Textos de referencia:
Sidney Blumenthal (1986) – The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power – New York: Harper & Row – ISBN-13 : 978-1402759116 – 384 Págs.
“Reseña del editor: A classic of American politics returns! How did the Republican Party build its infrastructure and arrive at the Reagan triumph in the years following Barry Goldwater’s defeat and Nixon’s cataclysmic resignation in 1974? The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, a now seminal study of contemporary politics, provides the answers. Based on hundreds of interviews with key policy makers, Sidney Blumenthal shows how the conservatives orchestrated their influence to change American politics. By charting the rise of a small group of ideologues who transformed their vision into Washington’s ruling orthodoxy, he brilliantly illuminates the important currents of conservative thought and action, as well as the mythology of Reaganism. Although Blumenthal himself is unabashedly liberal, he is also frankly admiring of the organizational genius displayed by the right wing in finding donors and benefactors eager to fund the think tanks, institutes, magazines, and endowed academic chairs that made the Reagan Revolution—and the George W. Bush presidency—possible. He presents an indispensable object lesson for any out-of-office party determined to regain political power. ”.
Tom Barry – The Right’s Architecture of Power – IRC Right Web, 22/04/2004 – Policy Director of the Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), online at http://www.irc-online.org. He is the founder of Foreign Policy In Focus and directs the IRC’s Right Web project. – http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/grebe1.pdf
“Conveniently located in this neoconservative warren is the Philanthropy Roundtable, a right-wing association of foundations that split from the Council of Foundations in the early 1980s. Just as the Business Roundtable was created to unite Corporate America around conservative policy agendas, the Philanthropy Roundtable joined the counter-establishment matrix in the tradition of “shadow liberalism”—creating institutions and campaigns that parallel those of liberals and progressives. Michael Joyce, longtime president (1986-2000) of the Bradley Foundation, served until 2003 as chair of the Roundtable’s board of directors.vii Bill Kristol, like his father, has cultivated close ties with Bradley and other right-wing foundations that now exhibit a decidedly neoconservative cast.viii Joyce feels it was inevitable that” Bush would embrace the neoconservative agenda. “I’m not sure September 11 did more than push the timetable up,” Joyce noted.”
Lewis H. Lapham (2004) – Tentacles of Rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history – Harper’s Magazine, 01/09/2004 – http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Republican-Propaganda1sep04.htm
“No small task and no mean feat, and as I watched Stein’s diagrams take detailed form on a computer screen (the directorates of the Leadership Institute and Capital Research Center all but identical with that of The Philanthropy Roundtable, Richard Mellon Scaife’s money dispatched to the Federalist Society as well as to The American Spectator), I was surprised to see so many familiar names—publications to which I’d contributed articles, individuals with whom I was acquainted—and I understood that Stein’s story was one that I could corroborate, not with supplementary charts or footnotes but on the evidence of my own memory and observation.”
Wiki – 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 Donors Trust (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. ”
John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“The board of the John M. Olin Foundation balked at submitting itself to the Council of Foundations or any other external authority. ‘We believe it is improper to require subscription to any set of principles and practices, for to do so is to require trustees to cede judgment and to relinquish in part their responsibilities…’ wrote Joyce in a letter to council president James A. Joseph in 1984.” (p. 131)
John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“Yet the foundation was, of course, deeply interested in the business of philanthropy and eager to associate with groups that shared its values. In the 1970s, staff members participated in the Grantmakers Roundtable, an informal gathering led by Leslie Lenkowsky of Smith Richardson. When Lenkowsky joined the Institute of Educational Affairs in 1985, he revived the group, and by 1991 it had become an independent organization called the Philanthropy Roundtable … ‘The Roundtable has become a potent alternative to the Council of Foundations, which is steeped in the thinking of the liberal establishment.” (p. 132-133)
John Jos. Miller (2005) – A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America – Encounter Books – Writer for ‘National Review’ and contributing editor of ‘Philanthropy’ – ISBN-13: 978-1594031175 – 200 Págs.
