The “eco-Right” is the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and global warming…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent billions funding a “second Green Revolution,” which is appearing to have devastating effects. The foundation funds groups like the Alliance for a…
A new campaign called BankFWD—recently announced in a New York Times column—seeks to use the “collective wealth and public standing” of its members to pressure major banks to commit to…
This article is crossposted from Philanthropy Daily – published July 6, 2017 If someone asked me to sum up best practices in philanthropy in one sentence, I’d respond, “Study…
See article PDF in Foundation Watch. Few Americans realize it is legal for foundations to fund, and public charities to conduct, voter registration and “get out the vote” drives. The…
(PDF here) Imagining America is a creature of radical foundations and the Clinton administration. Both activist group and grant-maker, the Syracuse University-based…
(PDF available here) Summary: The Rockefeller Foundation was started by a pillar of the Protestant work ethic who knew that giving money away has tremendous potential to…