John Olin
…Foundation, the Hoover Institution, the Manhattan Institute, the National Association of Scholars, the New Criterion, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and many others. Olin research funding was crucial in launching new analyses…
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New Balance
…annual awardees, who are paid up to $50,000 to research and report a particular topic. Originally called Phillips Fellowships, they were renamed within a year of Novak’s death in 2009,…
Philanthropy Roundtable Launches Search for its Next President and CEO
…its search for the organization’s next leader after President and CEO Elise Westhoff announced she will step down at the end of May 2023. “Philanthropy Roundtable is thriving and remains…
Spring 2015 – Changing Hearts, Minds, and Laws
The traditional categories of philanthropy are familiar and broadly accepted: religious works, medicine, scientific research, education, almsgiving and economic uplift, disaster relief, environmental conservation, the arts, and so on. It…
Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem
…support. Callahan finds it nefarious that a wealthy donor to a research group like AEI might benefit from its advocacy of policies like lower taxes for capital gains than for…
Olin Brings Economic Logic Into Our Legal System
…cost-benefit analysis, and antitrust reform, expanding economic opportunity in the process. John Miller, A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America (Encounter, 2005) Paul Brest and…
How One Nonprofit Is Connecting Veterans With Employment Opportunities
…conduct a job search. The Hire Heroes USA Volunteer Mentor Network connects veterans with volunteers for industry-specific coaching, networking and interview practice to move them forward in their job search….
Bradley Foundation Puts School Choice on the Map
…founding the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, a think-tank that concentrated on education policy in its early years. Bradley also provided other infrastructure that helped the state of Wisconsin create pioneering…
Olin Brings Law and Economics to Campus
…million to support Law and Economics scholarship within law schools, and an additional $20 million to underwrite individual research and special programs. One specialized Olin-funded program offered economics training for…
A Watchdog with Only One Eye
…Bradley Foundation commissioned and published in 1992. Similarly, she relies heavily on the authorized history of the John M. Olin Foundation produced by John Miller. For her history of the…
Spring 2015 – Briefly Noted
…the Mediterranean in less-than-seaworthy vessels. After a drowning of 366 people off the coast of Lampedusa in 2013, Italy set up a specialized search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum….
Tiny Ships to the Stars
…in the 1990s called Clementine. Later, he spent nearly a decade as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, the agency’s outpost in Silicon Valley, supporting small-satellite and other programs, and…