Here is some background on the Joyce Foundation:
History
The Joyce Foundation was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago. She was the sole heir of the Joyce family, which originated in Clinton, Iowa. The family wealth came from the lumber industry, including family-owned timberlands, plywood and saw mills, and wholesale and retail building material distribution facilities which were located in the Midwest and Louisiana.
The Foundation’s mission was broadly stated as “religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes.” Until the early 1970s, assets of the Foundation remained small and grants were given to the particular philanthropic interests of its founder. When Mrs. Kean died in December of 1972, the Foundation received ninety percent of her estate, an amount in excess of $100 million. A professional staff was retained and Kent F. Peterson, who had been an executive of the family-owned Tremont Lumber Company, was named president.
At the time of Mrs. Kean’s death the Foundation’s annual giving totaled less than $100,000. By 1974, when the Foundation received Mrs. Kean’s total bequest, annual giving reached $500,000; by 1976, it was $10 million. During the first twenty-five years, traditional health organizations and hospitals received the majority of the Foundation’s contributions. In 1973, higher education and cultural institutions were added as major beneficiaries. In 1978, the Foundation published its first public annual report under the direction of its new president, Charles U. Daly. Included in that report was a description of the Foundation’s programmatic interests in culture, education, environment and conservation, government, health and social services.
Over time, the Foundation’s mission has evolved. New programs have been added, and the focus has sharpened to concentrate on public policies affecting the Great Lakes region. Currently, the Foundation’s grantmaking focuses on education, employment issues affecting low-wage workers, Great Lakes environmental issues, gun violence prevention, money and politics, and culture. Succeeding Mr. Daly as Foundation President have been R. Craig Kennedy (1986-92), Deborah Leff (1992-99), Paula DiPerna (1999-2001), and Ellen S. Alberding (2002-present).
http://www.joycefdn.org/content.cfm/history
Remember Ron Arnolds book?
Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant Driven Environmental Groups and Zealous Bureaucrats That Control Your Future
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/093957120X/buchalcom
Hard to believe that timber industry money is being used to put me out of business...
The militants getting grants from all these controlling foudations despise you as "resource extractors!" They feel you are stealing sacraments from the temple of Gaia, or the Pagan Mother Earth!!!
Additionally, the Foundation works to ensure that public policies truly reflect public rather than private interests, it supports efforts to reform the system of financing election campaigns.
Board of Directors - ... Valerie B. Jarett ... Previous notable board members include 2008 Presidential candidate Barack Obama who served on the board from 1994 through 2002.
Funding - When Mrs. Kean died in December of 1972, the Foundation received ninety percent of her estate, an amount in excess of $100 million.
The Foundation does not receive any contributions from the public. Joyce Foundation assets at the end of 2006 amounted to just over $900 million; grants of approximately $50 million were approved in 2006. Since its founding in 1948, the Foundation has made grants of more than $600 million to groups working to improve the quality of life in the Great Lakes region.
Programs - ... Employment: Focuses on workforce development, education, and job training for low-income workers.
Environment: Concentrates on environmental issues affecting the Great Lakes region, especially water and energy issues.
Gun violence: Funds research and advocacy to reduce gun ownership, deaths and injuries. This includes support of anti-gun groups.
Money and politics: Supports research and advocacy around such issues as campaign finance and ethics reform.
Grants in Campaign Finance Reform These are some, not all, of the organizations that the Joyce Foundation supports through grants: ...
Illinois Campaign for Political Reform
Cato Institute
The Brookings Institution
Center for Digital Democracy
Illinois Civil Justice League Uncovers Soros' "Independent" Groups
Ryan Sager of the New York Post analyzed the ICJL study of George Soros, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, and the Illinois race for Supreme Court. His assessment, which was published in a column in the New York Post:
"The 'nonpartisan' group, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, spearheaded a Tone and Conduct Committee — organized under the aegis of the state Bar Association — aimed at keeping advertising by outside interests to a minimum. The media bought this charade hook, line and sinker, referring to the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform as "nonpartisan" and the Tone and Conduct Committee as 'independent.'"
