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More on the Joyce Foundation
Looking over the Joyce Foundation's webpage on its grants, it's apparent that it's investing SERIOUS cash, as in millions, in promoting the anti-Second Amendment agenda. Its investments range from public relations, to funding lobbying groups, to working on the entertainment industry, to financing publications on the constitutional issues. And some serious cash is being spent. Samples:
Legal Community Against Violence
San Francisco, CA $380,000
For general support. (2 yrs.)
National Opinion Research Center
Chicago, IL $39,499
To add a selection of gun-related questions to its 2006 General Social Survey. (2 yrs.)
Consumer Federation of America
Washington, DC $75,000
To educate the public and policy makers about the public health and safety impact of failing to regulate guns, particularly assault weapons, as consumer products. (9 mos.)
Entertainment Industries Council, Inc.
Reston, VA $125,000
To work with the entertainment community to accurately and responsibly address gun violence on television. (18 mos.)
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence
Chicago, IL $300,000
To create a new network of state-based gun violence prevention groups. (1 yr.)
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence
Chicago, IL $400,000
To educate the public about the risks of guns in the home and to enhance its media and communications presence (including on the Internet), its statewide organizing, and coalition building, and its funding and membership base. (1 yr.)
Ohio State University Foundation
John Glenn Institute for Public Service & Public Policy
Columbus, OH $125,000
To host a symposium at Stanford Law School on the connections between the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment, to publish papers in a major law review, and disseminate findings via the Web. (2 yrs.)
Violence Policy Center
Washington, DC $500,000
To provide research and technical assistance to Midwest-based gun violence prevention advocates. (1 yr.)
WAVE Educational Fund
Milwaukee, WI $250,000
To educate the public about the risks of guns in the home and to enhance its media and communications presence (including on the Internet), its statewide organizing, and coalition building, and its funding and membership base. (1 yr.)
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, NY $100,000
For its program Doctors Against Handgun Injury supporting a coalition of national medical societies to promote public health-oriented gun policies and practices. (2 yrs.)
Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Toledo, OH $150,000
For general support, including state and federal policy advocacy to prevent gun violence. (21 mos.)
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"Who are the people behind the Joyce Foundation and why are they on this crusade?"
Maybe it was hijacked
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5310&category=79
tg
Isn't funding anything based in chicago a bit redundant when pushing gun control?
The Joyce Foundation was established in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago.
The Joyce family wealth came from the lumber industry, including family-owned timberlands, plywood and saw mills, and wholesale and retail building material distribution facilities which were located in the state of Louisiana and the Midwest.
Until the early 1970s, assets of the Foundation remained small and grants were given to the particular philanthropic interests of its founder. Upon Mrs. Kean's death in December of 1972, the Joyce Foundation was bequeathed ninety percent of her estate, an amount in excess of $100 million. A professional staff was retained and Kent F. Peterson, who had been an executive of the Tremont Lumber Company, was named president.
At the time of Mrs. Kean's death the annual contributions of the Foundation totaled less than $100,000. By 1974, when the majority of assets was delivered to the Foundation, annual giving reached $500,000 and by 1976, $10 million. During the first twenty-five years, traditional health organizations and hospitals received the majority of the Foundation's contributions. After 1973, higher education and cultural institutions were added as major beneficiaries.
In 1978, the Foundation published its first public annual report under the direction of its new president, Charles U. Daly. Included in that report was a description of the Foundation's programmatic interests in culture, education, environment and conservation, government, health and social services. In December 1980, the Foundation evaluated its performance under those guidelines and refined its goals. It changed the social service category to jobs and housing and narrowed the focus of environment and conservation to specific midwestern conservation issues.
Currently, the Joyce Foundation's interests are primarily in the fields of education, employment, environment, gun violence prevention, money and politics, and culture. Preference is given to organizations that are based or have a program in the Midwest.
Joyce Foundation assets at the end of 2004 amounted to just over $800 million; grants of $42.5 million were approved in 2002. Since its founding in 1948, the Foundation has made grants of more than $520 million to groups working to improve the quality of life in the Great Lakes region.
Wow.
Who are the people behind the Joyce Foundation and why are they on this crusade?