Till falls in match play at USGA Senior Am Sep 24, 2008
Also today, the Leo-Concordia volleyball match has been dubbed the Dig For A Cure and money will be raised for the Vera Bradley Foundation. On Oct. 7, the Bishop Luers-Snider volleyball match is called the Dink for Pink and will have special pink jerseys and fundraisers. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Susan G. Komen, Billy Vera & The Beaters at Anaheim GardenWalk Sep 20, 2008
Activities will include a buy one get one 50% sale, a prize drawing for a Vera Bradley Foundation bag, and complimentary samples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. A representative from Susan G. Komen for the Cure will be taking donations and registering those interested in participating in the Breast Cancer 3-Day 60-mile walk. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Connerly Cashes In Sep 16, 2008
The cofounder of Connerly s nonprofits, National Review president Thomas Rhodes, happens to sit on the board of the Bradley Foundation. The political fight against affirmative action is supposed to be a battle for meritocracy, for a color-blind society rather than a color-obsessed one, for standards and accomplishment over the prerogatives of racial privilege. (The American Conservative)
Read more... Aug 14, 2008
is underwritten by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, WI. It is administratively overseen by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, Washington, DC-based organization with a long and deep interest in civic education. The Bradley Project's report, E Pluribus Unum, was released at the National Press Club on June 3, 2008. (PNN Online)
Obama Rejects English Language Assimilation Jul 25, 2008
That comes despite the fact only U.S. citizens are supposed to vote and to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, the immigrant must demonstrate "the ability to read, write and speak ordinary English. Bilingual education, known as language apartheid, discourages assimilation by keeping children with Hispanic-sounding names for years in Spanish-language public school classes -- even though the voters in referenda from California to Massachusetts have rejected bilingual education.It's no surprise that... (Human Events Online)
Beckers pioneering workgarners 2008 Bradley Prize Jul 18, 2008
The Bradley Foundation selected Dr. Becker for his original research in the fields of economics and sociology, said Michael Grebe, President and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation ... Founded in 1985, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Professor Kors Wins a Bradley Prize Jun 13, 2008
Kors received the $250,000 award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles and values that sustain and nurture it, according to a release. Kors has spent much of his career fighting what he sees as growing political correctness on college campuses. (Newsmax)
Valley native gets $250k honor Jun 4, 2008
The award was established in 2004 by the Wisconsin-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which bills itself as "strengthening American democratic capitalism." The foundation generally funds free market and right-of-center entities. The foundation, for instance, funded Connerly's American Civil Rights Institute, and it supports Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, where Hanson is a senior fellow in residence. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Lake Mills students awarded for academic achievements Jun 3, 2008
The Lynde Bradley Foundation joined forces with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to reward all public, private, and parochial middle and high school students grades seven through 12 in the eight county area of southeastern Wisconsin for academic achievement and improvement. Participating counties include Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington, and Waukesha. (Watertown Daily Times, WI)
Words of War May 28, 2008
Hanson, whose scholarship and interest in individual freedom recently earned him a 2008 Bradley Prize worth 250,000 from the Bradley Foundation, was on his farm near the central California town of Selma when I called to ask him about his favorite war books. Q: What's the greatest book on war ever written. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Komets win; Aquino on 2-game suspension Mar 2, 2008
The event raises money for the Vera Bradley Foundation for breast cancer research, and the foundation has pledged more than $10 million to the Indiana University Cancer Center. VOLLEYBALL. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Milwaukee Public Museum meets challenge grant goal Jan 8, 2008
The said Monday it raised $5 million to meet the terms of a May 2007 challenge grant from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation and an anonymous donor. The challenge grant required that the museum raise $5 million by the end of 2007, at which point the Bradley Foundation and anonymous donor would match that amount. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
T'wolves get Walker in five-player exchange Oct 25, 2007
There s no admission charge, but athletes will be raising funds for the Vera Bradley Foundation for Cancer research. FOOTBALL. (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
Bybee: US Media Control Oct 23, 2007
So we have examples like conservative columnist Armstrong Williams being paid to write pieces favorable about school choice (heavily promoted by the ultra-rightist, Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation as a means of undermining public education and undermining teacher unions. . (Zmag.org)