"I think they would like to cut anybody out of the debate who disagrees with their agenda," says Edward Murnane, the president of the Illinois Civil Justice League. As evidence, he points to the liberal foundation funding behind the Illinois Campaign Reform Coalition, an umbrella group in the state lobbying for sweeping restrictions on political speech. That funding is detailed in another report just released by his group. "It turns out that the eight groups under the umbrella (ICPR, the Sunshine Project, the Citizen Advocacy Center, Protestants for the Common Good, the Better Government Association, Common Cause Illinois, Illinois Public Interest Research Group and the League of Women Voters of Illinois) have received about $3 million in grants from George Soros' Open Society Institute and the Joyce Foundation since 1997."
"Those names should sound familiar to anyone who has followed the unmasking of the campaign-finance lobby at the national level. They are two of the eight liberal foundations that spent more than $120 million between 1994 and 2004 to fake up a "grass-roots movement" to pass the McCain-Feingold law, defend it in court and lobby for further restrictions on political speech."
Donations Influence the News On NPR ...
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover031307.htm
Maurice Strong, Al Gore
Creators of carbon credit scheme cashing in on it
By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
EXCERPT
Strong is the silent partner, a man whose name often draws a blank in the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of a beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the Unites States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he works to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is big cheese in the world of climate change, and is one of the main architects of the coming-your-way-soon Kyoto Protocol.
Gore is the glitzy, media approved front man in the partnership, the flashing neon lights on the global stage warning the masses of the end of Earth, as we know it, and Hollywood’s poster boy for greening the silver screen.
The skeptics of man-made global warming believe that Gore and Strong have made climate change “the new religion”. Climate change is not the first religion both parties have tried to make stick. Along with former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Strong, currently president of the Earth Council, has been boasting of replacing the Ten Commandments with the Earth Charter, a golden rule guide for how the masses should treat the environment.
Gore, who has given sermons at the United Nations sponsored Cathedral of St. John the Divine Church in New York City, is a promoter of the religion known as Gaia.
The two environmental gurus also share a belief in radical Malthusian population reduction. According to them, too many people, particularly in the U.S. are polluting the planet, emitting excessive Freon through their refrigerators and jacking up the air conditioning.
But the conduct of Al Gore and Maurice Strong in the capitalist world is one for the books. It’s a side of them that may have remained unknown had it not been for the investigative talent of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR).
The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of An Inconvenient Truth traveled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste.Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time.
“Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day. First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm’s registered lobbyist, and Gore’s former top Senate aide,” wrote EIR.
“Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers’ cash, at that point, its only source of revenue
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TRADE IN CARBON -DIOXIDE EMISSION PERMITS PROPOSED
THE SEATTLE TIMES - Sunday, June 7, 1992
Author: JOURNAL OF COMMERCE
CHICAGO - A director of the Chicago Board of Trade has proposed the creation of an international market to trade permits to limit the amount of carbon dioxide emitted worldwide.
Richard Sandor , who is also executive managing director of Kidder, Peabody & Co., made the proposal last week at a U.N.
conference on trade and development. That conference was held in Rio
de Janeiro before the Earth Summit of world leaders to discuss environmental issues.
Sandor proposes the creation of a U.N. agency to draft a Global Warming Treaty to limit carbon dioxide emissions.
The agency would then issue entitlements - or permits - to countries that sign the treaty, setting a limit on their carbon dioxide emissions. This could lead to the sale of extra permits or even futures trading based on the entitlements.
Essentially, a country could emit carbon dioxide only up to the level set by its entitlements. Any extra entitlements could be sold or traded, creating an international market monitored by the U.N.
agency.
As with many cash markets, from grain to crude oil, futures trading based on anticipated sales of the entitlements could follow, Sandor said.
