[3][needs update] NCPPR's work is in the areas of free markets, environmental and regulatory policy, retirement security, constitutional law, the First and Second Amendments, religious liberty, academic freedom, defense and foreign affairs.
[5][independent source needed] NCPPR is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025,[6] a collection of conservative and right-wing policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should the Republican nominee win the 2024 presidential election.
Project 21 is partly funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley foundation, which has bankrolled studies devoted to the supposed genetic intellectual inferiority of blacks.
During the L.A. riots, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a think tank funded in part by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, arranged for a group of black conservatives to lambaste the rioters and praise the LAPD, Out of this campaign, NCPRR build Project 21.
[13][14] According to the organization, Project 21 members, all of whom are black, were published, quoted or interviewed over 35,000 times on a variety of public policy issues since 1992,[15] including on major cable TV programs such as the Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor,[16] The Kelly File,[17] Fox & Friends[18] and The Sean Hannity Shows,[19] and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews,[20] as well as major syndicated radio programs including the Michael Savage,[21] Sean Hannity,[22] Mike Siegel[23] and Bill Martinez[24] shows.
"[26] Project 21's Jimmie Hollis claims to have attended the November 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, hearing Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech first-hand.
Branson argued that "If 97% of climate scientists agreeing that climate-warming trends over the past century are due to human activities isn’t compelling data, I don’t know what is.
"[37] An article in the San Francisco Chronicle in 1998 described the NCPPR's "legal but controversial" computer-generated "fright mail" campaign which targeted millions of seniors, according to the American Association of Retired Persons spokesman, Greg Marchildon.
[39] In October 2002, Abramoff directed the Mississippi Band of Choctaws to give $1 million to NCPPR, and then told Amy Ridenour to distribute the funds to Capital Athletic Foundation ($450,000), Capitol Campaign Strategies ($500,000) and Nurnberger and Associates ($50,000).