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Encyclopedia > Bradley Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Type Private charitable foundation
Founded 1985
Headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Key people Thomas L. 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 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. A privately-held corporation is one whose ownership shares are not publicly traded. ... A Foundation is a type of philanthropic organization set up by either individuals or institutions as a legal entity (either as a corporation or trust) with the purpose of distributing grants to support causes in line with the goals of the foundation. ... Nickname: Cream City, Brew City, Mil Town, The City of Festivals Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Government  - Mayor Tom Barrett Area  - City  97 sq mi (251. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Nickname: Cream City, Brew City, Mil Town, The City of Festivals Location of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Coordinates: County Milwaukee Government  - Mayor Tom Barrett Area  - City  97 sq mi (251. ... A Foundation is a type of philanthropic organization set up by either individuals or institutions as a legal entity (either as a corporation or trust) with the purpose of distributing grants to support causes in line with the goals of the foundation. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Counties, Cities, and Towns Other countries Politics Portal      The government of the United States of America, established by the U.S. Constitution, is... School choice, sometimes called public choice, describes any one of several forms of publicly-funded alternative education program that allows students to choose to attend any of various participating private and public schools, usually based on a system of vouchers, tax credits, or scholarships. ...

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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. In an attempt to preserve and extend the principles and philosophy used by the Bradley brothers. 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 successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919. ... A Milwaukee-based company that specializes in industrial control and automation products. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


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, a dynamic marketplace where economic, intellectual, and cultural activity can flourish. It also 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. [1] Limited government is most commonly government where its functions and powers are prescribed, limited, and restricted by law, usually in a written constitution. ...


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 Philanthropy Roundtable was established by the Bradley Foundation to help facilitate conservative grantmaking. ...


In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. 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 later recanted both articles. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... The American Spectator magazine. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Anita Hill Anita F. Hill (born July 30, 1956) is a professor of social policy, law, and womens studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. ... Troopergate is the popular name of a scandal involving allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


The Bradley Foundation has provided funding for the Project for a New American Century (PNAC). 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. The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC based think tank. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975–1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001–2006. ... Richard Norman Perle, (born September 16, 1941 in New York City), is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (b. ... Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...


Criticism

People for the American Way alleges that the Bradley Foundations under-reports its giving to right-wing organizations. [2] People for the American Way (PFAW) is a prominent liberal advocacy organization in the United States, founded by television producer Norman Lear in 1980. ...


Between 1985 and 1991, it was one of five foundations to fund the George C. Marshall Institute, a known Global Warming skeptic. The George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) was established in 1984 in Washington, D.C. to conduct technical assessments of scientific issues with an impact on public policy. It is known for its skeptical position on global warming, and its strong support for the Strategic Defense Initiative. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected...


Phil Wilayto, former coordinator of A Job is a Right Campaign in Milwaukee and a contributor to MediaTransparency, a progressive Web site that tracks the funding of right-wing politics, writes: MediaTransparency is a project which monitors the financial ties of Conservative groups. ...

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 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. 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 treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the implementation of specific laws governing labor relations. ... Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ... Capitalism generally refers to an economic system in which the means of production are mostly privately[1] owned and operated for profit, and in which distribution, production and pricing of goods and services are determined in a largely free market. ...


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. In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... William Lester Armstrong was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from Colorado; born in Fremont, Nebraska, March 16, 1937; he attended Tulane University and the University of Minnesota (though never having made it past his sophmore year); he served in the United States Army National Guard 1957-1963; he... Terry Considine was a Republican member of the Colorado State Senate from 1987 until 1992. ... Pierre Samuel Pete du Pont, IV (born January 22, 1935) is an American lawyer and politician from Rockland, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. ...


Past and present grantees

List of grants and cumulative amounts given from 1985-2002 [3].


National organizations

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


Over $10 million

  • American Enterprise Institute
  • Heritage Foundation, for support to the Domestic Studies Policy Program and Bradley Resident Fellows Program.Project on Federalism and the states: $853,125 [4]

Over $5 million The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943, whose stated mission is to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies... The Heritage Foundation is a conservative public policy research institute based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. ...

