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The Eastern European Studies Centre
Fax: 202-328-0466 Erika Veberyte Counselor 2300 Clarendon Boulevard Suite 302 Arlington, VA, United States 302 Mission: Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 401-225-4005
RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity
Mike Stenhouse CEO PO 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! Our Center is a proud member of the State Policy Network, a national group of state-based think-tanks fighting to limit government and advance market-friendly public policy at the state and local levels. Sometimes our critics can provide an interesting angle about who we are. Freedom is not just a catch phrase. Firm in our belief that freedom is indispensible to our well-being and prosperity, our Center will promote public policy solutions that will restore competitiveness to our state and change lives for the better, including: • Increased economic and jobs growth through a reduction in tax and regulatory burdens on individuals and businesses • Providing enhanced educational opportunities for all students by empowering parents and teachers with expanded choices The path to renewed prosperity for Rhode Island is the same path that founded our nation and grew America into the world’s greatest developer of human and capital wealth … freedom. •Freedom to pursue a path to happiness of our own choosing, relying on our own perseverance and self-reliance, and free of a heavy-handed government •Freedom to keep our own property … including our hard-earned wages and personal wealth •Freedom to choose the best educational institutions for our children Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 603-370-9743
Concerned Women for America of New Hampshire
Elaine Driscoll Director PO Box 38 Auburn, NH, United States 03032 director@newhampshire.cwfa.org Mission: he mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 217-528-8800
Illinois Policy Insitute - Springfield
Fax: 217-528-8808 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: 614-340-9817
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
Maurice A. Thompson Executive Director 208 East State Street Columbus, OH, United States 43215 mthompson@ohioconstitution.org Mission: School Choice • Challenging Unconstitutional Labor Policy • Defending Property Rights • Fighting Unfair Taxation • Protecting Referendum Rights • Safeguarding Election Rights Tax Status: 501(c)3 Policy/Priority Issues: The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law is non-profit, non-partisan legal center dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse. The 1851 Center litigates constitutional issues related to property rights, voting rights, regulation, taxation, and search and seizures. Phone: 703-807-2070
60 Plus Association
Fax: 703-807-2073 Amy Noone Frederick President 515 King Street, Suite 315 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 info@60plus.org Mission: The 60 Plus Association is a non-partisan, non-profit organization supporting a free-enterprise, less-government, and less-taxes approach to seniors issues. 60 Plus publishes a newsletter, Senior Voice, produces a Congressional Scorecard, and presents the Guardian of Senior Rights Award to legislators in the U.S. Congress who vote to support seniors. Called a conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 60 Plus endorses the personalization of Social Security and works actively for the repeal of the estate (death) tax. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Repeal of the estate (death) tax • Social Security reform • Balanced budget constitutional amendment • Electricity deregulation • Opposition to judicial usurpation • Eliminating federal funding of advocacy organizations Phone: 888-577-2966
Abstinence Clearinghouse
Fax: 605-335-3643 Leslee Unruh President 801 East 41st Street Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57105 info@abstinence.net Mission: The Abstinence Clearinghouse serves as an association for the abstinence community. The Clearinghouse is a non-profit, educational organization that promotes the appreciation for and practice of sexual abstinence through distribution of age-appropriate, factual and medically-accurate materials. The Clearinghouse was founded to provide a central location where curricula, speakers, and materials on character, relationship, and abstinence programs could be accessed. The Clearinghouse serves agencies and individuals on national, state, and local level, as well as internationally. In addition to the South Dakota office, there is also a Washington, D.C., office. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 202-364-4401
Accuracy in Media
Fax: 202-364-4098 Cliff Kincaid Editor 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330 Washington, DC, United States 20008 info@aim.org Mission: Accuracy In Media is a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: War on Islamic terrorism • Corruption in government • Traditional values Phone: 616-454-3080
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Fax: 616-454-9454 Rev. Robert A. Sirico President 161 Ottawa NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI, United States 49503 info@acton.org Mission: The mission of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles. With its commitment to pursue a society that is free and virtuous, the Acton Institute is a leading voice in the national environmental and social policy debate. It is uniquely positioned to comment on the sound economic and moral foundations necessary to sustain humane environmental and social policies. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Business ethics • Globalization • Educational choice • Technology and regulation • Environmental stewardship • Effective compassion Phone: 205-870-9900
Alabama Policy Institute
Fax: 205-870-4407 Gary J. Palmer President 402 Office Park Drive, Suite 300 Birmingham, AL, United States 35223 info@alabamapolicy.org Mission: The Alabama Policy Institute (API) is a non-profit, research and educational institute dedicated to influencing public policy by identifying, developing, and promoting innovative policy ideas and by providing fact-based, objective analysis of key issues. The mission of API is to provide information to the people of Alabama about the legislative issues being debated in Montgomery and Washington, D.C., and to be a reliable resource to our elected representatives on public policy issues. API provides timely, understandable, and objective research and analysis of issues through publications, articles, media interviews, and API updates. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Accountability in state government • Lowering Alabama’s tax burden • Education reform • Federal marriage amendment • National Fatherhood Initiative Phone: 907-317-7268
Alaska Family Council
Jim Minnery President P.O. Box 231425 Anchorage, AK, United States 99523 info@alaskafamilycouncil.org Mission: The mission of the Alaska Family Council is to strengthen and protect Alaskan families through public policy education, issue research and grassroots advocacy Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: • Abstinence • Christians and Politics • Defense of Marriage • Education & School Choice • Gambling • Judicial Activism• Pornography & Obscenity • Religious Liberty • Sanctity of Life Phone: 907-334-5853
Alaska Policy Forum
Jeremy Thompson Executive Director 201 Barrow Street #8 Anchorage, AK, United States 99501 info@alaskapolicyforum.org Mission: APF pursues this vision by conducting timely, relevant and accurate research and providing free market, Alaskan solutions in the most effective means possible to policymakers at the state and local level. Tax Status: 501(c)3 Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Energy • Resource Development • Economics • Accountability Phone: 412-440-0079
Allegheny Institute for Public Policy
Fax: 412-440-0085 Jake Haulk, Ph.D. President 305 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard, Suite 208 Pittsburgh, PA, United States 15234 aipp@alleghenyinstitute.org Mission: The Allegheny Institute is a non-profit, research, and education organization. Its mission is to defend the interests of taxpayers, citizens, and businesses against an increasingly burdensome and intrusive government. To that end, the Allegheny Institute formulates and advocates public policies that roll back the size and scope of local government as well as create a more accountable government. Its efforts are guided by the principles of free enterprise, property rights, civil society, and individual freedom that are the bedrock upon which America was founded. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Transportation • Surface, water and air • Economic freedom • Free market driven economic development • Deregulation • Education reform modeled on The Heritage Foundation “No Excuses” campaign • Infrastructure • Sports facilities Phone: 800-TELL-ADF
Alliance Defense Fund
Fax: 480-444-0025 Alan Sears President, CEO, and General Counsel 15100 North 90th Street Scottsdale, AZ, United States 85260 info@telladf.org Mission: The Alliance Defense Fund is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth, through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. The Alliance Defense Fund is a servant organization that provides the resources that will keep the door open for the spread of the Gospel through the legal defense and advocacy of religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and traditional family values. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Religious freedom • Sanctity of human life • Traditional family values Phone: 303-573-1603
Alliance for Choice in Education (ACE)
Fax: 720-266-6798 Norton Rainey Executive Director 1201 East Colfax Avenue, Suite 302 Denver, CO, United States 80218 nrainey@acescholarships.org Mission: ACE is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 by Denver businessman and philanthropist, Alex Cranberg, whose vision was to ensure that children of Colorado’s low-income families had access to quality K–12 education through scholarships. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Tuition assistance Phone: 703-934-1212
Alliance for Marriage
Fax: 703-934-1211 Matthew E. Daniels, J.D., Ph.D. President and Founder PO Box 2490 Merrifield, VA, United States 22116 info@allianceformarriage.org Mission: The Alliance for Marriage (AFM) is a non-partisan research and education organization dedicated to promoting marriage and addressing the epidemic of fatherless families in the United States. AFM seeks to educate the public, the media, elected officials, and civil society leaders on the benefits of marriage for children, adults and society, and to promote reforms designed to strengthen the institution of marriage and restore a culture of married fatherhood in American society. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and family policy • Education • Tax reform • Media coverage of marriage and families • Judicial reform • Marriage building programs • Public policy and civil society reforms Phone: 202-280-1990
Alliance for School Choice
Charles Hokanson President 1660 L Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC, United States 20036 info@allianceforschoolchoice.org Mission: The mission of Alliance for School Choice is to improve our nation’s system of K–12 education by advancing public policy that empowers parents, particularly in low-income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Education reform Phone: 559-499-1776
Alliance for the Separation of School & State
Fax: 559-499-1703 Alan Schaeffer President 1071 North Fulton Avenue Fresno, CA, United States 93728 contact@schoolandstate.org Mission: The mission of the Alliance for Separation of School & State is to inform Americans how education can be improved—especially for the poor—by ending state, local, and federal government involvement in school attendance, content, teacher and institutional approval, and financing. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Separation of school and state • Parental rights and obligations in education • Full parental school choice • Repeal school content and standards mandates • Return school attendance decisions to parents Phone: 703-299-9030
American Academy for Liberal Education
Fax: 703-452-8631 Charles Butterworth Acting President 526 King Street, Suite 203 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 aaleinfo@aale.org Mission: The American Academy for Liberal Education is a national organization dedicated to strengthening and promoting liberal arts education through accreditation and research. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Educational effectiveness assessment (postsecondary) • Charter schools (secondary) • Distance learning (postsecondary) • Higher education • Liberal/general education Phone: 206-236-3046
American Alliance of Jews and Christians
Fax: 206-236-3288 Rabbi Daniel Lapin President PO Box 58 Mercer Island, WA, United States 98040 mail@towardtradition.org Mission: American Alliance of Jews and Christians is a national coalition of Jews and Christians seeking to advance the nation toward traditional, faith-based American principles of constitutional and limited government, the rule of law, representative democracy, free markets, a strong military, and a moral public culture. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: The Ethical Capitalism Institute • Traditional marriage • Opposing the marginalization of Judeo-Christian views in public life • Moving American Jews away from their embraced secular liberalism • Moral defense of free market and private property Phone: 423-629-4280
American Association of Christian Schools
Fax: 423-622-7461 Dr. Keith Wiebe President 602 Belvoir Avenue East Ridge, TN, United States 37412 lpotter@aacs.org Mission: Founded in 1972, the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) serves over 200,000 students and teachers in member schools throughout the United States. The general purpose and objectives of AACS are to aid in promoting, establishing, advancing, and developing Christian schools in America. AACS provides practical assistance to members —academically, legally and legislatively—through a number of services and publications. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tuition tax credits • Restoring religious freedom Phone: 757-226-2489
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
Fax: 757-226-2836 Dr. Jay Alan Sekulow Chief Counsel PO Box 90555 Washington, DC, United States 20090-0555 Mission: ACLJ engages in litigation, provides legal services, renders advice, counsels clients, and supports attorneys who are involved in defending the religious and civil liberties of Americans. ACLJ has a national network of attorneys who are committed to the defense of Judeo-Christian values. It cooperates with other organizations that are committed to a similar mission and serves the public through educational efforts regarding First Amendment and religious freedom issues, as well as pro-family and pro-life concerns. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Protecting the U.S. Constitution • Protecting religious liberty • Fighting to protect life • Fighting to protect the religious rights of Americans Phone: 916-444-2278
American Civil Rights Coalition
Fax: 916-444-2279 Ward Connerly Chairman PO Box 188350 Sacramento, CA, United States 95818 feedback@acrc1.org Mission: The American Civil Rights Coalition (ACRC) is a grassroots advocacy organization focused on the elimination of racial and gender preferences. Working with activists in different states and in Washington, DC, ACRC seeks to duplicate the California Civil Rights Initiative’s success in other states and at the federal level. ACRC focuses on providing assistance and guidance to individuals and groups in other states who are interested in pursuing anti-preference legislation or ballot initiatives; advocating the elimination of racial and gender preferences in federal programs and policies; and monitoring California’s Proposition 209 lawsuits and future implementation efforts. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Racial privacy initiative • Legislation concerning racial preferences and classifications Phone: 916-444-2278
American Civil Rights Institute
Fax: 916-444-2279 Ward Connerly Chairman PO Box 188350 Sacramento, CA, United States 95818 feedback@acri.org Mission: The American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI) is a national, non-profit organization dedicated to educating the American public about the problems created by racial and gender preferences in government programs and policies. ACRI members believe that civil rights are individual rights and that government policies should not advocate group rights over individual rights. Based in Sacramento, California, ACRI’s focus is on three areas: assisting organizations in other states with their efforts to educate the public about racial and gender preferences, assisting federal representatives with public education on the issue, and monitoring implementation and legal action on California’s Proposition 209. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Racial preferences, quotas, and set-asides • Race relations • Educational reform • Racial classification on government forms Phone: 703-807-0242
American Civil Rights Union
Fax: 703-683-1703 Susan A. Carleson Chairman and CEO 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 960 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 info@theacru.org Mission: The mission of the American Civil Rights Union is to defend the Bill of Rights and the Constitution based on the original intent of the Founders and to oppose the ACLU when necessary. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Scouting Legal Defense • Amicus curiae briefs in Second Amendment cases • Amicus curiae briefs in property rights cases • Amicus curiae briefs in Tenth Amendment cases • Continue ACLU watch Phone: 703-836-8602
American Conservative Union (ACU)
Fax: 703-836-8606 Al Cardenas Chairman 1007 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 acu@conservative.org Mission: ACU is a conservative lobbying organization that seeks to communicate and to advance the goals and principles of conservatism through one multi-issue, umbrella organization. ACU’s statement of principles details its support of capitalism, belief in the doctrine of original intent of the Framers of the Constitution, confidence in traditional moral values, and commitment to a strong national defense. Annually since 1971, ACU has published ratings of Congress. Based on actual votes cast on a wide range of issues, each member of the House and Senate is rated on a 0 to 100 scale, designed to indicate the strength of their adherence to conservative principles. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Defense and national security • Tax reform • Campaign finance reform • Education reform • National sovereignty • Protecting Medicare and Social Security Phone: 703-836-8602
American Conservative Union Foundation
Fax: 703-836-8606 Cleta Mitchell Chairman 1007 Cameron Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 Mission: The American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF) is America’s oldest and largest conservative education organization. ACUF seeks to train the next generation of conservative leaders by providing them the intellectual tools necessary to be successful. Through its “Conservative University,” ACUF presents a short conservative curriculum of key books and courses. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 202-293-5811
