History and Mission
The New America Foundation was founded in 1999 by Ted Halstead, Sherle Schwenninger, Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead as a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy institute whose stated mission is to “invest in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States.” The organization has a staff of over a hundred employees and fellows with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
The organization continues to “emphasize work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy” with “big ideas, impartial analysis and pragmatic solutions” Newsweek’s Howard Fineman called New America “a hive of state-of-the-art policy entrepreneurship."
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