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SECT¡ON 1 GENERAL BUSINESS
1 Minutes of the meeting of the Bradley IRA Committee, June 2,2015

2 2015 Bradley IRA sector budget, February and June grant awards,
and August recommendations
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SECTION 2 RECOMMENDATIONS 201 5 award
A. Education
3 Center for Education Reform 30K 20K

4 Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina 50K
B Foreign policy & nationalsecurity
5. Update: Ethics and Public Policy Center's John Hay lnitiative
c. Religious freedom
6. Seymour lnstitute for Black Church and Policy Studies 50K
D New opportunities
7. Donors Trust (Philanthropy Roundtable veterans project) 100K

8. Foundation for Economic Education 40K
9. FreedomWorks Foundation 50K 100K (12)
10. lndependent Women's Forum 1 50K
11. Manhattan lnstitute for Policy Research (cities project) 75K 200K
12. Russian-American lnstitute 15K
13. Saint Andrew's Society 10K
14. Taliesin Nexus 50K
15. Washington Policy lnstitute 250K
16. Witherspoon lnstitute (CanaVox project) 75K
E. Philanthropy
17. Capital Research Center 110K 85K
F Recommended declinations
18. Recommended Bradley IRA sector declinations

sEcïoN 1 GENERAL BUSINESS
Minutes of the meeting of the Bradley IRA Gommittee, June 2,2015
A meeting of the Bradley "ldeas{o-Results Account" (lRA) Committee of The Lynde and Harry Bradley
Foundation, lnc., was held on Tuesday, June 2, 2014 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The following Directors participated: Michael W. Grebe, President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Foundation and Chairman of the Committee; Dennis J. Kuester, Chairman of the Foundation's Board of
Directors; David V. Uihlein, Vice Chairman of the Board; Terry Considine; Patrick J. English; Robert P.
George; Richard W. Graber; Diane M. Hendricks; James Arthur Pope; and George F. Will. The absences
of Directors Cleta Mitchell and Shelby Steele were excused.
Foundation staff members Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann, and Dionne M. King also
participated.
Committee Chairman Grebe called the meeting to order at2:05 p.m., and the Committee approved the
minutes of its meeting on February 24,2015. At Chairman Grebe's request, Mr. Schmidt updated the
Committee on the IRA sector's budget situation.
The Committee considered and decided to recommend declining to support a request from the Charter
School Growth Fund for its Fund lll to the full Board during its meeting later that same afternoon.
The Committee considered and decided to recommend all of the grants listed below, by component.
Education ($)
American Enterprise lnstitute 100,000

Teach for America 150,000
Religious freedom
Hudson lnstitute 90,000
New opportunities
American Legislative Exchange Council 250,000

Colorado Christian University 50,000
Donors Trust 30,000
lllinois Policy lnstitute 150,000
Teneo Network 10,000
Philanthropy
Philanthropy Rou ndtable 250,000
During its consideration and discussion of requests, staff presented a brief update on the activities of the
Ethics and Public Policy Center's John Hay lnitiative,
Director George did not vote on the American Enterprise lnstitute recommendation. Director Considine
did not vote on the Colorado Christian University recommendation. Chairman Grebe and Director Pope
did not vote on the Philanthropy Roundtable recommendation.
The Committee approved the list of recommended declinations presented by staff.
The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
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2015 Bradley IRA sector budget, February and June grant awards, and August recommendations
--- Budget and contemplated --- February and June --- Total grants if including ---
recommendations grant awards ----------- August recommendations
$ 9Á of total $ % of total
contemplated contemplated
$ %o oftotal budget for component for component
E Education 650,000 8.5 450,000 69.2 530,000 81.5
I Employee rights 465,000 6.1 125,000 26.9 125,000 26.9
I Foreign policy & 450,000 5.9 200,000 44.4 200,000 44.4

national security
I Religious freedom 515,000 6.7 215,000 41.7 265,000 51.5
I New opportunities 3,840,000 50.2 2,370,000 61.7 3,185,000 82.9
I Philanthropy 335,000 4.4 250,000 74.6 360,000 107.5
Totalallocated 6,255,000 74.7
E Unallocated 1,395,000 18.2
%o of total budget ?6 of total budget
TOTAL BUDGET 7,650,000 100.0
TOTAL GRA'VTS 3,610,000 47.2 4,665,000 61.0
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CHART: 2015 Bradley IRA sector budget, February and June grant awards, and August recommendations
--- Budget and contemplated ---- February and June ---- Total grants if including ----
recommendations grant awards ----------- August recommendations
E Education 9,000,000
I Employee
rights
8,000,000
I Foreign policy
& national
security 7,000,000
I Religious
freedom
6,000,000
I New
opportunities
5,000,000
I Philanthropy
E Unallocated 4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
(As of il4)
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SECTION 2 RECOMMENDATIONS
A. Education
GRANT PROPOSAL RECORD
Center for Education Reform
ADDRESS:
1901 L Street, NW, Suite 705
Washington, DC 20036
CONTACT:
Ms. Kara Kerwin
AMOUNT REQUESTED: $250,000
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: $ 30,000
PROJECT TITLE: To support general operations
BOARD MEMBERS AFFILIATED

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Dan Schmidt
MEETING DATE: 8t18t2015
PROPOSAL ID#: 20150442

BACKGROUND: The Center for Education Reform (CER) is seeking a grant of $250,000 in support of its
general program activities.
With major support from Jerry Hume personally and his foundation, Jeanne Allen launched CER in 1993.
CER's specific purpose was defined as serving as a national resource for grassroots activists working on
K-12 reform for their community. Acquainted with Allen from her work at the Heritage Foundation on
education reform issues in the 80s, Hume assisted Allen and her colleagues in molding CER into a first-
in-line resource for information on charter school initiatives, curriculum development, parental
involvement, and governance training for educators and parents. During the late 90s untilAllen's
departure several years ago CER became one of the leading go-to sources for the media on the latest
developments on school reform developments and trends in education reform to be watching in the
charter and choice world.
ln the wake of the departure of Allen in late 2013 CER launched a three-year strategic plan to grow the
school choice movement significantly. First, CER will spend more resources on helping state and local
leaders scale up private school options to meet demand for voucher and tax-credit programs. Second, it
will launch a Grassroots Advisory Board consisting of a speakers bureau of parents, educators, and local
activists trained by CER with the express purpose of driving the public discourse on education reform
issues. CER's strategic plan also includes the its online EdReformU designed to bring education reform
advocates the latest information on reform initiatives and policy alternatives best suited to bringing about
successful reform to current systems. lts first pilot course, "The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Education
System - The Development of the Movement" enrolled a cohort of 50 potential education reform leaders.
Finally, CER will expand the availability and use of its e-properties such as Power lndex, Education Fifty,
and Media Bullpen.
A grant of $250,000 is requested.
BUDGET INFORMATION: CER's operating budget in 2015 is $1,695,888. lts current list of Foundation
support includes the Diana Davis Spencer Foundation, Gleason Family Foundation, the J.A. and Kathryn
Albertson Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Under Jeanne Allen's leadership CER has a well-deserved reputation as
a leading authority on K-12 reform in the charter and choice space. As a reservoir of information on
policy, organizing skills at the grassroots level, experience in dealing with the media, and, as of late, use
of social media, CER has won the respect and following of reform-minded educators, parents and policy
makers over the span of 20 some years.
Allen' presence will be missed. The appointment of her longtrme chief staff assistant, Kara Kerwin, has
served over the past year to ease any concerns about the organization's capacity to carry on with its
work. lt is most likely that CER's most significant contribution will be in counseling charter school
advocates in key states on what works in terms of policy change to expand the number of charter schools
throughout the country and how to manage regulatory problems in the case of start-ups.
Continued support is recommended at the level of $30,000.

Center for Education Reform
Grant History
Project Title Grant Amount Approved Fund
To support general operations $20,000 1111112014 Regular
To support a fellowship $75,000 611712014 Regular
To support special initiatives $50,000 212212011 Regular
To support special initiatives $7s,000 511112010 Regular
To support special initiatives $100,000 212412009 Regular
To support general operations $50,000 6/3/2008 Regular

To support the Target States lnitiative $50,000 51212007 Regular
To support media outreach and federal education efforts $40,000 812212006 Regular
To support the Partners Program $50,000 812812001 Regular
To support general operations $50,000 8/25l1998 Regular

To support distribution of Charles Sykes book "Dumb¡ng Down $31,860 1012411995 Regular
Our Kids"
Grand Totals (20 items) $ 1,071,860
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Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina
ADDRESS:
434 Fayetteville Street, Suite 1620
Raleigh, NC 27601
CONTACT:
Mr. DarrellAllison
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: $50,000
PROJECT TITLE: To support outreach to parents

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Mike Hartmann

BAGKGROUND: Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC) in Raleigh, N.C.,
requests a $50,000 grant award in first-time support, for outreach to parents.
Founded in 2005, PEFNC is a statewide organization that supports greater educational options through
parental school choice. lt informs parents of the benefits of expanded educational options and empowers
them to exercise freedom in meeting their children's needs. lt is part of the successful North Carolina
conservative state infrastructure in which Bradley has philanthropically invested.
PEFNC's president is energetic and effective

