Fundadores:
Lynde and Harry Bradley
Presidente:
Michael W. Grebe
Ex Presidente de la Philanthropy Roundtable
“We’re part of the right-wing movement,”
Año de fundación:
1942
Origen de la riqueza
Energía, electrónica
Empresas
Milwaukee Electric
Allen Bradley
Activos
$665,329,753 (2004)
Misión:
(Fuente: Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation: The Bradleys believed that the good society is a free society. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is likewise devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it. Its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, intellectual, and cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions. In addition, recognizing that responsible self-government depends on enlightened citizens and informed public opinion, the Foundation supports scholarly studies and academic achievement
(Fuente: Media Transparency): «The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U.S. — and the world — to the days before governments began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an organized labor force. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off. To further this objective, Bradley supports the organizations and individuals that promote the deregulation of business, the rollback of virtually all social welfare programs, and the privitization of government services. As a result, the list of Bradley grant recipients reads like a Who’s Who of the U.S. Right.
Periodistas:
George F. Will (Washington Post; Premio 2005; Miembro del Consejo)
Medios de comunicación negacionistas
American Spectator
WattsUpWithThat
Orientación religiosa
Dominionista
Notas:
- The Bradley Foundation is one of the largest philanthropic foundations responsible for the financial backing of the right-wing agenda for nearly twenty years.
- Bradley’s philanthropy supports right-wing organizations, privatized educational programs, as well as many non-partisan social programs and civic organizations.
- Issues Bradley supports include: private school vouchers, faith-based social services, and welfare reform.
- Bradley has supported and in some cases, had to defend controversial right-wing recipients of their grants, particularly Charles Murray and Dinesh D’Souza.
- Bradley has made right-wing inroads in academia by establishing chairmanship positions, undergraduate and graduate programs, fellowships, and whole departments at many prestigious universities
Organismos que han recibido financiación:
Sólo organismos de negacionismo climático o presión ultraliberal
Think Tanks:
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
American Civil Rights Institute
American Civil Rights Union
American Conservative Union Foundation
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Becket Fund
Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO)
Capital Research Center
Center for Individual Rights
Center for Education Reform
Center for Public Justice
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation America
Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights
Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy
Collegiate Network
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Empire Foundation for Policy Research
Evergreen Freedom Foundation
Equal Opportunity Foundation
Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Friends of Choice in Urban Schools
Free Congress Research and Education Foundation
Galen Institute
Heartland Institute
Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute
Hoover Institute
Institute for American Values
Institute for Justice
Institute on Religion and Democracy
Leadership Institute
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
National Association of Scholars
National Center for Policy Analysis
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Escuelas y Universidades
Boston College
Boston University
Bowling Green State University
Carnegie Mellon University
Catholic University
Columbia University
Georgetown University
George Mason University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Marquette University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
New York University
Princeton University
Stanford University
University of California- Berkeley
University of California- Los Angeles
University of California- San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
Washington University- St. Louis.
Fuentes
Listado detallado de destinos de financiación
Referencias
David Callahan – Liberal Policy’s Weak Foundations – The Nation – Published online: 13/11/1995 – – http://www.cheatingculture.com/liberalpolicy.htm – authors “With its starkly ideological agenda, Bradley is one of a halfdozen or so small conservative foundations that play a highly focused game of intellectual entrepreneurship. Along with such philanthropies as the John M. Olin Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Bradley Foundation’s giving is underpinned by a strong belief in the power of ideas. The money that Bradley and these other foundations spend on ideas may be paltry next to the ocean of special-interest money that pumps through the US. political system, but by strategically leveraging their resources, conservative foundations have engineered the rise of a right-wing intelligentsia that has come to wield enormous influence in national policy debates. The role of foundations is, of course, only one part of the story behind a turnaround that has put right-wing think tanks at the center of American politics, and books by the likes of Charles Murray on the best-seller lists.”
