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===Unusual org. structure - nobody is paid ===
According to ATI's amended 2010 IRS Form 990 filing, it has no paid employees, 3 volunteers, and 3 independent voting members of the governing body although only one, director Dan Reed, is named.
==Board Members==
[[Nick Spyros]], Haymarket, VA
[[Dennis Champion]], Palmdale, CA
[[John Reed]], Denver, CO==Funding - asserted v. actual==
ATI claims to accept no government grants, and that its funding is "primarily derived from a broad and growing base of grassroots contributors".
SW: funding claim and reality; reorg of personnel info
''To do: merge [[Western Tradition Partnership]] (an earlier name of the ATI's parent 501(c)(4)) into this page.''
The '''American Tradition Institute''' (ATI) is a 501(c)3 organization (officially named ''Western Tradition Institute'') with headquarters in Washington, DC and in Denver, CO. According to its mission statement, the ATI is "a public policy research and educational foundation ... founded in 2009 to help lead the national discussion about environmental issues, including air and water quality and regulation, responsible land use, natural resource management, energy development, property rights, and free-market principles of stewardship."
In October 2011, the Institute for Southern Studies reported that
===2010 Montana ruling: group broke state campaign laws - suggesting corruption and money laundering===
:"During the 2010 elections, the Montana Commission of Political Practices found that the organization broke state campaign laws by failing to register as a political committee or report its donors and spending. The state suggested WTP/ATP was involved in corruption and money laundering. They found that it solicited unlimited contributions to support candidates and then passed them through a "sham organization," the Bozeman-based political action committee The Coalition for Energy and the Environment that ran attack ads against Democrats. WTP told corporations that it aimed to combat "radical environmentalists" and "beat them at their own game" and that their contributions would remain secret."<ref name=hpotto />
==Personnel==
===Unusual org. structure - as of 2010, nobody is paid ===
According to ATI's amended 2010 IRS Form 990 filing, it has no paid employees, 3 volunteers, and 3 independent voting members of the governing body.
==Director and staff=Board Members===* ATI's 2010 Form 990 reports 3 directors, but lists only one, as [[Dan Reed]] is listed as the only Director, on ATI's 2011 Form 990.
The website lists 3 as of Nov. 2011:<ref name="atiwho"/>
*[[Nick Spyros]], Haymarket, VA
*[[Dennis Champion]], Palmdale, CA
* John Reed, Denver, CO
===Staff===
From ATI's website as of Nov. 2011, staff are:<ref name="atiwho">{{cite web
|publisher=American Tradition Institute
|title=Staff & Board of Directors
|url=http://www.atinstitute.org/about/staff-board-of-directors/
|accessdate=2011-11-05
}}</ref>
*[[Paul Chesser]], Executive Director, "who WTP/ATP describes as a 'noted climate scholar.' But Chesser is not a scientist."<ref name=hpotto />
*[[David W. Schnare]], Director of ATI's Environmental Law Center.
*[[Mark Newgent]], Associate Research Fellow.
The ATI website's About page says that "ATI accepts no government grants, and our financial backing has to date primarily derived from a broad and growing base of grassroots contributors."<ref>{{cite web|publisher=American Tradition Institute|title=FundingAbout|url=http://www.atinstitute.org/about/|accessdate=2011-11-05}}</ref>. In 2010, $140k of its $186k of funding reportedly came from Doug Lair and the Lair Family Foundation. (The remainder was $1k from memberships, $40k from the [[American Tradition Partnership]], and $5k from [[Atlas Economic Research Foundation]]).[http://www.southernstudies.org/sites/default/files/ATI_990_2010_final.pdf]
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