“Members of [John M. Olin Foundation’s] staff were heavily involved in [the Philanthropy Roundtable] activities from the start. One of them was Mike Joyce, except that his own connection to the Philanthropy Roundtable, including service as the chairman of its board, came after he had left the John M. Olin Foundation for another job. In 1985, Rockwell International purchased Allen-Bradley Company … for $1.65 billion. As a result of the transaction, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, established more than forty years earlier, saw its assets jump from less than $1.4 million to more than $290 million almost in an instant.” (p. 133)
John J. Miller – Freedom’s Mr. Moneybags – National Review, 10/11/2005 – http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/miller200511100823.asp
“Lopez: What did the Olin Foundation make possible, when you consider other big conservative successes? – Miller: First and foremost, the foundation helped create what its longtime president William E. Simon called the “counterintelligentsia”–a group of scholars and activists who provided a balance to the liberals who have dominated the universities, the media, and the nonprofit world. When conservatism was still emerging from the intellectual ghetto, this was a critically important task, and this list of the foundation’s beneficiaries is incredibly long. Prominent groups include the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Individual Rights, the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the National Association of Scholars, The New Criterion, and the Philanthropy Roundtable. And lots of individuals as well: Linda Chavez, Dinesh D’Souza, Milton Friedman, Robert George, Owen Harries, Samuel Huntington, Irving Kristol, Henry Manne, Harvey Mansfield, Father Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Stigler. And if we’re going to isolate categories of giving, the foundation was especially important to the law-and-economics movement–a school of thought, born at the University of Chicago, which insists that legal rules have economic consequences. The foundation sank more than $68 million into law and economics, and because of this it had a big impact on legal scholarship, the training of lawyers, and judicial behavior.”
Richard W. Behan – Movement Conservatism – Progressive Trail, 09/08/2007 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Movement_Conservatism
“The Heritage Foundation is the largest and best financed beneficiary, but many others are familiar. The American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, the Manhattan Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the National Association of Scholars, Accuracy in Academe, the Media Research Center, and Accuracy in Media are prominent on the national level. Less well known are hundreds of «free market» cells scattered nationwide, all funded by these few foundations. (One such is F.R.E.E._the Foundation for Research in Economics and the Environment. It provides week-long indoctrinations into «free market» ideology, at luxury resorts near its home in Bozeman, Montana.. The invited participants, with all expenses paid by F.R.E.E., are federal judges.) The top 20 conservative think tanks spend about $150 million a year, but not on short-term projects. Coordinated by an umbrella group, the Philanthropy Roundtable, they concentrate on a long-term ideological program: sustaining and expanding the free-market paradigm, and enshrining it in public thought, action, and policy.”
Susan George (2007) – El Pensamiento Secuestrado: Cómo la derecha laica y la religiosa se han apoderado de Estados Unidos – Icaria Editorial – ISBN-13: 978-8474269499 – 264 Págs.
“[Michael] Joyce [de la Fundación Olin, Bradley y fundador de la Mesa Redonda de Filantropía] se jubiló anticipadamente de Bradley en 2002, después de 15 años al mando, para cumplir la petición de George Bush y Karl Rove de crear una nueva organización llamada Americans for Community, Faith-Centered Enterprise.” (p. 62, np)
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.”
David Rothkopf (2008) – Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making – Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Carnegie Endowment + Editor de Foreign Policy magazine + Exdirector general de Kissinger and Associates – ISBN-13: 978-0374531614 – 408 Págs. – http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/0410_transcript_rothkopf_superclass.pdf
“Now, one of the trends that has been important in the context of this group where we have been improvising is the rise of philanthropy. And I will admit how can you be against philanthropy? Right, I mean, philanthropy is a good thing, and it is great that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are emulating what Andrew Carnegie did in terms of giving their money. We can’t object to that. But the Gates Foundation puts as much money on the ground to deal with disease worldwide as the World Health Organization does. And on the one hand, you have to ask yourself, is that healthy? It is certainly not bad. But is it healthy? Because Bill Gates is not answering to a large group of other people, he is not representative. And leaving these decisions to groups that don’t derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed, which is the formulation that we have adopted for the past 4 or 500 years to measure the legitimacy of a governance approach. That is a potential problem. It is also gives governments an excuse not to do what they ought to be doing themselves.”
