• Economy - Economic systems - Mixed economies - Social economy - Nonprofit organizations - 501(c)(3) organizations - Conservative Partnership Institute
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• 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Source (2022-11-21): https://secure.winred.com/cpi/donate
• According to the left-leaning Sourcewatch, CPI has connections to the Council for National Policy, a Christian Right organization of funders and activists.
Sourcewatch also reports it received funding from the Bradly Foundation and DonorsTrust.
Source (2022-11-21): https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/conservative-partnership-institute/
• This is the main entry for the "Conservative Partnership Institute".
• CPI is a support organization for the conservative movement.
We vet and recommend conservative staffers for congressional offices and conservative groups, and we train these staffers to be effective.
At our headquarters, we bring together freedom fighters from the House, Senate, and conservative organizations for regular strategy sessions.
We provide convenient, high-tech broadcast studios and meeting spaces to members and allies.
And we form and lead coalitions and help to launch new conservative organizations.
CPI's strategic location and our responsive, servant philosophy make us unique.
When conservatives are attacked or targeted for cancellation, they come to CPI's Conservative Partnership Center at 300 Independence Ave. for the support and resources they need to keep fighting for conservative principles in Washington and across the nation.
Each year, CPI hosts a Conservative Members Conference for congressmen.
Attendees leave better equipped to thwart the left's agenda and advance conservative initiatives on the Hill.
We regularly convene members of the Senate Steering Committee, the House Freedom Caucus, Congressional Chiefs of Staff, and Congressional Legislative Directors to sharpen both messaging and strategy.
CPI also leads consensus-building projects, bringing groups together in a way that actually moves the needle on tough issues.
CPI is helping conservatives work together to fight back against Big Tech censorship, in partnership with Media Research Center and others.
And through our partnership with the Election Integrity Network, we're getting key players across the country together to restore the election integrity safeguards that the left is trying to tear down.
CPI also helps new conservative groups to get off the ground.
In the past two years, we've provided the administrative, staffing, and legal support needed to launch almost a dozen groups-including America First Legal, Center for Renewing America, American Cornerstone Institute, American Accountability Foundation, American Moment, and Personnel Policy Operations.
These groups are already winning important battles against the left, not just here in Washington-but in courtrooms, school rooms, and board rooms across America.
With every new CPI partner and every group we help launch, CPI is expanding a new culture of conservatives who fight smarter and fight together. ... Winning on the Hill doesn't happen by accident.
Conservative members need like-minded staffers who are dedicated to the cause and know how to get things done.
CPI identifies, interviews, and recommends proven conservatives on the Hill and in organizations throughout Washington.
To date, we've pitched hundreds of top-notch candidates for positions in key House and Senate offices.
We keep our eyes on influential committees and conservative offices that will require fresh staffing needs.
CPI also provides regular training seminars on House and Senate procedure, floor strategy, communications, policy, speechwriting, and other skills conservatives need.
These seminars are taught by CPI President Ed Corrigan, CPI Senior Director of Policy Rachel Bovard, and other key experts and Capitol Hill veterans. ... Source (2022-11-21): https://www.cpi.org/
• curation date: 2022-11-21
• In 2017, Jim DeMint founded the Conservative Partnership Institute, of which he serves as chairman.
The stated purpose of the CPI is the professional development of conservative staffers and elected officials.
Mark Meadows joined as senior partner in January 2021.
The Save America PAC donated $1 million to the CPI.
A 2022 NPR investigation found CPI might be violating prohibitions on 501(c)(3) charities providing benefits to political parties (in this case, the Republican Party).
2020 ELECTION RESULTS.
As part of the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, DeMint signed a December 10, 2020 letter from the Conservative Action Project asking state legislatures in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan to disregard the popular vote outcomes in each of those states and appoint slates of electors to the Electoral College in support of President Donald Trump.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_DeMint#Conservative_Partnership_Institute
• see also: Politics - Political philosophy - Political theories - Political ideologies - Conservatism - Conservatism in the United States - Conservative organizations in the United States - The Heritage Foundation - Jim DeMint
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• https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative_Partnership_Institute
• (2022-07-30, https://truthout.org/articles/right-wing-groups-are-organizing-election-denialism-into-a-coordinated-force/) "Right-Wing Groups Are Turning Election Denialism Into an Organized Force." "Several former Trump advisers and officials - who promoted baseless claims of widespread vote fraud and worked to overturn the 2020 election ahead of 2020-01-06 - are now enmeshed in a new effort to challenge votes, voter eligibility, and election results in 2022 and beyond.
