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GAI’s Seamus Bruner Reveals Left-Wing Funders Such as Roy Singham Behind Antifa Riots

PIX PEACE SIGN Elizabeth Weibel9 Oct 2025

Seamus Bruner, the Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that left-wing funders such as billionaire Neville Roy Singham were behind left-wing Antifa riots and protests.

During a roundtable event on Antifa with President Donald Trump, Bruner explained that he, GAI President Peter Schweizer, and their team “followed” a trail of money and “followed it to the top of what” they called the Protest Industrial Complex, or Riot Inc. Bruner explained that the so-called “Riot Inc.” was made up of many different divisions, and that “dozens of radical organizations” have received millions of dollars from Riot Inc.

“We found a network of NGOs, it’s not just the Soros network, the Open Society Network. It’s other funding networks, the Arabella Funding Network, the Tides Funding Network, Neville Roy Singham and his network, foreign cash,” Bruner explained. “And, it’s also big left-wing funders — some of them are not citizens of this country.”

Bruner continued to note that these left-wing funders were “pouring money into this entire ecosystem.”

Bruner continued to share “three money facts” about Riot Inc., explaining that there were “many divisions” such as “PR divisions, marketing divisions” and even a “well-funded legal division.”

“Number two, we have identified dozens of radical organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations that have received more than one hundred million dollars from the Riot Inc. investors,” Bruner added. “These would be the lawyer groups, these would be the groups that advocate for calling good, honest Americans fascists.”

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“And then, three, I think the most shocking thing is that we have found that more than one hundred million dollars in U.S. taxpayer funding has flowed into these funding networks, including at least four million dollars to these very groups themselves,” Bruner added.

Bruner’s mention of Singham comes after an investigation by the Breitbart News Foundation reported that while “records from the United Kingdom confirm” that Singham resigned from Thoughtworks, Inc., which he founded in 1993, “Chinese government records suggest otherwise.”

After founding Thoughtworks, Inc. in 1993 and building the company into a software consulting powerhouse, Singham helped orchestrate its sale in October 2017, for approximately $785 million to a group of funds managed by London-based private equity firm Apax Partners. Corporate records from the United Kingdom confirm Singham’s resignation from Thoughtworks the same month, and his own LinkedIn profile says he has been retired since 2017. Thoughtworks’ English-language website relegates him to its “alumni” section, reinforcing the image of a clean break.

But Chinese government records suggest otherwise. These records list Singham as a corporate officer of Thoughtworks’ Chinese subsidiary, Thoughtworks Beijing, as recently as June 17, 2025, and for at least as far back as 2022. These records are from the National Enterprise Credit Reporting System (NECIPS), China’s corporate registry. Other documents, including trade show profile and “help-wanted” ads, listed Singham as Thoughtworks Beijing’s official contact in 2021.

The New York Post reported in June that Singham was set to be called to testify before a congressional committee regarding him funding “radical anti-Israel and Marxist groups” behind the Los Angeles riots.

In an article written by Bruner in June, Bruner detailed how the GAI had uncovered how the “official partners” behind the “No Kings” protests “bagged $114.8 million since 2019 from the Arabella Avisors dark money network an how professional protest organizations use tax dollars as a force multiplier.”

Bruner reported:

The expected worldwide mobilization of protests against President Donald Trump this weekend will hardly be a spontaneous eruption. On the contrary, the tumult is a carefully plotted production organized by The Indivisible Project and financed by the progress dark money network managed/advised by Arabella Advisors, which has perfected the mounting of made-to-order protests. Since 2019, the Arabella network has dumped more than $100 million into the coffers of the official “No Kings” protest partners—including the creator of the official protest song book.

This “grassroots” “nationwide days of defiance” targets Trump and his “billionaire allies,” according to organizers. The Arabella network’s biggest benefactors are the left’s own billionaire heroes, including George Soros, Bill Gates, Hansjorg Wyss, Mark Zuckerberg, and Reid Hoffman.

During the roundtable event, Bruner vowed to “keep following the money,” and expressed that he appreciated “everything” Trump was doing.

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https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-legal-laundering-funding-the-far-left-two/**

Tides Grantees

Data from the website Foundation Search reveals a staggering $1.24 billion in some 28,000 grants from the Tides Foundation to non-Tides entities between 1999 and 2015. Tides’ website claims it made $158.4 million in domestic grants and $65.2 million foreign grants in 2016. These grants fund a broad array of “social justice” activities in six continents, the majority of which is concentrated in the United States and Europe.

Tides’ grantee list runs the gamut of the professional Left. A list of some of Tides’ more prominent grant recipients includes:

Tides funneled some $2 million to kickstart Republican-turned-Clintonista David Brock’s Media Matters for America (MMfA), which was founded with help from the Center for American Progress in 2004 to “fact-check” (translation: attack) conservatives. According to MMfA’s application for IRS nonprofit status:

It is common for news and commentary by the press to present viewpoints that tend to overly promote corporate interests, the rights of the wealthy, and a conservative, Christian-influenced ideology.

During the George W. Bush administration, Tides money aided groups like the left-wing website MoveOn.org oppose the Iraq War by financing the Iraq Peace Fund and a Peace Strategies Fund. (MoveOn featured two ridiculous commercials at the time that portrayed President Bush as Adolf Hitler, saying that “what were war crimes in 1945 is foreign policy in 2003.”)

The Tides Foundation was a key funder of the Associations for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the federally funded, 400,000 dues-paying member strong pressure group that engaged in numerous voter fraud and other schemes for forty years. According to journalist Trevor Loudon writing for Capital Research Center,Tides gave grants to “ACORN ($100,000), ACORN International (three grants totaling $134,000), ACORN Institute (three grants totaling $84,793), [and] ACORN’s voter mobilization arm Project Vote (11 grants totaling $845,000).”

ACORN, shuttered in 2010 with the loss of government funding after investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles recorded ACORN employees offering them advice on how to start up a prostitution ring. (It’s worth noting that ACORN’s voter fraud spinoff Project VOTE employed Barack Obama in the early 1990s.) Meanwhile, ACORN continued to aid left-wing politicians with funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations through Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign until closing in August 2017, when the group was “ultimately forced to admit that our current model had become unsustainable.”

In July 2008, Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, was discovered to have embezzled over $948,000 from ACORN. A month later, the New York Times reported that Drummond Pike—described as a friend of the Rathkes—had “agreed to buy the promissory note that required the Rathke family to repay ACORN the money.” Wade Rathke was a Tides Foundation board member with ties to Big Labor, having founded the Service Employees International Union Southern Conference and served on the union’s executive board.

[pix] Another Tides grant recipient is the Alliance for Global Justice (AfGJ), an obscure, Arizona-based nonprofit that acts “as a conduit, keeping funds flowing to radical and anti-American groups that terrorize conservatives on campus” (Foundation Watch,August 2017). AfGJ is an unabashedly anti-capitalist organization and a key funder of the so-called anti-Trump “Resistance.” Early last year, the Daily Callerexposed AfGJ for funneling $50,000 to Refuse Fascism, the group responsible for the riot that shut down conservative activist Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley in February 2017. Since 2004, AfGJ has received over $200,000 from the Tides Foundation.