North Carolina lawyer DarrellAllison. Allison has
been well-mentored on school-choice issues by
fellow native North Carolinian Howard Fuller,
including through the Bradley-supported Black
1t
Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO).
\r: ln 2013, North Carolina passed both the Children

with Disabilities Scholarship Grant Program and
\ Opportunity Scholarship Program. The Children
with Disabilities Scholarship Grant replaced a tax
credit that was passed in 2001 and provides up
to $6,000 to families who have a child with a
disability. The Opportunity Scholarship allows
Allison
the parents of low-income students in
kindergarten through 12th grade to receive up to
$4,200 to attend a private school of their choice.
After passage of the Opportunity Scholarship program, PEFNC launched extensive outreach campaigns
in 2014 and 2015, aimed at letting parents and schools across the state know about the program. The
outreach included direct mail, telephone calls, radio advertisements, targeted social-media efforts, and
technical assistance to parents and schools. Despite legal challenges against the program, more than
11,000 applications from parents have been submitted.
The program was allowed to begin in the 2014-15 academic year while the challenges were pending in
appeals courts. |n2014:15, 1,200 students were allowed to participate in the program.
Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled the program constitutional, allowing it to continue
this Fall -- after which demand for participation in it is likely to only grow further.
The Supreme Court held that the North Carolina constitution "specifically envisions that children in our
state may be educated by means outside of the public school system." lndeed, the Court recognized that
not only do the North Carolina families receiving these scholarships benefit from them, but that the
"ultimate beneficiar[ies]" are the citizens of North Carolina. The Bradley-supported lnstitute for Justice
represented a group of intervening families in the case.
There currently is $11 million budgeted by the state for the program, which would allow for 2,600 students
to participate. As of this writing, all eligible applicants to the program are being placed on a waiting list
until further funding might be available. The state legislature is considering authorizing $7 million more in
funding, which would allow for almost 2,000 more students to participate. lf it authorizes more funding, of
course, more students could participate.
PEFNC would like to continue its outreach as the program grows.
Budget information: PEFNC's overall 2015 expense budget is $2,1 54,012. lt receives substantial, six-
figure support from The Walton Family Foundation.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The recent triumph for school choice in North Carolina is particularly
satisfying to Bradley, given Allison's BAEO backing and its steady and growing support of the state
infrastructure there. Given its decades-long experience with the triumphs and travails of school-choice
programs around the country, moreover, Bradley is quite familiar with the importance of such programs
succeeding early - and being perceived by policymakers and the public as succeeding, from the get-go
Therefore, staff recommends a $50,000 grant to PEFNC for its outreach to parents. lf awarded, this grant
would be matched by Walton.
Parents for Educational Freedom in North Garolina
Grant History
-- NONE --
B. Foreign policy & national security
Update: Ethics and Public Policy Genter's John Hay lnitiative
ln February, the Board approved a $200,000 grant to the Ethics and Public Policy Center in support of the
John Hay lnitiative (JHl) project on foreign-policy and national-security transition planning. (ln June, the
Board then approved a $350,000 grant to the Conservative Reform Policy Center for its Room to Grow
project - a compilation of domestic-policy ideas and specific proposals upon which any receptive future
federal policymaker or -shaper could rely, about which the lmplementation & lmpact Committee is
presenting a report.)
ln July, on schedule, JHI held a two-day

conference in Middleburg, Va., during which
almost all of authors of the various chapters for its
book and some other participants critiqued each
other's work, with an eye towards improving the
final published project. Necessarily wide-ranging,
the exercise was quite intense and substantive.
Brian Hook of JHI and Eliot Cohen of the Bradley-

supported Strategic Studies Program at Johns
Hopkins University's School of Advanced
lnternational Studies led the event. Adam
Garfinkle, founding editor of The American
lnterest, will edit the volume - which is slated for
release and promotion in mid-September.
John Hay lnitiative book conference
The as-yet-untifled book's draft oufline and
authors are on the next page. The conference's other participants are listed on page 3
ln the draft form it was presented to the conference, the book's introduction - by Cohen, Eric Edelman of
the Bradley-supported Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and Hook - is on pages 4
through 7. lt sketches out the "conservative internationalism" of the larger work.
Draft John Hay lnitiative book outline and authors
Foreword - Pete Wehner, Ethics and Public Policy Center
1 -
Rebuilding American Foreign Policy Eliot Cohen, Johns Hopkins University's Schoolof
Advanced lnternational Sfudies, Eric Edelman, Centerfor Strategic and Budgetary
Assessmenfs, and Brian Hook, John Hay lnitiative and Latitude, LLC
2. First Order of Business: Rebuilding America's Alliances
Overview - Edelman
Europe -- Wess Mitchell, Center for European Policy Analysis
Latin America -- Dan Fisk,lnternationalRepublican lnstitute (lRl)
Asia and the Pacific - Jim Shinn , Center for Strategic and Budgeta4r Assessmenfs
Middle EasUlsrael - Elliott Abrams, Councilon Foreign Relations
Africa - Peter Pham, Atlantic Council
3. National Defense
Strategy for the Common Defense -- Cohen

Military Readiness and Defense Modernization -- Jim Talent, American Enterprise lnstitute (AEI)
4. Addressing Threats to National Security
The Rise of Militant Islam - TBD

lran -- Mike Singh, Washington lnstitute for Near East Policy
ISIS and al-Qaeda - Michael Hayden, Chertoff Group, and Jamil Jaffer, House Permanent
Se/ecf Commiftee on lntelligence
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Russia Paula Dobriansky, Harvard University, and David Kramer, McCain lnstitute
North Korea - Dan Blumenthal, AEl
5. China
China's Economy - Leland Mlller, China Beige Book International

Ghina's Military Build-Up - Jackie Deal, Long Term Strategy Group
An lntegrated China Policy -- Aaron Friedberg, Princeton University
6. lnternational Economics
Connecting Economics and Security -- Laurence Zuriff , NextLine Manufacturing

A New Trade Agenda - Clay Lowery, Rock Creek GlobalAdv¡sors, and John Herrmann,
Kelly Drye
7. Global Challenges and Opportunities
Cyber -- Michael Chertoff and Frank Cilluffo, Cheftoff Group

lntelligence - Michael Allen, Beacon GlobalSfrafegies
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Counter-proliferation and Missile Defense Bob Joseph, National lnstitute for Public Policy
Energy Security - Jeff Kupfer, Asia Society Policy lnstitute
United Nations -- Kristen Silverberg, lnstitute of lnternational Finance, and Hook
Democracy, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom - Mark Green, /R/
Foreign Assistance - Dan Runde, Center for Strategic & lnternational Studies
8. The Next President's National Security Councîl - Peter Feaver, Duke Universify, and
Will lnboden, University of Texas
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Other John Hay lnitiative book-conference participants
Chris Brose, Senafe Armed Services Committee

Colin Dueck, George Mason University
Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard
Mary Beth Long, Mefis Solutions, LLC
Terry Nelson, FPl Sfrafegies
Martha Simms, John Hay lnitiative
JoelWinton, Paul Singer Family Foundation
Roger Zakheim, Covington & Burling
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Draft introduction to John Hay Initiative book
Rebuilding American Foreign Policy
Eliot Cohen, Johns Hopkins University's Schoo/ of Advanced lnternational Sfudies

Eric Edelman, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessmenfs
Brian Hook, John Hay lnitiative and Latitude, LLC
Today, America's enemies do not fear her and America's friends doubt that they can trust her. Following
a decade and a half of conflict in the Middle East and South Asia, some Americans have concluded that
the best thing to do is to pull back from the world and its troubles. There are those who believe that
America's role as guarantor of global order is no longer necessary, history having ended with the Cold
War; there are those who think the United States is too clumsy and incompetent to do much of anything
right; and there are those who think that "nation-building at home" is some kind of alternative to
engagement abroad.
e. We believe that a strong United States is

the maintenance of the open global order under
country and the rest of the world have prospered
; that the alternative is not a self-regulating machine
g states, but a landscape marked by eruptions of
country and the rest of the chaos and destruction. We recognize the failures as well as
ses of policies in the past, because to govern is to
d to choose in the world as it is, is necessarily to err.
e believe that we must understand those failures
rom them, we also believe that American power and
as, on the whole, served our country and the world
landscape marked by far better than American weakness and introversion.
erupt¡Ons Of ChaOS and We also nal circumstances have
American
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accordingly. ln Lincoln's words, "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." lt is to that
end that we have written this book.
Today, the United States faces a global system that is more complex and more volatile -
if not always
more dangerous -- than that of the 20th Century. ln Asia, we confront a rising China, whose growing
economy may soon equal or even surpass ours, whose governmental system still rests on the foundation
laid by one of the great totalitarian monsters of the last century, and whose aspirations run counter to our
interests. Beijing seeks to dominate East Asia, assert claims to international waters that are
unacceptable to us, and replace the American-shaped order that enabled China's "peaceful rise" with one
in which we are only one of multiple, equal participants.
ln Europe, rather than the Europe whole, free, and at peace that many anticipated at the end of the Cold
War, we face a revived Russia, whose frail democratic institutions have been undermined, silenced, or
destroyed. lt has invaded one neighbor and annexed part of its territory, while intimidating others. lt has
partly rebuilt its military, and is willing to use it. At the same time, our European allies are trapped in slow
growth, inadequate defense expenditure, and a crisis of confidence in the institutions that they have
constructed.
The Middle East is aflame, with several of the states created in the aftermath of the World Wars
dissolving in sectarian and ethnic bloodshed and civil war. The Syrian civil war alone has cost nearly a
quarter million people their lives, has created millions of refugees, and has emerged as a magnet for
jihadists from around the world, including Europe, who will eventually return, hardened by experience, to
their homelands. The Persian Gulf is menaced by an lran whose nuclear ambitions will not be blocked
and may even be eased by arms-control agreements, which now dominates four Arab capitals, and
wages covert warfare from the Mediterranean coast to southern Yemen.
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The threats from hostile states include the persistence of a North Korea that is expanding its stockpile of
nuclear weapons and which, if unchecked, will put them on missiles that can reach the United States. At
the same time, non-state actors -- most notably, jihadist movements of several stripes -- vie with each
other for first place in waging holy war from Nigeria to Pakistan. After a period in which American leaders
boasted that they had put Al Qaeda and analogous movements on the verge of strategic defeat, we now
realize that they will continue to threaten our homeland and our people and our interests abroad, and that
they have the power to destabilize or even overthrow allied governments throughout the Middle East.
These and other challenges (for example, America's increasing estrangement from an authoritarian and
illiberal Turkey, or the nascent competition for control of resources in the High North) require a first-order
rethinking of American foreign policy. The threats will not be resolved by rousing speeches and a
substantial increase in defense spending alone, welcome and necessary though both would be. Rather,
they will require both more resources and creative statecraft, and they will require patience and
perseverance in reversing the setbacks of recent years, and the erosion of the credibility of American
promises and threats.
The good news is that the American hand in international politics remains not only strong, but
considerably better than that of any potential rival or collection of rivals, most emphatically to include
China. The United States has a modestly growing and relatively young population, unlike China, Russia,
Japan, and Europe; the depth of its financial markets and research establishment are still unmatched; as
a result of the unconventional oil boom, it is, in effect, energy self-sufficient; it has abundant water, the
world's most productive agriculture, natural resources, and clean air; its military is the most-experienced
in the world, and while others can match individual aspects of its armed forces, none have the full
spectrum of abilities that it does. The American system of government, with all of its cacophony and
division, is legitimate and functional; the states of our federal system are indeed laboratories for policy
innovation, and a breeding ground for new political elites. The United States has an alliance system that,
despite strains and change, remains unmatched. lndeed, one of its great intangible sources of strength is
its ability to build and operate coalitions. And unlike its potential rivals, it shares borders with only two
nations, and those friendly.
What principles should inform the way that lt plays this hand? The first is to reject the notion of foreign
policy based exclusively either on ideals or interests. The truth is that the United States has always, and
mustbyitsnature,actonboth. Acountryfoundedonthepropositionthat"allmenarecreatedequal,"
and whose President declared during its greatest war that the issue at stake was whethet "any nation so
constituted can long endure" has universal claims and a universal outlook that it cannot and must not
renounce. John Quincy Adams may have declared that the United States should not go abroad in search
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of monsters to destroy but in the same speech, he insisted that the principles underlying the
Declaration of lndependence were the only legitimate ones, destined to cover the globe.
At the same time, the United States has interests like all states; moreover, a pursuit of its ideals without
thought to cost or consequence would lead to all manner of unacceptable dangers. Americans rightly
allied with the Soviet Union during World War ll; it cooperated with unsavory regimes in the Cold War; it
reluctantly works with regimes in the Middle East that are better than the alternative.
The first principle of American foreign policy, therefore, should prudence will also mean
be prudence, a cardinal conservative virtue, which does not
mean forsaking one's values, but rather advancing them in the picking our fights.
manner best adapted to their success. ln the increasingly
complex international environment in which we operate, the United States cannot afford to be doctrinaire,
even as it would be absurd to aspire to act with the amoral practicality of an eighteenth century monarchy
Prudence will also mean picking our fights. ln the aftermath of World War ll American GDP was nearly
50% of the global total; after falling to something over a quarter of world GDP after Europe and Japan
recovered from World War ll, it will decline further to something like one-fifth of global GDP. Our
resources will be finite, and so will be the ability of our leaders to focus on more than a few problems at a
time.
At the heart of American foreign policy should be our conception of international order. That order is only
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partly about free trade, although it is important to remind ourselves and others of just how important a
world of low tariffs and diminished barriers to commerce has been to the prosperity that has brought
hundreds of millions out of poverty since the World Wars. That conception of order must include the
freedom of smaller states to live without fear of invasion or military coercion; a commitment to the
international law that governs the great commons of mankind, sea, and space. And it must include, as
well, the maintenance of a world that is friendly to the existence of free peoples and limited government.
The United States does I seek to impose its form of