At the center of this effort is the Conservative Partnership Institute, a right-wing nonprofit funded in part by Donald Trump's leadership PAC and home to several key former Trump aides.
The Conservative Partnership Institute is organizing a network of groups and individuals committed to taking more control of election administration in future contests.
The Conservative Partnership Institute has published materials and hosted summits across the country with the aim of coordinating a nationwide effort to staff election offices, recruit poll watchers and poll workers, and build teams of local citizens to challenge voter rolls, question postal workers, be "ever-present" in local election offices, and inundate election officials with document requests.
The effort is an extraordinary investment in sustaining and bolstering the false narrative of widespread voter fraud.
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• (2022-09-13, https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/09/13/maga-group-grooms-members-of-congress-and-their-staff-for-america-first-movement/) "MAGA Group Grooms Members of Congress and Their Staff for America First Movement.
Backed by Trump money and led by insurrectionists under investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election, the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) has held at least four training sessions for dozens of GOP members of Congress and their staffers so far this year, sometimes paying for their travel and accommodations ..."
• (2022-11-17, https://readsludge.com/2022/11/17/trump-backed-maga-hub-growing-rapidly-tax-docs-reveal/) "Trump-Backed MAGA Hub Growing Rapidly, Tax Docs Reveal.
The Conservative Partnership Institute, whose leaders include former Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell, saw its funding balloon with more than $45 million in donations last year as it spread disinformation about widespread voter fraud." A prominent right-wing group led by former Trump administration officials that is coordinating attacks on election integrity saw its revenue skyrocket last year, according to newly-obtained tax filings.
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) received more than $45 million in contributions and grants in 2021 - a more than sixfold increase over the previous year's contributions of $7.1 million.
The group and a constellation of partner organizations it launched last year (2021) have been influential in spreading conspiracies about stolen elections, as well as in shaping conservative messaging around Big Tech and critical race theory.
One CPI offshoot announced last year (2021) says it works to "identify, educate, and credential" the next generation of conservative leaders.
In addition to its think tank-style public education and legal work, CPI operates a media production studio that has filmed clips for organizations like Newsmax and PragerU.
It also hosts podcasts for The Federalist and Republican members of Congress Matt Gaetz and Andy Biggs, and in 2021 it was the home to TV shows from Epoch Times and Blaze Media.
The group's paid officers include former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who received compensation of $559,000 last year (2021) as senior partner, and former Trump attorney Cleta Mitchell as senior legal fellow and secretary, who was paid $231,000.
The new highs raised by the CPI went to further Donald Trump's contentions that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and to promote disinformation about the integrity of elections ahead of the midterms.
The 501(c)(3) nonprofit's Form 990 for 2021, which is not available on CPI's website and has not yet been released by the Internal Revenue Service, was obtained by the nonpartisan watchdog Accountable.us and shared with Sludge.
Cleta Mitchell, who in 2020 worked with Trump to try to pressure Georgia officials to overturn election results, helms CPI's Election Integrity Network, a project whose mission Cleta Mitchell described as recruiting "a volunteer army of citizens" to monitor election offices based on baseless theories of widespread voter fraud.
In states such as Arizona this year (2022), armed militia attempted to intimidate voters at polling sites in line with the "Stop the Steal" movement's calls.
While CPI does not publicly disclose its funding sources, one large donation last year (2021) was reported in Federal Election Commission filings: Trump's Save America PAC gave $1 million to CPI on July 26, 2021, weeks after the U.S. House voted to establish a select committee to investigate Jan.
6's riot at the Capitol Building.
The million-dollar donation to Meadows' nonprofit made up the vast majority of giving by Trump's PAC to political allies last year (2021).
Meadows' role in joining CPI, founded by early Tea Party supporter former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, was reported to be building networks of conservative leaders and elected officials in the mold of Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz.
Donors Trust, the "dark money" funding hub, donated a total of $1.3 million to CPI, according to its latest tax filings obtained by Accountable.us.
