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Philanthropy Roundtable – Sourcewatch – 03/08/2005 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philanthropy_Roundtable
“The Philanthropy Roundtable was established with funding from the Institute for Educational Affairs in the 1970s to help facilitate and coordinate conservative grant-making and foundations. The organization describes itself as «America’s leading network of charitable donors working to strengthen our free society, uphold donor intent, and protect the freedom to give.» [1] Philanthropy Roundtable is a registered 501(c)3 and is currently an associate member of the State Policy Network (SPN). In 1999, Philanthropy Roundtable spun off the Koch-funded DonorsTrust (DT) and Donors Capital Fund (DCF), two «donor-advised funds» that create separate accounts for individual donors, who then recommend disbursements from the accounts to different non-profits. The identity of the original mystery donors is therefore cloaked because the funds are then distributed in the name of DT or DCF, contributing another step to what has been called a «murky money maze.»[2] Whitney L. Ball, Philanthropy Roundtable’s former executive director,[3] co-founded the two Donors funds and is president and CEO of DT[4] and a director of DCF. ”
Brian Angliss – We Berate, You Deride – A look at Steven J. Milloy’s current affiliates and backers – Scholar & Rogues – 28/11/2007 – http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/we-berate-you-deride-a-look-at-steven-j-milloys-current-affiliates-and-backers/
“It’s important to understand that Mr. Milloy’s connections with the AEI, CEI, Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and through them to the Randolph Foundation, Philanthropy Roundtable, Donors Capital Fund and Trust, the Phillips Foundation, PERC, et al doesn’t mean that Mr. Milloy is the guiding force behind these connections. He is a single thread, albeit an important one, in an intricate tapestry of denial and misrepresentation of science in the service of conservative ideology. Through the deep pockets of his various corporate and conservative supporters over the years, he’s become a very effective conservative soldier in the war for the minds, and votes, of the people.”
John Mashey – Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax – Desmogblog – 14/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake.pdf
“Philanthropy Roundtable Board:324 (@: past affiliations) Michael Grebe Chairman; President /CEO of L&H Bradley Fnd James Pierson Vice-Chairman; President of William E. Simon Fnd; Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow American Spectator Fnd Board; Hoover Instn Board Donors Trust Board, §I.3 John Tyler Secretary; VP/corp scty,Ewing Marion Kauffman Fn325 Don Weinberg Treas.; Chair/EVP of Harry&Jeanette Weinberg Fnd* Ana Thompson Fin Com. Chr;Exec Dir, Charles &Mary Schwab Fnd* Daniel S. Peters Board; President Lovett & Ruth Peters Foundation Jeff D. Sandefer Board; Acton School of Business. (energy investor) Staff includes:326 Adam Myerson President; was VP@ Heritage Foundation 1993-2001. @Wall Street Journal 1979-1983. Donors Capital Chairman of the Board” Shannon Toronto COO; @Ex. Dir Marriner S. Eccles Foundation (UT) Kari Barbic Assoc. Editor, Philanthropy; @ Weekly Standard. Michael Horn Membership Manager; @Charles G. Koch Fnd; @Koch intern at State Policy Network Jo Kwong Dir. Economic Opportunity Programs @Institute for Humane Studies, @Capital Research Center, @ATLAS Patrice Lee Project Mgr, Public Policy; @ C.G. Koch Associate Christopher Levenick Editor-in-Chief, Philanthropy; @ AEI Suzi Marchena Dir. Finance & HR; @Heritage Foundation Lindsay Miller Annual Meeting Director; @ALEC Anthony Penta Dep. Dir K-12 Education Pgms; @Acton in MI, @grad of C. G. Koch Associates Program. Evan Sparks Managing Editor, Philanthropy; @AEI. Amanda Telford Dir of Development; @Frontiers of Freedom. Rachel Verdejo Grant Writer; @ Grove City College B.A. 2008.”
Shenderson – The case for Barre Seid as the Heartland Institute’s Anonymous Donor, Part 3 – Daily Kos – 26/02/2012 – http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/26/1068335/-The-case-for-Barre-Seid-as-the-Heartland-Institute-s-Anonymous-Donor-Part-3
“Seid also uses Donors Capital, and more importantly, he uses it in a way consistent with these abnormally large donations. Although many wealthy right-wingers use Donors Capital, all uses of this particular channel to transmit donations exceeding $5 million can be traced unambiguously to Seid (as we’ll review in excruciating detail below). In addition, as we’ll also see below, donations from the Seid Foundation to several organizations end at exactly the time that these organizations start receiving unusually large donations via Donors Capital. To cap it off, Seid has already been outed twice as an anonymous funder using Donors Capital to hide his identity — once in the Shimer College takeover attempt and once in the funding of the 2008 Obsession video.”