Sally Covington (1998) – How Conservative Philanthropy and Think Tanks Transform US Policy – Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1998 – http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/caq63/caq63thinktank.html
«Proclaiming their movement a war of ideas, conservatives began to mobilize resources for battle in the 1960s. They built new institutional bastions; recruited, trained, and equipped their intellectual warriors; forged new weapons as cable television, the Internet, and other communications technologies evolved; and threw their resources into policy and political battles. By 1984, moderate Republican John Saloma warned of a «major new presence in American politics.» If left unchecked, he accurately predicted, «the new conservative labyrinth» would pull the nation’s political center sharply to the right. Today, that labyrinth is larger, more sophisticated, and increasingly able to influence what gets on and what stays off the public policy agenda. From the decision to abandon the federal guarantee of cash assistance to the poor, to changes in the federal tax structure, to interest in medical savings accounts and the privatization of Social Security, conservative policy ideas and rhetoric have come to dominate the nation’s political conversation, reflecting what political scientist Walter Dean Burnham has called a «hegemony of market theology.» Spearheading the assault has been a core group of 12 conservative foundations: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, the Phillip M. McKenna Foundation, the JM Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. In 1994,they controlled more than $1.1 billion in assets; from 1992-94, they awarded $300 million in grants, and targeted $210 million to support a wide array of projects and institutions. Over the last two decades, the 12 have mounted an impressively coherent and concerted effort to shape public policy by undermining and ultimately redirecting what they regard as the institutional .»
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (2004) – Crimes Against Nature – HarperCollins Publishers – ISBN 0-06-074687-4
«Heritage became a top beneficiary of five right-wing foundations established by major corporate polluters: the John M. Olin Foundation, funded by a leading manufacturer of ammunition and toxic chemicals; the Sarah Scaife Foundation, funded by the Mellon industrial, oil, and banking fortune and run by the arch-conservative American Spectator financier Richard Mellon Scaife; the Castle Rock Foundation, funded by Coors, the Charles D. Koch Charitable Foundation, headed up by Charles G. Koch, chairman of Koch Industries, Inc., the largest independent oil company in the United States and one of the biggest polluters in Texas; and the Bradley Foundation, funded by the electronics fortune”
Joseph Romm – George Will and WattsUpWithThat embrace a proud former shill for a man convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges – Climate Progress, 28/06/2009 – http://climateprogress.org/2009/06/28/george-will-wattsupwiththat-robert-bradley-ken-lay-enron/
“Two of the leading sources of anti-scientific disinformation on global warming — George Will and Anthony Watts’ blog WattsUpWithThat — have embraced a man, Robert Bradley, who proudly shilled for Enron CEO Ken Lay, who was convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges in 2006. Watts and I, you may recall, got into a tiny dust up a couple weeks ago.”
Daniel Bice, Bill Glauber and Ben Poston – From local roots, Bradley Foundation builds conservative empire – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19/11/2011 – http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/from-local-roots-bradley-foundation-builds-conservative-empire-k7337pb-134187368.html
«Yet outside conservative circles, the foundation has kept a low profile. It receives a fraction of the attention given the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch and the Scaife family. But the Bradley Foundation is in a different league: From 2001 to 2009, it doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined … Aaron Dorfman, the executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, said the Bradley Foundation supplies «the intellectual justification for conservative causes.» «They have been particularly skillful at funding the think tanks and university programs that provide this intellectual foundation for their policy positions.».»
Media Transparency, 01/07/1997 – http://old.mediatransparency.org/recipientprofile.php?recipientID=280
«The Roundtable was setup by the Bradley Foundation to help coordinate conservative grantmaking.»
