Conservative Partnership Institute
CPI's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 2024 | |
| Abbreviation | CPI |
|---|---|
| Formation | May 2017 |
| Founder | Jim DeMint |
| Founded at | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Type | nonprofit |
| 82-1470217 | |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Purpose | political education and advocacy |
| Headquarters |
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President | Edward Corrigan |
Chairman | Jim DeMint |
Key people | |
| Revenue | $45,707,730 (2021) |
| Expenses | $17,160,422 (2021) |
| Website | cpi |
The Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) is a United States-based conservative 501(c)(3) political education and advocacy nonprofit organization. The stated purpose of CPI is the professional development of conservative staffers and elected officials. Under the leadership of Mark Meadows, since 2017 the nonprofit has grown sixfold to become the "nerve center" of the Make America Great Again movement, bolstering notable figures such as U.S. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, according to The Washington Post.
In 2024, journalist Jonathan Blitzer in The New Yorker called it a well-financed network of about two dozen right-wing organizations, the next Trump Administration "in waiting", and a "base of operations" for conservatives who not only target Democrats but other Republicans who they believe to be insufficiently conservative. According to one supporter, the staff of the organization have "thought deeply about what’s needed to create the infrastructure and the resources for a more anti-establishment conservative movement”.
Planning for the protests of January 6, 2021, and the effort to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, were both centered at CPI’s headquarters according to Jonathan Blitzer. The Guardian reported that the group has also held numerous "election integrity" summits in battleground states, advocating "election integrity", expanded poll watching, "clean" voter rolls, and other initiatives defenders say could favor Republican candidates.