David Rothkopf (2008) – Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making – Farrar, Straus and Giroux – Carnegie Endowment + Editor de Foreign Policy magazine + Exdirector general de Kissinger and Associates – ISBN-13: 978-0374531614 – 408 Págs. – http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/0410_transcript_rothkopf_superclass.pdf
“The 1100 billionaires on the planet earth have a net worth that is equivalent to almost twice that of the bottom 2.5 billion people on the planet earth. Now, I gave a talk on this this morning. And somebody said, but the bottom is rising. And yes, the bottom is rising. But the top is rising faster. Now, you have to say, are you comfortable with this? And everybody can come to their own conclusions, but from a purely political analysis point of view, relative gaps in wealth have consequences in terms of tension and in terms of potential instability. And the history of elites – and I deal with that also in the book – is a history of overreaching and backlash … They don’t exist in the global context. There aren’t legal constraints that can counterbalance.”
Echo Chamber – Sourcewatch, 17/02/2010 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Echo_chamber
“In the United States, the Republican Party uses a network of conservative foundations, coordinated by the Philanthropy Roundtable, and described in an extensive report (March 2004) by Jerry M. Landay for Mediatransparency.org, supporting conservative think tanks, industry-friendly experts and subsidized conservative media that systematically spread their messages throughout the political and media establishment. Typically, the message starts when conservative voices begin making an allegation (e.g., Democratic candidates are engaged in «hate-mongering» with regard to Bush). Columns are written on this theme, first in conservative media (including blogs), but eventually appearing in mainstream media like the New York Times. This process can be used to turn an unsupported allegation or a partisan talking point into an «accepted fact.».”
Gleason Family Foundation – Schools Matter, 06/01/2011 – http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/01/media-bullpen-gleason-family-foundation.html
“For interested readers, here’s a list of the edu-advocacy orgs they’ve supported over the years: Alliance for School Choice; American Enterprise Institute; BAEO; Cato Institute; Center for Education Reform; Center for Union Facts; Coalition for Educational Freedom; Heartland Institute; Heritage Foundation; Institute for Justice (libertarian); Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Milton and Rose Friedman; Foundation NCTQ; Pacific Research Institute; Philanthropy Roundtable; School Choice Conference ($305,002 in 2006 – Cabo San Lucas, Mexico); School Choice Wisconsin.”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“In February 2013, the Philanthropy Roundtable drew public attention when various sources, including the Guardian newspaper, reported on the organization’s connections to a club of rightist donors, including Donors Trust and the Koch Foundation, that have been funding efforts to debunk climate change science and environmental regulations. Commenting on this aspect of the Roundtable’s work, Media Matter reported: “One of its board members, Jeff Sandefer, is a former oilman. It is partially funded by The Charles G. Koch Foundation, and in 2011 it gave Charles G. Koch an award for ‘Philanthropic Leadership.’ In 2010, oil tycoon Philip Anschutz [owner of the Weekly Standard] received the award.”[2] According to Media Matters, the “Philanthropy Roundtable gave $250,000 to Donors Trust in 2010,” just as that trust began “funneling” money to “climate denial groups.”[3] Donors Trust is also notorious for serving as a pass through foundation for donors supporting anti-Islamic causes in the United States, as reported in a widely noted 2011 Center for American Progress report, Fear, Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America.”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“Philanthropy Roundtable directors have included Leslie Lenkwosky and John Waters, both of whom served in the George W. Bush administration, as well as Kim Dennis, now executive director of the Searle Freedom Trust. Adam Meyerson, a former vice president of the Heritage Foundation, has been the director since 2001.[6] Meyerson is co-editor of the Wall Street Journal on Management, former editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, former managing editor of the American Spectator, and the spouse of Nina Shea, a long-standing neoconservative activist based at the Hudson Institute who was formerly director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House. Karl Zinsmeister, a domestic policy aide to the George W. Bush White House, is the group’s vice president for publications.