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libraries, from Radio Free Europe to the work of institutes sponsored by the two great parties in the
United States, were indispensable. The first call on the United States government must be the
reconstruction of our defenses after years of war and, recently and worryingly, a prolonged reduction in
them below what is sound. The word "reconstruction" is important: an American military redesigned for
the 2l't Century will ditfer in material ways from that of the 20th.
ln the same way, those instruments of soft power must be reconceived. Efforts to wage the "war of ideas"
against radical lslam have, on the whole, failed. The United States government, working creatively with
the private and nonprofit sectors, must find approaches that make the case for free governments and free
societies, and that undermine or confront the ideologies that oppose ours. There is a political contest
here that requires the same enterprising spirit that imbued American efforts at political warfare during the
early Cold War.
A third effort must be directed at reshaping the American alliance system, which was indispensable to our
victory in the Cold War, but which now requires remaking. Some old allies -- the United Kingdom, most
notably -- have faded and withdrawn, while others (Japan, Australia, and even Canada) have grown in
importance and self-confidence. We have new allies (the United Arab Emirates, for example, or
Colombia) whose potential remains to be tapped. And we have partners -- above all, lndia -- who may
resist the name "ally," but will act alongside us in important ways.
The NATO alliance will remain a bedrock of European security; indeed, its protection and maintenance in
the face of Russian aggression is an imperative. But new alliance systems will emerge, in a variety of
forms, to include treaty-based relationships, informal agreements, and bilateral and multilateral
arrangements. And it is correct to say that without slighting our European commitments, the United
States must shift some of its foreign-policy energy to Asia from its traditional focus on Europe and the
Middle East.
More than 100 years ago, the United States hesitated on the verge of entering the global war that was
convulsing Europe. lt eventually did so, as an associated rather than an Allied power, and its
ambivalence crippled its performance. President Wilson's attempt to reconstruct global order was only
partly successful, and regrettably, America's leaders were unable to agree on sustaining an American
role in maintaining global order thereafter. That hesitation and reluctance increased the price paid when,
in the 1930s, the dictators had their way in Europe and Asia.
We do not yet face a cataclysm like that of the late 1930s. But it is fair to compare our era to that of the
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early 1930s, when the democratic powers seemed to have lost their military edge and, equally important,
their self-confidence and will power. At the same time, pitiless dictators and virulent ideologies were
making use of new technologies to threaten, in ways previously inconceivable, the international order. ln
the era in which we live, neither a minimalist foreign policy seeking to avoid conflict and maintain quiet,
nor one thoughtlessly eager to remake the world, can succeed. Rather, America needs a foreign policy
based on strength, rooted in values and interests, and conducted with wisdom, to find a way in a world
that could turn much darker with little notice.
A final note about the genesis and purpose of this book. lt is This book is written for the
written for the next President of the United States -- regardless
of party. Just as many of our foreign-policy challenges
next preSident of the United
transcend party potitics, so do their sotutions. We sèek a States -- regardless of party.
return to the biþartisan tradition of American leadership in Just as many of our foreign-
world affairs, and we believe the American public is ready for pol¡cy challenges transcend
this, aswell. party pol¡t¡cs, so do their
The authors of each chapter have been working together for solutions'
the last three years as part of the John Hay lnitiative, which is a volunteer network of over 250 foreign-
policy, defense, and intelligence experts assembled to advise existing and potentialfuture policymakers
We formed this nonprofit organization to oppose the neo-isolationism afflicting both political parties, and
we worried that 70 years of bipartisan consensus in favor of American leadership in world affairs was
unraveling. We have countered these trends by articulating and defending the conservative
internationalist tradition. We advocate policies that help prevent war, foster economic prosperity,
strengthen our friends, and uphold values of liberty and the rule of law. lt is named after John Hay,
secretary to Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of State under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, and
the most-able diplomat of his generation.
The book is divided into sections that in our judgment are the drivers of American foreign policy and
national security. The next President must make consistent progress in these areas or we risk a
continuance of the sfafus quo.
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C. Religious freedom
Seymour lnstitute for BIack Church and Policy Studies
ADDRESS:
Ella J. Baker House
411 Washington Street
Boston, MA.02124
CONTACT:
Ms. Jacqueline C. Rivers
PROJECT TITLE: To support a seminar series on religious liberty

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Dan Schmidt

BACKGROUND: The Seymour lnstitute for Black Church and Policy Studies is seeking a grant of
$150,000 in support of its religious liberty seminar series.
The Seymour lnstitute developed from a series of organizations beginning with the William J. Seymour
Society at Harvard in 1981 . The Seymour lnstitute for Advanced Church Studies, a wing of the Azusa
Christian Community was the next phase for 15 years from 1990-2005. ln 2014 the Witherspoon
lnstitute incorporated the Seymour lnstitute as an independent organization. lts purpose is to educate
and train black church leaders both present and future, as well as other leading scholars and
policymakers with respect to the issues confronting the black church and how best, in a public policy
sense, these matters might be addressed. The issues clearly as stake include marriage, poverty, civil
rights, and religious liberty.
ln 2Q14 the Seymour lnstitute launched a series of seminars on religious liberty with the guidance and
financial assistance from the Witherspoon lnstitute and the Bradley Foundation. The series will run from
2015 through 2017. The will center on presentation by leading scholars on issues at the intersection of
politics and economics and society and theology. The 2015 seminar, meeting at the Princeton
Theological lnstitute, will address the philosophical and historical foundations of religious liberty in the US
with special emphasis on the black church. Attention will be paid to the leadership role that the black
church must play in emphasizing the indivisibility of the principle of religious liberty and freedom of
conscience resting on an uncompromising commitment to Christian teaching. Scholars committed to
leading the seminar in 2015 include: David Daniels (McCormick Theological Seminary), Jacqueline
Rivers, Michael Leavitt (former governor of Utah and former Secretary of Human Services for President
George W. Bush), and Cheryl Sanders (Howard School of Divinity).
BUDGET INFORMATION: The total operating budget for the lnstitute in 2015 is $372,852. Requests for
support our currently out to the Chiaroscuro Foundation, Church of Latter Day Saints, Fieldstead and
Company, and Templeton
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Religious liberty in the United States is under threat from a variety of
secular elements in society. To date the Black Church in America has been on the sidelines in terms of
the struggle to protect religious liberty. lt is important to energrze the Church to repudiate these
increasing attacks on the liberty of citizens who wish to express their beliefs in the public square.
lmportant because the Black Church enjoys widespread respect for its moral integrity.
The William J. Seymour lnstitute for Black Church and Policy Studies is to educate the Black Church
through a series of seminars on issues which will position leading black clergy and members of the laity to
play a strategic role in the struggle.
A grant of $50,000 is recommended.

