Original sentence: Critics have described the group as "oligarchy promoters pretending to be reasonable".On October 6, 2011, Jonathan Silver, the director of the Department of Energy's loan office, and a figure involved in the Solyndra loan controversy, resigned and become a distinguished visiting fellow at Third Way; Department of Energy officials stated that the decision was unrelated to the controversy.The board of the Third Way is made up almost entirely of investment bankers and other Wall Street executives.The sources of its funding are unknown.Third Way develops and advocates for policies that it says "represent the political center"
Edited sentence: Instead, the think tank is built around policy teams that create high-impact written products and innovative trainings to influence America's national policy debates.The organization's mission is to advance moderate policy and political ideas.Third Way represents Americans in the “vital center”—those who believe in pragmatic solutions and principled compromise, but who too often are ignored in Washington.Unlike traditional think tanks, Third Way does not house scholars who work in silos on academic research