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The '''Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation''', based in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], is a large and influential [[right-wing]] [[foundation]] with about half a billion [[United States dollar|US dollars]] in assets. According to The Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it was giving away more than $30 million per year. The Foundation has financed efforts to support welfare reform, to promote school vouchers, to deregulate business, and to privatize government services.
The '''Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation''', based in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], is a large and influential [[right-wing]] [[foundation]] with about half a billion [[United States dollar|US dollars]] in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it was giving away more than $30 million per year. The Foundation has financed efforts to support welfare reform, to promote school vouchers, to deregulate business, and to privatize government services.

The Bradley Foundation's former president, [[Michael Joyce]], was instrumental in creating the [[Philanthropy Roundtable]], a network of foundations that support right-wing advocacy organizations.

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.


==Criticism==
==Criticism==
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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.
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.

[[People for the American Way]] alleges that the Bradley Foundations underreports its giving to right-wing organizations. [http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=11219]

== Past and present grantees ==
== Past and present grantees ==
List of grants and cumulative amounts given from 1985-2002 [http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/recipientsoffunder.php?providerID=1].
List of grants and cumulative amounts given from 1985-2002 [http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/recipientsoffunder.php?providerID=1].
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*''Over $500,000''
*''Over $500,000''
*[[Black Alliance for Educational Options]]
*[[Black Alliance for Educational Options]]
*[[American Spectator Educational Foundation]]


*''Over $100,000''
*''Over $100,000''
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*[[Corporation for National and Community Service]]
*[[Corporation for National and Community Service]]
*[[Thomas B. Fordham Institute]]
*[[Thomas B. Fordham Institute]]
*[[Middle East Media Research Institute]]
*[[Cato Institute]]
*[[Citizens for a Sound Economy]]
*[[Institute on Religion and Democracy]]
*[[Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf]]
*[[Committee for the Free World]]
*[[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]]
*[[Institute for Humane Studies]]
*[[New Citizenship Project]]
*[[Project for the New American Century]]


===Local charities===
===Local charities===
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*[[Robert H. Bork]]
*[[Robert H. Bork]]
*[[Antonin Scalia]]
*[[Antonin Scalia]]

==Writers==
*[[Marvin Olasky]]
*[[David Brock]]


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 21:32, 23 December 2004

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential right-wing foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. According to the Bradley Foundation 1998 Annual Report, it was giving away more than $30 million per year. The Foundation has financed efforts to support welfare reform, to promote school vouchers, to deregulate business, and to privatize government services.

The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael Joyce, was instrumental in creating the Philanthropy Roundtable, a network of foundations that support right-wing advocacy organizations.

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.

Criticism

Phil Wilayto, a writer for the communist Workers World Party, and Media Transparency, 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.

People for the American Way alleges that the Bradley Foundations underreports its giving to right-wing organizations. [1]

Past and present grantees

List of grants and cumulative amounts given from 1985-2002 [2].

National organizations

Local charities

Public officials

Jurists

Writers

External links

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