accountability for results. It conducts extensive research on issues of California and federal law and policy. Through cutting-edge policy research and the nationally recognized magazine, Reason, the Foundation uses journalism and public policy to change the frameworks and actions of policymakers, journalists, and opinion leaders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Privatization • Budgets and fiscal reform • Surface transportation • K–12 education • Housing and land use • Environmental policy
Phone:
Red de Amigos de la Naturaleza (RANA)
George Chapas
Executive Director
12 Calle 1-48 zona 10
, Guatemala
informacion@redrana.org
Mission: Expand the parameters of the discussion of environmental issues and propose alternative solutions from a different perspective, that of classical liberal thought, whose foundation is respect and adherence to the principles of freedom and individual responsibility, property rights, government limited and the free market.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Market Environmental Sustainability, Property Rights
Phone:011-44-20-7799-6699
Fax: 011-44-20-7233-4446
Andrew Haldenby
Director
45 Great Peter Street
London SW1P 3LT, United Kingdom
info@reform.co.uk
Mission: Reform is an independent, charitable, non-party think tank whose mission is to set out a better way to deliver public services and economic prosperity. Its aim is to produce research of outstanding quality on the core issues of the economy, health, education, and law and order on the right balance between government and individual and to communicate it to politicians and opinion formers in order to create a consensus for reform.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Health • Economy • Education • Welfare • Government • Criminal justice
Phone:540-370-4200
William J. Murray
Chairman
PO Box 77511
Washington, DC, United States 20013
wmurray@rfcnet.org
Mission: The Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC) is a social conservative advocacy organization that works to inform the Congress and general public of alternatives to the liberal agenda. RFC holds the Bible as being the highest standard to which government can be held and maintains that the church, not big government, is the answer to most social problems.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Protecting children, born and unborn • Protecting the right of citizens to pray at public events • Protecting religious symbols from secular destruction • Preserving the family as the basic social unit • Saving America’s children from the public school system • Stopping the homosexual and feminist agenda from overtaking American families
Phone:011-844-641-4300
Fax: 011-844-641-4300
Research Center for Entrepreneurship Development
89, B3, Khu Do Thi Moi Dai Kim, Hoang Mai
Hoang Mai
Hanoi 04, Vietnam
Mission: The Research Center for Entrepreneurship Development (RCED) is a non-government research and educational network devoted to entrepreneurial development of the private sector in Vietnam.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:804-397-7581
Patrick McSweeney
President
PO Box 1861
Midlothian, VA, United States 23113
info@rtfv.net
Mission: Our Mission is to re-establish in the minds of Americans the principles shared by the Founders of the Republic that our right to life, liberty and property is God-given, that government is established by the people to safeguard our rights and that government must be limited so that our freedom can be preserved.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited Government • Founding Principles • Constitutionalism
Phone:703-766-6360
Fax: 703-766-6501
Michelle Plasari
President
1900 Campus Commons Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA, United States 20191
info@retiresafe.org
Mission: RetireSafe is a grassroots action network promoting dynamic, pro-growth solutions to America’s retirement security challenges. This grassroots network consists of all generations of citizens, united in the belief that more choice and control over their retirement will produce prosperity for young and old. It seeks retirement security through policies that encourage economic growth, wealth creation, and individual choice and control. Central to this is the ownership of retirement assets and the ability to pass those assets from generation to generation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security • Medicare • Financial and savings security • Health Savings Accounts • Tax reform
Phone:401-429-6115
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Michael Stenhouse
Chief Executive Officer
P.O. Box 10069
Cranston, RI, United States 02910
info@rifreedom.org
Mission: The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity is Rhode Island’s leading free-enterprise public policy think tank. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, the RI Center for Freedom is dedicated to providing concerned citizens, the media, and public officials with empirical research data, while also advancing free-market solutions to public policy issues in the state. Balancing the debate, changing minds, and building a growing network of people who are informed and passionate about free-market ideas are the vital roles that the Center for Freedom will play in the Ocean State!
Tax Status: 501(C)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic Growth * Jobs * School Choice * Medicaid * Pension Reform * Federalism * Labor Issues
Phone:505-264-6090
Fax: 505-213-0300
Paul J. Gessing
President
PO Box 40336
Albuquerque, NM, United States 87196
info@riograndefoundation.org
Mission: The Rio Grande Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy. Through its research papers, workshops, editorials, and policy briefings, the Foundation promotes public policy founded upon the principles of limited government, economic freedom, and individual responsibility. To promote these principles and to assist New Mexico leaders in developing policies based on a limited government and free market approach, the Rio Grande Foundation relies solely on contributions from the private sector to fund its activities and neither seeks nor accepts government funding.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax policy • Medicaid • School choice • Smart growth • Water • Tax and spending limitations • Economic development • Energy and environment • Telecommunication • Privatization
Phone:815-964-5053
Fax: 815-964-9403
Dr. Thomas Fleming
President
928 North Main Street
Rockford, IL, United States 61103
info@rockfordinstitute.org
Mission: The Rockford Institute’s chief activity is the publication of the monthly magazine, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. In addition, the Institute operates an op-ed service, a summer school, a speakers bureau, and an audiotape lecture series; holds regular conferences throughout the year at home and abroad, including the John Randolph Club; and publishes several books annually.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Classical education • Authentic federalism • America-first economic and foreign policy • Insurgent Islam • The restoration of Christendom • The primacy of the family
Phone:303-292-1800
Fax: 303-429-5795
Jim Chapman
Executive Director
8704 Yates Drive, Suite 205
Westminster, CO, United States 80031
rmfc@aol.com
Mission: The Rocky Mountain Family Council (RMFC) exists to promote renewal in families, marriages, education, and government throughout the Rocky Mountain region. This is accomplished through communication with the Colorado legislature and through RMFC’s charter school and marriage projects.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Divorce reform • Charter schools • Family tax relief • Parental notice and consent • Same sex marriage • Domestic partner benefit policies
Phone:011-40-21-211-1477
Fax: 011-40-21-211-1477
Alina Mungiu Pippidi
Executive President
61 Mihai Eminescu
Bucuresti 2, 020071, Romania
office@sar.org.ro
Mission: The Romanian Academic Society (SAR) aims to further the ideas of freedom, democracy, and good governance in Eastern Europe.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Policy Analysis • Governance • European studies
Phone:011-40-92-153619
Fax: 011-40-68-153619
Romanian Institute for Study of Public Choice
Paul Fudulu
Nicopole 59
Brasov 2200 , Romania
fududup@yahoo.com
Mission:
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Phone:909-621-8159
Fax: 909-607-4288
Rose Institute of State and Local Government
Dr. Ralph A. Rossum
Director
Claremont McKenna College
340 East Ninth Street
Claremont, CA, United States 91711-6420
roseinstitute@claremontmckenna.edu
Mission: Using computer technology, students, and faculty, the Rose Institute advances knowledge about politics and helps create services that make the political process more democratic. Through the development of large computerized databases and advanced geographic retrieval systems, students become involved in projects focusing on such topics as redistricting, fiscal analysis, California demographics, survey research, and legal and regulatory analysis and, therefore, contribute to a better understanding of many aspects of California’s state and local government.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: State and local government • State fiscal policy • Regulation • Elections
Phone:231-972-5590
Fax: 231-972-8078
The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
Annette Y. Kirk
President
PO Box 4
Mecosta, MI, United States 49332
info@kirkcenter.org
Mission: Continuing in the tradition of the American writer and thinker Russell Kirk, the Center’s mission is to strengthen the foundations—cultural, economic, and religious—of Western civilization and the American experience within it. Its programs and publications have a particular focus on moral imagination and right reason. They celebrate and defend the “permanent things”—all that makes human life worth living, particularly the bedrock principles that have traditionally supported and maintained the health of society’s central institutions—family, church, and school.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:434-978-3888
Fax: 434-978-1789
John Whitehead
President
PO Box 7482
Charlottesville, VA, United States 22906
staff@rutherford.org
Mission: Founded in 1982 by constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute is a civil liberties organization that provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. The Institute has emerged as one of the nation’s leading advocates of civil liberties and human rights, litigating in the courts and educating the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States and around the world. The Institute’s mission is twofold: to provide legal services in the defense of religious and civil liberties and to educate the public on important issues affecting their constitutional freedoms.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom of speech • Freedom of religion • Sanctity of human life • School choice • Right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure • Rights within the workplace
Phone:317-472-2050
Fax: 317-925-0679
Sagamore Institute for Policy Research
Deborah J. Daniels
President
1630 North Meridian Street, Suite 450
Indianapolis, IN, United States 46202
info@sipr.org
Mission: The mission of the Sagamore Institute is to provide high-quality, independent research and analysis, developing innovative and collaborative approaches to issues of public significance.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil society • Education reform • Immigration • Criminal justice policy • Global trade
