2019-11-14T09:37:12-07:00 2018-12-31 900922827 Rachael Murray Rakestraw RMR Consulting LLC 1807 Churchhill Lane Chester MD 21619 990 2018-01-01 300145807 Partnership for a Secure America PART 2022938580 1129 20th St NW Suite 500 Washington DC 20036 Curtis Silvers Executive Director 2022938580 2019-11-14 1 Rachael Murray Rakestraw P01625784 3013673368 2019-11-07 X 174.200.30.233 2018 2020-04-17 16:48:07Z X Curtis Silvers 1129 20th St NW Suite 500 Washington DC 20036 496075 0 X www.psaonline.org X 2003 DE Activities to heighten the public awareness of and support for a bipartisan national security and foreign policy; to bring democrats and republicans together to seek common ground in national security and foreign policy; and to accomplish the preceding purposes through the use of the most effective tools of modern communications. 9 9 4 15 0 0 537631 495849 0 0 298 226 0 0 537929 496075 47097 15767 0 0 203630 249506 0 0 0 179498 246849 430225 512122 107704 -16047 305454 298740 7072 16405 298382 282335 In Congress and across Washington, PSA works behind the scenes building bridges. Constantly innovating and endlessly determined, PSA is unique among Washington's foreign policy and national security community in our singular focus to build trust, expertise, and opportunity for bipartisan problem solving on Capitol Hill and beyond. 0 0 291773 0 0 PSA's Congressional Partnership Program is a unique program funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and developed exclusively for congressional staff. Participants attend off-the-record events with former senior officials to learn their perspectives on current foreign policy and national security problems. CPP students also receive negotiation training, engage in expert-led crisis simulations, and complete a project requiring them to work in bipartisan groups to formulate common-ground policy approaches to a current, relevant problem. In 2018 PSA ran two courses of the Congressional Partnership Program (CPP), each over 3 months. In addition, PSA hosted 3 "High-Profile" CPP alumni dinners with Mr. Paul Kurtz , Sec. Chuck Hagel, and Sec. Michael Chertoff; hosted The Worldview Series: Japan featuring 4 dinners on US-Japan Relations and a week-long Congressional Staff Delegation to Japan in conjunction with the Japanese Embassy for select CPP alumni; hosted The Worldview Series: Baltic States featuring 3 dinners on US-Baltic Relations and a week-long Congressional Staff Delegation to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in conjunction with the 3 embassies for select CPP alumni; hosted 3 dinners for The Solutions Series focusing on US Arctic Policy, responding to North Korea's developing nuclear and missile capabilities, and Cyber Security in America's electric grid for select CPP alumni. 120174 15767 0 Nuclear Security - : In 2018 Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) conducted a series of activities in support of a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in partnership with the Arms Control Association (ACA), the focus of which was supporting bipartisan congressional engagement with the issue of nuclear security. Programmatic activities in 2018 kicked off with a private round-table dinner for congressional staff, the results of which informed the writing of a report assessing expertise and engagement among congressional staff on nuclear security. In July of 2018 this report was launched to the public, followed by a Capitol Hill launch event for a congressional audience. This report launch was followed by a series of three educational briefings for congressional staff, all held on Capitol Hill, designed to educate attendees about different facets of the issue: threat environment, detection and response capabilities, and the global nuclear security architecture. Authors of the report from PSA and ACA also conducted a briefing for members of civil society through the Fissile Materials Working Group (FMWG) at a meeting attended by representatives of various organizations. 2018 activities support of this grant closed with publication of an op-ed in The Hill, penned by authors of the joint PSA-ACA report, and a private strategy dinner for congressional staff to discuss maintaining momentum on this issue in the coming year. 24300 0 0 Capitol Leaders Negotiation Program - In 2018, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, PSA continued its innovative partnership with Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiations (PON), creating and running a program on negotiation training for congressional staff that laid the groundwork for a collaborative training in 2019 with PSA, Harvard Law School, and American University College of Law. 75000 0 0 The Conflict Briefing Series is a joint effort by Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The series, started in 2012, is an educational program designed to provide congressional staff with opportunities to engage leading experts and fellow Capitol Hill staffers in bipartisan forums. The program aims to build cross-party relationships, encourage bipartisan dialogue, and equip staff with new perspectives on critical issues in the international conflict resolution and prevention field.PSA continued is peace and conflict resolution Congressional staff briefings in conjunction with the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 2018, over 500 Congressional staff participated in nine briefings and one focus group to identify best practices and future topics of interest. 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The goals of the organization are to heighten public awareness of and support for a bipartisan national security and foreign policy; to bring leading Democrats and Republicans together to seek common ground in national security and foreign policy; and to accomplish the above tasks through the use of the most effective tools of modern communications. To achieve these goals PSA develops and seeks bipartisan consensus on a series of national security and foreign policy issues; works to build coalitions to support recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy; conducts a national free and paid media campaign using the most sophisticated communication tools based on joint, bipartisan positions; and organizes national events including town hall meetings, conferences, and speaker series to support the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. PSA's work is funded by donations from individuals and corporations, support from other publicly supported charities, and grants from foundations who support the PSA mission of advancing bipartisanship on national security and foreign policy challenges. PSA is a small organization with no investment revenue. The insignificant interest income is funneled back into program activities. All the activities outlined in the Statement of Program Service Accomplishments support the goals of the organization and are necessary to achieve the mission of bipartisanship on current critical national security and foreign policy challenges. General and administrative expenses are minimal in order to push as much revenue as possible toward the mission related activities. PSA continually works to broaden its donor base and during 2018 increased support from the public by almost three percentage points over the previous year and almost five percentage points over the past two years. 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Schedule D, Part XI, Line 2d Interest income - $226 1 Arms Control Association 1200 18th Street NW Suite 1175 Washington DC 20036 237124588 501(c)(3) 15767 0 Cash As outlined in the PSA-ACA grant proposal to the MacArthur Foundation, these funds shall be used for ACA expenses associated with the project to cover staff, contractors, printing the report, report layout and design, and proportional indirect costs. ACA will have primary responsibility for completing a historical analysis of Congress's past work on nuclear security and assist PSA with design and implementation of a Congressional staff knowledge and attitudes review. ACA will also assist with public communications efforts - such as report promotion, bipartisan policy statement development, and op-eds - and provide input on Congressional events planning. 1 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 PSA and the grantee organization have a written agreement and budget with all provisions of the grant terms explained and agreed to by the organizations. Progress toward completion of the grant terms is monitored by in person/telephone meetings and a final report with financials submitted at the end of the grant period. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The form 990 is emailed to the PSA Board of Directors for review and comment prior to finalization. Any comments are reviewed and noted, as appropriate, prior to filing with the IRS. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Compensation of the Executive Directoris determined by the Board of Directors at their sole discretion. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 No changes made to governing documents in 2018. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Consulting fees for programs: Congressional Partnership Program $9,000; Capitol Leaders Negotiation Program - $17,000 and Nuclear Security - $18,000