Public Policy Institute of California
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Public Policy Institute of California
OR:
Public Policy Institute of California on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Public Policy Institute of California is an independent, non-profit research institution. Based in
San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17t ...
, the institute was established in 1994 by
Bill Hewlett William Redington Hewlett ( ; May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). Early life and education Hewlett was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his ...
, of
Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
, Roger Heyns, and Arjay Miller, with a $70 million endowment from Hewlett. Research by the institute focuses on population issues, the economy, governance and public finance. The PPIC also conducts polls of
public opinion Public opinion is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to a society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. Etymology The term "public opinion" was derived from the French ', which was first use ...
on issues related to California
public policy Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public ...
. It disseminates its research to state, local, and federal officials, as well as non-profit and private sectors leaders, public media, and the general public. It has organized conferences to focus on significant policy issues, such as the effects of
California ballot proposition In California, a ballot proposition is a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or plebiscite). If passed, it can alter one or more of the articles of the Constitution of ...
s. The institute has a visiting fellows program for scholars and a summer intern program for graduate students.


References

Non-profit organizations based in California Organizations based in San Francisco Political and economic think tanks in the United States {{econ-org-stub