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  Smith Richardson Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Smith Richardson Foundation (SRF) is was funded in 1935 by the charitable contributions of Henry Smith Richardson, Sr., the principle creator of the Vicks Vaporub fortune.
Richardson's leadership, SRF was an early supporter of such intellectual movements as supply-side and monetarist econnomics, and neo-conservatism in general.
As a result of this conflict, Peter Richardson (nephew of R. Randolph) became president in 1992, while a much smaller entity, The Randolph Foundation, (TRF), was created in the same year controlled largely by R. Randolph Richardson and his daughter, Heather Higgins.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smith_Richardson_Foundation   (244 words)

  
 Smith Richardson Foundation
The Richardsons are estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of $870 million, making them one of the country's richest families.
According to the Smith Richardson Foundation Year 2001 IRS 990, the foundation now has assets of $494 million (fair market value).
According to the Smith Richardson Foundation Year 2000 annual report, the foundation lost more than $65 million in the year 2000 due to their crappy investment performance.
www.mediatransparency.org /funderprofile.php?funderID=6   (180 words)

  
 smithrichardson
The mission of the Smith Richardson Foundation is to contribute to important public debates and to help address serious public policy challenges facing the United States.
The Foundation also supports projects that look at the effectiveness of public and private efforts to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and families and is interested in projects that examine how economic and social changes are affecting important institutions, such as the family and the political process.
The Foundation’s assessment of candidates will place a high value on credentials such as an advanced degree in public policy, economics, political science, law and/or work experience in the policy community, such as at a think tank or a government agency.
www.yale.edu /graduateschool/careers/smith.htm   (731 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | Smith Richardson Foundation (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Smith Richardson Foundation was created in 1935 by H. Smith Richardson, the son of medicine entrepreneur Lunsford Richardson, the inventor of Vicks VapoRub.
The Smith Richardson Foundation—together with the Olin and Scaifefoundations—was a key supporter of the American Enterprise Institute when AEI emerged as a central player during Ronald Reagan’s first term as president.
SRF has supported a number of centrist organizations, including the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, the New America Foundation, and the Tax Policy Center, which is jointly run by the Urban Institute and Brookings.
rightweb.irc-online.org.cob-web.org:8888 /profile/523   (2049 words)

  
 FOUNDATION & EMPIRE 3 : donors
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is likewise devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it.
Accordingly, 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.
The Foundation also seeks to promote a general understanding of these institutions by encouraging the thoughtful study of the connections between economic and political freedoms, and the cultural heritage that sustains them.
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 Westport Now: Westport Foundation Under Scrutiny Following Lavish Spending Report
Smith Richardson also spent $6,700 for a portrait of a family benefactor, $2,600 on a chair, and bought four lamps at $1,300 a piece, according to the Globe.
He was referring to both Smith Richardson and the Beinecke Foundation, a $62 million Greenwich group which supports the arts, environment, and other causes.
Between 1999 and 2001, two part-time trustees for the foundation, including a Beinecke heir who lives on a 50-acre Greenwich estate valued at $2 million, have collected $280,000 in retirement benefits as well as health care coverage for themselves and their families, all paid for with foundation money, the newspaper said.
www.westportnow.com /archives/001336.htm   (515 words)

  
 University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
All three professors are a part of the College's department of educational leadership, counseling and foundations.
The grant, awarded by the Smith Richardson Foundation, will allow the researchers, along with faculty colleagues and graduate students, to study best practices in educational accountability systems that have been implemented by North Carolina, South Carolina, California, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and New York.
Ritter said that nearly every state in the nation is currently engaged in standards-based school reform in elementary and secondary education.
dailyheadlines.uark.edu /5829.htm   (790 words)

  
 Council on Foundations: FN&C Now - Volume 2, Number 2
Markle Foundation President Zoe Baird responded that new financial models need to be created for the sustainability of nonprofits, perhaps through the development of new tax policies.
Paul O'Neill is chair of the Paul H. O'Neill Charitable Foundation and is on the board of the American Enterprise Institute and chairman of RAND's board of trustees.
Donald Rumsfeld serves on the board of governors of the Smith Richardson Foundation, and is also a RAND trustee.
www.foundationnews.org /now/volume2.02.htm   (782 words)

  
 Office of Research & Economic Development
Sloan Foundation (science and technology, standard of living and economic performances, education and careers in science and technology, selected national issues, and a civic program)
Smith Richardson Foundation (ensuring vitality of U.S. social, economic, and governmental institutions; assisting with the development of effective policies to compete internationally and to advance U.S. interests and values abroad)
Spencer Foundation (high-quality investigation of education, strengthening and renewing the educational research community through fellowship and training programs and related activities)
www.research.lsu.edu /fund_foundations5.shtml   (621 words)

