ScaLast month, we profiled the gap between the Sacklers’ business (which makes and sells OxyContin) and their philanthropy (which largely fails to address public health). But there is a connection of sorts, as Jonathan Sackler applies drug marketing lessons to promote charter schools.
On Wednesday, public health advocates found quite the prize in their processed-snack box: a $25 million pledge to fund public education on the role of corporate influence in the food and nutrition industries.
Nonprofit think tanks run the risk of advancing funders’ specific interests rather than conducting and reporting independent research.
Hillary Clinton calls for an investigation of ExxonMobil on their denial of anthropogenic climate change—after the oil company stopped funding the Clinton Foundation.
With donations from 19 foreign countries, some made during her term as Secretary of State, and others from big banks and corporations, Hillary Clinton’s relationship with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation may be an issue in her upcoming presidential campaign.
