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PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

An independent nonprofit, The Pew Charitable Trusts is the sole beneficiary of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.

Based in Philadelphia, with a office in Washington, DC, Pew Charitable Trusts makes investments to provide organizations and citizens with fact-based research and practical solutions for challenging issues. The Trusts' works in three areas- information; policy; civic life.

Advancing Policy Solutions: The Trusts is a forceful advocate for policy solutions on important issues facing the American people when the case for change is compelling and where the facts are clear. At both the national and state levels, Pew Charitable Trusts engages the foremost leaders, thinkers, researchers and technical experts to identify pragmatic resolutions to pressing societal concerns. From this base of rigorous, nonpartisan research, study and policy analysis, the Trusts supports a range of focused interventions that include highly targeted public education initiatives, advocacy efforts and issue campaigns.

Selected policy grantees include:

Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation
The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology
The Genetics and Public Policy Center
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Campaign for America's Wilderness
Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care
National Institute for National Institute for Early Education Research

For more on the Trusts' Policy initiatives, please visit The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Informing the Public: Projects in Pew Charitable Trusts' information area provide the public and policymakers with independent, credible, non-partisan research, polling and forums on key trends and issues facing this country and its citizens. The Pew Research Center , a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, conducts, analyzes and distributes most of the Trusts' information work. The Center includes seven projects:

• The Pew Hispanic Center
• The Pew Internet & American Life Project
• The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• The Pew Global Attitudes Project
• The Project for Excellence in Journalism (expected to join PRC in 2006)
• Stateline.org
• The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Supporting Civic Life: The Trusts civic life partners work in their different ways to shape our national character, bind us as a people and help make our communities strong. The Pew Charitable Trusts remain firmly committed to supporting the arts, heritage, health and well-being of America's civic life, with particular emphasis on the Philadelphia area. Selected Civic Life grantees include:

Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
The OMG Center for Collaborative Learning
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
New Voters Project

For more information on Civic Live initiatives, please visit The Pew Charitable Trusts.