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The '''Empire Center for Public Policy''' (formerly the Empire Center for New York State Policy) is a conservative state-based [[think tank]] "dedicated to promoting freedom, opportunity and enterprise" in New York, according to the organization's website.<ref name="about">Empire Center for New York State Policy, [http://www.empirecenter.org/AboutUs/EmpireCenter/ "About Us"], organizational website, accessed November 2012</ref> The Empire Center is a project of the [[Manhattan Institute for Policy Research]] and a member of the [[State Policy Network]].<ref name="about"/>
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==Ties to the Bradley Foundation==
In 2016 the Empire Center for Public Policy received [[Contributions of the Bradley Foundation | $50,000]] from the [[Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation]].
Bradley detailed the most recent grants in internal documents examined by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Below is a description of the grant prepared by CMD. The quoted text was written by Bradley staff.
'''2016''': $50,000 to support general operations. If distributed, this will be the first Bradley grant to the Empire Center for Public Policy (ECPP). According to the grant proposal record, Bradley wants to fund ECPP to bust unions in New York using tactics the Freedom Foundation has employed in Washington and Oregon. ECPP will use Bradley funds to encourage day care workers to drop out of unions and stop by dues. “Empire is willing to learn from and seems to have the stomach for implementing the overall strategies and confrontational tactics of the Freedom Foundation in pursuing Bradley’s programmatic employee rights goals – in a state that matters, given its government unions’ funding of the Left, its causes, and its other organizations nationally.”
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==Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council==
==Funding==
The Empire Center for Public Policy is not required to disclose its funders but major foundation supporters can be found through their IRS filings. Here are some known contributors:
==Core Financials==
'''<big>2015</big>'''<ref name=ECPP2016>Empire Center for Public Policy, [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461987418/201740459349300244/IRS990 2016 IRS Form 990], ProPublica, February 2, 2017, p. 1.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $647,789
*Total Expenses: $907,486
* Net Assets: $408,441
'''<big>2014</big>'''<ref>Empire Center for Public Policy, [www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2015/461/987/2015-461987418-0cae5aed-9.pdf 2014 IRS Form 990], organizational tax filing, February 15, 2016, p. 1.</ref>
*Total Revenue: $1,038,917
==Personnel==
'''Staff'''<br>
As of August 29, 2016September 2018:<ref> Empire Center, [http://www.empirecenter.org/staff/ Staff], organizational website, accessed August 29, 2016.</ref>*E.J. McMahon, President
*Tim Hoefer, Executive Director
*E.J. McMahon, Research Director
*Kenneth Girardin, Communications and Marketing Director
*Bill Hammond, Director of Health Policy
*Ann Hughes, Director of Development
*Missy MillettDan Russo, Office ManagerDirector of Operations*Abigail Salvatore, Communications Director
*Mark Walsh, Data Analyst
*Benjamin Sano, Research Analyst
'''Board of Directors'''<br>
As of September 2017:<ref> Empire Center, [https://www.empirecenter.org/about-the-center/board-of-directors/ Board of Directors], organizational website, accessed September 2017.</ref>
*Frank H. Suits, Jr., Chairman
*Kenneth W. Bond, Board member
*Anita MacDougal, Treasurer
*Carl Schramm, Board Member
* [[E.J. McMahon]], Senior Fellow
* Michael Cretz, Research Analyst
* Bob Scardamalia, Data Consultant
* Missy Millett, Office Manager
'''Former Directors'''
*Edmund McMahon, President
*[[Timothy Hoefer]], Executive Director
*Sheridan Biggs, Chairman
*Kenneth Bond, Board Member
==Contact Information==
===Related SourceWatch Articles===
* [[Manhattan Institute for Policy Research]]
* [[Snider Foundation]]
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