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| The Manhattan Institute has been a recipient of grants totaling $7,875,060 between the years 1985 to 1999, from Castle Rock Foundation , Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, Carthage Foundation , Earhart Foundation. The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation gave the Manhatten Institute $100,000 in 2003 for "Tort Reform Initiatives," and $100,000 in 2004 for support of the Center for Legal Policy's online magazine focusing on tort reform. .<p> | The Manhattan Institute has been a recipient of grants totaling $7,875,060 between the years 1985 to 1999, from Castle Rock Foundation , Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, Carthage Foundation , Earhart Foundation. The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation gave the Manhatten Institute $100,000 in 2003 for "Tort Reform Initiatives," and $100,000 in 2004 for support of the Center for Legal Policy's online magazine focusing on tort reform. .<p> | ||
| Examples of the contributors to the Manhattan Institute include: | |||
| <blockquote>1. Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who inherited his millions from the Mellon industrial foundation. A CNN article quoted Burton Hersh, author of "The Mellon Family": "Even as a child, he always saw the correlation between the media and the reputation of politicians. That's certainly been a sub-theme of his life." The article concludes with this statement: "t is a fact this billionaire has spent millions in tax-free money attacking the current occupants of the White House." (then President Clinton). According to this link at Media Transparency, Scaife and his foundations have given $565,000.00 to the Manhattan Institute since 2000 alone. <p> | <blockquote>1. Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who inherited his millions from the Mellon industrial foundation. A CNN article quoted Burton Hersh, author of "The Mellon Family": "Even as a child, he always saw the correlation between the media and the reputation of politicians. That's certainly been a sub-theme of his life." The article concludes with this statement: "t is a fact this billionaire has spent millions in tax-free money attacking the current occupants of the White House." (then President Clinton). According to this link at Media Transparency, Scaife and his foundations have given $565,000.00 to the Manhattan Institute since 2000 alone. <p> | ||
| 2. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. In 1968, Allen-Bradley (where the money came from) had over 7,000 employees, but only 32 black or Hispanic workers. The federal government forced them to integrate. It's currently run by a former executive of the John Olin Foundation, which helped fund the book "The Bell Curve". The Bell Curve espoused that poverty was caused by genetic inferiorty. This article, also at Media Transparency, details the "racist agenda" of the organization and its efforts to eliminate affirmative action. Since 2000, this foundation has given $585,000 to the Manhattan Institute. <p> | 2. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. In 1968, Allen-Bradley (where the money came from) had over 7,000 employees, but only 32 black or Hispanic workers. The federal government forced them to integrate. It's currently run by a former executive of the John Olin Foundation, which helped fund the book "The Bell Curve". The Bell Curve espoused that poverty was caused by genetic inferiorty. This article, also at Media Transparency, details the "racist agenda" of the organization and its efforts to eliminate affirmative action. Since 2000, this foundation has given $585,000 to the Manhattan Institute. <p> | ||
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The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a conservative, corporate-funded, New York City-based free market think tank established in 1978 by former CIA director William J. Casey. Their self-described mission is to "develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility." The Institute supports and publicizes research on taxes, welfare, crime, the legal system, urban life, race, education and immigration among others.Their message is communicated through books, articles, interviews, speeches, op-ed’s and through the institute's quarterly publication City Journal, targeted at policymakers, politicians, scholars and journalists.
In "Buying a Movement", People for the Amercian Way describes the Manhattan Institute's agenda as "privitization of sanitation services and infrastructure maintenance, deregulation in the area of environmental and consumer protection, school vouchers and cuts in governmental spending on social welfare programs; it is a preferred source of information for New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.'"
The Manhattan Institute has been a recipient of grants totaling $7,875,060 between the years 1985 to 1999, from Castle Rock Foundation , Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, Bradley Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, Carthage Foundation , Earhart Foundation. The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation gave the Manhatten Institute $100,000 in 2003 for "Tort Reform Initiatives," and $100,000 in 2004 for support of the Center for Legal Policy's online magazine focusing on tort reform. .
Examples of the contributors to the Manhattan Institute include:
1. Billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, who inherited his millions from the Mellon industrial foundation. A CNN article quoted Burton Hersh, author of "The Mellon Family": "Even as a child, he always saw the correlation between the media and the reputation of politicians. That's certainly been a sub-theme of his life." The article concludes with this statement: "t is a fact this billionaire has spent millions in tax-free money attacking the current occupants of the White House." (then President Clinton). According to this link at Media Transparency, Scaife and his foundations have given $565,000.00 to the Manhattan Institute since 2000 alone.
2. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. In 1968, Allen-Bradley (where the money came from) had over 7,000 employees, but only 32 black or Hispanic workers. The federal government forced them to integrate. It's currently run by a former executive of the John Olin Foundation, which helped fund the book "The Bell Curve". The Bell Curve espoused that poverty was caused by genetic inferiorty. This article, also at Media Transparency, details the "racist agenda" of the organization and its efforts to eliminate affirmative action. Since 2000, this foundation has given $585,000 to the Manhattan Institute.
3. The John M. Olin Foundation: This foundation is financed by chemical and munitions money, which are strong advocates of tort reform. An article in the People For The American Way had this quote: "Explaining his efforts to convince corporations to halt grants to university programs deemed "liberal," Olin president William Simon argues that many businesses are "financing their own destruction." "Why should businessmen," Simon asks, "be financing left-wing intellectuals and institutions which espouse the exact opposite of what they believe in?"
Notable members of the board of trustees include: William Kristol, The Weekly Standard; Peggy Noonan, of The Wall Street Journal;Robert Rosenkranz, CEO, Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
External links
- SourceWatch
- MythBusters - Center for Justice and Democracy
- Official site
- Conservatives plant a seed in NYC Boston Sunday Globe, Sunday February 22, 1998
- The Manhattan Institute, Neoconservatives’s Lab, Voltaire Network, Sept. 15, 2004
- New York Times, Monday May 12,1997