Graham Readfearn – How Heartland-style Climate Sceptic Campaigns Play «Hide the Deniers» Using Secretive Fund – Desmogblog – 29/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/how-heartland-style-climate-sceptic-campaigns-play-hide-deniers-using-secretive-fund
“The Virginia-based Donors Capital Fund and its partner organisation Donors Trust has been giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups blocking attempts to limit greenhouse gas pollution and undermining climate science … DCF works by establishing what it calls “donor-advised funds” with a “minimum initial gift” of $1 million … DCF shares an address with Donors Trust and several board members and staff. Whitney Ball is the president of DCF and Donors Trust.”
John Mashey – Fakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax – Desmogblog – 25/10/2012 – http://desmogblog.com/2012/10/23/fakery-2-more-funny-finances-free-tax
“3. Donors Trust (and Donors Capital Fund) have been studied in more detail. Robert Brulle found another Charles Koch fund, Knowledge and Progress, which seems to give money only to DONORS. Added to the others he controls (Charles Koch and Claude Lambe), money can flow through three separate funds. Then some of it goes through DONORS TRUST and DONORS CAPITAL FUND, which anonymize it, as Whitney Ball actually writes the checks. Some «Kochtopus» tentacles are difficult to see.”
Suzanne Goldenberg – Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks – The Guardian – 14/02/2013 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network
“Conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120m (£77m) to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change, the Guardian has learned. The funds, doled out between 2002 and 2010, helped build a vast network of thinktanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarising «wedge issue» for hardcore conservatives. The millions were routed through two trusts, Donors Trust and the Donors Capital Fund, operating out of a generic town house in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Donors Capital caters to those making donations of $1m or more. Whitney Ball, chief executive of the Donors Trust told the Guardian that her organisation assured wealthy donors that their funds would never by diverted to liberal causes.”
Suzanne Goldenberg – Media campaign against windfarms funded by anonymous conservatives – The Guardian – 15/02/2013 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/15/media-campaign-windfarms-conservatives
«The trusts, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, served as the bankers of the conservative movement over the past decade. Promising anonymity to their conservative billionaire patrons, the trusts between them channelled nearly $120m to contrarian thinktanks and activists, wrecking the chances of getting Congress to act on climate change. Now the Guardian can reveal the latest project of the secretive funding network: a campaign to stop state governments moving towards renewable energy. The campaign against wind and solar power was led by a relatively new entity, the Franklin Centre for Government and Public Integrity. The Franklin Centre did not exist before 2009, but it has quickly become a protege of Donors Trust.»
George Monbiot – Secrets of the Rich – The Guardian – 19/02/2013 – http://www.monbiot.com/2013/02/18/secrets-of-the-rich/
“The two organisations – the Donors’ Trust and the Donors’ Capital Fund – were set up as political funding channels for people handing over $1m or more. They have financed 102 organisations which either dismiss climate science or downplay the need to take action. The large number of recipients creates the impression that there are many independent voices challenging climate science. These groups, working through the media, mobilising gullible voters and lobbying politicians, helped to derail Obama’s cap and trade bill and the climate talks at Copenhagen. Now they’re seeking to prevent the US president from trying again(2).”
George Monbiot – Secrets of the Rich – The Guardian – 19/02/2013 – http://www.monbiot.com/2013/02/18/secrets-of-the-rich/
“This covers only part of the funding. In total, between 2002 and 2010 the two identity-laundering groups paid $311m to 480 organisations(3), most of which take positions of interest to the ultra-rich and the corporations they run: less tax, less regulation, a smaller public sector. Around a quarter of the money received by the rightwing opinion swarm comes from the two foundations(4). If this funding were not effective, it wouldn’t exist: the ultra-rich didn’t get that way by throwing their money around randomly. The organisations they support are those which advance their interests.”
