2023-12-05 04:40
CRC is pleased to announce that the October/November 2023 issue of Capital Research is now available online.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
Robert Stilson looks at the Hewl… Read More
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Studying the Politics of Philanthropy.
2023-12-04 19:58
The Generosity Commission is a self-appointed, nondemocratic, and publicly unaccountable group of philanthropic elites vexed by the decline in charitable giving and volunteerism among a… Read More
2023-12-01 15:49
Are prominent environmentalist groups working on behalf of foreign powers—and wouldn’t that mean they have to declare it under the Foreign Agents Registration Act? That is the qu… Read More
2023-12-01 03:58
Newly including philanthropic support for activities leading up to and in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
In March 2022, The Giving Review published a list of pos… Read More
2023-12-01 03:40
The William T. Grant Foundation is a donor nonprofit that gives between five- and six-figure annual donations to universities and policy groups that in turn fund programs on controversial pu… Read More
2023-11-29 22:56
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s HeightThe Conservative Response | The State of Big Labor, 1950Labor’s Compromised Right | Responding to the Rackets
The period of organized… Read More
2023-11-29 22:55
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s HeightThe Conservative Response | The State of Big Labor, 1950Labor’s Compromised Right | Responding to the Rackets
The State of Big Labor… Read More
2023-11-29 22:54
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s HeightThe Conservative Response | The State of Big Labor, 1950Labor’s Compromised Right | Responding to the Rackets
Labor’s Compromis… Read More
2023-11-29 22:53
The Era of Labor Reform and Unionism’s HeightThe Conservative Response | The State of Big Labor, 1950Labor’s Compromised Right | Responding to the Rackets
Responding to the Racke… Read More
2023-11-28 15:33
Giving Tuesday surely ranks among the great success stories of grassroots charity. Dating back to only 2012, in scarcely a decade it has grown to become a widely recognized annual celebratio… Read More
2023-11-27 18:29
A report released today by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy, comprehensively details how the ultra-wealthy in America use… Read More
2023-11-27 17:02
In 2022, the Open Society Foundations gave $31,075,000 to the “Five Sisters”: the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund. The Five Si… Read More
2023-11-23 10:33
We at the Capital Research Center wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
Below is the transcript of President Lincoln’s proclamation establishing a national Thanksgiving, partially in hop… Read More
2023-11-23 04:49
The U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee “has jurisdiction over the tax code” and must address “issues that have been laid bare in the aftermath of Octobe… Read More
2023-11-22 22:39
Sarah Lee, director of communications and outreach at the Capital Research Center, speaks with Newell Normand about her article “Paying for Hate on College Campuses” about the re… Read More
2023-11-21 22:46
In their forthcoming book The Oligarchs’ Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power, David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodríguez Guerra develop and present an academic model… Read More
2023-11-20 22:49
Most public schools in New Jersey closed for two weekdays in November 2023for teachers to attend the New Jersey Education Association Convention, which is held annually at the Atlantic City… Read More
2023-11-18 04:15
Sarah Lee talks with Meg Ellefson on Wisconsin radio about the funding of hate groups and terrorist support found on today’s college campuses.
The campus “is one of the laborator… Read More
2023-11-18 04:08
Last week, Rick Moran of PJ Media quoted Ryan Mauro when discussing where pro-Hamas money comes from in the United States.
