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«The scouts recommend students whose work they know well for fellowships. Recipients are then able to continue their academic work without having to worry about finances. Kennedy stresses that the foundation depends heavily upon these scouts, as it does not solicit or accept applications for the graduate fellowship program. Once the awards are announced, the foundation is willing to wait for its return. «How do we measure success?» Kennedy asks rhetorically. «That’s easy. We sit back and wait a generation.» – Martin Davis  – Adventures in Philanthropy: Measuring Success in Generations – The Philanthropy Roundtable Magazine – 01/05/2004 – http://web.archive.org/web/20041013073829/http:/www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2004/mayjune/earhart.htm

Fundador:

Harry B. Earhart

Presidente:

Ingrid A. Gregg

Año de fundación:

1929

Origen de la riqueza

Petróleo

Empresas

White Star Oil Company

Activos de la fundación

$12,591,869 (2000, valor máximo)

Sede:

Ann Arbor (Michigan)

Misión

The Ann Arbor-based Earhart Foundation, perhaps best known for its support of several Nobel-winning economists, is arguably one of the least understood foundations in U.S. philanthropy. It appears to shun publicity, does not have a public web site, and has received very little scholarly attention.

Although it has supported a number of think tanks that played key roles bolstering the militarist policies of the Bush administration—like AEI, the Heritage Foundation, and the Hudson Institute—much of Earhart’s funding goes to supporting rightist social and economic policies.

Premios Nobel de Economía promovidos

1974      Friedrich A. Hayek
1976      Milton Friedman
1982      George Stigler
1986      James M. Buchanan
1991      Ronald Coase
1992      Gary Becker
1995      Robert Lucas
2000      Daniel McFadden
2002      Vernon L. Smith

Observaciones

Pertenece a la Philanthhroy Roundtable

Organismos principales que han recibido financiación:

Sólo organismos de negacionismo climático, presión ultraliberal o fundamentalismo religioso

Think tanks

American Enterprise Institute
George C. Marshall Institute
Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute

Poder judicial

Institute for Justice

Antiecologismo

Environmental Literacy Council

Fundamentalismo cristiano

Acton Institute

Universidad

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Listado detallado de destinos de financiación (!)

Fuentes

Referencias:

Sally Covington (1998) – How Conservative Philanthropy and Think Tanks Transform US Policy – Covert Action Quarterly – 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 .»

Chris A. Moore (2008) – Milking the Cash Cow – Curtis A. Moore – http://curtismoore.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/milking-the-cash-cow.pdf
“The core foundations include the following: 1) Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, money originally from Allen-Bradley Company, a major manufacturer of electronic and radio components; 2) Smith Richardson Foundation, money from the Vicks Vaporrub fortune; 3) Sarah Scaife Foundation and Carthage Foundation. (Other Scaife foundations include Allegheny and Scaife Family foundations, whose funds came originally from the Mellon family fortune, whose holdings included Gulf Oil, Alcoa and Mellon Bank.); 4) Philip McKenna Foundation, money from Kennametal, a leading global supplier of tooling, engineered components and advanced materials; 5) John M. Olin Foundation, money from Olin Industries chemical and munitions manufacturing; 6) Henry Salvatori Foundation, money from Western Geophysical, now the oil exploration arm of Litton industries; 7) Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch, Claude R. Lambe Foundations; Earhart Foundation, money from White Star Oil; 8) J.M. Foundation, money from Borden Milk.”

This page has the following sub pages.

• Earhart Foundation: Detalle de los destinos de financiación