Public Policy: Think Tanks

A Google Custom Search of more than 590 think tanks and research centers. For this site, think tanks are defined as institutions affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity.

Non-profit organization that combines the best ideas from both parties to promote health, security, and opportunity for all Americans.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.

Nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC that conducts in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society.

RAND's mission is to help policymakers make decisions that are based on the best data, the strongest methods, and the brightest minds.

Aims to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers.

Provides unbiased, authoritative insights that inform choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States.

Nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving public well-being through policy research, data collection, and data analytics.

A nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions.

A nonpartisan research and policy institute that pursues federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality.

Its mission is to create radically pragmatic ideas for moving America beyond ideological and partisan deadlock.

With its scholars and Library and Archives, the Hoover Institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity, while securing and safeguarding peace.

Promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

A public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world.

Aims to provide trusted information on national health issues.

Supports research and programs targeting some of America’s most pressing health issues—from substance abuse to improving access to quality health care.

he Commonwealth Fund—among the first private foundations started by a woman philanthropist, Anna M. Harkness—was established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good.

The principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences.

Dedicated to its mission of researching the causes and consequences of unemployment, experimenting with innovative ways to help the unemployed, and disseminating research findings.

A private, nonpartisan nonprofit institution for rigorous, intellectually open, and in depth study and discussion of international economic policy.

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics, and promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.