American Council for Capital Formation
Fax: 202-785-8165 Mark A. Bloomfield President 1750 K Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, United States 20006 mbloomfield@accf.org Mission: The mission of the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) is to promote economic growth in the U.S. and abroad through effective advocacy of policies to facilitate capital formation. The ACCF, with its bipartisan approach and breadth and diversity of support in the business community, has much experience working with policymakers and the media. To meet its goals, the ACCF sponsors new research on economic, regulatory, and environmental policies, publishes concise and effective summaries of the analyses, and ensures that the research results reach appropriate policymakers, media representatives, and business leaders. Tax Status: 501(c)(6) Policy/Priority Issues: Tax reform • Taxation of savings • Pension reform • Estate taxation • Export taxation • Climate policy Phone: 202-467-6787
American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
Fax: 202-467-6784 Anne D. Neal President 1726 M Street, NW, Suite 802 Washington, DC, United States 20036-4525 info@goacta.org Mission: ACTA is a non-profit educational organization committed to academic freedom, excellence, and accountability on America’s colleges and university campuses. It supports programs and policies that encourage high academic standards, strong curricula, and the free exchange of ideas. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Academic excellence • Academic freedom • Accountability Phone: 212-362-7044
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)
Fax: 212-362-4919 Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan President 1995 Broadway, Second Floor New York, NY, United States 10023-5860 acsh@acsh.org Mission: ACSH’s primary aim is to help American consumers distinguish significant health hazards from hypothetical or trivial health risks. ACSH further seeks to ensure that both individual health decisions and public health policies are based on sound scientific evidence rather than on hyperbole about risk, fears, guesswork, lobbying, and/or propaganda. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Food safety and nutrition • Science and technology • Pharmaceuticals • Disease, lifestyle factors and health • Chemicals, the environment and human health • Public health and regulatory policies Phone: 703-519-7000
American Defense Institute
Fax: 703-519-8627 Capt. Eugene B. McDaniel, USN (Ret.) President 1055 North Fairfax Street, Suite 200 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 rdt2@americandefinst.org Mission: The American Defense Institute (ADI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to educate the public—especially the young—concerning the importance of a strong national defense to protect freedom and democracy. ADI believes that providing young Americans with the necessary training and incentive now is an investment in strong leadership for the future of the nation. ADI was founded on the belief that American moral and military strength are essential for peace. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Defense • National security • Prisoners of war • Foreign policy • Military voters Phone: 202-862-5800
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Fax: 202-862-7177 Arthur Brooks President 1150 17th Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 info@aei.org Mission: The American Enterprise Institute, founded in 1943, sponsors original research on government policy, the American economy, and American politics. AEI research aims to preserve and to strengthen the foundations of a free society—limited government, private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and a strong foreign policy and national defense—through scholarly research, open debate, and publications. Founded in 1943 and located in Washington, D.C., AEI is one of America’s largest and most respected think tanks. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Economic policy • Foreign and defense policy • Social and political studies Phone: 662-844-5036
American Family Association
Fax: 662-842-7798 Donald Wildmon Chairman PO Drawer 2440, 107 Parkgate Drive Tupelo, MS, United States 38803 buddy@afa.net Mission: Founded in 1977 by Don Wildmon, American Family Association (AFA) informs, motivates and equips God’s people to take action on issues that threaten to undermine and destroy America’s families and the Godly values upon which our nation was founded. As a result of the proactive efforts of God’s people, AFA is a multi-faceted organization that works hard on many fronts to promote and defend the sanctity of family, of marriage, and of life itself. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Keeping the doors open for the Gospel to be freely proclaimed • Defending and promoting traditional marriage • Fighting the advance of the radical homosexual agenda • Promoting the sanctity of human life • Educating the public on the influence of television and other media—including pornography—on our society • Urging the church to remain faithful to the authority of the Bible Phone: 662-844-5036
American Family Association Foundation
Fax: 662-842-7798 Rev. Donald Wildmon Chairman PO Drawer 2440 107 Parkgate Drive Tupelo, MS, United States 38803 buddy@afa.net Mission: The American Family Association Foundation is a Christian organization dedicated to promoting the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on television and other media. The Foundation believes that the entertainment industry, through its various products, has played a major role in the decline of those values on which our country was founded and which keep a society and its families strong and healthy. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Church in America • Culture and society • Education • Entertainment industry • Marriage and family • Gambling • Homosexual agenda • Money and finance • Pornography • Pro-life • Global religious persecution Phone: 989-835-7978
American Family Association of Michigan
Fax: 810-222-5109 Gary Glenn President PO Box 1904 Midland, MI, United States 48641-1904 info@afamichigan.org Mission: Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: State marriage protection amendment • Internet pornography • Preserving traditional family values Phone: 516-944-3544
American Family Association of New York
Frank Russo State Director PO Box 203 Port Washington, NY, United States 11050 fjrussojr@cs.com Mission: The purpose of the American Family Association of New York is to educate its members and the general public on matters pertaining to the family and factors that affect the family in positive or negative ways and to encourage actions conducive to building strong families. The Association produces and airs a weekly public access cable television program on various cable systems throughout New York State and issues a newsletter approximately three times per year free of charge to those interested. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Right to life • Traditional marriage • Reducing New York income and property taxes • Requiring all child abuse to be reported to law enforcement, not just parental abuse • Media bias Phone: 202-543-1006
American Foreign Policy Council
Fax: 202-543-1007 Herman Pirchner, Jr. President 509 C Street, NE Washington, DC, United States 20002 afpc@afpc.org Mission: The American Foreign Policy Council’s mission is to bring information to those who make or influence the foreign policy of the United States and to assist leaders in the former USSR and other parts of the world in building democracies and market economies. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Russia • Foreign aid • China • Missile defense • Central Asia • Middle East Phone: 413-528-1216
American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)
Fax: 413-528-0103 Charles Murray CEO PO Box 1000 Great Barrington, MA, United States 01230 info@aier.org Mission: Organized in 1933 as a private, independent, scientific, and educational charitable organization, AIER plans its research to help individuals protect their personal interests and those of the nation. Experience shows that economic information is most useful when it comes from an objective source free of either commercial or political special interests. Neither the Institute nor members of its staff may profit from organizations that may benefit from the results of its research. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Fiat currency and inflation • Property rights • Social Security reform • Research methodology • Tax reform • IMF reform Phone: 800-562-7752
American Institute for Full Employment
Fax: 541-273-6496 Theodore David Abram Executive Director 2636 Biehn Street Klamath Falls, OR, United States 97601 info@fullemployment.org Mission: The mission of the American Institute for Full Employment is to develop the concepts needed to achieve full employment in America and to do so in a fashion that will utilize and enhance free enterprise and minimize or eliminate governmental involvement or influence. “Full employment” means universal access to jobs with career potential, and adequate retirement benefits, for all who can work, especially those who are receiving public assistance as a substitute for the opportunities and rewards of paid work. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare • Unemployment • Social Security • Food stamps • High school economic textbooks • Mentoring • Community outreach Phone: 703-518-2388.
American Issues Project
Ed Failor Mr. Ed Failor 301 West Platt Street, Suite #353 Tampa, FL, United States 33606 http://twitter.com/#!/AmericanIssues Mission: We believe in and will champion the conservative values that make the United States of America a blessed nation: small government, a strong and ready national defense, low taxes, and a government that encourages entrepreneurship and new job creation in America. We also know how critical it is for America to win the war against the radical Islamic extremists abroad so we do not have to fight them here on American soil. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Economy • Health Care • Limited Government • Taxes • Energy Phone: 360-687-3087
American Land Rights Association (ALRA)
Fax: 360-687-2973 Chuck Cushman Founder and Executive Director 30218 NE 82nd Avenue PO Box 400 Battle Ground, WA, United States 98604 alra@pacifier.com Mission: Dedicated to the wise use of America’s resources, ALRA is a national clearinghouse and support coalition encouraging private property ownership, family recreation, multiple use of federal lands, commodity production, and access to federally-controlled lands. Its purpose is to oppose selfish, single-use, restrictive land designations that damage local economies, schools, and roads in rural America. ALRA maintains a fax/e-mail communication network; organizes coalitions to fight property rights threats; sponsors special events, rallies, and conferences; carries out grassroots training and campaigns in teamwork with allied groups; and has a speakers bureau. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Oppose land acquisition trust funds that permit eminent domain • No net loss of private property • Private property rights • Oppose land acquisition • Access to federal land and resources • Endangered Species Act reform Phone: 202-466-3800
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
Fax: 202-466-3801 Ronald Scheberle Acting Executive Director 1101 Vermont Avenue, NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC, United States 20005 contact@alec.org Mission: ALEC’s mission is to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty through a non-partisan partnership among America’s state legislators and concerned members of the private sector, the federal government, and the general public. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Disorder in the court • Education reform • Energy sustainability • Health care reform Phone: 540-338-1251
American Majority
Fax: 540-338-2326 Ned Ryun President PO Box 87 Purcellville, VA, United States 20134 americanmajority.org/contact/ Mission: American Majority is a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute whose mission is to train and equip a national network of leaders committed to individual freedom through limited government and the free market. Headquartered in Purcellville, Virginia, we currently have state offices in Arkansas, Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas, with plans to open additional state offices in 2011. Beyond our state offices, we also have certified trainers (Mechanics) across the country who train activists in their local community. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Political Training • Activist Training • Campus Activism • Constitutional Issues • New/Social Media Training Phone: 540-341-8911
American Policy Center
Fax: 540-341-8917 Thomas DeWeese President 70 Main Street, Suite 23 Warrenton, VA, United States 20186 ampolicycenter@hotmail.com Mission: The American Policy Center (APC) is a grassroots, activist organization located in suburban Washington, D.C. Since 1986, APC has been the leader in the fight to preserve private property rights against government land grabs; protect national sovereignty from the threat of the United Nations; protect privacy rights and stop national ID cards; and restore academic-based education and eliminate federal intrusions like Goals 2000, School-to-Work, and outcome-based education. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Get the United States out of the United Nations • Reduce the federal role in education and return control to local schools • Stop the spread of Sustainable Development policy • Stop federal land grabs and radical environmental policies not based on sound science • Prevent federal data banks from intruding in the personal lives of Americans Phone: 800-522-VOTE
American Policy Roundtable
Fax: 440-572-2128 David Zanotti President 11288 Alameda Drive Strongsville, OH, United States 44149-3001 info@aproundtable.org Mission: As a non-profit, non-partisan, research, and education organization dedicated to restoring traditional principles to public policy, the American Policy Roundtable conducts research on local, state, and federal policy issues and then communicates that information through “The Public Square” radio programs and its Web site. The Roundtable also maintains ongoing dialogue with business leaders, clergy, lawmakers, and families across Ohio, Florida, and Tennessee through seminars, publications, and special projects. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education • School choice • Religious liberty • Tax reform • Judicial reform • Term limits Phone: 202-546-5200
American Security Council Foundation
Fax: 202-546-2100 Michael Fumento Director of Research and Education 1239 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Washington, DC, United States 20003 press@ascfusa.org Mission: The role of the American Security Council Foundation (ASCF) is to educate and inform Americans about the global challenges to the national security, economic security, and moral leadership of the United States. To this end, the ASCF sponsors research, holds conferences, and publishes books, monographs, and articles. Distinguished scholars, policymakers, lawmakers, and citizens participate in these activities. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Counter terrorism • National security • China • Energy security Phone: 703-243-2104
American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
Fax: 703-243-2105 Mario Navarro da Costa Director, Washington Bureau 1344 Merrie Ridge Road McLean, VA, United States 22101 american.tfp@pobox.com Mission: The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (American TFP) is a civic, cultural, and non-partisan organization that, inspired by the traditional teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, works to defend and promote the principles of private ownership, family, and Christian values. The Society does this by studying both the foundations of America’s traditions, to invigorate them, and the components of disintegration, to counteract them. Crusade, its bimonthly magazine, analyzes and comments on national and international events, culture, history, and Catholic social doctrine, among other topics. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Oppose same-sex marriage • Ballistic missile defense • judicial activism • Blasphemy in the culture • Abortion Phone: 703-302-1000
American Studies Center—Radio America
Fax: 571-480-4140 James Roberts President 1100 North Glebe Road, Suite 900 Arlington, VA, United States 22201 jroberts@radioamerica.org Mission: A project of the American Studies Center, Radio America produces and distributes programs reflecting a commitment to traditional American values, limited government, and the free market. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Media • War on terrorism • Defense and intelligence • Taxation • American government • Government spending Phone: 212-870-2760
American Textbook Council
Fax: 212-870-2720 Gilbert T. Sewall Director 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 1948 New York, NY, United States 10115 atc@columbia.edu Mission: The American Textbook Council was established to advance the quality of history textbooks. The Council endorses the production of textbooks that embody vivid narrative style, stress significant people and events, and promote better understanding of all cultures, including America’s, on the principle that improved textbooks will advance the curriculum, stimulate student learning, and encourage educational achievement for children of all backgrounds. It also provides a forum for educators and others interested in improving the educational materials and maintains a clearinghouse of information about social studies textbooks consulted by educators and policymakers at all levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: History and social studies curriculum and textbooks • Development of improved instructional materials in history and social studies • Civic and character education Phone: 202-682-1163
American Tort Reform Association
Fax: 202-682-1022 Sherman Joyce President 1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, United States 20036 sjoyce@atra.org Mission: The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) is a national advocate for civil justice reform. Founded in 1986, ATRA seeks to bring greater fairness, predictability, and efficiency to the civil justice system through public education and legislation. ATRA’s membership includes non-profits, small and large companies, as well as state and national trade, business, and professional associations. Tax Status: 501(c)(6) Policy/Priority Issues: Medical liability • Class action reform • Asbestos litigation reform • Lawsuit abuse reduction Phone: 800-324-7829
Americans for Fair Taxation
Fax: 713-963-8403 Leo Linbeck, Jr. Chairman PO Box 27487 Houston, TX, United States 77227-7487 info@fairtax.org Mission: Americans For Fair Taxation was formed in 1995 as a non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization solely dedicated to replacing the current tax system. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxation Phone: 703-383-0880
Americans for Limited Government