Tides has funded the Ruckus Society to the tune of $457,000 since 1999. The Ruckus Society comes out of the radical environmentalist movement of the 1980s; its founders, Mike Roselle and Howard “Twilly” Cannon also founded the anarchist group Earth First! and the domestic terrorist entity Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Those groups rose to infamy for inflicting eco-terrorist violence and property damage on logging companies; FBI reports tally over 600 criminal acts causing $43 million in damages committed by ELF and the related Animal Liberation Front (ALF) since 1996.

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is another Tides Foundation grantee. Founded in 1937 in New York City, the group was intended to act as a counterweight to the then-conservative American Bar Association; but it was later exposed by historians and the House Un-American Activities Committee as a close ally of the Soviet Union that “faithfully followed the line of the Communist Party on numerous issues…an important bulwark in defense of that party, its members, and organizations under its control.” The NLG was so extreme, in fact, that it ceased opposing the Allies in World War II as “imperialist” only when Nazi Germany broke its alliance with the Soviet Union and invaded that country on June 22, 1941. Along with the Communist Party USA, the NLG quickly lent President Roosevelt its “unlimited support to all measures necessary to the defeat of Hitlerism”—while preserving the tacit goal of aiding international communism.

In the next installment of Tides’ Legal Laundering, we uncover Tides’ unique role in incubating new groups for liberal groups.

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https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-legal-laundering-an-incubator-for-the-left-three/

Apollo Alliance

One of the Tides Center’s (a subsidiary of the Tides Foundation) lesser-known projects, the Apollo Alliance, started in 2004 in Washington, D.C., to “catalyze a clean energy revolution in America”—this, according to text taken from Apollo’s now-defunct website.

From the start, Apollo set about gathering labor unions, environmentalists, and social justice activists under one banner. It quickly earned the requisite endorsements from the AFL-CIO, Working Families Party, AFSCME, Service Employees International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Greenpeace USA, the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, the Union of Concerned Scientists, ACORN, and the NAACP. Van Jones, the Obama era “Green Jobs Czar,” described the group’s mission as “sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes.” Then-Congressman Jay Inslee (now the governor of Washington state), a member of its national advisory board, called Apollo “an opportunity for a bold new energy policy that can free us from our over-dependence on Middle East oil, expand the economy, and address environmental challenges.”

The project’s leadership reveals deep connections to the professional Left. Phil Angelides, a wealthy real estate developer, former California state treasurer, and the unsuccessful Democratic 2006 gubernatorial nominee, chaired the Apollo Alliance. Former National Wildlife Federation chair Jerome Ringo, an outspoken global warmer and union leader, was its president. Van Jones ran the group’s California chapter and served on its steering committee. Jeff Jones (no relation to Van Jones) directed the New York state chapter; left unmentioned on his official Apollo Alliance biography was his leadership role in Bill Ayers’ 1970s terrorist troop Weather Underground. The group’s national advisory board consisted of roughly two dozen important left-wing political players, such as Julian Bond (NAACP chair), Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (legally-challenged son of the famous reverend), Carl Pope (Sierra Club executive director), and Art Pulaski (California Labor Federation secretary-treasurer).

The Tides Foundation was a major funder of the Apollo Alliance. Google, well-known for supporting Democratic politicians, was also a key funder, along with the massive utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E).

Apollo managed to impact U.S. politics substantially over the course of its brief reign. In late 2008, during the height of the financial crisis, the organization crafted the Apollo Economic Recovery Act (AERA)—a measure containing environmentalist policy prescriptions such as $110 billion for “green jobs” programs. AERA later found a place in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, known more popularly as the stimulus bill, passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress. Apollo became so influential in passing the legislation and influencing its “green” elements, the group got a shout-out from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:  “The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them,” Reid said.

Apollo and its program recommendations maintained deep connections in the Obama administration. Enter Brian Deese, a former senior economic policy analyst for John Podesta’s Center for American Progress and a 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. Deese later served as a senior advisor to the President in the Obama administration, first as deputy director of the National Economic Council and later as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (2013-2015). In 2009, he masterminded the Car Allowance Rebate System, or “cash for clunkers,” a $3 billion wealth redistribution program favored by Apollo that was aimed at promoting fuel-efficient cars for low-income earners. Besides promoting the Left’s anti-oil agenda, the program helped stimulate the flagging U.S. auto industry alongside the federal bailouts that followed. It was so effective in the eyes of many on the Left that in 2009 the New York Times described the then-31 year old Deese as “one of the most influential voices” in the Obama administration’s bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.

In August 2009, Fox News host Glenn Beck identified the Apollo Alliance as a professional attempt at further solidifying labor unions, social justice activists, and environmentalist groups under one, well-coordinated aegis. “This is the head… this is at least a main player of what’s going on in America,” Beck said, identifying Apollo as a key “porthole” into the political schemes on the Left. And with Van Jones so close to the President, Apollo was on-track to accrue billions of dollars in federal funding.

But Beck’s revelations about Jones’ background as a devotee of “communism” and “anarchism” (in 1992 Jones founded a radical socialist organization called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM) who blamed President Bush for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks proved fatal to the White House career of the rising “green jobs czar.” As Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Phil Kerpen noted, Jones left the Obama administration for a job at the Center for American Progress.

Drummond Pike soon stepped in. In July 2010, a crazed shooter and convicted felon named Byron Williams was arrested by police for driving erratically in Oakland, California. Williams later claimed he wanted to kill “people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU,” and the incident was blamed by many on Beck’s reporting.  In an October 2010 open letter, Pike blamed Fox News for promoting “hate speech,” and asked major advertisers to yank their ads from the network. He demanded that Fox News fire Glenn Beck for inciting violence against “the charitable, nonpartisan programs we run” at Tides. His efforts fell short. Beck continued his reporting on Apollo.

At some point during the latter half of the Obama administration, the Apollo Alliance quietly left the political stage. The group was rolled over into the BlueGreen Alliance, a similarly structured organization still in operation.

In the final installation of Tides’ Legal Laundering, we meet the new crop of ‘Tidesters’ attempting to influence the 2018 midterm elections.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-legal-laundering-meet-the-tidesters-five/

 Tides Network

Drummond Pike established the Tides Network in 2001, a master corporation that layers yet another umbrella atop the swelling Tides empire operating in multiple countries.

In 2000, left-wing Canadian philanthropist Carol Newell co-founded Tides Canada, which has reportedly given over $158 million “in support of environmental and social change” to Canadian-based initiatives, largely through its 200-odd donor-advised funds.

Tides Canada funded activists who opposed the Keystone XL project, a pipeline that would link Canadian and North Dakota oil exports with refineries in the southern U.S., donating over $8.4 million in 2009 and 2010 to halt the project. Vivian Krause, a blogger in British Columbia, reported that in twelve years U.S. dark money groups (most prominently Tides entities) poured $300 million into Canadian allies that opposed projects like Keystone. Her investigation ultimately led the Canadian government to yank $8.3 million in government funding from Tides Canada.

The Advocacy Fund, Tides’ 501(c)(4) lobbying arm, advertises itself as enabling “progressive donors and activists to run high impact legislative and political campaigns” on “issues of social justice, environmental sustainability, human rights and economic inequality.” Its federal filings in 2015 reveal grants to the Sierra Club ($1.1 million), the voter mobilizing Sixteen Thirty Fund ($77,724), the League of Conservation Voters ($2.1 million), and many others for a total of $10.2 million in functional expenses and $9.6 million in annual revenues.