  
 IFPA Projects List
With the generous support of the Smith Richardson Foundation, IFPA is undertaking a project to provide U.S. policy makers with enhanced tools for planning, managing, and concluding a major disaster operation effectively and in a manner that explicitly advances U.S. strategic objectives.
In September 2002, the Smith Richardson Foundation funded a study proposed by IFPA to examine the military and operational requirements that can be anticipated to drive U.S. security planning for operations in Central Asia and adjacent regions over the next ten to twenty years.
IFPA and the Kokkalis Foundation (Athens, Greece) are collaborating on a project to examine the principal strategic-military challenges in this uncertain and evolving region and to assess their implications for the bilateral U.S.-Greek relationship and broader Alliance relations.
www.ifpa.org /projects/projectsb.htm   (944 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | Smith Richardson Foundation
Smith Richardson ran the foundation until 1972, when his son, H. Smith Richardson Jr., took it over.
An early funder of the neoconservative movement, Smith Richardson also helped foster the work of people like Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, and Irving Kristol by supporting the various institutions they were associated with, including The Public Interest, Commentary, and the Committee on the Present Danger.
Richardson, whose annual salary at the time was $364,000, drove a $63,000 Audi A8 luxury sedan, while the other two, whose annual salaries were $225,000, owned an Audi station wagon and Jeep Cherokee, respectively, which each cost roughly $36,000.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/523   (2049 words)

  
 Smith Richardson Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Smith Richardson Foundation’s Domestic Public Policy Program seeks to support the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts.
In 2006, the Foundation will award at least three research grants in the amount of $60,000 each to individuals who are interested in conducting research and writing on domestic public policy issues.
The Foundation will not provide applicants with any comments on their proposals either before submission or during the evaluation process.
www.srf.org /grants/Domestic_Public_Policy_Fellowship.php   (367 words)

  
 II Web: Press Release Strmecki Lecture
Marin Strmecki is the Vice President and Director of Programs of the Smith Richardson Foundation in Westport, Connecticut.
Before joining the Foundation in 1994, Strmecki worked for sixteen years (1978-1994) as a foreign policy assistant to Richard Nixon.
He was a legislative assistant for foreign affairs on the staff of Senator Orrin Hatch (1993-94) and a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1990-91).
www.umich.edu /~iinet/iisite/press/pr_strmecki.html   (288 words)

  
 Think Tanks
Media Transparency lists as the forum's donors: Castle Rock Foundation; Sarah Scaife Foundation; JM Foundation; Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation; John M. Olin Foundation; the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.; the Jaquelin Hume Foundation; the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation; the Earhart Foundation; the Roe Foundation; the William H. Donner Foundation; and the Carthage Foundation.
Funders are: John M. Olin Foundation; the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.; the Jaquelin Hume Foundation; the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation; the Earhart Foundation; the Sarah Scaife Foundation; the Smith Richardson Foundation; the William H. Donner Foundation, and the Carthage Foundation.
Funders for this organization are the Roe Foundation, The Sarah Scaife Foundation, The Scaife Family Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations, Inc., the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc., the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.
home.earthlink.net /~rasuper/pages/thinktanks.html   (714 words)

  
 Schiller Institute - Slime Mold Watch --AFF Exposed Lying About LaRouche
These organizations were created and financed by the highest levels of the Anglo-American financial oligarchy, through Foundations such as, the H. Smith Richardson Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Scaife Foundation, and the Bodman and Achelis Foundation, which is run by John Irwin III, the grandson of super spook IBM founder Thomas "Pop" Watson.
These very same Foundations which run the slander mill against LaRouche are behind what is, in fact, the most dangerous cult in the world today.
The American Family Foundation (AFF), founded and bankrolled by Wall Street banker John Irwin III, the grandson of IBM founder "Pop" Watson, has launched a thought-police campaign of intimidation against supporters of LaRouche on university campuses across the country.
www.schillerinstitute.org /slime_watch/aff_2-02_rmo.html   (2049 words)

  
 Smith Richardson Foundation - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Smith Richardson Foundation is financed by the Vicks Vaporub fortune.
The Foundation became active in supporting conservative causes in 1973 when R. Richardson Randolph became its president.
The Foundation gave approximately $99,686,911 to a total of 266 grantees.
www.disinfopedia.org /wiki.phtml?title=Smith_Richardson_Foundation   (247 words)

  
 Proposal to the Smith Richardson Foundation (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The National Committee convened such a meeting in July 1989 at the Johnson Foundation’s Wingspread Conference Center to examine prospects for U.S.-China relations in the aftermath of Tiananmen.
First of all, we wish to thank the Smith Richardson Foundation and The Henry Luce Foundation for their generous and timely support.
We also thank Senator Dianne Feinstein, who offered her well-informed views on China (and was also an attentive listener and active discussant), and Ambassador to China James Sasser, who contributed the insights he has gleaned from his outstanding term of three years’ service in Beijing.
www.ncuscr.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Publications/airlie.html   (8586 words)

  
 Foundations/Grants; Prospect Research; Internet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The first paragraph from the President's Letter in the Smith Richardson Foundation's 1996 Annual Report succinctly summarizes the interests of this foundation: "The mission of the Smith Richardson Foundation is to help inform important public policy debates through the support of pragmatic, policy- relevant research, analysis, and writing.
Of special note, the foundation provides proposal outlines or "templates" under their guideline section.
McKnight Foundation: This is another foundation created by yet another corporate president, in this case William L. McKnight, a man who guided the 3M Corporation for nearly 50 years.
www.internet-prospector.org /found0198.htm   (175 words)

  
 The 'Right' Books and Big Ideas
Tamar Jacoby, also a Manhattan Institute denizen, is indebted to the John M. Olin Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation for the financial help they gave her in writing her critical look at integration, Someone Else's House: America's Unfulfilled Struggle for Integration.
By then, the intellectual impresario Kristol was deeply involved in shaping the grant-giving agendas of the Olin Foundation and the Institute for Educational Affairs, which he co-founded.
According to Wanniski, Kristol convinced the folks at Smith Richardson to give Wanniski $40,000 to write a book, of which $10,000 went to AEI to house him.
www.thenation.com /doc/19991122/alterman2   (1404 words)

  
 Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran (ABF) "is a non-governmental non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran...
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation was founded in April 2001 by Ladan Boroumand and Roya Boroumand, the daughters of Abdorrahman Boroumand.
According to Media Transparency in 2003 ABF received a $150,000 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation for a project entitled: Iran's Transition to Democracy.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Abdorrahaman_Boroumand_Foundation   (244 words)

  
 PA - DEP Update June 23, 2000
The Environmental Research Institute of the States (ERIS) has received an $85,000 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to support a program called "Creative Leadership and Innovation in Managing the Environment" (CLIME).
ERIS is the research arm of the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS); the organization of state environmental secretaries and commissioners, and the Smith Richardson Foundation, which supports programs that strengthen good government, was established by the owner of the Vick Chemical Co.
The CLIME project will compile information on state innovations in environmental protection and provide national policy makers with a better understanding of the extent to which environmental protection is accomplished in the states.
www.dep.state.pa.us /DEP/DEPUTATE/polycomm/update/06-23-00/06230032.htm   (121 words)

  
 LBJ School News Brief
The Smith Richardson Foundation has announced that Professor Francis J. Gavin of the Lyndon B.Johnson School of Public Affairs was awarded a Junior Faculty Research Grant in International Security and Foreign Policy for 2002-2003.
Gavin's selection was in keeping with the Smith Richardson Foundation's goal of underwriting historical research with clear implications for current policy.
He is a Junior Fellow in British Studies at the University of Texas and was recently selected by the American Council on Germany as a U.S. representative for the Young Leaders conference to be held in Berlin in August 2002.
www.utexas.edu /lbj/news/sp2002/gavin.html   (393 words)

  
 Smith - Daniel Smith Artists' Materials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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He is a member of the Council of Academic Advisers of the Inter-American Foundation and is the United States representative on the Board of the Institute for Latin American Integration.
He has been a consultant and adviser to four presidents and a variety of private foundations, business firms, and agencies of the United States government.
He has served on the Fulbright advisory panel for choosing Latin American grant recipients and chaired the Department of Education’s Title VI review committee to select the university Latin American centers that would receive language and area studies grants.
www.globalfoundationdd.org /HOWARD_J.doc   (1000 words)

  
 Dana Goldman, Ph.D. - Department of Health Services
He was the recipient of the National Institute for Health Care Management Research Foundation award for excellence in health policy, and the Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award that recognizes the outstanding contributions of a young scholar to the field of health services research.
He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Goldman D, Smith J. “Socioeconomic Differences in the Adoption of New Medical Technologies.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 95(2):234-237, 2005.
www.ph.ucla.edu /hs/goldman.html   (388 words)

  
 Smith Richardson Foundation Domestic Public Policy Fellowship Program | International Peace & Conflict Resolution (via ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Smith Richardson Foundation Domestic Public Policy Fellowship Program
Fellowships will only be awarded to individual researchers and not to research teams.
Description: The Smith Richardson's Foundation's Domestic Public Policy Program seeks to support the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts.
www.aupeace.org.cob-web.org:8888 /node/1518   (274 words)

  
 SPPD - Faculty: Faculty Detail
Her research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation and the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
From 2003-2005, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Professor Yackee has also served as an H.B. Earhart Foundation Fellow and a Harry S. Truman Scholar.
www.usc.edu /schools/sppd/faculty/detail.php?id=46   (489 words)

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