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PIONEER STILL TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD WITH FUTURES
Chicago Tribune - Sunday, October 3, 1993
Author: William B. Crawford Jr., Tribune Staff Writer.
EXCERPT
At Centre Financial, Sandor -assisted by a 14-member staff liberally sprinkled with individuals who hold Ph.D.s-continues to steep himself in efforts to develop cutting-edge trading instruments to solve similar problems, some having a global scope.
Centre Financial-an affiliate of Centre Reinsurance Co., which is a Bermuda-based subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group-is under contract with the United Nations to address the problem of air pollution worldwide. In about 30 days Sandor will release a report to the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development that will, among other things, weigh the feasibility of reducing air pollution by allowing industry participants and speculators to trade carbon dioxide entitlements around the globe.
Centre Financial has two other focuses: developing hybrid insurance products to help meet the growing capital needs of the insurance industry, and designing financial risk-management software and exotic option valuation and hedging models.
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BUSINESS APPOINTMENTS
Chicago Sun-Times - Monday, November 28, 1994
EXCERPT
The Joyce Foundation named Barack Obama of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland a director.
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Joyce Foundation ‘s new chief to focus on jobs, environment
Chicago Sun-Times - Friday, June 11, 1999
Author: JENNIFER CASSELL
To narrow the Joyce Foundation ‘s hunt for a new president from 700 applicants to one, the search committee looked for someone with an impressive resume, intelligence and_most important_creativity.
Paula DiPerna fit the bill.
On July 1, DiPerna, 50, takes over as the sixth president of the Chicago-based foundation, a billion-dollar philanthropic organization.
John Anderson, the foundation’s chairman of the board, said DiPerna’s interview with the search committee set her apart.
“She really impressed us at the interview with her intelligence,” Anderson said. “She has a broad-based experience, and knows about the things we are about.”
The Joyce Foundation , whose assets total $947 million, tackles a number of social topics, ranging from school reform to violence prevention to environmental and employment issues.
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The ticker. MIDWEST BRIEFS.
Chicago Tribune - Thursday, May 18, 2000
Author: Staff and wire reports.
The Joyce Foundation is funding work to design a voluntary market for the trading of carbon emissions. Richard L. Sandor , a longtime proponent of reducing pollution through market-based emissions-control mechanisms and visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, will design the carbon -trading market, using a $347,000 Joyce Foundation grant.
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Center sues environmental group, alleges tax, campaign infractions By Mark D. Baker
Eastside Journal (Bellevue, WA) - Tuesday, February 26, 2002
CORRECTION 2-28-02:
The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in Bellevue has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service complaining about the practices of the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group. A headline on Page 3 Tuesday incorrectly stated that the center had filed a lawsuit. BELLEVUE — A libertarian organization here has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against an environmental group in Washington, D.C alleging the group has broken several tax and campaign laws.
The Bellevue-based Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, also says in its complaint that the Environmental Working Group illegally took a private $1.6 million grantto lobby for a new farm bill that could soon become law.
The CDFE was founded in 1976 during during America’s bicentennial celebration. A group of businessmen, educators, legislators and students were concerned about the ``rollback’’ of 200 years of individual rights and restrictions on free enterprise by big government, according to the CDFE Web site.
The EWG operates as a political action committee without being registered as one and spends more money as a lobbyist than it is allowed to by tax law, according to the center.
``They were not only lobbying, they were politicking,’’ said Ron Arnold, CDFE director.
The EWG pressured Al Gore during his run for president, the center claims.
The EWG says the allegations are hogwash.
``It’s quite a press stunt,’’ said Mike Casey, a spokesman for EWG. The allegations are ``absolutely false,’’ he said.
Casey all pointed out that the complaint has no legal ramifications.
The EWG is a nonprofit environmental research organization that uses databases to target monitoring of chemical contaminants in food, air and water, according to its Web site.
