IPAC is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic foundation and scientific research center dedicated to boosting educational skills, promoting productive communication, and creative problem solving through research and analysis. Our mission aims to stimulate and support high quality social science research that addresses major domestic and international issues and, further, to disseminate those findings widely to scholars, professionals, policymakers, as well as the general public.
IPAC’s structure includes a Board of Directors, which consists of distinguished public servants and leaders in the academic, business, and nonprofit sectors.
Our board members and staff have diverse career experiences, academic backgrounds, ideological outlooks, perspectives, and ethnicities. IPAC project teams are assembled from research professionals whose collective expertise is drawn from various backgrounds and professions, including academia, non-governmental organizations, and both public and private industry.
IPAC provides high-quality, independent research and analysis addressing issues at the top of national and international agendas. We at IPAC are proud of the ways by which we ensure that our research products and services reflect our core values of quality and neutrality. IPAC disseminates its relevant research findings as widely as possible for public benefit.
Our research is commissioned by varied sources that include academic centers, government agencies, private foundations, endowments, businesses, and individual philanthropic contributions. Our funding is used to support our innovative research and training, allowing us to go beyond traditional boundaries in examining issues crucial to public and private debates.
IPAC’s main advocacy objectives aim to promote new ideas and inform the public about a variety of important academic and educational issues in addition to providing high quality analysis and training. At IPAC, we embrace a broad definition of advocacy. Through our advocacy work, we encourage intercultural communication as a key transformative element in our rapidly changing world.
In our current moment, domestic and international issues are closely interwoven. Policy today requires domestically focused actors to understand that international issues affect not only those within their own borders, but also that domestic issues can have international ramifications. Now, more than ever, everyday life challenges impact our world on both the national and international level. Strategies must be developed based on an informed understanding of the world.
IPAC addresses academic issues that cover a variety of topics including communication, economic development, education, energy, the environment, homeland security, and defense; all of which have international dimensions. Due to the globalization process, contemporary issues cannot be adequately addressed without the collaboration and the understanding of people from different cultures. To be effective, organizations must focus on diverse policy issues while finding ways to work together to achieve specific objectives. Beyond our own projects, IPAC also works in collaboration with other organizations to achieve common goals on joint projects.
People from around the world benefit from understanding how to work together and promote cooperation in order to achieve their common goals. Through our advocacy efforts, IPAC reaches out to experts, as well as citizens of our global village in order to promote a sounder grasp of the importance of national, international, and intercultural communication issues and their ramifications in decision-making processes.
IPAC achieves these goals by hosting events that bring diverse perspectives; bridging gaps among people; promoting organizations that represent a broad focus and geographic reach; providing public educational resources; collaborating with other organizations to gain broad perspectives on current domestic and international issues; and providing high quality analysis of domestic and international challenges as well as opportunities.
IPAC is an educational nonpartisan organization with no particular political agenda. The natural extension of our advocacy and research efforts is the development and formation of solutions and suggestions for a multitude of domestic and international challenges. Our expertise extends into many areas encompassing educational and environmental matters as well as economic and security issues. We develop suggestions and solutions both in-house and in partnership with other organizations and institutions.
IPAC works with a variety of interests in crafting studies, programs, and workshops relating to international cooperation, communication, and cross-cultural education. We seek to improve the level of discourse within and between academic institutions, private sector business interests, government, non-governmental organizations, and non-profit organizations.
Our background experience and academic expertise in international relations and technical communication affords us a valuable perspective and keen insight into how the interconnected digital world will communicate in the 21st century. Our interdisciplinary approach offers a resource that is quite unique. It is our hope that we put these qualities to use in a collaborative manner that ultimately contributes to an increased level of dialogue and understanding between diverse and influential groups through the shaping of innovative solutions for difficult and varied challenges.
IPAC seeks to promote dialogues among diverse cultures and civilizations. Education and learning are an important aspect of promoting such dialogues. While our educational efforts extend to the general public, we acknowledge that the students of today and the near future are in need of developing an understanding of international relations, cultures, and customs in order to compete in a global economic environment, whether they pursue careers in business, public service, or education.
As important international topics often get buried or pushed aside in today's hectic classroom, we seek to raise awareness of these concerns, filling in the gaps or facilitating interest in further study inside or outside the classroom. IPAC was founded as a non-partisan, neutral body that is distinguished by its ability to study, research, and evaluate international economic, socio-political, and security issues with a dedication to neutrality. We are well positioned to devise programs of learning, classroom strategies, and curricula suitable for the modern classroom or other learning environments. We utilize both face-to-face and web-based educational methods and theories.
Beyond simple awareness, we are also committed to creating methods of evaluation and knowledge development that are both measurable and sustainable over time. Indeed, it is not enough simply to raise awareness of issues, it is imperative that students are prepared with the tools and knowledge required to successfully compete in the global economy and positively engage with peoples of diverse backgrounds.
Privacy of our partners, leaders, board members, and staff is of special importance to all of us at IPAC.
Many partners of IPAC come from competing and conflicting domestic or international institutions. IPAC is a nonpartisan organization, we cooperate and collaborate with many legal groups and organizations for the common good of all. Unlike many other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), however, IPAC will not advertise its accomplishments or projects on this website, in order to provide its partners, staff and affiliates with maximum privacy.
IPAC leadership does not place any limitations on its partners for publicizing their collaborative projects and programs with IPAC at any level. IPAC partners and members are completely free to advertise their accomplishments and collaborative projects with IPAC on their own websites and in their own publications.
IPAC participates in many diverse local, national, and international quality programs. We very much appreciate the high praise and gratitude from our partners in cooperative ventures. We at IPAC consider affirmative word of mouth to be our best form of advertisement and endorsement.
IPAC’s strict privacy policy does not constrain this organization from providing full annual reports of our activities to relevant and appropriate governmental agencies such as the International Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. These agencies are duly authorized to monitor and/or supervise the activities of, and collect information from, all Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). IPAC has been and remains in excellent legal and financial standing with all government agencies .
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