[4] The Foundation also hosts policy-related events and workshops for various audiences, including policy experts, journalists, college students and other academics, and the general public.

The commission's charge was to quickly evaluate an enormous body of research on election reform, review policy proposals, and offer a bipartisan analysis to the Congress, the administration, and the American people.

The report assessed the nation's successes and failures on homeland security and, building on the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, offered a detailed action plan for neutralizing the international movement at the core of worldwide terrorism.

[11] The Trustees of The Century Foundation include Alicia Munnell, Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and Director of the Center for Retirement Research, who was a member of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers; Melissa Harris-Perry, political scientist and Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University; medical ethics expert Alexander Morgan Capron; Bradley Abelow, chief operating officer of MF Global, Inc.; journalist Jonathan Alter; political scientist Jacob Hacker; former U.S. Representative George Miller (California politician); Sonal Shah (economist), AFL–CIO policy director Damon Silvers; and current president of The Century Foundation Mark Zuckerman.

[12] The Foundation includes among its list of former trustees such notable figures as Theodore Sorensen, lawyer and speech writer for President Kennedy; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. John Kenneth Galbraith, Madeleine May Kunin, Newton D. Baker, Adolf A. Berle, Jr. (and son Peter A.

A. Berle), Patricia Roberts Harris, Benjamin V. Cohen, David E. Lilienthal, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Luis Muñoz Marín, Albert Shanker, Morris B. Abram, James Tobin, Jessica Mathews, James A. Leach, Max Lowenthal, Christopher Edley, historian Alan Brinkley, constitutional law scholar Kathleen Sullivan, Lewis B. Kaden, Matina S. Horner, former VP of human resources, TIAA-CREF, and former president of Radcliffe College, William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University; H. Brandt Ayers, publisher of the Anniston Star; Hodding Carter III, former president of the Knight Foundation who was an official in the Jimmy Carter administration; Joseph A. Califano, Jr., founder and chairman of the board of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University; Edward E. David, Jr., science adviser to president Richard M. Nixon; Brewster C. Denny, founder of the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington; Charles V. Hamilton; and Shirley Williams, co-founder of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and member of the House of Lords.