EXPOSED: The State Policy Network – Center for Media and Democracy – 01/11/2013 – http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf
“Between 2008 and 2011, SPN and its member think tanks also served as a middleman for effectively funneling money from the secretive Koch-funded Donors Capital Fund to ALEC. In just those four years, the Donors groups itemized $688,800 to SPN and 12 member think tanks for participation in ALEC, task force membership fees, and travel expenses to attend ALEC meetings,xxxiii where special interest legislation is peddled and lawmakers and their spouses are wined and dined.”
EXPOSED: The State Policy Network – Center for Media and Democracy – 01/11/2013 – http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf
“The largest known funder behind SPN and its member think tanks are two closely related funds — DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund. Exposed in Mother Jones as the “dark money ATM of the conservative movement,”cxiii the Donors groups are spin-offs of the Philanthropy Roundtable run by SPN board member Whitney L. Ball.cxiv They are what are called «donor-advised funds,» which means that the fund creates separate accounts for individual donors, and the donors then recommend disbursements from the accounts to different non-profits. It cloaks the identity of the original mystery donors or makes it impossible to connect donors with recipients because the funds are then distributed in the name of DT or DCF. For example, a relatively unknown Koch family foundation called the Knowledge and Progress Fund gave $4.5 million to DonorsTrust between 2007 and 2010, but what organizations received that funding from Donors is unknown.cxv”
EXPOSED: The State Policy Network – Center for Media and Democracy – 01/11/2013 – http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf
“A review of funding from the Donors groups to SPN and its member think tanks reveals that the two Donors groups funneled nearly $50 million to SPN and 55 member think tanks in just the four years between 2008 and 2011. That is a substantial amount of cash flooding into the states to affect state policies and laws. This money was specifically itemized by Donors to be used for participation in ALEC, so-called journalism programs and statehouse reporting operations, transparency projects, direct mail efforts, litigation centers, or reports against Affordable Care Act and environmental protections [ref].”
EXPOSED: The State Policy Network – Center for Media and Democracy – 01/11/2013 – http://www.alecexposed.org/w/images/2/25/SPN_National_Report_FINAL.pdf
“The Chicago-based foundation founded by the late Daniel C. Searle, the chairman of G.D. Searle & Company (makers of Dramamine), has funneled to millions to SPN and its think tanks, including $2.2 million to SPN itself, $1.31 million to California’s Pacific Research Institute, $295,000 to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, $275,000 to Arizona’s Goldwater Institute,$121,500 to Ohio’s Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, and $30,000 to Oregon’s Cascade Policy Institute (it also gave DonorsTrust $2.3 million and $150,000 to Donors Capital Fund – both donate heavily to SPN).cxxxiv Searle Freedom Trust’s president and CEO Kimberly Dennis is the chairman of the board of DonorsTrustcxxxv and the secretary of the board of Donors Capital Fund.” (p. cxxxvi)
Josh Eidelson – Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme – Salon – 15/11/2013 – http://www.salon.com/2013/11/15/ted_cruz_and_koch_brothers_embroiled_in_shadowy_tea_party_scheme/
“The CMD report also cites numerous SPN ties to the better-known ALEC, including a grant from Donors Capital Fund, which Mother Jones called the “dark money ATM of the conservative movement,” specifically to fund SPN member groups to participate in an ALEC gathering. SPN or its member groups sit on eight ALEC task forces; the largest number are in the Task & Fiscal Policy and Education groups. According to CMD, SPN’s annual meeting in September included representatives from Koch Industries, the Charles Koch Institute, the Charles Koch Foundation and several Koch-backed right-wing groups like Americans for Prosperity.”
Not Just The Koch Brothers: New Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind The Climate Change Denial Effort – Drexel Now – 20/12/2013 – http://drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2013/December/Climate-Change/
“The data also indicates that Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, two of the largest supporters of climate science denial, have recently pulled back from publicly funding countermovement organizations. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to countermovement organizations through third party pass-through foundations like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, whose funders cannot be traced, has risen dramatically. Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science in Drexel’s College of Arts and Sciences, conducted the study during a year-long fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. The study was published today in Climatic Change, one of the top 10 climate science journals in the world.”
Robert J. Brulle (2014) – Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate change counter-movement organizations – Climatic Change 122:681-694 doi:10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7 – Drexel University – http://www.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/now/pdfs/Institutionalizing Delay – Climatic Change.ashx
“The single largest funders are the combined foundations Donors Trust/Donors Capital Fund. Over the 2003–2010 period, they provided more than $78 million in funding to CCCM organizations. The other major funders are the combined Scaife and Koch Affiliated Foundations, and the Bradley, Howard, Pope, Searle and Templeton foundations, all giving more than $20 million from 2003–2010 … As this figure shows, conservative think tanks were the largest recipients of foundation support.”
