Curated category
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
- International Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentThe International Bank for Reconstruction and Development was born in 1944 from one of the most ambitious acts of international cooperation in history.
- Council on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations has shaped American foreign policy from its earliest days in ways that most citizens never see.
- Guttmacher InstituteThe Guttmacher Institute carries the name of a man who once led Planned Parenthood, the obstetrician-gynecologist Alan F. Guttmacher.
- World Bank GroupThe World Bank Group approved its first loan on the 9th of May 1947: US$250 million to France for postwar reconstruction.
- American Political Science AssociationThe American Political Science Association was born in the Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University in New Orleans in 1903, at a moment when political…
- Freedom HouseFreedom House operates as a nonprofit out of Washington, D.C. For more than eight decades, it has weighed in on democracy, political freedom, and human…
- American Association for the Advancement of ScienceThe American Association for the Advancement of Science was born on the 20th of September 1848, inside the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
- American Geophysical UnionThe American Geophysical Union took its first breath in December 1919. A committee led by Robert S. Woodward of the Carnegie Institution had defined…
- Center for Strategic and International StudiesThe Center for Strategic and International Studies opened its doors on the 4th of September 1962, just weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis gripped…
- National Geographic SocietyOn the 13th of January 1888, thirty-three explorers and scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C.
- Greenpeace USAGreenpeace USA traces its roots to a group of activists who took to the high seas in the early 1970s to confront whaling ships and nuclear testing programs.
- Atlantic CouncilThe Atlantic Council began with a handshake between two former American statesmen. Christian Herter, once Secretary of State, and William L.
- Center for International PolicyThe Center for International Policy was born in 1975 from a moment of national crisis. The Vietnam War had fractured American confidence in its own foreign…
- National Security ArchiveThe National Security Archive holds the distinction of being the largest repository of declassified U.S. government documents outside the federal government…
- The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security StudiesThe Arctic Institute, a think tank founded in 2011 and based in Washington, D.C., ranked 72nd among United States think tanks in 2021.