Reason Foundation

The Reason Foundation is a libertarian think-tank that consists of the Reason Public Policy Institute and Reason Magazine. It describes itself as “a leading voice for individual liberty, economic freedom, and dynamic market-based public policies.”
== Links to Republicans ==
Californian Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed several co-authors of Reason’s Roadmap to Reform and members of its budget-working group to his transition team, including former Secretary of State Bill Jones, former State Treasurer Matt Fong, and former Congressman Bill Baker.The Reason Report (2004) Winter, p7 The ex-President of the Foundation, Lynn Scarlett, became the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management at the Department of the Interior under Gale Norton. 
“I am honored by this appointment and eager to join Secretary Norton's leadership team at Interior,” said Scarlett. “The Department has critical and far-reaching stewardship missions that touch the lives of millions of Americans. I look forward to working in close, collaborative initiatives with our state, tribal, and private sector partners to meet those responsibilities[5]”. Scarlett had served as an environmental campaign advisor to President Bush in the 2000 election and was a member of the Bush transition advisory team for the EPA[6].
Scarlett is also an advisor to the National Environmental Policy Institute along with Robert Hahn from the American Enterprise Institute, amongst others [7] Scarlett was also a senior fellow at the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), a Montana-based organization. FREE “is bankrolled by polluting interests that often have litigation before the federal bench[8]” 
In a special report on Scarlett, CLEAR argued that Scarlett had “rarely met a regulation she likes. According to her, the world is just too complex for pesky things like mandated air pollution limits, recycling, or day care standards to work efficiently. In her worldview, regulations stifle innovations that would be cheaper and better because each business owner could decide what works best for the company. On the other hand, Scarlett thinks nutrition labels are too confusing for the general public, so we shouldn’t have them at all. Can be enlightened enough to control their pollution levels when people are too stupid to understand the label on their cereal box?” [9].
Whilst at Reason, Scarlett was the host of Tech Central Station.com’s New Environmentalism site where she wrote a weekly column. James Glassman was sad to see her go: “our loss - both at Tech Central Station and at the Reason Foundation - will be the nation's gain. We're proud that the president has chosen Lynn Scarlett as a steward for the nation's natural resources. He could not have made a better choice”[10]. 
Scarlett was also a contributor to the book called “Fearing Food - Risk, Health and Environment”, edited by Julian Morris and Roger Bate, at the time from the right-wing think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. Other contributors included Dennis Avery from the Hudson Institute, and Bruce Ames the controversial cancer scientist on the board of SEPP and a Director of the George C Marshall Institute and academic advisor to the Reason Foundation.J. Morris & R. Bate (1999) Fearing Food – Risk, Health and Environment, Butterworth, Heinemann, 
==People==
=== Current personnel ===
*David Nott - President, ex petroleum engineer for Shell Western Exploration & Production. Also ex- Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) and the Mercatus Center, both at George Mason University in Virginia.
*Nick Gillespie - Vice President, editor of the libertarian Reason Magazine
*Adrian T. Moore - Vice President for Research Executive Director, Reason Public Policy Institute
*Robert W. Poole, Jr - Founder. He advised the White House Office of Policy Development on privatization during the Reagan years, and testified before the President's Commission on Privatization in 1987. During the Bush administration, he worked with the Vice-President's Competitiveness Council and the White House Counsel to help develop an executive order on infrastructure privatization.[12]
