Center for International Policy

Center for International Policy (CIP) was "founded in 1975, in the wake of the Vietnam War, by former diplomats and peace activists. This mix of those from inside the government and those from outside by choice has shaped both our methodology and our agenda.

"The Center has led or played a vital role in an impressive number of citizens' initiatives. Working closely with allies in Congress, including two members who were to become the Center's co-chairs, Tom Harkin and Don Fraser, the Center campaigned to make sure that a government's human rights record became a factor in allocating foreign aid. In the 1980s the Center staff became the Washington advocates for Costa Rican president Oscar Arias's peace plan for Central America.

"In the 1990s the Center attracted a number of senior diplomats to its staff and expanded its agenda to include reform of the nation's intelligence agencies. We continued to play an important role in Central America's post-conflict reconciliation, the effort to end the counter-productive isolation of Cuba, and efforts to limit military assistance to the Western Hemisphere, especially Colombia.

"This work continues today, along with a robust program on security in south and northeast Asia, cutting-edge work on illegal financial flows, and a new effort to increase citizen participation in Central America."

Funding

"The Center for International Policy is proud to maintain a $3.8 million annual budget free of funding from the U.S. government, or any other government or political party. Supported only by individual donors and private foundations, the Center has stayed steadfastly true to its founding goals.

Foundations supporting the Center's work in 2008 include:

• The Angelina Fund
• Heinrich Boell Foundation
• The Boston Foundation
• Center of Concern
• The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Colombe Foundation
• The Compton Foundation
• The Educational Foundation of America
• The Ford Foundation
• Fourth Freedom Forum
• Open Society Institute
• The Samuel Rubin Foundation
• Sea Change Foundation
• The Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust
• The Streisand Foundation
• Tides Foundation

Previous years

• The CarEth Foundation
• The General Service Foundation
• The Ploughshares Fund
• The Schooner Foundation

Personnel

Staff

• Robert E. White, president
• William Goodfellow, executive director
• Raymond Baker, senior fellow, Global Financial Integrity program
• Nicole Ball, senior fellow, National Security program
• Tom Barry, senior policy analyst, Americas Policy program
• Barton Beeson, Nicaragua Campaign Coordinator, Central America program
• Harry Blaney, senior fellow, National Security program
• Landrum Bolling, senior fellow, National Security program
• Tom Cardamone, managing director, Global Financial Integrity program
• Laura Carlsen, director, Americas Policy program
• Elsa Chang, director, Central America program
• Frick Curry, senior associate, Development
• Lorena Curry, accounting associate
• Monique Danziger, communications coordinator, Global Financial Integrity program
• Donald Herr, senior fellow, National Security program
• Melvin A. Goodman, senior fellow, National Security program
• Jane Barton Griffith, director for institutional advancement
• Selig Harrison, director of Asia Project
• Adam Isacson, director, Demilitarization/Colombia program
• Katie Kohlstedt, associate, Americas Policy program
• Paul Lubeck, senior fellow, National Security program
• James Mullins, senior associate, National Security program
• Soniann Oliver, executive assistant, Central America Program
• Abigail Poe, associate, Colombia program
• Alex Sanchez, office manager/intern coordinator
• Jennifer Schuett, associate, Cuba program
• Javier Sierra, media consultant, Central America program
• Wayne S. Smith, senior fellow, Cuba program

Former

• Parker Borg, senior fellow
• Craig Eisendrath, senior associate
• Kathleen Donahue, fellow
• Anya Landau, associate
• Nita Rous Manitzas, associate
• Jennifer Nordin, director of Economic Studies
• Beverly Orr, accountant
• Stephen Rivers, consultant
• Piper Benom Sherwood, director of development
• Miranna Smith, director of operations
• Sarah Stephens, director of Freedom to Travel Project
• Tara Templin, associate for web development
• Ingrid Vaicius, associate
• Tracee Brown, fundraising and financial management coordinator

Board of Directors

• Cynthia McClintock, professor, George Washington University, chairperson
• Matt Balitsaris, record producer
• Lowell Blankfort, newspaper publisher
• William Butler, chairman, executive committee, International Commission of Jurists
• Thomas Cooper, president, Gulfstream International Airlines
• Adrian DeWind, attorney
• Alfredo Duran, attorney
• Robert W. Edgar, president & CEO, Common Cause
• Joseph T. Eldridge, chaplain, America University
• Samuel Ellsworth, partner, Ellsworth-Howell, Alexandria, Virginia
• Mike Farrell, actor
• Gerald F. Gilmore, ex-consultant, Third World, World Council of Churches, Episcopal minister (retired)
• Jeffrey Horowitz, Avoided Deforestation Partners
• Susan W. Horowitz, social worker
• Lucy Lehman, social activist
• Conrad Martin, Fund for Constitutional Government
• Luis Gilberto Murillo, former governor of Chocó, Colombia
• Paul Sack, businessman
• Don Soldini, president, International Preferred Enterprises
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland
• Edith Wilkie, president, Peace Through Law Education Fund
• Dessima Williams, founder, Grenada Education and Development program ; former ambassador of Grenada to the OAS

Former

• Mario Baeza, investment banker, New York
• Joan Dassin, international education consultant
• Robert G. Kerrigan, attorney, Pensacola, Fla.
• Sally Lilienthal, president, Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco
• Stewart R. Mott, Board of Trustees, Fund for Constitutional Government

Contact

1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 232-3317 Fax: (202) 232-3440
Email: cip AT ciponline.org
Web: http://www.ciponline.org

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