[7] The board of directors listed on the website as of 2013 included: Michael W. Grebe (chairman), James Piereson (vice chairman), John Tyler (secretary), Donn Weinberg (treasurer), Ana Thompson, Heather Higgins, Daniel S. Peters, and Jeff D. Sandefer. Grebe is the president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a major funder of neoconservative and Islamophobic causes, as well as a former overseer of the Hoover Institution and general council for the Republican National Committee; James Piereson served as the executive director and trustee of the conservative John M. Olin Foundation; Daniel S. Peters serves as president and director of the Ruth & Lovett Peters Foundation; and Jeff D. Sandefer is a director of the National Review magazine.[8] ”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“Michael Joyce played a key role in shaping the political direction of the Philanthropy Roundtable. As the longtime president (1986-2000) of the Bradley Foundation, Joyce served until 2003 as chair of the roundtable’s board of directors. Bill Kristol, like his father Irving, cultivated close ties with Joyce (who passed away in 2006), Bradley, and other rightwing philanthropists.[14] Joyce, a PNAC signatory, said that it was inevitable that Bush would embrace the neoconservative agenda. «I’m not sure September 11 did more than push the timetable up,» Joyce noted.[15] Commenting on the special role of right-wing foundations, Michael Grebe, current president of the Bradley Foundation and chair of the Philanthropy Roundtable, said: «We have a role in sustaining a conservative intellectual infrastructure.»[16]”
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 12/01/2011 – http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable/
“The offices of the Philanthropy Roundtable are located in the same Washington D.C. building that has housed such neoconservative institutions as the Weekly Standard, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), and the American Enterprise Institute. The Roundtable and the now-defunct PNAC shared a common connection to the Bradley Foundation and had an overlapping employee base. For example, former Roundtable policy director Daniel McKivergan was a founding member of the Project for the New Republican Future, a project directed by William Kristol and sponsored by the Bradley Foundation, which aimed to orchestrate Republican victories in congressional and presidential elections. McKivergan later joined the neoconservative Weekly Standard, and then took up a post as PNAC’s deputy director.”
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. ”
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
“Adam Meyerson is DCF’s chairman and also the president of Philanthropy Roundtable. DCF’s vice-chairman, Kimberly O. Dennis, is a Philanthropy Roundtable board member as well as being the chairman of Donors Trust.”
The Philantropy Roundtable – Think Tank Watch, 24/11/2012 – http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com.es/2007/12/philantropy-roundtable.html
“The Philanthropy Roundtable was established by the Bradley Foundation to help facilitate conservative grantmaking. Adam Meyerson is the president the Philanthropy Roundtable. Meyerson is a member of the Adas Israel Congregation, co-editor of the Wall Street Journal on Management, former editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal, former executive of the Heritage Foundation, former managing editor of American Spectator, and husband to Nina Shea, the director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House. The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of more than 600 conservative individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. Its Associates include donors who are involved in philanthropy on a professional basis, as well as individual donors for whom giving is a serious avocation.”
The Philantropy Roundtable – Think Tank Watch, 24/11/2012 – http://thinktank-watch.blogspot.com.es/2007/12/philantropy-roundtable.html
“New Citizenship Project (also New Citizenship Project, Inc.) is a non-profit organization funded by large right-wing foundations. Founded in 1994, NCP initiated the Project for the New American Century, one of the key behind-the-scenes architects of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. According to his senate biography, John McCain served as a president of NCP, «an organization created to promote greater civic participation in our national life.» NCP shares the same address and suite as PNAC. According to NCP’s listing in The Right Guide, NCP and the Philanthropy Roundtable share the same phone number. The Philanthropy Roundtable’s office is on the same floor of the same office building as PNAC and NCP.»
Philanthropy Roundtable – Right Web, 20/03/2013 – http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Philanthropy_Roundtable
“The Philanthropy Roundtable is a conservative research and advocacy group whose mission is “to foster excellence in philanthropy, to protect philanthropic freedom, to assist donors in achieving their philanthropic intent, and to help donors advance liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility in America and abroad.”[1] Closely associated with various neoconservative and other rightwing figures and institutions, the Philanthropy Roundtable has been at the forefront of efforts to challenge the “liberal establishment” by strategically channeling charitable giving.”
