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From the Dec 5 ed week: Many Foundations Support Privatization of Public Education, Study Finds More than 1,200 foundations contributed some $380 million to 104 organizations advocating for school vouchers and K-12 education tax credits from 2002 to 2005, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy finds. Written by former NCRP executive director Rick Cohen, the report, Strategic Grantmaking: Foundations and the School Privatization Movement (44 pages, PDF), examined foundation support for the school-choice movement and found that the Walton Family Foundation dwarfed all other funders, awarding $25 million to these organizations in 2005 alone. Other top funders of school choice in 2005 included the Lynde and Harry Bradley, Sarah Scaife, Bill & Melinda Gates, and John Templeton foundations. With the exception of the Gates Foundation, which supported school choice organizations for reasons other than the promotion of school vouchers, all are considered to be ideologically conservative. Moreover, while these foundations tend to award more than the mandatory payout of 5 percent of their assets, their effectiveness in supporting the privatization of public education goes beyond dollars. The NCRP study identifies specific grantmaking strategies used by the foundations, including a higher use of unrestricted general operating support and personal contributions by foundation leaders to privatization-friendly political candidates, parties, action committees, and 501(c)(4) organizations. "What impresses me the most about these school choice funders is their movement-building strategy," said NCRP executive director Aaron Dorfman. "They're targeted. They're organized. They utilize effective grantmaking practices that other foundations can learn from to build more support for other issues they care about." "Foundation Giving Leaves Mark in the School Choice Movement." National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Press Release 11/27/07. ------------------------------- Monty Neill, Ed.D. Executive Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 x 101; fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org Donate: https://secure.entango.com/servlet/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk
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