National Center for Policy Analysis

The National Center for Policy Analysis is a "communications and research foundation dedicated to providing free market solutions to today's public policy problems ... [and] prides itself on aggressively marketing its products for maximum impact by 'targeting key political leaders and special interest groups, establishing on-going ties with members of the print and electronic media, and testifying before Congress, federal agencies, state lawmakers, and national organizations.'" -- NCRP, The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations

Founding Board Members

The NCPA began its existence in 1983 at the University of Dallas.

• Wayne Calloway, President and CEO of Frito-Lay
• Jere Thompson, President and CEO of the Southland Corporation
• Robert Dedman, President and CEO of ClubCorp
• Russell Perry, President and CEO of Republic Financial Services
• Sir Antony Fisher, President and CEO of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation

Board Members

According to NCPA web site, March 25, 2003:

• Thomas W. Smith, Managing Partner of Prescott Investors, Inc.
• John C. Goodman, President, NCPA
• Pete du Pont, Richards, Layton and Finger
• James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corporation
• Jere W. Thompson, President, The Williamsburg Corporation
• Dan W. Cook III, Senior Advisor, MHT Partners
• Robert H. Dedman, Chairman of the Board, ClubCorp International
• Virginia Manheimer, Trustee, The Hickory Foundation
• Henry J. Bud Smith, Chairman, The Trinity Forum
• Michael L. Whalen, President & CEO, Heart of America Restaurants & Inns

Fellows, Policy Analysts

• H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow [1] and Senior Policy Analyst [2]
• Dr. Devon M. Herrick, Senior Fellow
• Matt Moore, Senior Policy Analyst

Former staff

• Bruce Bartlett, Senior Fellow

Environmental Task Force

http://www.ncpa.org/studies/s162/s162i.html

• Bruce N. Ames, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California at Berkeley
• Terry L. Anderson, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center
• Larry P. Arnn, President, Claremont Institute
• Barry Asmus, Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis
• John A. Baden, Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
• Mikhail S. Bernstam, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
• Walter Block, Senior Research Fellow, Fraser Institute
• James Bovard, Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
• Sam Brunelli, Executive Director, American Legislative Exchange Council
• Eamonn Butler, Director, Adam Smith Institute, London, England
• Alston Chase, Author: Playing God in Yellowstone
• Lucy Clark, Associate Director of the Judicial Studies Program, Manhattan Institute
• Kenneth Clarkson, Director, Law and Economics Center, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
• William J. Dennis, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, The NFIB Foundation
• Tom DiLorenzo, Director, Center for Economic Education University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Becky Norton Dunlop, Former Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
• Stephen Gold, Executive Director, Citizens for the Environment
• John C. Goodman, President, National Center for Policy Analysis
• Robert E. Gordon, Jr., Director, National Wilderness Institute
• William M. H. Hammett, President, Manhattan Institute
• Stephen H. Hanke, Professor of Applied Economics, The Johns Hopkins University
• Robert Hawkins, President, Institute for Contemporary Studies
• Edward L. Hudgins, Deputy Director, Economic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation
• Sherwood Idso, Adjunct Professor of Botany & Geography, Arizona State University
• Kent Jeffreys, Environmental Policy Analyst, Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Bruce Johnson, Research Director, The Independent Institute
• Jo Kwong, Director of Public Affairs, Atlas Economic Research Foundation
• Kathy Kushner, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
• Donald Leal, Research Associate, Political Economy Research Center
• Dwight Lee, Adjunct Professor, Center for the Study of American Business
• Greg Lindsay, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies, St. Leonards, Australia
• Madsen Pirie, President, Adam Smith Institute, London, England
• Virginia Postrel, Editor of Reason, Reason Foundation
• Lynn Scarlett, Vice President of Research Reason Foundation
• Jane S. Shaw, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center
• Randy T. Simmons, Director, Institute of Political Economy, Utah State University
• Julian L. Simon, Professor of Business Administration, University of Maryland (died February 8, 1998)
• S. Fred Singer, Director, Project on Science and Environmental Policy
• Fred L. Smith, President, Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Robert J. Smith, Director of Environmental Studies, Cato Institute
• Richard L. Stroup, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center
• Jerry Taylor, Legislative Director, American Legislative Exchange Council
• Norman Ture, President, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
• Ronald Utt, Vice President, National Chamber Foundation
• Elizabeth Whelan, President, American Council of Science and Health
• Aaron Wildavsky, Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
• C. Edwin Baker, Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy, Independence Institute, Golden, Colorado
• Joseph L. Bast, President, Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois
• Clint Bolick, Director, Landmark Center for Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.
• John Carlson, President, Washington Institute for Policy Studies, Bellevue, Washington
• Robert Allan Cooke, Director, Institute for Business Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
• John W. Cooper, Executive Director, James Madison Institute, Tallahassee, Florida
• D. Allen Dalton, Director, Center for the Study of Market Alternatives, Caldwell, Idaho
• Mark Greenfield, Executive Director, Heartland Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Michael S. Greve, Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C.
• Steve Hayward, Director, Golden State Center for Policy Studies, Claremont Institute, Sacramento, California
• John M. Hood, Publications and Research Director, John Locke Foundation, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Barbara Keating-Edh, President, Consumer Alert, Modesto, California
• Tex Lezar, President, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Dallas, Texas (died January 5, 2004 [3])
• James H. Miller, President, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Joseph A. Morris, President & General Counsel, Lincoln Legal Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
• William C. Myers, Executive Vice President, South Carolina Policy Council, Columbia, South Carolina
• Lawrence W. Reed, President, Mackinac Center, Midland, Michigan
• Scott J. Relan, President, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Oxford, Mississippi
• Michael Sanera, President Barry, Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research, Flagstaff, Arizona
• Thomas R. Saving, Director Center for Education and Research in Free Enterprise, College Station, Texas
• William C. Schilling, Executive Director, Wyoming Heritage Society, Casper, Wyoming
• Timothy Seibel, Director for Land Use and, Environmental Studies Claremont Institute, Montclair, California
• Joe M. Sloan, Jr., President, California Conservation Coalition, Whittier, California
• Fritz S. Steiger, Executive Vice President & CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
• Martin J. Summers, Research Associate Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England
• Judy Swafford, Director Southwest Policy Institute, Edmond, Oklahoma
• Robert Taylor, Fellow Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia
• David J. Theroux, President, The Independent Institute, Oakland, California
• Michael Warder, Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute, Rockford, Illinois
• William W. Weston, President, Foundation Francisco Marroquin, Stuart, Florida

Funding

The NCPA web site states that it "receives 70% of its funding from foundations, 20% from corporations, and 10% from individuals." Between 1985 and 2001, the Center received $4,031,000 in 75 separate grants from only twelve foundations.

• Castle Rock Foundation
• Earhart Foundation
• JM Foundation
• Koch Family Foundations (David H. Koch Foundation, Charles G. Koch Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Foundation)
• John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
• Scaife Foundations (Scaife Family, Sarah Mellon Scaife, Carthage)
• DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund
• El Paso Energy Foundation
• ExxonMobil Foundation
• Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
• Lilly Endowment Inc.
• Procter & Gamble Fund

Contact

12655 N. Central Expy., Suite 720
Dallas, TX 75243-1739
Phone: 972/386-6272
FAX: 972/386-0924

655 15th St. N.W., Suite 375
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202/628-6671
FAX: 202/628-6474
Web: http://www.ncpa.org/

External links

• Richard W. Stevenson, "In Sign of Conservative Split, a Commentator Is Dismissed", New York Tines, October 18, 2005.