New America Foundation
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| Motto | New America is committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. |
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| Formation | 1999 |
| Type | Public Policy Think Tank |
| Headquarters | 740 15th Street NW, Ste 900 |
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President
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Anne-Marie Slaughter |
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Revenue (2014)
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$20,315,920 |
| Expenses (2014) | $21,539,240 |
| Website | www |
New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a non-partisan think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy. The organization is based in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in New York City.
Ted Halstead served as New America's founding President and CEO from 1999 to 2007.Steve Coll served as New America's second President. In 2013, Anne-Marie Slaughter became President of New America, replacing Steve Coll.Google's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, is the chairman of the foundation's board of directors.
New America was founded in 1999 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind, and Walter Russell Mead as a non-profit, public policy institute whose stated mission is to "invest in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States". The organization has a staff of over a hundred employees and fellows with offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
The organization continues to "emphasize work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st-century information-age economy" with "big ideas, impartial analysis and pragmatic solutions".Newsweek's Howard Fineman called it a "hive of state-of-the-art policy entrepreneurship".
The organization houses programs and initiatives that focus on domestic, economic and global issues. and also houses a fellowship program.
The foundation's National Security Studies Program researches and analyzes global issues, from the inner workings of al-Qaeda to overall national foreign policy strategy. With the presence of journalists such as Steve Coll and Peter Bergen, it has carved out a policy niche in the issues of Afghanistan and counter-terrorism. Bergen, who leads the program, is a CNN national security analyst and author of several best-selling books, including The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda. Coll, former president of New America, has also written several books on al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden. James Risen in The New York Times complimented Coll on "revealing how Saudi Arabia and its intelligence operations aided the rise of Osama bin Laden and Islamic extremism in Afghanistan".
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