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From: Philanthropy Today
Subject: Do Fundraisers Alienate Everyday Donors? (Opinion)
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An under-the-radar conservative think tank bankrolled by Texas billionaires has been quietly setting the agenda for a second Trump administration. The four-year-old America First Policy Institute counts among its staff and leaders former members of the executive branch and White House staff under Trump, and one of its executives now co-chairs his transition team. Launched by Christian conservative oil billionaire Tim Dunn and two other wealthy directors of a right-wing Texas think tank, Cody Campbell and Tim Lyles, America First has developed a plan for staffing and a policy agenda for every federal agency. (New York Times)
Among the small magazines supported by the Open Society Foundations is a conservative publication whose ethos seems to undermine the philanthropy’s own aims. Compact, which a former editor says also enjoys backing from right-wing tech investor Peter Thiel, has praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s authoritarian rule, which has included a sustained attacked on George Soros and his open society project. One of the magazine’s editors has said the Western idea of an open society is characterized by “censure and censorship.” The foundation executive who oversees funding for small publications said Compact uniquely combines “a progressive commitment to a strong state and a state that itself is undergirded by commitments toward fair distribution of wealth” and “a cultural conservatism.” (Vanity Fair)
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