The Advocacy Fund claims “Tides does not subsidize The Advocacy Fund in any way.” However, data from their IRS form 990 filings in 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014 reveals $6,210,549 in 33 grants from the Tides Foundation to the Advocacy Fund. These grants range from $1 million in 2010 for the “Reform immigration for America fund” to $10,113 in 2010 for “We are America alliance action fund’s evaluation project.” In keeping with a pass-through operation, many of these grants are earmarked for Advocacy Fund projects like the Alliance for Citizenship, a 2013 coalition of illegal immigration advocates, a twin of the infamous National Council of La Raza (now UnidosUS).

While donations from 501(c)(3) public charities like the Tides Foundation to 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations are allowed under IRS law, the Advocacy Fund’s claim that it isn’t funded by the former is misleading at best, and blatantly dishonest at worst.

Meet the Tidesters

Drummond Pike stepped down as CEO of the Tides Foundation in late 2010 after serving 34 years with the nonprofit. Pike went on to join Equilibrium Capital Group as a principal, a San Francisco-headquartered “sustainability-driven” private equity firm. Through its many buzzword-rife reports (“risk, resilience, and returns from sustainability”), Equilibrium details its role in helping investors “make decisions, including divestment from carbon-intensive investments, particularly in Europe” and understand “the surge of green bonds issued internationally to support sustainable development initiatives.” Pike left the company in 2014 to chair the Sustainable Technology and Regulatory (STAR) Council at Ultra Capital LLC, a San Francisco real estate investment firm.

Pike’s successor at the Tides Foundation, Kriss Deiglmeier, a veteran left-leaning philanthropoid, had previously served as founding executive director for the Stanford University Center for Social Innovation. In an interview shortly after her Tides appointment, Deiglmeier referenced the need for wealthy left-wing nonprofits to pressure major companies into progressive compliance:

“Shining light on bad behavior is one thing,” Ms. Deiglmeier says, “but it’s also important to get Walmart to drive sustainability in its supply chain.”

Like Pike, Deiglmeier is a creature of the slick corporate “greens” world. She has penned a number of publications with titles like “Social Innovation through Corporate Social Responsibility”—code for progressivism in the boardroom. It’s a model that masks 20th century corporatism behind a veil of free market environmentalism using meaningless 21st century “greenspeak.” Take this line from a June 2017 interview with Deiglmeier:

. . . I think [Tides is] a unique jewel in the sector. And what we focus on . . . is to accelerate the pace of social change, working with innovative partners for a world of shared prosperity and social justice.

What does this signify, besides more leftist gobbledygook?

The rest of Tides Foundation’s board consists of a number of development and legal experts from liberal foundations, government, and companies known for funding left-wing groups. One of these is Salesforce, a $4 billion cloud computing firm based in San Francisco. In 2015, Salesforce’s CEO, Marc Benioff, cancelled programs requiring employees to travel to Indiana after that state passed religious freedom legislation he considered “discrimination.” Meanwhile, Benioff saw no irony in his organization maintaining offices in communist China, a country the U.S. State Department classifies as “of particular concern” for jailing and torturing its religious citizens.

Conclusion

It’s safe to say that the Tides consortium will remain the Left’s favorite funding tool as radical new groups continue to proliferate in 2018 and beyond.

On March 1, 2018, the Huffington Post announced the creation of Black Futures Lab, the brainchild of Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza “aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power.” Garza makes no bones about her extremist views:

We have a president that is openly supportive of white nationalist groups and working alongside his administration to dismantle the tatters of what was left of a safety net in this country and also working hard to dismantle organizations that work for the end of economic and political and emotional support of black people.

Black Futures Lab is funded by Color of Change, Third World Organizing, Demos, and—you guessed it—the Tides Foundation. Tides, it seems, has no shortage of donors eager to bankroll the leftist social change revolution.

We can be certain of one thing: the future of the American Left will be generously underwritten by the Tides Foundation.

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d. Fiscal Sponsorships Provide the Billionaire’s Club with Access to Nimble and

Transient Groups and also Provide Distance from their Hired Hands

Fiscal sponsorship arrangements provide the Billionaire’s Club with access to nimble and

transient groups to address fast moving political developments. As discussed in this report, fiscal

sponsors rent out their 501(c)(3) status to outfits that are not recognized by the IRS. This

arrangement allows foundation funds to flow to activists who would not otherwise qualify to

receive foundation money as most private foundations have guidelines that explicitly require

grantees to be recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS. Additionally, as the fiscal sponsor is

generally a well-known and well regarded nonprofit, the arrangement provides distance between

the wealthy donor and the actions of their hired hands.

i. Tides Center: The Principal Fiscal Sponsor

Tides Inc., a group of separate yet closely intertwined organizations, sets the standard in

inventing the infrastructure behind the fiscal sponsor relationship. Tides heavily funds green

organizations and its setup provides one stop shopping for the Billionaire’s Club. The Tides

Foundation and the Tides Center are the most prominent affiliates of Tides Inc. The Tides

Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization based in San Francisco founded in 1976 by Drummond

Pike,347 an activist environmentalist with connections to other left-leaning foundations and

organizations.348 Tides Foundation reported net total assets of over $135,000,000 in 2012.349 It

takes in large sums of money from other large foundations, including the Hewlett Family

Foundation, Schmidt Family Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, and Sea Change Foundation. A

key component of the Tides’ operations involves maintaining donor anonymity. 350

The Tides Center is also a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1994 and based in San

Francisco.351 It promotes itself as “the leading fiscal sponsor in the nation,” and boasts of

sponsoring roughly 230 projects.352 It receives money from Hewlett, Rockefeller Brothers

Foundation, Schmidt, Sea Change, Marisla Foundation and Energy Foundation. Both Tides

Foundation and Tides Center heavily support each other. Between 2010 and 2012, Tides

Foundation gave over $10 million to Tides Center,353 and Tides Center gave over $39 million to

Tides Foundation.354 It is unclear what purpose the transfer of funds between these two

organizations serves, other than obscuring the money trail.

347 History, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/about/history (last visited July 24, 2014).

348 Drummond Pike,RON ARNOLD’S UNDUE INFLUENCE, http://www.undueinfluence.com/drummond_pike.htm (last

visited July 24, 2014).

349 Tides Found. IRS Form 990 (2012). 350 Ben Johnson, Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left,FRONTPAGE MAG, Feb. 13, 2004,

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=14166.

351 Tides Center IRS Form 990 (2012). 352 Learn About Fiscal Sponsorship at Tides,

TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-anonprofit-project/learn-about-fiscal-sponsorship-at-tides#3

(last visited July 24, 2014). 353 Tides Found., IRS Form 990, 2010-2012. 354 Tides Center, IRS Form 990, 2010-2012.

