If you care enough to want to be educated about public policy issues and how you are affected by the goings on in Washington and beyond, take some time and visit their website...nationalcenter.org. You'll come away impressed. Donating to this group is a no-brainer; I feel my money is well spent.
Excellent organization. Unlike many that talk about what it wants to do or what it believes endlessly, the National Center for Public Policy Research constantly puts points on the board. It is extremely effective at figuring out good strategies and executing them with energy. I love its slogan, "a do-tank, not just a think-tank." That's really true.
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This organization looks more like a right wing Religious lobby lying about the facts and results of policies, and supports ALEC right wing policies including voter suppression, union busting, war on women, anti universal health care, unconstitutional laws on immigration and women's health. This should not be a non-profit and receive tax breaks.http://www.nationalcenter.org/ Some examples include: Why is the Department of Justice Blocking Voter ID?
Attorney General Holder is wrong to block Texas' Voter ID law... More on voter ID...
Justice Department Plays Fast and Loose with Facts and Constitution in Challenging Texas Voter ID Law
Texans will have to pay court costs to defend their own voter ID law against Feds who think they know better. How is that fair? More on voter ID...
New Voter Identification Task Force Announced
We've come out swinging to defend the work that our ally ALEC has been doing so well until leftist activists targeted it... More on voter ID...
President Obama Really Does Make Over a Million a Year
He just doesn't have to pay taxes on all of it... More on Obama's taxes...
A Thought About Eli Lilly and its Enduring Love for ObamaCare
You can't trust Eli Lilly with your health care, so why trust it with your health? More on Eli Lilly...
Eli Lilly CEO Firmly Stands By Company's Pro-ObamaCare Lobbying at Shareholder Meeting
Apparently he prefers company suicide over free-market reforms... More on Eli Lilly...
You'll Get Zero Benefit From Buffett Rule, Obama Tax Calculator Promises
Apparently, the only people who matter are those earning between $42,500 and $249,999, and it's pretty obvious why... More...
Color of Change's ALEC Attack: Burning Black America in Order to Save It
Is punishing ALEC really in the best interests of black America, or is Color of Change using the black community as a prop? More...
Very effective advocacy program. Efficient use of resources. Strong impact influencing the debate. A great resource for expanding liberty. I will continue to support this effective organization.
The National Center for Public Policy Research has several "projects" such as The National Retirement Security Task Force, etc.
These projects simply acquire the names of older people and mail them requests for donations. These requests are sent with letters intended to scare the recipient into donating. Often these requests are sent via Certified Mail in the hope that the recipient will think the contents more important.
My elderly mother-in-law is receiving about 10 mailings a day from various non-profits of this type. She wrote some a check and thus elevated her status to "donor" and she was added to a mailing list that is sold to other
non-profits. The list for the NCPPR is shown here:
http://lists.nextmark.com/market?page=order/online/datacard&id=275422
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research
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Be VERY careful before giving money to this organization. You will be swamped by mail and they do not honor requests to be removed from mailing lists.
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Excellence. NCPPR is unsurpassed in both competency and integrity. It is fearless in its defense of our liberties that are so often taken for granted.
The National Center for Public Policy Research is the best organization I know to expose excessive government control over our lives and pocketbooks. They publish Shattered Dreams, with details of victims of government regulatory abuse and property seizure. And in 2009 published Shattered Lives, with dozens of individual examples of failed government health care and deaths in the UK, and other Western countries with socialized medicine. Their research is top-notch and verifiable. They are as good a small organization as Heritage Foundation is a large organization.
The National Center is one of the last true non-profits advocating for limited government and constitutional principles. Their work on health care and property rights issues is bar none. Wish there were more of groups like this in DC!
Amy R. is the Queen of Scare Mail. My father receives 5-15 letters from them per day under four different names (maybe more I hadn't realized the association). He started giving to them in 2009 and gave them thousands of dollars little by little. When I found out he was spending all his money, I started tracking his junk mail and putting him on a charity budget. He said he'd hope that the things they were fighting for would be over in 6 months or so. What a laugh. I sent their letters to the State of Utah Consumer Protection, who opened an investigation because of the misrepresentations in the mailings. They've come to a settlement to give my father's money back. Unfortunately, my father isn't the only victim. See article at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/02/08/NEWS3642.dtl
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