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The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing research and policy approaches on environmentalist issues around the world. WRI has been opposed to the use of zero carbon nuclear energy.
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Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford committed to the growth of independent artists. The Institute is driven by its programs that discover and support independent filmmakers, theatre artists and composers from all over the world.
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The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is a nonpartisan membership organization that is concerned with “dangers to civilized society,” as outlined in its statement of aims. To this end, MPS supports classical economic and political liberalism, and opposes government expansion, trade unions, business monopolies, and inflation.
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The Philadelphia Society is a right-of-center membership organization that intends to strengthen the intellectual foundations, principles and traditions of what it calls a “free and ordered society.” The Philadelphia Society allows for an exchange of ideas through writing and discussion on a range of issues that include economics, policy, religion,
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Yochai Benkler is an law professor specializing in analyzing the role of the internet in information production. He is a board member of U.S. Programs at Open Society Foundations, a grantmaking organization created by left-of-center billionaire George Soros. Career On his website, Yochai Benkler lists his first job
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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that intends to promote and protect human rights internationally. HRF focuses its efforts on countries ruled by authoritarian regimes while raising awareness about threats to freedom worldwide.
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The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is a Texas-based association of teachers and scholars from colleges and universities, public policy institutes, and industry that promotes business and free enterprise. The organization has advocated conservative and libertarian-leaning ideas on economics and questions government bureaucracies.
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Peter Thiel is a technology investor and a mega-donor to Republican Party candidates. 1 Thiel co-founded PayPal in 1998 and in 2004 was the first outside investor in Facebook. He was on the Facebook
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The National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC) is a pro-taxpayer organization that advocates for limited government, individual liberty, and lower tax rates. NTLC promotes candidates and initiatives that support these goals. 1 NTLC’s priorities
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The Bafrayung Fund is a New York City-based private grantmaking foundation established in 2018. 1 The foundation makes the bulk of its large contributions to numerous left-of-center to radical organizations. People The chair of the Bafrayung
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The Free State Foundation (FSF) is a nonpartisan, right-of-center public policy think tank that advocates for laws and policies promoting free enterprise, limited government, and the rule of law. FSF’s primary focus is on eliminating what it deems to be unnecessary and counterproductive regulations affecting the technology and communications industries.
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The State Policy Network (SPN) is a network of 167 conservative and libertarian think tanks throughout the United States and Canada. The SPN coordinates efforts to support policy goals, raise funds, and amplify the influence of its members. The SPN was run by Byron Lamm from its founding in 1992
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The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) (formerly the Political Economy Research Center) is a non-partisan, environmental public policy think tank that promotes free market environmentalism and focuses much of its research on voluntary trade’s effects on the environment.
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The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) is a right-of-center nonprofit group financed and operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute that largely rejects the impact of human activity on climate change. CHC operates the website globalwarming.org, which features blog posts critical of environmentalist policies and regulations.
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The Alaska Policy Forum (APF) is a non-partisan think tank that promotes individual freedom, limited government, and pro-liberty policies in Alaska. 1 APF’s primary concerns are state budget and taxes, health care,
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The Western Way (TWW) is an ostensibly right-of-center advocacy group that works on energy and environment issues. The Colorado-based organization seeks to combat “the false narrative that conservatives do not value the environment”1 and
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Erica Payne is a left-of-center political operative who started a number of organizations aimed at influencing the news and public policy through media campaigns featuring influential liberal donors and activists and publicity stunts. She began her career in politics working for former U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (D-NC) and later worked
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The International Policy Network US, which does business as the International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE), is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center based in Portland, Oregon that promotes the use of law and economics methodologies to inform public policy debates. ICLE works with academic affiliates and research centers around
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The William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation was created by William K. Bowes, Jr., a venture capitalist who founded U.S. Venture Partners, a company that was an early investor in the biotechnology firm Amgen and the computer company Sun Microsystems. The foundation supports educational institutions, charities in the San Francisco Bay
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The David J. & Mary L. G. Theroux Foundation is a private foundation that primarily gives grants to the Independent Institute.