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TOTAL GRANTS BETWEEN TIDES FOUNDATION & TIDES CENTER 2010-2012

$39,012,027

$10,047,801

As a prominent and highly active fiscal sponsor, Tides Center exerts the Tides’ influence

both through controlling funding allocations to its sponsored groups, but also through overseeing

their structures, staff, and activities. Tides Center describes its close, intertwined relationship

with the groups it sponsors by stating: “Tides’ projects are not separate entities or affiliated

organizations. Because they are an integral part of Tides Center and not separate legal entities,

projects are able to receive charitable donations and grants available only to tax-exempt

organizations. Tides Center is legally and financially responsible for all our projects and

activities.”355

Groups that Tides Center sponsors are subject to Tides Center’s oversight and direction

in important aspects that include forming a governing board,356 managing payroll,357 and

monitoring risk.358 Tides Center stresses its hands-on involvement with its sponsored projects by

stating: “Every Tides Center staff member is invested in the success, growth, and achievement of

our projects. We continually strive to improve our work and streamline processes so that the

provision of services to each project is seamless.”359 In return, Tides Center profits through

charging an amount equaling 9% of its sponsored groups’ annual revenues, with a slight

percentage reduction in later years for revenues

exceeding $1 million.360

Despite the influence exerted by the Tides

Center’s over a group it sponsors, generally their

relationship is not always evident from looking at the

group. One example is the Story of Stuff project based

in Berkeley, California.361 It produces movies, podcasts and other mediums that perpetuate

355 Learn About Fiscal Sponsorship at Tides, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-anonprofit-project/learn-about-fiscal-sponsorship-at-tides#2

(last visited July 24, 2014). 356 Advisory Board Consultation, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-a-nonprofitproject/learn-about-fiscal-sponsorship-at-tides/service-overview/advisory-board-consultation

(last visited July 24,

2014).

357 Payroll Management, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-a-nonprofit-project/fiscalsponsorship-at-tides/service-overview/payroll-management

(last visited July 24, 2014). 358 Risk Management, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-a-nonprofit-project/fiscalsponsorship-at-tides/service-overview/risk-management

(last visited July 24, 2014). 359 Project Relations, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-a-nonprofit-project/learnabout-fiscal-sponsorship-at-tides/service-overview/project-relations

(last visited July 24, 2014). 360 Costs, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/i-want-to/turn-my-vision-ideas-into-a-nonprofit-project/fiscal-sponsorship-attides/service-overview/costs

(last visited July 24, 2014).

Tides Foundation

501(c)(3)

Tides Center

501(c)(3)

It is unclear what purpose the

transfer of funds between these

two organizations serves, other

than obscuring the money trail.

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propaganda on climate change and environmental issues.362 Its founder, Annie Leonard, has

been associated with various green groups, including Greenpeace.363 One if its most notable

works is a propaganda movie called The Story of Stuff. On its website, Tides Center boasts:

With over 12 million online views, TheStory of Stuffwith Annie Leonard is one

of the most widely viewed environmental-themed short films of all time. Since its

release in December 2007, The Story of Stuff has been shown in thousands of

schools, houses of worship, community events, and businesses, and translated into

10 languages. It reveals the connections, at times hidden, between the

environmental, social, and economic issues which surround consumerism, and it

has inspired a global movement.364

Nonetheless, there is no mention of the Tides Center on the Story of Stuff’s website

except for a passing reference on a separate “questions” page linked on the donations page that

confirms that contributions are tax deductible due to the fiscal sponsorship arrangement.365

Source: https://storyofstuff.actionkit.com/donate/general_donations/

Tides Center-sponsored projects also associate closely with organizations that receive

money from Tides Foundation. For example, Tides Center fiscally sponsors The Center for

Environment and Policy (CEP), which conducts research and advocacy associated with

361 Project Directory, TIDES, http://www.tides.org/community/project-directory (last visited July 24, 2014). 362 From a Movie to a Movement, STORY OF STUFF PROJECT, http://storyofstuff.org (last visited July 24, 2014). 363 Annie Leonard, STORY OF STUFF PROJECT, http://storyofstuff.org/annie (last visited July 24, 2014). 364 Stories, STORY OF STUFF PROJECT, http://www.tides.org/impact/stories/show/story/single/title/the-story-of-stuffproject

(last visited July 24, 2014).

365 Support the Project!, STORY OF STUFF PROJECT, https://storyofstuff.actionkit.com/donate/general_donations (last

visited July 24, 2014).

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sustainable development and populations.366 CEP partners with multiple groups that receive

donations from Tides Foundation, including The Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife

Federation, Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and Union of Concerned Scientists.367

ii. Sustainable Markets Foundation: A

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Targeting the Tides Foundation

The dossier on Ivory also revealed that Maverick had given a dossier to Quinn Thomas on NRDC, the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA), the Land Stewardship Project (LSP), and theTides Foundation. That dossier was not in the documents unsealed by the court in the Holiday Shores litigation.

According to the Ivory dossier, Maverick had previously provided a more thorough report on these organizations than was summarized there. Its summary claimed that the listed environmental groups "share one very powerful, controversial funding source: The Tides Foundation, an uber-wealthy and far-left philanthropy...."

The March 4, 2010 dossier goes on to channel a Glenn Beck-like tone in linking the groups to Tides and its management in a guilt-by-association manner.

The dossier on Ivory notes that the Tides Center provided funding for a 1999 report on pesticides and herbicides, including atrazine. And, it notes that the Tides' donors gave NRDC between $64,000 and $96,000 a year for three years.

The amount of funding Maverick received from Quinn Thomas or the amount Quinn Thomas received from the Syngenta contract is not known; what is known is that WHWG received over one million dollar in fees for its work on the atrazine PR efforts.

Science Under Siege

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Fans like Byron Williams, the right-wing, government-hating, gun-toting nut who strapped on his body armor, stocked a pickup truck with guns and ammo, and set off up the California coast to San Francisco in order to start killing employees at the previously obscure, left-leaning Tides Foundation in hopes of sparking a political revolution. The foundation had been the centerpiece of a year-long Beck attack campaign, during which hesmeared the low-profile entity for being staffed by "thugs" and "bullies" and involved in "the nasty of the nastiest," like indoctrinating schoolchildren and creating a "mass organization to seize power."

Said Williams from jail, "Beck is like a schoolteacher on TV."

And fans like the ones at Beck's site, The Blaze, who followed the host's demented obsession with elderly activist and academic Frances Fox Piven, by posting lurid threats against her: "ONE SHOT...ONE KILL!" announced one. "Why is this woman still alive?" asked another. And this particularly shocking threat: "Maybe they should burst through the front door of this arrogant elitist and slit the hateful cow's throat."

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Rob Stein is the founder of Democracy Alliance.

External links

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Glenn Beck Targets Frances Fox Piven

The Editors | January 20, 2011

On the afternoon of January 6, Frances Fox Piven, a distinguished professor, legendary activist, writer and longtime contributor to this magazine, received an e-mail from an unknown correspondent. There was no text, just a subject line that read: DIE YOU CUNT. It was not the first piece of hateful e-mail Piven had gotten, nor would it be the last. One writer told her to "go back to Canada you dumb bitch"; another ended with this wish: "may cancer find you soon."

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Piven was unnerved but not surprised. These are not pretty e-mails, but they appear positively decorous compared with what has been written about her by commentators on Glenn Beck's website, The Blaze, where she's been the target of a relentless campaign to demonize her���and worse. There, under cover of anonymous handles, scores of people have called for Piven's murder, even volunteering to do the job with their own hands. "Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas [sic] ready and I'll give My life to take Our freedom back," wrote superwrench4. "ONE SHOT...ONE KILL!" proclaimed Jst1425. "The only redistribution I am interested in is that of a precious metal.... LEAD," declared Patriot1952. Posts like these are interwoven with ripples of misogyny, outbursts of bizarre anti-Semitism and crude insults about Piven's looks (she's actually a noted beauty) and age (she's 78).