Phone:312-920-0080
Fax: 312-920-0090
Eric O'Keefe
Chairman and CEO
400 West Erie, Suite 407
Chicago, IL, United States 60654
info@samadamsalliance.org
Mission: The Sam Adams Alliance aims to revive the principles of its namesake by connecting and supporting citizen leaders who are working to defend liberty, to hold the government accountable, and to protect the rights of taxpayers starting at the state and local level. The Alliance serves as a national network for citizens who are ready to take action and take back politics in their own communities.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Government reform • Transparency • Property rights • Fiscal responsibility • Free speech
Phone:858-320-7515
Fax: 858-453-0607
The San Diego Institute for Policy Research
W. Erik Bruvold
President and CEO
8910 University Center Lane, Suite 220
San Diego, CA, United States 92122
info@sandiegoinstitute.com
Mission: The San Diego Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan organization that formulates and promotes high quality economic, policy, and public opinion research so as to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of local governments in San Diego County, California, and to improve the quality of life enjoyed by the region’s citizens.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Municipal finance • Public pensions • Government efficiency
Phone:973-497-4279
Fax: 973-497-4282
The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children
Lorraine Cunningham
Executive Director
PO Box 9500
Newark, NJ, United States 07104
cunninlo@rcan.org
Mission: The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children provides scholarships for needy children who attend private and parochial schools. Its mission is to provide disadvantaged youngsters with a sound values-based education in a safe environment.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice • Education
Phone:414-319-9160
Fax: 414-765-0220
Susan Mitchell
President
2025 North Summit Avenue, Suite 103
Milwaukee, WI, United States 53202
scw@parentchoice.org
Mission: School Choice Wisconsin is a non-profit organization that seeks to ensure an honest debate about school choice by providing accurate information on the impact of school choice on families, communities, and schools.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education
Phone:703-920-2744
Fax: 408-715-5657
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
S. Fred Singer
President
1600 South Eads Street, Suite 712-S
Arlington, VA, United States 22202-2907
comments@sepp.org
Mission: The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) is an international association of mainly physical scientists and engineers concerned with the responsible use of scientific information in the development of environmental policies. SEEP publishes scientific reports, holds briefings, and issues a weekly e-mail bulletin to some 2,000 addresses.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Climate change • Control of greenhouse gases • Energy policy • Future energy sources • Nuclear radiation effects • Nuclear terrorism threats
Phone:011-375-17-284-55-46
Fax: 011-375-289-5009
Scientific Research Mises Center
Jaroslav Romanchuk
President
Krasnaya str. 21A/8
Minsk 220005, Belarus
jaroslavroman@gmail.com
Mission: The Scientific Research Mises Center seeks to advance ideas and ideals of free market democratic society based on individual choice and personal responsibility; to create an open community of people who share those ideas; to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to promote the original ideas of limited government, individual liberty, and private property; and to assist in formation of the national elite that will be able to ensure stable and safe and consistent development of the Belarusian society towards freedom and democracy in the family of like-minded countries.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax and budgetary reform • Privatization and building institutions of free market economy • Advocacy of philosophy and ideology of capitalism • Business climate reform as a means to limit the government • Application of Austrian school of economics to countries in transition • Pension and social security reform
Phone:228-990-7246
Fax: 228-875-2613
Second Amendment and Firearms Education
Aletta Viola Donigan
President
1816 Bienville Boulevard
Ocean Springs, MS, United States 39564
aletta@artrageousdesign.com
Mission:
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Firearms training and education to women and children
Phone:425-454-7012
Fax: 425-451-3959
Alan Gottlieb
Founder
James Madison Building
12500 NE Tenth Place
Bellevue, WA, United States 98005
adminforweb@saf.org
Mission: The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about America’s constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, SAF carries out many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Right to keep and bear arms • Gun control • Crime • Self defense • Homeland security
Phone:800-325-9891
Mary Martin
Chairman of the Board and Executive Director
4401 Fair Lakes Court, Suite 201
Fairfax, VA, United States 22033
tsc@senior.org
Mission: The Seniors Coalition is a non-profit, non-partisan, education, and issue advocacy organization that represents the interests and concerns of America’s senior citizens at both the state and federal levels. Its mission is to protect the quality of life and economic well being that older Americans have earned, while supporting common sense solutions to the challenges of the future. The Coalition was founded as a public advocacy group during the fight to repeal the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act in 1989. Since then, it has grown rapidly and expanded its advocacy to include a wide range of other important issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Medicare • Social Security • Long-term care • Pharmaceutical issues • Tax reform • Regulatory reform • FDA drug approval • Low-cost generic drugs
Phone:724-458-3394
Fax: 724-458-2181
Shenango Institute for Public Policy
Paul Kengor
President
PO Box 245
Grove City, PA, United States 16127
sipp@shenangoinstitute.org
Mission: The mission of the Shenango Institute for Public Policy (SIPP) is to formulate and promote public policies at the local government level based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and responsibility, and a respect for traditional values. Focusing on the central-western Pennsylvania area, including Lawrence, Mercer, Butler, and Venango counties, SIPP supports private sector solutions to social and economic problems; competitive market processes in the delivery of government services; a requirement that governments prove that benefits outweigh costs before embarking on public works projects; and evaluation of social services on the basis of outcomes rather than inputs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Privatization • Trade • Taxes
Phone:314-726-5655
Fax: 314-726-5656
Brenda Talent
President
4512 West Pine Boulevard
St. Louis, MO, United States 63108
info@showmeinstitute.org
Mission: The Show-Me Institute is a research and educational institute dedicated to improving the quality of life for all citizens of Missouri by advancing sensible, well-researched solutions to state and local policy issues. The Institute’s scholars study public policy problems and develop proposals to increase economic opportunity for ordinary Missourians.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation and budget • Property rights • Education • Regulation • Technology
Phone:011-421-2-48-291-585
Fax: 011-421-2-48-291-243
Martin Chren
Secretary General
Jasikova 6
821 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, The
hayek@hayek.sk
Mission: The mission of the Slovak Taxpayers Association is the protection of taxpayers’ interests by supporting initiatives in reducing tax rates, public expenditures, and balancing the state budget.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Flat tax • Government spending • Tax Freedom Day • Decreasing the tax burden
Phone:703-242-5840
Fax: 703-242-5841
Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Karen Kerrigan
President & CEO
2944 Hunter Mill Road, Suite 204
Oakton, VA, United States 22124
membership@sbecouncil.org
Mission: The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) works to influence legislation and policies that help to create a favorable and productive environment for small businesses and entrepreneurship. By educating policymakers, legislators, the media and the public about the critical role that small businesses play in the economy—and how government actions can positively or negatively affect the small business community—SBE Council strives to establish a solid public policy foundation upon which entrepreneurial activity and small businesses can survive and flourish.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes and spending • Health care • Trade • Regulation • Energy and environment • Telecommunications and the Internet
Phone:510-885-2640
Fax: 510-885-4222
Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies
Dr. Stephen Shmanske
Director
College of Business and Economics
California State University, East Bay
Hayward, CA, United States 94542
charles.baird@csueastbay.edu
Mission: The Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies seeks to foster a better understanding of classical liberalism among college students and the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tax reform • Labor law reform • State spending limits
Phone:011-44-207-637-4356
Fax: 011-44-207-436-8530
Micheal Mosbacher
Director
314-322 Regent Street
London, W1B 5SA, United Kingdom
info@socialaffairsunit.org.uk
Mission: The Social Affairs Unit addresses social, economic, and cultural issues with an emphasis on the value of personal responsibility. It researches, challenges, and debates issues, always seeking to draw out the role of the individual’s obligations. The Social Affairs Unit identifies research with a potential to inform public policy and translates it from academic discourse into public debate. The ideas it promotes come largely from historians, sociologists, and philosophers as well as medical doctors and scientists.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Economy • Personal responsibility • Welfare reform • British society and culture
Phone:011-44-207-222-7060
Fax: 011-44-207-222-3010
Philip Collins
Director
11 Tufton Street
Westminster, London SW1P 3QB, United Kingdom
pcollins@smf.co.uk
Mission: The Social Market Foundation (SMF) was established in 1989 to provide a source of innovative economic and social policy ideas. Steering an independent course between political parties and conflicting ideologies, SMF has been an influential voice in recent health, education, welfare and pensions policy reform. SMF’s current work reflects a commitment to understanding how individuals, society, and the state can work together to achieve the common goal of creating a just and free society.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform • Reinventing government • Health care • Regional pay and regulation • Limited government • Consumer culture
Phone:419-372-2536
Fax: 419-372-8738
Social Philosophy and Policy Center
Fred D. Miller, Jr.