Fax: 703-383-5288 William Wilson President 9900 Main Street, Suite 303 Fairfax, VA, United States 22031 info@getliberty.org Mission: Americans for Limited Government specializes in political action. In states across the nation, Americans for Limited Government works with local groups, using the direct initiative process to make serious changes in public policy and put the people back in charge of state politics. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Government ethics • Judicial reform • Property rights • School choice • Tax and spending reform Phone: 866-730-0150
Americans for Prosperity
Tim Phillips President 2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350 Arlington, VA, United States 22201 info@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care Phone: 602-478-0146
Americans for Prosperity – Arizona
Tom Jenney State Director One East Camelback Road, Suite 550 Phoenix, AZ, United States 85012 infoAZ@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Limited government spending • Property tax reform • Personal and corporate tax rate reform • Interstate health insurance competition • School vouchers • Taxpayer-funded lobbying Phone: 479-531-9778
Americans for Prosperity – Arkansas
Teresa Crossland-Oelke State Director 1800 South 52nd Street, Suite 300 Rogers, AR, United States 72758 infoAR@afphq.org Mission: Education • Energy • Health/Welfare • Limited Government • Spending • Taxes Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Phone: 805-384-4510
Americans for Prosperity – California
David Spady State Director 2073 Santo Domingo Camarillo, CA, United States 93012 infoCA@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Health care Phone: 561-627-2734
Americans for Prosperity – Florida
Fax: 561- 625-9230 Apryl Marie Fogel State Director 3910 RCA Boulevard, Suite 1015 Palm Beach Gardens, FL, United States 33410 infoFL@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayer protection • Property rights issues • School choice • End wasteful spending Phone: 703-224-3200
Americans for Prosperity Foundation
Tim Phillips President 2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 350 Arlington, VA, United States 22201 info@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP Foundation educates and engages citizens on economic policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory responsibility. The Foundation’s educational programs and analyses help policymakers, the media, and individual citizens understand why sound fiscal and regulatory policy is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care Phone: 770) 315-4304
Americans for Prosperity – Georgia
Virginia Galloway State Director 44 Darby’s Crossing Drive, Suite 102G Hiram, GA, United States 30141 infoGA@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Zero-based budgeting • End wasteful spending Phone: 312-768-2373
Americans for Prosperity – Illinois
Joe Calomino State Director 200 South Wacker, Suite 4000 Chicago, IL, United States 60606 infoIL@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Transparency • Earmarks • Zero-based budgeting • Health care • Charter schools • Excise taxes Phone: 785-354-4237
Americans for Prosperity – Kansas
Fax: 785-354-4239 Alan Cobb State Director 2348 SW Topeka, Suite 201 Topeka, KS, United States 66611 infoKS@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Reduce taxes • Limit budget growth • Transparency • Taxpayer-funded lobbying Phone: 207-504-0020
Americans for Prosperity – Maine
Trevor Bragdon State Director - Maine PO Box 391 Augusta, ME, United States 04332 infoAR@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Free market principles • Tax policy • Taxpayer Bill of Rights • Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Social Security reform • Budgetary restraint • Trade • Earmark reform • Education funding • Global warming • Health care Phone: 517-853-9073
Americans for Prosperity – Michigan
Fax: 517-827-0630 Scott Hagerstrom State Director 222 West Genesee Street Lansing, MI, United States 48933 infoMI@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Stop new taxes • Transparency • Right-to-work Phone: 888-332-3811
Americans for Prosperity – Missouri
Carl Bearden State Director PO Box 1661 Saint Charles, MO, United States 63302 infoMO@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Sunset earnings taxes • Lower taxes • Education reform • Taxpayer-funded lobbying Phone: 201-487-8844
Americans for Prosperity – New Jersey
Fax: 201-487-8853 Steve Lonegan State Director 24 River Road, Suite 205 Bogota, NJ, United States 07603 infoNJ@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Local government • Tax issues Phone: 919-839-1011
Americans for Prosperity – North Carolina
Fax: 919-839-1012 Dallas Woodhouse State Director 225 Hillsborough Street, Suite 190 Raleigh, NC, United States 27603 infoNC@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Lower taxes • Charter schools • Eminent domain • Property taxes Phone: 701-223-9887
Americans for Prosperity – North Dakota
Fax: 701-258-3779 Dustin Gawrylow State Director 1720 Burnt Boat Drive, Suite 102 Bismarck, ND, United States 58503 infoND@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Tax issues • Government spending • Education reform • Transparency Phone: 513-703-6227
Americans for Prosperity – Ohio
Rebecca Heimlich State Director Loveland, OH, United States 45140 infoOH@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Death tax • Transparency Phone: 405-514-0514
Americans for Prosperity – Oklahoma
Stuart Jolly State Director 1050 East 2nd Street, #106 Edmond, OK, United States 73034 infoOK@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Education funding • Tax issues • Earmarks • Tort reform Phone: 541-729-6229
Americans for Prosperity – Oregon
Jeff Kropf State Director 4181 Cascade Highway, SE PO Box 130 Sublimity, OR, United States 97385 infoOR@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Property rights • Excise taxes • Taxpayer protections • Transportation reform Phone: 605-332-2848
Americans for Prosperity – South Dakota
Fax: 605-332-2842 Dustin Gawrylow State Director 196 East Sixth Street Sioux Falls, SD, United States 57104 infoSD@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Tax issues • Government spending • Education reform • Transparency Phone: 512-476-5905
Americans for Prosperity – Texas
Fax: 512-476-5906 Peggy Venable Director 807 Brazos Street, Suite 210 Austin, TX, United States 78701 texas@AFPhq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayer-funded lobbying • Taxpayer protections • Transparency • Tax issues Phone: 414-475-2975
Americans for Prosperity – Wisconsin
Fax: 414-475-2976 Matt Seaholm State Director 1126 South 70th Street, Suite S219A Milwaukee, WI, United States 53214 infoWI@afphq.org Mission: Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP is an organized and dedicated group of grassroots citizen leaders who mobilize to spread the pro-market, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-liberty message to policymakers. AFP members are committed to countering the powerful special interest groups that push relentlessly for bigger government at the local, state, and federal levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Health care • Tax issues Phone: 202-785-0266
Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)
Fax: 202-785-0261 Grover Norquist President 722 12th Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, United States 20005 friends@atr.org Mission: ATR is a coalition of taxpayer groups opposing any and all tax increases at the state, federal, and local levels. It works with state tax groups to ask all candidates for office to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge committing officeholders to oppose tax increases. ATR publicizes the Cost of Government Day each year—the day until which Americans must work to pay the cost of taxes and regulations. ATR also coordinates the Reagan Legacy Project urging Congress and state legislatures to name memorials after President Reagan. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Opposing all tax increases • Supporting moves toward a flat tax • Reforming state pensions • Paycheck protection legislation • Constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds vote for tax increases • Electronic commerce—opposing taxes on the internet Phone: 202-785-0266
Americans for Tax Reform Foundation
Fax: 202-785-0261 Grover Norquist President 722 12th Street NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, United States 20005 friends@atr.org Mission: Americans for Tax Reform Foundation (ATRF) serves as a national, information clearinghouse for the grassroots taxpayers’ movement working with state and county-level groups. ATRF is a non-profit, research, and education organization that works to highlight the true cost of government. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxpayer Protection Pledge • Social Security privatization • 2/3 supermajority to raise taxes • State-level taxpayer legislation • Cost of Government Day Phone: 877-285-0111
Americans for Technology Leadership
Fax: 202-318-7803 Randy Skoglund Executive Director 1401 K Street, NW, Suite 502 Washington, DC, United States 20005 rskoglund@techleadership.org Mission: Americans for Technology Leadership (ATL) is a broad-based coalition of technology professionals, consumers, and organizations dedicated to limiting government regulation of technology and to fostering competitive market solutions to public policy issues affecting the technology industry. ATL believes that this approach will ensure that all Americans are able to take advantage of the benefits of the technologies that are shaping the new economy. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Intellectual property • Cyber security • Spyware • Procurement issues • Antitrust • E-commerce Phone: 202-289-1478
Americans United for Life (AUL)
Fax: 312-492-7235 Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Ph.D. President 655 15th Street NW, Suite 410 Washington, DC, United States 20005 info@aul.org Mission: The mission of Americans United for Life is to protect every person in America from abortion and euthanasia through law and education. AUL is a non-sectarian, non-partisan, public-interest, non-profit group that specializes in legislation, litigation, and education. Founded in 1971, AUL focuses on initiatives that will change public policy and opinion on sanctity of human life issues in the short term, while laying the groundwork for comprehensive protection of human life over the long term. AUL serves pro-life legislators, lobbyists, and leaders at the state and national levels. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Abortion and its effects • Preventing legalized assisted suicide • The abortion-breast cancer link • Fetal-homicide legislation • Defending pro-life legislation in the courts • Dispelling the myth that abortion is a necessary evil • Educating state legislators Phone: 202-331-2261
America’s Future Foundation
Jessica deGraffenreid Executive Director 1899 L Street, Floor 12 Washington, DC, United States 20036 info@americasfuture.org Mission: America’s Future Foundation educates and mobilizes today’s young Americans and tomorrow’s leaders in support of limited government, free markets, personal responsibility, moral virtue, world leadership, and technological progress. Through its educational and outreach programs, the Foundation provides the mechanism to harness the political and social energy of like-minded young professionals, broadcasting its positive message nationwide. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 602-346-5061
Arizona Free Enterprise Club
Fax: 602-346-5059 Steve Voeller President PO Box 32935 Phoenix, AZ, United States 85064 steve@azfreeenterpriseclub.org Mission: The mission of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club is to advance policies that promote economic growth, limited government, fiscal restraint, and lower taxes for all Arizonans. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: State fiscal policy • Tax cuts • Spending limits Phone: 501-375-7000
Arkansas Family Council
Fax: 501-375 7040 Jerry Cox President & Executive Director 414 South Pulaski, Suite 2 Little Rock, AR, United States 72201 info@familycouncil.org Mission: The Arkansas Family Council (AFC) was established in 1989 in association with Focus on the Family and Dr. James Dobson. AFC is a conservative, research, and education organization dedicated to upholding traditional values. Its mission is to promote, protect, and strengthen traditional family values in Arkansas as part of the overall effort to prevent the “great unraveling” of American culture and to champion the values that have made Arkansas and the nation great. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Parental rights • Voter education • Home schooling • Abstinence and out-of-wedlock births • Traditional values in schools Phone: 501-537-0825
Arkansas Policy Foundation
Hon. Greg J. Kaza Executive Director 111 Center Street, Suite 1200 Little Rock, AR, United States 72201 kaza@reformarkansas.org Mission: Founded in 1995, the Arkansas Policy Foundation is an independent, non-partisan, public policy think tank committed to the goals of economic growth, individual opportunity, and education reform. The Policy Foundation emphasizes the importance of peer-reviewed research. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Tax policy • Transparency of government • Business cycle research effect on revenues Phone: 877-289-5411
John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
Fax: 419-289-5425 Peter W. Schramm Executive Director Ashland University 401 College Avenue Ashland, OH, United States 44805 ashbrook@ashland.edu Mission: The John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University is an academic forum for the study, research, and discussion of the principles and practices of American constitutional government and politics. The Ashbrook Center’s programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and civic morality, which together constitute America’s democratic way of life. It sponsors the Ashbrook Scholar program, publishes scholarly monographs and books, hosts a series of campus lectures and conferences, and provides internship opportunities for students interested in careers related to public affairs. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Foreign policy • Race and ethnicity • Future of conservatism • Education • Homeland security • Electoral college Phone: 949-595-7979
Association of American Educators (AAE)
Fax: 949-595-7970 Gary Beckner Executive Director 27405 Puerta Real, Suite 230 Mission Viejo, CA, United States 92691 info@aaeteachers.org Mission: The Association of American Educators serves as a national, professional alternative to teacher unions, offering many of the same benefits of the unions—without the politics. AAE serves as a new national voice for educators who envision a future where professional teachers will be free to control their own careers—a future where true professionals can negotiate their own decisions about use of time, resources, and teaching methodologies. Tax Status: 501(c)(6) Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting character education • Fighting federal intervention in public education • Establishing state affiliates of the AAE • Promoting higher entrance and career professional standards for teachers Phone: 520-327-4845
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
Fax: 520-325-4230 Jane M. Orient, M.D. Executive Director 1601 North Tucson Boulevard, Suite 9 Tucson, AZ, United States 85716 Mission: Since 1943, AAPS has been the only national association of physicians in all specialties dedicated to preserving and protecting the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship. AAPS believes this patient-physician relationship must be free from all third-party interference—whether from the government, from insurance companies, or from health care plans. It believes patients’ ability to choose their physicians and the care that’s best for their needs is inviolable. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Arbitrary prosecutions • Free-market insurance reform • Professional liability issues • Sham peer review • Government intrusions into patient-physician relationship and loss of medical privacy • Erosion of physical activity Phone: 719-528-6906
Association of Christian Schools International
Fax: 719-531-0631 Ken Smitherman President PO Box 65130 Colorado Springs, CO, United States 80962-5130 ken_smitherman@acsi.org Mission: The mission of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is to enable Christian educators and schools worldwide to prepare students for life. ACSI provides an array of services and programs through its departments and regional offices. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Strengthen urban school services • Strengthen administrative leadership • Develop new Christian textbooks • Strengthen international Christian schools • Achieve national recognition for preschool accreditation • Promote K–12 Christian school accreditation Phone: 410-705-6360
Association of Maryland Families
Fax: 410-760-9164 Derek McCoy President PO Box 106 Annapolis, MD, United States 21404 director@mdfamilies.org Mission: The mission of the Association of Maryland Families is to serve as a resource and a voice for pastors and to equip, encourage, and exhort Christians and others who care about the moral fabric of our nation to be responsible, informed, and involved citizens. Our purpose is to educate voters and politicians to keep their commitment to both liberty and law, so that America may continue to be one nation under God. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Family • Abortion • Embryonic stem cell research • Homosexuality • Marriage Phone: 800-331-2763
Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators
Fax: 405-321-8897 Ginger Elaine Tinney Executive Director PO Box 667 Norman, OK, United States 73070-0667 info@professionaloklahomaeducators.org Mission: Advancing Oklahoma education through integrity, professionalism, and excellence, thereby providing the best learning environment for each Oklahoma child. APOE will not resort to strikes, threats of work stoppage, slow downs, or other militant action. Educators should be free from all forms of compulsory membership. Educators should not be forced to join or otherwise pay dues to a labor union. Public schools should be under the control of and accountable only to the taxpayers in the communities they serve. Education should aim to improve a young person's character as well as his or her intellect. APOE will not endorse or financially support any political candidate for local, state, or federal office, but will instead encourage individual members to become actively involved in the political process. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 914-834-3322
Atlantic Legal Foundation
Fax: 914-833-1022 William H. Slattery President 2039 Palmer Avenue, Suite 104 Larchmont, NY, United States 10538 atlanticlegal@atlanticlegal.org Mission: Atlantic Legal Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest law firm whose mission is to advance the rule of law by advocating limited, effective government, free enterprise, individual liberty, school choice, and sound science. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Science and the law • Property rights • Student rights • Illegal government regulations • Affirmative action • Political correctness Phone: 202-449-8449
