Conservatism/US/org

Note

Eventually, US conservatism will be moved to Americonservatism, but I don't have time to update all the links right now -- so I'm saving that move for later. Also, maybe this should be /organizations or /advocacy instead of /think-tanks; some of these are lobbying orgs, some are think-tanks... need to get some clarity on what the different types are and how to distinguish between them.

List

Active

• American Action Network [W] OpenSecrets
• American Enterprise Institute [W] (AEI)
• Americans for Prosperity [W] (AFP)
• Americans for Tax Reform [W] founded 1985 by Grover Norquist
• American Legislative Exchange Council [W] (ALEC) SourceWatch
• Bradley Foundation [W][1] - foundation, founded 1942
• Cato Institute -- more libertarian than Americonservative, although they were taken over by the Koch brothers in late 2012
• Capitol Hill Daily [2]
• Century Strategies founded in 1997 by Ralph Reed (Ralph E. Reed Jr.); provides campaign consulting for Republican candidates
• Citizens United (W) founded 1988
• Free Enterprise Fund (FEF)
• Heartland Institute -- focused on global warming denialism in the 2000s; prior to that, helped promote the idea that smoking is healthy
• Heritage Foundation -- predicted in 2001 that the Bush tax cuts would pay down the federal deficit by 2010; in 2011, Paul Ryan based his budget proposal on numbers they provided
• John Locke Foundation -- mainly operates in North Carolina; part of Art Pope's empire
• United States Chamber of Commerce [W] (USCC)
• pro-patriarchy:
  • Alliance Defending Freedom [W] (formerly Alliance Defense Fund): legal defense group, founded 1994 by Bill Bright (founder, Cru), Larry Burkett (co-founder, Crown Financial Ministries), James Dobson (founder, Focus on the Family), D. James Kennedy (founder, Coral Ridge Ministries), Marlin Maddoux (president, International Christian Media), and Donald Wildmon (founder, American Family Association)
  • American Decency Association [W] (ADA) founded in 1999 by former elementary school teacher Bill Johnson; formerly Michigan chapter of AFA
  • American Family Association [W] (AFA) founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency
  • Bob Jones University [W]
  • Center for Marriage Policy [3]
  • Cru [W] (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) founded 1951 by Bill Bright
  • Christian Coalition of America [W] founded 1989 by Pat Robertson
  • Concerned Women for America [W]
  • Coral Ridge Ministries [W] founded 1960 by D. James Kennedy
  • Crown Financial Ministries [W] formed by 2000 merger of Christian Financial Concepts (founded 1976 by Larry Burkett) and Crown Ministries (founded 1985 by Howard Dayton).
  • Eagle Forum [W] founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972; has close ties to Conservapedia
  • Faith and Freedom Coalition [W] founded 2009 by Ralph Reed
  • Family Research Council [W] founded 1981 by James Dobson
  • Focus on the Family [W] founded 1977 by James Dobson
  • International Christian Media founded by Marlin Maddoux [4]
  • Liberty Counsel [W] provides free legal assistance in defense of "Christian religious liberty, the sanctity of human life, and the traditional family."
  • Liberty Institute [W] founded 1971 as "Free Market Counsel". "a third tier religious right legal group at best" - Ed Brayton
  • Liberty University [W]
  • National Center for Law & Policy [W]
  • National Organization for Marriage [W]
  • Ruth Institute (site blog): a NOM project
  • Traditional Values Coalition [W] founded 1984; designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading false information

Defunct

• Moral Majority [W] founded by Jerry Falwell in 1979 and dissolved in the late 1980s.
• Project for the New American Century [W] (PNAC): infamously called for a new Pearl Harbor prior to 9/11