New America Foundation
The New America Foundation is a Washington D.C.-headquartered think tank which states that it "invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States ... With an emphasis on big ideas, impartial analysis and pragmatic solutions, New America invests in outstanding individuals whose ability to communicate to wide and influential audiences can change the country's policy discourse in critical areas, bringing promising new ideas and debates to the fore."[1]
The foundation, which was launched in 1999, has as its CEO Steve Coll, a staff writer with The New Yorker magazine while the chairman of the Board of Directors is the Chairman & CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt.[1]
Contributions:
Collaborated with the Atlantic Monthly on a special report in 2003, "What is the real State of the Union?"
Phillip Longman, a New America Foundation member, authored the book The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity (And What to Do About It).
Donors:
Board of Directors[2]
- Eric Schmidt: Chair
- Liaquat Ahamed
- David G. Bradley
- Boykin Curry
- James Fallows
- Francis Fukuyama
- Atul A. Gawande
- William W. Gerrity
- Ted Halstead
- Rita E. Hauser
- Zachary Karabell
- Jeffrey Leonard
- Kati Marton
- Walter Russell Mead
- Lenny Mendonca
- Steven Rattner
- Eric Schmidt
- Bernard L. Schwartz
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
- Jonathan Soros
- Daniel Yergin
- Fareed Zakaria
Staff[3]
Executive Team
- Steve Coll: President
- Rachel L. White: Executive Vice President and Director, External Relations
- Andres Martinez: Vice President, Editorial Director and Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program
- Sascha Meinrath: Vice President and Director, Open Technology Institute
- Valerie Usher: Director of Finance and Operations
- Kyle Ange: Controller
Senior Staff
- Peter Bergen: Director, National Security Studies Program
- Shannon Brownlee: Acting Director, Health Policy Program
- Kevin Carey: Director, Education Policy Program
- Reid Cramer: Director, Asset Building Program
- Jason Delisle: Director, Federal Education Budget Project
- Patrick C. Doherty: Director, Smart Strategy Initiative
- David Gray: Director, Workforce and Family Program
- Lisa Guernsey: Director, Early Education Initiative
- Leila HIlal: Director, Middle East Task Force
- Gene Kimmelman: Director, Internet Freedom and Human Rights Project
- Michael Lind: Policy Director, Economic Growth Program
- Mark Lloyd: Director, Media Policy Initiative
- MaryEllen McGuire: Executive Director, Postsecondary National Policy Institute
- Sherle R. Schwenninger: Director, Economic Growth Program and American Strategy Program
- Ceila Hartman Sims: Director, Postsecondary National Policy Institute
- Jamie M. Zimmerman: Director, Global Assets Project
Leadership Council
"New America's Leadership Council, chaired by John C. Whitehead, recognizes those individuals who contribute $25,000 or more to the Foundation each year. As members of the Leadership Council, they participate in the intellectual life of the Foundation in numerous ways. For instance, they are invited to attend a special annual retreat with New America senior staff, Fellows and Board of Directors, as well as a series of salon dinners across the country.
- Scott Delman
- Thor Halvorssen
- George C. Halvorsen
- Carolyn Kaplan
- Justine Kilpatrick
- Peter Marber
- Craig Newmark
- Robert H. Neihaus
- F. Noel Perry
Fellows
- Noah Feldman
- Parag Khanna [4] [5]
- James Pinkerton
- Mark Schmitt is senior fellow
Contact:
- The New America Foundation
- Located in Historic Dupont Circle, at
- 1630 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. 7th Floor
- Washington, DC 20009
- Phone: (202) 986-2700
- Fax: (202) 986-3696
- Website:www.newamerica.net
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- Anatol Lieven
- Frida Berrigan - Senior Program Associate
- Think tanks
- Miguel A. Soto-Class
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New America Foundation, "About New America", New America Foundation website, accessed February 2009.
- ↑ "Board of Directors", New America Foundation, Accessed January 21, 2013.
- ↑ "New America Staff", New America Foundation, Accessed January 21, 2013.
- ↑ New America Foundation, "Parag Khanna," Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ↑ Parag Khanna, "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony," New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2008.
External resources
External articles
- J.H. Snider, "Mixing Advocacy, Scholarly Research and Journalism: Can the New America Foundation Square the Circle?", PR Watch, February 26, 2009.