Nowhere to Live? Blame the Government
For those wondering how America’s unaffordable housing market became exactly that, Pacific Legal Foundation vice president James S. Burling has an answer in his new book. Many of the root…
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Models, Not Manuals
“Facing outward on the low bar, the gymnast performs a pike sole circle backward through handstand with flight and a half (180 degree) turn to hang on the high bar.”That…
SPLC and Its Union Get Ready to Rumble
Nonprofit organizations are generally not parliamentary democracies governed by their staffs. That did not stop the Southern Poverty Law Center’s unionized workers from holding a “no-confidence vote” in SPLC president…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #333: Hoovering Up Henry Money, or How to Get a Ford Foundation Grant
We’ve covered “megaphone philanthropy”—the emphasis some left-wing activist groups and their multi-million or even billion-dollar funders place on street-protest imagery, often featuring people yelling through bullhorns—and the Ford Foundation, one…
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The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
Pro-Palestine in the Classroom
On December 6, 2023, teachers in Oakland, California, held a pro-Palestine teach-in for their students—with the support of the Oakland Education Association, the local teachers union. More than 100 teachers…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Free Money Versus Free Enterprise
At the end of 1976, Henry Ford II, resigned from the Ford Foundation board of directors. In his resignation letter, he advised the foundation's board, “I'm just suggesting to the…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Revolutions and Bullhorns
For nonprofits that really want the Ford funding spigot wide open, it is difficult to understate the importance of portraying supporters shouting through bullhorns, engaging in street demonstrations, and preaching…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Crime and Democracy
Claiming that their preferred flavor of multi-whatever democracy has never existed and pledging to put it in place is clearly a winning message for aspiring grantees. Perversely, Ford’s philanthropoids also…
Hoovering Up Henry Ford’s Money: Shaping the News
Ford grants are also showered upon those who help inject left-wing messages into media and culture. Since the beginning of 2023, those in charge of Henry’s money have shipped out…