Executive Director
Bowling Green State University
225 Troupe Avenue
Bowling Green, OH, United States 43403
mdilsav@bgsu.edu
Mission: The Social Philosophy and Policy Center is dedicated to the examination of public policy issues from a philosophical perspective. It is distinctive in its focus upon the ethical aspects of public policy questions. This emphasis reflects the belief that policy questions cannot be adequately addressed by empirical investigation alone. Factual research can reveal the optimal or efficient policy by which certain public ends can be attained, yet the validity of those ends is still open to question from an ethical standpoint. The methodology of the Center is interdisciplinary, in that ethical analysis is informed by the results of economics, jurisprudence, and political science.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Tax policy • American historiography • Property rights • Welfare reform • Economic policy
Phone:519-884-3166
Fax: 519-884-7054
Malkin Dare
President
335 Marlowe Drive
Waterloo, ON N2L 5A5, Canada
info@societyforqualityeducation.org
Mission: Society for Quality Education (SQE) is an organization of parents, educators, and citizens who believe the poor quality of the Canadian education system can no longer be ignored. SQE seeks to significantly improve student learning in Canada.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education reform
Phone:609-882-1071
Richard J. LaRossa
CEO & Executive Director
150 Bull Run Road, Suite B
Trenton, NJ, United States 08638-1316
solutionsfornewjersey@gmail.com
Mission: Solutions mission is to identify economic issues and conditions facing the State of New Jersey, evaluate the causes and propose innovative, cost-effective ways to resolve them. In short, a fiscally responsible “think tank” devoted solely to New Jersey!
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Property taxes • School Funding • Hospital Charity Care • Waste, fraud and abuse • Pension funding • State Debt • Crime and political corruption • Over-regulation • Affordable Housing.
Phone:803-779-5022
Fax: 803-779-4953
Ashley Landess
President
1323 Pendleton Street
Columbia, SC, United States 29201
mem@scpolicycouncil.com
Mission: Established in 1986, the South Carolina Policy Council is a non-partisan, tax-exempt public policy research and education foundation whose mission is to educate its members and all South Carolinians about state and local public policy based on the traditional South Carolina values of individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Government reduction • Tax and budget reform • Anti-lottery • Environmental issues • Unionization and right to work • Education reform
Phone:605-335-8100
Fax: 605-336-1926
South Dakota Family Policy Council
Chris Hupke
President
3500 South Phillips Avenue, Suite 110
Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57105
mail@sdfamily.org
Mission: The South Dakota Family Policy Council provides research and analysis of family issues through various publications and media efforts, facilitates action by pro-family citizens and grassroots groups, and lobbies for pro-family interests in Pierre, the state capital.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage/divorce • Video gambling • School choice • Abstinence • Pornography • Government waste
Phone:404-257-9667
Fax: 404-257-0049
Shannon L. Goessling, Esq.
Executive Director
6100 Lake Forrest Drive, NW, Suite 520
Atlanta, GA, United States 30328
jayers@southeasternlegal.org
Mission: Southeastern Legal Foundation is an Atlanta-based public interest law firm that advocates limited government, individual economic freedom, and the free enterprise system in the courts of law and public opinion.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Environment • Family • Taxes • Limited government • Property rights
Phone:888-239-9350
Fax: 212-515-7126
Southern California Children's Scholarship Fund
Erica Macias
Program Director
1015 Gayley Avenue, Suite 1118
Los Angeles, CA, United States 90024
info@sccsf.org
Mission: The Southern California Children’s Scholarship Fund seeks to increase educational opportunities to K–8 children in southern California from low-income families through partial tuition scholarships.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education
Phone:407-985-3509
John L. Casey
President
PO Box 607841
Orlando, FL, United States 32860
mail@spaceandscience.net
Mission: Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the Space and Science Research Corporation (SSRC) is a leading independent US climate research company. It is the foremost institution in the United States dedicated to the analysis and planning for the next climate change - forecast to be one of decades of record cold weather. The SSRC maintains active communication channels with some of the world's best experts in the field of solar physics and climate research pertaining to the matter of the next climate change. In addition it has a dedicated list of "Supporting Researchers" who have committed their name and assistance to the mission of the SSRC. The SSRC also updates key US government leaders of the status of climate change activity centered on its area of expertise. The SSRC possesses the capability to conduct planning and research on how best to prepare individuals, businesses, and governments at all levels for the next climate change to a period of long lasting and potentially dangerous colder weather.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: ~Environment ~Global Warming
Phone:817-332-8550
Fax: 817-332-8825
STAR Sponsor Program/Children's Scholarship Fund - Fort Worth
Patty Myers
Executive Director
316 Bailey Avenue, Suite 109
Fort Worth, TX, United States 76107
starcsf@lycos.com
Mission: STAR Sponsorship Program, Inc./Children’s Scholarship Fund - Fort Worth is dedicated to increasing educational options for children in Tarrant County, Texas, whose parents do not have the financial means to provide the education best suited to their children’s unique needs. The Program believes the well being of the entire community is enhanced when children are given a quality education that allows them to achieve to their utmost ability. To this end, it encourages partnerships with schools, parents, community organizations, and concerned citizens in supporting children to achieve the American dream.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice
Phone:
Bob Williams
President
4701 Cox Road, Suite 301
Glen Allen, VA, United States 23060
info@statebudgetsolutions.org
Mission: Launched in 2010, State Budget Solutions (SBS) is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit with the mission to change the way state and local governments do business by reforming their approach to budgeting.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: *State & Local Budgets
Phone:510-965-9700
Fax: 510-965-9701
Tracie Sharp
President
2020 North 14th Street, Suite 250
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
sharp@spn.org
Mission: SPN is the professional service organization for America’s state-based, free market think tank community. Its work advances a free society by providing leadership development, management training, and networking opportunities for think tank professionals and promoting strategic partnerships among market-oriented organizations. Founded in 1992, SPN is the only group in the country dedicated solely to improving the practical effectiveness of independent, non-profit, market-oriented, state-based think tanks. SPN’s programs enable these organizations to better educate local citizens, policymakers, and opinion leaders about market-oriented alternatives to state and local policy challenges.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Leadership training • Fundraising training • Networking events • State think tank start-up training • Board/trustee training
Phone:202-223-3193
Fax: 202-872-4014
Statistical Assessment Service
S. Robert Lichter
President
2100 L Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC, United States 20037
Mission: The Statistical Assessment Service (or STATS) is a research organization dedicated to improving public understanding of scientific and statistical information. STATS monitors and evaluates research information at its source, consults journalists about the methodology and possible controversy behind particular research, matches journalists to appropriate experts, informs the policymaking debate, and educates journalists about sound research practice in preparing for tomorrow’s stories.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Misrepresentation of scientific data • Health scares • Crime and youth violence • Environment • Biotechnology • Urban myths and legends • Gender issues • Drug use and abuse • Polls and surveys
Phone:970-871-9936
Fax: 970-870-0571
Rick Akin
President
PO Box 883037
Steamboat Springs, CO, United States 88
info@steamboatinstitute.org
Mission: The Steamboat Institute is an educational organization recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code–and we are here to educate. We are here to help provide tools, information, and inspiration to those who hold the Founding Principles of the nation dear. The Steamboat Institute has no paid staff. It is organized and operated by folks like you with full-time careers and small businesses–folks who are concerned about preserving the greatness of this country. Like the Founders, we have pledged our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to this task. We invite you to join us.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited Government • Lower Taxes • Free Markets • Strong National Defense • Individual Rights & Responsibilities
Phone:+46 708 922 188
The Stockholm Free World Forum
Stefan Olsson
Director
Kungsgatan 60
Box 3037 SE-103 61
Stockholm, Sweden
info@frivarld.se
