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This explains LOTS - why Jon Hurdle's NJ Spotlight reporting often sucks. He's on the Penn Payroll:
"Reporting for this article was supported by a grant from the William Penn Foundation"
On the Delaware, A Promising New Era in Cleanup of an Urban River https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-the-delaware-a-promising-new-era-in-cleanup-of-an-urban-river
"Reporting for this article was supported by a grant from the William Penn Foundation"
On the Delaware, A Promising New Era in Cleanup of an Urban River https://e360.yale.edu/features/on-the-delaware-a-promising-new-era-in-cleanup-of-an-urban-river
William Penn Foundation distributed over $100 million to environmental groups for Delaware Watershed Initiative
https://williampennfoundation.org/delaware-river-watershed-initiative
They now have bought press too.
Penn is ideologically Neoliberal: anti-government, anti-regulation, & pro-market, voluntary, & private actions
https://williampennfoundation.org/delaware-river-watershed-initiative
They now have bought press too.
Penn is ideologically Neoliberal: anti-government, anti-regulation, & pro-market, voluntary, & private actions
Delaware River is national model for Foundation abuse:
1) use $ to buy environmental group cover
2) use $ to select issues, strategy, advocacy agenda, & tactics
3) co-opt, defund, & take credit for work of locals
4) marginalize "radicals"
5) divert fr gov't, regs, & corp power
1) use $ to buy environmental group cover
2) use $ to select issues, strategy, advocacy agenda, & tactics
3) co-opt, defund, & take credit for work of locals
4) marginalize "radicals"
5) divert fr gov't, regs, & corp power
6) promote ineffective, feel good, symbolic gestures that protect the Status Quo while allowing wealthy white people to feel righteous.
7) undermine more effective government regulatory mandates
8) protect corporate interest$ & politicians
9) deny scope & severity of problems
7) undermine more effective government regulatory mandates
8) protect corporate interest$ & politicians
9) deny scope & severity of problems
10) exaggerate success
11) self promote
12) self deal
13) ignore real EJ
14) create distrust and conflict within the public interest community
11) self promote
12) self deal
13) ignore real EJ
14) create distrust and conflict within the public interest community
15) use money to buy press coverage & issues covered
16) use money to shape press coverage & content of coverage
17) use $ to assure that Penn Foundation funded groups are the "go to" news sources
18) use $ to make sure those sources mislead the public & promote Penn's vision.
16) use money to shape press coverage & content of coverage
17) use $ to assure that Penn Foundation funded groups are the "go to" news sources
18) use $ to make sure those sources mislead the public & promote Penn's vision.
19) Use Penn program agenda to provide cover for government leaders and allow agency heads to dodge accountability for failed regulatory programs.
This happens by diverting focus away from government regulation & exaggerating success of individual voluntary market based actions.
This happens by diverting focus away from government regulation & exaggerating success of individual voluntary market based actions.
20) control the behavior of funded groups so that they threaten no economic, corporate, or political interests, while marginalizing and even defunding real grassroots activists & "radical" policy advocates.