Moran writes:
Some of the most visible left-wing fundraising organ… Read More
2023-11-17 15:15
Since 2018, Big Philanthropy has offered great praise for one particular politician without an office to hold: Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat who claimed her 2018 loss in an election fo… Read More
2023-11-17 02:48
The Left’s Censorship IndustryBrazen Advocacy for Censorship | Information Futures LabInstitutionalized Nonprofits | Disinformation Conference
Summary: Over the past almost two and a h… Read More
2023-11-16 21:47
The Left’s Censorship IndustryBrazen Advocacy for Censorship | Information Futures LabInstitutionalized Nonprofits | Disinformation Conference
Information Futures Lab
Some of those sam… Read More
2023-11-16 21:46
The Left’s Censorship IndustryBrazen Advocacy for Censorship | Information Futures LabInstitutionalized Nonprofits | Disinformation Conference
Institutionalized Nonprofits
The Global D… Read More
2023-11-16 21:45
The Left’s Censorship IndustryBrazen Advocacy for Censorship | Information Futures LabInstitutionalized Nonprofits | Disinformation Conference
Disinformation Conference
In August 2022… Read More
2023-11-15 15:04
The Manassas Mosque, a mosque in the Washington, DC area, explicitly declared its support for the Hamas terrorist organization in a recent newsletter. The mosque’s support for the Iran… Read More
2023-11-14 15:19
Residents of Michigan, wanting nothing more than to spend their weekends watching a historic season of Michigan football (historically good for the Lions and Wolverines, historically bad for… Read More
2023-11-13 18:15
In September, the Writers Guild of America-West (WGA) ended its strike against the Hollywood studios; in early November, the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA reached its deal with the studios… Read More
2023-11-10 15:01
As if the national press were not liberal enough or sufficiently committed to the national left-wing agenda, Big Philanthropy is throwing hundreds of millions of dollars to make local journa… Read More
2023-11-09 14:21
Gerald Steinberg founded NGO Monitor in Jerusalem after the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, during which a related NGO Forum of about 1,300 non-g… Read More
2023-11-09 14:21
Gerald Steinberg founded NGO Monitor in Jerusalem after the 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, during which a related NGO Forum of about 1,300 non-g… Read More
2023-11-08 16:55
In a 2021 corporate news release, Chicago-based Invenergy claimed to be “the largest privately held global developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions.” Under… Read More
2023-11-06 19:39
Homeless encampments in the parking lots. Free laundry services for all employees. Piloting of a four-day work week. Free yoga and meditation classes for all families in the district. Paid m… Read More
2023-11-03 14:09
Since the horrific Hamas terrorist massacres in southern Israel in early October, American observers have been horrified by something that really should not be happening: Mass marches of lef… Read More
2023-11-02 14:40
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has been in the news a lot lately, and rightly so. While Hamas militants were murdering Israeli civilians, the DSA was exclaiming &l&hell…Read More
2023-11-01 16:52
In September, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing on third-party litigating funding, whereby a nonparty finances a lawsuit in exchange for some portion of the final award or settlem… Read More
2023-10-31 23:11
When Hamas began their terror onslaught in Israel on October 7, shocking statements from early observers foreshadowed some of what later became rallying cries across university campuses: Fre… Read More
2023-10-31 02:18
On the Tom Nelson Podcast, Ken Braun discussed how CRC tracks money and influence in politics. One of many notable successes was exposing the Arabella Advisors network, a multibillion dollar… Read More