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Fax: 202-449-8459 Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Ph.D. President 1201 L Street NW Washington, DC, United States 20005 events@atlasusa.org Mission: Atlas Economic Research Foundation is a service organization that helps expand and strengthen the international network of think tanks devoted to the principles of a free society. Atlas raises funds from donors who believe think tanks can play a positive role in advancing freedom in all parts of the world, and then it invests in young institutes and programs to assist them. Atlas provides consultations to aspiring think tank entrepreneurs, runs workshops, administers prize programs, and acts as an information hub for the international freedom movement. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding think tank network devoted to freedom • Free-market solutions to poverty • Rule of law • Corporate social responsibility • Health and welfare • Economics and security Phone: 415-986-5650
The BASIC Fund
Fax: 415-986-5358 Meghan Magilligan Administrative Director 268 Bush Street, Suite 2717 San Francisco, CA, United States 94104 meghan@basicfund.org Mission: The BASIC (Bay Area Scholarships for Inner-City Children) Fund is a privately funded program whose mission is to broaden the educational opportunities for inner-city children by helping low-income families afford the cost of tuition at private schools in the Bay Area. The program is available to students entering kindergarten through eighth grade to attend private schools in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. The program provides scholarships to help families send their children to the private school of their choice. The BASIC Fund scholarships are awarded on the basis of financial need. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tuition assistance Phone: 617-573-8050
The Beacon Hill Institute
Fax: 617-994-4279 David G. Tuerck, Ph.D. Executive Director Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place Boston, MA, United States 02108 bhi@beaconhill.org Mission: Grounded in the principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets, The Beacon Hill Institute engages in rigorous economic research and conducts educational programs for the purpose of producing and disseminating readable analyses of current public policy issues to voters, taxpayers, opinion leaders, and policymakers. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Education • Competitiveness/development • Tort reform • Regulation • Government efficiency Phone: 202-955-0095
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Fax: 202-955-0090 Kevin J. Hasson, Esq. Chairman and President 3000 K Street NW, Suite 220 Washington, DC, United States 20007 mail@becketfund.org Mission: The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a bipartisan, ecumenical, public interest law firm that protects the free expression of all religious traditions. The three guiding principles of the Fund’s mission are: freedom of religion is a basic human right that no government may lawfully deny; religious expression—from all traditions—is a natural part of life in civilized society and religious arguments, on all sides of a question, are a normal and healthy element in public debate; and religious people and institutions are entitled to participate in government affairs on an equal basis with everyone else and should not be excluded for professing their faith. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Religious land use • International religious freedom • State “Blaine Amendments” • Church autonomy/free association • Religion in public life • Religion in prisons Phone: 713-866-6252
Bellwether Forum
Fax: 713-866-6253 Robert W. Painter President 945 McKinney Street, Suite 410 Houston, TX, United States 77002 info@bellwetherforum.org Mission: Bellwether Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that promotes political, policy, and career leadership and education. The Forum’s programs target working young professionals, but are open to everyone. Bellwether Forum is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but sponsors programs from coast to coast and even abroad. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding number of young professionals involved in the conservative movement • Offering evening classes in various cities through the Bellwether University program • Providing networking opportunities to introduce young professionals to the new face of conservatism • Pairing college student leaders with young professionals to transition from college to community involvement • Teaching base government and civics to disadvantaged young adults • Establishing strategic relationships with conservative organizations abroad Phone: 202-478-9677
Best Friends Foundation
Fax: 202-478-9678 Elayne Bennett Founder and President 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440 Washington, DC, United States 20015 webmaster@bestfriendsfoundation.org Mission: The Best Friends Foundation is an educational foundation that operates the Best Friends Program in Washington, D.C., area schools and trains educators to teach its self-respect through self-restraint curriculum throughout the country. As a character-building and youth-development program with a message of abstinence from sex, drugs, and alcohol, Best Friends has offered guidance to adolescent girls since 1987 and to adolescent boys since 2001. The Foundation is supported by grants from private foundations, corporations, and individual donors and receives no government funds. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Reducing teen pregnancy • Reducing drug and alcohol abuse by adolescents Phone: 202-488-7000
Beverly LaHaye Institute
Fax: 202-488-0806 Janice Shaw Crouse, Ph.D. Executive Director and Senior Fellow 1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC, United States 20005 jcrouse@cwfa.org Mission: The mission of the Beverly LaHaye Institute is to conduct, promote, and disseminate research and analysis that increase understanding of women’s concerns and issues, help preserve and strengthen the family, undergird the Judeo-Christian foundation of American culture, strengthen marriage and protect children, and strengthen culture and society. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Family and Marriage issues • Religion and public life • Welfare reform • Child well being, poverty, and single parenting • Sex trafficking • Abstinence and cohabitation Phone: 703-894-1776
The Bill of Rights Institute
Fax: 703-894-1791 Tony Woodlief Interim Director 200 North Glebe Road, Suite 1050 Arlington, VA, United States 22203 info@billofrightsinstitute.org Mission: The Bill of Rights Institute’s mission is to educate high school students and teachers about America’s founding principles through programs that teach the words and ideas of the Founders, the liberties and freedoms guaranteed in our founding documents, and how America’s founding principles affect and shape a free society. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Bill of Rights • U.S. Constitution • Founders’ lives and writings • American civic values • What it means to be an American Phone: 716-854-0869
The BISON Scholarship Fund
Fax: 716-854-0877 Kathleen M. Christy Executive Director PO Box 1134 Buffalo, NY, United States 14205 info@bisonfund.com Mission: Founded in 1995, the BISON Scholarship Fund is a privately funded scholarship program for low-income children. BISON is designed to give parents a full range of choices about their children’s education. Families awarded a BISON scholarship will be able to enroll their child in a private grammar school (grades K–8) of their choice in the Buffalo area. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tuition assistance Phone: 202-546-4304
Black Alliance for Educational Options - D.C. Chapter
Fax: 202-546-4305 Virginia F. Walden-Ford Chairman of the Board 809 Virginia Avenue, SE Washington, DC, United States 20003 wdcbaeo@aol.com Mission: The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation Phone: 414-444-6086
Black Alliance for Educational Options - Milwaukee Chapter
Fax: 414-449-2507 Dr. Deborah McGriff Board Chair 3290 North 44th Street Milwaukee, WI, United States 53216 dmmcgriff@aol.com Mission: The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation Phone: 937-222-7990
Black Alliance for Educational Options - Montgomery County Chapter
Fax: 937-222-7992 Tracie F. Craft State Director 1 Elizabeth Place, SE Pavilion, Second Floor Dayton, OH, United States 45418 tracie@baeo.org Mission: The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation Phone: 215-851-1795
Black Alliance for Educational Options - Philadelphia Chapter
Fax: 215-564-9376 Darlene Callands-Curry President and CEO 1207 Chestnut Street, Second Floor Philadelphia, PA, United States 19107 darlene@baeo.org Mission: The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) actively supports parental choice to empower families and increase quality educational options for black children. BAEO seeks to develop new systems of learning opportunities to complement and expand existing systems. The Alliance envisions new systems that truly empower parents, allow dollars to follow students, hold adults as well as students accountable for academic achievement, and alter the power arrangements that are the foundation for existing systems. BAEO has members and local chapters nationwide. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Expanding educational options for children • Creating environments that offer children a chance to be in a quality learning situation Phone: 270-782-2140
Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions
Fax: 305-675-0220 Rick Loghry Executive Director PO Box 11706 Lexington, KY, United States 40577-1706 rloghry@freedomkentucky.com Mission: Bluegrass Institute is an independent, non-partisan association of writers, speakers, and thinkers dedicated to empowering Kentuckians to take back their freedoms. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Equal Opportunity in Education • Government Transparency and Accountability• Fiscal Responsibility in State Spending Phone: 614-224-4422
The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions
Fax: 614-224-4644 Matt Mayer President 88 East Broad Street, Suite 1120 Columbus, OH, United States 43215-3506 buckeye@buckeyeinstitute.org Mission: Framing the debate for Elected Officials, Government Leaders and interested Ohioans by developing innovative policy solutions that are relevant, reliable and data driven for Ohio's toughest challenges. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Economic Freedom • Competitiveness • Job Creation • Entrepreneurship • Government Transparency • Government Accountability Phone: 510-635-6892
C.S. Lewis Society of California
Fax: 510-568-6040 David J. Theroux Founder and President 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA, United States 94621-1428 info@lewissociety.org Mission: The C.S. Lewis Society’s extensive and immensely popular work very effectively champions objective truth, goodness, natural law, literary excellence, reason, science, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and Christian faith. The Society is an educational and cultural organization of people interested in events, publications, and other developments that advance deeper understanding of the ideas of C. S. Lewis and others who articulately critique the materialism, reductionism, scientism, collectivism, statism, and de-humanization of the modern era. In so doing, the organization seeks to boldly advance public understanding of the enduring cultural, historical, literary, theological, philosophical, social, and economic issues of mankind. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Science • Family, culture, and community • Economic/political thought • Crime, justice, and the law • Religion/public life Phone: 302-535-6523
Caesar Rodney Institute
Fax: 302-734-1190 Barrett Kidner Chairman and CEO PO Box 795 Dover, DE, United States 19903 bek@kidner.com Mission: The Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) is non-partisan, non-profit public policy group intent upon affecting measured improvement in the socio-economic well being at all levels and strata of Delaware society through debates, town hall meetings, workshops, research papers, editorials, an active website, and other events and publications. CRI promotes an understanding of our nation’s founding principles of limited government, individual initiative, personal responsibility, private property, the rule of law and free-markets. We champion public policies that embody those principles. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Energy • Education • Health Care • Economics • State and Local Government • Taxes Phone: 951-354-8362
California Family Council
Fax: 951-353-8347 Ron Prentice Chief Executive Officer PO Box 20012 Riverside, CA, United States 92516 ronp@californiafamily.org Mission: The mission of the California Family Council (CFC) is to protect and foster Judeo-Christian principles in California’s laws for the benefit of its families. CFC’s foundational pillars affirm life is from God, and the life in a womb—though perhaps unplanned—is a baby deserving of protection; marriage between a man and a woman is God’s design, and only in the union of a man and a woman can a godly legacy be fruitfully multiplied; marriage is the building block of a stable society, and from the commitment of a man and woman in marriage comes the best opportunity for children to thrive; and parents have the responsibility of nurturing their children and equipping their children with a world view. CFC serves to maintain this freedom, exposing and opposing legislation that attempts to usurp the authority of parents in child-rearing. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 805-445-9483
California Public Policy Foundation
John Kurzweil President PO Box 931 Camarillo, CA, United States 93011 calprev@cppf.us Mission: Since its founding in 1986, California Public Policy Foundation (CPPF), a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization, has provided California with a responsible, articulate, effective voice—primarily through its flagship publication California Political Review Magazine—for limited government, individual responsibility, self-reliance, and personal virtue. CPPF’s mission is building communications networks that unify California’s conservative movement and make it more effective. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: The rule of law and judicial activism • Religious freedom • Freedom of association Phone: 410-752-5887
The Calvert Institute for Policy Research
Fax: 410-539-3973 George W. Liebmann Executive Director 8 West Hamilton Street Baltimore, MD, United States 21201 info@calvertinstitute.org Mission: The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is an independent, non-partisan, public policy research institution committed to generating new ideas based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, and personal responsibility. The Institute seeks to make Maryland worthy of its fond nickname, “The Free State.” The Calvert Institute serves as a clearinghouse for public policy information on the benefit of a society based upon restricted government. All of the Institute’s publications are available to the general public upon request. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education - teacher certification • Maryland business taxation • Neighborhood governance and sub-local institutions • Medical malpractice reform • Curbing abusive consent decrees • Criminal justice reform Phone: 703-671-8800
Campaign for Working Families
Fax: 703-671-8899 Gary L. Bauer Chairman 2800 Shirlington Road, Suite 930 Arlington, VA, United States 22206 info@mail.cwfpac.com Mission: Campaign for Working Families is a non-partisan political action committee dedicated to electing pro-family, pro-life, and pro-free enterprise candidates to federal and state offices. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Pro-life • Pro-family • Pro-free enterprise Phone: 202-483-6900
Capital Research Center (CRC)
Fax: 202-483-6990 Terrence Scanlon President 1513 16th Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20036 contact@capitalresearch.org Mission: CRC studies critical issues in philanthropy, with a focus on foundations and non-profit “public interest” and advocacy organizations, their agendas (open and hidden), sources of funding, and impact on public policy and society. CRC supports a free market, limited government, and individual liberty. These principles promote enterprise, economic growth, and wealth creation, which make philanthropy possible. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Revival of private charity • Charity’s role in the post-welfare state • Corporate giving to advocacy groups • Monitoring left-wing advocacy groups • Monitoring education reform groups • Monitoring environmental groups Phone: 916-498-1940
Capitol Resource Institute
Fax: 916-448-2888 Karen England Executive Director 660 J Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA, United States 95814 kengland@capitolresource.org Mission: Capitol Resource Institute is a non-profit organization engaged in coalition-building, media outreach, lobbying, and legislative tracking. The organization is dedicated to the principles of traditional families, parental rights, limited government, and citizen responsibility. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Education • Parental rights • Gambling • Health • Privacy Phone: 703-367-0333
Cardinal Newman Society
Fax: 703-396-8668 Patrick Reilly President and CEO 9167 Key Commons Court Manassas, VA, United States 20109 info@cardinalnewmansociety.org Mission: Founded in 1993, the Cardinal Newman Society is dedicated to renewing and strengthening Catholic identity at America’s 224 Catholic colleges and universities. The Society focuses its work on assisting students, alumni, and school officials, urging fidelity to the magisterium of the Catholic Church, and on researching activities both on campus and in the classroom. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Higher education • Religion and public life Phone: 503-242-0900
Cascade Policy Institute
Fax: 503-242-3822 John A. Charles, Jr. President 4850 SW Scholls Ferry Road, Suite 103 Portland, OR, United States 97225 info@cascadepolicy.org Mission: Cascade Policy Institute, founded in January 1991, is a non-profit, research, and educational organization focusing on Oregon state and local issues. The Institute’s mission is to explore and advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Urban growth • Transit • Social Security privatization • Health care reform Phone: 703-682-9320
Castle Coalition
Fax: 703-682-9321 Steven Anderson Director 901 North Glebe Road, Suite 900 Arlington, VA, United States 22203 info@castlecoalition.org Mission: The Castle Coalition is the Institute for Justice’s nationwide, grassroots, property rights activism project. The Castle Coalition teaches home and small business owners how to protect themselves and stand up to the greedy governments and developers who seek to use eminent domain to take private property for their own gain. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Property rights • Eminent domain abuse Phone: 202-393-7002
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)
Fax: 202-393-7004 Austin Ruse President 666 11th Street, NW, Suite 450 Washington, DC, United States 20001 info@c-fam.org Mission: C-FAM’s mission is to monitor the evolving international debate on social policy and to assist nations to more deeply understand these difficult issues. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: International social policy • Abortion • Marriage • Stem-cell research Phone: 215-877-9099
