Great Plains Public Policy Institute
From Sunshine Review
| Great Plains Public Policy Institute | |
| 501(c)(3) | |
| Leadership: | Max Gonzenbach |
| Political party | Nonpartisan |
| Website | Great Plains Public Policy Institute |
| Transparency Focus | |
| SD Open Book | |
The Great Plains Public Policy Institute (GPPPI), a 501(c)(3), is a non-profit public policy and educational organization in South Dakota. GPPPI "brings free enterprise and alternative ideas to bear on the most difficult issues facing South Dakota and the nation."[1]
The Institute's mission "is to formulate and promote free enterprise solutions to public policy problems based on the principles of individual responsibility, limited government, privatization and traditional American values."[2]
[edit] Policy centers
GPPPI is organized around three main policy centers:[2]
- Center of Enterprise & Opportunity (CEO) - "recommendations for eliminating governmental, regulatory and political barriers to entrepreneurial initiative and free trade."
- Center for Environmental & Regulatory Reform (CERR) - "To promote the approach to environmental issues that emphasizes markets, property rights and individual incentives as a strategy for safeguarding the environment."
- Center for Education Reform (CEF)- To explore and promote education reform strategies.
[edit] SD Open Book
SD Open Book is a project of GPPPI which "is focused on providing information about how the government of South Dakota spends taxpayer dollars and conducts public business."[3] It currently features categories on economy, education, local government, state government, and taxes and spending.
