Below are links to other organizations that broadly feel that employee benefits reform is an important issue in the State of Michigan and Nationally. They may not agree with every stance we take but are in agreement with us that this is a vital issue that needs to be dealt with. These organizations are not contributing to our cause in any monetary way.
The Center for Michigan is a “think-and-do tank” founded by Phil Power in early 2006. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, The Center’s objective is to assist our state through its current period of wrenching economic trouble and to lay the foundation of informed hope for a better future Michigan. It will help develop and execute comprehensive, long-range and, in some cases, radical policy solutions to transform Michigan’s business, economic, political and cultural climate. In so doing, it will work to help reform the structure and workings of Michigan’s political system.
The California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility
CFFR is a new 501(c)(4) organization committed to educating the public and key decision makers about California public employee retirement benefit issues and developing fiscally responsible solutions that are fair to employees, employers and taxpayers. CFFR believes managing the pension and retiree health care obligations promised to public employees is the most critical public finance issue of this decade.