foundation transparency
What’s Behind the Koch Curtain over University Gifts? Advocates Want a Rewind
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The Charles Koch Foundation will make the details of their future academic grants public and share their criteria for grantmaking.
Nonprofit News
The Koch Brothers v. Tom Steyer on Our Country’s Future: What’s Wrong with this Picture?
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Tom Steyer may be emerging as a counterforce to the Koch brothers, but billionaire influence in politics is just one more threat to our democracy.
Koch brothers
Private Koch-Funded School on Public Campus Raises Questions
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The president of Wichita State University has decided that the bounds of the public-private Innovation Campus are really more a “state of mind,” opening up the rest of the publicly owned campus to private investment.
donor relations
Koch Brothers on the Charles? Harvard Students Ask Critical Questions
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Harvard Kennedy School students are protesting the school’s acceptance of money from the Koch brothers. While the dean claims that the money comes with no strings, the Kochs’ history of promoting libertarian doctrine at other schools raises concerns.
Koch brothers
Public Education in Koch Network’s Sights
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The Koch Network goes beyond charter schools to advocate family-based customized learning. The concept, if fully implemented, threatens to harm the nation’s social fabric by displacing public schools and the common civic grounding they provide.
Puerto Rico
Why the Koch-Backed Libre Initiative is Welcoming Puerto Ricans to Florida
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Social justice-oriented nonprofits are not the only groups looking to mobilize votes among voters who have traditionally been disenfranchised.
education reform
Can’t Tell the Winner If You Don’t Know Who Pays the Freight
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Knowing who is trying to influence public policy and how they organize their arguments is a critical skill for anyone who has an interest in good government.
Koch brothers
Why Arts Organizations Shouldn’t Accept Koch Money
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When is accepting donations too expensive for arts charities? One arts critic posits that the Koch brothers’ anti-climate change agenda undermines the very human sustainability the arts represent.
conservative politics
“Weaponized Philanthropy” at the Bradley Foundation
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There is evidence that a few private foundations are “weaponizing philanthropy for their own private political purposes.”
colleges and universities
Students Sue GMU to Access Donor Agreements with Charles Koch Foundation
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College students concerned about the effects of donations on curriculum challenge donor and foundation privacy rights.