Fred Stanback
"Fred Stanback, heir to the headache-powder fortune, is one of North Carolina’s biggest donors to environmental causes, and has funded an internship program in his name at Duke University since 1995. For fifteen years, Stanback placed students in internships at FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA, until Duke pulled the groups from the program in 2014 after a report from Indy Week. Stanback and Tanton connected over their shared interest in overpopulation, and over the years Stanback has donated millions of dollars to groups Tanton founded or helped to found, both through his contributions to FFTC and directly to anti-immigrant groups such as FAIR. Like Tanton, Stanback admired the virulently racist novel The Camp of the Saints, and once purchased $5,000 in copies of the book to distribute. In a 1995 memo on a meeting between the two men, Tanton noted that they had discussed sterilization, and that Tanton had brought up the Quinacrine sterilization method. Quinacrine is a drug that has been used as an off-label form of female sterilization. The Quinacrine sterilization method is a dangerous and painful procedure, and evidence indicates that it has been disproportionately and coercively performed on low-income women of color in developing countries." [1] [2]
- EarthJustice Council (2017) [3]
- National Council, Defenders of Wildlife (2015) [4]
- Donor, Friends of the Earth (2001) [5]
- Supporter, Population Connection (2018) [6]
- Funder, Wilderness Society ($250,000-$499,999) 2018 [7]
- Funder, EngenderHealth ($10,000–$24,999) [8]
- Funder, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation [https://eowilsonfoundation.org/partners-and-supporters/
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
- Supported Earth Policy work of Lester R. Brown [9]
- Southern Alliance for Clean Energy [10]
- Foundation for the Carolinas [11] [12]
- Center for Biological Diversity
- The Conservation Fund
