Background
CRI was founded in 2004 as a collaborative effort of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, the Center for Public Leadership, and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations (now The Hauser Institute for Civil Society) and with the support of Walter H. Shorenstein, Chevron Corporation, The Coca-Cola Company, and General Motors.