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:"Grantmakers, Fink argued, would do well to invest in change along the entire production continuum, funding scholars and university programs where the intellectual framework for social transformation is developed, think tanks where scholarly ideas get translated into specific policy proposals, and implementation groups to bring these proposals into the political marketplace and eventually to consumers."<ref>National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, [http://www.ncrp.org/index.php?option=com_ixxocart&Itemid=41&p=product&id=7&parent=3 Moving a Public Policy Agenda: the Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations], organizational report, July 1997, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120310131911/http://old.mediatransparency.org/pdaconservativephilanthropy.php quoted here].</ref>
The Koch brothers also fund [[DonorsTrust]] and [[Donors Capital Fund]], which the Philanthropy Roundtable spun off in 1999. The obscure [[Knowledge and Progress Fund]], controlled by [[Charles G. Koch]], with [[Richard Fink]] as president, has given only to Donors since 2005.<ref name="mashey">John Mashey, [http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake2.pdf Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax 2], ''DeSmog Blog'' report, updated October 23, 2012, p. 71.</ref><ref name="PRW">Connor Gibson, Greenpeace, [httphttps://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/10/11819/meet-network-hiding-koch-money-donors-trust-and-donors-capital-fund Meet the Network Hiding the Koch Money: "Donors Trust" and "Donors Capital Fund"], ''PRWatch.org'', originally published by Greenpeace, October 29, 2012.</ref>
It gave $1.25 million to Donors in 2007, $1.25 million in 2008, and then $2 million in 2010, according to PBS ''Frontline''.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/environment/climate-of-doubt/robert-brulle-inside-the-climate-change-countermovement/ Robert Brulle: Inside the Climate Change “Countermovement”], PBS ''Frontline'', October 23, 2012.</ref>
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