InfluenceWatch Friday
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Soup Throwing Aside, Environmental Activists Are Still Ruining People’s Lives
Small-time environmental activists across the country are still very much willing and able to be cruel, disrupting and destroying lives wherever they gain power to implement their agenda. For example,…
Environmentalists Deserve to Lose Their War on Natural Gas
Make no mistake, the same environmentalists who tried to dial coal and oil out of the economy are coming for natural gas next. “Green” fundamentalism won’t be satisfied until it’s…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Community Foundations
America has always had its patricians, but as the word suggests, they saw themselves as patriotic “fathers” of their country, and their wealth and prestige were tied up in their…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Grants
So which politically active organizations are the biggest beneficiaries of community foundation money? To sift through tens of thousands of grants and avoid cherry-picking recipients, we identified nonprofits that are…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: Donors
Community foundation grants ultimately originated with (mostly) anonymous donors, not the community foundations themselves, which serve as conduits for donor-advised-fund account holders. The largest community foundation givers on this list…
Philanthropy for “Citizens of the World”: What Is Philanthropy For?
Who does philanthropy serve? Until we answer that question—one that our forebears understood—community foundations, private foundations, and 501(c) groups are immaterial. Philanthropos is the love of mankind rooted in the…
Local Philanthropy Isn’t Local for ‘Citizens of the World’
America’s liberal plutocrats’ “philanthropy” is more political than charitable and utterly disconnected from its roots in Christianity’s love for one’s fellow man. It isn’t only the Ford Foundation or George…
The Left’s Top “Dark Money” Empires Brought in $1.7 Billion in 2019
In 2019 alone, the Left's the four biggest, most influential pass-through funders brought in $1.7 Billion. These “dark money” empires are Arabella Advisors, the Tides Nexus, NEO Philanthropy, and the…
Featured Video: How China Designed American Environmental Policy
China is perhaps the world environment’s greatest enemy. They’re the world’s largest source of Marine debris, the largest consumer of trafficked wildlife and timber products, the greatest emitter of mercury,…