The $1.6 million grant EWG received ``was not for lobbying, it was for the creation of the Web site,’’ said Mary O’Connell, a spokeswoman for the Joyce Foundation , the Chicago-based group that gave the grant.
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http://www.ewg.org/about/board
Drummond Pike (Chair) is the founder and chief executive officer of Tides Network, a collaborative group of social justice organizations. Prior to founding Tides in 1976, Drummond received a Masters of Political Science from the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University after graduating with Honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Foundation FYI-
The high finance behind campaign finance reform
St. Petersburg Times - Wednesday, July 5, 2000
Author: MARY JACOBY
Candidates spend millions of dollars to get elected. Now, reform groups are spending their millions to make sure you know where candidates got their money.
With spending on federal elections expected to reach $3-billion in 2000, it is not hard to find a political scientist, watchdog group or even a business organization eager to denounce the increasingly dominant role of money in politics.
But while the voices for reform are many, their sources of funding are not. A small clique of wealthy private foundations provides most of the financial backing for the web of public-interest groups, researchers and academics that makes up the campaign finance reform movement.
The philanthropic donations are a drop in the bucket compared with the billions spent to influence state and federal elections. The six most active foundations in money and politics have made about $60-million in related grants over the past five years, according to records and interviews with foundation officials.
The biggest donors have been the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation and the Florence and John Schumann Foundation, headed by public broadcast journalist Bill Moyers. Other significant players are the Carnegie Corp., the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute, founded by global financier George Soros.
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With about $90-million in assets, Schumann is small compared with Pew ($4.9-billion), Ford ($11.8-billion) or Carnegie ($2-billion). “There are other larger foundations with deeper pockets that can carry the momentum,” Moyers said.
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($1-billion Joyce Foundation)
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AMBUSH OR JUSTIFIABLE NEWS REPORT? FUNDING FOR NPR STORY ON CASH PASSED TO AKRON COUNCILMAN AND FOR COALITION PUSHING FOR LOCAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM COMES FROM THE SAME FOUNDATION.
Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - Sunday, July 12, 1998
Author: Charlene Nevada, Beacon Journal staff writer
Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic felt sacked.
The former quarterback turned mayor wasn’t quite sure what hit him all in one day late in May.
First, a local coalition of religious activists unveiled a study that tallied up campaign contributions to the mayor and the City Council and compared that to city contract awards, raising the question of whether money buys influence at City Hall.
A few hours later, Akron was the focus of a report broadcast across the country on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
The NPR story was pegged to an incident in March, when an envelope of cash from representatives of an oil driller was passed to a councilman shortly before a controversial vote on an oil and gas well.
The radio report took a broader approach - quoting clergy talking about Jesus confronting the money changers — and the difficulty in distinguishing between campaign contributions and bribes in Akron.
Plusquellic, who makes the point that he still has to answer to his mother for his actions, felt the one-two punch unfairly made him and the city look bad. And he felt somewhat ambushed to have to deal with the local criticism and the national story all at once.
There might be a connection.
Funding for Dollars and Democracy, the local coalition pushing campaign finance reform, comes from the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, which also funds NPR’s coverage of money and politics.
“I call it pay to play,” said Plusquellic’s chief of staff, Joel Bailey. “The Joyce Foundation paid and NPR played.”
Officials from NPR and the Joyce Foundation say the foundation’s grants have no influence over what NPR reporters cover.
“NPR maintains a very firm fire wall between the editorial and fund-raising departments,” said spokesman Michael Abrahams.
Nevertheless, Joyce Foundation spokeswoman Mary O’Connell said a telephone call between the foundation’s vice president and the NPR reporter led the reporter to Akron — and local Dollars and Democracy workers apparently told the foundation about the envelope of cash.
Members of the local Dollars and Democracy group have spent hundreds of hours tracking campaign contributions and tying them to public contracts. The Joyce Foundation has provided $245,000 for the Akron project and similar efforts in Chicago and the Dayton-Cincinnati area.
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Thanks forester.