Union of Concerned Scientists – Global Warming Skeptic Organizations: Science and Environmental Policy Project – Accedido: 20/10/2005 – http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html
“Spin: Moreover, climate change won’t be bad for us anyway. Action on climate change is not warranted because of shaky science and flawed policy approaches. Funding: Conservative foundations including Bradley, Smith Richardson, and Forbes. SEPP has also been directly tied to ultra right-wing mogul Reverend Sung Myung Moon’s Unification Church, including receipt of a year s free office space from a Moon-funded group and the participation of SEPP s director in church-sponsored conferences and on the board of a Moon-funded magazine.”
Christian E. Weller and Laura Singleton (2006) – Peddling reform: the role of think tanks in shaping the neoliberal policy agenda for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund – En: Neoliberal Hegemony: a global critique – Dieter Plehwe Bernhard Walpen and Gisela Neunhöffer (2006) – Senior economist at the Center for American Progress + Research associate at the Economic Policy Institute; University of WISCONSIN+ Economic Policy Institute
«Most notable among the conservative foundations are the Bradley, Olin, Scaife and Smith Foundations. The Bradley Foundation provides substantial aid to academia, specifically toward research, program development, and graduate student studies, as well as to controversial and conservative publications. The Olin Foundation provides financing for AEI, Heritage and Hoover, as well as supporting academics and university programs that embrace ultraconservative economic and social policies. The Scaife Foundation provides generous funding to AEI, Heritage, Cato, and Hoover. Finally, the Smith Foundation, frequently referred to as one of the ‘four sisters’, generally funds in conjunction with the Bradley, Olin and Scaife Foundations. As a result, the AEI received $2.2 million from these four foundations in 2001, the Heritage Foundation $2.5 million and the Cato Institute $0.9 million (Media Transparency 2002). The funding from the conservative foundations alone was almost half as large as the total funding of four leading left-leaning think tanks. The Center for Policy Alternatives, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute had a combined budget of $10.2 million (PFAW 2002).»
Faiz Shakir, Benjamin Armbruster, George Zornick, Zaid Jilani, Alex Seitz-Wald, and Tanya Somanader – The Truth Behind The Anti-Union Assault – Think Progress, 22/02/2011 – http://pr.thinkprogress.org/2011/02/pr20110222
«Walker’s anti-union policies didn’t arise in a vacuum but were orchestrated and buttressed by notorious right-wing political players including Koch Industries and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation — «a $460 million conservative honey pot dedicated to crushing the labor movement.» Indeed, the Bradley Foundation’s CEO, former state GOP chairman Michele Grebe, headed Walker’s campaign and transition. What’s more, media and astroturf organizations ginning up support for Walker’s power grab include the MacIver Institute (which produced a series of videos attacking anti-Walker protesters) the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute (which funded polls, policy pieces, and attack videos against Walker’s opposition) and Americans for Prosperity (which not only helped elect Walker but bused in Tea Party supporters to hold a pro-Walker demonstration Saturday). All of these groups receive funding from the Bradley Foundation. »
Lee Fang – How John Birch Society Extremism Never Dies: The Fortune Behind Scott Walker’s Union-Busting Campaign – Think Progress, 21/02/2011 – http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/21/145492/zombie-johnbirch-walker/
«Although his company boomed because of World War 2-era contracts from the government, Harry abhorred any intrusions into his business: especially labor organizers (who he termed “communists” in his memoirs), as well as pressure to hire women and minorities in his plants, a move he resisted until his death. Responding to the civil rights movement and liberalism in society, Harry became obsessed with right-wing politics. According to scholar William Schambra, Harry even studied Lenin and Stalin for ideas on how to wage guerrilla warfare against the left. He joined candy manufacturer Robert Welch to be one of the charter members of the John Birch Society (along with JBS board member Fred Koch, the father of Koch Industries executives Charles and David Koch), and financed other right-wing firebrands. »
Lee Fang – How John Birch Society Extremism Never Dies: The Fortune Behind Scott Walker’s Union-Busting Campaign – Think Progress, 21/02/2011 – http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/21/145492/zombie-johnbirch-walker/
«After the Allen-Bradley company was purchased by Rockwell International in 1985, the Bradley Foundation surged with an additional $290 million in funds. The money has gone on to finance ideas held strongly by Harry Bradley: anti-affirmative action scholars, anti-multiculturalism books (the Bradley Foundation underwrote the notoriously racist book The Bell Curve), anti-welfare campaigns, privatization efforts, neoconservative fronts, and tens of millions for groups opposed to public and private sector unions, particular in the field of education. As conservative writer Al Regnery has observed, conservatives have relied on the Bradley Foundation to finance the backbone of radical policy ideas that first take root in Wisconsin but are then championed by Republicans around the country. Gov. Scott Walker’s current fight to crush labor rights in Wisconsin is the fulfillment of Harry Bradley’s John Birch Society dream.»