Mission: While the world is more free today than it was ten, twenty or thirty years ago, there are still nearly two billion people living under oppression who are denied the fundamental freedoms of assemble, religion, thought and expression. The Stockholm Free World Forum (SFWF) champions individual liberty and believes this is a fundamental right that transcends national borders, religious faith, age, gender and ethnicity. We believe in free societies, free individuals and free markets. We consider these values as absolute and valid in all places and in every time. The think tank thus aspires to stimulate a vibrant discussion on which ideas and perspectives of liberty should determine Swedish foreign- and security policy. Through hosting seminars, writing reports, publishing books and a weekly online magazine, as well as opining in the news media the SFWF aspires to promote freedom. We bring to the fore vital policy issues to our domestic as well as our foreign audiences.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Free Markets • Press Freedom • Freedom of Speech • Democracy and Representative Government • Religious Freedom • Freedom of Assembly • NATO • Afghanistan • The Middle East
Phone:011-44-20-7354-8888
Fax: 011-44-20-7359-8888
Cara Walker
Head of Communications
35 Britannia Row
London N1 8QH, United Kingdom
info@stockholm-network.org
Mission: The Stockholm Network is the leading pan-European think tank and market-oriented network. It is a one-stop shop for organizations seeking to work with Europe’s brightest policymakers and thinkers. The Stockholm Network brings together more than 130 market-oriented think tanks from across Europe, giving it the capacity to deliver local messages and locally-tailored global messages across the European Union and beyond.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: European welfare • European pension • European health systems • Property rights • European energy • Globalization • Trade • Competition
Phone:503-585-9383
Fax: 503-399-1698
Mike Howden
Executive Director
PO Box 948
Salem, OR, United States 97308
michael@oregonfamily.org
Mission: Stronger Families promotes ideas that build dynamic marriages, effective fathers, and healthy teen choices while reducing the causes of family breakdown. Stronger Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes its work through trend analysis, resource development, and community based strategies. It was established in response to the mounting evidence that family breakdown is at the root of the deterioration of family strength and child well being.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Abstinence education • Marriage enrichment • Fatherlessness • Juvenile crime • Gambling • Pornography/adult businesses
Phone:888-527-3321
Sara Dogan
National Campus Director
PO Box 1623
Ballwin, MO, United States 63011
sara@studentsforacademicfreedom.org
Mission: Students for Academic Freedom is a movement dedicated to the ideas that a university is an educational institution not a political party, that its resources and authority should be used for learning and the pursuit of knowledge—not to indoctrinate students in a political ideology, and that the principles of academic freedom and a good education require that students have access to a diversity of viewpoints in courses, in required reading texts, and in campus activities programs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Academic freedom • Education
Phone:703-875-3370
Fax: 703-875-3375
Marjorie Dannenfelser
President
1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1070
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
information@sba-list.org
Mission: Susan B. Anthony List is a non-profit membership organization with a connected political action committee (SBA List Candidate Fund) dedicated to training pro-life activists and candidates, advocating the passage of pro-life legislation in Congress, and increasing the percentage of pro-life women in Congress.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life
Phone:717-361-8905
Fax: 717-361-8945
Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy
Dr. Charles E. Greenawalt
Senior Fellow and Director of Research Projects
PO Box 338
Hershey, PA, United States 17033
susvalley@susvalleypolicy.org
Mission: The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy (SVCPP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization that was established to help Pennsylvanians build a brighter future. The mission of SVCPP is to serve as a source of informed public policy information, discussion, and debate on matters of local government in central Pennsylvania. Its values are accountability, economy, efficiency, and responsiveness in local government, with an emphasis on free market principles and the role and responsibilities of citizenship that form the foundation of our political structure.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Lawsuit abuse • Government policy • Tax relief
Phone:801-355-1272
Fax: 801-355-1705
Paul T. Mero
President
Gateway Tower West Building
15 West South Temple, Suite 200
Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84101
si@sutherlandinstitute.org
Mission: The mission of the Sutherland Institute is to improve the state’s economic, social, and political climate by disseminating workable ideas to decision makers in Utah—government officials as well as business and education leaders. Sutherland does this by publishing and disseminating policy papers, brochures, books, and newsletters; by holding conferences and seminars for legislators and the general public; and by furnishing speakers, articles, and opinion pieces to the local media. Sutherland’s strategy includes touching on today’s critical issues as well as setting the agenda for future policy debates.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform/school choice • Free-market growth • Tax limitation
Phone:011-46-8-613-17-00
Fax: 011-46-8-613-17-60
Robert Gidehag
President
Box 3319
103 66 Stockholm, Sweden
info@skattebetalarna.se
Mission: The Swedish Taxpayers Association strives to influence public opinion and decision makers and to get taxes reduced to levels that do not exceed the European average; to introduce a simple, transparent tax system and fiscal legislation; to improve the law on tax issues for individuals and companies; and to create a more efficient public sector.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Abolish capital tax • Abolish real estate tax • Abolish national income tax • Reduce local income taxes
Phone:202-464-6200
Fax: 202-464-6201
Scott A. Hodge
President
529 14th Street, NW
Suite 420
Washington, DC, United States 20045-1000
tf@taxfoundation.org
Mission: The Tax Foundation, founded in 1937, is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization that monitors fiscal issues at all levels of government. Serving as a national clearinghouse for providing citizens with a better understanding of their tax system and the effects of tax policy, the Foundation analyzes data from all levels of government, explores the effect of tax policy on businesses and individuals alike, and channels this information to the general public.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Corporate and individual income taxes • Excise taxes • Federal tax and budget reform/cuts/compliance • International taxation • State taxes and state allocation of federal taxes • Tax Freedom Day
Phone:011-44-845-330-9554
Andrew Allum
Chairman
55 Tufton Street
London SSW1P 3QL, United Kingdom
info@taxpayersalliance.com
Mission: The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) is Britain’s independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes. TPA’s mission is to reverse the perception that big government is necessary and irreversible, to explain the benefits of a low-tax economy, and to give taxpayers a voice in the corridors of power.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Limited government • Low-tax economy • European Union tax harmonization • Wasteful spending
Phone:011-49-89-126-00-820
Fax: 011-49-89-126-00-827
Taxpayers Association of Europe
Rolf von Hohenhau
President
Nymphenburger Strasse 118
80636 Munich, Germany
taebdst@aol.com
Mission: The Taxpayers Association of Europe supports legislation to limit tax burdens, prevent unjust harassment by tax collectors, and provide clear information about government taxation and expenditure.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation • Deregulation • Limited government
Phone:202-546-8500
Fax: 202-546-8511
Ryan Alexander
President
651 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Washington, DC, United States 20003
ryan@taxpayer.net
Mission: Taxpayers for Common Sense is an independent and non-partisan voice for taxpayers working to increase transparency and expose and eliminate wasteful and corrupt subsidies, earmarks, and corporate welfare.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *taxes *earmarks *spending *corporate welfare *waste
Phone:651-294-3590
Fax: 651-294-3596
Phil Krinkie
President
PO Box 120444
St. Paul, MN, United States 55112
tlm@taxpayersleague.org
Mission: The Taxpayers League of Minnesota fights for lower taxes, limited government, and the basic constitutional principles of the Founding Fathers.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayers Bill of Rights • No new taxes • Government reform
Phone:920-434-3100
Fax: 920-434-4177
Amy McGee Polasky
Executive Director
721 Cardinal Lane, Suite 105
Green Bay, WI, United States 54313
mail@taxpayersnetwork.org
Mission: TNI is a non-profit organization educating America’s citizens about a common sense, free enterprise system with economic opportunity and limited government. Founded in 1992 with the intent to bring selected public policy ideas from the east coast think tanks to the Midwest, TNI is now a nationwide organization with some 90,000 members in 47 states. TNI works to educate its members, citizen groups, the general public, and elected officials about pressing issues in public policy and solutions to public policy problems.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform
Phone:703-229-0254
David E. Williams
President
815 King Street, Suite 309
Alexandria, VA, United States 22314
davidwilliams@protectingtaxpayers.org
Mission: The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy. Through its network of taxpayers and citizen activists, TPA will hold politicians accountable for the effects of their policies and will offer real solutions to run-away deficits and debt.
Tax Status: 501(c)(6)
Policy/Priority Issues: Government Waste, fraud, abuse • Budget • Earmarks • Transparency • Regulation • Privacy
Phone:573-893-6914
Fax: 573-634-4406
Taxpayers Research Institute of Missouri
Ray McCarty
Executive Director
3234 West Truman Boulevard
Jefferson City, MO, United States 65109
rmccarty@aimo.com
Mission:
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:847-256-8476
Fax: 847-256-8482
TEACH America
Patrick J. Keleher, Jr.