Wiki – Roe Foundation – Sourcewatch, 17/07/2013 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roe_Foundation
“Roe gave Mont Pelerin Society and the Philadelphia Society «standing to sue» the Roe Foundation if, after his death, the Roe Foundation makes a grant to an organization “whose activities or public statements reflect a belief in a collectivist world or any view inconsistent” with the foundation’s announced principles (emphasis added), according to Chicago lawyer Paul Rhoads, who has written for the Philanthropy Roundtable.”
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 – Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund. Exposed in Mother Jones as the “dark money ATM of the conservative movement,” [ref] the Donors groups are spin-offs of the Philanthropy Roundtable run by SPN board member Whitney L. Ball [ref]. 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 Donors Trust between 2007 and 2010, but what organizations received that funding from Donors is unknown [ref].”
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs.
“By the time the John M. Olin Foundation spent itself out of existence in 2005, as called for in its founder’s will, it had spent about half of its total assets of $370 million bankrolling the promotion of free-market ideology and other conservative ideas on the country’s campuses. In doing so, it molded and credentialed a whole new generation of conservative graduates and professors. «These efforts have been instrumental in challenging the campus left—or more specifically, the problem of radical activists’ gaining control of America’s colleges and universities,» Miller concluded in a 2003 pamphlet published by the Philanthropy Roundtable, an organization run for conservative philanthropists.” (p. 93-94)
Jane Mayer (2016) – Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Bantam Dell – ISBN-13: 978-0385535595 – 464 Págs.
“The think tanks were 501( c)( 3) organizations, enjoying the same tax-exempt status as churches, universities, and public charities. Legally, these organizations were barred from participating in politics or lobbying to any substantial degree. Yet the lines were a blur. Top officers at the Pope-linked think tanks, for instance, cycled back and forth into Republican campaigns and Americans for Prosperity, where Pope was a director. The think tank personnel wrote model bills, which they previewed for legislators, and boasted of their clout in the general assembly. Pope was proud of the achievement, telling the conservative Philanthropy Roundtable, «In a generation, we’ve shifted the public-policy debate in North Carolina from the center-left to the center-right.».” (p. 339)
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.”
Michael S. Joyce – Wikipedia, 03/03/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Joyce
“In 2001, he was encouraged by President George W. Bush and Senior Advisor Karl Rove to lead Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprises, advancing Bush’s agenda of faith based initiatives.[2][5] He also co-founded the Foundation for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.[2] He later became a principal with Practical Strategies, Inc., a public policy consulting firm with offices in Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin.[2] He was the first Chairman of the Philanthropy Roundtable and helped establish the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.[3] He sat on the Boards of Directors of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Harp & Eagle, the Pinkerton Foundation, the Foundation for Cultural Review, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the Clare Booth Luce Fund.[2] He was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[2]”
Philip Morris – Tobacco Strategy – Tobacco Documents Bates 2022887066 – 28/03/2017 – http://goo.gl/qMMbFr
“Philanthropy Roundtable This «trade association» of free market philanthropic foundations is conducting a study on the implications of the Clinton plan for philanthropy, particularly amongst the largest corporations.”
James Piereson – Wikipedia, 22/01/2018 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Piereson
“James Piereson is an American conservative scholar … Philanthropy: From 1985 to 2005, he served as Executive Director and Trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation [refs]. He is President of the William E. Simon Foundation, a grant-giving organization headquartered in New York City [refs]. He is a Senior Fellow and serves as Chairman of the Center for the American University at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research [refs]. He also serves as Chairman of the selection committee for the VERITAS Fund for Higher Education, giving grants to selected programs at US colleges and universities [refs]. Additionally, he is chairman of the selection committee for the Hayek Book Prize awarded by the Manhattan Institute each year.[1] He serves on the Boards of the Pinkerton Foundation, the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, the Center for Individual Rights, the Philanthropy Roundtable (where he served as Chairman from 1995 to 1999), the Foundation for Cultural Review, the American Spectator Foundation, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Donors Trust [refs]. Additionally, he is a member of the selection committee for the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in the Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering [refs]. He is a member of the grant advisory committee of the Searle Freedom Trust [ref]. He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and of the Board of Visitors of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy . He also sits on the Advisory Council of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College [refs]. He sits on the publication committees of City Journal and National Affairs [refs].”
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