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation – Media Transparency – Accedido: 30/02/2011 – http://old.mediatransparency.org/funderprofile.php?funderID=1
«Robert Welch, who founded the Society in 1958, was a regular speaker at Allen-Bradley sales meetings. Harry distributed Birchite literature, as did Fred Loock, another key figure at the company. They also supported the Australian doctor Fred Schwarz, founder of the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade; William F. Buckley, Jr.’s National Review; and a right-wing Midwest radio program produced by anti-communist producer Bob Siegrist. Harry’s main political targets were “World Communism” and the U.S. federal government, not necessarily in that order. His political philosophy was laissez-faire capitalism, and he was strongly opposed to anything that might restrict his freedom to conduct his business as he saw fit. His promotion of “freedom”, however, did not extend to his own workers. While women had worked at the plant since 1918, and made up nearly a third of the workforce during World War II, they weren’t paid the same as men. They finally sued in 1966, charging the company paid less to women than male workers operating the same machines. A federal judge ruled in their favor. Allen-Bradley was one of the last major Milwaukee employers to racially integrate, and then only through public and legal pressure. By 1968, when the company’s workforce had grown to more than 7,000, Allen-Bradley employed only 32 Blacks and 14 Latinos.»
Daniel Bice, Bill Glauber and Ben Poston – From local roots, Bradley Foundation builds conservative empire – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19/11/2011 – http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/from-local-roots-bradley-foundation-builds-conservative-empire-k7337pb-134187368.html
«Yet outside conservative circles, the foundation has kept a low profile. It receives a fraction of the attention given the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch and the Scaife family. But the Bradley Foundation is in a different league: From 2001 to 2009, it doled out nearly as much money as the seven Koch and Scaife foundations combined.»
Robert Bradley Jr. – Energy Free-Market Megatrend: George Will Speaks – Master Resource – A free-market energy blog – 12/01/2012 – http://www.masterresource.org/2012/01/energy-megatrend-george-will/
«Rationing: the government did just that during World War II with tickets for petroleum products, almost did the same during the Jimmy Carter era, and proposed CO2 cap-and-trade auctions for all carbon-based energies (oil, gas, and coal) just two years ago. Whether by ration ticket or by taxation, it meant less energy that the unregulated free-market would produce.»
Frank Cocozzelli – Santorum’s Second Song – Talk to Action, 17/01/2012 – http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/1/17/105240/043
«In 2007 he became a Senior Fellow with the Koch and Scaife-funded Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), the infamous neoconservative think tank. He has used that position to advance a noxious culture war agenda demonizing liberals, gays and those who advocate a healthy separation of church and state. Indeed, his 2011 denunciation of JFK’s 1960 embrace of that fundamental First Amendment principle was a formal elaboration of a long held view. »
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation – Bridge Project – Accedido: 27/11/2012 – http://bridgeproject.com/?organization&id=253678
«Under Grebe’s leadership, the Bradley Foundation has sought to expand the reach of its ideas, handing out $250,000 Bradley Prizes to figures such as Jeb Bush, the Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone, and the Washington Post’s George Will. It has also begun funding a new handful of media organizations sympathetic to Republicans during the Wisconsin recall elections.»
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