National Center for Policy Analysis
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a "communications and research foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's public policy problems ... [and] prides itself on aggressively marketing its products for maximum impact by 'targeting key political leaders and special interest groups, establishing on-going ties with members of the print and electronic media, and testifying before Congress, federal agencies, state lawmakers, and national organizations.'" -- NCRP, The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations
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Founding Board Members
The NCPA began its existence in 1983 at the University of Dallas.
- Wayne Calloway, President and CEO of Frito-Lay
- Jere Thompson, President and CEO of the Southland Corporation
- Robert Dedman, President and CEO of ClubCorp
- Russell Perry, President and CEO of Republic Financial Services
- Sir Antony Fisher, President and CEO of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Board Members
According to NCPA web site, March 25, 2003:
- Thomas W. Smith, Managing Partner of Prescott Investors, Inc.
- John C. Goodman, President, NCPA
- Pete du Pont, Richards, Layton and Finger
- James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corporation
- Jere W. Thompson, President, The Williamsburg Corporation
- Dan W. Cook III, Senior Advisor, MHT Partners
- Robert H. Dedman, Chairman of the Board, ClubCorp International
- Virginia Manheimer, Trustee, The Hickory Foundation
- Henry J. Bud Smith, Chairman, The Trinity Forum
- Michael L. Whalen, President & CEO, Heart of America Restaurants & Inns
Fellows, Policy Analysts
- Bruce Bartlett, Senior Fellow
- H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow [1] and Senior Policy Analyst [2]
- Dr. Devon M. Herrick, Senior Fellow
- Matt Moore, Senior Policy Analyst
Environmental Task Force
http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s162/s162i.html
National Center for Policy Analysis
* Bruce N. Ames, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley * Terry L. Anderson, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center * Larry P. Arnn, President, Claremont Institute * Barry Asmus, Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis * John A. Baden, Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment * Mikhail S. Bernstam, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution * Walter Block, Senior Research Fellow, Fraser Institute * James Bovard, Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute * Sam Brunelli, Executive Director, American Legislative Exchange Council * Eamonn Butler, Director, Adam Smith Institute, London, England * Alston Chase, Author: Playing God in Yellowstone * Lucy Clark, Associate Director of the Judicial Studies Program, Manhattan Institute * Kenneth Clarkson, Director, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida * William J. Dennis, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, The NFIB Foundation * Tom DiLorenzo, Director, Center for Economic Education University of Tennessee at Chattanooga * Becky Norton Dunlop, Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior, * Stephen Gold, Executive Director, Citizens for the Environment * John C. Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis * Robert E. Gordon, Jr., Director, National Wilderness Institute * William M. H. Hammett, President, Manhattan Institute * Stephen H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University * Robert Hawkins, President, Institute for Contemporary Studies * Edward L. Hudgins, Deputy Director, Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation * Sherwood Idso, Adjunct Professor of Botany & Geography, Arizona State University * Kent Jeffreys, Environmental Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute * Bruce Johnson, Research Director, The Independent Institute * Jo Kwong, Director of Public Affairs, Atlas Economic Research Foundation * Kathy Kushner, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute * Donald Leal, Research Associate, Political Economy Research Center * Dwight Lee, Adjunct Professor, Center for the Study of American Business * Greg Lindsay, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies, St. Leonards, Australia * Madsen Pirie, President, Adam Smith Institute, London, England * Virginia Postrel, Editor of Reason, Reason Foundation * Lynn Scarlett, Vice President of Research Reason Foundation * Jane S. Shaw, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center * Randy T. Simmons, Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University * Julian L. Simon, Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland * S. Fred Singer, Director, Project on Science and Environmental Policy * Fred L. Smith, President, Competitive Enterprise Institute * Robert J. Smith, Director of Environmental Studies, Cato Institute * Richard L. Stroup, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center * Jerry Taylor, Legislative Director, American Legislative Exchange Council * Norman Ture, President, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation * Ronald Utt, Vice President, National Chamber Foundation * Elizabeth Whelan, President, American Council of Science and Health * Aaron Wildavsky, Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley * C. Edwin Baker, Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy, Independence Institute, Golden, Colorado * Joseph L. Bast, President, Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois * Clint Bolick, Director, Landmark Center for Civil Rights, Washington, D.C. * John Carlson, President, Washington Institute for Policy Studies, Bellevue, Washington * Robert Allan Cooke, Director, Institute for Business Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois * John W. Cooper, Executive Director, James Madison Institute, Tallahassee, Florida * D. Allen Dalton, Director, Center for the Study of Market Alternatives, Caldwell, Idaho * Mark Greenfield, Executive Director, Heartland Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Michael S. Greve, Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C. * Steve Hayward, Director, Golden State Center for Policy Studies, Claremont Institute, Sacramento, California * John M. Hood, Publications and Research Director, John Locke Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina * Barbara Keating-Edh, President, Consumer Alert, Modesto, California * Tex Lezar, President, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Dallas, Texas * James H. Miller, President, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Joseph A. Morris, President & General Counsel, Lincoln Legal Foundation, Chicago, Illinois * William C. Myers, Executive Vice President, South Carolina Policy Council, Columbia, South Carolina * Lawrence W. Reed, President, Mackinac Center, Midland, Michigan * Scott J. Relan, President, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Oxford, Mississippi * Michael Sanera, President Barry, Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research, Flagstaff, Arizona * Thomas R. Saving, Director Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise, College Station, Texas * William C. Schilling, Executive Director, Wyoming Heritage Society, Casper, Wyoming * Timothy Seibel, Director for Land Use and, Environmental Studies Claremont Institute, Montclair, California * Joe M. Sloan, Jr., President, California Conservation Coalition, Whittier, California * Fritz S. Steiger, Executive Vice President & CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation, San Antonio, Texas * Martin J. Summers, Research Associate Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England * Judy Swafford, Director Southwest Policy Institute, Edmond, Oklahoma * Robert Taylor, Fellow Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia * David J. Theroux, President, The Independent Institute, Oakland, California * Michael Warder, Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute, Rockford, Illinois * William W. Weston, President, Foundation Francisco Marroquin, Stuart, Florida
Funding
The NCPA web site states that it "receives 70% of its funding from foundations, 20% from corporations, and 10% from individuals." Between 1985 and 2001, the Center received $4,031,000 in 75 separate grants from only twelve foundations.
- Castle Rock Foundation
- Earhart Foundation
- JM Foundation
- Koch Family Foundations (David H. Koch Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Foundation)
- John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
- Scaife Foundations (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
- DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
- El Paso Energy Foundation
- ExxonMobil Foundation
- Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
- Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Procter & Gamble Fund
Contact
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URL: http://www.ncpa.org/