Thoughts on Philanthropy from The Giving Review’s “Conversations” in Second Half of 2024
An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving…
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Megaphone Philanthropy
The line between charity and politics can be extraordinarily blurry. This is problematic, as politics is inherently quarrelsome and divisive, and these are words that very few would use to…
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How the Ford Foundation Changed Entertainment: The Foundation
The Ford Foundation places a heavy emphasis on supporting the documentary film industry. According to the foundation, its film-related grantmaking constitutes “one of the largest documentary funds in the world.”…
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The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America: Megaphones and Militancy
The Ford Foundation is filled with money earned a century ago by Henry Ford in gritty Dearborn, Michigan. But neither the family nor the automaker control it anymore. Decades ago,…
InfluenceWatch Friday
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.
Jeffrey Hart’s 1969 Call for Philanthropy Reform in National Review
“C. Wright Mills, from the Left, called it the Power Elite. William Buckley calls it the (liberal) Establishment. But whatever it’s called, the large tax-exempt foundation is one of its…
InfluenceWatch Friday
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.
Capital Research, August/September 2024
CRC is pleased to announce that the August/September 2024 issue of Capital Research is now available online. Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Thomas Pack and Robert Stilson examine…
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…
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…