This fusillade was evidently set off by Piven's recent Nationeditorial calling for a mass movement of the unemployed "[Mobilizing the Jobless [1]," January 10/17]. But Beck has had Piven in his cross-hairs for some time. In the past few years he's featured Piven, along with her late husband, Richard Cloward, in at least twenty-eight broadcasts, all of which paint them as masterminds of an overarching left-wing plot called "the Cloward-Piven strategy," which supposedly engineered the financial crisis of 2008, healthcare reform, Obama's election and massive voter fraud, among other world-historical events (see Richard Kim, "The Mad Tea Party [2]," April 12, 2010). Cloward and Piven, Beck once argued, are "fundamentally responsible for the unsustainability and possible collapse of our economic system." In his most recent diatribe against Piven (January 17) he repeatedly called her "the enemy of the Constitution." In Beck's telling, because Piven and her comrades on the left support civil disobedience in some circumstances, it is they���not the heavily armed militias of the radical right—who threaten Americans' safety.

It's tempting not to dignify such ludicrous distortions with a response. But in brief: Piven, throughout her career as an activist and academic, has embodied the best of American democracy. It has been her life's work to amplify the voices of the disenfranchised through voter registration drives, grassroots organization and, when necessary, street protest. The way economic injustice warps and erodes our democracy has been a central preoccupation. But passive lament has never been her game. Recognizing the leverage that oppressed groups have—and working with them to use it—is her special genius.

It's perhaps not surprising, then, that the pseudo-populist right finds her so threatening. The highly personalized and concerted campaign against Piven, already unsettling, takes on added gravity in the context of the recent shootings of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, federal judge John Roll and eighteen other people in Arizona. But while commentators debate whether the killer in that case—the mentally disturbed Jared Loughner—was inspired by the ravings of right-wing demagogues, the forgotten story of Byron Williams provides a straightforward example of the way hateful rhetoric fuels violence.

In July, Williams, a convicted bank robber, put on a suit of body armor and got in a car with a 9-mm handgun, a shotgun and a .308 caliber rifle equipped with armor-piercing bullets and set off for San Francisco. His destination was the Tides Foundation, which had been mentioned at that point in at least twenty-nine episodes of the Glenn Beckshow, sometimes along with Piven. His goal, as he later told police, was to kill "people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU" in order to "start a revolution." Williams's mother said that he had been watching TV news and was upset at "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing-agenda items." Or, as Williams himself put it, "I would have never started watching Fox News if it wasn't for the fact that Beck was on there. And it was the things that he did, it was the things he exposed that blew my mind." California Highway Patrol officers pulled Williams over for driving erratically and, after a firefight, subdued and arrested him before he could blow anyone else's mind away.

For a responsible journalist and a responsible media outlet, such an incident would have spurred a process of intense self-scrutiny. But this is Glenn Beck and Fox, and as is evident from the campaign against Piven, nothing of the sort occurred.In the hundreds of posts about Piven on The Blaze, there is not one admonition to tone down the violent rhetoric, not one clear instance in which an editor intervened to moderate the thread. In fact, commenters seem at liberty to egg one another on: one poster pointedly noted that Piven lives in New York City and teaches at CUNY; another then linked to a website that listed Piven's home address and phone number. "Why is this woman still alive?" asked capnjack. "Mainly because you haven't killed her, I imagine. See, someone that really cares and has the courage of their conviction must actually DO SOMETHING," responded Diamondback. And the calls for assassination are not limited to Piven. As Civilunrestnow put it in a post that perfectly captures the tenor of right-wing eliminationist fantasy, "Isay bring it. 90 million legal gun owners with over 220 million legal firearms, MOST in the hands of people who claim to be center RIGHT. I think it's time to reduce the surplus population of leeches, lay abouts, left wing nut jobs, the main stream media, liberal politicians and MOST defense attorneys."

Of course, crazed right-wingers enjoy the protection of the First Amendment, too. But the overwhelming and transparent calls for murder on Beck's website, among other right-wing hot spots, can't be casually dismissed as "just talk." At one time it was all just talk for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Dr. George Tiller's assassin, Scott Roeder, too. We were lucky that police happened to pull over Byron Williams before he reached the Tides Foundation's door. In a sense Glenn Beck was lucky too. How long will this luck hold out?

Source URL: http://www.thenation.com/article/157900/glenn-beck-targets-frances-fox-piven

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[1] http://www.thenation.com/article/157292/mobilizing-jobless

[2] http://www.thenation.com/article/mad-tea-party

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The CA cop shooter and Glenn Beck: Here's what we know

Blog››› July 23, 2010 1:32 PM EDT  ››› MATT GERT

On July 18, Byron Williams, an ex-felon with a history of violent criminal behavior, was pulled over by California Highway Police on I-580. Williams, who was apparently intoxicated, opened fire at the officers as one approached his truck. He continued firing as eight additional officers arrived. More than 60 rounds were reportedly fired during the five to eight minute shootout; two officers were reportedly injured by flying glass after a squad cars window and windshield were shattered by gunfire. Williams was arrested and hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds.

Williams was reportedly heavily armed with a handgun, shotgun, rifle and body armor. Shortly after the shooting, a CHP sergeant said that "There is no doubt in our mind, given the body armor and the extensive amount of ammunition he had, that he was on his way to do a very serious crime against either someone or a group of people" And indeed, Williams reportedly told investigators that "his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU."

The ACLU is a very well-known entity, but the Tides Foundation, which seeks to "promote economic justice, robust democratic processes, and the opportunity to live in a healthy and sustainable environment where human rights are preserved and protected," is much more obscure.

Williams may have been a disturbed individual who was destined to explode. But the question the media should be asking is why he decided to target Tides.

According to his mother, Williams "watched the news on television and was upset by 'the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items.'"

We don't know what Williams was watching, or that television played a role in his decision to target Tides. However, if it did, according to our Nexis searches, the primary person on cable or network news talking about the Tides Foundation in the year and a half prior to the shootout was Fox News' Glenn Beck.

According to our searches, since Beck's show premiered on January 19, 2009, Tides has been mentioned on 31 editions of Fox News programs, 29 of which were editions of Beck's show (the other two were on Sean Hannity's program). In most of those references, Beck attacked Tides, often weaving the organization into his conspiracy theories. Two of those Beck mentions occurred during the week before Williams' shootout.

On July 14, Beck said:

You believe that America is the last best hope for the free world. Boy, was I a moron for believing that. Nope, there are a lot of people that believe that we are the oppressor. This man states it. He states in this book "The purpose is to create mass organizations to seize power." Wow! That almost sounds like the Tides Foundation.

On July 13, Beck said:

Well, they have the education system. They have the media. They have the capitalist system. What do you think the Tides Foundation was? They infiltrate and they saw under Ronald Reagan that capitalists were not for all of this nonsense, so they infiltrated. Now, they are using failing capitalism to destroy it.

By contrast, since January 19, 2009, according to our Nexis search, Tides was not mentioned on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or PBS. Not once. This search is not perfect -- Nexis does not include, for example, MSNBC's daytime coverage. But the contrast with Beck's coverage is stark.

All of Fox News' references in shows covered by the Nexis database to the Tides Foundation since Beck's show premiered are found below the fold.

On his July 14 program, Beck said:

You believe that America is the last best hope for the free world. Boy, was I a moron for believing that. Nope, there are a lot of people that believe that we are the oppressor. This man states it. He states in this book "The purpose is to create mass organizations to seize power." Wow! That almost sounds like the Tides Foundation.