2023-10-27 14:03
They are the “Left of the Left”: The Democratic Socialists of America, a socialist political faction influential in the Democratic Party. Who are they, what do they stand for, an… Read More
2023-10-26 18:30
Plastic recycling was pronounced dead a year ago in a Greenpeace study titled “Circular Claims Fall Flat Again.” Released in October 2022, the report complained that no more than… Read More
2023-10-26 02:53
The Left of the Left: The Democratic Socialists of America (full series)What Is the DSA? | A Radical AgendaA Twisted Worldview | The Democratic Party
Summary: The Democratic Party of 2023 is… Read More
2023-10-26 02:53
The Left of the Left: The Democratic Socialists of America (full series)What Is the DSA? | A Radical AgendaA Twisted Worldview | The Democratic Party
The Left of the Left: A Radical Agenda
D… Read More
2023-10-26 02:53
The Left of the Left: The Democratic Socialists of America (full series)What Is the DSA? | A Radical AgendaA Twisted Worldview | The Democratic Party
The Left of the Left: A Twisted Worldvie… Read More
2023-10-26 02:53
The Left of the Left: The Democratic Socialists of America (full series)What Is the DSA? | A Radical AgendaA Twisted Worldview | The Democratic Party
The Left of the Left: The Democratic Par… Read More
2023-10-25 18:37
Hamas’s American Allies (full series)The U.S. Brotherhood Network | Other American Islamist EndorsersFar-Left Supporters | Far-Right Supporters
Far-Right Supporters of Hamas
Although w… Read More
2023-10-25 18:37
Hamas’s American Allies (full series)The U.S. Brotherhood Network | Other American Islamist EndorsersFar-Left Supporters | Far-Right Supporters
Other American Islamist Endorsers of Ham… Read More
2023-10-25 18:37
Hamas’s American Allies (full series)The U.S. Brotherhood Network | Other American Islamist EndorsersFar-Left Supporters | Far-Right Supporters
Summary: The reaction in America to Hama… Read More
2023-10-25 18:37
Hamas’s American Allies (full series)The U.S. Brotherhood Network | Other American Islamist EndorsersFar-Left Supporters | Far-Right Supporters
Far-Left Supporters of Hamas
Unlike al-Q… Read More
2023-10-24 22:04
“Conservatives did not win the campus wars of the 1960s, and they failed in almost every way to meaningfully pull faculty and students to the right during their time on campus,”… Read More
2023-10-24 03:44
On The Steve Hook Show, Ryan Mauro discusses the Israel-Hamas War, helping to separate fact from fiction and explain some of the complexities. Surprisingly, the initial media coverage of the… Read More
2023-10-20 19:04
Since the horrific terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, numerous left-wing institutions have disgraced themselves by taking actions that at least appeared to side with the terroris… Read More
2023-10-20 15:04
I’m Sarah Lee, and this is the Influence Watch podcast. With me today is my colleague Ryan Mauro, an expert on terror funding and the movements of terror cells across the Middle East a… Read More
2023-10-20 02:04
NextEra Energy: A Messy Green Goliath with Other People’s Money (full series)The King of Green Power | The Sierra Wind Turbine Club“Exceedingly Rare” Incidents | Not So Rar… Read More
2023-10-20 02:03
NextEra Energy: A Messy Green Goliath with Other People’s Money (full series)The King of Green Power | The Sierra Wind Turbine Club“Exceedingly Rare” Incidents | Not So Rar… Read More
2023-10-20 02:02
NextEra Energy: A Messy Green Goliath with Other People’s Money (full series)The King of Green Power | The Sierra Wind Turbine Club“Exceedingly Rare” Incidents | Not So Rar… Read More
2023-10-20 02:01
NextEra Energy: A Messy Green Goliath with Other People’s Money (full series)The King of Green Power | The Sierra Wind Turbine Club“Exceedingly Rare” Incidents | Not So Rar… Read More
2023-10-19 03:34
We are pleased to announce that the September 2023 issue of Capital Research is now available online.
