The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute. The Foundation's mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach. Funded by thousands of individuals, foundations, and corporations, the Foundation does not accept government funds or contributions to influence the outcomes of its research.
The public is demanding a different direction for their government, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation is providing the ideas that enable policymakers to chart that new course.
The Foundation is guided by these principles: Liberty, Personal Responsibility, and Free Enterprise.
The Foundation focuses its efforts on these policy areas: the American future, economic freedom, education freedom, effective justice, energy & the environment, fiscal policy, health care policy, higher education, local governance, and Tenth Amendment action.