Archive profile summary
Advocacy organization founded by the Heritage Foundation in 2010 to translate Heritage policy priorities into lobbying, legislative pressure and grassroots mobilization.
Why this entry is in the archive
An explicit inside-outside bridge from think-tank policy development to lobbying and trained grassroots action.
Inside-outside bridge
Heritage Action is a particularly clear example of separating research/policy development from advocacy while keeping an explicit institutional relationship between the two functions.
Why it matters
The organization demonstrates how ideas developed by a think tank can be supported by a distinct advocacy arm focused on legislative and grassroots pressure.
Evidence limits
Heritage Action and the Heritage Foundation are related but legally distinct organizations; their activities and claims should not automatically be merged.
Timeline
- Heritage adds an advocacy arm
The Heritage Foundation creates Heritage Action for America to combine policy research with lobbying and grassroots pressure.
Relationship records
The Heritage Foundation → Heritage Action for America
Founded advocacy partner · 2010
Evidence status: documented