Here’s a peek at what’s inside:
Ken Braun details how the Ford Foundati… Read More
2023-10-19 03:19
In Louisiana’s statewide election yesterday, voters considered a referendum to amend the state’s constitution to prohibit the use of private or foreign funding for state and loca… Read More
2023-10-17 16:45
In Defense of Taft-Hartley (full series)Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be | The Taft-Hartley ConsensusAdvancing Voluntarism | Protecting the Public
In 1947, organized labor reaped the whirlwind fr… Read More
2023-10-17 16:45
In Defense of Taft-Hartley (full series)Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be | The Taft-Hartley ConsensusAdvancing Voluntarism | Protecting the Public
Advancing Voluntarism
For conservatives, there i… Read More
2023-10-17 16:45
In Defense of Taft-Hartley (full series)Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be | The Taft-Hartley ConsensusAdvancing Voluntarism | Protecting the Public
Protecting the Public from Labor-Dispute Fallout… Read More
2023-10-17 16:45
In Defense of Taft-Hartley (full series)Why Taft-Hartley Came to Be | The Taft-Hartley ConsensusAdvancing Voluntarism | Protecting the Public
Laying Out the Taft-Hartley Consensus
Before ana… Read More
2023-10-16 21:40
“The idea of a deep state has become a culture-war football in recent years,” progressive activist, organizer, and journalist Fredrik deBoer writes in his new book How Elite… Read More
2023-10-13 17:40
Chuck Feeney, who died October 9 at the age of 92, may be the ultimate example of giving while living, as even his billionaire peers have long observed. The idea of giving while living has g… Read More
2023-10-13 15:21
If anything could shake a Western champagne socialist to the bone, surely it would be the image of a young hippie woman, fresh from a music festival, with her legs broken behind her back and… Read More
2023-10-13 02:59
Peaceful discourse, civil protest, and open debate have all been essential to the American experience. Living in a country designed to protect our God-given right to free speech, you’d… Read More
2023-10-13 02:22
During a Chronicle of Philanthropy webinar yesterday, “Reshaping the Conversation: How to Rebuild Public Trust in Philanthropy,” panelists with diverse worldv… Read More
2023-10-12 03:42
America’s professional philanthropic class often declares that democracy is reliant on independent philanthropy when it pleads for tax and other special privileges for itself and its p… Read More
2023-10-10 14:39
Edward Blum has founded several nonprofit public-interest legal organizations that have helped secure several major legal victories against policies and practices that accord preferences to… Read More
2023-10-10 14:39
Edward Blum has founded several nonprofit public-interest legal organizations that have helped secure several major legal victories against policies and practices that accord preferences to… Read More
2023-10-10 01:47
In December 2022, a coalition of 28 organizations asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement over its extensive links to terror… Read More
2023-10-09 22:49
Some crazy stuff is going on behind the scenes at America’s charities. Even though the IRS forbids charities from getting involved in elections, crafty political operatives have been i… Read More
2023-10-06 14:34
The labor-conservative faction led by American Compass—an ostensibly conservative think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy—has an insurmountable problem in converting the co… Read More
2023-10-06 14:22
The Arabella Advisors-managed network of liberal dark money groups that includes the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, Windward Fund, and North Fund continues to attract… Read More
2023-10-06 01:26
The just-released Independent Sector survey of trust in nonprofits and philanthropy, conducted in partnership with Edelman Data & Intelligence, finds that trust in tax-exempt n… Read More
2023-10-05 16:31
Leaders of the Network for Strong Communities, an Antifa anarchist group that gave tens of thousands of dollars to an advocate for terrorists, including Islamist extremists.
Sixty-one &ldquo&hell…Read More
2023-10-04 21:47
Climate Alarmist Blockade Operation Hoovers Up Corporate Welfare for Insincere Solutions (full series)The Rocky Mountain Institute | Reuben Munger“Clean Tech” Car Trouble | Too M… Read More
2023-10-04 21:47
Climate Alarmist Blockade Operation Hoovers Up Corporate Welfare for Insincere Solutions (full series)The Rocky Mountain Institute | Reuben Munger“Clean Tech” Car Trouble | Too M… Read More
2023-10-04 21:47
Climate Alarmist Blockade Operation Hoovers Up Corporate Welfare for Insincere Solutions (full series)The Rocky Mountain Institute | Reuben Munger“Clean Tech” Car Trouble | Too M… Read More
2023-10-04 21:47
Climate Alarmist Blockade Operation Hoovers Up Corporate Welfare for Insincere Solutions (full series)The Rocky Mountain Institute | Reuben Munger“Clean Tech” Car Trouble | Too M… Read More
2023-10-03 18:50
Editor’s note: Compare to a similar report on ABC.
Fox News reports on a new report from Capital Research Center that suggests that Democratic donors and activists are using charities… Read More
2023-10-03 18:35
Editor’s note: Compare to a similar report on Fox News.