“An examination of this sociogram reveals the overwhelming dominance of Donors Trust/ Donors Capital in the overall network. It occupies a central position in the network: Out of the 51 CCCM organizations that received foundation funding from the top 22 foundations, Donors funded 35, or nearly 70 % of them. The other leading funders include the affiliated Scaife and Koch Foundations, as well as the Bradley, Pope, and Searle foundations. The pattern of recipients of funding shows that the traditional conservative think tanks receive the largest sums of foundation funding. Especially prominent are the Hoover Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute. Additionally, an unusually large amount of funding was provided to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. This was due to a large grant of $7.7 million dollars from Donors Trust.”
“The available data indicates that the Koch and ExxonMobil Foundations have recently pulled back from publicly funding CCCM organizations. From 2003 to 2007, the Koch Affiliated Foundations and the ExxonMobil Foundation were heavily involved in funding CCCM organizations. But since 2008, they are no longer making publicly traceable contributions to CCCMorganizations. Instead, funding has shifted to pass through untraceable sources. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to CCCM organizations by Donors Trust/Capital has risen dramatically.”
Graham Readfearn – The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank – Desmogblog – 24/06/2014 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/06/25/millions-behind-bjorn-lomborg-copenhagen-consensus-center
“A recent article from IWF senior fellow Vicki Alger claimed “a majority of scientists believe that global warming is largely nature-made” — ignoring several studies that show the vast majority of research from scientists studying climate change believe exactly the opposite. IWF funders include the Claude R. Lambe Foundation, controlled by Charles Koch, and Donors Trust, a fund for conservative philanthropists that has pushed millions into organisations promoting climate science denial and fighting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Higgins is also board member at the Philanthropy Roundtable, another route for conservative philanthropy which shares two members of personnel with Donors Trust or its partner organisation Donors Capital Fund. Also on the board of trustees at Randolph is Polly Freiss, the daughter-in-law of conservative Christian businessman Foster Freiss. Foster Freiss put more than $2 million into Republican Senator Rick Santorum’s 2012 run for his party’s nomination for the presidency. Freiss also bankrolled conservative news outlet The Daily Caller, which regularly publishes articles supporting the views of climate science denialists. On his personal web page, Freiss promotes climate science denial sources including Climate Depot and The Heartland Institute. Friess’s website has also promoted Lomborg’s views. Foster Freiss and his daughter Polly attended the Koch brother’s secretive 2010 strategy meeting in Aspen, along with Heather Higgins and a host of other conservative activists. ”
Cause of Action – Wikipedia – 22/01/2015 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cause_of_Action
“Cause of Action, formerly known as Freedom Through Justice Foundation, according to its website, is a non-profit organization claiming to use «public advocacy and legal reform tools to ensure greater transparency in government, protect taxpayer interests and promote economic freedom.» [1] In June 2013, the organization altered its website to add that it «uses investigative, legal and communications tools» to achieve this mission. It received just shy of a million dollars in funding from the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, a national journalism organization, earmarked «for journalism,» in 2011.[2] The Executive Director, Dan Epstein, assisted in the investigations of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the National Mediation Board as Counsel for Oversight and Investigations at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for the U.S. House of Representatives. [3] Epstein is an alumnus of the Koch Associates Program run at the time by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Institute and later by the Charles Koch Institute.[4][5] The Freedom Through Justice Foundation was incorporated in July 2011 and applied for tax exempt status in August 2011, but it was not granted 501(c)(3) status until July 2012.[6][7] It started receiving funding in 2011,[8] started issuing press releases in at least October 2011,[9] and started to get press calling it «a government accountability nonprofit» in November 2011.[10] Environment & Energy Publishing called Cause of Action «the most active nonprofit you’ve never heard of.» It reported on the variety of causes the group advocates which all have an underlying theme: government overreach and excessive regulation. For example, Cause of Action represented Oregon Windfarms in a lawsuit concerning a Chinese-owned company’s attempts to set up a wind farm in Oregon which was blocked by President Obama. It also represented a lesbian couple in California who wanted to start a family by using a donor they knew. This was apparently against the FDA rule barring such agreements of «body tissue transfers.» These are seemingly very different types of issues, but Cause of Action’s position is that both are unconstitutional government overreach.[11] … In addition to the $994,000 in funding that Cause of Action received from the Franklin Center (an organization funded in part by DonorsTrust) in 2011, it also received $1.95 million in funding directly from DonorsTrust in 2012 — nearly two-thirds of its total funding for that year[31] — in three separate grants, each for general operations.[32] (See DonorsTrust and Donors Capital Fund Grant Recipients for more.) ”
