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67 relations: Abraham Kuyper, Amway, Andreas Widmer, Anthony Bradley, Atlas Network, Austria, Blog, Bradley Foundation, Brazil, Calvin College, Calvinism, Capital Research Center, Capitalism, Centesimus annus, Christian theology, Conservatism in the United States, Dutch language, Earhart Foundation, Ecumenism, Encyclical, ExxonMobil, Fiscal year, Fortune Small Business, Frank Hanna III, Free market, Gaylen Byker, Gemini Publications, Grand Rapids, Michigan, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Judeo-Christian, Kuyper College, Leslie Graves (nonprofit executive), Libertarianism, Libertarianism in the United States, Los Angeles Times, Lucy Burns Institute, Marvin Olasky, Marxism, Mother Jones (magazine), National Center for Charitable Statistics, Netherlands, Newsletter, Peer review, Poverty, Inc., Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Public policy, Religion News Service, Richard DeVos, Robert Sirico, Rome, ..., Sean Fieler, Social science, State Policy Network, Templeton Freedom Awards, The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Grand Rapids Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Think tank, Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, Touchstone (magazine), University of Pennsylvania, Urban Institute, Western world, World (magazine), Zambia, 501(c)(3) organization. Expand index (17 more) »
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuijper (29 October 1837 – 8 November 1920), publicly known as Abraham Kuyper, was Prime Minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, an influential neo-Calvinist theologian and also a journalist.
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Amway
Amway (short for "American Way") is an American company specializing in the use of multi-level marketing to sell health, beauty, and home care products.
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Andreas Widmer
Andreas Widmer is a Swiss business executive, speaker, academic, and philanthropist based in the United States.
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Anthony Bradley
Anthony B. Bradley is an American author and professor of religion, theology and ethics at the King's College in New York City, where he also serves as the chair of the Religious and Theological Studies program.
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Atlas Network
The Atlas Network, formerly known as the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, is a nonprofit organization based in the United States.
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Austria
Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.
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Blog
A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").
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Bradley Foundation
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a charitable foundation with more than $800 million U.S. dollars in assets.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Calvin College
Calvin College is a liberal arts college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Calvinism
Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.
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Capital Research Center
Capital Research Center (CRC) is an American conservative non-profit organization and watchdog group located in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson "to study non-profit organizations, with a special focus on reviving the American traditions of charity, philanthropy, and voluntarism." According to the organization, the group supports "free markets, constitutional government, and individual liberty." It discourages donations by corporations to non-profits supporting what it sees as anti-business or left-wing policies.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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Centesimus annus
Centesimus annus (Latin for "hundredth year") is an encyclical which was written by Pope John Paul II in 1991 on the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum, an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891.
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Christian theology
Christian theology is the theology of Christian belief and practice.
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Conservatism in the United States
American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.
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Dutch language
The Dutch language is a West Germanic language, spoken by around 23 million people as a first language (including the population of the Netherlands where it is the official language, and about sixty percent of Belgium where it is one of the three official languages) and by another 5 million as a second language.
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Earhart Foundation
The Earhart Foundation is an American private charitable foundation that has funded research and scholarship since its founding in 1929 by oil executive, Harry Boyd Earhart.
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Ecumenism
Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.
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Encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church.
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ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas.
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Fiscal year
A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is the period used by governments for accounting and budget purposes, which vary between countries.
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Fortune Small Business
Fortune Small Business (FSB) was a magazine published 10 times per year from 1991 to 2009.
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Frank Hanna III
Frank J. Hanna III is an American entrepreneur, merchant banker and philanthropist.
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Free market
In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.
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Gaylen Byker
Gaylen James Byker (born 1948) is a former international businessman and former President of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Gemini Publications
Gemini Publications was founded in 1979 by John H. Zwarensteyn in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is the second-largest city in Michigan, and the largest city in West Michigan.
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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.
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Judeo-Christian
Judeo-Christian is a term that groups Judaism and Christianity, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, both religions common use of the Torah, or due to perceived parallels or commonalities shared values between those two religions, which has contained as part of Western culture.
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Kuyper College
Kuyper College is a ministry-focused Christian leadership college located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, that educates and trains Christian leaders for ministry and service.
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Leslie Graves (nonprofit executive)
Leslie B. Graves formerly known as Leslie Key and also known as Leslie Graves Key is the founder and president of the Lucy Burns Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that publishes Ballotpedia and Judgepedia.
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Libertarianism
Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.
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Libertarianism in the United States
Libertarianism in the United States is a movement promoting individual liberty and minimized government.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Lucy Burns Institute
The Lucy Burns Institute (LBI) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization.
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Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky (born June 12, 1950) is editor-in-chief of ''WORLD'' Magazine, the author of more than 20 books, including Fighting for Liberty and Virtue and The Tragedy of American Compassion, and is a distinguished chair in journalism and public policy at Patrick Henry College.
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Marxism
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.
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Mother Jones (magazine)
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.
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National Center for Charitable Statistics
The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is a clearing house of data on the U.S. nonprofit sector.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Newsletter
A newsletter is a printed report containing news (information) of the activities of a business (legal name; subscription business model) or an organization (institutions, societies, associations) that is sent by mail regularly to all its members, customers, employees or people, who are interested in.
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Peer review
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).
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Poverty, Inc.
Poverty, Inc. is a 91-minute documentary inquiry into the nature of human flourishing and the effects of the multibillion dollar poverty industrial complex erected to promote it.
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Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands in his quality of chair of the Council of Ministers.
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Public policy
Public policy is the principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues, in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs.
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Religion News Service
Religion News Service (RNS) is a news agency covering religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues.
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Richard DeVos
Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (born March 4, 1926) is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder of Amway with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic basketball team.
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Robert Sirico
Robert Alan Sirico (born June 23, 1951) is an American Roman Catholic priest, and the founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Sean Fieler
Sean Fieler is an American businessman, philanthropist and conservative activist/donor.
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Social science
Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.
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State Policy Network
The State Policy Network (SPN) is an American nonprofit organization that functions primarily as an umbrella organization for a consortium of conservative and libertarian think tanks that focus on state-level policy.
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Templeton Freedom Awards
The Templeton Freedom Awards have been given by the Atlas Network since 2004 using funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
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The Call of the Entrepreneur
The Call of the Entrepreneur is a 2007 documentary produced by Acton Media, part of the Acton Institute, along with Cold Water Media.
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The Grand Rapids Press
The Grand Rapids Press is a daily newspaper published in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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Think tank
A think tank, think factory or policy institute is a research institute/center and organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture.
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Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) is a non-profit program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
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Touchstone (magazine)
Touchstone is a bimonthly conservative ecumenical Christian publication of the Fellowship of St. James.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.
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Urban Institute
The Urban Institute is a Washington D.C.-based think tank that carries out economic and social policy research to "open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions".
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Western world
The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.
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World (magazine)
World (often written in all-caps as WORLD) is a biweekly Christian news magazine, published in the United States by God's World Publications, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in south-central Africa, (although some sources prefer to consider it part of the region of east Africa) neighbouring the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west.
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501(c)(3) organization
A 501(c)(3) organization is a corporation, trust, unincorporated association, or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code.
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