Catholic Medical Association
Fax: 215-701-6577 Kathleen M. Raviele, M.D. President 333 East Lancaster Avenue, #348 Wynnewood, PA, United States 19096-1929 info@cathmed.org Mission: Catholic physicians in the United States and Canada come together in the Catholic Medical Association in order to grow in the spirit of Christ in our personal and professional lives, to bring His Spirit to all that is touched by their science and art, and to assist the Vicar of Christ, the Bishops, and the whole Christian community with leadership, especially with the particular knowledge, skill, and experience that Christian physicians have. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 202-842-0200
Cato Institute
Fax: 202-842-3490 Edward H. Crane President 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC, United States 20001 media@cato.org Mission: The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security choice • School choice • Limited government • Free trade and global economic liberty • Foreign policy of strategic independence • Market-oriented health care reforms like HSAs Phone: 602-424-2525
Center for Arizona Policy
Cathi Herrod President and General Counsel 7227 North 16th Street, Suite 250 Phoenix, AZ, United States 85020 info@azpolicy.org Mission: The Center for Arizona Policy is a non-profit, research, and education organization committed to strengthening the family and restoring traditional moral principles to the public policy and cultural arenas. As part of a 50-state partnership associated with Focus on the Family, the Center works to provide quality research and factual information to policymakers on vital issues affecting the family, to equip concerned citizens and churches to be persuasive advocates for the family, and to be a voice for the family by communicating truth through the media. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Traditional marriage • Gambling • School choice • Pornography • Covenant marriage Phone: 847-317-8180
The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
Fax: 847-317-8101 C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D. Director Trinity International University 2065 Half Day Road Deerfield, IL, United States 60015 info@cbhd.org Mission: The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity addresses the pressing bioethical challenges of our day, including managed care, end-of-life treatment, genetic intervention, euthanasia and suicide, reproductive technologies, and alternative medicine. The Center affirms human dignity through bioethics by providing educational opportunities, renewing health care professionalism, encouraging ethical scientific research, informing public policy, and equipping the world to uphold the God-given dignity of human beings. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Biotechnology • Clinical/bedside ethics in health care • Genetics • End-of-life/palliative care • Reproductive technologies • Cloning/stem cell research Phone: 202-375-7831
The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP)
Fax: 202-375-782 Dr. Richard Vedder Director 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW Suite 910 Washington, DC, United States 20036 theccap@centerforcollegeaffordability.org Mission: Founded in 2006, The Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) is an independent, not-for-profit research center based in Washington, DC. The CCAP exists to help facilitate a broader dialogue on the issues and problems facing the institutes of higher education in the United States. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Student Financial Aid Policy • Rising Costs of College • Causes of Higher Education • Inefficiences Productivity of Staff and Faculty Members • For Profit Education • Accreditation Phone: 703-682-9359
Center for Competitive Politics
Fax: 703-682-9321 Bradley A. Smith Chairman and Co-Founder 901 North Glebe Road, Suite 990 Arlington, VA, United States 22203 info@campaignfreedom.org Mission: The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP) is a non-profit organization founded in November 2005 by former FEC Chairman Bradley A. Smith, professor of law at Capital University Law School and of counsel to Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, and Stephen M. Hoersting, campaign finance attorney and former general counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. CCP’s mission, through legal briefs, studies, historical and constitutional analyses, and media communication is to educate the public on the actual effects of money in politics and on the results of a more free and competitive electoral process. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Campaign finance reform • Elections Phone: 425-455-5038
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
Fax: 425-451-3959 Alan Gottlieb President 12500 NE Tenth Place Bellevue, WA, United States 98005 contact@cdfe.org Mission: The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was established to publish and disseminate information regarding the principles upon which the American free enterprise system was founded, to relate the application of those principles to contemporary American society, to engage in and foster research and study of issues relating to economics, economic trends, and governmental regulatory bodies and their interaction with the free market, and to defend the right of individual Americans and American business to participate in the free market without hindrance by government. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Eco-terrorism • Energy policy • Economic growth • Farm policy • Forest policy • Sustained development Phone: 301-986-8088
The Center for Education Reform
Fax: 301-986-1826 Jeanne Allen President 4825 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 220 Bethesda, MD, United States 20814 cer@edreform.com Mission: The Center for Education Reform is a national voice for more choices in education and more rigor in education programs, both of which are key to more effective schooling. It delivers practical, research-based information and assistance to engage a diverse lay audience—including parents, policymakers, and education reform groups—in taking action to ensure that U.S. schools are delivering a high quality education for all children in grades K–12. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Charter schools • Charter school law • Accountability, standards and testing Phone: 703-442-0066
Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO)
Fax: 703-442-0449 Roger Clegg President & General Counsel 700 Leesburg Pike, Suite 231 Falls Church, VA, United States 22043 RClegg@ceousa.org Mission: CEO conducts research and education on issues related to race, ethnicity, and assimilation. As the only think tank devoted exclusively to the promotion of colorblind equal opportunity and racial harmony, the Center for Equal Opportunity is uniquely positioned to counter the divisive impact of race conscious public policies. CEO focuses on three areas in particular: racial preferences, immigration and assimilation, and multicultural education. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Civil rights • Bilingual education • Immigration and assimilation • Affirmative action Phone: 202-551-9200
Center for European Policy Analysis
Fax: 202-296-3880 A. Wess Mitchell President 1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 550 Washington, DC, United States 20005 info@cepa.org Mission: The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, public policy research institute dedicated to the study of Central Europe. In its work on this region, CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Central European affairs • U.S.-Central European relations • Economics • Geopolitics Phone: 202-285-0244
Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Andrew F. Quinlan President and CEO PO Box 10882 Alexandria, VA, United States 22310-9998 info@freedomandprosperity.org Mission: The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) is a free-market, pro-tax reform organization that is leading the fight against global taxation schemes. As part of its efforts to promote limited government, CF&P works to protect American taxpayers from the anti-tax competition and pro-tax harmonization schemes of international bureaucracies such as the United Nations, European Union, and Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Updated several times each day, the CF&P-sponsored Market Center Blog is a must-read for free-market advocates and supporters of limited government. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Defend and promote tax competition • Create a more simple and fair tax code • Promote economic competition and the entrepreneurial spirit • Reduce the size of government • Protect financial privacy, personal privacy, property rights and free association • Advocate global free market principles and encourage free and open trade Phone: 202-466-8185
Center for Immigration Studies
Fax: 202-466-8076 Mark Krikorian Executive Director 1522 K Street, NW, Suite 820 Washington, DC, United States 20005 center@cis.org Mission: It is the Center’s mission to expand the base of public knowledge and understanding of the need for an immigration policy that gives first concern to the broad national interest. The Center is animated by a pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision which seeks fewer immigrants, but a warmer welcome for those admitted. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Immigration • Citizenship • National security Phone: 703-535-5836
Center for Individual Freedom
Fax: 703-535-5838 Jeffrey L. Mazzella Executive Director 113 South Columbus Street, Suite 310 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 info@cfif.org Mission: Founded in 1998, the Center for Individual Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the mission to protect and defend individual freedoms and individual rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The Center seeks to focus public, legislative, and judicial attention on the rule of law as embodied in the federal and state constitutions. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Freedom • Constitutional law • Individual Rights Phone: 202-833-8400
Center for Individual Rights (CIR)
Fax: 202-833-8410 Terence J. Pell Chief Executive Officer 1233 20th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC, United States 20036 pell@cir-usa.org Mission: CIR is a non-profit, public interest law firm whose mission is to advance a broad, civil libertarian conception of individual rights against intrusive bureaucracies, meddlesome interest groups, and statist ideologues and activists. CIR believes that the principal purpose of the law, and especially of the Constitution, is to restrain these forces. It pursues this mission through the direct litigation of precedent-setting cases, primarily in federal court, concentrating on areas of the law where individual rights are particularly at risk—freedom of speech, civil rights, and sexual harassment law. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Ending racial preferences • Free speech • Political correctness in higher education • Disparate treatment of religious groups • Unconstitutionality of hate crime laws • Extending Hopwood ruling to other states Phone: 202-721-9200
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Fax: 202-721-9250 John Sullivan Executive Director 1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC, United States 20005 cipe@cipe.org Mission: CIPE’s mission is to build democratic development through market-oriented economic reform and support for private sector development worldwide. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Corporate governance • Anti-corruption • Regulatory and institutional reform • Support for the formalization of the informal sector • Entrepreneurship • Economic education for journalists Phone: 703-642-1070
Center for Law and Religious Freedom
Fax: 703-642-1075 Gregory S. Baylor Director 8001 Braddock Road, Suite 300 Springfield, VA, United States 22151 clshq@clsnet.org Mission: The Center for Law and Religious Freedom (CLRF) has been a respected voice in the First Amendment arena since 1975. CLRFs primary mission is to defend and advance the religious freedom of all Americans and to defend the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death. The Center pursues its mission through legislative advocacy, “test case” litigation, friend-of-the-court briefs, and providing information to members and the general public. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Hiring rights of religious groups • Religious groups’ access to government-funded social services • Freedom of religious speech • Rights of conscience of health care providers • Protection for pregnancy resource center Phone: 206-283-7036
Center for Long-Term Care Financing
Fax: 206-283-6536 Stephen Moses President 2212 Queen Anne Avenue North, Suite 110 Seattle, WA, United States 98109 info@centerltc.com Mission: The Center for Long-Term Care Financing encourages financing of long-term care through private insurance and home equity conversion. The Center discourages excessive and unnecessary dependency on public welfare (Medicaid) financing of long-term care. It advises public policymakers and legislators on ways and means to control Medicaid long-term care expenditures and encourage private sector alternatives for financing long-term care. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Encourage private long-term care insurance • Encourage home equity conversion as a funding source for long-term care • Discourage Medicaid estate planning • Promote responsible state Medicaid eligibility rules to target the program to the needy and encourage others to plan early and save, invest, or insure for long-term care • Educate the public, policymakers and legislators about long-term care service delivery and financing Phone: 571-319-0029
Center for Media and Public Affairs
Dr. S. Robert Lichter President 933 North Kenmore Street Washington, DC, United States 20037 mail@cmpa.com Mission: The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a non-partisan, non-profit research and educational organization that conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media. CMPA seeks to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media fairness and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies of media content. Its primary research tool is content analysis, which is applied both to news coverage and to the information content of entertainment messages. CMPA also conducts surveys to illuminate the media’s role in American society. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Violence in entertainment media • Coverage of science, health, and technology issues • Politics and elections Phone: 202-347-5333
Center for Military Readiness
Elaine Donnelly President PO Box 51600 Livonia, MI, United States 48151 info@cmrlink.org Mission: The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) is an independent, public policy research, and education organization that examines military personnel issues. It publishes CMR Notes and opinion articles that analyze the consequences of unwise social engineering; provides testimony and research materials to Congress, Executive Branch agencies, and the media; and organizes policy conferences. CMR is a unique alliance of civilian and active duty and retired military people in all 50 states that promotes high standards and excellence in all forms of military training. CMR supports women in the military, but opposes combat assignments and gender-related policies that erode morale and overall readiness. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Co-ed basic training • International agreements affecting U.S. troops • Women in combat: land, sea, and air • Ongoing efforts to accommodate homosexuals in the military • Sexual misconduct and the culture of the military • Family concerns and pregnancy policies that affect readiness Phone: 202-518-6500
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE)
Robert L. Woodson, Sr. President 1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC, United States 20006 info@cneonline.org Mission: CNE’s mission is to empower neighborhood leaders to promote solutions that reduce crime and violence, restore families, revitalize low-income communities, and create economic enterprise. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Youth crime and violence • Community revitalization • Welfare reform • Economic development • Family restoration • Leadership development and training Phone: 724-537-4597
Center for Political and Economic Thought
Fax: 724-537-4599 Gary M. Quinlivan, Ph.D. Executive Director Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Road Latrobe, PA, United States 15650-2690 cpet@stvincent.edu Mission: The mission of the Center for Political and Economic Thought at Saint Vincent College is to promote scholarship and public understanding about free market economies, stable monetary policy, limited government, and the civic and cultural heritage of America and the West.The Center also seeks to provide educational opportunities for students, faculty, and the general public in accordance with its program interests. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Free trade • Privatization • Free-market solutions • Founding Fathers • Constitutional issues • Political philosophy Phone: 410-571-6300
Center for Public Justice
Fax: 410-571-6365 Dr. James W. Skillen President 2444 Solomons Island Road, Suite 201 Annapolis, MD, United States 21401 jim@cpjustice.org Mission: The Center for Public Justice seeks to equip citizens, develop leaders, and shape policy in keeping with the development of a comprehensive public philosophy that orients the organization toward the purpose of serving God, advancing justice, and transforming public life. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Welfare reform/faith-based reform initiatives • Education reform • U.S. foreign policy • Health care policy • Environmental policy • Electoral reform Phone: 713-984-1343
Center for Renewal
Fax: 713-984-0409 Barbara Elliott President and Founder 9525 Katy Freeway, Suite 303 Houston, TX, United States 77024 belliott@centerforrenewal.org Mission: The Center for Renewal is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower Christ-centered ministries that transform lives by encouraging effective compassion and by connecting resources to needs. It does research, writing, and speaking about these front-line “street saints” in civil renewal. The Center’s capacity-building workshops impart best practices to faith-based leaders and connect business leaders to opportunities to use their entrepreneurial skills on behalf of transformational ministries. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Faith-based initiatives • Civil society • Community renewal • Philanthropy Phone: 202-835-9077
Center for Security Policy (CSP)