On his July 13 program, Beck said:

Well, they have the education system. They have the media. They have the capitalist system. What do you think the Tides Foundation was? They infiltrate and they saw under Ronald Reagan that capitalists were not for all of this nonsense, so they infiltrated. Now, they are using failing capitalism to destroy it.

On June 24 program, Beck said:

These are the 1963 communist goals, OK? In 1963, I want to give you just a few of them -- you tell me if they failed.

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Thirty-seven: Infiltrate and gain control of big businesses. What do you think the Tides Foundation is?

On his June 22 program, Beck asked

How about Tides? How about indoctrination? Forget God. It's in George Soros we trust.

On his June 21 program, Beck said of philanthropist George Soros

He also helped start the Tides Foundation, which among its many super, super classics are the anti-capitalist "Story of Stuff," indoctrination video. Yes, George Soros money. Isn't that great? Shown in schools all across America to warp your children's brains and make sure they know how evil capitalism is.

On his May 11 program, Beck said:

You know, last week, I couldn't believe that -- that answer I gave on FOX last week about the Miranda rights, that was off the top of my head. I didn't -- I just got up. I mean, I was up for about 20 minutes while I did this episode.

And even the founders of -- the founder of Tides, remember that? The really shady organization that I'm like -- run for your life, it's Drummond Pike!

Drummond Pike wrote this, "Why I love Glenn Beck." He says, "Beck has just done the right thing, and he deserves praise, even from his rhetorical enemies."

Are you kidding me? It's Tides! I mean, I read that one, I'm like, I should rethink this whole thing.

On his April 29 program, Beck said:

Who's again the Joyce Foundation? Started the climate exchange, seed money. They also give money to the Tides Foundation. Remember those guys? They're great. Oh, that's George Soros.

On his April 27 program, Beck said

We've been telling you all this week about people who will actually benefit from the legislation that is happening now, and cap-and- trade is one of them. In 2000 and 2001, the Chicago Climate Exchange received start-up grants from the Joyce Foundation.

I don't have time to go through this all tonight. I just want to recap this and hold this in your mind. This should be on the front page of every paper. It's such a scandal. I mean, it's - we are really creating just a nightmare of a country.

The Joyce Foundation, which gives money to the Tides Foundation -- John Ayers, the brother of Bill Ayers, Wade Rathke. On the board between '03 and '08 was Valerie Jarrett. She is in the White House now. She was also with the Fed in Chicago at the same time she was on this board.

On his April 26 show, Beck said:

By the way, the Joyce Foundation is bigger than the George Soros Tides Foundation. Yes. It's kind of like that, but bigger. In fact, so big, that the Joyce Foundation funds the Tides Foundation.

If you don't know who the Tides Foundation is, look it up, or refer back to an earlier episode.

On his March 17 show, Beck said:

Here's the audio from George Soros' Tides Foundation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JACOB HACKER, POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR: Someone once said to me, this is a Trojan horse for single-payer. And I said, "Well, it's not a Trojan horse, right? It's just right there." I'm telling you, we're going to get there --

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Got it?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HACKER: -- over time, slowly.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: Not a Trojan horse, OK. Tides Foundation, George Soros.

On his March 5 show, Beck said:

Our children are being indoctrinated and it must be exposed. It must end because history has shown us where it can lead. Kids in elementary schools are being taught about cross-dressing, that they shouldn't listen to their parents all the time because their parents don't always know what's best.

They're taught capitalism is evil. Videos like this one are being played in classrooms cross country, made by the George Soros' funded Tides Foundation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (video clip): It's the government's job to watch out for us, to take care of us. That's their job.

On his January 25 show, Beck said:

Soros is practically the only investor that is still on board with Obama's bank plan. Why?

Let's follow the circle of influence. The president, our buddy Phil just serving you, Soros -- Soros has the Tides Foundation. He heavily donates to this. It's great. One of the biggest projects in the Tides Foundation that he gives tons of money to is the Apollo Alliance.

The Apollo Alliance, remember him? Creating green jobs -- that's what he did. I mean, we got Jeff Jones here. He's -- well, he was part of the Weather Underground.

On his December 7, 2009, show, Beck said:

Actual coalitions of power. Hello!

And we're counting `em down, all the way up to number 10.

To be successful, we must put in place commitments for hundreds of millions of dollars to be used to finance paid communications and mobilization once the battle is joined. Money, money, money -- the amount of money and number of organizations that they have gathered for this fight is stunning. Tides Foundation. SEIU spend $60 million to elect Obama. HCAN has donated $25 million in the last year to help pass Obama's health care. But they need that money to able to combat the will of the vast majority of the American people.

On his October 29, 2009, show, Beck said:

We've also seen it in the classroom. We've shown it to you night after night, kids are being taught to sing about how Obama is wonderful and how everyone is equal in his sight. Kids are being taught that capitalism is evil and flawed through "The Story of Stuff." It's a video made by the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation.

On his October 5, 2009, show, Beck said:

I don't have a stealthy agenda, but, I'm still called a conspiracy theorist. Isn't that weird? You know, they have a stealthy agenda, but they're not called conspiracy theorists. They're just called community organizers.

How about this? If I had an idea that I cloaked and made it a Trojan horse, I'd be a nutjob or a conspiracy theorist. But when they have a Trojan horse -- no, no, they're not called that. They're called members of the Tides Foundation.

On his October 2, 2009, show, Beck said:

How could you possibly sit on the sidelines when we keep seeing the indoctrination attempts on our children? The anti-capitalist "Story of Stuff" that we showed you this video. It's made by Tides. This audience knows who Tides is.

On his September 25, 2009, show, Beck said:

On top of that, they are now indoctrinating our children. We showed you all kinds of video this week. Start with this one -- "The Story of Stuff."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, let's start with the government. Now, my friends tell me I should use a tank to symbolize the government and that's true in many countries and increasingly in our own. After all, more than 50 percent of our federal tax money is now going to the military. But I'm using a person to symbolize the government because I hold true to the vision and values the government should be of the people, by the people, for the people.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: She followed that with the government's job is to take care of us. No, it's not.

Is telling that to our children, and telling our children that America is a bad place, is paid for by the Tides Foundation and all comes out of Berkeley, California, and it's all over our schools.

On the September 25, 2009, edition of Hannity, Pat Cadell said:

I think it's -- I think it's the most -- I described what it was: cult of personality. It is the same thing driving. We have that video that's been seen by millions of people. The stuff -- you know, the stuff we know or the stuff we learn or whatever. Which is -- which says the country should be represented by a tank, which the Tides Foundation is funding. We had the thing with an NEA. This is not an accident going on.

On his September 24, 2009, show, Beck said:

We don't put our hope in a president, in the individual. We put our hope in God. Now, we're putting it in Obama. He is the only one that can help you, but we're all equal in his sight.

If there wasn't the NEA propaganda, if the Tides Foundation, as we showed you this week, hadn't made an anti-capitalist propaganda video that we showed you - if that wasn't out there, well, then maybe, maybe, maybe, it would just be one crazy teacher.

Fine, I would agree with you. But at what point do we as human beings, as American citizens say, "Wait a minute. What the heck is going on?" This isn't the kind of principles I'm all about. This isn't the kind of principles my neighbors are about.