Graham Readfearn – Exclusive: Major Climate Denial Funders Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund Handled $479 Million Of Dark Money – DesmogUK – 12/05/2015 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/05/12/exclusive-major-climate-science-denial-funders-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund-handled-479-million-untraceable
“More than $470 million of cash flowing into a key funding arm of the climate science denial movement in the United States is untraceable, a DeSmog investigation has found. Sister organisations Donors Trust (DT) and Donors Capital Fund (DCF) declared an income of $511 million between 2005 and 2012, tax records show. But a DeSmog analysis of the sources of DT and DCF income finds that some $479 million of the income is “dark money” coming from individuals or groups who do not have to declare their donations. The amount of untraceable cash moving through DT and DCF is likely to be increasing substantially. In 2013, the two groups had their biggest year to date with a combined income of $152m and cash assets of $138m. Donors Trust itself saw income more than double from $46m in 2012 to $103m in 2013 even though the value of grants it handed out remained stable at about $40m each year.”
Graham Readfearn – Major Climate Science Denial Groups Offer to Hide Fossil Fuel Funding, Greenpeace Investigation Finds – Desmogblog – 08/12/2015 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/12/08/leading-climate-science-denial-groups-offer-hide-fossil-fuel-funding-greenpeace-investigation-finds
“According to a report on the investigation at Greenpeace’s EnergyDesk website, Princeton’s Professor William Happer had revealed he had accepted cash from coal company Peabody Energy in return for providing testimony to US congress but had routed the cash through a climate denial group. Happer also offered his services but said that a new climate science denial group, CO2 Coalition, should be used to channel the funds. Groups including the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Donors Trust are also alleged to have been complicit in providing “peer review” services for fossil fuel clients and, in the case of Donors Trust, in providing an untraceable route for the fossil fuel paymentsReferencias … A DeSmogBlog investigation into Donors Trust and its partner group Donors Capital Fund found that between 2005 and 2012, some $479 million of income to the two groups was untraceable. Of the amounts that were traceable, DeSmog found that $7.65 million had come from the Knowledge and Progress Fund (KPF). On the KPF board are oil billionaire and major Republican benefactor Charles Koch, his wife Liz and son Charles Chase Koch. Richard Fink, a Koch company director and long-standing aide to Charles Koch, is also a KPF director.”
Ralph Wilson – Koch Criminal Justice Reform Trojan Horse: Special Report on Reentry and Following the Money – PR Watch – 16/06/2016 – http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/06/13115/koch-criminal-justice-reform-report-reentry-follow-money
“Right on Crime8 was a project launched in 2010 by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a «think tank» active in the State Policy Network and ALEC. (See related map on Little Sis.) That’s the same year that Charles Koch’s corporation, Koch Industries, made a major donation to TPPF, which was uncovered by investigative journalists in the state, as CMD detailed in its «Koch Trojan Horse» special report.9 As of 2013, TPPF had received10 at least $3,314,591 from donors and entities connected to the Koch network (including Donors Trust11 and Donors Capital Fund,12 who supplied TPPF with $760,100 in 2014 alone), but the total amount from Koch Industries or personal checks from the Kochs is not publicly disclosed. Right on Crime describes itself as «a national campaign to promote successful, conservative solutions on American criminal justice policy—reforming the system to ensure public safety, shrink government, and save taxpayers money.» ”
Brendan DeMelle – Senators Launch Resolution, Speech Blitz Calling Out #WebOfDenial Blocking Climate Action – Desmog – 11/07/2016 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/11/senators-launch-resolution-and-speech-blitz-calling-out-climate-webofdenial
“Championed by Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Schatz, Boxer, Merkley, Warren, Sanders, and Franken, the resolution condemns what they are calling the #WebOfDenial — “interconnected groups – funded by the Koch brothers, major fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil and Peabody Coal, identity-scrubbing groups like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, and their allies – developed and executed a massive campaign to deceive the public about climate change to halt climate action and protect their bottom lines.” Joined in the House of Representatives by Congressman Ted Lieu (D- CA), these champions for climate action and accountability in the Senate are calling out the use of think tanks and denier-for-hire front groups to create doubt about climate science. Read the resolution [PDF].”