Fax: 202-835-9066 Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. President and CEO 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 201 Washington, DC, United States 20006 info@security-policy.org Mission: CSP seeks to stimulate and inform the national and international debate about all aspects of security policy, notably those bearing on the foreign, defense, economic, financial, and technology interests of the U.S. It contributes to this debate by the rapid preparation and real-time dissemination of analyses and policy recommendations via computerized fax, published articles, and electronic media. The Center’s principal audience is the U.S. security policymaking community, corresponding organizations in key foreign governments, the press (domestic and foreign), the global business and financial community, and interested individuals in the public at large. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Homeland security/ballistic missile defense • Arms control and global treaties • Hollowing out of U.S. military • Middle East peace process • NATO expansion • Pacific Rim Phone: 202-887-0200
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Fax: 202-775-3199 Dr. John J. Hamre President and CEO 1800 K Street, NW Washington, DC, United States 20006 webmaster@csis.org Mission: Founded in 1962, CSIS is a non-partisan, public policy research institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. CSIS experts generate strategic analysis in key functional areas, such as international finance and trade and U.S. domestic, economic, foreign, and national security policies. The Center also convenes government, private-sector, and academic leaders from around the world to examine an array of issues and provide concrete action proposals. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: National and international security • Governance for the global age • Public policy, trade, technology, finance, and energy Phone: 703-895-1493
The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education
Fax: 703-396-8668 David House, Ph.D. Executive Director 9415 West Street Manassas, VA, United States 20110 dhouse@catholichighered.org Mission: The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education (CACHE), a division of The Cardinal Newman Society, advises and assists academic and religious leaders in efforts to strengthen the Catholic identity and academic quality of Catholic colleges and universities. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Student Life • Government• Church/Acacdemic relations • Higher Education • Religion • Civil Society • Pornography • Marriage • Religious Liberty Phone: 713-984-1343
Center for the American Idea
Fax: 713-984-0409 W. Winston Elliott, III President 9525 Katy Freeway, Suite 303 Houston, TX, United States 77024 info@americanidea.org Mission: The Center for the American Idea is a program of the Free Enterprise Institute, a non-profit, educational organization founded in 1976 and supported by foundations, businesses, and individuals. The Center’s programs assist teachers as they educate their students in the principles of American Civilization, including liberty, private property, the rule of law, constitutionally limited government, and an enduring moral order. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Character education • Western Civilization • Founding Fathers • American founding • Political philosophy Phone: 612-338-3605
Center of the American Experiment
Fax: 612-338-3621 Mitch Pearlstein, Ph.D. President 12 South Sixth Street, Suite 1024 Minneapolis, MN, United States 55402 info@americanexperiment.org Mission: Center of the American Experiment opened its doors in 1990 as a non-partisan, tax-exempt public policy and educational institution. It brings conservative and free market ideas to bear on the most difficult problems facing Minnesota and the nation. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education reform • Government reform • Taxes • Marriage • Higher education Phone: 801-363-0946
Children First Utah
Fax: 801-524-4677 Robert Ralphs Executive Director 455 East South Temple Street, Suite 101 Salt Lake City, UT, United States 84111 info@childrenfirstutah.org Mission: The mission of Children First Utah (CFU) is to maximize educational opportunity for children by offering tuition assistance for needy families and by promoting a diverse and competitive educational environment. CFU believes that all children, regardless of economic circumstances, deserve access to educational opportunities and that parents deserve the right to choose among the broadest possible range of educational alternatives. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Private vouchers • School choice Phone: 972-298-1811
Children’s Education Fund
Fax: 972-572-1515 Richard H. Collins Founder and Chairman PO Box 225748 Dallas, TX, United States 75222-5748 info@todayfoundation.org Mission: The Children’s Education Fund (CEF) offers scholarships to Dallas-area students from low-income families to use toward tuition to the schools of their choice. CEF is part of the Today Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to raising the public’s and policymakers’ awareness of education, taxation and criminal justice issues. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Educate the public about school choice • Provide scholarships and technology to disadvantaged students Phone: 210-614-0037
The Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation
Fax: 210-614-5730 Jessica Sanchez Program Director 8122 Datapoint, Suite 316 San Antonio, TX, United States 78229 sanchez@ceofoundation.org Mission: The goal of the Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation is to assist in equalizing educational opportunities for Bexar County students by offering low-income families an educational option normally denied them because of the cost. There are no academic qualifying criteria, either to enter or remain on the program, as the CEO scholarship is entirely need-based. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Educational choice • School vouchers Phone: 212-515-7100
Children's Scholarship Fund
Fax: 212-515-7111 Theodore J. Forstmann Chairman and Co-Founder 8 West 38th Street, Ninth Floor New York, NY, United States 10018 info@scholarshipfund.org Mission: The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up, not a hand out. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Educational scholarships • Tuition assistance Phone: 410-243-2510
Children's Scholarship Fund – Baltimore
Fax: 410-243-8629 Paul Ellis Executive Director 2300 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD, United States 21218 pelliscsfb@msn.com Mission: Children’s Scholarship Fund – Baltimore seeks to improve educational opportunities for needy Baltimore families by offering privately-funded tuition assistance and to promote a diverse and competitive educational environment in the city. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice Phone: 704-973-4534
Children's Scholarship Fund – Charlotte
Fax: 704-973-4934 Carla McCrorey Program Administrator 217 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC, United States 28202 cmccrorey@fftc.org Mission: Children’s Scholarship Fund – Charlotte is a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding educational opportunities to low-income families in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The tuition assistance helps nearly 400 children each year attend a private or parochial school that their families could not otherwise afford. Since 1999, families have chosen 60 tuition-based schools, both religious and secular. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Tuition assistance Phone: 601-982-6135
Children's Scholarship Fund – Metro Jackson
Fax: 601-362-1810 2906 North State Street, Suite 200 Jackson, MS, United States 39216 csf@irbyinvestments.com Mission: The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up—not a hand out. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Educational scholarships • Tuition assistance Phone: 888-332-2408
Children's Scholarship Fund of Greater Cincinnati
Fax: 513-523-1547 Durk Rorie President and Co-Chair PO Box 361 Oxford, OH, United States 45056 lclaytor@woh.rr.com Mission: The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) of Greater Cincinnati was founded in 1999 as an affiliate of the Children’s Scholarship Fund headquartered in New York City. The national non-profit was created by philanthropists Ted Forstmann and John Walton to encourage freedom of school choice for low-income Americans. Since 1999, using more than $100 million of their own money, Mr. Forstmann and Mr. Walton have provided partial tuition scholarships for low-income children who without assistance would be denied freedom of school choice. Currently, there are almost 29,000 children participating nationally in the CSF program. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice Phone: 402-554-8493 Ext 219
Children's Scholarship Fund of Omaha
Fax: 402-551-3426 Judy Tamisiea Executive Director 3212 North 60th Street PO Box 4130 Omaha, NE, United States 68104-0130 csfomaha@archomaha.org Mission: The Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) provides partial tuition assistance for low-income families to send their children to private schools. More than 96,000 children have benefited from scholarships across the United States since CSF began offering assistance in 1998. Currently, almost 29,000 children nationwide are using CSF scholarships. These children are attending private school through the generosity of CSF donors, the efforts of 38 scholarship programs, and the sacrifices made by the families themselves, who pay—on average—50 percent of their children’s tuition, thus making CSF scholarships truly a hand up, not a hand out. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Education choice • School vouchers Phone: 215-670-8411
Children's Scholarship Fund – Philadelphia
Fax: 215-670-5899 Ina Lipman Executive Director PO Box 22463 Philadelphia, PA, United States 19110-2463 admin@csfphiladelphia.org Mission: Children’s Scholarship Fund – Philadelphia is a privately funded program whose mission is to broaden educational opportunities for low-income families. The Fund provides necessary tuition assistance to help disadvantaged children in Philadelphia gain access to schools of their choice for grades K–8. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Raising funds for additional scholarships • Evaluating success of the program • Providing resources and support activities for scholarship families, students, and schools Phone: 719-685-9043
Christian Anti-Communism Crusade
Fax: 719-685-9330 Dr. David A. Noebel Director PO Box 129 Manitou Springs, CO, United States 80829 info@summit.org Mission: The Christian Anti-Communism Crusade makes writings available both through the Internet and the monthly publication The Schwarz Report that expose the evils of communism. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Governance • Religious legislative issues • Church-state relations Phone: 207-622-7634
Christian Civic League of Maine
Fax: 207-621-0035 Michael S. Heath Executive Director 70 Sewall Street Augusta, ME, United States 04332 email@cclmaine.org Mission: Christian Civic League of Maine exists for the purpose of bringing a Christian influence to the public sphere through effectively working with public policymakers and members by providing accurate, timely, and persuasive information from a Biblical perspective. Its goals are to encourage all the people of Maine in good citizenship, to elect honest and competent public officials, and to enact good laws and provide for their impartial enforcement. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Family policy • Educational choice • Human sexuality • Gambling • Sanctity of life issues Phone: 202-479-6900
Christian Coalition of America
Fax: 202-479-4260 Roberta Combs President PO Box 37030 Washington, DC, United States 20013 coalition@cc.org Mission: The Christian Coalition is a non-profit, grassroots citizen organization whose mission is to represent the Christian point of view before local councils, state legislatures, and Congress; to proclaim its values in the public arena and in the media; to train leaders for effective social and political action; and to protest religious discrimination and anti-Christian bigotry. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Religious persecution • American community renewal • Education reform • Religious freedom amendment • Family tax relief • Banning partial-birth abortion Phone: 440-250-9566
Christian Educators Association International
Fax: 440-250-9584 Finn Laursen Executive Director PO Box 45610 Westlake, OH, United States 44145 doreen@ceai.org Mission: The mission of the Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) is to encourage, equip and empower Christian educators in public and private schools. CEAI’s vision is to demonstrate God’s love and truth to the public school community. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Unions - forced union states • Legal rights for educators in public schools • Curriculum issues in public schools • Homosexual agenda in public schools • Parents legal rights in public schools • Teaching origins in the classroom Phone: 310-474-9055
Christian Home Educators Network
PO Box 2010 Ellicott City, MD, United States 21043 chenchair@chenmd.org Mission: The Christian Home Educators Network’s mission is evangelizing, equipping, and disciplining children so that the church remains faithful into the next generation. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 703-642-1070
Christian Legal Society
Fax: 703-642-1075 Samuel Casey Executive Director 8001 Braddock Road, Suite 300 Springfield, VA, United States 22151 clshq@clsnet.org Mission: The Christian Legal Society is a national, grassroots network of lawyers, law students, and others who are committed to proclaiming, loving and serving Jesus Christ through the practice of law, by advocating religious freedom, the sanctity of life, biblical conflict reconciliation, and by providing legal assistance for the poor and needy. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Religious liberty for all Americans • Inalienable right to life from conception until natural death • Preservation of marriage as a union between one man and one woman • Legal aid for the poor and needy • Health care right of conscience • Ethics in the marketplace Phone:
Christus Medicus Foundation
Michael J. O'Dea Executive Director PO Box 2606 Southfield, MI, United States 48037 mikeodea@christusmedicus.com Mission: Christus Medicus Foundation’s mission is to educate religious leaders, policymakers, health care professionals, and the American people on the need to reclaim control of what Americans finance in health care by reforming corporate and public policy to allow faith-based organizations, families, and individuals a “conscientious choice” in selecting health plans. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Faith-based health plans • Health care right of conscience protection • Association health plans • Protection of parental rights • Tort reform • Tax Fairness in health care Phone: 202-467-5300
Citizens Against Government Waste
Fax: 202-467-4253 Thomas A. Schatz President 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 1075 Washington, DC, United States 20004 grassroots@cagw.org Mission: Citizens Against Government Waste educates Americans about waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Corporate welfare • Agriculture • Internal Revenue Service • Government waste • Medicare • Procurement reform Phone:
Citizens Against Higher Taxes
James H. Broussard Chairman PO Box 343 Hershey, PA, United States 17033 caht99@aol.com Mission: Citizens Against Higher Taxes is a statewide grassroots organization working for taxpayers’ rights, limited government, and the market economy in Pennsylvania. It cooperates with some 250 local taxpayer groups to elect pro-taxpayer and pro-reform school boards. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Cutting taxes • Limiting government spending • Initiative and referendum • Controlling the unchecked power of teachers unions • Electing pro-taxpayer candidates through its state political action committee Phone: 425-454-4911
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Fax: 425-451-3959 Alan M. Gottlieb Chairman 12500 Northeast Tenth Place Bellevue, WA, United States 98005 info@ccrkba.org Mission: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms provides information, books and articles on the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms and on current and proposed legislation affecting that right. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Legislation and information concerning the Second Amendment Phone: 651-646-8935
Citizens' Council on Health Care
Fax: 651-646-0100 Twila J. Brase, R.N. President 1954 University Avenue West, Suite 8 St. Paul, MN, United States 55104 info@cchconline.org Mission: The mission of Citizens’ Council on Health Care is to enable individual control of health care decisions by supporting free market principles. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Health care reform • Evidence-based medicine • Consumer-driven health care • Patient privacy/autonomy • Genetic research • Medical errors/patient safety Phone: 513-733-5775
Citizens for Community Values
Fax: 513-733-5794 Phil Burress President 11175 Reading Road, Suite 103 Cincinnati, OH, United States 45241 info@ccv.org Mission: Citizens for Community Values (CCV) seeks to promote Judeo-Christian moral values and to reduce destructive behaviors contrary to those values. CCV carries out this mission through education, active community partnership, and individual empowerment at the local, state, and national levels. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Pornography and sexually-oriented businesses • Children • Family-friends airwaves • Protection of traditional marriage • Homosexual agenda • Victims of destructive behavior Phone: 314-997-6361
Citizens for Educational Freedom
Fax: 314-997-6321 Mae Duggan President 9333 Clayton Road St. Louis, MO, United States 63124 CitEdFree@educational-freedom.org Mission: Citizens for Educational Freedom’s goals are to give parents the means to direct the educational and moral development of their children; to improve educational quality for all children through competition; and to save taxpayers billions of dollars, as most vouchers are for amounts below the cost of a public school education. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: School Choice Phone: 540-338-7431
Citizens for Property Rights
Jack Shockey President PO Box 70 Hamilton, VA, United States 20159 cpr@loudouncpr.org Mission: Citizens for Property Rights is a grass roots organization that is a broad-based coalition of Loudoun County, Virginia, citizens, farmers, homeowners, property owners, local businessmen, lenders, professionals, retired people, and merchants. It is comprised of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents from both western and eastern Loudoun. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Property rights • Taxes Phone: 703-318-0730
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
Fax: 703-318-8867 Michelle Easton President 112 Elden Street, Suite P Herndon, VA, United States 20170 info@cblpi.org Mission: The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s goals are to prepare young women for effective conservative leadership and to promote school choice opportunities for all K–12 grade children in America. The Institute reaches out to support and encourage women all over the nation, especially young women in school, with their lecture program, mentoring lunches, issue seminars, conferences, publications, intern program, and Conservative Women’s Network. They systematically send talented conservative women before national audiences, promote their books, and advance their careers. Through grassroots policy work, writing, conferences, and a scholarship program, the Institute promotes school choice and academically-rigorous schools. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting conservative women as role models • Women’s studies programs and gender equity education • Developing writing, speaking, leadership skills in young women • Academic standards, tests, and accountability systems • School choice • Children First private scholarships Phone: 909-621-6825
