American Public Policy

Accuracy In Academia

Accuracy In Academia, a nonprofit public service organization based in Washington, D.C., seeks the reassertion of traditional academic ethics in our universities. We contend that academic freedom is threatened by a progressive ideological orthodoxy, pervasive in the intellectual community, which degrades professional standards in teaching and scholarship, and inhibits speech and research which contradict orthodox views.
Website - http://www.academia.org/

Accuracy In Media

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.
Website - http://www.aim.org

Acton

The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is named after the great English historian, Lord John Acton (1834-1902). He is best known for his famous remark: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Inspired by his work on the relation between liberty and morality, the Acton Institute seeks to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is human flourishing. To clarify this relationship, the Institute holds seminars and publishes various books, monographs, periodicals, and articles.
Website - http://www.acton.org/

Alabama Policy Institute

The Alabama Policy Institute is an independent, non-profit research and education organization. As a resource to federal, state and local government, the media and citizens, we research the issues being debated in Montgomery and Washington and provide our analysis and ideas through our publications and reports. As a conservative "think tank" much like the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., API addresses a wide range of emerging policy issues in the areas of economics, education, the environment, government, family and society.
Website - http://www.alabamapolicyinstitute.org/

Atlas Economic Research Foundation

The Atlas Economic Research Foundation was founded in 1981 by the late Sir Antony Fisher. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, that brings freedom to the world by helping develop and strengthen a network of market-oriented think tanks that spans the globe.
Website - http://www.atlasusa.org

Charters Texas

Authorized by Texas law in 1995, charter schools are public schools that foster educational competition and offer parental choice in education. Charter schools have a significant amount of autonomy and are free to be innovative in educational and administrative practices.
Website - http://www.charterstexas.org

Ethan Allen Institute

The Ethan Allen Institute is Vermont's independent, nonpartisan, free-market-oriented public policy think tank. The Institute offers "Ideas for Vermont's Future" built upon a libertarian, decentralist, community-based philosophy. It is one of some 41 similar but independent state organizations associated with the State Policy Network.
Website - http://www.ethanallen.org/

Flint Hills Center

The Flint Hills Center for Public Policy is dedicated to the constitutional principles of limited government, open markets and individual freedom and responsibility and serves to promote those ideals in the public policy of Kansas.
Website - http://flinthills.org

HACER

The Hispanic American Center for Economic Research is a 501(c)(3) organization that is supported entirely through gifts from individuals, philanthropic foundations, and corporations. Its goal is to promote the study of issues pertinent to the countries of Hispanic America as well as Hispanic Americans living in the United States, especially as they relate to the values of personal and economic liberty, limited government under the rule of law, and individual responsibility. HACER does this by both generating and supporting independent research.
Website - http://www.hacer.org/

Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy

The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan, independent think tank focused on state and local public policy issues that affect the quality of life for New Hampshire's citizens. To improve economic prosperity and the general welfare, the Center provides information, research, and analysis to decision makers. The Center has as its core beliefs individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and an appreciation of the role of the free enterprise system.
Website - http://www.jbartlett.org/

Locke Institute

The Locke Institute seeks to promote a greater understanding of natural rights, its implications for constitutional democracy and for modern society's economic organization. To that end, The Institute encourages theoretical research in the areas of property rights, public choice, law and economics, and the new institutional economics.
Website - http://www.thelockeinstitute.org/

National Center for Policy Analysis

The National Center for Policy Analysis was created in 1983 as a non-partisan public policy research institute to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strengths of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
Website - http://www.ncpa.org

National Taxpayers Union

Founded in 1969 under section 501 (c) (4) of the Internal Revenue Code to lobby Congress with respect to fiscal and economic policy. NTU is a non-partisan, public interest advocacy organization dedicated to lower taxes, less wasteful spending, and the principles of rational and limited government.
Website - http://www.ntu.org

Pacific Research Institute

The Pacific Research Institute (PRI), founded in 1979 promotes individual freedom and personal responsibility. We believe these principles are the cornerstones of a civil society and are best achieved through a free-market economy, limited government, and private initiative.
Website - http://www.pacificresearch.org/

Texas Public Policy Foundation

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights and individual responsibility. The Foundation's mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on state issues, and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policy makers, the media and general public. The work of the Foundation is conducted by academics across Texas and is funded by hundreds of individuals, foundations and corporations. The public is demanding a different direction for their government and TPPF is providing the research that enables policy makers to chart that new course.
Website - http://www.tppf.org

The Calvert Institute for Policy Research

The Calvert Institute for Policy Research is a non-partisan, educational institution dedicated to the research and propagation of solutions to Maryland state and local public-policy concerns based upon the principles of free markets and personal responsibility. It is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.
Website - http://www.calvertinstitute.org/

Thomas Jefferson Institute

The mission of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is to provide Virginia’s political, business, academic, community and media leadership with thoughtful, realistic, useful and non-partisan analysis of public policy issues confronting our Commonwealth. These alternative policy ideas focus on state and local issues and are based on the Institute’s belief in free markets, limited government and individual responsibility. The general areas of interest for this Institute are reforming government, economic development, improving health, public education and welfare, criminal justice, and legislative analysis.
Website - http://www.thomasjeffersoninst.org/

Today Foundation

The Today Foundation, founded by Richard H. Collins, is a Dallas-based non-profit organization with interests in education, criminal justice and tax reform. Projects of the Today Foundation include the Children's Education Fund, Associated Texans Against Crime and the American Miracle.
Website - http://www.todayfoundation.org/

Virginia Institute

The Virginia Institute for Public Policy is an independent, nonpartisan, education and research organization committed to the goals of individual opportunity and economic growth. Through research, policy recommendations, and symposia, the Institute works ahead of the political process to lay the intellectual foundation for a society dedicated to individual liberty, free enterprise, private property, the rule of law, and strictly limited government.
Website - http://www.virginiainstitute.org/

Yankee Institute

Ever since 1987 the Yankee Institute has been on the front lines, helping Connecticut citizens -- and our elected officials -- better understand the Constitutional and free market principles that maximize freedom and well-being for peoples of all economic and social backgrounds. Our public policy initiatives bolster a market economy, encourage limited government, promote respect for private property, and preserve our Constitutional rights.
Website - http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/