Think Tank Quickies (#524)

• The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream opened on Sept. 20. 
• Former First Lady Jill Biden has retired from her $100,000-a-year teaching job at Northern Virginia Community College and started a new unpaid position chairing the new Women's Health Network at the Milken Institute, a think tank created by former financier Michael Milken. 
• Asia Society President & CEO Kyung-Wha Kang has been tapped to serve as South Korea's ambassador to the US. 
• A new report from Capital Research Center (CRC), a think tank tracking foundations, charities, and other nonprofits, has revealed Open Societies Foundation (OSF) has funneled over $80 million into groups linked to terrorism or extremist violence.
• In its new book, the think tank behind Project 2025 takes on the Constitution.
• Dentsu has established the Dentsu Soken Center for Economic Security Research (DCER). 
• Kearney Consumer Institute: "An internal think tank at Kearney." 
• The Organization of American Studies (OAS) is a graduate student-run think tank at The George Washington University (GWU), and the China Development Student Think Tank (CDSTT GWU Chapter) is a non-partisan student think tank. 
• Paladin Capital Group - among the top venture-capital firms in the US - launched the Paladin Global Institute, an AI-focused think tank headed by Kemba Walden. 
• Grace Wright is joining the think tank Snake Island Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine.  She previously worked for Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO).