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The Bradley Foundation's former president, [[Michael S. Joyce]], was instrumental in creating the [[Philanthropy Roundtable]], 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.
The Bradley Foundation's former president, [[Michael S. Joyce]], was instrumental in creating the [[Philanthropy Roundtable]], 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.

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==Criticism==


In the early [[1990s]] the foundation helped support ''[[The American Spectator]]'' magazine, which at the time was researching damaging material on President [[Bill Clinton]]. Before that, it had paid to have [[David Brock]]'s attack on [[Anita Hill]] published.
In the early [[1990s]] the foundation helped support ''[[The American Spectator]]'' magazine, which at the time was researching damaging material on President [[Bill Clinton]]. Before that, it had paid to have [[David Brock]]'s attack on [[Anita Hill]] published.


The Bradley Foundation has provided important support for groups that advocated an attack on [[Iraq]] as a response to the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], such as the [[Project for a New American Century]] and the [[John M. Olin Center for Strategic Studies]]. In early [[2003]], Joyce bragged to a local paper that President [[George W. Bush]] and members of his administration were influenced by the policy discussions of those groups. Joyce commented that the attack only hastened Bush's inevitable move towards [[Neoconservatism in the United States|neoconservatism]]. [http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp]
The Bradley Foundation has provided important support for groups that advocated an attack on [[Iraq]] as a response to the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], such as the [[Project for a New American Century]] and the [[John M. Olin Center for Strategic Studies]]. In early [[2003]], Joyce bragged to a local paper that President [[George W. Bush]] and members of his administration were influenced by the policy discussions of those groups. Joyce commented that the attack only hastened Bush's inevitable move towards [[Neoconservatism in the United States|neoconservatism]]. [http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/apr03/131523.asp]

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==Criticism==


[[Phil Wilayto]], a writer for the [[Communism|communist]] [[Workers World Party]] and [[MediaTransparency]], a left wing website that tracks the funding of right wing politics, writes:
[[Phil Wilayto]], a writer for the [[Communism|communist]] [[Workers World Party]] and [[MediaTransparency]], a left wing website that tracks the funding of right wing politics, writes:

Revision as of 18:18, 24 December 2005

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. 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.

When Rockwell International Corporation boughtAllen-Bradley in 1985 a significant portion of the proceeds went into the creation of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. In an attempt to preserve and extend the principles and philosophy used by the Bradley brothers.

During their life, they were commited, to preserve and defend the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise, that 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, a dynamic marketplace where economic, intellectual, and cultural activity can flourish. It also defends te American ideas and institutions. Next to that it recognizes that responsible self government depends on informing citizens and creating an well informed public opinion. The foundation tries to accomplish that by financing scholarly studies and academic achievements. [1]

The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael S. Joyce, was instrumental in creating the Philanthropy Roundtable, 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 magazine, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. Before that, it had paid to have David Brock's attack on Anita Hill published.

The Bradley Foundation has provided important support for groups that advocated an attack on Iraq as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, such as the Project for a New American Century and the John M. Olin Center for Strategic Studies. In early 2003, Joyce bragged to a local paper that President George W. Bush and members of his administration were influenced by the policy discussions of those groups. Joyce commented that the attack only hastened Bush's inevitable move towards neoconservatism. [2]

Criticism

Phil Wilayto, a writer for the communist Workers World Party and MediaTransparency, a left wing website that tracks the funding of right wing politics, writes:

The overall objective of the Bradley Foundation, however, is to return the U.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. In other words, laissez-faire capitalism: capitalism with the gloves off.

Wilayto also published a 140-page "investigative report" on the Bradley Foundation, The Feeding Trough, on behalf of the "A Job is a Right Campaign" in Milwaukee. The report attacks the Bradley Foundation for allegedly commissioning the studies that supported the Welfare Reform legislation in Wisconsin. Wiyalto has stated that Wisconsin welfare reform is a draconian program that has increased the misery of the poor by supplying business with forced labor at wages inadequate to maintain a reasonable standard of living for the purpose of bringing massive profits to private business and non-profit agencies. He has accused the Bradley Foundation of using the black community of Milwaukee as a laboratory to increase profits.

People for the American Way alleges that the Bradley Foundations underreports its giving to right-wing organizations. [3]

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.

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

External links

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