E Foundation OK (Oklahoma City, OK)
To create actionable, long-term strategic plans to grow and diversify the economy, to share those plans with the public, and to foster productive conversation and collaboration to help Oklahomans live their best lives for generations to come.
Center for Growth and Opportunity (Logan, UT)
The Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University is a university-based research center dedicated to producing ideas that transform lives. We explore the interactions between key institutions — business, government, and civil society — to improve opportunity, broad-based economic growth, and individual well-being. We train students, conduct research with a national network of scholars, and communicate transformative solutions to our country’s most pressing issues. We focus on those factors that increase opportunity and long-term economic growth by unleashing innovation, entrepreneurship, and empowering individuals and communities to work toward cooperation over conflict.
1889 Institute (Oklahoma City, OK)
The 1889 Institute analyzes and develops state public policies for the state of Oklahoma based on the principles of limited and responsible government, free enterprise, and a robust civil society.
1851 Center for Constitutional Law (Columbus, OH)
We founded 1851 to actively defend Ohioans’ right to do anything peaceful. We believe dignity, choice, respect, and freedom are moral imperatives, central to human flourishing. And we can all see how the heavy-handed control of others hampers imperatives and this flourishing. Yet each day throughout our state, government officials treat Ohioans like children, micro-manage their choices, pilfer their hard-earned wealth and property, and auction off their freedom to the highest bidder. To defend against these threats, and to level a highly unbalanced playing field, we represent those who aren’t represented by a special interest group. In essence, we are a special interest group against all of the “special interests” who wish to control Ohioans’ time, money, property, and lives.We represent those who simply wish to be left alone to order their lives, families, finances, businesses, and time in an entirely peaceful manner.Accordingly we represent the average Ohio taxpayer, parent, homeowner, and entrepreneur, when they find themselves threatened with loss of their homes and businesses, and threatened with fines and jail time for peaceful acts such as the sale or lease of a home, posting of a protest sign, the gathering of signatures, the refusal to pay a tax or fee, or the refusal to abide by an arbitrary government mandate. Our clients are those with the dignity to refrain from living as a parasite. And those with the resolve to recognize when their government is treating them as the equivalent of a milk-cow, rather than a coequal.Before we founded the 1851 Center, the legal system had entirely failed these people.Ohio has no shortage of lawyers. Yet these lawyers cater to the wealthy. They have conflicts of interest because instead of fighting government, they all want to represent government, or perhaps even be part of it someday. When they become aware of an illegal $70 tax or fee, they want a $10,000 retainer. Meanwhile, those who have traditionally offered pro bono services in Ohio do so to shred the fundamental tenets of human freedom rather than to protect them.To correct this market failure, we have created a public interest law firm that cannot be bought. One that allows the average Ohioan to stand on equal footing with well-funded and well-connected bullies, without ever having to pay a legal bill.From Portsmouth to Cleveland and Youngstown to Cincinnati, and without regard politics, we speak for those without an effective means to speak for themselves. And we give outsiders a fighting chance to protect what is rightfully their own.
Yankee Institute (Hartford, NH)
The Yankee Institute’s mission is to promote free-market solutions and smart public policy so that every Connecticut resident is free to succeed. We achieve this objective by informing, inspiring and motivating citizens and decision-makers. To accomplish these goals we:
Produce independent and in-depth public policy research, plus timely and responsive policy briefs.
Advocate for taxpayers at the state capitol and beyond.
Convene events that bring together people from across the state building a network of influence.
Promote government transparency on our CTSunlight.org website.
Expose government waste, fraud and abuse through our Raising Hale investigative reporting blog.
Wyoming Liberty Group (Cheyenne, WY)
We believe in the values of individual dignity and personal liberty. Therefore, we encourage individual responsibility for involvement in public matters. We want to become a foundational influence in state policy research and education, as well as become a source of direct contact between private citizens and public officials. We invite communication and advocacy of first principles and constitutional mandates so as to encourage appreciation of our state constitution and the historical/cultural values that are the very source of our liberty.
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (Milwaukee, WI)
Through education, litigation, and participation in public discourse, we seek to advance the public interest in the rule of law, individual liberty, constitutional government, and a robust civil society. We strive to do so, moreover, in partnership with like-minded individuals and organizations – often our clients – who are committed to classical liberalism and constitutional government.
Washington Policy Center (Seattle, WA)
WPC improves lives of Washington state’s citizens by providing accurate, high-quality research for policymakers, the media and the general public. Headquartered in Seattle with satellite offices and full-time staff in Olympia and Eastern Washington, WPC publishes studies, sponsors events and conferences and educates citizens on the vital public policy issues facing our region. WPC has an annual budget of $2 million and a full-time staff of 16. Broadcast, print, and online media throughout Washington and across the nation cover WPC’s work regularly and seek out its policy experts for analysis and commentary. In addition, lawmakers routinely invite WPC to testify before legislative committees.
Virginia Institute for Public Policy (Abingdon, VA)
The Virginia Institute for Public Policy is an independent, nonpartisan, education and research organization committed to the goals of individual opportunity and economic growth. Through research, policy recommendations, and symposia, the Institute works ahead of the political process to lay the intellectual foundation for a society dedicated to individual liberty, dynamic entrepreneurial capitalism, private property, the rule of law, and constitutionally limited government.
Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy (Alexandria, VA)
The mission of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is to provide Virginia’s political, business, academic, community and media leadership with thoughtful, realistic, useful and non-partisan analysis of public policy issues confronting our Commonwealth. These alternative policy ideas focus on state and local issues and are based on the Institute’s belief in free markets, limited government and individual responsibility. The general areas of interest for this Institute are reforming government, economic development, improving health.
