History:

    The Nebraska Policy Institute was established in 2000 by a statewide group of Nebraskans who saw the need for a research organization that would look at policy issues from a competitive enterprise perspective, develop alternative solutions and educate the public about issues and alternatives.

    NPI traces its beginnings to 1997, when Bryce P. Neidig of Madison, Neb., then-president of Nebraska Farm Bureau, invited a diverse group of Nebraskans prominent in many fields to discuss whether a new research organization could play an important role in the future well-being of the state.  This core group agreed that the competitive enterprise perspective was missing from discussion of many public policy issues with impacts on agriculture and rural Nebraska.