President
Georgetown Square
522 Fourth Street
Wilmette, IL, United States 60091
teach522@aol.com
Mission: TEACH America was created in 1990 as a non-profit organization to implement consumer-driven, family-centered solutions to chronic education problems. A national coalition—bipartisan and multi-ethnic—of parents, community and business leaders, educators, and general taxpayers, it develops and leads public policy initiatives on issues such as parental choice, parental rights, charter schools, privatization, alternative teacher certification, teacher formation and development, teacher private practice, applied education ethics, and private school scholarships (through its FOCUS —Family Options for Children Urban Scholarships—Fund division).
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • School finance and taxes • Privately funded scholarships • Issues in higher education • Teacher private practice
Phone:509-482-2868
Fax: 509-482-7994
LeAnna Benn
National Director
723 East Jackson
Spokane, WA, United States 99207
teenaid@teen-aid.org
Mission: Teen-Aid is a non-profit organization started in 1981 for the specific purpose of reducing out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies and their many consequences. It supports abstinence education, which stresses character development and connection to parents. Teen-Aid produces curricula materials for public and private schools as well as offering materials developed by others but which still convey the skills and integrity of abstinence, fidelity, and character.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: AIDS - A.B.C.D. Policy • Abstinence • Marriage • Comprehensive sex education • Evaluation on best practices
Phone:706-367-1334
Fax: 706-367-2502
Tim G. Echols
President
PO Box 9
Jefferson, GA, United States 30549
knowmore@teenpact.com
Mission: TeenPact’s major objective is to break down the intimidation that many have about involvement in our civil government. TeenPact wants students to see that the future of our country is dependent upon their involvement. Participants in TeenPact’s programs learn the basics of parliamentary procedure and debate, write bills and work to see them passed by TeenPact Legislative sessions, and are introduced to and learn their way around our nation’s state capitals. TeenPacters are given the opportunity not only to hear presentations by important and influential people in their states but also to interact with them personally.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Training and educating young people in civic education • Establishing distant learning courses in government and politics • Starting C. S. Lewis Societies on college campuses in cooperation with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Phone:615-383-6431
Fax: 615-383-6432
Tennessee Center for Policy Research
Justin Owen
Acting Executive Director
PO Box 121331
Nashville, TN, United States 37212
info@tennesseepolicy.org
Mission: The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan research organization dedicated to providing concerned citizens, the media and public leaders with expert empirical research and timely free market policy solutions to public policy issues in Tennessee. The Center generates and encourages public policy remedies grounded in the capacity of private enterprise, the ingenuity of individuals, and the abilities of active communities to achieve a freer, more prosperous Tennessee.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Spending restraint/budget reduction • Eminent domain • School choice/vouchers • Privatization • Consumer-directed health care/ Medicaid reform • Technology
Phone:
Fax: 615-360-9005
Bobbie Patray
State President
3216 Bluewater Trace
Nashville, TN, United States 37217
bobbie@tneagleforum.org
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:512-236-0201
Fax: 512-236-0221
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
Michael Quinn Sullivan
President and CEO
PO Box 200248
Austin, TX, United States 78720
info@empowertexans.com
Mission: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility is a project of Empower Texans. Empower Texans exists to create and sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within all levels of government in Texas, to ensure the greatest amounts of economic and personal liberty, and to promote public policies that provide individuals with the freedom to use their strengths and talents in pursuit of greater opportunities. The organization believes that if government and taxes are allowed to grow without restraint, the economy will contract, thereby limiting opportunities for all Texans.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Fiscal Responsibility
Phone:512-474-1798
Fax: 512-482-8355
John Colyandro
Executive Director
PO Box 2659
Austin, TX, United States 78768
john.colyandro@txcc.org
Mission: The Texas Conservative Coalition is an organization of and for Texas state legislators committed to shaping public policy for the good of all Texans through the promotion of conservative principles—limited government, free enterprise, individual liberties, and traditional family values.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Family • Health care policy • Education • State finance issues • Agency oversight • Environmental issues
Phone:512-474-6042
Fax: 512-482-8355
The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute
John Colyandro
Executive Director
910 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX, United States 78701
john.colyandro@txccri.org
Mission: The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute (TCCRI) is committed to shaping public policy through a principled approach to government. The organization was founded on the conservative principles of limited government, individual liberties, free enterprise, and traditional values. TCCRI is dedicated to the education of policymakers and elected officials in state government on the benefits of the application of those principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Health and human services • Public education and public school finance • Land use • General government appropriations
Phone:972-250-0734
Fax: 972-380-2853
Cathie Adams
Director
PO Box 795354
Dallas, TX, United States 75379
torch@texaseagle.org
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:512-472-2700
Fax: 512-472-2728
Texas Public Policy Foundation
Brooke L. Rollins
President
900 Congress Avenue, Suite 400
Austin, TX, United States 78701
info@texaspolicy.com
Mission: The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on major issues and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, the media, and the general public. The work of the Foundation is conducted by academics across Texas and is funded by hundreds of individuals, foundations, and corporations. The public is demanding a different direction for their government and the Texas Public Policy Foundation is providing the research that enables policymakers to chart that new course.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes and spending • Education reform • Health care • Water • Worker’s compensation • Insurance
Phone:956-519-4200
Daniel Garza
Executive Director
3805 Plantation Grove Boulevard
Suite 51
Mission, TX, United States 78572
info@thelibreinitiative.com
Mission: Founded in 2011, The LIBRE Initiative is a 501(c)4 non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization that advances the principles and values of economic freedom to empower the U.S. Hispanic community so it can thrive and contribute to a more prosperous America. LIBRE is dedicated to informing the U.S. Hispanic community about the benefits of a constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, sound money supply and free enterprise through a variety of community events, research and policy initiatives that protect our economic freedom. Our mission is to equip the Hispanic community with the tools they need to be prosperous. We are committed to developing a network of Hispanic pro-liberty activists across the United States so that our message reaches every corner of the country.
Tax Status: 501(c)4
Policy/Priority Issues: Education * Immigration * Economic Growth * Jobs * Poverty * Overregulation * Tax Policy * Healthcare * Government Cronyism *
Phone:440-552-2017
The Ohio Prosperity Initiative
Jack Boyle
Executive Director
PO Box 6597
Columbus, OH, United States 43206
jackboyle@ohioprosperityinitiative.org
Mission: The Ohio Prosperity Initiative is a statewide organization of Ohio citizens which works to reduce the influence of government in the operation of Ohio's economy in the form of excess taxation and over regulation. OPI's members believe that individual citizens operating in the context of free markets make better decisions about the allocation of resources and the direction of investment, than does government. OPI's members believe that Ohio's state and local tax regime has put its citizens at a serious disadvantage when competing with the economies of other states and that this disadvantage is a material cause in the out-migration of almost 500,000 Ohioans in the past dozen years. OPI will work to overturn counter-productive state policies and taxes, and to enact new ones which makes Ohio competitive once again among the states of the nation, in order to return Ohio to the prosperity it has enjoyed for most of its history.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic Growth * Tax Reform * Death Tax * Jobs * Regulatory Reform *
Phone:610-642-0618
Fax: 610-642-2654
Thomas Patrick Burke
President
104 Haverford Road
Wynnewood, PA, United States 19096
wynnewood@wynnewood.org
Mission: The Wynnewood Institute is an independent, academic, non-partisan, non-profit organization concerned with the fundamental questions and the current problems of Western civilization. Our focus is on ideas. With regard to the role of government, our point of departure is the philosophy of true or "classical" liberalism, including a strong defense. Our cultural perspective is an open-minded conservatism. We offer courses, seminars and public lectures by prominent thinkers; and we conduct research on basic questions concerning justice, human rights and civil rights, as well as the implications of science for human values
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Rethinking justice, human rights and civil rights; Science and human values
Phone:703-440-9447
Fax: 703-455-1531
Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy
Michael W. Thompson
President
9035 Golden Sunset Lane
Springfield, VA, United States 22153
info@thomasjeffersoninst.org
Mission: The mission of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is to provide Virginia’s political, business, and academic communities with thoughtful, realistic, useful, and non-partisan analysis of public policy issues confronting the Commonwealth. These alternative policy ideas focus on state and local issues and are based on the Institute’s belief in free markets, limited government, and individual responsibility. The general areas of interest for the Institute are reforming government, economic development, excellence in education, and improving health and welfare.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Budget reform • Education reform • Government spending accountability
Phone:541-347-1517
Fax: 305-422-0379
Randal O'Toole
Director/Economist
PO Box 1590
Bandon, OR, United States 97411
rot@ti.org
Mission: The Thoreau Institute seeks solutions to environmental problems that rely on markets and incentives rather than bureaucracy and big government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Land-use planning • Urban transportation • National forest management • National park management • Wildlife and endangered species
Phone:011-46-8-587-89-800
Fax: 011-46-8-587-89-855
Maria Rankka
President
Kungsgatan 60
Box 3037
SE-103 61 Stockholm, Sweden
info@timbro.se
Mission: Timbro is a think tank devoted to innovating economic and social policies founded on free-market principles. For over 25 years Timbro has helped to incubate the ideas and shape the opinions that guide Swedish enterprise.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Governance • Free market • Taxes
