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The Acton Institute
The Acton Institute promotes a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.The Institute is a unique resource for those who seek to build prosperity and progress on a foundation of religious liberty, economic freedom, and personal moral responsibility. We work with church leadership, educational institutions, and individuals in business or the ministry -- both in the United States and abroad -- to promote an understanding of market principles and to encourage the economic freedom that creates opportunity for all. www.acton.org
Call to Renewal
Call to Renewal specifically develops and supports connections between the following constituencies: Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholics, Historic Black Churches (e.g. AME and PNBC), Historic Peace Churches (e.g. Mennonites and Quakers), Pentecostals and major faith based organizations. The organization is rooted in four primary values: overcoming poverty, dismantling racism, affirming life, and rebuilding family and community. www.calltorenewal.com/
The Center for Reclaiming America
The Center for Reclaiming America, established by Dr. D. James Kennedy, an outreach of Coral Ridge Ministries, provides non-partisan, non-denominational information, training, and support to all those interested in positively affecting the culture and renewing the vision of our Founding Fathers. The Center for Reclaiming America is a national grassroots organization with members in all 50 states.
Congress on the Internet -Thomas web site
Voting, phone, and email information of the U.S. House of Representatives or U.S. Senate membership. Search the status of current legislation on social and other issues. http://thomas.loc.gov
Fedstats.gov
Links to all government agency statistics sites. www.fedstats.gov
The Heartland Institute
Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people. Such ideas include parental choice in education, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies. www.heartland.org
The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a think tank - an educational and research education institution - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. www.heritage.org
The Hudson Institute
The Hudson Institute is an internationally recognized public policy research organization that forecasts trends and develops solutions for governments, businesses, and communities. Founded in 1961 by the late Herman Kahn, the Indianapolis-based not-for-profit organization has more than 70 researchers and employees. Hudson is a nonpartisan futurist organization that is known for its healthy skepticism of conventional wisdom and its guarded optimism about solving tomorrow’s problems today. www.hudson.org
The Kettering Foundation
The Kettering Foundation is an operating foundation rooted in the American tradition of inventive research. Its founder, Charles F. Kettering, holder of more than 200 patents, is best known for his invention of the electric automobile self-starter. He was interested, above all, in seeking practical answers to "the problems behind the problems." Established in 1927, the foundation today continues in that tradition. The central question behind the foundation's research now is this: What does it take to make democracy work as it should? Rather than look for ways to improve on politics as usual, the foundation seeks ways to make fundamental changes in how democratic politics are practiced. The foundation does not disperse grant funds. www.kettering.org
The Manhattan Institute
The Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political culture. It supports and publicizes research on challenging public policy issues: taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education, and many other topics.Some of the country’s most innovative mayors, governors, and policy makers have acknowledged a debt to the Manhattan Institute, as have many influential writers, journalists, and authors. www.manhattan-institute.org
The National Center for Policy Analysis
The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation. www.ncpa.org
NPAction
NPAction's primary goal is to increase the level and improve the quality of nonprofit public policy participation. They provide access to information through an online resource center about rules governing policy participation, examples of successful and unsuccessful efforts, identification of key resources and people, and other resource materials.A major focus is on increasing the awareness and education of groups already engaged in public policy participation. www.npaction.org
The Pew Charitable Trust
The Pew Charitable Trusts support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia, the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change. The Trusts consist of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. Though the Trusts are separate legal entities, their grantmaking activities are managed collectively and guided by a single set of programmatic priorities. The foundation also sponsors the Pew Partnership - Civic Entrepreneur Initiative (go to
http://www.pew-partnership.org/pcei/pcei.html to learn more). www.pewtrusts.com
Pioneer Institute
Pioneer Institute, Massachusetts’ leading think tank, promotes research that challenges the “conventional wisdom” on public policy issues. Committed to individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and the application of free market principles to state and local policy, Pioneer is known for developing sensible, innovative ideas and converting them into action.
Reason Public Policy Institute
Reason Public Policy Institute is a public policy think tank promoting choice, competition, and a dynamic market economy as the foundation for human dignity and progress. Reason produces rigorous, peer-reviewed research and directly engages the policy process, seeking strategies that emphasize cooperation, flexibility, local knowledge, and results. Reason research focuses on education and child welfare, environmental policy, land use and economic development, privatization and government reform, and transportation.
State and Local Government on the Net
Legislation, elected officials, and media links for any state capitol. www.state.localgov.net/
Townhall.com
Town Hall is the first truly interactive community on the Internet to bring Internet users, conservative public policy organizations, congressional staff, and political activists together under the broad umbrella of "conservative" thoughts, ideas and actions. Town Hall is a one-stop mall of ideas and organization links in which people congregate to exchange, discuss and disseminate the latest news and information. www.townhall.com
The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices. www.urban.org
The White House-Office of Faith-Based/Community Initiatives
Recent speeches and articles of President Bush's position on faith-based and community initiatives. Also details the presiden't stance on welfare reform and the importance of local solutions. www.whitehouse.gov/government/fcbi