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John M. Olin Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The John M. Olin Foundation funded the John M. Olin Fellowship at University of Chicago. According to the official website, "the general purpose of the John M. Olin Foundation is to provide support for projects that reflect or are intended to strengthen the economic, political and cultural institutions upon which the American heritage of constitutional government and private enterprise is based. Olin believed that law schools have a disproportionately large impact on society given their size and to this end decided to focus the majority of his funding there. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_M._Olin_Foundation   (761 words)

MOCCW Funding for the Lott Study John Lott's article on gun control legislation (editorial page, Aug. 28) must have been fabricated because his research fellowship at the University of Chicago was funded by the John M. Olin Foundation. The John M. Olin Foundation, of which I have been president for nearly 20 years, is an independent foundation whose purpose is to support individuals and institutions working to strengthen the free enterprise system. He asserts (falsely) that the John M. Olin Foundation is "associated" with the Olin Corp. and (falsely again) that the Olin Corp. is one of the nation's largest gun manufacturers. www.moccw.org /lottfunding.html   (1100 words)

John M. Olin Foundation - SourceWatch The John M. Olin Foundation, based in New York, was established in 1953 by John Merrill Olin (1892-1982), inventor, industrialist, conservationist, and philanthropist. The Foundation "supported right-wing causes for many years but became more focused on grantmaking after William E. Simon took over as president in 1977." Simon, who had been chosen to lead the Foundation by Olin, was followed by Michael Joyce, who left Olin in 1985 to lead the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Olin had not intended the foundation to "exist in perpetuity, but rather to close its doors by the time those trustees who best knew his philanthropic ideals had retired." Following Simon's death in 2000, the Board of Trustees began to implement a plan to phase out the Foundation over the next few years. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=John_M._Olin_Foundation   (757 words)

Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable When John Olin passed away in 1982, he left roughly half of his estate, or about $50 million, to the foundation; the other half was left to his wife with the proviso that any funds remaining at the end of her lifetime would revert to the foundation. Olin appointed, and those who joined the board after his death, are approaching an age that could fit the definition of “the end of their working lifetimes.” It became clear that the time had come to wind down our operations. Olin had another reason for choosing to sunset his foundation: He wanted to influence contemporary thinking about economics and public policy, in the hope that the severe problems he saw could be corrected. www.philanthropyroundtable.org /magazines/2002/march/piereson.html   (2606 words)

Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable John Olin, Miller writes, “was at heart a scientist who loved to tinker with products; 24 patents bear his name.” But Olin was also a canny businessman, who ensured that the family company (which became the Olin Corporation) grew to become one of America’s largest suppliers of guns, ammunition, and chemicals. John M. Olin (1892-1982) transformed a small family business into a giant corporation. Olin worried, Miller writes, that if he created a perpetual foundation, eventually “the enemies of free enterprise might seize control of the foundation’s assets and turn them against their original objective.” He was strongly influenced by Henry Ford II’s decision in 1977 to resign from the Ford Foundation board because of the foundation’s leftward tilt. philanthropyroundtable.org /magazines/2006/janfeb/review--Wooster.htm   (1317 words)

People For the American Way - John M. Olin Foundation The program granted John M. Olin Fellowships to students, who were taught by faculty also receiving money from the foundation; students were required to attend symposia with right-wing speakers such as Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. The Olin Foundation, along with a number of other conservative foundations, links universities to Republican legislators, right-wing think tanks, as well as conservative publications, such as Commentary and The Public Interest (publications also funded by Olin). Olin fellowships are an academic haven for academics who support Reaganite economic and social policies. www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2066   (1096 words)

Q&A with John J. Miller on the John M. Olin Foundation on National Review Online John J. Miller: For more than 30 years, the John M. Olin Foundation provided a venture-capital fund for conservative intellectuals — it helped create, shape, and promote the ideas behind the most significant political movement in the United States since the end of the Second World War. If the conservative intellectual movement were a NASCAR race, and if the scholars and organizations who comprise it were drivers zipping around a race track, virtually all of their vehicles at least would sport an Olin bumper sticker. He saw what happened at the Ford Foundation — specifically, Henry Ford II quitting in 1977 because he thought the foundation was too anti-capitalist — and resolved not to let it happen to himself. www.nationalreview.com /interrogatory/miller200511100823.asp   (2390 words)

John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics Students may apply for John M. Olin Student Research Grants to support their research in connection with the Law and Economics Seminar, independent research projects (supervised by faculty members), or dissertation research (for students writing a masters or doctoral thesis in law and economics). In addition, students may apply for John M. Olin Student Research Fellowships to support research during summers (e.g., as a substitute for working in a law firm) or to support the pursuit of a joint degree in law and economics. Second, John M. Olin Faculty Research Fellowships have been awarded to provide research time during the summer or the regular academic year. olin.stanford.edu   (2315 words)

