NCPA Profile and Programs

 

The NCPA—its mission and motto

Who We Are

The NCPA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization funded entirely by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. The NCPA seeks to unleash the power of ideas for positive change by identifying, encouraging and aggressively marketing the best scholarly research.

NCPA Mission

The mission of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is to discover and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving public policy problems by relying on the strengths of a competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. The NCPA is committed to providing private sector, free-market solutions to public policy problems.

NCPA Motto

The NCPA's motto, "Ideas Changing the World," reflects our belief that ideas have enormous power to change the course of human events. In its 25-year history, NCPA ideas have shaped and molded public policy in health care, retirement, entitlement reform, taxation, economic growth, and energy and the environment. 

"The NCPA generates more analysis per dollar than any think tank in the country. It does an amazingly good job of going out and finding the right things and talking about them in intelligent ways."
 -Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives  
"The values of freedom and free enterprise are more widely cherished in the world today than at any point in our lifetime. Yet the battle for these ideas is far from over. That's why the work of the NCPA is so important and why your support of the NCPA is so necessary."
  -Ronald Reagan.
"We know what works. It's what the NCPA talks about: limited government, economic freedom; things like health savings accounts. These things work, allowing people choices. We've seen how these concepts created America."
  -John Stossel, ABC-TV News.