Agency For Health Care Research and Quality
To support research designed to improve the outcomes and quality of health care, reduce its costs, address patient safety and medical errors, and broaden access to effective services. The research sponsored, conducted, and disseminated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides information that helps people make better decisions about health care.

The Alliance for Health Reform
The Alliance for Health Reform exists to provide an unbiased source of information about the roots of the nation's health care problems and the trade-offs posed by competing proposals for change. They offer a full array of resources and viewpoints, in a number of formats, to elected officials and their staffs, journalists, policy analysts and advocates.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

California Budget Project
The California Budget Project (CBP) serves as a resource to the media, policymakers, and state and local constituency groups seeking accurate information and analysis of a range of state policy issues. Through independent fiscal and policy analysis, public education, and collaboration with other organizations, we work to improve public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities works on fiscal policy issues and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The Center specializes in research and analysis oriented toward policy decisions that policymakers face at both federal and state levels. The Center examines data and research findings and produces analyses designed to be accessible to public officials, other non-profit organizations, and the media.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad- providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

Center for Health Improvement
The Center for Health Improvement (CHI), formerly the California Center for Health Improvement, is a health policy center based in Sacramento, California. Our focus is two-fold: prevention-valued by the public but given little attention in America's healthcare system-- and policy.

Center for Studying Health System Change
The mission of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is to inform health care decision makers about changes in the health care system at both the local and national levels and the effects of such changes on people. HSC seeks to provide objective, incisive analyses that lead to sound policy and management decisions, with the ultimate goal of improving the health of the American public.

Child Trends, Inc.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to studying children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analyses.

Early Education Clearinghouse
The Early Education Clearinghouse works to put research-based knowledge and tools into the hands of those who serve in the early childhood field, as well as those who influence or make policy that affects the field.

Harvard Opinion Research Program
The Harvard Opinion Research Program has played a key role in 100+ public opinion surveys on health and social policy in the US and 15 other countries The program is unique in its effort to assess people's attitudes in relationship to their values, knowledge, and experiences.

Health Policy Coach
Health Policy Coach equips you with the tools, strategies and information necessary to create policy change in your community.

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is an independent philanthropy focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public.

Human Services Policy Center, Univ. of Washington Graduate School of Public Affairs
The Human Services Policy Center (HSPC)'s mission is to improve the well-being of children, families and communities. We conduct policy and data analysis and provide training, technical assistance and consultation to further this mission.

Institute for Health Care Research and Policy
The Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy is a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on key issues in health policy and health services research.

Institute for Health Policy Solutions
The Institute for Health Policy Solutions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization funded to develop creative and workable solutions to health system problems related to access, cost, and quality. Many of IHPS' projects involve the design of health insurance strategies that both achieve public interest objectives and are viable in the market.

Institute for Health Policy Studies
IHPS is an organized research unit established by the President and Regents of the University of California. The primary goals of IHPS are: 1) to conduct policy-oriented research and analysis on a wide range of health issues; 2) to apply research findings to health policy issues at the national, state, and local levels; 3) to provide education and training opportunities in health policy and health services research.

Kinderstart
KinderStart is the largest (and most popular) indexed directory and search engine focused on children zero to seven on the 'net. The mission of our small but dedicated staff is to provide parents, grandparents, foster parents and teachers with the most organized, and easiest to use index and search engine available.

Medi-Cal Policy Institute
The Medi-Cal Policy Institute, established in 1997 by the California HealthCare Foundation, is an independent source of information on the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs. The Institute seeks to facilitate and enhance the development of effective policy solutions guided by the interests of the programs' consumers.

Moving Idea: The Policy Action Network
The Policy Action Network is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Its goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators. It publishes an online magazine called Moving Ideas. Moving Ideas posts the best ideas and resources from leading progressive research and advocacy institutions.

National Academy for State Health Policy
The National Academy for State Health Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to helping states achieve excellence in health policy and practice.

National Center for Children in Poverty
The mission of NCCP is to identify and promote strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families.

National Committee on Quality Assurance
The NCWA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality everywhere. NCWA is active in quality oversight and improvement initiatives at all levels of the healthcare system.

National Health Law Program
The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.

Policy Link
PolicyLink, a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization, is enlarging the sphere of influence that affects policy so that those closest to the nation's challenges are central to the search for their solutions.

The Urban Institute
A nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
The Center conducts research on national, state, and local health policy issues, provides public service to policy makers and community leaders, and offers educational opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. The Center's studies focus on the health needs of communities and populations that are at risk for adverse health conditions or are underserved by the health system.

Urban Institute's "Assessing the New Federalism" State Database
This database includes information on the fifty states and the District of Columbia in areas including income security, health, child well-being, demographic, fiscal and political conditions, and social services.