Seymour lnstitute for Black Church and Policy Studies
Grant History
-- NONE --
D. New opportunities
Donors Trust
ADDRESS:
1730 M Street NW, Suite 601
CONTACT:
Mr. Adam Meyerson
AMOUNT REQUESTED: $1,000,000
PROJECT TITLE: To support the lndependence Project

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Dan Schmidt

BACKGROUND: Donors Trust is seeking support in the amount of $1 million to support the launch and
incubation of the Philanthropy Roundtable's lndependence Project.
The government spends several hundreds of billions of dollars every year to aid veterans. Tens of
thousands of nonprofits offer veterans charitable assistance. And there are thousands of corporate
efforts. While many, if not most, of all these public and private efforts take care of veterans in ways that
are quite heroic.
Unfortunately, a large share of the help is misguided. And, in the case of government assistance, it
undermines, in many instances, the long-term quality of life for veterans. The Veterans Disability
Compensation (VDC), for example, pays veterans based on how sick or injured they can show
themselves to be and then has no response when so many drop out of the labor force and struggle in
civilian life. When veterans apply for VDC the Veterans Administration counts up their service-connected
medical conditions, assigns them a percentage disability rating, and begins sending them monthly checks
dictated by that rating. lt is a question of incentives. By offering money to those who claim incapacities,
without promoting any rehabilitation, the current system pulls veterans into dependency.
The VDC program is growing at a fast pace. The number of recipients increased by 69 percent from
2001 to 2014 even though the veteran population declined by some 17 percent. The proportion of
veterans reached 18 percent by September 2014. Nearly one half of post 9/1 1 veterans have applied for
the VDC program as compared to the 1 1 percent of WWll veterans. Since 2000, the cost to taxpayers of
disability compensation for veterans has grown by four times over where today some $73 billion is spent
on the disabled as defined by the program.
The lndependence Project is designed to challenge the Veterans public bureaucracy by testing new
flexible private alternatives.
The lndependence Project is a demonstration initiative focusing on rehabilitation and life success for
moderately disabled veterans. Rather than putting disabled veterans on an endless stream of small
monthly payments the current veterans' disability compensation system pays veterans in perpetuity.
Those payments are based on the veterans' ability to demonstrate the extent of their sickness or injury
The lndependence Project will test an alternative system offering intensive support to accommodate
injuries, discover talents, build careers, and put them on a course to develop as self-relìant citizens.
The demonstration project will conduct a side-by-side comparison of three groups of randomly sorted
volunteer veterans. The first group will receive assessment and capability testing, individuals case
management (coordinated by Recovery Navigators), a substantial up-front investment in retraining and
rehabilitation, and a time-limited wage subsidy to encourage work. Participants in this group will have
access to a personalized spending account to use in an 24 month period to become qualified for a career
-- an individualized recovery program. The second group will receive a time-limited wage subsidy to
encourage work but none of the personalized assistance for life- and skill-enhancement of the
individualized recovery program. And, the third group will be a control group that proceeds through the
existing system of disability compensation with no intervention.
It is expected, to achieve sufficient statistical power, the project will need to include 150 veterans in the
intensive individualized recovery program group, with 200 veterans in the wage subsidy standalone
group, and 200 in the control group.
As designed the project aims to collect data from three sources. Those include administrative data,
regular participant surveys, and observations from the Recovery Navigators who work with the veterans in
the individualized recovery program on a daily basis. Data collection and management will be conducted
by independent evaluators. Primary outcomes of interest in the evaluation portion of the initiative are
employment and economic situation, health and disability condition, and consumption of public benefits.
The leading candidates to host and execute this project include Hire Heroes USA. Hire Heroes is a
Georgia-based employment organization that focuses on serving veterans. lts approach emphasizes
dissuading clients from becoming victims. Hire Heroes USA's locations in Georgia, Colorado Springs,
Auburn, Washington, Plano, Texas, and Sand Diego are proximate to participant recruitment sites. Also
under consideration are the USO, The Mission Continues (a nonprofit organization helps veterans
continue to serve the nation by involving them in service fellowships and projects), and the Travis Manion
Foundation ( an organization which runs professional internship melding work experience, networking,
professional development, transition assistance, and grief counseling for veterans).
An advisory committee has already been established to guide the project. lt was formed in June 2014
coincidentalwith a Philanthropy Roundtable conference engaging scholars in labor economics, medicine
and clinical psychology, psychiatry, worker compensation, disability recovery and veterans advocacy
aimed at designing the program. The Committee consists of Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Gade, active
duty army officer and instructor at the William E. Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic at West
Point, Former Senator Bob Kerrey, with invitations out to former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim
Nicholson, director of clinical psychology training at Harvard Medical School, and Mark Duggan who
currently serves as director of the Stanford lnstitute for Economic Policy Research.
A grant of $1 million is requested.
BUDGET INFORMATION: The total budget for The lndependence Project is $9,995,217.99. A total of
$7,050,000 will cover assessment and planning and human capital and development costs. A portion of
the $Tmillion will be used for the wage subsidy and administrative expenses for the project.
$1,520,217.99 will be used for program director costs and recovery navigators' salaries, with the
remaining amounts used for control group costs, assessments and evaluations, and participation
payments.
Support for the project has been already provided by the Anschutz and Milbank Foundations as well as
the Daniels Fund.
The Philanthropy Roundtable is handling fundraising for the project but will not have any funding for it
pass through its accounts. Donors will make grants to Donors Trust. A steering commrttee of donors to
the project will oversee the regular disbursement of funds to the partner nonprofit organization selected to
execute the project.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Disability compensation has become the Department of Veterans Affairs'
single largest expenditure. lt costs vastly more than what is spent to rehabilitate the injured, more than
what is spent to educate and train the veterans, help them buy houses, or even to care for their health
needs.
While many policy experts and scholars acknowledge the perverse incentives at work in this area, no
viable alternative exists, with the added burden of interest groups wedded to the same old inefficient and
ineffective way of doing things. The Philanthropy Roundtable's inspired demonstration project on
veterans issues related to the disability compensation system is the kind of situation that invites an
intervention from private philanthropy. Private donors have the space to invent a positive alternative on
the micro level that could spark change at the macro. As outlined The lndependence Project offers a
demonstration project that circumvents the Veterans Affairs' bureaucracy testing some new thinking
about providing veterans with reintegrating into society in an active, meaningful, self- sufficient fashion.
Beyond veteran well-being the Roundtable's project, in its lessons learned, could have important
implications for disability policy specifically and fiscal sustainability generally.
A grant of $100,000 is recommended

Foundation for Economic Education
ADDRESS:
1718 Peachtree St. NW
Suite 1048
Atlanta, GA 30309
CONTACT:
Mr. Lawrence W. Reed
PROJECT TITLE: To support general operations

WITH REQUEST:
PROPOSAL ID#: 201 50545

BACKGROUND: The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in Atlanta requests a $75,000 grant
award in first-time support of its general operations.
Founded in 1946, some at FEE like to call it the granddaddy of all conservative-libertarian organizations.
It has always attempted to inspire, educate, and connect mostly high-school-aged future leaders with the
economic, ethical, and legal principles of a free society. lt sees itself as reaching people at an age before
which they can turn elsewhere, including the Bradley-supported lntercollegiate Studies lnstitute, lnstitute
for Humane Studies, and The Fund for American Studies (TFAS).
Historically, FEE's writers and speakers have included James Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Jr., Milton
Friedman, F. A. "Baldy" Harper, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, lsrael Kirzner, Vernon Smith, George
Stigler, Ludwig von Mises, and Walter Williams, among others.
Economist Lawrence W. Reed left the Bradley-supported Mackinac Center for Public Policy in 2008 to
become FEE's president, after having served on its board for many years, including as its chair for a time.
Its new executive director is the business-minded Wayne Olson, who previously served as its chair for six
years. Olson retired in 2008 from Credit Suisse.
FEE's board is charied by TFAS's Roger Ream and includes includes Kris Mauren of the Bradley-
supported Acton lnstitute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
Last year, FEE sold its longtime headquarters in lrvington-on-Hudson, N.Y., and moved to Atlanta.
FEE's principal publication for decades has been The Freeman, a monthly that itself was founded in
1920. Unfortunately, The Freeman became what may best represent the look and feel of the stylistic, if
not substantive, staleness that Reed, Olson, and their leadership team are now trying to shake in a
decidedly different era for information consumption.
This year, FEE finally changed The Freeman to a quarterly and made its
format more reader-friendly. lt continues to distribute other printed
material on free-market economics, as well, including its classic books
The Law and Economics in One Lesson. lt says it distributed
approximately I 15,000 sets of printed materials and DVDs last year.
For the new era, though slow in coming, FEE has also expanded its
online outreach to youth. lt has a state-ofthe-art website and takes
advantage of data-driven digital marketing to engage those most
receptive to its message at lower unit cost. The site contains 70 years of
searchable archival content and a blog.
Its Facebook and Twitter presences have attracted an impressively

growing number of viewers and followers during the past three years
than ever before, reaching millions.
Spring 2015's first new and FEE continues its in-person programming, as well, mostly through one-
improved quafterly edition day seminars and internship programs. lt reached 15,000 people directly
with 91 events last year.
Budget information: FEE's expenses last year totaled $3,823,956.
Its sources of philanthopric support include the Richard Seth Staley Education, Donald and Paula Smith
Family, and J. P. Humphreys Foundations, as well as various Koch entities. lt is trying to reestablish what
used to be quite-major support from the John Templeton Foundation.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Bradley has declined 13 requests from the musty FEE for support since
2004, but staff believes it may now be time to exhibit a measure of confidence in Reed and the new
leadership there as they are seemingly successfully taking it to a different and better nature and level of
engagement with youth.
Staff thus recommends a $40,000 grant to FEE for its general operations.
Foundation for Economic Education
Grant History
-- NONE --
FreedomWorks Fou ndation
ADDRESS:
400 North Capitol Street NW, Suite 765
Washington, DC 20001 -1 564
GONTACT:
Mr. Adam Brandon
PROJECT TITLE: To support public education about the administrative