PND (10/10/2000) -- John M. Olin Foundation Elects New Chairman and President The John M. Olin Foundation supports projects that reflect or are intended to strengthen the economic, political, and cultural institutions upon which the American heritage of constitutional government and private enterprise is based. FCnote: The John M. Olin Foundation, Inc. (NY) had assets of $109,236,443 and made grants totaling $19,389,846 in the year ending 12/31/99. Williams, who has served on the foundation's board since 1976 and is a member of its executive committee, is the retired chairman of Centerre Trust Company of St. Louis and has served as a director of several corporations, including American Airlines, Emerson Electric, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. fdncenter.org /pnd/archives/20001010/003702.html   (341 words)

National Review: Goodbye, Mr. Olin: When conservative funds dry up - philanthropic funds - Statistical Data Included Nobody knows who the John M. Olin of the next generation will be, or whether there will be one at all. Olin wanted to use his fortune to promote the intellectual and political interests of conservatism-and he also wanted to ensure that his money never fell into the hands of people who had other designs. Last year, Olin distributed more than $20 million in grants, and its demise is the most obvious sign of an ominous development for the Right: the disappearance of foundations that have made so much of the conservative movement possible. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_11_53/ai_74942026   (1520 words)

John J. Miller A Gift of Freedom This was the ambitious project to which John M. Olin devoted the final years of his life—as well as the bulk of the fortune he had spent a lifetime amassing. Apart from Olin himself, the foundation’s most significant figure was William E. Simon, whom Olin had recruited to become chairman of the board and president in 1977. If the conservative intellectual movement were a NASCAR race, and if the scholars and organizations who compose it were drivers zipping around a race track, virtually all of their vehicles at least would sport an Olin bumper sticker. www.encounterbooks.com /books/gifr/gifr_introduction.html   (2298 words)

PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Who Was John Philip Sousa?" Additional funding is provided by the John M. Olin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Donner Canadian Foundation. John Phillip Sousa was born on November 6th, 1854 in Washington, D.C., just a block and a half away from the Marine barracks. But, there were tens of thousands of them across the United States, and when John Phillip Sousa brought his professional touring concert band into these towns, it was as if they were playing directly to the people, and that was one of the reasons he was so popular, I think. www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript903.html   (3254 words)

Townhall.com :: Columns :: Muscular Philanthropy: Tough love and the John M. Olin Foundation by Debra England - Nov 15, 2005 John Olin surrounded himself in his philanthropic work only with people who shared his passionate vision, his conservative principles and his competitive drive to execute them. The Olin Foundation offers a case study on how, by effectively leveraging dramatically fewer financial resources, conservative philanthropists nonetheless managed to reshape the public policy landscape over the past quarter century – and how they may continue to do so in the future. Revered as a leading architect of the conservative philanthropy movement over the past 25 years, the Olin Foundation leaves behind a network of conservative grantee institutions, organizations, scholars and opinion-shapers that have been on the frontlines of what Olin staffers described as a fiercely competitive “battle for men’s minds”. www.townhall.com /opinion/columns/debraengland/2005/11/15/175550.html   (1059 words)

The Olin Foundation As Model TPMCafe John M. Olin, who died in 1982, feared that if it were to exist in perpetuity, it would eventually be captured by hostile forces; the example of Henry Ford II, who quit the board of the Ford Foundation in frustration over its liberal agenda, had especially impressed him. Simon, who was president of the John M. Olin Foundation for 23 years. Others, however, are studying the foundation in order to emulate it: the new Democracy Alliance, to which some 80 affluent liberals have pledged $1 million each, aims to do for the left what the Olin Foundation did for the right. warrenreports.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/11/28/91429/556   (1352 words)

HLS : Harvard Law School Receives \\$10 Million Grant from John M. Olin Foundation The John M. Olin Foundation was established in 1953 by the late John Merrill Olin, an inventor, industrialist, conservationist and philanthropist. The grant will also allow the center to continue to fund its successful John M. Olin fellowship program and its ongoing speaker series. Both the Olin Foundation and the Olin Center expect the grant to be matched by other donations to the law school. www.law.harvard.edu /news/2003/05/19_olin.html   (602 words)

Olin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John M. Olin, American industralist, son of Franklin W. Kalevi Olin, Finnish Social Democratic aParty politician John M. Olin Foundation, a foundation endowed by John M. Olin Charles H. Olin, Canadian politician from the Northwest Territories and Alberta en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olin   (234 words)

Right Web Organizations John M. Olin Foundation The John M. Olin Foundation, one of the country’s premier conservative foundations, announced in May 2005 that it was closing its doors after a half century of successful advocacy on behalf of rightist causes. In 1986, the Olin and Smith Richardson foundations withdrew their support from AEI because of substantive disagreement with certain of its policies, causing Baroody to resign in the ensuing financial crisis. Funding to AEI was suspended in 1986 because of Olin’s perception that it had shifted to the political center (the Smith Richardson Foundation also acted accordingly). rightweb.irc-online.org /org/olin.php   (1522 words)

