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Pew Research Center
Established	2004 (2004)
Chairman	Donald Kimelman
President	Andrew Kohut
Faculty	8 (board)
Staff	95[1]
Location	Washington, DC
Address	1615 L Street, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036
Website	PewResearch.org

The Pew Research Center is an American think tank organization based in Washington, D.C. that provides information on issues, attitudes and trends shaping the United States and the world. The Center and its projects receive funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Pew Research Center is a strictly non-advocacy organization, while the Pew Charitable Trusts supports advocacy and non-advocacy projects.

The Trusts, a single entity, is the successor to and sole beneficiary of seven charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by the adult children of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. The four co-founders were J. Howard Pew, Mary Ethel Pew, Joseph N. Pew, Jr., and Mabel Pew Myrin. While in the years immediately following its foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts was conservative in its views, later positions have included moves into environmental advocacy as well as support for "non-incarceration" methods of dealing with criminals.

The Pew Research Center's work is carried out by seven projects:

• Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
• Project for Excellence in Journalism
• Pew Internet and American Life Project
• Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
• Pew Hispanic Center
• Pew Global Attitudes Project
• Pew Social and Demographic Trends Project

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External links

• Pew Research Center
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• Pew Internet & American Life Project
• Amanda Lenhart