state and regulations

WITH REQUEST: Mitchell
MEETING DATE: 8118t2015

BACKGROUND: The FreedomWorks Foundation requests a $250,000 grant award in renewed support,
this time for public education about the role and spread of the administrative state and regulations in
particular.
FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity both originated from Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE),
which split in two in 2004. CSE had merged with Empower America in 2004 to become FreedomWorks,
with Dick Armey, Jack Kemp, and C. Boyden Gray serving as co-chairmen. Empower America had been
formed in 1993 by Bill Bennett, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, and Vin Weber.
Armey left FreedomWorks and the FreedomWorks Foundation in 2013. The circumstances surrounding
his departure were contentious. lts president and chief executive officer at the time was economist Matt
Kibbe, a former Capitol Hill staff member. Kibbe remained after the kerfuffle, but he is now just president.
The new chief executive officer of FreedomWorks and the FreedomWorks Foundation is Adam Brandon,
a longtime employee of both entities. His most-recent position with them was Vice President of
Communications.
Bradley supported the FreedomWorks Foundation lrom 2004 to 2012. During the latter part of that
period, with many others, it successfully provided citizens and grassroots activists with helpful public
education and sophisticated training, tools, and tactics.
Now, with the guidance of its separate board and under Brandon's direction, the FreedomWorks
Foundation is launching what it sees as a groundbreaking effort to educate citizens in depth about that
which the burgeoning administrative state is doing to freedom in America, and to again provide them with
means through which to try limiting it.
The U.S. Congress and state legislatures over the past several decades have irresponsibly abdicated
their legislative authority to executive-branch agencies that confidently "fill in the blanks" of poorly drafted
or incomplete statutes. These agencies collectively do much more than any legislative body to impose
burdens on the freedom of Americans, their businesses, and their institutions of civil society.
The FreedomWorks Foundation's Regulations SWAT (Stop Washington's Abuse of Taxpayers) Action
Center will mobilize thousands of grassroots activists to become aware of and fight the administrative
state. lt will use the advanced technology with which it is already so familiar in "real time," encouraging
the filing of comments online with agencies if and when warranted, among other things.
Last year, the FreedomWorks Foundation joined with others to help generate the filing of more than
160,000 comments with the U.S. lnternal Revenue Service (lRS) on its proposed regulations on nonprofit
organizations that would have infringed upon their free-speech rights. More than 90% of the comments
were against the proposal, which the IRS later withdrew.
The Regulations SWAT Action Center will do more of this kind of thing.-
Budget information: The FreedomWorks Foundation's 2015 expense budget totals $6,594,000. lts
sources of philanthropic support include the Anschutz, Armstrong, Challenge, Richard & Helen DeVos,
Dunn's, JM, Krieble, Randolph, Arthur N. Rupe, Sarah Scaife, Diana Davis Spencer, and John Templeton
Foundations, as well as the Searle Freedom Trust.
The budget for setting up its regulation project in particular is $1,372,000.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The good reasons underlying Bradley's hiatus from supporting the
FreedomWorks Foundation since 2012 are no longer applicable, and its new leadership fully understands
that which is necessary to keep things that way.
The IRS defines "legislation" as an action by a legislative body, so actions like this against executive
agencies do not risk running afoul of permissible 501(c)(3) activity.
Therefore, staff recommends a $50,000 grant to the Freedom Works Foundation for its regulation project
- which has great potential to well-complement other related work being done by other Bradley grantees,
prominently including the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies and the Mercatus Center at
George Mason University.
FreedomWorks Fou ndation
Grant History
To support general operations $100,000 2128120'12 Regular
To support general operations $s0,000 12t5t2011 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
To support general operations $'150,000 2t22t2011 Regular
To support general operations $50,000 12t2t2010 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
To support general operations $100,000 2t23t2010 Regular

Program
To support general operations $5,000 12t7 t2007 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
To support the work of the Portuguese American Leadership $50,000 11t13t2007 Regular
Council of the United States

Program
To support general operations $25,000 1211612005 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program

Program
To support general operations $10,000 12t1012003 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
Grand Totals (16 items) $740,000
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GRANT PROPOSAL REGORD
lndependent Women's Forum
ADDRESS:
1875 Eye Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20006-5425
GONTACT:
Ms. Sabrina Schaeffer
PROJECT TITLE: To support the Working for Women Policy Project

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Dan Schmidt

BACKGROUND: The lndependent Women's Forum (lWF) requests Bradley's support for its Working for
Women Policy Project.
Twenty three years have passed since IWF began its work on introducing more women to conservative
ideas, principles and values. lts program activities have been dedicated to promoting the principles of
free markets and limited government. lts work focuses on how to change how women think about
political principles and their relationship to the formation of public policy. ln sum, IWF is aiming at
providing for women a sensible, attractive alternative to radical leftist feminist organizations such as the
National Organization of Women, Feminist Majority, National Women's Law Center, Emily's List, and the
Association of University Women.
To achieve its purpose IWF conducts on a regular basis messaging research which it utilizes in the
creation of its writing, public education campaigns, and social media materials. Durlng the past two years
that messaging effort has concentrated on two areas, health care and economic opportunity. ln each of
these cases IWF's speeches, media appearances, and publications have stressed that big government,
rather than being a solution, is a source of harm by creating an ever increasing number of regulations that
impact negatively on women and their families.
ln IWF's view the Left has settled on the slogan "Woman-as-Victim" as the centerpiece of its narrative. lt
has refocused its attention to women in the workplace addressing issues pf pay equity, mandated leave
benefits, and childcare subsidies. lt proposes to take on the Left's narrative by offering an alternative
vision expressed in a set of policy proposals in key issue areas to help women, especially unmarried
working mothers, who need more opportunities.
Last year IWF publish a book with 10 female authors titled Lean Together: An Agenda for Smarter
Government, Stronger Communities, and More Opportunity for Women. The book lays out a
positive agenda for women on issues ranging from tax and budget policy, early childhood education,
workplace regulations, food and agriculture policy, health care, and poverty. Based on the book's content
IWF has been developing messaging to women which counter progressive appeals for ever-larger
government programs to address policy issues of most concern to women.
One such controlled message experiment looked at whether women could be persuaded that the
expanded family leave mandate is a bad idea. Without any additional information or conservative
arguments, women are broadly supportive of government-mandated paid leave: 59 percent to 16 in the
control group IWF created. ln that same control group when free market arguments are introduced about
how the mandate would hurt the economy and the job market, support for proposal drops dramatically.
For example, even among progressive women a persuasive argument focused on how mandated leave
creates a realeconomic threat of job loss drives down the margin of support among liberalwomen from
69 to 29 percent.
Based on these messaging demonstration results, IWF's Working for Women's Policy Project will
organize a high profile working group of economists and policy analysts to develop specific policy
proposals on key issues that appealto American women. lt is an anticipated that the lead group of
individuals in the working group will be as follows: Diana Furchgott-Roth, Manhattan lnstitute, Richard
Epstein, University of Chicago, Casey Mulllgan, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Aparna
Mathur, Resident Scholar AEl, Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal, and Sabrina Schaeffer lWF. The
key issues to be engaged are pay equity, childcare and preschool subsidies, family leave policies,
workplace fairness, tax policies (including women as second earners and child tax policy), and retirement
and social security.
The working group will develop a series of specific policy measures with respect to issues mentioned
above. Research will be employed in the service of how best to communicate the limited government,
free market solutions best able to address women as they are impacted in these various policy specific
areas. "Messaging Tool Kits" for each individual issue containing talking points, visuals, key facts and
figures and discussion guides will be provided.
Finally, each working group member will contribute a section to our briefing book, "Working for Women"
The briefing book will lay out actionable policy prescriptions which in their content persuade women that
they will offer more freedom and flexibility for them and their families.
BUDGET INFORMATION: IWF's 2014 budget totals $1,200,000. The Working For Women's Policy
Project budget total $350,000. Of that amount $150,000 is dedicated to salaries and participant
honorarium, $100,000 to message testing, $50,000 for two day working group meeting and press launch,
and $50,000 for tool kit development, distribution and social media marketing.
Overall the organization receives support from foundations, corporations and individuals. lndividuals
such as Mary Kohler and William Hume have personally supported the organization's work. Foundations
such as Coors, Kaufmann, McKenna, Randolph and Spencer have provided funding assistance.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The conservative movement would benefit greatly at this moment from a
deeper engagement on women's issues. A specific, detailed policy agenda to counter proposals on key
issues concerning women needs to be developed. IWF's proposed "Working for Women Policy Project"
fills the need by bringing together female conservative leaders who can develop a platform, assemble
messaging materials, and present a persuadable case on these ideas to the public.
A grant of $150,000 is recommended

lndependent Women's Forum
Grant History
To support general operations $75,000 2t24t2015 I Regular
To support general operations $30,000 1',U7t2006 I Regular
To support "The American Prom¡se" project $5,000 2t22t2006 I Regular
To support general operations $25,000 812312005 I Regular
To support general operations and a fellowship for Kate $50,000 '11t14t2000 I Regular
O'Beirne
To support general operations $115,000 6/8/1999 I Regular
To support general operations, Play Fa¡r! project, fellowship for $1 15,000 61211998 I Regular
Kate O'Beirne
To support general program activities $50,000 1111811997 I Regular
To support general operations and the Women's Figures $50,000 '1012211996 I Regular
project
To support the Media and Speakers Guide of Women Experts $40,000 8/2311993 I Regular
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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, lnc.
ADDRESS:
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
NewYork, NY 10017
CONTACT:
Ms. Vanessa C. Mendoza, J.D
PROJECT TITLE: To support the Future of Cities Symposia

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF Dan Schmidt
MEETING DATE: 8l't812015

BACKGROUND: The Manhattan lnstitute requests Bradley support for the second year of its project on
the future of cities.
Last year Larry Mone and his colleagues at the Manhattan lnstitute with Bradley support organized a
senes of meetings designed to develop and discuss the ideas and public policy flowing from them that
would help cities thrive. Led by Manhattan Senior Fellow and Harvard University economics professor Ed
Glaeser, the meetings convened a number of prominent policy scholars, public decision makers, and
representatives of the media to discuss issues such as housing, transportation, entrepreneurialbusiness
opportunities, regulation, and taxes.
The event series began with a conference in London cohosted by the British think tank Policy Exchange.
Titled "Cities of 2030: The Future of Post-lndustrial Cities." The event featured from the US side Glaeser,
Howard Husock, Nicole Gelinas, Robert Doar, former commissioner of New York City's Human Resource
Administration, and former Mayor of lndianapolis Stephen Goldsmith. Representing the British were Sir
Edward Lister, the chief of staff to the Mayor of London, who also serves as deputy mayor for policy and
planning and Lord Adonis, former secretary for transport.
Subsequent events in the series were dinner meetings involving a presentation of a paper by an urban
policy scholar before a group of approximately 20 to 25 journalists, scholars, business leaders, and public
officials. The topics covered last year were as follows: innovation districts; housing America's cities:
promising policy ideas for affordable housing: preschool programs and education reform; the brain drain
reconsidered: approaches to keeping regionaltalent; and promising policy ideas for improving urban
mobility.
ln 2015-16 the Manhattan lnstitute would like to convene one more year of events designed to consider
big-think ideas on the future of cities. Topics for the coming year's program include: the problem of
extensive deferred maintenance in public housing; do any "economic development" policies work for
cities; should cities consider congestion pricing; what is the record of bike share programs; and the
advantages and disadvantages of fragmented versus consolidated metropolitan government.
A grant of $75,000 is requested
BUDGET INFORMATION: The total budget for the seminar series is $138,189. The Kaufmann
Foundation has indrcated a willingness to cover all costs over and above $75,000.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The Manhattan lnstitute has a longstanding interest in the health and
vitality of cities which is unique among conservative think tanks. Policy scholars and experts associated
with the lnstitute have developed reform ideas which have contributed to improvements in the economic
and social well-being of cities such as welfare-to-work, competition and choice in K-12 education, and
"Broken Windows" policing.
ln the wake of the large variety of challenges confronting today's urban centers from the issue of
municipal debt, to high housing costs and crumbling infrastructure, and a failing K-12 education delivery
system, the Manhattan urban seminar series led by Ed Glaeser offers a modest but important opportunity
for prominent urban policy scholars and leading urban thought leaders and practitioners to come together
to bring fresh analysis to bear on the development of forward looking policy solutions.

Manhattan lnstitute
Grant History
To support the Family Structure project $500,000 6t2t2015 Regular
To support the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment $250,000 2t24t2015 Regular
To support a series of symposia on the future of cities $200,000 2t25t2014 Regular
To support general operations $225,000 2t2512014 Regular
To support the Center for Energy Policy and the Environment $250,000 11t12t2013 Regular
To support the Adam Smith Society project $10,000 8t20t2013 Regular
To support a project on crime in Milwaukee $60,000 2t26t2013 Regular

Program
To support the Center for the American University $20,000 11t13t2012 Regular

Program
To support the Center for the Amer¡can University $20,000 8t16t2011 Regular
To support general operations and the Center for State and $250,000 2t22t2011 Regular
Local Leadership

Program
To support the Center for the American University $25,000 't1t9t2010 Regular
To support RealClearMarkets $50,000 5t11t2010 Regular
To support the work of George Kelling $135,000 5t1112010 Regular
To support general operations $200,000 5t1'.12010 Regular

Program
To support a partnership with RealClearMarkets.com $75,000 6t2t2009 Regular
To support general operations $10,000 't2t18t2008 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
To support a project on crime and violence in the Americas $70,000 6t3t2008 Regular
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Program
To support Poinloflaw.com $20,000 5t2t2007 Regular

Program
To support PointofLaw.com $20,000 5t24t2006 Regular

Program
To support the "PointofLaw.com" web site $25,000 5t24t2005 Regular

Program
To support the Center for Legal Policy, including $25,000 61812004 Regular
"PointofLaw.com"
To support the lnter-American Policy Exchange program $40,000 61812004 Regular

(Building Civil Society in Latin America)
To support research (three faith factors) $25,000 2t26t2004 Regular

Program
To support a book project on H.L. Mencken $3s,000 2t22t2000 Regular
To support general operations and the Jeremiah Project $250,000 6/8i 1 999 Regular
To support the Congregational Mobilization for Community $21,185 11t17 t1998 Regular
Transformation project
To support a project on congregational mobilization for $18,875 11t18t1997 Regular

community transformation
To support a book on the problems of the judiciary $20,000 6/3/1 997 Regular
To support the Center for Civic lnnovation $150,000 6t3t1997 Regular
To support the Center for Civic lnnovation $75,000 11t2711995 Regular
Page 2 of 3
To support a book project byAbiga¡l and Stephen Thernstrom $50,000 912711993 Regular
on the problem of race in America
To support a seminar series $24,000 4t27t1993 Regular
To support a seminar series $16,000 1125t'.t993 Regular
To support James Atlas' biography of Saul Bellow $70,000 9t2811992 Regular
To support a book project on Saul Bellow by James Atlas $70,000 9t2311991 Regular
To support a book project on term limitations $95,000 912311991 Regular
To support a series of economic policy meetings under the $40,000 8/26/1 991 Regular
direction of Dr. Robert Mundell
To support a study of the environmental movement by Alston $61,500 9/25l1989 Regular

Chase
To support a Bradley Fellowship held by Charles Murray $90,000 5/1 5/1 989 Regular
To support a study on Europeanizing the American economy to $67,000 9i20l1 988 Regular
be conducted by Melvyn Krauss
To support the research of the lnstitute's Bradley Visiting $90,000 512311988 Regular
Fellow, Charles Murray.
To support publication of the book: "The Rise of Environmental $48,000 212211988 Regular
Radicalism"
To support completion of research and manuscript of a book $90,000 212211988 Regular

on Regulation of Telecommunications in the Electronic Age by
Mr. Peter Huber
To support research efforts of Bradley Visiting Fellow, Charles $90,000 512811987 Regular
Murray
To support a Bradley Visiting Fellow - Charles Murray (one $90,000 61211986 Regular
year) - to write book re-introducing the public debate of the
defìnition of "happiness" in the constitution
Grand Totals (71 items) $7,666,560
Page 3 of 3
Russian-American lnstitute
ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 1182
Wheaton, !L60187-1182
CONTACT:
Dr. John A. Bernbaum
PROJECT TITLE: To support a concert

WITH REQUEST:
STAFF: Dan Schmidt
MEETING DATE: 811812015

BACKGROUND: The Russian American lnstitute (RAl) requests Bradley support for its participation in
TOth anniversary commemoration of the end of World War ll in Moscow this October.
Established in 1996 RAl, formerly known as the Russian American Christian University, served for a 14
year period as an undergraduate program for Russian students with courses available in the liberal arts
but with special emphasis on business and economics. lts student body of undergraduate and graduate
students was comprised of individuals of allfaiths. ln 2010 RAI made a decision to close down its
undergraduate program owing to a change in Russian education policy at the ministerial level.
Specifically, the Government removed the tax-exempt status from private colleges increasing operating
costs significantly. And, with this change the Ministry of Education determined not to re-accredit RAl.
Following these actions RAI decided to sell a newly built campus facility, some dozen years in the
making, once its 40 undergraduate students completed their course of study. The 50,000 square foot
facility was sold to an international corporation for the full asking price. All taxes have been paid and RAI
was allowed to transfer the funds remaining after taxes back to the States.
Late last year RAl, which continues to exist as a tax exempt organization in the States dedicated to
preparing professionals and leaders to integrate their faith with their work in the marketplace, decided to
continue its work in Russia. The first grant made by RAI was made to the Russian American Language
lnstitute for its capital and program costs. The second grant supports the faculty and staff who make up
the academic core of the lnternational Higher School of Social Work, an independent department within
the Orthodox lnstitute of St. John the Divine in Moscow. Finally, the two most recent grants have been
made to help build a digital library within the St. Cyril and Methodius Theological School of the Russian
Orthodox Church along with funding for a conference on Evangelical Christianity.
RAI is seeking Bradley's support to participate in a commemorative concert honoring those who served,
especially those who lost their lives, in the allied effort to defeat the Nazis in \i\Âffll. RAI's participation
will come in the form of support for the US. Embassy's, in particular the Ambassador from the US to
Russia, John Tefft, request to help cover costs of an American performer in the concert featuring German
and British performing artists accompanying the Russian National Symphony Orchestra.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: RAI's dedication to its educational mission in Russia and persistence in
the face of numerous obstacles has gained for it favorable notice especially in the hierarchy of the
Russian Orthodox Church. lndeed, RAI has in the past and now most recently carried on joint projects
with church on issues such as prisoner rehabilitation, business men working groups engaged in study and
reflection on the intersection of personal faith, ethics, and economics, and English language instruction.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, 1971 Marquette University Graduate, has committed the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow to be a participants' role in a national concert project involving the Russians and the
European Union commemorating the allied war etfort in \ÂA/ú ll. RAI's support with Bradley's help for the
U.S. part in this ceremonial event will certainly to it good in terms of its future mission role in Russia.

Russian American lnstitute
Grant History
To support a lectureship series $40,000 2t23t2010 Regular
To support a scholarship program and conferences $60,000 2t24t2009 Regular
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Saint Andrew's Society
ADDRESS:
P.O. Box 210288
Milwaukee, W|53221
CONTACT:
AMOUNT REQUESTED: Unspecified
PROJECT TITLE: To support renovation of Burns Commons

WITH REQUEST:

,II r-
itl
Bums Commons
BACKGROUND: The Saint Andrew's Society of the City of Milwaukee requests a grant in first-time
support, for renovation of Burns Commons.
Milwaukee's Saint Andrew's Society was founded in '1859 to unite local Scots for benevolent purposes
and to provide a framework for social and cultural activities. lt helps maintain the Milwaukee County Park
System's Burns Commons on the city's East Side, just across the street from The Lion House
headquarters of the Bradley Foundation.
Burns Commons features a statue of

Scottish poet Robert Burns -- author of
"Auld Lang Syne," among other works.
Burns collected, revised, and adapted
hundreds of traditional Scottish songs,
and his original poems carried Scotland's
language and culture to the world. His life
of carousing and his stick-it-to{he-man
attitude further endeared him to his
countrymen.
Burns Commons is in great need of

renovation, and the Saint Andrew's
Society is trying to raise money for and do
whatever it can to assist in the effort.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Bradley is

institutionally "at home" in Milwaukee, in
the neighborhood where lts donors once
lived as they generated their wealth and
built the legacy entrusted to the
Foundation. The neighborhood's Burns
Commons needs a little help, and staff
recommends providing some with a
From "Scots Wha Hae," written by Robeft Burns.in 1793, on bench modest $,10,000 grant to the Saint
in Bums Commons Andrew's Society.
$aint Andrew's Society
Grant History
-- NONE --
Taliesin Nexus
ADDRESS:
3328 Oakhurst Ave., Suite 204
Los Angeles, CA 90034
CONTACT:
Mr. Patrick Reasonover
PROJECT TITLE: To support the Odysseus Fellowship program