The majority of the grants were for general support, with $200,000 earmarked for the youth-focused American Moment and $10,000 in support of the Election Integrity Project, among other uses.
"It should concern all Americans that a small group of ultra-wealthy donors have increased their investment in an anti-voting rights fringe group by such a massive scale," said Kayla Hancock, Director of Power & Influence at Accountable.us.
More than $25 million of CPI's revenue came from a single anonymous individual, and at least six other anonymous individuals donated $1 million or more.
CPI's total revenue for 2021 was reported to be more than $45.7 million, compared with $6.2 million the previous year, after accounting for negative revenue. ... From its soaring bank accounts, CPI compensated its top officials handsomely.
Chairman Jim DeMint received more than $545,000 last year (2021) from the organization, while President and CEO Ed Corrigan was paid $382,000.
Cleta Mitchell's expanded role is a change compared with the group's IRS filings for 2019 and 2020, when she was listed as a board secretary working an average of two hours per week without compensation.
CPI's revenue for 2020 totaled $6.2 million, according to IRS figures.
Other former Trump administration officials employed by CPI include Dan Scavino, who is leading efforts related to tech company censorship, and Wesley Denton, the group's chief operating officer. ... At the forefront of CPI's giving is its partner the America First Legal Foundation, founded by former Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller, which was issued a donation of $1,334,105 for "mission and program support." From his position in the White House, Stephen Miller worked to "purge" government agencies of those he perceived to be less than loyal and cited the white nationalist website VDARE in advancing anti-immigration policies.
Stephen Miller describes his legal group as the right's answer to the ACLU.
CPI granted more than $1 million to the American Voting Rights Foundation, based in Hudson, Wisconsin, an entity identified in IRS records as the Center for American Restoration and awarded tax-exempt status in August 2021.
Announced in January 2021 by Trump's former OMB Director Russ Vought, the new nonprofits will focus on claims of voter fraud and champion conservative cultural issues like Big Tech regulation and critical race theory.
Another group of which Vought is the president, the Center for Renewing America, is a CPI partner and received $583,701 from CPI.
The American Accountability Foundation, an opposition research group that is a CPI partner and whose founder Tom Jones previously worked for Republican senators including Ron Johnson and Ted Cruz, was awarded over $335,000 from CPI.
Another partner, the nonprofit American Moment, founded by Saurabh Sharma and Nick Solheim, received $336,000 for work it promotes as developing conservative youth leaders and running fellowship programs.
The American Cornerstone Institute, a nonprofit founded by Dr. Ben Carson, the former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, received nearly $161,000 from CPI.
The group highlights faith in public life.
The Virginia-based Institute for Citizen Focused Service received $100,000 and the Public Interest Legal Foundation, chaired by Cleta Mitchell, received $50,000 from Meadows' group.
The Indiana-based legal group is known for bringing lawsuits against states and localities to eliminate voters from their rolls.
Another director of the Public Interest Legal Foundation - Hans Von Spakovsky - is a prominent Republican lawyer who promoted voter restrictions such as strict voter I.D. requirements adopted by many states. ...
• (2022-12-01, https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/12/tax-returns-reveal-finances-of-former-trump-aides-dark-money-group-bankrolling-divisive-ads-ahead-of-2022-midterms) "Tax returns reveal finances of former Trump aides' 'dark money' group bankrolling divisive ads ahead of 2022 midterms." The America First Legal Foundation, a "dark money" group connected to officials in former President Donald Trump's administration that bankrolled provocative ads ahead of 2022 midterms, raised more than $6.3 million during its first year in operation, a new OpenSecrets analysis of tax filings found.
America First Legal ended 2021 with $4.3 million, having spent about $2.1 million of the $6.3 million raised, tax returns reviewed by OpenSecrets show.
A grant from the Conservative Partnership Institute, a hub whose leaders include Mark Meadows and former Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell, accounted for about $1 million of that, 2021 tax records first reported by Sludge show.
The Conservative Partnership Institute's connections to America First Legal were not limited to funding.
Multiple individuals affiliated with the Conservative Partnership Institute also serve on America First Legal's board of directors, including Conservative Partnership Institute President Edward Corrigan and Mark Meadows, according to state charitable records filed 2022-03.