Over $2 million This map reflects the findings of Freedom Houses 2006 survey Freedom in the World, concerning the state of world freedom in 2005. ... National Affairs, Inc. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into The_Public_Interest_Magazine. ... The National Interest is a prominent quarterly international affairs journal, founded in 1985 by Irving Kristol and currently published by the Nixon Center. ...

Over $1 million The Federalist Society logo, depicting James Madisons silhouette The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, most frequently called simply the Federalist Society, began at Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1982 as a student organization that challenged the perceived... The Center for the Study of Popular Culture is an American Libertarian Conservative campaigning group. ...

Over $500,000 The Brookings Institution is one of the oldest and best known think tanks in the United States. ... The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. ... The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, within Stanford University, is a Republican public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs. ... Founded in 1991 by Chip Mellor and Clint Bolick, the Institute for Justice is a libertarian public interest law firm in the United States. ...

  • Black Alliance for Educational Options, Washington, DC, to support general operations: $200,000. [11]
  • American Spectator Educational Foundation

Over $100,000

$100,000 The FIRE logo. ... The Heartland Institute is a free-market oriented public policy think tank based in Chicago. ... Third way can refer to: The Third Way, an economic and political idea that positions itself between democratic socialism and laissez-faire capitalism, combining the ordoliberal social market with neo-liberalism. ... The Democratic Leadership Council is a non-profit corporation[1] that argues that the United States Democratic Party should shift away from traditionally populist positions. ... The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. ... The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ... Harvard Law School, often referred to in shorthand as Harvard Law or HLS, is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California in Silicon Valley. ...

Less than $100,000 The Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI for short Middle East press monitoring organization located in Washington, D.C., with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. ...

  • Children First America
  • Council for the Spanish Speaking, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to support the Summer Youth Program $5,000. [15]
  • Potomac Foundation

Unknown

The Corporation for National and Community Service is an independent agency of the United States Government established in 1993, upon the creation of the AmeriCorps national service program. ... The Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI for short Middle East press monitoring organization located in Washington, D.C., with branch offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, London, and Tokyo. ... The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institutes stated mission is to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace by seeking greater involvement of the... Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) is a conservative political group operating in the United States, whose self-described mission is to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation. ... The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) describes itself as an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform their churches’ social witness, in accord with biblical and historic Christian teachings, thereby contributing to the renewal of democratic society at home and abroad. ... In February 1998, the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG) called upon President William Jefferson Clinton to endorse a scenario which, more than five years later (August 2003), has become a familiar one to the world. ... 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 organizations executive director. ... The Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (not institute; abbreviated AdTI) is a Washington, D.C.-based commercial think-tank and consultancy that produces reports at the behest of its sponsors. ... The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) is a libertarian organization that assists students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. ... New Citizenship Project (also New Citizenship Project, Inc. ... The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is a neo-conservative US think tank based in Washington, DC. Co-founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, the group was established in early 1997 as a non-profit organization. ...

Local charities

Over $5 million

Over $1 million The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is an orchestra based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, considered to be one of the top twenty orchestras in the United States. ...

  • Madison Center for Educational Affairs

Over $500,000

  • Milwaukee Public Library Foundation

Over $100,000

  • Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee
  • Wisconsin Historical Foundation

Unknown amount

  • Association of Midwest Museums
  • Epilepsy Association of Southwest Wisconsin
  • Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra
  • Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee Public Museum The Milwaukee Public Museum is a natural and human history museum located in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The Wisconsin legislature provided its official charter in 1882. ...

Public officials

Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick (born November 19, 1926) is an American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement. ... Jack French Kemp Jr. ... This article is about William Bennett the US politician. ...

Jurists

Robert Bork Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar and former judge who advocates an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ...

Writers

Marvin Olasky Marvin Olasky (born June 12, 1950) is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, a leading conservative pundit, and the editor-in-chief of World magazine. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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