=== Board of Trustees ===
*Thomas E. Beach - Beach Investment Counsel, Inc.
*William A. Dunn - (Chairman elect) DUNN Capital Management on Board of CEI and PERC
*David Fleming - Latham & Watkins
*C. Boyden Gray - Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
*James D. Jameson
*Manuel S. Klausner - Law Offices of Manuel S. Klausner
*David H. Koch - Koch Industries
*James Lintott - Sterling Foundation Management
*Stephen Modzelewski - Maple Engine, L.L.C. 
*Sarah A. O’Dowd - Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe
*Robert W. Poole, Jr - Reason Foundation
*Randall Smith - InSite MediaCom, L.L.C.
*Al H. St. Clair - Procter & Gamble
*Harry Teasley, Jr - (Chairman) 
*Frank Bond - Trustee Emeritus
*Walter E. Williams - George Mason University
===Business Advisory Board includes===
*Joseph Alibrandi - Whittaker Corporation (Retired) Reason Foundation (2000) Annual Report – Forging A World of New Choices, p31
*Frank Baxter - Jefferies & Company Inc. 
*Ron Boehm - ABC-Clio 
*Jeff Buckingham - New Edge Networks 
*Kenneth Butler - Capital Partnerships Virginia 
*Viggo Butler - United Airports Ltd. 
*Willard Z. Carr, Jr - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 
*Shane A. Chalke - Annuity Net Inc. 
*Chris Conway - Mentor Corporation 
*Joseph Coulombe - Trader Joe’s (Retired) 
*Devon Cross - Donors’ Forum on International Affairs 
*Marie L. Fioramonti - Prudential Capital 
*Daniel Fylstra - Frontline Systems 
*Charles Gibbons - PricewaterhouseCoopers 
*Karen J. Hedlund Nossaman - Guthner, Knox & Elliott 
*Doug Henderson - Western States Petroleum Association 
*Warner W. Henry - Henry Companies 
*Yvette Hirth - The DBT Group Inc. 
*William Huston - Watson Land Co. 
*James D. Jameson - LIDCO Inc. 
*Jerry L. Jordan - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 
*A. Samuel King - University Restaurant Group 
*John Mackey - Whole Foods Market Inc. 
*Roy E. Marden - Philip Morris 
*T.J. Rodgers - Cypress Semiconductor 
*Cliff Slater - Maui Divers Inc. (Retired) 
*Shawn Steel - Shawn Steel & Associates 
*Michael E. Tennenbaum - Tennenbaum & Co. 
*Loronzo Thomson - L.H. Thomson Company 
*Ron K. Unz - Wall Street Analytics 
*Richard Wallace - Freedom Communications Inc. 
*Thomas W. Wathen - Pinkerton Security & Investigative Services (Retired) 
*Pierluigi Zappacosta - Digital Persona 
===Academic Advisory===
The Academic Advisory Board consists of libertarian and conservative think tank types such as Bruce Ames (was on the advisory board of TASSC, is a Director George C. Marshall and academic advisor to SEPP), Terry Anderson of PERC, John Baden of FREE, Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, Richard Epstein the father of “takings”, Thomas Gale Moore of the Hoover Institution, Charles Murray of American Enterprise Institute, and Paul Craig Roberst of the Cato Institute.
Other Sstaff at the Foundation or the Reason Public Policy Institute:
*Ronald Bailey, Science Correspondent of Reason Magazine
*Michael De Alessi - Director of Natural Resource Policy including regulation. Author of Fishing for Solutions published by the right-wing Institute of Economic Affairs in Londonhttp://www.rppi.org/dealessi.html 
*Kenneth Green, Director of Environmental Program Reason Foundation; Chief Scientist the right wing Fraser Institute in Vancouver.
== Issues ==
Reason runs the website http://www.newenvironmentalism.org/, which is another website to promote Ronald Bailey’s views and that of Reason magazine and other Reason staff.
== Funding ==
Reason lists its corporate and foundation funders. According to Reason “In 2000, the Foundation’s revenue grew to a new high of $5.3 million. There were 30 private foundation contributors and 95 corporate contributors. Contributions from individuals provided 40 percent of total revenue —75 percent of the 2130 individual donations were in the $50 to $500 range. Larger individual donations are made each year by members of the Torchbearer Society ($1000)[1]. 
===Corporate Funders===
Corporate Supporters in 2000 were[2]: 
 
