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Welcome to The Central Research Group

A Non-Profit Research Cooperative of Scholars Working to Improve Our World through Research, Education, and Public Service Public Budgeting and Finance - Sustainable Development - Development Education - Quality of Life

Established in 1976 as a 501(c)(3) not for profit organization

Purpose

The Central Research Group, Inc. (CRG) was founded prior to email and the internet. But it anticipated that model at its inception in 1976 to join scholars from great distances in mutual efforts to serve the public good. Its Board of Directors is also its staff, remunerated by grants that its members initiate.  It seeks work that benefits society generally, and offers the chance for academically trained people to work across disciplines on projects of common interest.

Members of CRG can live anywhere, and meet as the occasion requires to pursue the projects that it chooses.  Some members are in the academy, some in the private sector, and some in government.  Among its members, the disciplines represented are political science, economics, mathematics, physics, engineering, biology, ecology, law, and history.

Its members in almost every case have identities outside of CRG, but elect to rely upon CRG as a channel for their enterprises when there are occasions consistent with CRG's philosophy.  This has been true since its initial establishment in Ithaca, New York.

Guiding Principles - Among the tenets that guide CRG's outlook are:

interdisciplinary orientation, sustainable development, justice as fairness, entropy and evolution, internationalism

Address - The Central Research Group, Inc. 680 North Pearl Street Albany, NY 12204

Record of Achievement

CRG began in 1976 with an effort to bring a planetarium and children's science museum to Ithaca.  Although the planetarium did not come about, interest generated in the museum led to its opening under an alternate plan.  Problems later turned to responsible energy use and various environmental causes, bringing together scholars in collaborative efforts to publicize growing challenges in this area.  This still later led to a focus on computer hardware and software development, at which time CRG became temporarily dormant.  But it led to the establishment of three other corporations: Interwolf, Wolfdata, and Tenet.
In 1994, CRG was revived by some of the original members to address ways by which science could be employed to address world problems.  The focus has continued to be natural resource consumption, renewable energy, land use, and education.  Grants have come from the Gannett Foundation, the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, and the Henry George Foundation.