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Hyde School Links to Conservative Think Tanks
Ursus:
Joe Gauld's book Character First: The Hyde School Difference is published by ICS Press, described as a publication of the Center for Self-Governance.
The Institute for Contempory Studies (which runs ICS Press), based in San Francisco, is described by Media Transparency as a conservative think tank. According to Media Transparency, over a span of 20 years (1985-2005), close to $8.3 million in grants has been funneled into ICS from a small number of conservative philanthropies, the primary one being the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (to the tune of over $5.6 million).
Other philanthropies listed are the John M. Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, and the William H. Donner Foundation. Remember this last one? They've come up here before in these threads at Fornits. These are the same folks that gave Hyde School $275,000 over the course of 4 years (2001-2005).
The involvement of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is of interest as, according to Media Transparency, with "$706 million in assets (2005), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the country's largest and most influential right-wing foundation. As of the end of 2005, it was giving away more than $34 million a year [Bradley Foundation 2005 IRS 99-PF]. ...Bradley supports the organizations and individuals that promote the deregulation of business, the rollback of virtually all social welfare programs, and the privitization of government services. As a result, the list of Bradley grant recipients reads like a Who's Who of the U.S.Right." Yo, these are the folks that played in John Birches back yard, and that brought us The Bell Curve.
See also:
Media Transparency's recipient profile on ICS:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipi ... ientID=166
Media Transparency's recipient profile on Hyde School:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipi ... entID=3539
Media Transparency's funder profile on The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funder ... funderID=1
Note the funder ID # for this last link. Yes, these are the very people that provided the incentive to start the Media Transparency website in the first place.
Ursus:
Excerpt from Rob Levine's "About this Site," to assist in putting my directly previous post in perspective:
IN JULY OF 1999, I began investigating a local Minneapolis "Think Tank" called the "Center of The American Experiment." Intuitively I had sensed very close connections between the Center, a 501(c)(3) charity, and the Republican Party of Minnesota, which set me out to find what actually was happening there.
To make a long story short, what I discovered was an interconnected web of conservative organizations spanning the gamut from academia to law to religion to publishing to politics, all being funded and coordinated by a relatively small but wealthy group of philanthropies, chief among them the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Though the Center had only received about $310,000 at that time directly from the philanthropies, nearly every one of its speakers and presenters is in some way connected to or funded by this movement.
The Center, far from being a place where "deep thinking" takes place, can most accurately be called a cog in this movement, both producing content for the machine, as well as providing a local outlet for the rest of the movement's content providers, media faces, ideologues, and last but certainly not least, its politicians.
To accurately gauge the impact of these philanthropies, I felt it necessary to catalogue as many of the actual grants made by them as possible. Others have attempted this job. The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), which has kindly allowed us to re-use some of their data, reported in 1997 on the grant making activities of 12 foundations over the period 1992 through 1994. That report, titled "Moving A Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations," laid out a fine groundwork for understanding this movement, yet fell short in providing a comprehensive, interactive, open-to-all database that maps out the actual grants, for all to see. People for The American Way accurately described the engine of this movement in the title of another report on the phenomenon called "Buying a Movement."
Since the mere knowledge of who received grants is meaningless without knowing about the recipient organizations and people, this web site has also sought to supply information about both groups. To further users' research, there are four main ways to search the grants database: by grant recipient, by person, by grant purpose, or by a comprehensive All-in-One search...
http://www.mediatransparency.org/about.php
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---Joe Gauld's book Character First: The Hyde School Difference is published by ICS Press, described as a publication of the Center for Self-Governance.
The Institute for Contempory Studies (which runs ICS Press), based in San Francisco, is described by Media Transparency as a conservative think tank. According to Media Transparency, over a span of 20 years (1985-2005), close to $8.3 million in grants has been funneled into ICS from a small number of conservative philanthropies, the primary one being the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (to the tune of over $5.6 million).
Other philanthropies listed are the John M. Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, and the William H. Donner Foundation. Remember this last one? They've come up here before in these threads at Fornits. These are the same folks that gave Hyde School $275,000 over the course of 4 years (2001-2005).
The involvement of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is of interest as, according to Media Transparency, with "$706 million in assets (2005), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the country's largest and most influential right-wing foundation. As of the end of 2005, it was giving away more than $34 million a year [Bradley Foundation 2005 IRS 99-PF]. ...Bradley supports the organizations and individuals that promote the deregulation of business, the rollback of virtually all social welfare programs, and the privitization of government services. As a result, the list of Bradley grant recipients reads like a Who's Who of the U.S.Right." Yo, these are the folks that played in John Birches back yard, and that brought us The Bell Curve.
See also:
Media Transparency's recipient profile on ICS:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipi ... ientID=166
Media Transparency's recipient profile on Hyde School:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/recipi ... entID=3539
Media Transparency's funder profile on The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funder ... funderID=1
Note the funder ID # for this last link. Yes, these are the very people that provided the incentive to start the Media Transparency website in the first place.
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Have you actually read this book? It is hardly a well written, incisive, scholarly tome. Gauld writes in a self-congratulatory and self-promoting style. His writing consistently falls far short of intellectual and conceptual depth. Like so much of Hyde, Gauld's writings are thin, superficial and lacking in real substance. At least what goes on at Hyde is consistent with what appears in print. If only consistency were one of Hyde's key virtues!
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---Have you actually read this book? It is hardly a well written, incisive, scholarly tome. Gauld writes in a self-congratulatory and self-promoting style. His writing consistently falls far short of intellectual and conceptual depth. Like so much of Hyde, Gauld's writings are thin, superficial and lacking in real substance. At least what goes on at Hyde is consistent with what appears in print. If only consistency were one of Hyde's key virtues!
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It is a bit painful to read. And the anecdotal stories, I recognize so many of these people; they are, in a large number of cases, still at Hyde! They were chosen for their roles way way back. I just couldn't imagine that any self-respecting publisher could put out drivel like this, but I figured the forward by Cher had something to do with it.
Finding out the publisher's real agenda, and how ICS fits into the larger scheme of things, plus seeing the Donner Foundation rear up its head once again, made the whole scenario take on a different light.
Oz girl:
Cher sent her kid to Hyde? Was it Chastidy or the boy
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