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Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Type Private charitable foundation
Founded 1985
Headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Key people Thomas L. The term privately held company refers to ownership of a business company in two different ways first referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations and second A foundation is a legal categorization of Nonprofit organizations. Rhodes
Chairman
David V. Uihlein, Jr.
Vice Chairman
Michael W. Grebe
President and CEO
Website bradleyfdn.org

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a conservative foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A foundation is a legal categorization of Nonprofit organizations. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it gives away more than $30 million per year. The Foundation has financed efforts to support federal institutes, publications and school choice and educational projects. The federal government of the United States is the central United States Governmental body established by the United States Constitution. School choice is a term used to describe a wide array of programs aimed at giving families the opportunity to choose the school their children will attend

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History

When Rockwell International Corporation bought Allen-Bradley in 1985, a significant portion of the proceeds went into the creation of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Rockwell International was the ultimate incarnation of a series of companies under the sphere of influence of Willard Rockwell, who had made his fortune after the invention and The organization was founded in an attempt to preserve and extend the principles and philosophy used by the Bradley brothers.

During their life they were committed to preserving and defending the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise. According to them, "the good society is a free society. The Bradley Foundation is likewise devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it. "

The foundation supports limited government, conceived of as a dynamic marketplace where economic, intellectual, and cultural activity can flourish. Limited Government is a government structure where any more than minimal governmental intervention in personal liberties and the economy is not usually allowed by Law, usually It states that it defends American ideas and institutions. Next to that it recognizes that responsible self government depends on informing citizens and creating a well informed public opinion. The foundation tries to accomplish that by financing scholarly studies and academic achievements. [2]

The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael S. Joyce, was instrumental in creating the Philanthropy Roundtable. The Philanthropy Roundtable is a private non-partisan 501(c(3 educational organization whose origins trace to the late 1970s as a project directed by the Institute The goal of the Roundtable's founders was to provide a forum where donors could discuss the principles and practices that inform the best of America's charitable tradition. Currently, there are more than 600 Roundtable Associates.

In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. The American Spectator is a conservative US monthly Magazine covering news and politics edited by R William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States In the March 1992 issue of the magazine, David Brock called Anita Hill "a bit nutty and a bit slutty", and in January, 1994, it published Brock's article regarding Troopergate and Clinton's alleged extramarital affairs. David Brock (born November 2, 1962) is an American journalist and author and the founder of Media Matters for America. Anita Faye Hill (born) is a professor of social policy law and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and David Brock later recanted both articles. David Brock (born November 2, 1962) is an American journalist and author and the founder of Media Matters for America.

The Bradley Foundation has provided funding for the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). The Project for the New American Century (PNAC was an American neoconservative Think tank based in Washington D PNAC brought together prominent members of the (George W) Bush Administration (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz) in the late 1990s to articulate their neoconservative foreign policy, including sending a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932 is a United States Businessman, Politician, the 13th Secretary of Defense under President This is about the conservative official and lobbyist for the liberal author see Rick Perlstein. Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U Neoconservatism (or Neocon is a Right-wing political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the Social liberalism, Moral relativism William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Iraq topics.

Criticism

People for the American Way alleges that the Bradley Foundations under-reports its giving to right-wing organizations. People For the American Way (People For is a progressive, politically liberal Advocacy organization in the United States. [3]

Between 1985 and 1991, it was one of five foundations to fund the George C. Marshall Institute, a known Global Warming skeptic. Not to be confused with the George C Marshall European Center for Security Studies or The George C Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the

Phil Wilayto, former coordinator of A Job is a Right Campaign in Milwaukee and a contributor to MediaTransparency, a left-wing Web site that tracks the funding of right-wing politics, writes:

The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U. MediaTransparency is a left-wing project begun in 1999 which monitors the financial ties of conservative Think tanks to conservative foundations in the S. -- and the world -- to the days before governments began to regulate Big Business, before corporations were forced to make concessions to an organized labor force. The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off. Laissez-faire ( pronunciation: French,; English,) is a French phrase literally meaning Let do (“allow to do” Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where

Wilayto also published a 140-page report on the Bradley Foundation, The Feeding Trough, on behalf of the "A Job is a Right Campaign" in Milwaukee. The report claims the Bradley Foundation commissioned the studies that supported the welfare reform legislation in Wisconsin, which he contends harmed the state's poor residents. He also claimed the Bradley Foundation exploits Milwaukee's black community.

Governance

Current members of the board of directors of the Bradley Foundation are: William Armstrong, Reed Coleman, Terry Considine, Pierre du Pont, Michael Grebe, Thomas Smallwood, Bob Smith, and David Uihlein. William Lester "Bill" Armstrong (b March 16, 1937) is an American Businessman Terry Considine (born 1947 is the CEO of AIMCO, a Real estate investment trust that he helped found through various acquisitions and mergers Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont IV (born January 22 1935) is an American Lawyer and Politician from Delaware

Past and present grantees

List of grants and cumulative amounts given from 1985-2002 [4].

National organizations

These are a few of the many donations that have been granted by the Foundation.

Over $10 million

Over $5 million

Over $2 million

Over $1 million

Over $500,000

Over $100,000

$100,000

Less than $100,000

Unknown

Local charities

Over $5 million

Over $1 million

Over $500,000

Over $100,000

Unknown amount

Public officials

Jurists

Writers

References

  1. ^ "Buying a Movement. The Corporation for National and Community Service, or CNCS was created as an Independent agency of the United States Government by The National and Community Service Trust The Thomas B Fordham Institute is a nonprofit education policy organization based in Washington D The Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI for short is a Middle Eastern press monitoring organization located in Washington D The Cato Institute is a Libertarian Think tank headquartered in Washington D Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE is a conservative political group operating in the United States, whose self-described mission is "to fight for The Institute on Religion and Democracy is a conservative Christian thinktank that often criticizes the agencies of Mainline Protestantism ecumenical groups such as the National The Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG was a "bipartisan group whose members are prominent in U The Committee for the Free World (CFW according to the August 1998 update by Group Watch, was founded in 1981 by Midge Decter who was the organization's executive The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (abbreviated AdTI) is a Washington D The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS is a Libertarian Non-profit organization that assists students at the undergraduate and graduate levels The New Citizenship Project (also New Citizenship Project Inc The Project for the New American Century (PNAC was an American neoconservative Think tank based in Washington D The Middle East Forum (MEF is an American Think tank founded in 1990 by historian and columnist Daniel Pipes, who also serves as its director The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO is an Orchestra based in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The Madison Center for Educational Affairs is a Non-profit public policy organization that is the result of a 1990 merger between the Institute For Educational Affairs and the The Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO is a youth orchestra in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Public Museum ( MPM) is a natural and human history Museum located in downtown Milwaukee Wisconsin, USA. Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick ( November 19, 1926  &ndash December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent Jack French Kemp Jr (born July 13 1935 is an American politician and former professional American football player William John Bennett (born July 3, 1943) is an American Neoconservative Pundit, Politician, and Political Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of Originalism. (born March 11, 1936) is an American Jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Marvin Olasky (born June 12, 1950) is a professor of journalism at The University of Texas at Austin and provost of The King's College, David Brock (born November 2, 1962) is an American journalist and author and the founder of Media Matters for America. " People For the American Way. pfaw. org. [1]

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