The Manhattan Institute, based in New York City, is supported by the Olin Foundation (grants increasing from $140,000 in 1992 to $205,000 in 1993 and $315,000 in 1994);<49> $275,000 from Bradley between 1990-92;<50> $150,000 from Sarah Scaife in 1992<51> and more than $250,000 from Smith Richardson in 1994<52> The Institute advocates privatization of sanitation services and infrastructure maintenance, deregulation in the area of environmental and consumer protection, school vouchers and cuts in government spending on social welfare programs; it is a preferred source of information for New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. ....
One common function of these state think tanks is the creation of policy papers for state legislators, which in turn become the basis of legislation, floor statements, press releases, op-eds, and more
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2059Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald.htmThere are significant links between the John M. Olin Foundation and the Olin Corporation, which owns Winchester Ammunition (the largest producer of ammunition in the U.S. and the manufacturer of the infamous "Black Talon" bullet). Olin Corporation at one time also owned Winchester Firearms, a trade name which it now licenses out. Winchester Ammunition stands to reap financial gain from the increased sale of handgun ammunition generated by the passage of lax concealed weapons laws.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/john_m_olin_foundation.htm By now you may be asking what Heather Mac Donald has to do with the Mayor's welfare policies. Mac Donald is one of several of the Mayor's "advisors" that have emerged from various conservative institutions. Mac Donald is an Olin Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a right-wing think tank that has been an influential force behind many of the Mayor's harshest initiatives. She has written extensively for the Manhattan Institute's magazine, City Journal, and her work also appears, with increasing frequency, in various other media outlets. Moreover, the Mayor appointed her to the City University of New York (CUNY) Taskforce which was responsible for the attack on remedial education. Yet it is unclear how she's been catapulted to the fore of public debate.
http://www.lincproject.org/organizing/newsletters/archive/WRN/# Right-wing foundations have developed a truly comprehensive funding strategy, providing grants to a broad range of groups, each promoting right-wing positions to their specific audiences. The grants have created and nurtured an enormous range of organizations all bent on promoting a far-right-wing agenda. Recipients of foundation largesse include the right-wing media; national "think tanks" and advocacy groups; a budding network of regional and state-based think tanks; conservative university programs; conservative college newspapers; conservative scholars and more. In many of these funding areas, progressive and mainstream foundation giving lags far behind.
# Five foundations stand out from the rest: the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Koch Family foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Scaife Family foundations and the Adolph Coors Foundation. Each has helped fund a range of far-right programs, including some of the most politically charged work of the last several years.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2052Total $ Granted
to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.: $ 16,100,387
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/info_on_any_recipient.php?198The Manhattan Institute is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. As Sponsor, you will receive selected publications and invitations to Manhattan Institute’s special events.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/about_mi.htmhttp://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/trustees.htmNEW YORK – Another sign of how much New York has changed: The most influential source of political ideas is a conservative think tank that was founded by Margaret Thatcher's mentor and Ronald Reagan's spymaster.
The Manhattan Institute was a speck on the margins of the city's political landscape when it opened in 1978, promoting the un-New Yorkerish notions of free-market economics, conservative values and the dismantling of the welfare state.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_bglobe-conservatives_plant_a_.htmTo qualify as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, an organization must, according to the Internal Revenue Service website,
be organized and operated exclusively for one or more of the purposes set forth in IRC Section 501(c)(3), and none of the earnings of the organization may inure to any private shareholder or individual. In addition, it may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate at all in campaign activity for or against political candidates.
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/meet-new-boss-same-as-old-boss-brent.htmlTom Wolfe on how the Manhattan Institute changed New York City and America.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nypost-revolutionaries.htm Mr. Wriston was also an early trustee of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank on urbanism that publishes City Journal, which Mayor Giuliani credited with changing the political and policy climate in the city that enabled conservative reforms.
http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/06/22&ID=Ar00102New Yorkers, in particular, have good reason to be grateful to the Manhattan Institute: Its ideas and proposals formed the basis of Rudy Giuliani's governing philosophy and his determination to challenge the long-accepted notion that New York City was simply ungovernable.
Giuliani - who was first exposed to those ideas at a Manhattan Institute conference on "Rethinking New York" - proved the skeptics wrong. Boy, did he ever.
President Bush, meanwhile, is one of the institute's biggest fans.
Over the years, these pages have been fortunate to have published many of the institute's most important writers: Bylines like those of Heather Mac Donald, E.J. McMahon, Walter Olson, Tamar Jacoby, Diane Ravitch, Charles Murray, Myron Magnet (who edits MI's influential City Journal), Abigail Thernstrom, Floyd Flake and Steven Malanga are well-familiar to Post readers.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nypost-ideas_matter.htmThey Get What You Pay For: Neo-Conservative New Media Outlets Finance Widespread Scheme to Disseminate G.O.P. Propaganda--With Your Money
http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/they-get-what-you-pay-for-neo.htmlOur Applied Public Relations Schools, conducted in cooperation with The Leadership Institute, offer communications professionals the continuing training they need to stay current in the continuously changing world of communications. .....
The APR School consists of a brief series of presentations followed by the Game of Spin. The class is divided into "communications divisions" and each team faces a unique communications challenge. Each team then devises its own strategy and tactics to deal with the scenario, and then presents its plan to the rest of the class, with presentations graded by a panel of distinguished PR professionals.
What kind of challenges does Spin offer? Here are a few of the examples of scenarios from past APR Schools:
Your organization has just received a subpoena from a congressional oversight committee for all records related to your expenditures and activities in 1996. The subpoena seeks information regarding anything your group did regarding any issue or individual germane to the U.S. House, Senate or presidential races that year.
Your organization is a not-for-profit group that is not permitted to engage in political activity. The scope of the subpoena will require your organization to significantly enlarge your dependency on outside counsel. The subpoena is received at your group’s office at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday.
Imagine planning the news conference for that scenario!
http://www.therightvoice.org/aprs/default.asp
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