Phone:972-298-1811
Fax: 972-572-1515
Gary Griffith
President
PO Box 225748
Dallas, TX, United States 75222-5748
info@todayfoundation.org
Mission: The Today Foundation’s mission is improving the quality of life for all Americans. This is accomplished by investing the Foundation’s resources in programs designed to either expand the opportunity for everyone to participate in the American dream or to remove the barriers that prevent someone from doing so.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Educational reform • Anti-crime initiatives • Drug-prevention • Technology • Tax reform • Dallas Children’s Scholarship Fund
Phone:703-294-6046
Jonathan Garthwaite
Editor-in-chief
1901 North Moore Street, Suite 205
Arlington, VA, United States 22209
info@townhall.com
Mission: Townhall’s mission is to use 21st century communications to call people together for informed, thoughtful, and civil discussions on issues of public importance and to mobilize, equip, and activate these people to act on their beliefs. Townhall believes that the best public policy solutions are those that are in concert with the following guiding principles: the balance of power between people and governments should be heavily tilted in favor of the people; a national government’s first priority is to defend its people and homeland; and long-standing moral and ethical values are the bedrock of any civil, prosperous, and sustainable society and these values should be preserved.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security reform • Tax reform • Media • Culture • Law • Government
Phone:703-243-2104
Fax: 703-243-2105
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
Raymond E. Drake
President
1344 Merrie Ridge Road
McLean, VA, United States 22101
tfp.inc@pobox.com
Mission: Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) is a non-partisan civic and cultural organization that, inspired by the traditional teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, works to defend and promote the principles of private ownership, family, and Christian values. TFP does this by studying both the foundations of America’s traditions—to invigorate them—and the components of disintegration—to counteract them.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting the traditional family • Opposing same-sex marriage, abortion, and euthanasia • Blasphemy in the culture • Ballistic missile defense
Phone:202-547-8570
Fax: 202-546-6403
Rev. Lou Sheldon
Chairman
139 C Street, SE
Washington, DC, United States 20003
tvcwashdc@traditionalvalues.org
Mission: Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) is the largest non-denominational grassroots organization that works to preserve the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which America was founded. Established in 1980 by Rev. Lou Sheldon, TVC speaks on behalf of over 43,000 churches across the United State regarding pro-family legislation and policy. With an emphasis on the restoration of the values needed to maintain strong, unified families, the Coalition focuses upon issues such as marriage, religious liberty, the homosexual agenda, the right to life, pornography, education, and family tax relief.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Religious liberty • Homosexual activism • Abortion • Pornography • Family issues
Phone:847-483-4004
Charlie Kirk
Founder & President
217 1/2 Illinois Street
Lemont, IL, United States 60439
charlie.kirk@turningpointusa.net
Mission: Turning Point USA educates students about the importance of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and capitalism. Through non-partisan debate, dialogue, and discussion, Turning Point USA believes that every young person can be enlightened to true free market values. WE BELIEVE: In Fiscal Responsibility A country, business, or family should not spend more money than it takes in. High debts ruin economic potential, plague private investment, and jeopardize the future generations chance to enjoy prosperity. WE BELIEVE: An Informed Electorate The greatest solution to combating generational theft is an electorate that understands the issues, civics, and basic governmental policy. Turning Point USA is helping students stand up for their beliefs through innovative activism projects that inspire and educate their peers. WE BELIEVE: In the Power of the Youth With over 46 million younger voters eligible to vote in 2012 alone and millions more each year, younger generations are this country’s fastest growing demographic. If we do not target the youth, debts will become a thing of habit, and our republic forever lost. WE BELIEVE: In an Independent Approach Turning Point USA does not stand on party, but rather on principle. Both sides of the aisle are responsible for reckless spending and trillion dollar deficits. It is now time for a resurgent citizen force to take action against such politicians by educating the electorate about the theft that has been occurring. WE BELIEVE: That Tomorrow is Brighter No matter how deep the hole, or gloomy the day, never bet against America. The power of freedom and liberty is a force that can overcome a government bureaucrat, agency, or even politician. The root of Turning Point USA is an optimistic approach, and the core belief that tomorrow will be more prosperous.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: ~The Economy ~Federal Spending ~Free Enterprise
Phone:202-546-7079
U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation
Dane vonBreichenruchardt
President
263 Kentucky Avenue, SE
Washington, DC, United States 20003
usbor@aol.com
Mission: The U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation is a non-partisan public interest advocacy organization seeking remedies at law on targeted legal issues that contravene the Bill of Rights and related constitutional law. The Foundation offers legal counsel and representation to affected public and private entities and supplemental expert legal consulting to principal counselors including research, strategy development, brief preparations, oral arguments, and filings of amicus curiae briefs.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Second Amendment • Civil asset forfeiture • Property rights • First Amendment • Privacy • Regulatory reform
Phone:202-833-0100
Fax: 202-833-0108
Mauro E. Mujica
Chairman and CEO
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC, United States 20006
info@usenglish.org
Mission: The U.S. English Foundation has several missions: to help improve the teaching of English to immigrants—to allow them to enjoy the economic opportunities available in this country; to study language policy and its effects around the world—so that the lessons learned through the experiences of other countries can be applied to the United States; and to raise public awareness through the media about the importance of our common language.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Legal defense of official English issues • Promotion of innovative and effective English language teaching programs • Research on topics including immigration, language learning and assimilation
Phone:202-833-0100
Fax: 202-833-0108
Mauro E. Mujica
Chairman and CEO
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC, United States 20006
info@usenglish.org
Mission: U.S. English, Inc., is the nation’s oldest and largest non-partisan citizens action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Passage of common language legislation • Reform of bilingual education • Reduction in multilingual government and voting • Maintaining language requirements
Phone:703-383-0907
Fax: 703-383-5288
Philip Blumel
President
9900 Main Street, Suite 303
Fairfax, VA, United States 22031
info@ustl.org
Mission: Focusing on Congress and state legislatures, U.S. Term Limits is an issue advocacy organization that provides information to the public on officeholders’ and candidates’ positions on term limits and their willingness to limit their own terms. The organization also works to restore citizen control of government by limiting the terms of politicians at the local, state, and congressional levels.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Term Limits
Phone:011-380-44-230-9178
Fax: 011-380-44-235-6505
Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research
Kostyantyn Mykhailychenko
Executive Director
4/26, Pyrogova Street, Suite 20
01030, Kyiv, Ukraine
ucipr@ucipr.kiev.ua
Mission:
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:516-292-1224
Fax: 516-292-9019
United New Yorkers for Choice in Education
Tim Mulhearn
President
PO Box 4096
Hempstead, NY, United States 11551-4096
unyce@earthlink.net
Mission: The guiding principle behind United New Yorkers for Choice in Education is that parents should be given the realistic opportunity to choose where their children are educated. To say that parents already have this right—but then to deny them the financial means to exercise it—is to effectively deny that right. The members of UNYCE believe that the best way to insure that parents are empowered to exercise their choice of schools is through a system of scholarships, either publicly or privately financed. Such scholarships give the parents the widest range of options in the selection process.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: State income tax credit for education contributions
Phone:202-457-1700
Fax: 202-429-6063
United States Institute of Peace
Richard H. Solomon
President
1200 17th Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC, United States 20036
usiprequests@usip.org
Mission: The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, non-partisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen the nation’s capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict. Established in 1984, the Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including grants, fellowships, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and other educational activities. The Institute’s board of directors is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:760-788-6624
Fax: 760-788-6414
United States Justice Foundation
Gary Kreep
Executive Director
932 D Street, Suite 2
Ramona, CA, United States 92065
info@usjf.net
Mission: The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) is a non-profit, public interest, legal action organization dedicated to litigating and instructing, informing, and educating the public on significant legal issues confronting America. USJF has contributed directly and indirectly to legal defense efforts in many celebrated cases involving fundamental conservative principles.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Parental rights • Property rights • First Amendment rights of pro-life picketers • Privacy rights • Government harassment of government critics • Constitution
Phone:(632) 927-9686
Fax: (632) 920-5463
University of the Philippines School of Economics
Ramon Clarete, Ph.D
Dean
School of Economics, University of the Philippines
Guerrero corner Osmeña Sts. Room No. 203
Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines
dean@econ.upd.edu.ph
Mission: The University of the Philippines School of Economics (UPSE) provides instruction leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics. UPSE was established in 1965. The Department of Economics is responsible for the academic degree programs, while the Economics Research Center oversees the School’s research projects. A third functional department, the Public Affairs Office, coordinates the School’s various extension, training and public service activities. These are the three pillars the UPSE is known for. Now nearing its 50th year of existence, UPSE adheres to international standards of excellence and constantly introduces innovations in teaching, research and public service. The School is dedicated to making its teaching of economics compare with the best globally.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: *economics *economic theory *education *finance *poverty and inequality *international trade *health economics
Phone:215-663-9494
Fax: 215-663-9444
Chris A. Pender, Sr.
President
PO Box 11415
Philadelphia, PA, United States 19111
tmahan@urbanfamily.org
Mission: The mission of the Urban Family Council (UFC) is to advocate for life, marriage, and family by educating, persuading, and building interracial and cross-cultural partnerships in Philadelphia and surrounding areas. UFC is an independent, donor-supported, faith-based, non-profit agency.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Charter-based classroom abstinence education to middle and high school youth ages 12–19 • Educational and enrichment services to youth in the classroom and after school and to their parents • Advocating for the sanctity of life • Defending marriage and seeking to persuade the culture that marriage is the legal union of one man and one woman • Helping fathers take emotional and fiscal responsibility for their children • Engaging the culture on issues of traditional family values
Phone:
Gayle Ruzicka
President
, UT, United States
utaheagles@utaheagleforum.org
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:801-972-8814
Fax: 801-973-2324
Howard Stephenson
President
1578 West 1700 South, Suite 201
Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84104
taxwatch@utahtaxpayers.org
Mission: The Utah Taxpayers Association advocates for lower taxes and sound tax policy.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • State income tax index • Sales tax • Fighting tax increases • Transportation funding • Government regulation in telecommunications and recreation centers
Phone:202-608-6186
Fax: 202-608-6136
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Dr. Lee Edwards
Chairman
1521 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
info@victimsofcommunism.org
Mission: The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation was established to commemorate the more than 100 million victims of communism, to honor those who successfully resisted communist tyranny, to educate current and future generations about the winning of the Cold War, and to document communism’s continuing crimes against humanity. In 2007, the Foundation dedicated a Victims of Communism Memorial Museum in the nation’s capital regarding this epic struggle of the 20th century.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Human rights violations in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam
Phone:804-732-8993
Virginia Association of Scholars
Carey E. Stronach
President
2241 Buckner Street
Petersburg, VA, United States 23805
cestronach@comcast.net
Mission: The Virginia Association of Scholars (VAS) is an organization whose members believe that rational discourse is the foundation of academic life and that reasoned scholarship is essential to a free and democratic society. To this end, VAS seeks to foster and protect academic freedom, substance, and integrity in scholarship, respect for our Western intellectual heritage, and rigorous standards of merit and excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, and academic self-governance. Concomitantly, VAS opposes unequivocally the ideological corruption of learning, teaching, and scholarship, the intimidation of students and faculty who voice unfashionable views, and the treatment of students, faculty, and others as ciphers or symbols of groups instead of as individuals worthy of individual consideration.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:
Helen Blackwell
Chairman
PO Box 100874
Arlington, VA, United States 22201
helen.blackwell@verizon.net
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:540-245-1776
Virginia Institute for Public Policy
John Taylor
President
282 Bald Rock Road
Verona, VA, United States 24482
jtaylor@virginiainstitute.org
Mission: The Virginia Institute for Public Policy is an independent non-partisan research organization committed to the goals of individual opportunity and economic growth. Through research, policy recommendations and symposia, the Institute works ahead of the political process to lay the intellectual foundation for a society dedicated to individual liberty, free enterprise, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Federalism • Reforming the Law of Takings in Virginia • Taxpayers Bill of Rights for Virginia • Contract with Virginia • Tuition tax credit for K–12 education • Intellectual diversity on Virginia’s public college and university campuses
Phone:817-441-6044
Fax: 817-441-6866
David Barton
President and Founder
PO Box 397
Aledo, TX, United States 76008
info@wallbuilders.com
Mission: WallBuilders’ goal is to exert direct and positive influence in government, education, and the family by educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of the country, providing information to federal, state, and local officials as they develop public policies that reflect Biblical values, and encouraging Christians to be involved in the civic arena.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty • Judicial restraint • Family • Education
Phone:206-634-0589
Fax: 206-633-3561
Washington Charter School Resource Center
Jim and Fawn Spady
Co-Directors
4426 Second Avenue, NE
Seattle, WA, United States 98105-6191
jimspady@wacharterschools.org
Mission: The mission of the Washington Charter School Resource Center (WCSRC) is to educate the general public and the public education community about the benefits of charter public schools and to assist parents, educators, and community leaders who want to create a new charter public school or convert a traditional public school to a charter public school.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Informing the general public about the benefits of charter schools • Providing technical assistance to “charter starters” • Providing credit enhancement to “charter starters”
Phone:
Cindy Honcoop
State Director
, WA, United States
waeagles@juno.com
Mission: Eagle Forum’s mission is to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policymaking so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Tax Status: 501(c)(4)
Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Immigration • Judicial activism • Education • Privacy • Feminism
Phone:202-588-0302
Fax: 202-588-0371
Washington Legal Foundation (WLF)
Daniel Popeo
Chairman and General Counsel
2009 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC, United States 20036
info@wlf.org
Mission: National in scope and fully independent, WLF is committed to working with leaders in government and the legal system to maintain balance in the courts and strengthen America’s free enterprise system. The Foundation’s goal is to defend and promote the principles of freedom and justice. WLF has developed into the nation’s preeminent center for public interest law, advocating free enterprise principles, responsible government, property rights, a strong national security and defense, and a balanced civil and criminal justice system.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Civil justice reform • National security • FDA bureaucracy • Commercial free speech • IPP securities/class actions • Business civil liberties
Phone:206- 937-9691
Fax: 206-624-8038
Daniel Mead Smith
President
PO Box 3643
Seattle, WA, United States 98124-3643
wpc@washingtonpolicy.org
Mission: The Washington Policy Center is a statewide, non-profit, research, and education organization based in Seattle that publishes studies on a variety of issues, sponsors events and conferences, and educates citizens on public policy issues facing Washington state.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Competitive bidding for government services • Government regulations • Tax and budget policy • Small business and entrepreneurial issues • Free market environmental solutions • Education
Phone:206-467-7088
Fax: 206-467-6957
Richard S. Davis
President
108 South Washington Street, Suite 406
Seattle, WA, United States 98104
wrc@researchcouncil.org
Mission: The Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF) is a non-partisan organization established in 1993 to increase educational opportunities for low-income students and families in Washington, D.C. To accomplish this, it operates two distinct scholarship programs, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and the Signature Scholarship Program. WSF is the largest K-12 scholarship-granting organization in D.C., distributing nearly $53 million in privately and publicly funded scholarships and serving more than 6,500 students. Over 90 percent of its graduates have gone on to college.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Transportation • Housing • Land use and rural development • Education and charter schools • Economic forecasting
Phone:202-222-0535
Fax: 202-222-0543
Gregory Cork
President & CEO
1100 17th Street, NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC, United States 20036
bdavis@washingtonscholarshipfund.org
Mission: The Washington Scholarship Fund is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing hope, opportunity and access to low-income families in our Nation's Capital. Through privately funded scholarships, it enables families to place their K-12 students in the educational environment they believe is best suited to help their children reach their fullest potential. We focus on elementary and secondary education because the earlier a child receives sound schooling, the better. Our entering scholarships are available for students in grades kindergarten through eighth grade. For continuing students, we offer support for high school tuition as well. WSF assists more than 1,200 scholarship recipients enrolled in 130-plus schools as well as homeschool environments. Over 23,000 applications have been submitted for scholarship assistance since 1997-98, and WSF still receives about 8-10 applications for every scholarship it awards. Applicants are chosen by lottery and allowed to choose any school environment a family desires.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Private K–12 scholarship funding • Maintaining and expanding K–12 scholarship availability • Analysis of effects of program on scholarship students • Low-income family motivations for exercising school choice • Low-income family needs for successful private school experiences
Phone:714-435-2885
Fax: 714-435-0523
Judi Westberg-Warren
President
PO Box 27203
Santa Ana, CA, United States 92799
info@webwisekids.org
Mission: Web Wise Kids (WWK) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to equip children to make wise choices on the Internet. WWK offers a unique approach by using an interactive CD-ROM computer game called Missing. This educational game is based on a true story of a 14-year-old boy who was persuaded to meet a predator personally. While playing the game, children learn the consequences of dangerous online behavior. Players are often encouraged to design their own guidelines for Internet safety. WWK facilitates Internet safety workshops and training for teachers, law enforcement, and other youth leaders.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Reaching children with the message of Internet safety
Phone:314-935-5630
Fax: 314-935-5688
Steven S. Smith
Director
Washington University
Campus Box 1027
St. Louis, MO, United States 63130
smith@wc.wustl.edu
Mission: The mission of the Weidenbaum Center is to improve public understanding of the private enterprise system in a global context, thereby fostering a policy environment within which the U.S. market economy can prosper. This mission is accomplished by providing relevant, timely, and credible research on American business and the private enterprise system. Weidenbaum’s research efforts are focused on four primary program areas: regulation, environment, global marketplace, and management issues.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Climate change • Environmental federalism • Reform of environmental regulation • Regulatory budgeting/accounting • Regulatory reform • Effects of trade side agreements
Phone:914-749-3963
Fax: 914-749-3944
The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person
Rev. Thomas Berg, L.C., Ph.D.