ABC national correspondent Kristine Frazao reports on a U.S. House Ways and Means Committee investigation into nonprofits that a… Read More
2023-09-29 14:30
The United Auto Workers union has called rolling strikes against the Detroit Three automakers—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) since mid-September. The labor ac… Read More
2023-09-28 18:31
American Compass, the statist think tank funded by liberal Big Philanthropy as part of liberal Big Philanthropy’s program to overcome free-market economic thinking, has released a new… Read More
2023-09-28 03:07
Parker Thayer appeared on the Ruthless podcast to discuss Everybody Votes, a $100 million voter registration campaign originally proposed by the Wyss Foundation and pushed by John Podesta. I… Read More
2023-09-27 03:41
Annual Revenue of Left-Leaning Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Exceeds $2.3 Billion (full series)Financial Firepower | “Uniquely Dangerous” | Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
Anti… Read More
2023-09-27 03:41
Annual Revenue of Left-Leaning Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Exceeds $2.3 Billion (full series)Financial Firepower | “Uniquely Dangerous” | Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
Summa… Read More
2023-09-27 03:41
Annual Revenue of Left-Leaning Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Power Exceeds $2.3 Billion (full series)Financial Firepower | “Uniquely Dangerous” | Anti-Nuclear Nonprofits
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2023-09-25 21:52
We had quite a second quarter of media hits at CRC, with new investigations into the groups targeting Clarence Thomas and the Supreme Court, a massive new election integrity report on charit… Read More
2023-09-23 05:36
Tammany Hall 2.0: The Left’s New Political Machine (full series)Demos | Priorities USAStacey Abrams | Arabella Advisors
Summary: Activist groups on the Left enjoy using the term &ldquo&hell…Read More
2023-09-23 05:36
Tammany Hall 2.0: The Left’s New Political Machine (full series)Demos | Priorities USAStacey Abrams | Arabella Advisors
Priorities USA: ‘We’ve Got the Answers’
Priori… Read More
2023-09-23 05:36
Tammany Hall 2.0: The Left’s New Political Machine (full series)Demos | Priorities USAStacey Abrams | Arabella Advisors
Arabella Advisors “Dark Money” Empire
The Arabella A… Read More
2023-09-23 05:35
Tammany Hall 2.0: The Left’s New Political Machine (full series)Demos | Priorities USAStacey Abrams | Arabella Advisors
Stacey Abrams and the Fair Fight Network
Lefty wonks like Demos… Read More
2023-09-22 14:28
My colleague Ken Braun, who joins me today, has written extensively on the sheer scale of the environmentalist organizations opposed to emissions-free nuclear energy, which claim at least $2… Read More
2023-09-22 03:43
John Halpin is president and executive editor of The Liberal Patriot, which was founded in 2021 as an online newsletter and expanded earlier this year to become a full-fledged online pu… Read More
2023-09-22 03:43
John Halpin is president and executive editor of The Liberal Patriot, which was founded in 2021 as an online newsletter and expanded earlier this year to become a full-fledged online pu… Read More
2023-09-20 10:10
“Nonprofit voter registration” doesn’t sound interesting. Yet nonprofit voter registration, or the use of tax-exempt charitable organizations to conduct and fund voter regi… Read More
2023-09-20 03:33
I remember going to the Boys and Girls Club as a kid in the early 1990s. At $5 a year to become a member, it was an extremely cheap and much-needed babysitter for my overworked and tired sin… Read More
2023-09-18 17:24
How does someone go from being homeless youth with a troubled family to a licensed commercial pilot at the age of 23? For Kamia, it started with a single helicopter ride. “That helicop… Read More
2023-09-15 18:56
Last night, the United Auto Workers (UAW) called strikes at production facilities of the Detroit Three automakers Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). I’ve compile… Read More
2023-09-15 14:17
It’s September: The kids have gone back to school, the oppressive heat dome is beginning to lift, and the sports calendar has turned from baseball (for those of us whose teams have woe… Read More
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