Most of this information has been around, Philanthropy Roundtable has been big founders for the Schiavo parents in legal team.
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Schiavo Case
http://3rdave.blogspot.com/2005/03/terri-schiavo-as-conversative-prop.html
All these appeals and advocacy campaigns to keep Terri alive costs lots of money, so Attorney Jon Eisenberg wrote an article in the SF Recorder discovering that "many of the attorneys, activists and organizations working to keep Schiavo on life support all these years have been funded by members of the Philanthropy Roundtable."
The Philanthropy Roundtable, he explains "is a collection of foundations that have funded conservative causes ranging from abolition of Social Security to anti-tax crusades and United Nations conspiracy theories. The Roundtable members' founders include scions of America's wealthiest families, including Richard Mellon Scaife (heir to the Mellon industrial, oil and banking fortune), Harry Bradley (electronics), Joseph Coors (beer), and the Smith Richardson family (pharmaceutical products)." All the usual suspects. Terri's parents lawyer Pat Anderson "'was paid directly' by the anti-abortion Life Legal Defense Foundation, which 'has already spent over $300,000 on this case,'"
Creator of Philanthropy Roundtable
http://www.answers.com/topic/bradley-foundation
The Bradley Foundation's former president, Michael Joyce, was instrumental in creating the Philanthropy Roundtable, a network of foundations that support right-wing advocacy organizations.
In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator magazine, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton. Before that, it had paid to have David Brock's attack on Anita Hill published.
The Bradley Foundation has provided important support for think tanks and groups that advocated an attack on Iraq as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, such as the Project for a New American Century and the John M. Olin Center for Strategic Studies. In early 2003, Joyce bragged to a local paper that President George W. Bush and members of his administration were influenced by the policy discussions of those groups. Joyce commented that the attack only hastened Bush's inevitable move towards neoconservatism.
History
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/history.html
The Philanthropy Roundtable began in the late 1970s as an informal network of grantmakers who were troubled by an increasing lack of political and intellectual diversity within parts of the philanthropic community, and who wanted to promote greater respect for private, voluntary approaches to individual and community betterment. The goal of the Roundtable's founders was to provide a forum where donors could discuss the principles and practices that inform the best of America's charitable tradition.
The Roundtable initially operated under the aegis of the Institute for Educational Affairs, gradually growing into a nationwide organization of donors supporting a formal program of conferences and publications. In 1991, the Roundtable became a free-standing organization with an independent board of directors, a small staff, and an expanded agenda of services and activities. Currently, there are more than 600 Roundtable Associates.
Despite its rapid growth, the organizational structure of the Roundtable has remained lean, carrying out a full program of meetings, publications, and consulting services with a staff of eight.
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/philanthropy.php
The Philanthropy Roundtable, like many of the right's counter-establishment organizations, was launched in the late 1970s. It was not, however, until 1991 that the informal group of political strategists and philanthropists established a governing board of directors for the organization. Membership is open to all philanthropists and the representatives of philanthropic organizations, although most members hail from the right wing.
Funding
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philanthropy_Roundtable
Between 1993 and 2001, the Philanthropy Roundtable received $2,477,000 from ten donors.
* Castle Rock Foundation
* Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation
* Earhart Foundation
* JM Foundation
* John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
* Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
* Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
* Scaife Foundations (Scaife Family and Alleghany)
* Smith Richardson Foundation
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/philanthropy.php
Funding comes from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Alleghany Foundation, Earhart Foundation, John M. Olin Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, Scaife Family Foundation, Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, JM Foundation, and Sarah Scaife Foundation. According to Media Transparency, from 1993 to 2002, Philanthropy Roundtable received 85 grants amounting to $2,784,700 from these organizations. In 2003 the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation was the Roundtable's leading source of foundation financial support. (11)
Board members Grebe, Dennis, Piereson, and Dolan are also currently or formerly associated with some of the associations that provide core support to the Philanthropy Roundtable. Grebe is the president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Dennis has been associated with both the Earhart Foundation the John M. Olin Foundation. Piereson is the executive director and trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation. Dolan formerly worked for the JM Foundation. (5)
A recent $900,000 grant from the W. H. Brady Foundation will help boost the influence of the Philanthropy Roundtable. The grant specifies the formation of several "affinity groups" that will direct new work in the following areas, with the aim of achieving "dramatic breakthroughs": education improvement, "restoring loving marriage as the bedrock institution of our society," improving environmental quality through private conservation, and fostering "indispensable" contributions to the war against terrorism.
http://opednews.com/forrestKatherine_012405_creating_progressive_Infrastructure.htm
In 1973, in response to the Powell memo, Joseph Coors and Christian-right leader Paul Weyrich founded an activist think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which is now the flagship organization of the ultra-conservative movement. Subsequently, the Olin Foundation began funding similar organizations in concert with Richard Mellon Scaife's various foundations, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, Coors' foundations, foundations associated with the Koch oil family, and a group of large corporations. The organization Philanthropy Roundtable was founded to coordinate this funding. What all these foundations had in common is that their leaders were associated with the extreme right of the political spectrum - such as the John Birch Society and the secretive Christian-Right Council. There are now over 500 organizations that receive funding from this core group.
Presidents
John P. Walters
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11DRUG.html?ex=1111986000&en=55ebecdb6b47a474&ei=
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Mr. Walters, 49, previously worked at the Department of Education, where he headed the Schools Without Drugs prevention program and then served under William J. Bennett, who was drug czar in the administration of Mr. Bush's father. More recently Mr. Walters has been president of the Philanthropy Roundtable, an association that advises more than 600 donors to charities. He has also served as president of the New Citizenship Project, which promoted the role of religion in public life.
ADAM MEYERSON
http://www.foundationnews.org/now/volume2.57.htm
ADAM MEYERSON was named president of the Philanthropy Roundtable on October 1. He succeeds JOHN P. WALTERS, President Bush's nominee to direct the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
http://www.milwaukeegreens.org/philanthropy.html
Adam Meyerson has been president of the Philanthropy Roundtable since October 2001. Between 1993-2001, he was the vice president for educational affairs at the conservative Heritage Foundation.