Executive Director
582 Columbus Avenue
PO Box 78
Thornwood, NY, United States 10594
info@westchesterinstitute.net
Mission: The Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person was founded in 1998 to renew, deepen, and promote the Western tradition of moral reflection. It pursues its objectives in cultural, political, and academic settings. Through seminars, lectures, and research fellowships, it seeks to reinvigorate contemporary moral discourse at all levels. The Institute’s endeavors are philosophically centered, yet interdisciplinary in approach. Drawing on resources of various methods and schools of thought, it strives to elucidate the “perennial and Catholic” view of the human person and explore its applications to contemporary concerns.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Educating working professionals and academics in the art of natural law moral reasoning • Ongoing diagnosis of contemporary moral culture • The ontological and moral status of the human embryo • Non-embryonic sources of human pluripotent/multipotent stem cells
Phone:703-288-2885
Anna Bekele
Executive Director
6729 Curran St
McLean, VA, United States 22201
ab@westminster-institute.org
Mission: Promoting individual dignity and freedom for people throughout the world by sponsoring high-quality independent research with a particular focus on the threats from extremism and radical ideologies.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Religious Liberty
Phone:608-256-3228
Fax: 608-256-3370
Julaine K. Appling
Executive Director
PO Box 2075
Madison, WI, United States 53701-2075
info@wifamilycouncil.org
Mission: The Wisconsin Family Council’s mission is to forward Judeo-Christian principles and values in Wisconsin. WFC largely accomplishes this mission by informing Wisconsin citizens, churches, and policymakers about important pro-family legislative and cultural issues so that they will be inspired to be involved in preserving and strengthening marriage and family in Wisconsin.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Family • Marriage • Abortion • Abstinence education • Sexuality • Religious freedoms
Phone:262-367-9940
Fax: 262-242-6459
Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
Mike Nichols
President
PO Box 382
Hartland, WI, United States 53029
wpri@wpri.org
Mission: The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (WPRI) is a non-profit organization established to study public policy issues affecting the state of Wisconsin. WPRI’s goal is to provide non-partisan research on key issues that affect state citizens so that their elected representatives are able to make informed decisions to improve the quality of life and future of the state. The Institute’s major priority is to improve the accountability of Wisconsin’s government based on the belief that the views of the citizens of Wisconsin should guide the decisions of government officials.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: State budget and economy • Taxes and spending • Education • Health care • Welfare • Public opinion
Phone:303-679-0980
Fax: 303-679-0985
World Economic Processing Zones Association (WEPZA)
Robert C. Haywood
Director
PO Box 3808
Evergreen, CO, United States 80437-3808
director@wepza.org
Mission: WEPZA is the private non-profit World Association of Economic Processing Zones and Free Trade Zones. An independent association dedicated to the improvement of the efficiency of all economic processing zones, it has 47 members operating 150 industrial free zone sites in 42 countries.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic processing zones • Market research • Trade • International tax policy
Phone:011-46-70-325-00-11
Fax: 011-46-8-765-3002
World Taxpayers Associations (WTA)
Bjorn Tarras-Wahlberg
President
Strandvagen 5 B
11456 Stockholm, Sweden
btw@worldtaxpayers.org
Mission: WTA works towards a society with lower taxes and more individual freedom. It seeks to stimulate efficiency and economy in the public sector. It supports legislation to limit tax burdens, prevent unjust harassment by tax collectors, and provide clear information about government taxation and expenditure.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Deregulation • Personal liberty • Welfare • Economic development • Government spending
Phone:307-577-8000
Fax: 307-577-8000
Wyoming Business Alliance / Wyoming Heritage Foundation
Bill Schilling
President
145 South Durbin Street, Suite 101
Casper, WY, United States 82601
wyhf@qwest.net
Mission: The Wyoming Business Alliance’s believes that a strong economy is the key to job creation, educational opportunities, recreation, quality of life, and a means to provide a higher standard of living for all.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues:
Phone:307-632-7020
Fax: 307-632-7024
Susan Gore
1902 Thomes Avenue
Suite 201
Cheyenne, WY, United States 82001
susan.gore@wyliberty.org
Mission: Wyoming Liberty Group, formerly Cowboy State Policy Institute, is a non-profit, research, and educational organization to focus on Wyoming state and local issues. The Institute’s mission is to explore and advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Deregulation • Education • Second Amendment
Phone:307-286-3411
Janie White
Executive Director
PO Box 2325
Cheyenne, WY, United States 82003
wyomingpolicy@hotmail.com
Mission: Wyoming Policy Institute is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating Wyoming citizens on research that supports free market principles; government fiscal responsibility; a limited transparent accountable government; strong families; and individual responsibility.
Tax Status: 501(c)3
Policy/Priority Issues: Limited and Transparent Government, Healthcare, Land and Water, Strong Families, How the Legislature works, Education, State Sovereignty, Free market/Competition, Constitutional Classes
Phone:860-297-4271
Fax: 860-987-6218
Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies
Fergus Cullen
Executive Director
PO Box 261660
Trinity College
Hartford, CT, United States 06126-0660
info@yankeeinstitute.org
Mission: The Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies produces public policy studies, white papers, seminars and news media communications on issues affecting the future of Connecticut and the nation.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Analysis of state budget • Analysis of state income tax
Phone:703-318-9608
Fax: 703-318-9122
Ron Robinson
President
F.M. Kirby Freedom Center
110 Elden Street
Herndon, VA, United States 20170
yaf@yaf.org
Mission: Young America’s Foundation (YAF) is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values. YAF operates Ronald Reagan’s Western White House, Rancho del Cielo, in Santa Barbara, California, as a premier presidential historic site.
Tax Status: 501(c)(3)
Policy/Priority Issues: Reagan legacy and freedom • Political correctness • 9/11 and the war on terrorism • National conservative high school and college conferences • FreedomFest conference • National Journalism Center
Phone:011-44-20-7993-8496
Donal Blaney
Chief Executive
Warwick House, Fourth Floor
25 - 27 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 0PP, United Kingdom
donal@ybf.org.uk
Mission: The mission of the Young Britons’ Foundation is to educate, inform, support, train, and develop the talents of young conservative and classical liberal activists and supporters to enable them to promote themselves, shared beliefs, and the cause of the conservative and classical movement more effectively in the media, the political world, and the environment beyond, and to ensure a proper balance of political debate and understanding in schools, colleges, universities, and the wider arena.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Ensuring the U.K.’s financial stability and growth • Fostering closer links within the conservative movement in the U.S. and U.K. • Exposing bias in schools, colleges, and universities • Training a cadre of principled activists • Placing trained activists in academia, the media, Parliament, and public affairs • Campaigning to promote traditional values and free markets and to oppose political correctness, the United Nations, and the euro
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Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis (ZIPPA)
Muyanda Mwanalushi
CEO
PO Box 20516
KITWE, Zambia
zippa@zamnet.zm
Mission: The Zambia Institute for Public Policy Analysis seeks to promote wider appreciation of the key role of free markets and competition in economic development.
Tax Status:
Policy/Priority Issues: Economic development • Social policy legislation • Urban development • Property rights • Rule of law
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