The Surdna Foundation Meets Saul Alinsky
(PDF here) New York’s Surdna Foundation used to focus on the usual left-wing causes: environmentalism and so-called smart growth, community development, and the arts. Sensing an opportunity when Barack…
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation
(PDF here) The Nathan Cummings Foundation is yet another philanthropy whose original donor was able to live the American dream and create great wealth through the free market. But…
Campaign Finance “Reform” Exposed Once Again
(PDF here) Donors who crusade under the radar for campaign finance reform still fund activist groups like Public Campaign. And those activist groups still fight for a panoply of…
Breaking the Bank
See PDF here. Summary: Amalgamated Bank is a union-controlled enterprise whose assets make it invaluable to a movement that is…
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
(PDF here) Founded in 1930 by breakfast cereal tycoon W.K. Kellogg with the goal of improving the lives of impoverished children, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation today funds…
The Carnegie Corporation of New York
(PDF here) The Carnegie Corporation is the largest single philanthropy created by Andrew Carnegie, whose own life is a tribute to the possibilities of the American dream.
The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Doctrine
(Organization Trends, January 2013 - PDF here) The Left’s long love affair with global government continues, as does its hostility to the interests of America and America’s…
Rallying the Catholic Left
(PDF) The 2012 race for the White House may depend heavily on the Catholic vote. Catholics significantly contributed to President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, but neither Democrats nor…
Brave New Films
(Organization Trends, November 2011, PDF here) Movement conservatives like to think ideas are important. They compile reading lists of books they have (or should have)…
The War on Corporate Campaign Spending
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC drove the activist Left to madness. The decision affirmed a principle that corporations, like individuals, have free speech rights, which…