Claremont Institute
Fax: 909-626-8724 Brian T. Kennedy President 937 West Foothill Boulevard, Suite E Claremont, CA, United States 91711 bkennedy@claremont.org Mission: The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Claremont Institute finds the answers to America’s problems in the principles on which our nation was founded. These principles are expressed most eloquently in the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that “all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights....” To recover the founding principles in our political life means recovering a limited and accountable government that respects private property, promotes stable family life, and maintains a strong defense. Through its books, policy briefings, conferences, and seminars, as well as the World Wide Web, the Institute engages Americans in an informed discussion of the principles and policies necessary to rebuild our civic institutions. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Ballistic missile defense • The American founding • Family and culture • Civil rights/racial preferences • Immigration • War on terrorism Phone: 202-955-5500
Club for Growth
Fax: 202-955-9466 Chris Chocola President 2001 L Street, NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC, United States 20036 info@clubforgrowth.org Mission: Club for Growth is a national network of thousands of Americans, from all walks of life, who believe that prosperity and opportunity come through economic freedom. The Club works to promote public policies that promote economic growth primarily through legislative involvement, issue advocacy, research, training, and educational activity. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Taxes • Cutting government spending • Limited government • Death tax • Social Security reform • Free trade • Legal reform • School choice • Regulation • Deregulation Phone: 877-267-6397
CNSNews.com
Fax: 703-683-7045 Michael Chapman Managing Editor 325 South Patrick Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 Mission: CNSNews.com is an online news source for citizens, news organizations, and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than on spin. It serves as an alternative news source that looks for those stories that are too often ignored or under-reported, endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story, and debunks popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues. CNSNews.com copy may be used, reproduced, rebroadcast and/or republished by any private or public news organization at no cost, but with appropriate editorial credit assigned as a professional courtesy. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Politics • Culture • World affairs • General interest news Phone: 202-479-2873
Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
Star Parker President 722 12th Street, NW Fourth Floor Washington, DC, United States 20005 starparker@urbancure.org Mission: The Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education is a faith- and market-based think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Social Security reform • Family life • Welfare reform • Federal marriage amendment Phone: 703-837-0030
Coalitions for America
Fax: 703-837-0031 Eric Licht President 1423 Powhatan Street, #2 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 Mission: Coalitions for America’s mission is to bring about public policy that enhances free enterprise, limited government, strong national defense, and traditional values. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Social issues • Economic issues • Defense and foreign policy issues Phone: 877-239-7355
Colorado Family Institute
Fax: 719-213-2647 Jim Pfaff President/CEO PO Box 558 Castle Rock, CO, United States 80104 info@cofamily.org Mission: Colorado Family Institute is committed to restoring and defending traditional moral principles in the culture by advocating for sound public policy. Our goal is to support Colorado families by restoring the foundational values essential for the wellbeing of society. Tax Status: 501(c)4 Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage and Family • Protection of Life • Religious Freedom • Role of the Judiciary • Education Phone: 202-429-2737
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
Fax: 202-429-9574 David Rothbard President PO Box 65722 Washington, DC, United States 20035 info@cfact.org Mission: CFACT was created in 1985 to offer a positive new voice on consumer and environmental issues. It boldly proclaims that the cherished American values of competition, progress, political and economic freedom, and genuine environmental stewardship can and do offer the best hope for protecting not only the earth and its wildlife, but even more importantly, its people. CFACT’s overall mission is to enhance the fruitfulness of the earth and all its inhabitants, and does this by working to promote free market and safe technological solutions to a wide variety of public interest concerns. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Energy production • Climate change • Land use and property rights • Transportation • Habitat and wildlife • Government regulation Phone: 704-598-3717
Committee for Monetary Research and Education
Elizabeth Currier President 10004 Greenwood Court Charlotte, NC, United States 28215 cmre@bellsouth.net Mission: The Committee for Monetary Research and Education (CMRE) is engaged in education on currency markets and the principles of sound money. To fulfill its purpose, CMRE conducts meetings and publishes educational materials. Committee meetings cover such issues as prospects for inflation or deflation; direction of the bond, stock, and currency markets; and conditions in the banking industry and markets around the world. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Currencies • International credits • Euro development • Role of the dollar in international markets • Markets inflation/deflation • Federal Reserve System/banking Phone: 973-229-2618
Common Sense Institute of New Jersey
Jerry Cantrell President 2 Berry Lane Randolph, NJ, United States 07869 jcantrell@csinj.org Mission: The Common Sense Institute of New Jersey is a nonprofit research and education organization that conducts scholarly research and analysis of New Jersey public policy. The Institute’s mission is to explore and advance public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic opportunity. Institute staff will pursue this mission by conducting timely research on important issues and then marketing the findings to elected leaders, the media, business leaders, community organizations, and individual citizens. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Transparency • Taxes • Land Use • Regulation • Economic Development • Environment • Health & Welfare • Education Phone: 717-671-1901
Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives
Fax: 717-671-1905 Matthew J. Brouillette President 225 State Street, Suite 302 Harrisburg, PA, United States 17101 info@commonwealthfoundation.org Mission: The mission of the Commonwealth Foundation is to improve the quality of life for all Pennsylvanians by advancing public policies based on the founding principles of limited constitutional government, economic and political freedom, and individual responsibility for one’s actions. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Tax and fiscal policy • Education policy • Labor policy • Tax and expenditure limitations • Health care policy • Business climate issues Phone: 202-331-1010
Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)
Fax: 202-331-0640 Fred L. Smith, Jr. President 1899 L Street, NW 12th Floor Washington, DC, United States 20036 info@cei.org Mission: CEI is a non-profit public policy group committed to advancing the principles of free enterprise and limited government. It believes that consumers are best helped not by government regulation, but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free marketplace. CEI produces groundbreaking research on regulatory issues, promotes its ideas and solutions to the public and the media, and works with policymakers to ensure an effective and powerful voice for economic freedom. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Global warming and energy use • Safety issues: automobile, food and drug • Chemical and environmental risk • Internet and e-commerce issues • Regulatory reform issues • Free-market environmentalism Phone: 202-488-7000
Concerned Women for America (CWA)
Fax: 202-488-0806 Peggy Nance CEO 1015 15th Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC, United States 20005 mail@cwfa.org Mission: The mission of CWA is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 205-592-3122
Concerned Women for America of Alabama
Valerie Askew Director PO Box 320211 Birmingham, AL, United States 35232 director@alabama.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Alabama is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 202-309-5978
Concerned Women for America of Arizona
Nina Bell Field Development Coordinator 1015 Fifteenth St., NW Washington, DC, United States 20005 abell@cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Arizona is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 626-227-4266
Concerned Women for America of California
Phyllis Nemeth Director PO Box 660894 Arcadia, CA, United States 91066 director@california.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 626-353-7734
Concerned Women for America of California - Los Angeles Tri-Counties
Eunice Lugenbuehl Director PO Box 6355 Altadena, CA, United States 91003 la.director@california.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California – Los Angeles Tri-Counties is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 760-877-4659
Concerned Women for America of California - Southern Counties
Cindy Sieger Director 1835A South Centre City Parkway. #247 Escondido, CA, United States 92025-6504 sd.director@california.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of California – Southern Counties is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 407-697-5929
Concerned Women for America of Florida
Terri Johannessen Director PO Box 140063 Orlando, FL, United States 32814 director@florida.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 770-617-1987
Concerned Women for America of Georgia
Fax: 770-579-2472 Tanya Ditty Director Box 671374 Marietta, GA, United States 30066 director@georgia.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Georgia is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 808-965-6002
Concerned Women for America of Hawaii
Barbara Ferraro Director PO Box 10732 Hilo, HI, United States 96721 director@hi.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of New York is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 708-371-7810
Concerned Women for America of Illinois
Fax: 708-371-7896 Colleen Nolan Acting Director PO Box 188 Palos Heights, IL, United States 60463 director@illinois.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Illinois is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 515-963-0888
Concerned Women for America of Iowa
Tamara Scott Director PO Box 616 Ankeny, IA, United States 50021 director@iowa.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Iowa is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 913-491-1380
Concerned Women for America of Kansas
Fax: 913-491-1380 Judy Smith Director PO Box 11233, Shawnee Mission, KS, United States 66211 director@kansas.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Kansas is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 318-458-9447
Concerned Women for America of Louisiana
Sonya Hodnett State Director PO Box 44492 Shreveport, LA, United States 71104 Mission: The Vision of Concerned Women for America of Louisiana is to educate, equip, empower and encourage our citizens making them responsive to and responsible for the moral climate of our state. We desire to stand in the strength of the Biblical principles of our faith and the power of prayer. We will work to develop effective leadership that will help reverse the decline of moral values in our communities, state and nation. Tax Status: 501(c)3 Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 207-266-3964
Concerned Women for America of Maine
Fax: 207-667-5476 Charla Bansley Director PO Box 17 Holden, ME, United States 04429 director@maine.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Maine is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 301-884-9463
Concerned Women for America of Maryland
Fax: 301-884-2391 Evalena Gray Director PO Box 504 Charlotte Hall, MD, United States 20622 director@maryland.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Maryland is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 636-536-6506
Concerned Women for America of Missouri
Fax: 636-536-4073 Bev Ehlen Director PO Box 274 Chesterfield, MO, United States 63006 ne.director@missouri.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Missouri is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 406-859-3315
Concerned Women for America of Montana
Fax: 406-859-3305 Patti Kanduch Director PO Box 249 Philipsburg, MT, United States 59858 director@montana.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Montana is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 716-359-3226
Concerned Women for America of New York
Fax: 716-941-6382 Anne Downey Director PO Box 97 North Boston, NY, United States 14110 li.director@newyork.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of New York is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 704-542-6984
Concerned Women for America of North Carolina
Sherri Miller Director PO Box 472903 Charlotte, NC, United States 28247 director@northcarolina.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Carolina is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 701-331-0946
Concerned Women for America of North Dakota
Janne Myrdal Director PO Box 213 Park River, ND, United States 58270 director@northdakota.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Dakota is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 513-545-2850
Concerned Women for America of Ohio
Bobbi Radeck Director 7723 Tylers Place Boulevard, #278 West Chester, OH, United States 45069 director@ohio.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Ohio is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 918-331-6286
Concerned Women for America of Oklahoma
Sheridan Crenshaw Director PO Box 20585 Oklahoma City, OK, United States 73156 director@oklahoma.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Oklahoma is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 541-928-7578
Concerned Women for America of Oregon
Karen Elliott Associate Director PO Box 3070 Albany, OR, United States 97321 oregoncwfa@yahoo.com Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Oregon is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 724-452-7325
Concerned Women for America of Pennsylvania
Fax: 724-452-7325 Nancy Staible Director PO Box 96 Zelienople, PA, United States 16063 director@pennsylvania.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Pennsylvania is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 605-439-3630
Concerned Women for America of South Dakota
Fax: 605-439-5302 Linda Schauer Director PO Box 2 New Holland, SD, United States 57364-0002 director@southdakota.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of South Dakota is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 972-722-2776
Concerned Women for America of Texas
Fax: 972-722-2776 Ann Hettinger Director PO Box 1746 Rockwall, TX, United States 75087 director@texas.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 903-569-6779
Concerned Women for America of Texas - East
Fax: 903-569-6779 Tommie Cosby Director PO Box 415 Mineola, TX, United States 75773 e.director@texas.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - East is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 817-691-0400
Concerned Women for America of Texas - North
Marcena Springer Director PO Box 303416 Fort Worth, TX, United States 76163 n.director@texas.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - North is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 979-543-8780
Concerned Women for America of Texas - South
Fax: 979-543-8780 Pat Hanson Director PO Box 1167 El Campo, TX, United States 77437-1167 se.director@texas.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Texas - South is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 434-401-8852
Concerned Women for America of Virginia
Janet Robey Director PO Box 1465 Bedford, VA, United States 24523 director@virginia.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Florida is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 425-869-1923
Concerned Women for America of Washington
Maureen Richardson Director PO Box 143 Woodinville, WA, United States 98072 director@washington.cwfa.org Mission: The mission of Concerned Women for America (CWA) of Washington is to promote and protect Biblical values among all citizens—first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society—thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation. The vision of CWA is for women and like-minded men, from all walks of life, to come together and restore the family to its traditional purpose and thereby allow each member of the family to realize their God-given potential and be more responsible citizens. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Sanctity of life • Religious freedom • Defense of the family • Pornography • Education • National sovereignty Phone: 212-598-4000
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Fax: 212-598-4141 Niger Innis National Spokesman 817 Broadway, Third Floor New York, NY, United States 10003 core@core-online.org Mission: CORE seeks to establish, in practice, the inalienable right for all people to determine their own destiny, to decide for themselves what social and political organizations can operate in their best interest, and to do so without gratuitous and inhibiting influence from those whose interest is diametrically opposed to theirs. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Legal defense for victims of violence • Immigration assistance • Substance abuse • Discrimination • Racial hatred on the Internet Phone: 703-837-8817
The Congressional Institute, Inc.
Fax: 703-837-8812 Mark Strand Executive Director 1001 North Fairfax Street, #410 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 info@conginst.org Mission: The Congressional Institute is dedicated to helping Members of Congress better serve the nation and to helping the public better understand public policy debates and the operations of the national legislature. Through the sponsorship of Member and staff educational conferences and seminars, values-based research, and its Internet sites, the Institute seeks to further discourse on issues of public importance. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Congress • Social Security • Results Act • Public judgment Phone: 703-938-9626
The Conservative Caucus, Inc.
