:Bipartisan Policy Center
{{Short description|American think tank}}
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| abbreviation = BPC
| formation = {{start date and age|2007}}
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| type = Public policy think tank, 501(c)(3)
| headquarters = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| location = 1225 I St. NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
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| leader_title = CEO
| leader_name = Margaret Spellings
| key_people = Roy Blunt, Val Demings, Olympia Snowe
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| affiliations = BPC Action, 501(c)(4)
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| revenue = $31,165,990{{Cite web | date=November 15, 2024 | title=Return of organization exempt from income tax: Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | type=Form 990 | publisher=Internal Revenue Service | url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/731628382 |access-date=March 28, 2025 | via=ProPublica | language=en}}
| revenue_year = 2023
| expenses = $36,412,895{{Cite web | date=November 15, 2024 | title=Return of organization exempt from income tax: Bipartisan Policy Center Inc | type=Form 990 | publisher=Internal Revenue Service | url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/731628382 |access-date=March 28, 2025 | via=ProPublica | language=en}}
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| website = [http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/ bipartisanpolicy.org]
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The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a Washington, D.C.–based think tank that promotes bipartisanship.{{Cite web |title=Bipartisan Policy Center |url=https://www.adaptationclearinghouse.org/organizations/bipartisan-policy-center.html |access-date=2024-10-16 |website= |publisher=Adaption Clearinghouse}} The organization aims to combine ideas from both the Republican and Democratic parties to address U.S. policy challenges.{{Cite web |title=Bipartisan Policy Center - MacArthur Foundation |url=https://www.macfound.org/grantee/bipartisan-policy-center-43864/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=www.macfound.org}}
History
BPC was founded as a non-profit organization in 2007{{Cite web |title=Cadmus’ Kevin Bush Appointed to Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force |url=https://cadmusgroup.com/news/cadmus-kevin-bush-appointed-to-bipartisan-policy-center-task-force/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Cadmus |language=en-US}} by former Senate majority leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, and George J. Mitchell. BPC formally launched in March 2007, though the organization's roots trace back to 2002, when the National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP), predecessor to BPC's current Energy Project, was founded.{{cite web|url = http://bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/national-commission-energy-policy/about|title = National Commission on Energy Policy|access-date = November 13, 2014|website = Bipartisan Policy Center|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130509033503/http://bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/national-commission-energy-policy/about|archive-date = May 9, 2013}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.cnbc.com/2012/10/10/new-bipartisan-policy-center-report-examines-economic-impacts-of-a-nuclear-iran.html| title=New Bipartisan Policy Center Report Examines Economic Impacts of a Nuclear Iran| newspaper=CNBC| date= 2012-10-10| accessdate=2024-08-17 }}
In November 2010, BPC's "Debt Reduction Task Force" released its report, Restoring America's Future, in an effort to influence the debate over the national debt.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/us/politics/17fiscal.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1304446273-dMzKhO4l2uCBN89SEJ7P5A|title = Obama Deficit Panel Gets Some Competition|last = Calmes|first = Jackie|date = November 16, 2010|access-date = November 13, 2014|newspaper = The New York Times|department = Politics}}
In June 2023, Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education from 2005 to 2009, was announced as the center's CEO.{{Cite web |last=Poff |first=Jeremiah |date=June 5, 2023 |title=Bipartisan Policy Center taps former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings as CEO |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/bipartisan-policy-center-taps-margaret-spellings-ceo |access-date=July 7, 2023 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}}{{Cite web | url=https://thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles/spellings-new-ceo-at-bipartisan-policy-center/| title=Spellings New CEO At Bipartisan Policy Center| newspaper=The NonProfit Times| accessdate=2024-08-17}}
Funding
In 2013, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University reported that the Bipartisan Policy Center advanced the interests of its funders, including corporations and industry associations who provide operational support and philanthropies that fund much of the center's programmatic work.{{Cite web | last=Silverstein | first=Ken | last2=Arene-Morley | first2=Diego | date=July 9, 2013 | title=The Bipartisan Lobbying Center: How a Washington Think Tank Advocates for Political Unity – and its Top Donors | url=https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/bipartisan-lobbying-center |access-date=July 7, 2023 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024140926/https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/bipartisan-lobbying-center | archive-date=October 24, 2015 | website=Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University | language=en}}{{Cite news | last=Fang | first=Lee | date=July 9, 2013 | title=Think Tank Releasing Rival Bangladesh Safety Accord Receives Funds From Walmart and Its Lobbyists | work=The Nation | language=en-US | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/think-tank-releasing-rival-bangladesh-safety-accord-receives-funds-walmart-and-its-lobby/ | access-date=July 7, 2023 | issn=0027-8378}}
Political action committee
BPC partners with a political action committee called BPC Action. BPC Action is "committed to seeing bipartisan policy solutions enacted into law", and "[works] closely with [its] 501(c)(3) partner, the Bipartisan Policy Center, to advance smart policies through the legislative process". BPC Action is a separate, 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://bpcaction.org/about-us/ |access-date=March 5, 2020 |website=BPC Action}}{{Secondary source needed|date=July 2023}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/}}
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