CPA at Work

The Center for Political Accountability (CPA) collaborates with the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and The Conference Board, the preeminent business research organization. In conjunction with the Wharton School's Zicklin Center and Baruch College's Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity, the CPA presented the first ever conference on Money, Politics and Corporate Risk in February 2008.

Center staff have spoken at The Conference Board's Directors' Institute on the role and responsibility of directors in corporate political accountability and wrote an executive action report for The Conference Board on Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight which was published in April 2008. 

The Center has produced reports and conducted surveys on issues related to corporate political activity.  It has also has written op-eds which appeared in such publications as the Financial Times and BusinessWeek.

In addition, the CPA conducts company-specific research and developed a model code of conduct for political spending which several companies have used as the basis for their own codes on political spending.

As a 501(c)3 organization, contributions to the Center are tax exempt.

2008 Form 990