Grundfest wins Olin Foundation faculty fellowship The Olin Faculty Fellowships were introduced in 1985 by the John M. Olin Foundation of New York to encourage scholarly work in policy-related disciplines by promising young university teachers. The Olin Foundation has also been providing support since 1987 to the Stanford Law School program now known as the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. Olin fellows receive financial support for a full year of research and writing. www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/91/910422Arc1413.html   (258 words)

John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.: Grant Programs In this area, the Foundation seeks to deepen understanding of the American judicial system and to preserve the rule of law as the bedrock of American constitutional government. The Foundation supports research on the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policy in the social and economic fields. The Foundation supports public interest law and studies related to the judicial system, jurisprudence, and the relationship between law and economics. www.jmof.org /grant_programs.html   (244 words)

John J. Miller A Gift of Freedom Over the next three decades, the John M. Olin Foundation funded the conservative movement as it emerged from the intellectual ghetto and occupied the halls of power. Among the counterintellectuals the foundation identified and supported at key stages of their careers were Charles Murray during his early work on welfare reform, Allan Bloom as he wrote The Closing of the American Mind, and Francis Fukuyama as he was developing his “End of History” thesis. The foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars fostering what its longtime president William E. Simon called the “counterintelligentsia” to offset liberal dominance of university faculties and the mainstream media and to make conservatism a significant cultural force. www.encounterbooks.com /books/gifr/gifr.html   (323 words)

PND News - Olin Foundation Gives $10 Million to Harvard Law School Harvard Law School has announced a $10 million grant from the John M. Olin Foundation, the largest grant from a foundation in the school's 186-year history. "The school has made an impressive commitment to the field of law and economics and has created a very strong program of teaching and research," said Olin Foundation executive director James Piereson. The New York City-based foundation, whose mission is to encourage research on the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of public policy in the social and economic fields, is spending down its assets, with the goal of ceasing operations by the end of 2005. fdncenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=33800032   (198 words)

John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics JOHN M. Since 1987 the Law School has received gifts from the John M. Olin Foundation in New York City to support the law and economics program at Stanford. Fellows also are expected to attend various activities sponsored by the Olin Program, including the law and economics "free lunches" for students and the Law and Economics Seminar. All you need to do is to send a brief letter or memorandum to me as director of the Olin Program, stating your request and justifying it in terms of your law and economics research. olin.stanford.edu /fellowship.html   (808 words)

Claremont McKenna College - dKosopedia John M. Olin Program in the Principles of Free Government, under the direction of Charles R. Kesler: $400,000 (1997-2003) John M. Olin Fellowships and Lectures: $60,000 (1994-95) John M. Olin Graduate Fellows in Political Theory: $85,000 (1992-96) www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Claremont_McKenna_College   (195 words)

Olin School of Business: Olin Facts Established by John M. Olin in 1953, the Foundation continues his commitment to preserving the principles of political and economic liberty as expressed in American thought, institutions, and practice. The general purpose of the John M. Olin Foundation is to support individuals and institutions working to strengthen the free enterprise system and the American heritage of constitutional government. Through this program, the Foundation has linked the name of John M. Olin with a project he would have found very valuable: the first comprehensive study of the development of modern freedom. www.olin.wustl.edu /about/facts/foundation.cfm   (272 words)

Stanford Law School Receives Final Gift of $3 Million from John M. Olin Foundation The John M. Olin Foundation has awarded Stanford Law School a final gift of $3 million, capping off a total of $8.3 million the law school has received from the foundation for its John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. The John M. Olin Foundation, launched in 1953 by the late inventor and industrialist, encourages research on public policy in social and economic fields. Stanford's John M. Olin Program has recently expanded to include more post-doctoral training and to focus on empirical research--the collection of statistical information on the results of law and legal practices. www.law.stanford.edu /about/news/2004/12/006.html   (794 words)

Media Matters - Krauthammer and Barnes misrepresented Pew journalists survey: "[N]ational media is generally very liberal" The John M. Olin Foundation, according to a dossier by Media Transparency, "funds right-wing think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research and the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace. The chairman of the Sarah Scaife Foundation is Richard Mellon Scaife Robert Lichter, president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA), conducted both surveys cited by Barnes; and Stanley Rothman, director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College, co-conducted the Lichter-Rothman poll. mediamatters.org /items/200405280002   (1137 words)

Reference & Research Book News: A gift of freedom; how the John M. Olin Foundation changed America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research Over the past three decades, the John M. Olin Foundation has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting the conservative movement in the United States. A gift of freedom; how the John M. Olin Foundation changed America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:141642522&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (168 words)

Stephan Thernstrom Abigail Thernstrom He has been awarded fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the John M. Olin Foundation, and research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mathematical Social Science Board, the American Philosophical Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. His most recent book, co-authored with Abigail Thernstrom, is No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning. www.thernstrom.com /bio   (707 words)

Media Research Center - SourceWatch The Center has a $6 million annual budget and 60 staff members and is funded by larger right-wing foundations (see below). Media Research Center Inc. is a conservative media watchdog group run by President and founder Brent Bozell. From MRC's website, "The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Media_Research_Center   (460 words)

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