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The New America Foundation, founded in 1999, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. The institute manages operations in California and Washington, D.C. It administers education policy, political reform, wireless future, and workforce and family programs. The New America Foundation also manages Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program, which supports journalists, academics and public policy analysts. The institute works on the issues of weapon proliferation and alternative national security frameworks. In addition, its Media Policy Initiative program focuses on policies to invigorate public media and increase independent public interest reporting.

The National Academy of Sciences was signed into being by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. The Academy is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research that is dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. The National Academy of Sciences is governed by a council comprised of 12 members and five officers elected from among its membership. The council is responsible to the membership for the activities undertaken by the organization and for the corporate management of the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy membership is comprised of approximately 2,000 members and nearly 350 foreign associates, of whom more than 190 have won Nobel Prizes.

The U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, founded in 1977, is dedicated to advocating for businesses in the U.S. judicial system on a wide range of issues, including class actions, labor and employment, energy and environment, securities and corporate governance, financial regulation, and more. With a team of talented legal professionals, the Litigation Center operates as a boutique law firm within the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, providing strategic legal support and expertise to address regulatory threats and challenges faced by the business community.Generated from the website