What is the governing structure of SUSA?
SUSA is a newly formed nonprofit corporation (501(c) (3)) based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2007, with an educational mission to provide the American public with high-quality information—including quantitative measures—of changing societal, economic and environmental conditions. The organization’s distinguished founding Board of Directors includes national leaders from the scientific and statistical community, with broad experience in business, academia and the nongovernmental sector. SUSA will also have scientific and technical support from the planned Roundtable on Key National Indicators at the National Academies. In addition, SUSA has established two advisory groups: The Product Advisory Group focuses on recruiting world-class executive talent for the organization, and advising those executives and SUSA officers as full-time leaders come on board. The group is composed of a variety of experts and leaders on content design, web and data publishing, statistics, information