On his September 23, 2009, show, Beck said:

Now, some of the power that's bringing it all together is an -- is an organization called the Tides Foundation. Their founder is Drummond Pike. He describes the Tides Foundation or Tides Center like this: "Tides was created to provide comprehensive flexible services and tools to those dedicated to lasting progressive social change." "Lasting progressive social change."

And while they do legitimate things, they are also involved in some of the nastiest of the nasty. For instance, these two guys, Wade and Dale. Wade is the founder of ACORN. Dale is the brother. Oh, they're brothers.

On his September 22, 2009, show, Beck said:

I believe, last night, on this program, it was an aha moment for anybody in America that is really trying to just open their mind and figure things out when I showed you this board last night.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: The Apollo Alliance, OK, oh, look, it's ACORN. ACORN founder Wade Rathke is former chairman of Tides Center. That's weird! Rathke was on the Tides board. ACORN, Tides, Apollo, Van Jones, Jeff Jones, Weather Underground uh-oh!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BECK: And SEIU is on the other side of that. I mean, ACORN, Tides, SEIU -- all these connections, I mean, and we're seeing now how they're all intertwined. The same people keep popping up over and over again. It's pretty eye-opening, but when you combine that with what is being mobilized, I mean -- what's happening? It is absolutely frightening what it looks like is coming our way. I mean, unless -- you know, unless you like France or something worse.

On his September 21, 2009, show, Beck said:

By the way, Tides, in case you don't know what Tides is -- Tides Foundation is with Soros' -- Tides' Drummond pike, the Tides' CEO, he's the treasurer or was the treasurer of Democracy Alliance, also Soros. Tides -- so you know -- is the one that brings us the Apollo Alliance. The Apollo Alliance, that's the one that wrote the stimulus bill. Oh, Van Jones is on the Apollo Alliance board. Oh.

On his September 18, 2009, show, Beck said:

This is a progressive, George Soros-funded, extreme left-wing organization. It's all funded right through the Tides Foundation. It doesn't appear left-wing because, oh, they have all of these credible organizations with it. But what are their real goals?

Wade Rathke with ACORN. His brother Dale -- where is -- where is Dale? Here is his brother Dale is at SEIU -- we think. We're not sure. He was with ACORN, but nobody will give us a straight answer on where he went after embezzling almost $1 million and then George Soros' people at the Tides Foundation come up with $1 million just to make that problem go away. We think he went to SEIU, but nobody will give us a straight -- a straight answer.

On his September 18, 2009, show, Beck said:

I told you that we were going to talk about these things. We were going to talk about Obama, the Left, internationalists, graft, Acorn-style organizations, revolution and hidden agenda. Oligarh -- one letter is missing. Why did I select these words, because Acorn selects Tides, they all select their words first, and then tie them altogether into one word. Oligarch, the only letter that is missing is Y. I don't know what we're turning into an oligarchy, or what we're turning into, but unless you ask why, we're going to transform into something. Ask questions.

From the August 5, 2009, edition of Hannity:

MICHELLE MALKIN: Well, this is the mother of all smear campaigns by the Democrat National Committee and the White House. And this is the way they play. It's the Chicago way. It's hardball politics. It demonized your opponent, stifle dissent.

And it's laughable coming from an organization and a machine that has done nothing but Astroturf state grassroots in support of ObamaCare. And if you want to talk about K Street, let's talk about 1825 K Street. That is ground zero for the Soros and Tides Foundation-funded operation that has failed to put people on the ground to counter a truly grassroots movement among the tea party activists and counterinsurgency of taxpayer groups.

From the August 4, 2009, edition of Glenn Beck:

BECK: OK. So, let me switch gears. And, Phil, let me -- let me bring you in on something else. I have discovered this great little thing called the Apollo project that we've been talking about here, and this just -- boy, it's like a candy store that just never stops giving. Just candy everywhere.

Let -- I just want to go through this with you. Help me out. The Apollo project was started by the Tides Foundation. If you remember Van Jones, he's our green jobs czar, right?

From the August 3, 2009, edition of Glenn Beck:

BECK: The green jobs czar -- let me give this quote. "I was a rowdy nationalist in April 1992. By August, I was a communist. I met all these radical people of color -- I mean, really, really radical communists and anarchists, and it was, like, this is what I need to be a part of."

He's never taken this back. He is the guy who -- his Apollo project is what designed the stimulus package.

MALKIN: That's right. And as you pointed on your show, the word is getting out there on the Internet, underwritten by far-left radicals, like the Tides Foundation. And that's another problem with these czars is that you have these hard left radicals who have an unlimited amount of power to dole out goodies to their friends and to forge a very frightening agenda.

From the July 28, 2009, edition of Glenn Beck:

BECK: OK. And then we have Wade Rathke -- Wade Rathke, who is the founder of ACORN. He was on the board of directors -- if I'm not mistaken -- of the institution that is funding and paying for Apollo, right?

PHIL KERPEN: Yes. He's on -- he was until this year on the board of the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, which are the parent organizations that host the Apollo Alliance.

BECK: OK. So, Wade Rathke, ACORN, Tides Center, they decide that they're going to fund and create Apollo. One of the founders is the guy who went to jail -- this is during the Rodney King thing -- he went to jail and he was just a black nationalist. He came out a communist and he also then started looking into the green movement, and he is the guy who said, "Hey, if we tie labor and ACORN and Greenpeace together, we've got a super- powerful group, Apollo."

Is it true Apollo helped design the stimulus package?

KERPEN: They did. They put out a draft stimulus bill last year in 2008. It included almost everything that ended up being in the final stimulus bill. Harry Reid has thanked them for helping design the final stimulus package that was enacted into law. And they brag on their Web site that they helped design this thing and push it through.

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BECK: OK. America, I would like you -- I just like to ask you, Barack Obama keeps trying to separate himself from all of these organizations. He's telling us -- he's giving speeches and saying, "I'm one of you, guys; I really am one of you." But then, these organizations, he'll always distance himself over and over and over again from the individuals.

But let me ask you this -- John Podesta, Van Jones, who is now his green jobs czar, an avowed communist, we've got the SEIU, who's in his office once a week talking about labor. They're the ones who were negotiating with all of the health care industry. He's in the Obama's office all the time. Wade Rathke, former founder of ACORN. It all ties to the Tides Center.

On his June 15, 2009, show, Beck said:

BECK: You know, I have told you, for a while now, that this is -- I mean, did you notice some of the names involved here, especially the Tides Foundation. Tides Foundation -- gee, oh, we know them, because they bailed out ACORN. There are people and forces behind some of these things and it is a completely dishonorable debate because they're not telling you the truth -- I'm sorry. We're not listening to the truth. They are telling us, and you just saw what's coming our way.

On his May 21, 2009, show, Beck said:

So who is Drummond Pike, and what is the Tides Foundation? Well, the Tides Foundation is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the left. Tides was set up as a public charity that receives money from their donors to be funneled to the recipients of their choice.

From the May 13, 2009, edition of Glenn Beck:

MATTHEW VADUM: Drummond Pike is the founder -- he is the founder of Tides Foundation, which is a shadowy pass-thru, it's like a donor-advised fund. So, for example, George Soros could write a check for $10 million to Tides Foundation, get the tax deduction for it, and then secretly store the money there and then tell them who to write the checks to. The Tides Center and Tides Foundation do that, and then they hand out the money anonymously.

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Conservative groups view persuading or, if necessary, coercing foundations from funding groups deemed too 'liberal' as critical to ensuring conservative ascendancy in the 21st century.

