"[T]o help developing countries explore policy alternatives, and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking."

Positions itself as "the counterweight to the dealmakers. We work to reclaim democracy. We collaborate with grassroots movements to foster the conditions for long-term change. We promote relationships, linking activists and public officials who share our belief that a better world is possible. We launch inform and sustain democratic movements."

"[T]o build cooperation among Western Hemisphere nations and advance a regional agenda of democratic governance, social equity, and economic growth."

"To achieve sustainable food security and reduce poverty in developing countries through scientific research and research-related activities in the fields of agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries, policy, and natural resources management."

To foster dialog and act as an information outlet on matters regarding energy use, development, conservation, finance and management.

"[T]o promote sound interdisciplinary research and application in the humane sciences that integrates theory and practice to produce solutions that advance in a sustainable way a free, prosperous, and civil society."

• "Advance the state of ecological knowledge through the search for general patterns and principles in existing data
• Organize and synthesize ecological information in a manner useful to researchers, resource managers, and policy makers addressing important environmental issues
• Influence the way ecological research is conducted and promote a culture of synthesis, collaboration, and data sharing."

"[T]o inform the public policy process by helping participants—federal health policymakers in the legislative and executive branches and in congressional support agencies—engage in rigorous, constructive, and respectful dialogue."

"[D]edicated to embracing and upholding Americaís tradition as a nation of immigrants."

"[T]o safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends."

To invest "in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States....animated by the American ideal that each generation will live better than the last." To emphasize "work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy -- an era shaped by transforming innovation and wealth creation, but also by shortened job tenures, longer life spans, mobile capital, financial imbalances and rising inequality."

"[T]o encourage both theorizing and the carrying out of empirical research concerning the processes of globalization....employing both a historical (in which history is conceived of in interdisciplinary terms) and a transcultural perspective."

"[T]o strengthen global security by reducing the risk of use and preventing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and to work to build the trust, transparency and security which are preconditions to the ultimate fulfillment of the Non-Proliferation Treatyís goals and ambitions."

"To increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of key economic challenges threatening America's future and accelerate action on them. To meet these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find sensible, sustainable solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results."

"[T]o improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources."