Search results for ‘Independent Institute’


  • Non-profit

    Campaign Finance Institute

    The Campaign Finance Institute (CFI) is a now-defunct nonprofit organization that houses research regarding campaign finance and money in politics. The organization was founded in 1999 and merged with the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP) in 2018. In 2021, the NIMSP merged with the Center
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    Check My Ads Institute

    Check My Ads Institute (CMA) is a left-of-center social media and advertising industry activist organization that pressures advertisers to drop their sponsorship of center-right and right-of-center websites and television programs under the guise of “rooting out disinformation and hate speech from their digital media buys.”
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    The Hunt Institute

    The James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy (Hunt Institute) is a left-of-center education advocacy organization based in Durham, North Carolina. 1
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    The Ethan Allen Institute (EAI)

    The Ethan Allen Institute (EAI) is a non-partisan, free-market think tank based in Vermont. EAI produces research and education aimed to influence public policy that supports free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty. 1 It is
  • Other Group

    Transnational Institute

    The Transnational Institute is a left-wing to far-left research and advocacy group located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with a legal status equivalent that of a 501(c) nonprofit organization in the United States. Originally founded as an international branch of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) from 1973
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    The Pegasus Institute

    The Pegasus Institute is a non-partisan, millennial-led public policy think tank that advocates for individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, and limited and accountable government. The Institute aims to improve the lives of people in Kentucky by conducting research that support data-driven public policy solutions based on free-market principles.
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    Fraser Institute

    The Fraser Institute is a non-partisan public policy think tank based in Vancouver, Canada. The Fraser Institute intends to improve the quality of life for Canadians by producing research and policy recommendations on issues like taxation, health care, education, economic freedom, natural resources, and the environment.
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    The Leadership Institute

    The Leadership Institute (LI) is a conservative educational organization that influences public policy through direct citizen participation and activism. LI provides training in leadership, campaigning, organizing, and youth politics. 1 The Leadership
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    W. Haywood Burns Institute

    The W. Haywood Burns Institute is a left-of-center nonprofit organization which calls for far-left criminal justice and public service policy implementation to dismantle alleged “structural racism” in the United States. The Institute has called for an end to race-blind policymaking in the criminal justice system and called for increased government
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    The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity

    The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (also known as MSIntegrity and MSI Integrity) is a left-of-center nonprofit based in Berkley, California that acts as a watchdog for so-called multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs). MSIs are collaborations — often international in character — between governments, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to address issues of
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    National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)

    National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is an association of private K-12 schools and accreditation organizations servicing private K-12 schools. As of February 2022, NAIS has 1,629 members throughout the United States and abroad that serve almost 700,000 students and employ more than 60,000 teachers.
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    Institute for Nonprofit News

    The Institute for Nonprofit News (formerly the Investigative News Network) is a left-of-center network of not-for-profit media organizations such as Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The Intercept. Background In 2009, journalists from 27 media organizations met at the Pocantico Center in New York, a historic home of the
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    Progressive Policy Institute

    The Progressive Policy Institute is a center-left organization which focuses on domestic policy issues including economic policy, technology, entitlement program spending, and education. The institute primarily produces studies and white papers in support of left-of-center policy implementation.
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    Buckeye Institute

    The Buckeye Institute is a non-partisan public-policy think tank that advocates for individual liberty, free enterprise, personal responsibility, and limited government in Ohio. Founded in 1989, the Institute promotes free-market policies in the state with the intention of replicating similar policies across the country.
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    Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

    The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization is a right-leaning organization founded by three professors from Hamilton College. 1 The organization
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    Political Forum Institute

    The Political Forum Institute is a right-leaning blog and content publisher that was founded by former Prudential Securities investment bankers Steve Soukup and Mark Melcher as a project of the right-leaning advocacy group the American Principles Project Foundation and its affiliated American Principles Project. The organization focuses on
  • Government Agency

    Biden Administration – Independent Agencies

    This profile contains Biden Administration nominations and appointments made at independent agencies of the United States government. Nominations and Appointments AmeriCorps Michael D. Smith is Chief Executive Officer of AmeriCorps (officially the Corporation for National and Community Service). He most recently served as Executive Director of the My Brother’s
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    Independent Women’s Voice

    Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) is the political arm of the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a right-of-center nonprofit organization which focuses on policy issues affecting women. The organization develops policy approaches to appeal to women, independents, and millennial voters
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    Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research

    The Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research is a non-partisan, public policy think tank that advocates for individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, especially as it regards tax, health care, and entitlement policy.
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    New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

    The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) is a New Jersey-based, left-of-center civil rights organization. Notably active in the city of Newark, the NJISJ publishes research on racial discrimination in housing, employment, and incarceration, pushing for left-of-center policy change in those areas. The NJISJ also sits on the Newark