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Established
  
1989

Executive Vice President
  
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.

President
  
Brooke Rollins

Founded
  
1987

Focus
  
Texas government

Website
  
www.texaspolicy.com

Founder
  
James R. Leininger

Staff
  
60

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Budget
  
Revenue: $5,288,989 Expenses: $4,731,140 (FYE December 2014)

Address
  
901 Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78701

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The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is a conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas. It is a member of the State Policy Network, a network of free-market oriented think tanks. The stated mission of TPPF is "to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach." TPPF notes that its guiding principles are "individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, free markets and limited government".

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History

TPPF was initially founded and funded in 1989 by James R. Leininger, a physician, businessman and conservative activist from San Antonio, Texas. Today, the Foundation's board of directors includes thirteen individuals. Originally based in San Antonio, the organization was relocated in 2003 to Austin, Texas to be near the state capitol. In February 2015, TPPF moved into a new $20-million building two blocks from the Texas Capitol.

Organization

TPPF is organized into nine issue-area centers and a litigation arm:

  • American Future (litigation)
  • Economic Freedom
  • Education Freedom
  • Effective Justice
  • This center is sponsoring the Right on Crime initiative, an effort to reduce crime, restore victims, and replace mass incarceration with more cost-effective and humane sentencing and criminal punishment.
  • Energy & Environment
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Health Care
  • Higher Education
  • Local Governance
  • Tenth Amendment

    • During the year, TPPF hosts monthly policy events ("Policy Primers") covering a range of issues, and an annual conference ("Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature") that draws about 1,000 attendees.

    In 2013, TPPF published The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America. A new edition of the book was published in 2014: TPPF also publishes a quarterly journal titled Veritas.

    Notable TPPF staff
  • Senior management
  • Brooke Rollins, President
  • Kevin Roberts, Executive Vice President
  • Former State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, Vice President of National Initiatives
  • Joshua Treviño, Vice President of Communications
  • Rob Henneke, General Counsel and Director, Center for the American Future
  • Bill Peacock, Vice President of Research and Director, Center for Economic Freedom
  • Key personnel
  • Former State Representative Talmadge L. Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy
  • Thomas Lindsay, Ph.D., Director, Center for Higher Education
  • Chip Roy, J.D. Director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Action
  • Vance Ginn, Ph.D., Economist, Center for Fiscal Policy
  • James Quintero, Director, Center for Local Governance
  • Kathleen Hartnett White, Director, Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment
  • Dr. Deane Waldman, M.D., Director, Center for Healthcare Policy
  • Marc A. Levin, J.D., Director, Center for Effective Justice and Director, Right on Crime initiative
  • Derek Cohen, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Center for Effective Justice and Deputy Director, Right on Crime initiative

    • References

    Texas Public Policy Foundation Wikipedia
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