Niskanen Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/22/2016
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
The Niskanen Center is a newly founded libertarian policy advocacy organization that works to change public policy through direct and pragmatic engagement in the policymaking process. The center’s four areas of concentration include climate change, immigration, defense and foreign policy, and civil liberties and technology. This grant for general operating support will enhance its capacity to carry out its mission and respond to new opportunities as they arise.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
niskanencenter.org
Address
1201 New York Ave NW, Suite 200B, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Climate and Struggling Regions programs
The Niskanen Center approaches pressing problems with policy solutions that are innovative, practical, and relevant to the current moment. The organization pursues a research agenda to identify chokepoints to decarbonization and economic health for struggling communities, designs policy options to overcome them, and methodically and energetically promotes its research and proposals to policymakers and governing elites in Washington, D.C. This grant supports both Niskanen’s Climate and Struggling Regions programs. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy).
for general operating support
The Niskanen Center works to advance an open society by active engagement in the war of ideas, direct engagement in the policymaking process, and through the courts with amicus briefs and pro bono representation. It develops policy proposals, mobilizes other groups to support those proposals, promotes those ideas to legislative and executive decision makers, builds short- and longer-term coalitions to facilitate joint action, establishes strong working relationships with allied legislative and executive branch actors, and marshals the most convincing arguments and information in support of its agenda. In late 2021 the Niskanen Center launched a new State Capacity Project to investigate and suggest remedies for the declining quality of public administration in the United States in recent decades.
