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 Sources
"The Center for International Policy is proud to maintain a $1 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 currently supporting the Center's work include:
- The CarEth Foundation
- The Compton Foundation
- The Educational Foundation of America
- The Ford Foundation
- The General Service Foundation
- The Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust
- The Ploughshares Fund
- The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
- The Samuel Rubin Foundation
- The Schooner Foundation
Staff
- Robert E. White, president
- William Goodfellow, executive director
- Raymond Baker, senior fellow
- Nicole Ball, senior fellow
- Landrum Bolling, senior fellow
- Parker Borg, senior fellow
- Frick Curry, senior fellow
- Kathleen Donahue, fellow
- Craig Eisendrath, senior associate
- Melvin A. Goodman, director of National Security Project
- Selig Harrison, director of Asia Project
- Adam Isacson, senior associate
- Anya Landau, associate
- Paul Lubeck, senior fellow
- Nita Rous Manitzas, associate
- James Mullins, senior fellow
- Jennifer Nordin, director of Economic Studies
- Beverly Orr, accountant
- Stephen Rivers, consultant
- Piper Benom Sherwood, director of development
- Miranna Smith, director of operations
- Wayne S. Smith, senior fellow
- 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
- Mario Baeza, investment banker, New York
- Lowell Blankfort, newspaper publisher, San Diego
- William Butler, chairman, executive committee, International Commission of Jurists
- Thomas Cooper, president, Gulfstream International Airlines
- Joan Dassin, international education consultant
- Adrian DeWind, attorney, New York
- Samuel Ellsworth, partner, Ellsworth-Howell, Alexandria, Virginia
- Gerald F. Gilmore, ex-consultant, Third World, World Council of Churches
- Jeffrey Horowitz, architect, Berkeley, California
- Susan Horowitz, social worker, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Robert G. Kerrigan, attorney, Pensacola, Fla.
- Sally Lilienthal, president, Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco
- Conrad Martin, Fund for Constitutional Government
- Stewart R. Mott, Board of Trustees, Fund for Constitutional Government
- Paul Sack, businessman, San Francisco
- Don Soldini, president, International Preferred Enterprises
- Edith Wilkie, president, Peace Through Law Education Fund
- Dessima Williams, visiting professor, Brandeis University; former ambassador of Grenada to the OAS
Contact
Center for International Policy
1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 232-3317 / fax (202) 232-3440
cip@ciponline.org
URL: http://www.ciponline.org