WITH REQUEST:

BACKGROUND: Taliesin Nexus (TN) in Los Angeles requests a $120,000 grant award in first-time
support expansion of its Odysseus Fellowship program.
Founded in 2010, TN supports young screenwriters, directors, and producers who willcreate mainstream
movies, television programs, and other media outputs inspired by the values of individual liberty and free
markets. lt serves as a nexus between up-and-coming filmmakers and experienced industry
professionals who share a passion for freedom.
Its president is Patrick Reasonover, who directed the Bradley-supported lnstitute for Humane Studies
Film and Fiction programming until he left five years ago to work in production in L.A. When he left, IHS
discontinued the program. The Bradley-allied Searle Freedom Trust then asked him to continue the work
with a new organization.
TN organizes workshops, Odysseus Fellowship internships, film labs, and other network-building
opportunities that bring together talented content creators who can learn from and help each other. So
far, it has put together eight workshops with a faculty totaling more than 80 seasoned Hollywood pros -
writers, directors, and producers with credits for hit movies and TV shows such as 30 Rock, Marvel's
Agents of S.H.l.E.L.D., The Blacklist, Bravehea¡t, Elf, Firefly, Godzilla, Legally Blonde, Liar Liar, Noah,
The Passion of the Christ, The Simpsons, Ihaf '70s Show, and The X-Files.
Over 250 young creators have participated in its various activities. One
of its workshop alumni, Rich Middlemas, won an Academy Award for
Best Feature Documentary for his film Undefeated, about an underdog
football team looking to reverse its fortunes.
The Odysseus Fellowship applicants in particular go through a pretty-

rigorous selection process in which they must demonstrate superior
W¡NNER
ÂcÀDEt f Â'^'ÂRo creative talent, filmmaking experience, and a deep understanding of
and passion for liberty lf selected, they receive a $5,000 stipend to
cover their room and board while working at a leading Hollywood
production company.
¡rÍt l¡ñF\1 t irJ:P¡¡tL..
A li.a!h¡'N
o¿rtLi,\Lr ¿4t!ciÂlrr,rrJ TN also partners with the Atlas Network to run the Lights, Camera,
I nsFr an¡I r¿Õt tÕ fct
Fr Fôn rHFt¡ar5f r!!'/rlrl Flr tt ç. -¡F rF¿F
Liberty! Program, which has introduced proven Hollywood techniques
of persuasion to think tanks in 18 states, three Canadian provinces,
-
r
I I I I and 10 other countries around the world.
Budget information: TN's most-recent overall annual expense budget

was $285,626. Other than Searle, its sources of philanthropic support
include the Charles G. Koch, Arthur N. Rupe, and Donald and Paula Smith Foundations, and the Atlas
Network.
The Odysseus Fellowship program's budget in particular is $178,000, and its specific supporters also
include Searle. The fully requested $120,000 would allow for 20 additional Odysseus Fellows.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Conservatives and Bradley have long well-understood that politics and
policymaking is downstream from culture - high, low, and middlebrow.
Staff thus recommends a $50,000 grant to Taliesin Nexus for its Odysseus Fellowship program.
As for Taliesin, he was a sixth-century Welsh bard whom legend credits with preserving the art of
storytelling through the Dark Ages. Taliesin is also the name that transformative architect Frank
Lloyd Wright gave to his home studio, of course, where he designed many of his landmark buildings.
Taliesin Nexus
Grant History
-- NONE --
Washington Policy lnstitute
ADDRESS:
3600 New York Avenue, NE
CONTAGT:
Mr. John Solomon
AMOUNT REQUESTED: A "recurring annual grant of $450,000'
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: $250,000/one year
PROJECT TITLE: To support the Ronald Reagan Thought Leadership Program

WITH REQUEST:

BACKGROUND: The Washington Policy lnstitute (WPl) requests "a recurring annual grant of $450,000'
in support of its Ronald Reagan Thought Leadership Program.
WPI is a nonprofit organization that shares the mission of and offers support to lhe Washington Times
newspaper lts application to the U.S. lnternal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status is pending. lts
president is experienced Washington journalist Jeffrey Birnbaum.
The Washington Times is a for-profit national brand with 12 million readers, six million video viewers each
month, two million e-mail subscribers, and one million social-media followers across America, it says.
Financially, it is on track to reach break-even status in the next 12 months, it says.
WPI's projects include: publishing and distributing books about public policy; an investigative fund
dedicated to improving the llmes'aggressive, long-form reporting; and the Tony Blankley lnternship
Program that provides up-and-coming young journalists with early work experience in the nation's capital
at the Times.
Its biggest project, though, is the Ronald Reagan Thought

Leadership Program : which essentially helps op-ed authors
research and write their pieces for publication in the Times.
The llmes'opinion editor is longtime respected conservative
activist David Keene, a former chairman of the American
Conservative Union and former president of the National Rifle
Association who also sits on WPI's board. The other WPI
board members are Birnbaum and Ed Goeas, president and
chief executive officer of The Tarrance Group
The opinron pieces Keene publishes in the lrmes are meant to

craft, propose, and educate policymakers and the public about
Keene existing and potential policy solutions and foster a civil
dialogue aimed at reaching a consensus.
WPI would now like to vastly expand the work of the Reagan Thought Leadership Program. lt wants to
increase the solution-oriented commentary capabilities of the limes through even more op-eds, policy
fora, and special policy sections that could be included within the newspaper and/or separately distributed
throughout official Washington and to the millions of grassroots Americans reached by the paper.
Specifically, WPI is looking to hire a nationally recognizable and accomplished thought leader to be its
executive director, who would oversee the assignment and editing of op-eds and special commentary
sections and the staging of policy fora. Depending on the degree of any additional funding, WPI could
compensate more op-ed writers, publish more special sections, and plan and put on more policy fora.
Beyond that - again, depending on funding -- it could hire a part-time television producer of a weekly
online video segment to be aired on the Washington Times Video Network for a mostly younger
audience.
Budget information: WPI has yet to create its first annual expense budget, and it has come to Bradley
first for philanthropic support.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Bradley has always done much to increase the nature and quality of
public discourse and the education of policymakers and citizens in America. The Washington Times is a
valuable channel to do even more of this, and the WPI can help it do so.
Staff thus recommends a one-year, $250,000 grant to WPl.

Washington Policy lnstitute
Grant History
-- NONE --
GRANT PROPOSAL REGORD
The Witherspoon lnstitute
ADDRESS:
16 Stockton Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
CONTACT:
Mr. Luis E. Tellez
PROJECT TITLE: To support the CanaVox project

WITH REQUEST: George
STAFF: Dan Schmidt

BACKGROUND: The Witherspoon lnstitute requests a grant of $100,000 to support its CanaVox project
on marnage.
The Witherspoon lnstitute is committed to increasing the public's understanding of the moral foundations
of free and democratic societies. lt does so through a number of research and education initiatives.
Areas of particular concern are government and the rule of law, free enterprise, the role of religious and
other subsidiary institutions of society, the role of institutions of higher education and research, and the
dignity of the individual, marriage and the family.
CanaVox is a grassroots movement founded in 2013 looking to promote a stronger marriage culture. Led
by mothers it seeks to provide women with arguments articulating why complementary marriage matteis
to society in contrast to competing notions of marriage. lts goal is to establish a network of reading
groups in the United States where those who support the historical understanding of marriage can read,
study and talk about controversial issues. Readings include articles written by scholars and pro-marriage
advocates on the topics of marriage, friendship, understanding same-sex attraction, divorce, the hook-up
culture, cohabitation, same-sex parenting, and pornography. Reading groups are run by a team of State
Leaders (paid consultants) and by Local Leaders (network of study group volunteers) who host
discussions in their homes or other local places.
Each year the State Leaders of CanaVox gather for a weekend conference which presents scholars who
speak on issues of marriage and family. The conference provides an opportunity for State and Local
Leaders to share best practices and establish collaborative projects.
ln 2013 CanaVox launched its activities in 6 states. Since its beginning two years ago the organization
has more than doubled the number of participants and has 14 more State Leaders than it did in 2013 (8).
The number of Local Leaders has grown as well now numbering 20 holding reading groups throughout 12
states and 5 countries.
Plans for 2015 and 2016 include geographical expansion of the organization in the United States and
abroad. lmprovements to the website are also planned with the soon-to-be implemented story-telling
project in the form of an e-mail subscription mailing.
BUDGET INFORMATION: Taking into consideration methods employed successfully in the "community
organizing" movement the Witherspoon lnstitute helped launch the CanaVox organization two years ago.
Its activities centered on marriage and family the group seeks to build deeper understanding and greater
support for the dignity of marriage and its intrinslc relationship to the maintenance of healthy democratic
civic institutions. lts reading groups led by a few committed individuals at the local level represent
effective "representatives on mission" for the marriage cause within the social, religious, and familial
networks they already inhabit.
A grant of $75,000 is recommended in support of the general activities of the CanaVox organization.
Witherspoon lnstitute
Grant History
To support the Seymour lnstitute $50,000 2t25t2014 Regular
to support general operations $50,000 8t20t2013 Regular
To support the New Family Structures Study $90,000 11t13t2012 Regular
To support the lslam and Religious Freedom Media project $70,000 1',U8t2011 Regular
To support the Marriage and Sexual Ethics project $50,000 8t't7t2010 Regular
To support a research project on national security $75,000 8t17t2010 Regular
To support Gabriel Schoenfeld's research on national secur¡ty $75,000 8/1 8/2009 Regular
secrecy in a democratic society
To support the Lat¡n America Study Group and a conference on $100,000 1111812008 Regular
natural law
To support a Guest Scholarship for Gabriel Schoenfeld $90,000 6t312008 Regular
To support student activity at Princeton $5,000 2t18t2008 GCC
To support student activity at Princeton $5,000 3t16t2007 GCC
To support the public conference "Globalization and the Rise $100,000 2t20t2007 Regular
of the Left in Latin America"
To support student activ¡ty at Princeton $5,000 10t2412006 GCC
To support a research project on Teen Challenge $25,000 11t9t2004 Regular
Page 1 of 1
E. Philanthropy
Gapital Research Genter
ADDRESS:
1513 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1401
CONTACT:
Mr. Terrence M. Scanlon
PROJECT TITLE: To support general operations ($85K) and a

communications upgrade ($25K)
BOARD MEMBERS AFFIL¡ATED

WITH REQUEST:

BACKGROUND: The Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C., requests a grant support
totaling $140,000 - $90,000 in renewed support of its general operations, $25,000 in support of a
communications upgrade, and another $25,000 in support of what it calls "opposition-research" training
for state think tanks.
Founded in 1984, CRC conducts research into and educates policymakers, the public, and donors about
the activities of organizations in the nonprofit sector. lts president has always been Terry Scanlon, who
previously had been The Heritage Foundation's vice president for corporate relations. Earlier, Scanlon
was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where he
served seven years, including as chairman during Reagan's second term.
CRC board members and some of its funders, including the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Searle
Freedom Trust, have been insisting that Scanlon make clear his plans for succession.
ln 2012, CRC named Scott Walter its executive vice president. Walter served in the George W. Bush
administration as a domestic-policy advisor and was vice president for publications and research at the
Bradley-supported Philanthropy Roundtable. Walter has also been a senior editor of the Bradley-
supported American Enterprise lnstitute for Public Policy Research's American Enterprise magazine, a
senior fellow and development official of the Bradley-supported Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and a
development official at Berman and Company, which does work for several Bradley-supported groups.
General operations
CRC publishes four monthly newsletters - Foundation Watch, Organization Trends, Labor Watch, and
Green Watch - that often feature articles researched and written by scholars or activists part of or
affiliated with Bradley-supported entities.
(R( Foundation Watch
Foundation Watch puts a spotlight on grantmakers whose giving patterns
reveal a political agenda frequently opposed to their founders' intentions.
'lhe \lcK¡y l-oundafiob
It regularly exposes the motivations and activities of high-profile liberal
llar individual philanthropists like George Soros and Tom Steyer and active
liberal foundations like the Ford, Heinz, and MacArthur Foundations.
Organization Trends and Labor Watch monitor the activities of political-

advocacy groups and labor unions that are funded by people and
foundations like these. And its Green Watch tracks the money flow to
environmental nonprofits and critiques their positions, and those of their
allies, including their policymaking ones.
All CRC newsletters are available and archived online, though Walter and
others there continue to try updating its online presence.
Com m uni cations upg rade
They would also like to completely upgrade CRC's basic donor and communications database software to
maximize its technical capability to raise funds, market itself, and streamline its administration of
development and accounting. lt is actively comparing possible replacement systems to identify which one
would best increase its capacity to produce in-house mass e-mail communications to donors and
journalists, track existing donors, upgrade its online giving portal, and prospect for new donors and media
contacts, among other things.
Research training
As well, CRC floats the idea of trying to otfer training and follow-up research and publication assistance to
as many five state think tanks, so they can dissect the leading donors and pressure groups behind their
own respective states' left-wing networks (and perform "reverse opposition research" on themselves,
which can be helpful). The idea's principal component seems to be allowing the think tanks to use CRC's
costly access to Guidestar, FoundationSearch, and LexisNexis. lt would also include helping them to
interpret IRS Form 990s.
Budget information: CRC's overall 2015 expense budget is $1.84 million, up from $1,725 million last
year. lts major sources of philanthropic support have included Scaife, Searle, and Michael Keiser.
The budget for CRC's communications upgrade is $50,000, and the budget for training five think tanks is
$50,250.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION: The increasingly influential impact of organizations supported by tax-

exempt charitable donations is worthy of more attention. CRC pays this attention, and works hard to get
others to do so, too.
Therefore, staff recommends another $85,000 to CRC for its general operations and, to support its
necessary communications upgrade, a one-time supplement of $25,000 -- totaling $1 10,000.
At this time, staff recommends declining to separately support CRC's proposed training of state think
tanks in "opposition research." Bradley's is already substantially investing in projects with similar
components done by others elsewhere -- most prominently including North Carolina's model "Mapping
the Left" effort, which will likely be easily replicable, and the lnterstate Policy Alliance. (The Bradley-
supported State Policy Network, about which see the pending recommendation from the lmplementation
& lmpact Committee, is also trying to do some of this - largely to little avail.)
Capital Research Center
Grant History
To support a state labor conference $40,000 2t26t2013 Regular
To support general operations $25,000 12t11t20',12 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program
To support general operations $25,000 12t5t2011 zz - Donor lntent

Program

Program
To support general operations $5,000 11t2412009 ZZ - Donor lnlent

Program
To supporl general operations $85,000 6t2t2009 Regular
To suppol general operations $85,000 6/3/2008 Regular

Program
To support the "Conservative Summit on Labor lssues" $50,000 5t2t2007 Regular

conference

Program
To support general operations $20,000 't2t16t2005 ZZ - Donor lntent

Program

Program
To support general operations and Organization Trends $65,000 8t17t2004 Regular

articles on foreign policy and defense issues

Program
To support general operations $6s,000 6t3t2003 Regular
To support development of the "Patterns of Corporate $50,000 2t2512003 Regular

Philanthropy" Web site
Page I of 2
To suppol general operations $10,000 12t4t2002 ZZ - Donor lntent
Program
To support general operations $100,000 6i8/1 999 Regular
To support general operations $100,000 8125t',t998 Regular
To support general operations & publication and marketing of $100,000 8t26t1997 Regular
"Ph¡lanthropy, Culture and Society"
To support general operations $1 13,500 9/2311 996 Regular
To support the Center's publications programs $45,000 8/2811 995 Regular
To support the work of Marvin Olasky and the newsletter $50,000 8122t1994 Regular
"Philanthropy, Culture and Society"
To support Senior Fellow Marvin Olasky and the monthly $40,000 1012611993 Regular
newsletter, Philanthropy, Culture and Society
To support the analysis and rebuttal of "The Nonprofìt Policy $40,000 '1012711992 Regular
Agenda: Recommendations for State and Local Action"
published by the Union lnstitute's Ofiìce of Social
Responsibility
To supporl publications on culture, society and philanthropy $50,000 8t26t1991 Regular
To support a study of the animal rights movement in the United $40,820 11t27t1989 Regular
States and the subsequent publishing of the study's fìndings.
To support the writing and publication of an almanac of $29,000 912011988 Regular

grassroots political organizations.
To support a reference work on citizen-action lobbying groups. $25,000 812211988 Regular
Computer network program and publications $20,000 6/1 /1 986 Regular
Grand Totals (41 items) $2,353,320
Page 2 of 2
F. Recommended declinations
Recommended Bradley IRA sector declinations
Reason
Organization's/
Amount Previous First-time Program Program Available program's
requested grantee applicant priorities redundancy resources effectiveness
Archdiocese of New York $1,000,000 X X
Bastiat Society 30,000 X
Center for lndependent Employees 500,000 x X
DoPeace 65,400 X X
Drexel Fund 500,000 X X
Faith in the Future 1,000,000 x X
Freedom Foundation 100,000 X x
Haitian Health Foundation 20,000 X
Home School Legal Defense Association 75,000 X
lnstitute for Global Ethics 50,000 X
Native American Advancement Foundation 10,000 X X
St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation 50,000 X X
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation 50,000 X X
Visionary Oklahoma Women 100,000 X X

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MeETING OF THE

BnnDLEY IRA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, Augusf 7 B, 2015, B:45 a.m.

i'ì , -,-r. Meeting of the Bradley IRA Committee

SECT¡ON 1 GENERAL BUSINESS

1 Minutes of the meeting of the Bradley IRA Committee, June 2,2015

3 Center for Education Reform 30K 20K

B Foreign policy & nationalsecurity

5. Update: Ethics and Public Policy Center's John Hay lnitiative

6. Seymour lnstitute for Black Church and Policy Studies 50K

7. Donors Trust (Philanthropy Roundtable veterans project) 100K

17. Capital Research Center 110K 85K

18. Recommended Bradley IRA sector declinations

American Enterprise lnstitute 100,000

Hudson lnstitute 90,000

American Legislative Exchange Council 250,000

Philanthropy Rou ndtable 250,000

The Committee approved the list of recommended declinations presented by staff.

The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.

E Education 650,000 8.5 450,000 69.2 530,000 81.5

I Employee rights 465,000 6.1 125,000 26.9 125,000 26.9

I Foreign policy & 450,000 5.9 200,000 44.4 200,000 44.4

I Religious freedom 515,000 6.7 215,000 41.7 265,000 51.5

I New opportunities 3,840,000 50.2 2,370,000 61.7 3,185,000 82.9

I Philanthropy 335,000 4.4 250,000 74.6 360,000 107.5

Totalallocated 6,255,000 74.7

E Unallocated 1,395,000 18.2

%o of total budget ?6 of total budget

TOTAL BUDGET 7,650,000 100.0

TOTAL GRA'VTS 3,610,000 47.2 4,665,000 61.0

AMOUNT REQUESTED: $250,000

STAFF RECOMMENDATION: $ 30,000

PROJECT TITLE: To support general operations

BOARD MEMBERS AFFILIATED

STAFF: Dan Schmidt

MEETING DATE: 8t18t2015

PROPOSAL ID#: 20150442

A grant of $250,000 is requested.

Continued support is recommended at the level of $30,000.

To support a fellowship $75,000 611712014 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 212612013 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 212812012 Regular

To support special initiatives $50,000 212212011 Regular

To support special initiatives $7s,000 511112010 Regular

To support special initiatives $100,000 212412009 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 6/3/2008 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 812212002 Regular

To support the Partners Program $50,000 812812001 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 812912000 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 812411999 Regular

To support general operations $50,000 8/25l1998 Regular

Grand Totals (20 items) $ 1,071,860

AMOUNT REQUESTED: $50,000

STAFF RECOMMENDATION: $50,000

PROJECT TITLE: To support outreach to parents

BOARD MEMBERS AFFILIATED

STAFF: Mike Hartmann

MEETING DATE: 8t18t2015

PROPOSAL ID#: 20150692

PEFNC's president is energetic and effective

\r: ln 2013, North Carolina passed both the Children

PEFNC would like to continue its outreach as the program grows.

Project Title Grant Amount Approved Fund