Howard Phillips Chairman 450 Maple Avenue East Vienna, VA, United States 22180 corndorf@cais.com Mission: The goal of The Conservative Caucus is to restore the Republic by limiting the federal government to its delegated, enumerated, constitutional functions and returning American jurisprudence to its Biblical, common law foundation. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Passage of the Constitution Restoration Act (CRA) • Opposition to military draft • Withdrawal from U.N., WTO, NAFTA, IMF, World Bank • Reversal of U.S. trade, economic, and defense policies which benefit Red China • Repeal of Reagan–Clinton taxes on Social Security benefits • Opposition to federal funding of pro-abortion and homosexual activist groups Phone: 314-434-7028
Constitutional Coalition
Fax: 314-878-6294 Donna H. Hearne Executive Director 15820 Clayton Road PO Box 37054 St. Louis, MO, United States 63141 freedombasics@sbcglobal.net Mission: The Constitutional Coalition addresses vital contemporary topics from a constitutional perspective. Government, taxes, national defense, education, family needs, property rights, environment, and other issues that impact cities of the state are researched and then presented in an understandable format through seminars and publications. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Sexually transmitted diseases • Property rights • Reclaiming constitutional thinking and world view • State governmental issues • Environment Phone: 301-606-7364
Consumers for Health Care Choices
Fax: 301-665-3851 Greg Scandlen President and CEO PO Box 4955 Hagerstown, MD, United States 21742 support@chcchoices.org Mission: Consumers for Health Care Choices (CHCC) is a not-for-profit, grassroots organization that represents the views of the health care consumer to policymakers and industry leaders. The membership consists of consumers from all walks of life and all professions from across the nation. Members with expertise in health care issues are encouraged to take an active role in the organization’s efforts—giving speeches, writing articles, op-eds, and letters to the editor on behalf of empowered health care consumers. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Health care Phone: 202-942-7699
Consumers Rights League
Fax: 202-942-7692 Terry Kibbe Chief Public Advocate 601 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW North Building, Suite 700 Washington, DC, United States 20004 info@consumersrightsleague.org Mission: The Consumers Rights League (CRL) is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational organization dedicated to preserving consumer choice in the marketplace. CRL works with consumers, presents facts, and produces quality research that thoroughly documents the real-world choices and challenges consumers face; reports the benefits enjoyed by an overwhelming majority of consumers; and seeks to “pull back the curtain” to reveal the agenda-driven research distributed by many of these self-described consumer advocacy groups. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Democratization of credit • Housing crisis Phone: 202-496-9199
Cordell Hull Institute
Fax: 202-496-9299 Hugh Corbet President 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 960 Washington, DC, United States 20006 hugh.corbet@cordellhullinstitute.org Mission: The Cordell Hull Institute’s mission is to promote a strategic approach to the liberalization of international trade and investment. Its approach is based on the convergence of long-term national interests and the maintenance, development, and extension of the World Trade Organization, as founded on free trade principles, private enterprise, and open competition. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: International trade • Integrating developing countries into the world economy • reform of the “escape clauses” in the World Trade Organization system Phone: 208-939-662
Cornerstone Institute of Idaho
Doug Barth Executive Director PO Box 653 Eagle, ID, United States 83616 info@cornerstoneofidaho.org Mission: Cornerstone Institute of Idaho is committed to strengthening the traditional family as the cornerstone of civilization and to restoring time-honored principles to the roles of family, church, and government. The Institute is a non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to strengthening families in Idaho. Established in association with Focus on the Family, it links together experts in law, medicine, media, and education to help families deal with the problems facing Idaho, its communities, and the nation. Established in association with Focus on the Family, Cornerstone links together experts in law, medicine, media and education to help families deal with the problems facing our communities, our state and our nation. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Religious freedom • Pro-life • Defense of marriage • Choice in education Phone: 603-228-4794
Cornerstone Policy Research
Fax: 603-228-6069 Kevin H. Smith Executive Director 136 North Main Street, Suite 2 Concord, NH, United States 03301 cornerstone@nhcornerstone.org Mission: Cornerstone Policy Research is a non-partisan, non-profit, research, and education organization dedicated to building strong families, restoring traditional principles to public policy, and preserving free enterprise—all of which are the cornerstone of a free and prosperous society. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Securing the definition of marriage • Abstinence • Tax burden on families • Judicial reform Phone: 703-836-6200
Council for Affordable Health Insurance
Fax: 703-836-6550 Dr. Merrill Matthews Director 127 South Peyton Street, Suite 210 Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 mail@cahi.org Mission: The Council for Affordable Health Insurance (CAHI) exists to develop and promote free market solutions to America’s health care challenges, so that all Americans have access to affordable health insurance. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Health insurance • Tax credits • Health Savings Accounts • Medical liability reform • Protect reinsurance • Long-term care • Underwriting Phone: 202-467-5300
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste
Fax: 202-467-4253 Thomas A. Schatz President 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC, United States 20036 membership@cagw.org Mission: The Council serves as the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste and tabulates annual congressional ratings, which measure the willingness of each member of Congress to fight government waste and reduce the federal deficit. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Corporate welfare • Government waste • Procurement reform Phone: 916-446-0345
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
Fax: 916-446-1194 Michael D. Rushford President PO Box 1199 Sacramento, CA, United States 95812 rushford@cjlf.org Mission: The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF) is the only non-profit, public interest law organization in the U.S. focusing exclusively on improving the government’s ability to protect public from crime. The Foundation’s award-winning legal staff joins criminal cases before the nation’s highest courts to encourage decisions that balance the interests of criminal defendants with those of crime victims and law-abiding society. Scholarly Foundation studies on criminal justice policy have encouraged significant reforms by Congress, state legislatures, and municipal governments to enhance the effectiveness of police and prosecutors and restore common sense to the rules governing criminal trials, appeals, and sentencing. The Foundation’s aggressive participation in the public debate on crime and law enforcement has provided the national media with a balancing perspective to the widely publicized views of criminal rights and civil liberties advocates. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Anti-terrorism • Incarcerating habitual criminals • Death penalty enforcement • Restoring state policy powers • Limiting activist federal judges • Shortening criminal appeals Phone: 202-832-3895
D.C. Parents for School Choice, Inc.
Fax: 202-832-3897 Virginia F. Walden-Ford Executive Director PO Box 29219 Washington, DC, United States 20017 GFWalden@aol.com Mission: D.C. Parents for School Choice was founded in 1998 to train, empower, and organize parents in the District of Columbia to make informed educational decisions for their children in order to increase their chances for success. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: School choice • Parental involvement in education Phone: 800-752-6562
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Fax: 323-556-2559 David Horowitz President 4401 Wilshire Boulevard, Fourth Floor Los Angeles, CA, United States 90010 info@horowitzfreedomcenter.org Mission: The David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) focuses on the radical culture that emerged from the 1960s, its grip on the institutions of higher learning, and its attack on America’s heritage. The Center provides a variety of forums for the discussions and analysis of today’s most pressing values issues. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Academic freedom • Constitutional rights • The war at home and abroad Phone: 302-542-5106
Delaware Family Policy Council
Fax: 302-875-8288 Nicole Thies Executive Director Dover, DE, United States 19901 nicole@delawarefamilies.org Mission: The mission of the Delaware Family Policy Council is to strengthen, nurture, and shield families by developing faith-based alliances with churches, pro-family organizations, community and civic leaders, and religious organizations. Its goal is to educate, equip, unify, and engage the citizens of Delaware in advocating for family values and preserving the integrity of the family as an institution. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Marriage • Parenting • Relationships • Family Phone: 206-292-0401
Discovery Institute
Fax: 206-682-5320 Bruce Chapman President 208 Columbia Street Seattle, WA, United States 98104 info@discovery.org Mission: The Discovery Institute’s mission is to make practical a positive vision of the future. The Institute does this by discovering and promoting ideas that can chart the future in the common-sense tradition of representative government, the free market, and individual liberty. This mission is promoted through books, reports, legislative testimony, articles, public conferences, and debates, plus media coverage and Discovery’s own publications and Web site. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Science and culture • Environment • Defense • Technology • Future of law • Regionalism • Individual liberty Phone: 303-726-9731
Docs4Patient Care
Fax: 877-756-8936 Hal Scherz M.D. President PO Box 28415 Atlanta, GA, United States 30358 halscherz@docs4patientcare.org Mission: Docs4Patient care is an organization of concerned physicians committed to the establishment of a health care system that preserves the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, promotes quality of care, supports affordable access to all Americans, and protects patients' freedom of choice. We urge patients and physicians to get involved in order to preserve the good qualities of our healthcare system, address the problems, while preventing its bureaucratic destruction. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Health Care • Health Insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • Health Policy Reform • Medical Liability • Doctor Patient Relationship Phone: 703-535-3563
DonorsTrust
Fax: 703-535-3564 Whitney Ball Executive Director 109 North Henry Street Alexandria, VA, United States 22314 whitb@aol.com Mission: DonorsTrust is a public charity whose mission is to ensure the intent of donors who are dedicated to the ideals of limited government, personal responsibility, and free enterprise. As such, DonorsTrust provides an innovative charitable vehicle for donors who wish to safeguard their charitable intent to fund organizations that under gird America’s founding principles. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 202-544-0353
Eagle Forum Washington, D.C.
Fax: 202-547-6996 Colleen Holmes Executive Director 316 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 203 Washington, DC, United States 20003 Colleen@eagleforum.org Mission: Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Phone: 618-462-5415
Eagle Forum
Fax: 618-462-8909 Phyllis Schlafly President PO Box 618 Alton, IL, United States 62002 eagle@eagleforum.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: 205-879-7096
Eagle Forum of Alabama
Fax: 205-871-2859 Eunie Smith President 4200 Stone River Circle Birmingham, AL, United States 35213 alaeagle@charter.net Mission: The mission of Eagle Forum of Alabama is to equip citizens with timely, reliable information from a conservative, constitutional point of view on public policy issues that affect the family so that they will know how, when, and where to express themselves and make their voices heard. Such participation in the process of self-government is essential for America to continue to be a land of individual liberty with respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise. Influencing the education of children in these principles is a high priority. Tax Status: 501(c)(4) Policy/Priority Issues: Judicial supremacy • Illegal immigration • Family Protection Act • Education • National sovereignty Phone:
Eagle Forum of Georgia
Sue Ella Deadwyler Director 4168 Rue Antoinette Stone Mountain, GA, United States 30083 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:
Eagle Forum of Iowa
State Sen. Kitty Rehberg President 2279 310th Street Rowley, IA, United States 52329 krehberg@peoplepc.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:
Eagle Forum of Sacramento
Georgiana Preskar Director Sacramento, CA, United States glee16@surewest.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:
Eagle Forum of Wisconsin
Dottie Feder President PO Box 86 Brookfield, WI, United States 53008-0086 eagles@eagleforumofwisconsin.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: 914-694-3372
Economic Freedom Institute
Fax: 914-694-2386 Dr. Edward W. Ryan Director Manhattanville College 2900 Purchase Street Purchase, NY, United States 10577 edwryan@aol.com Mission: Economic Freedom Institute (EFI) provides a forum for the study, analysis, and discussion of the nature of economic freedom and its implications. The Institute fosters the exchange and development of ideas concerning policies and programs of importance in regional, national, and international arenas. Open to a variety of viewpoints and philosophies, EFI includes scholars, corporate executives, and officials from labor unions, non-profit institutions, and various levels of government. EFI’s primary audience is Westchester County, New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Economic freedom • The role of government in the economy • Regulation of free enterprise • International trade Phone: 505-797-4002
Educate New Mexico
Fax: 505-797-1984 Daniel Ulibarri Executive Director PO Box 794 Albuquerque, NM, United States 87103 daniel@educatenm.org Mission: Educate New Mexico believes that in order to foster academic growth, those bearing the responsibility of the child’s education should be as informed as possible on all aspects of that education: where the child can receive the best possible education; laws and policies affecting education; available financial aid and scholarship opportunities to help pay for schooling; extra-curricular activities and homework assistance—having a solid understanding of all these areas is necessary for children’s academic success. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Education reform • Tuition assistance Phone: 703-248-2611
Education Consumers Foundation
Fax: 703-525-8841 J. E. Stone, Ed.D. President 1655 North Fort Meyer Drive, Suite 700 Arlington, VA, United States 22209 professor@education-consumers.org Mission: The Education Consumers Foundation is dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of education’s consumers. It works in behalf of the parties who furnish the students and the money, not those that benefit financially from the reputation and growth of the industry. Tax Status: Policy/Priority Issues: Teacher training and licensure • Teacher and school effectiveness and accountability • Educational research • Education choice, business partnerships, and interest groups Phone: 208-514-4704
Education Excellence Idaho
Fax: 208-514-4701 Gale L. Pooley, Ph.D. President PO Box 222 Eagle, ID, United States 83616 info@edexidaho.org Mission: Education Excellence Idaho’s mission is to create the best environment for choice and opportunity to thrive in education. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education • School choice • Education innovation • Accountability Phone: 616-459-2222
The Education Freedom Fund
Fax: 616-588-6335 Chuck Gaidica Co-Chairman PO Box 230078 Grand Rapids, MI, United States 49523-0078 info@educationfreedomfund.org Mission: The Education Freedom Fund’s mission is to provide low-income Michigan families with a choice in the schools their children attend by giving tuition assistance through scholarships. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice Phone: 800-252-3280
Education Industry Association
Fax: 301-468-3249 Steve Pines Executive Director 5909 Barbados Place, Suite 202 Rockville, MD, United States 20852 spines@educationindustry.org Mission: The Education Industry Association is a professional network of education businesses dedicated to delivering and advancing the education of children and youth by promoting education reform through entrepreneurship. Tax Status: 501(c)(6) Policy/Priority Issues: Promoting education reform through entrepreneurship Phone: 202-244-7535
Education Policy Institute
Fax: 202-244-7584 Myron Lieberman Chairman 4401-A Connecticut Avenue, NW PMB 294 Washington, DC, United States 20008-2322 lieberman@educationpolicy.org Mission: Education Policy Institute (EPI) seeks to improve education through research, policy analysis, and the development of responsible alternatives to existing policies and practices. In these activities, EPI strives to promote greater parental choice in education, a more competitive education industry, an enlarged role for the for-profit sector, and other policies that address the problems of both public and private schools. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education vouchers • Tuition tax credits • Obstacles to a competitive education industry • Employment relations in education • Interest group impact on education • Education reform Phone: 317-951-8781
The Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust
Fax: 317-951-8783 Robert Hoy Executive Director One North Capitol Avenue, Suite 1250 Indianapolis, IN, United States 46204 rhoy@choicetrust.org Mission: The Educational CHOICE Charitable Trust provides tuition assistance to low-income students, serves as a model for research and legislation, and encourages all schools to improve by introducing competition into the system. The CHOICE Trust is making a difference in the lives of children and families in the Indianapolis community. The program, founded in 1991, has provided scholarship grants to students of lower-income families enabling them to attend private, parochial, or out-of-district public elementary schools of their choice. To date, CHOICE has funded more than 15,000 years of education to students attending a wide range of schools. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Tuition assistance • School choice Phone: 518-434-3100
Empire Center for New York State Policy
Fax: 518-434-3130 Tim Hoefer Operations Director PO Box 7113 Albany, NY, United States 12224 info@empirecenter.org Mission: The Empire Center for New York State Policy is an independent, non-partisan, free market-oriented, research organization devoted to promoting new and different policy approaches to the many challenges facing New York State. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Education • Health care • Civil justice reform • Tax and spending policies • Economic growth • Public pension reform Phone: 202-463-7650
Employment Policies Institute
Fax: 202-463-7107 Michael Saltsman Research Fellow 1090 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC, United States 20005 Saltsman@epionline.org Mission: The Employment Policies Institute is a non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth. In particular, EPI focuses on issues that affect entry-level employment. Among other issues, EPI research has quantified the impact of new labor costs on job creation, explored the connection between entry-level employment and welfare reform, and analyzed the demographic distribution of mandated benefits. EPI sponsors nonpartisan research which is conducted by independent economists at major universities around the country. Tax Status: 501(c)3 Policy/Priority Issues: Minimum wage policies • National and state unemployment and teen unemployment rates • Health care mandates • Living wage policies • Paid sick leave mandates Phone:
Empowerment Resource Network
Karen M. Woods Executive Director PO Box 5091 North Muskegon, MI, United States 49445-5091 info@ernonline.org Mission: The mission of Empowerment Resource Network (ERN) is to build economic capacity and develop entrepreneurial skill sets among families living in low-income communities. ERN is a resource hub for state legislators, grassroots organizations, and other civic leaders promoting American family and community renewal of civil society in the 21st century. Tax Status: 501(c)(3) Policy/Priority Issues: Home ownership • Urban enterprise • Welfare reform • Family preservation • Education • Technology development |