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The Center of the American Experiment (CAE) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that supports policies promoting free enterprise, limited government, and individual liberty in Minnesota. CAE researches and publishes papers on Minnesota’s economy, health care, education, state and local governance, and employee freedom. CAE also proposes policy approaches,
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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded by Libertarian Party activist Ed Crane, libertarian economist Murray Rothbard, and businessman Charles Koch, the organization conducts policy research in support of libertarian policies and has been credited with bringing libertarianism into the political mainstream.
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Frontiers of Freedom Institute is or was a Fairfax, Virginia based nonprofit education and advocacy group. The organization is the sister organization of the Frontiers of Freedom lobbying organization. The organizations were founded by the late former U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop (R-WY). A major focus of the organization is the
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The Archbridge Institute is a right-leaning public policy think tank that conducts academic research in order to propose policy solutions intended to increase opportunities for individuals. The Institute purports that “artificial barriers” created by public policy limit opportunity and thereby stand in the way of individual success, especially at is
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The Benjamin Rush Institute (BRI) is an organization promoting free-market health care policies with the intention of protecting the direct doctor-patient relationship by encouraging a direct pay model. BRI brings together medical students, faculty, health care professionals, and free market healthcare advocates to promote its ideas via lectures, educational conferences, and its
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The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a public interest law firm that specializes in Native American tribal law and representation. Since its founding in 1970, NARF has been one of the most prominent organizations involved in litigation affecting Native American tribes and the development of American Indian law. Founding
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American Compass is a self-proclaimed conservative think tank which considers itself a part of the “conservative labor movement.” American Compass was founded by Oren Cass, a former advisor to now-U.S. Senator Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) presidential campaigns and a labor and environmental policy analyst. In American Compass’s founding letter, Cass
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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a left-of-center, anti-business advocacy and organizing organization. ILSR was co-founded in 1974 by David Morris, Neil Seldman, and Gil Friend to research and establish communities that do not participate in the external market economy.
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The Hope Enterprise Corporation is a left-leaning nonprofit organization founded in 1994. Formerly known as the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, Hope Enterpirse Corporation focuses on urban and housing development in the Southern United States.
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The American Conservation Coalition (ACC) is a right-of-center environmental advocacy group with financial and advisory board ties to left-of-center environmentalist groups. The group was founded by Benjamin “Benji” Backer, then-a student at the University of Washington, who led the group until 2023 when Danielle Butcher Franz became CEO and Chris
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The R Street Institute is a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was spun off from the right-of-center and Chicago-based Heartland Institute in 2012.
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Third Way Institute is the charitable arm of Third Way, a lobbying and advocacy organization that advocates for “modern center-left ideas.” 279 Third Way Institute was founded in 2005 and helps fund the tax-exempt work
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Also see the similarly named Foundation to Promote Open Society (Nonprofit) The Open Society Foundations (OSF; formally Open Society Institute) is a private grantmaking foundation created and funded by billionaire financier and liberal philanthropist George Soros. OSF was founded in 1993 as the Open Society Institute (OSI), which remains the foundation’s
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The Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is a left-of-center think tank and advocacy group that is active on a variety of public policy issues. It operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, with 2020 revenues totaling approximately $6.9 million. Since 2021, its executive director has been Tope Folarin.
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) is a left-wing litigation and advocacy group focused on immigration, election procedure, and Census and demographic interest issues. Founded in the late 1960s with extensive financial support from the left-wing Ford Foundation which continues through the present day, MALDEF is
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The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MI) is a non-partisan public policy think tank that advocates for greater economic choice and individual responsibility in New York. MI conducts research, publishes a quarterly magazine, City Journal, and has developed initiatives on college campuses in support of free-market ideas that shape political
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The Independent Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank that seeks to advance peaceful, free societies through its research and publications. The Independent Institute has seven educational centers that conduct research and present findings as public policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues.
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The Hudson Institute is a right-of-center think tank based in Washington, D.C. The Institute’s scholars conduct research in the areas of defense, international relations, economics, health care, technology, culture, and law and make policy recommendations that support individual freedom, free markets, and economic growth based on technological innovation.
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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal worker union with over 300,000 members.788 Affiliated with the AFL-CIO union federation since its founding, AFGE collectively bargains
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Aspen Institute is a left-leaning, Washington, D.C.-headquartered think tank that focuses on convening senior-level professionals, hosting events, and driving dialogue across the business, communications, education, environment, health, criminal justice, philanthropy, and national security affairs sectors. 822
