These centers are nothing but socially constructed realities which constitute themselves in their own images and likenesses for their own self-aggrandizement. Get a letterhead with the words "center for" on it and any piece of crap you put on the letterhead paper is on the fast-track to publication in the main-stream media. As WS said, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Or, gets them an attribution in support of some lame statement in some lame editorial.