InfluenceWatch Podcast #135: Today’s Woke-Progressive Infiltration

Since the initial demonstrations following the police-custody death of George Floyd, foundations have pledged over one billion dollars to support efforts to combat alleged “systemic racism.” In practice, that means more foundations have followed the path of the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Pew Charitable Trusts and abandoned the business-friendly pro-capitalist outlooks of their founding donors and adopted the socialist and woke-progressive outlooks of their Current Year managers. Joining me to discuss this consistently troubling development this week is Naomi Schaefer Riley, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum. We’ll discuss the recent turn toward left-progressive activism at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the broader problem of Big Philanthropy dishonoring donor intent, and what can be done about it.
 

• City Journal: Woke Foundations
• National Review: It’s Not Philanthropy’s Job to ‘Save Democracy’
• Capital Research Center: Philanthropy Horror Stories: Donor Intent Gone Wrong
• InfluenceWatch: Ford Foundation
• InfluenceWatch: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Philanthropy Daily: Donor intent gone wrong
• Philanthropy Daily: Success stories of donor intent
• Capital Research Center: InfluenceWatch Podcast Episode #134
• American Conservative: Checking The Power Of Progressive Big Philanthropy