Local shop to hold Pink Ribbon Days Oct 4, 2007
99, and 1 from each purchase will go to the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. The mints are packaged in keepsake pink elephants tin, and there is limited supply. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
Do a good deed and look good doing it Oct 3, 2007
Hand it over: Through Oct. 31, 10% of the net proceeds from the sale of Crabtree n's kit will be donated to The Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. Take it off: Ten percent of the price of Ole Henriksen's eye makeup remover goes to The Expedition Inspiration Fund for Breast Cancer Research. (USA Today -- Life)
Extended offer brings more heat on Midwest Airlines May 18, 2007
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation recently offered a challenge grant of $5 million to the museum, contingent upon the facility raising another $5 million from private donors, coming to an agreement with Milwaukee County and museum bankers and negotiating new terms of its offer to purchase the adjoining former Discovery World building. The Milwaukee Public Museum's main focus will be on a capital campaign that will be launched in June, Finley said. (Milwaukee Small Business Times)
John Bolton, Receiving Award, Thanks Rogue Nations and Liberals May 8, 2007
The Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation praised Bolton's articulate and unapologetic defense of American interests during his recess appointment as ambassador to the United Nations ... The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is dedicated to preserving and defending the tradition of free representative government and private enterprise. (CNSnews.com)
Battered but unbowed, Bolton gets a Bradley May 7, 2007
The prizes were created by the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation to honor great thinkers who foster conservative principles ... It was a night "for conservatives to feel good about each other and their accomplishments," Bradley Foundation President Michael W. Grebe said, adding that such events help foster the trend. (Washington Times, DC)
Law school receives $51M gift May 5, 2007
Last month the Bradley Foundation announced a $1 million donation, calling the Law School a "fundamental component of Milwaukee's future.". "It is our hope that our gift will inspire people to do more for Marquette than they have ever imagined," the Ecksteins told Father Wild. (AZCentral -- Business)
Bradley Awards: John Bolton Blasts Bureaucracy May 5, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton lashed out at a frustrating bureaucracy and other inscrutable enemies during his acceptance speech for the prestigious Bradley Foundation award Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center ... " Bolton was but one of five honorees at the glitzy fete at the Center's Terrance Theatre where the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation awarded the Fourth Annual Bradley Prizes for outstanding achievement to prominent intellectuals and public servants. In addition... (Newsmax)
Ethics etched in Stone Apr 20, 2007
Since 1985, the Federalist Society has received more than 12 million in grants from several right-wing foundations, including those funded by Coors and Olin, and the Bradley Foundation, which received an infusion of nearly 300 million after Rockwell International bought the Milwaukee-based Allen-Bradley Company in 1985. With George W. Bush appointing increasing numbers of judges with such influences to the highest courts of our land and gutting existing whistleblower protections, the ultimate... (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Conservatives at the gates Apr 12, 2007
ACTA was cofounded by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, and receives funding from conservative political foundations such as the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, and the Randolph Foundation. Its president, Anne Neal, was general counsel and congressional liaison for the National Endowment for the Humanities under Lynne Cheney during the administration of President George H.W. Bush. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
A Bright Outlook for Giving Apr 2, 2007
" Debra Blum and Sam Kean contributed to this article. 2007 budget Percentage change from 2006 J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation (Boise, Idaho) $28,500,000 (P) +71.2% Annenberg Foundation (Radnor, Pa.) 275,000,000 (P) +0.6 Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation (Pittsburgh) 18,454,000 (P) +3.1 Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta) 21,122,000 (P) +4.6 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (Milwaukee) 36,000,000 (P) +11.8 Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul) 28,500,000 (P) +8.1 Brown Foundation... (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Business notebook Mar 16, 2007
Honoree: Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein will receive the 2007 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Achievement from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, a private, independent grant-making organization focused on American democratic capitalism. Different call: Westford voice-over-Internet-protocol infrastructure supplier said chief marketing officer Steve Edwards will step down at the end of the month to pursue other opportunities. (Boston Globe -- Business)
Berkowitz: AEI & Iran Mar 1, 2007
In 2004, the Bradley Foundation, under the leadership of Michael Grebe, gave more than $700,000 to AEI's Foreign and Defense Policy Studies program, and the New Atlantic Initiative. . (Zmag.org)
