11 Facts About Reason Foundation

Reason Foundation is an American libertarian think tank that was founded in 1978.

Reason Foundation cofounder Robert Poole is an MIT-trained engineer and the author of Cutting Back City Hall.

Poole remains at Reason Foundation serving as an officer on the organization's board of trustees and director of transportation.

Reason Foundation is an associate member of the State Policy Network, a US national network of free-market-oriented think tanks.

Reason Foundation publishes the Annual Privatization Report, which reports on news and trends in US outsourcing, privatization, and public-private partnerships.

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Reason and Reason Online are editorially-independent publications of the foundation.

Reason Foundation magazine won three Los Angeles Press Club awards in 2008.

Reason Foundation's ideas are now embraced by officials from Sacramento to Washington.

In 2006, Reason Foundation issued a report criticizing a municipal Wi-Fi project iProvo in Provo, Utah as financially unstable and ineffective at lowering Internet costs or raising broadband use.

In 2008, Reason Foundation issued a follow-up report entitled, iProvo Revisited: Another Year and Still Struggling.

Shortly after the 2008 report was issued, the mayor of Provo, Lewis Billings, who had been highly critical of the Reason Foundation reports, announced that iProvo would in fact be sold to a private enterprise, Broadweave, for $40 million.