– Kimberly O. Dennis – George Mason University – 21/07/2016 – http://bov.gmu.edu/bios/dennis.html
“Kim Dennis is president and CEO of the Searle Freedom Trust, a grantmaking foundation established by the late Daniel C. Searle to support public policy research. … Ms. Dennis has spent over 30 years in the philanthropic arena. She was the first executive director of the Philanthropy Roundtable, a national association of individual donors, foundation officers, corporate giving representatives, and trust and estate officers. She assumed leadership of the Roundtable when it was established as an independent organization and built the membership to 450 associates within five years. Her first grant-making experience was with the John M. Olin Foundation, which is best known for its role in developing law and economics as an academic discipline. … Currently, Ms. Dennis serves as chairman of the board of Donors Trust, vice chairman of Donors Capital Fund, a trustee of the Earhart Foundation, a member of the board of the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation, and a director of PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center. She serves on the selection committee for the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership and the Hayek Book Prize. Previously, she served on the boards of the W.H. Brady Foundation and the Philanthropy Roundtable, and was a member of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.”
Dana Nuccitelli – These are the best arguments from the 3% of climate scientist ‘skeptics.’ Really. – The Guardian – 25/07/2016 – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/25/these-are-the-best-arguments-from-the-3-of-climate-scientist-skeptics-really
“Contrarian climate scientist Roy Spencer summed up the contrarian case for a fossil fuel and tobacco-funded think tank … Last week, Spencer wrote a white paper for the Texas Public Policy Institute (TPPI) outlining the contrarian case against climate concerns. TPPI is part of the web of denial, having received substantial funding from both the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, including $65,000 from ExxonMobil and at least $911,499 from Koch-related foundations since 1998, and over $3 million from “dark money” anonymizers Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund.”
Graham Readfearn – How Donald Trump Kingmaker-Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial – Desmogblog – 12/01/2017 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial
“Most of the attention of investigative journalists had fallen on three overlapping groups that have either influenced or funded the climate science denial movement across the United States. The first was the network of groups funded and orchestrated by the Koch brothers, who have invested millions into creating and sustaining conservative “think tanks” that take positions protecting the Koch brothers’ fossil fuel interests. Groups like the Cato Institute (which cashed a $300,000 Mercer check last year) and Americans for Prosperity have attacked the science of human-caused climate change while challenging the legitimacy of solutions, such as renewable energy and electric vehicles. The second key funding stream for climate science denial organizations are two linked organizations called Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund. Both Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund are “donor-advised funds” and are used by rich conservatives to funnel money to “libertarian” causes while hiding the identity of the donors. A third major supporter of the climate science denial industry are those who stand to lose most from the public fully understanding the implications of climate change — the fossil fuel industry itself.”
Robert Brulle – Wikipedia – 10/09/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brulle
“Robert J. Brulle is an American environmental sociologist and professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University. He is also an associate professor of public health at the Drexel University School of Public Health. He advocates aggressive political action to address global warming.[1] … Brulle’s research includes the strategy and funding patterns of what he calls “the climate change countermovement,” … Over the eight years covered by the study (2003-2010), the American Enterprise Institute received the most funding—16% of the total funds, and the donor-advised funds Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund were the largest funders.[11] The study also found that the amount of money donated to these organizations by means of Donors Trust and other foundations whose funding sources cannot be traced has risen dramatically over the previous five years.”
Scott Zimmerman – Trump Appoints Stephen Moore, ALEC’s Favorite Economist, to Fed – PR Watch – 17/04/2019 – https://www.prwatch.org/news/2019/04/13464/trump-appoints-stephen-moore-alec%E2%80%99s-favorite-economist-fed
“Despite praise from ALEC claiming «no one is more qualified than Stephen Moore for this position,» Stephen Moore would be alone on the Federal Reserve Board as the only member without a doctorate degree. Moore has never worked within academia. And, as pointed out by Chinn, Moore has never been published in a peer-reviewed journal. Instead, Moore has climbed the ranks within conservative think-tanks and political groups. He founded Club for Growth, and has worked as a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a senior economic contributor at FreedomWorks, a board member of the Donors Capital Fund, a research director for President Ronald Reagan’s Commission on Privatization, and with many other right-wing organizations.”
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