Sam Adams Alliance
Sam Adams Alliance was a 501 non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2006 and disbanded in 2012. The president was Eric O'Keefe.
SAM launched three wiki-style websites: Judgepedia, Ballotpedia, and Sunshine Review. SAM also helped launch American Majority and the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity.
Activities
The Sammies
Begun in 2007, the Sammies was an annual national awards program designed to recognize "outstanding citizen leadership and creativity." John Stossel of FOX Business was the keynote speaker at the 2011 Sammies ceremony.Market research
In March 2010, Sam Adams Alliance released the first of a series of "Activist Insights Reports" titled "Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves," a study of leaders in the Tea Party movement. The study surveyed 50 active leaders in the movement on their motivations for becoming involved. It found that about half of Tea Party movement activists had never before been involved in politics, and that many became involved out of fear of passing on larger government and insurmountable debt to their children and grandchildren.In August 2010, a follow-up report exploring the Tea Party movement was released titled "Next Wave: A Surf Report."
In September 2010, Sam Adams Alliance released their first "Market Insights Report" titled "Surface Tension: Tea Parties and the Political Establishment."