National Center for Policy Analysis
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a free market think tank primarily funded by private foundations established by wealthy conservative business families and billionaires, including Charles and David Koch. It 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 Foundationshttp://www.mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=246
It develops and promotes private, free-market alternatives to government regulation and control, and encourages reliance on the private sector.[1]
Funding
In 2009, the NCPA had almost $5.2 million in assets and took in about $4.2 million in revenue.[2]
Funders (and total estimated amounts given, according to MediaMatters):
- The Armstrong Foundation, $455,000
- Carthage Foundation $525,000
- Castle Rock Foundation $160,000
- [[Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $7,000
- Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust $230,000
- Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation $380,000
- David H. Koch Charitable Foundation $260,000
- Dick and Betsy Devos Foundation $4,500
- Earhart Foundation $100,000
- Exxon Mobil $520,000
- Gilder Foundation $265,000
- Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation $1,000,000
- Hickory Foundation $584,350
- JM Foundation $135,000
- Jaquelin Hume Foundation $150,000
- John M. Olin Foundation $1,069,000
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $1,807,500
- Philip M. McKenna Foundation $70,000
- Roe Foundation $12,500
- Ruth and Lovett Peters Foundation $52,000
- Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation $80,000
- [[[Sarah Scaife Foundation]] $1,935,000
- Scaife Family Foundation $100,000
- Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $20,000
- Walton Family Foundation$25,000
- William H. Donner Foundation $225,000 [3]
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
- Pete du Pont, Former Governor of Delaware
- John C. Goodman, President, NCPA
- W. Mike Baggett, Chairman & CEO, Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC
- Don A. Buchholz, Chairman of the Board, SWS Group, Inc.
- William J. Gedwed, President and CEO, HealthMarkets®
- Harlan Crow, Chairman, Crow Holdings
- John Victor Lattimore, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, Lattimore Properties, Inc.
- Fred Meyer, Investments
- Henry J. Bud Smith, Chairman Bud Smith Organization
- James Cleo Thompson, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corporation
- Jere W. Thompson, President, The Williamsburg Corporation
- Michael L. Whalen, President & CEO, Heart of America Restaurants & Inns
- Raymond E. Wooldridge, Private Investor
- Robert J. Wright, President, TWG, Inc.
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
Staff
- John C. Goodman, President
- Jeanette N. Goodman, Chief Development Officer
- Richard Walker, Senior Vice President
- Joe Barnett, Director of Publications
- Ron Lyon, Director of Online Operations
- Tab Boyles, Director of Events
- Sharyn L. Casey, Director of Development
- Eileen Resnik, Senior Development Officer
- Barry Asmus, Senior Economist
- H. Sterling Burnett, Senior Fellow
- Sean R. Tuffnell, Director of Communications
- Devon M. Herrick, Senior Fellow
- Brian Williams, Legislative Director
- Pam Villarreal, Policy Analyst
- Christa Bieker, Policy Analyst
Former staff
- Bruce Bartlett, Senior Fellow
- Celeste Colgan, Senior Fellow
NCPA Projects
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
- Dennis T. Avery,senior fellow at Hudson Institute
- John A. Baden, Chairman, Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment
- C. Edwin Baker, Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy, Independence Institute, Golden, Colorado
- Joseph L. Bast, President, Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois
- Mikhail S. Bernstam, Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
- Walter Block, Senior Research Fellow, Fraser Institute
- Clint Bolick, Director, Landmark Center for Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.
- Max Borders,Managing Editor of Technology-Commerce-Society Daily [3]
- Sandy Liddy Bourne, a task force director for the American Legislative Exchange Council
- James Bovard, Associate Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
- Robert L. Bradley, Jr., president of the Institute for Energy Research
- Sam Brunelli, Executive Director, American Legislative Exchange Council
- H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow for the NCPA
- Eamonn Butler, Director, Adam Smith Institute, London, England
- John Carlson, President, Washington Institute for Policy Studies, Bellevue, Washington
- 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
- 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
- Michael De Alessi, a director at the Reason Public Policy Institute
- David Deming,associate professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Oklahoma in Norman
- 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
- Pete du Pont former governor of Delaware and columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial page [4]
- Larry Foulke, board member of the American Nuclear Society
- 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
- Kenneth Green, Director of the Risk and Environment Policy Centre at The Fraser Institute
- Mark Greenfield, Executive Director, Heartland Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Michael S. Greve, Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, D.C.
- 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
- 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
- Christopher C. Horner,a Washington, D.C. attorney on the executive committee of The [[Federalist Society and former federal government relations directorfor Enron
- 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
- Barbara Keating-Edh, President, Consumer Alert, Modesto, California
- 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
- David R. Legates,associate professor of geography, the University of Delaware
- Marlo Lewis, Jr., senior fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Tex Lezar, President, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Dallas, Texas (died January 5, 2004 [5])
- Greg Lindsay, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies, St. Leonards, Australia
- Robert J. Michaels, professor of economics,California State University, Fullerton
- Henry I. Miller, fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University [6]
- James H. Miller, President, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- A. Alan Moghissi,President of the Institute for Regulatory Science (RSI)
- Joseph A. Morris, President & General Counsel, Lincoln Legal Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
- William C. Myers, Executive Vice President, South Carolina Policy Council, Columbia, South Carolina
- Madsen Pirie, President, Adam Smith Institute, London, England
- Virginia Postrel, Editor of Reason, Reason Foundation
- Lawrence W. Reed, President, Mackinac Center, Midland, Michigan
- Scott J. Relan, President, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Oxford, Mississippi
- David Riggs, adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute
- 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
- Lynn Scarlett, Vice President of Research Reason Foundation
- William C. Schilling, Executive Director, Wyoming Heritage Society, Casper, Wyoming
- Joel Schwartz, former director of Reason Public Policy Institute
- Timothy Seibel, Director for Land Use and, Environmental Studies Claremont Institute, Montclair, California
- Jane S. Shaw, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center
- Daniel R. Simmons, a task force director for the American Legislative Exchange Council
- 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
- Joe M. Sloan, Jr., President, California Conservation Coalition, Whittier, California
- Fred L. Smith, President, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Robert J. Smith, Director of Environmental Studies, Cato Institute
- Fritz S. Steiger, Executive Vice President & CEO, Texas Public Policy Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
- Jack Strayer, former NCPA staffer
- Richard L. Stroup, Senior Associate, Political Economy Research Center
- Martin J. Summers, Research Associate Institute of Economic Affairs, London, England
- Judy Swafford, Director Southwest Policy Institute, Edmond, Oklahoma
- Jerry Taylor, Legislative Director, American Legislative Exchange Council
- Robert Taylor, Fellow Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia
- David J. Theroux, President, The Independent Institute, Oakland, California
- Norman Ture, President, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation
- Ronald Utt, Vice President, National Chamber Foundation
- Michael Warder, Executive Vice President, Rockford Institute, Rockford, Illinois
- William W. Weston, President, Foundation Francisco Marroquin, Stuart, Florida
- Elizabeth Whelan, President, American Council of Science and Health
- Aaron Wildavsky, Professor of Political Science & Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley
See also, The E-Team[7]
Center for European Policy Analysis
Founded in 2006 as a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit an affiliate, The Center for European Policy Analysis promotes "open markets, minimal government, and free trade" and "seeks to generate ideas and identify practical solutions for the policy dilemmas confronting the Central European community of nations, promote a more active Central European voice in Euro-Atlantic affairs, and reinvigorate U.S.-Central European relations. [8]
Consumer Driven Health Care
NCPA "provided the intellectual justification and rationale for individual self-insurance. Between the time the NCPA task force was formed in 1990 and Health Savings Accounts became a reality in 2004, NCPA scholars made more than 250 presentations — speeches, briefings, testimonies, etc. — in virtually every state." [9]
Debate Central
The NCPA created this site for "students researching the nationwide high school debate topic."[10]
Taxes and Growth
The NCPA created this site to provide documents on "free-market tax policy."[11]
Team NCPA
The NCPA created this project to "educate policy makers, opinion leaders and the general public about the economic problems facing Social Security and the benefits of personal investment-based reform." [12]
Women in the Economy
The NCPA created this project to gear its content specifically towards women. [13]
Funding
Foundations gave the following amounts to the National Center for Policy Analysis think tank in 2005: [6]
- Sarah Scaife Foundation - $125,000
- Earhart Foundation - $40,000
- Armstrong Foundation - $45,000
- The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc. - $195,000
- Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation - $25,000
- Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation - $25,000
The NCPA web site states that in 2006 it receives 62% of its funding from foundations, 21% from corporations, and 17% from individuals. [7] Between 1985 and 2005, the Center received $8,499,850 in 161 separate grants.
Previous years:
- 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
- Procter & Gamble Fund
Contact details
12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800
Dallas, TX 75251-1339
Phone: (972) 386-6272
Fax: (972) 386-0924
601 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 900 South Building
Washington, DC 20004
Phone: (202) 220-3082
Fax: (202) 220-3096
Email: media AT ncpa.org
Web: http://www.ncpa.org/
References
- ↑ National Center for Policy Analysis About, organizational website, accessed August 18, 2011
- ↑ Media Matters National Center for Policy Analysis-Financials, database, accessed August 18, 2011
- ↑ Media Matters Conservative Transparency National Center for Policy Analysis - Funders database, accessed August 18, 2011
- ↑ NCPA Board of Directors (partial listing), accessed July 2007.
- ↑ NCPA Staff, accessed July 2007.
- ↑ Grants to National Center for Policy Analysis, Media Transparency, accessed July 2007.
- ↑ About page, NCPA, accessed July 2007.
External links
- Richard W. Stevenson, "In Sign of Conservative Split, a Commentator Is Dismissed", New York Tines, October 18, 2005.
- Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/national-center-for-policy-ana/