Established | 1988 |
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President | Victor Riches |
Chair | Eric Crown[1] |
CEO | Victor Riches |
Staff | 32[2] |
Budget | Revenue: $6,420,673 Expenses: $6,186,952 (FYE December 2017)[3] |
Address | 500 East Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona 85004 |
Location | |
Coordinates | 33°28′04″N 112°03′57″W / 33.46778°N 112.06583°W |
Website | goldwaterinstitute |
The Goldwater Institute is a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank located in Phoenix, Arizona,[4] whose stated mission is "to defend and strengthen the freedom guaranteed to all Americans in the constitutions of the United States and all fifty states".[2] The organization was established in 1988 with the support of former Senator Barry Goldwater.
The Goldwater Institute was primarily a public policy research organization until 2007 when it added a litigation arm, becoming the first state-based policy organization to do so.[4][5] Goldwater's litigation arm, the Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, engages in lawsuits against government entities across the United States.[6]