In a book review for the Philanthropy Roundtable, the senior program officer at the JM Foundation, Carl Helstrom pined for conservative dominance in philanthropy. "Advocates of private philanthropy and the free enterprise system of which they are an integral part have now spent close to a century in the wilderness. By recovering the capital of their intellectual forbearers [sic], they may just have the opportunity to turn the world right-side up again in the next century," he wrote. [1]

One strand of the conservative campaign has been to challenge the moral right of foundations to support mainstream and 'liberal' causes by disputing that such grants are consistent with donor intent. In particular this line of argument has been promulgated by Martin Morse Wooster and the Capital Research Center (CRC).

For example, the May 2004 edition of the Capital Research Center's publication, Foundation Watch, featured an article by 'wise use' movement leader Ron Arnold on the Pew Charitable Trusts. Arnold cited Wooster's book, The Great Philanthropists and the Problem of Donor Intent, when criticising the use of Pew funds, which originated from an oil company, to support work on climate change. (Undisclosed to readers was that in 2003 ExxonMobil funded both the Capital Research Center and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise). [2]

In the context of Pew's financial restructuring, a February 2004 editorial page column in the Wall Street Journal, echoed the complaint that foundations were not complying with 'donor intent'. "Congress writes the laws that make this possible, but the last time Congress seriously debated the issue of foundations and donor intent and the tax breaks that guarantee perpetuity was the famous Patman hearings of the 1960s. Looks to us as though someone on the Senate Finance or House Government Reform Committees hasn't been minding the store," the WSJ wrote. [3]

But even if conservatives were successful in enforcing their version of 'donor intent', they would still be aggrieved. CRC for example, complains bitterly about the projects funded by George Soros. [4] [5] [6] For his part Ron Arnold has complained about the philanthropic activities of Ted Turner's Turner Foundation. [7]

In the last four years efforts by conservative groups to publicise the role of foundations in funding projects have taken off. A range of publications and online databases criticising foundations and specific non-profit groups deemed to be 'liberal' have proliferated.

The conservative group most active in this area is the Capital Research Center, publishing its monthly Foundation Watch, Organization Trends and Labor Watch newsletters. It also hosts an online database on foundations and NGOs Searchlight. However, profiles in the Searchlight database contain very dated information - such as the one on the CRC itself - creating the impression that the organizations enthusiasm for the project is flagging.

Rick Berman's Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is also active in this area hosting the ActivistCash.com website. While CRC explicitly criticises foundations, ActivistCash.com and CCF opts for a softer 'divide and rule' strategy. It publicly seeks to undermine the credibility of specific non-profit groups and, while it identifies their foundation funders, refrains from commentary. CCF apparently hope their profiles will 'chill' foundations from financially supporting profiled non-profits.

Ron Arnold's Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise also hosts an online database, Undue Influence, with information on both non-profit groups and foundation funders. While Undue Influence has extensive information, like CRC's Searchlight, it too is rather dated. While there are also numerous reports on groups and foundations on the CDFE's site, 2002 appears to have been the high-water mark. In 2003 only three new profiles were added. In 2004 Arnold has only added one profile, the republication of an article on Pew Charitable Trusts from CRC's Foundation Watch. [8]

Arnold's complaint is not that foundations fund projects out of touch with the views of the American public, but that they are in tune with them, thereby depriving 'wise use' groups of potential resources. The lack of funding for grassroots 'wise use' groups, he said in an interview, was "... a result of the overall liberal cast of American society, which has thoroughly permeated many big foundations, so you find that $3 out of every $4 given by foundations go to left-leaning groups rather than to right-leaning groups". [9]

While conservative groups would welcome government initiatives to curtail 'liberal' grantmaking by foundations, they can still achieve much simply by trading on fear. The strategy of conservative groups appears to be aimed at 'chilling' foundations from making grants to groups that offend conservatives policy preferences.

Just as there have been a small number of public interest groups singled out for particular attention, so too have conservatives zeroed in on a number of foundations supporting environmental and other groups. These include:

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Democracy Alliance was founded by former Clinton Treasury official Rob Stein, Erica Payne and various donors in 2005. The Muckety website maintains a relationship map on some of the major financial donors to the Democracy Alliance.

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"At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up over the past three decades," The Washington Post reported in August, 2005. [1]

Rob Stein's PowerPoint presentation on how the Right built a strong infrastructure of think tanks, non-profits, non-profit groups, scholarship recipients, academics, lobbyists, right wing activists and the media led to the founding of the Democracy Alliance, and also a separate organization, the New Progressive Coalition founded by entrepreneurs Andy and Deborah Rappaport.

The Democracy Alliance tries to keep a low profile and its wealthy donors prefer anonymity. According to published reports, organizations funded by Democracy Alliance are asked not to reveal the funding.

In 2006 a San Francisco, CA, office was established by the Democracy Alliance at the Presidio in the Tides Center, where Alliance member Drummond Pike has his offce.

Rob McKay of the McKay Foundation and Anna Burger of SEIU are the elected chair and vice chair of the board of directors of the Democracy Alliance. [2]

"Members of the Democracy Alliance include billionaires like George Soros and his son Jonathan Soros, former Rockefeller Family Fund president Anne Bartley, San Francisco Bay Area donors Susie Tompkins Buell and Mark Buell, Hollywood director Rob Reiner, Taco Bell heir Rob McKay ... as well as New York financiers like Steven Gluckstern." [3]

In October 2006, an article in The Nation magazine reported "the Alliance's 100 donors have distributed more than $50 million to center-left organizations and activists--a lot of money, yet still largely symbolic given the deep pockets of its members. Even as the donors pour millions into a new political infrastructure, however, problems have emerged that mirror many of the problems of the Democratic Party today and the progressive movement in general. The first is determining what, exactly, the group stands for and wants to accomplish. ... Rob Johnson, an early board member, says the tension in the Alliance is between 'party subsidizers' and 'climate changers'--those who want to fund organizations that work toward more effectively electing candidates versus those who aspire to change the fundamental nature of political debate with a stronger set of governing principles. ... Since its inception, the Alliance has been unabashedly elitist, while also poorly run. ... To stabilize the organization internally after almost a year of early stumbles, the partners chose as its managing director Judy Wade, a member of the elite firm McKinsey & Company, consultants to multinational corporations." [4]

Board of Directors and Members

The Board of Directors identified on the Democracy Alliance website (September, 2007) are:

Members of the Democracy Alliance self-identified or identified in published articles include:

Staff of Democracy Alliance

The following staff are listed on the Democracy Alliance website (September, 2007):

Funding Recipients

Organizations self-identified or identified in published reports as receiving financial support from the Democracy Alliance include the following:

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George Soros has funded many political projects in recent years. They are listed below.

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References

  1. ^ Open Society - Georgia Foundation | George Soros
  2. ^ Baltimore Algebra Project, Inc
  3. ^ NGO Monitor
  4. ^ Rondi Adamson (29 October 2007). "Soros-Funded Media Matters Attacks Conservatives". Human Events. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  5. ^ ACLU http://www.aclu.org/2008/06/10/george-soros-war-on-drugs-is-one-of-the-most-repressive-aspects-in-american-life.
  6. ^ "The Soros agenda". Wall Street Journal. January 3, 2004. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008.
  7. ^ Montague, Brendan (2008-01-13). "Anti-war Soros funded Iraq study". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2011-04-11.

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