GRANT PROPOSMH ECORB Com peit?tive Enterprige anstimte ABBRESS: 1899 Street NW, Fioor 12 Washington, DC 20036 CONTACT: Mr. Lawson Bader AMOUNY $200,000 STAFF RECQMMENBATEQN: $75,000 PRQJ ECT TETLE: To support general operations . BOARD MEMBERS WITH REQUEST: STAFF: Mike Hartmann MEETENG DATE: 11/11/2014 PROPOSAL 20140851 BACKGROUND: The Competitive Enterprise institute in Washington, DC, requests a $200,000 grant award in renewed support of its general operations, with an emphasis on its work on energy and the environment. This request is separate and apart from that for iitigation efforts, for which there is a recommendation in the next section of these materials. Founded in 1984 by its longtime president Fred L. Smith, Jr., and consistently supported by Bradley since 1995, CEI is a public-policy research institute dedicated to free enterprise and limited government. Last year, named Lawson Bader its new president. Bader was vice president of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Smith remains at CEE as director of its Center for Advancing Capitaiism. CEl's board of directors is chaired by Michael 8. Grave, a professor at the George Mason University School of Law and former scholar at the Bradley-supported American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. its Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) is directed by Myron Ebell. The Cooler Heads Coalition that Ebell chairs brings together scholars and activists from almost every major right-of?center organization in Washington, DC, at headquarters there on a monthiy basis. Among other things, CEE is also working closely with Bradley?supported conservative state think tanks and the Bradley?supported American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) on pubiic education about the likeiy economic and other effects of the proposed XL pipeline and the repeat of renewable energy standards in Kansas, Ohio, and North Carolina. It aggressively uses the federal Freedom of information Act process to expose the collusion between of?ciats of the US Environmental Protection Agency and green and globa ~warming alarmist groups, as well, including their attempts to rely on the federal Endangered Species Act to stymie energy development. BUDGET INFORMATION: CEl's overall annual expense budget is approximately $5 mitlion. Its major sources of phiianthropic support include the David H. Koch Charitable and Sarah Scai?fe Foundations. its large corporate contributors include T, Exxon Mobil, Ford, General Motors, Microsoft, Murray Energy, Pfizer, and SEC. individually, longtime Bradley ally Barre Said anonymously has been among its biggest supporters. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Owing to the vision of Smith, from its very beginnings has worked vigorously to put ideas into action. Its work on energy and the environment in particuiar is exposing and cutting back onerous federai regulations that choke economic growth and prosperity. Staff thus recommends a $75,000 general-operations grant. If awarded, this would be $25,000 less than last year's level of support for this purpose. 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