A prominent conservative activist in Washington, Stephen Moore, has accepted an invitation to become executive director of a popular New York political group known as the Monday Meeting.

In an interview yesterday, Mr. Moore said he hopes to help the loose-knit organization, which holds monthly meetings to hear from prominent politicians, policy analysts, and pundits, become “the premier political group in New York City.”

“I think they’re close to being there already. It’s become this cultural phenomenon – political and cultural phenomenon,” Mr. Moore said.

A wide array of Republican senators and members of Congress from across the country have spoken to the group, which usually hears from about eight speakers at each meeting. At this week’s session, Governor Pataki made a presentation about his budget. It was his first appearance before the gathering.

For the past five years, Mr. Moore, 44, served as president of a group that raises funds for conservative Republicans, the Club for Growth. Earlier this month, he stepped down from that post and announced that he was starting a new organization with similar goals, the Free Enterprise Fund.

Mr. Moore said yesterday that he hopes that his experience can allow the Monday Meeting group to become a conduit between right-leaning activists in the capital and the Empire State. “What we want that group to be is sort of the nexus between New York and Washington,” he said.

Mr. Moore said he has attended the Monday Meeting for years and was recently asked to bolster the group’s efforts to raise money for candidates who believe in low taxes and free markets. “Two good friends of mine, the founders of that group, Mallory Factor and James Higgins, said they wanted to take this to the next level and try to expand it,” Mr. Moore said. “New York is obviously the hub and money center for America for conservative causes. We want to be able to raise $50,000 or $100,000 for every candidate who comes through our doors.”

Messrs. Factor and Higgins declined to be interviewed for this story.

The Monday Meetings are modeled on a similar session held in Washington each Wednesday by anti-tax organizer Grover Norquist.

Mr. Moore said attendance at the invitation-only Monday Meetings has risen dramatically in recent years, sometimes approaching 200.Having outgrown other locations, the two-and-a-half-year-old group now meets at the Grand Hyatt, near Grand Central Terminal.

“It won’t be long before, if this continues to grow, we have to hold this in Shea Stadium,” Mr. Moore said. He added that he and the founders also hope to take the concept nationwide. “Why don’t we create Monday Meeting clubs in every major city in the country?” Mr. Moore asked.

Mr. Moore said he does not plan to move to New York. At the Club for Growth, he gained a reputation as a prolific fund-raiser. The Club says it raised about $22 million last year.