Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts "support nonprofit activities in the areas of culture, education, the environment, health and human services, public policy and religion. Based in Philadelphia, with an office in Washington, D.C., the Trusts make strategic investments that encourage and support citizen participation in addressing critical issues and effecting social change."[1]
History
"The Trusts consist of seven individual charitable funds established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew. Though the Trusts are separate legal entities, their grantmaking activities are managed collectively and guided by a single set of programmatic priorities."[2]
As a major funder of environmental and other projects the Pew trusts have been criticised by conservative groups aiming to 'defund the left'. [3]
Other SourceWatch resources
- Conservatives target the Pew Charitable Trusts
- Intimidating foundations
- Intimidating public interest groups
- Intimidating democracy
Contact
2005 Market Street, Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7077
Phone: 215.575.9050
FAX: 215.575.4939
1425 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005-3674
Phone: 202.207.2150
FAX: 202.207.0360
E-mail: info@pewtrusts.com
URL: http://pewtrusts.com/
External links
- Ron Arnold, “The Pew Charitable Trusts: global warming power nexus”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, May 2004.
- [Pew Casts Itself in Fresh Role as a Public Lobby By David Bank, The Wall Street Journal 11/6/03 http://www.cdfe.org/Pew's%20transformation.htm]