 3M
 American Airlines
 
 
 American Chemistry Council
 American Consulting Engineers Council
 
 
 American Farm Bureau Federation
 American Forest & Paper Association
 
 
 American Petroleum Institute
 American Plastics Council
 
 
 American Port Services, Inc.
 American Water Works Co.
 
 
 Anheuser-Busch Company
 BAA USA, Inc.
 
 
 Bank of America
 Bayer Corporation
 
 
 California Association of Realtors
 California Water Service Company
 
 
 Ken and Colleen Butler, Capital Partnerships
 Virginia, Inc.
 
 
 Cargill, Inc.
 Chevron Corporation
 
 
 The Clorox Company
 Coca-Cola Co.
 
 
 Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors of California
 Consulting Engineers
 
 
 Council of New York State, Inc.
 Consulting Engineers Council of North Carolina
 
 
 Consulting Engineers Council of Texas
 Continental Airlines
 
 
 Cornell Corrections
 Corrections Corporation of America
 
 
 DaimlerChrysler Corp.
 Dart Container Corporation
 
 
 Delta Air Lines
 Dow Chemical USA
 
 
 Eastman Chemical Company
 Eberle & Associates, Inc.
 
 
 Economic Alliance of San Fernando Valley
 Economic Development Corporation of Los Angeles County
 
 
 Edison Electric Institute
 Enron
 
 
 ExxonMobil Corporation
 FDX Corporation
 
 
 FMC Corporation
 Farmer’s Insurance Group
 
 
 Ford Motor Company
 Frasca & Associates
 
 
 Freedom Communications
 General Motors Corporation
 
 
 Georgia-Pacific Corporation
 Granite Construction Company
 
 
 Grocery Manufacturers of America
 Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
 
 
 International Paper Company
 Jacobs Engineering
 
 
 Kimberly-Clark Foundation
 Koch Materials Co.
 
 
 L&L Connolly Management
 LCOR Incorporated
 
 
 Lehman Brothers, Inc.
 Eli Lilly and Co.
 
 
 Loews Corporation
 Logistics Management Institute
 
 
 Macquarie North America
 Management and Training Corporation
 
 
 Mentor Corporation
 Mevatec Corporation
 
 
 Microsoft Corporation
 National Air Transportation Association
 
 
 National Association of Realtors
 National Beer Wholesalers Association
 
 
 Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott
 Operations Management International, Inc.
 
 
 Pfizer, Inc
 Philip Morris Companies
 
 
 PolyOne Corporation
 Poseidon Resources Corporation
 
 
 PricewaterhouseCoopers
 Privatized Emergency Services Association
 
 
 Procter & Gamble
 Salomon Smith Barney
 
 
 Serco Group Inc.
 Shell Oil Co.
 
 
 Southern California Water
 SunAmerica, Inc.
 
 
 Tech Central Station.com
 Temple-Inland Forest
 
 
 Products Co.
 U.S. Filter Corp.
 
 
 Union Carbide Corporation
 United Water Services, LLC
 
 
 Vinyl Institute
 Virco
 
 
 Wackenhut Corrections Co.
 Watson Land Company
 
 
 Western States Petroleum Association
 Whole Foods Market
 
 
===Foundations===
The Institute received some $5,289,712 from 1985 to 2002, in 107 grants from the following foundations[3]:
*Earhart Foundation
*John M. Olin Foundation
*Sarah Scaife Foundation 
*Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
*Claude R. Lamb Foundation
*Carthage Foundation
*David H Koch Foundation
*JM Foundation
*Smith-Richardson Foundation
*Scaife Family Foundation
*Charles G Koch Foundation
*Donors Trust: $456,700 in 2013, $274,450 in 2014 Donors Trust, 990 Form, 2014 Donors Trust, 990 Form, 2013 
===2011===
*Claws Foundation
===2012===
*Dunn's Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking - $1.8 million grant
==Contact==
*Address: Reason Foundation, 3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA
*Web address: http://www.reason.org/
== References ==
*[1] Reason Foundation (2000) Annual Report – Forging A World of New Choices, p25
*[2] Reason Foundation (2000) Annual Report – Forging A World of New Choices, p30
*[3] http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?286
*[5] http://www.doi.gov/news/010713e.html
*[6] http://www.clearproject.org/reports_scarlett.html
*[7] http://www.nepi.org/Directory.htm
*[8] http://www.ems.org/interior/scarlett.html
*[9] http://www.clearproject.org/reports_scarlett.html
*[10] http://www.Tech Central Station.com/040201A.html
*[12] http://www.reason.org/robert.html
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