John D. MacArthur owned Bankers Life and Casualty and other businesses, as well as considerable property in Florida and New York. His wife, Catherine T. MacArthur, held positions in many of these companies. The MacArthurs' attorney, William T. Kirby, along with Paul Doolen, the MacArthurs' CFO, suggested that the family create a foundation to be endowed by their vast fortune.
When John died on January 6, 1978, he was worth in excess of $1 billion and was reportedly one of the three richest men in the United States. MacArthur left 92 percent of his estate to begin the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The composition of the Foundation’s first Board of Directors, per MacArthur’s will, also included Catherine, J. Roderick MacArthur (a son from John's first marriage), two other officers of Bankers Life and Casualty, and radio commentator Paul Harvey.[1]
John MacArthur was a conservative and capitalist. The Foundation’s original 1970 deed said that one purpose of the foundation was to support “ways to discover and promulgate avoidance of waste in government expenditures.” However, MacArthur did not spell out specific parameters for how his money was to be spent after he died. MacArthur told the Foundation's board of directors, "I figured out how to make the money. You fellows will have to figure out how to spend it.”[1][6] Between 1979 and 1981, John's son J. Roderick MacArthur, a political liberal, waged a legal battle against the Foundation, wresting control of the board of directors away from conservative members. The Foundation became and remains one of the pillars of the liberal philanthropic establishment.[7][8][9][10]
I guess Russia doesn’t want Progressive activists.
—”We are entirely independent of the United States government and receive no funding from it. We have never supported political activities or other actions that could reasonably be construed as meeting the definition of “undesirable,” MacArthur Foundation President Julia Stasch said in a statement Tuesday.—
Guilt by association probably.
Being U.S. based automatically makes them tainted with the stench of 0bama.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/26/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lawyers/26422349/
This group pushes homo marriage and culture. How would we like a Russian group over here pushing,,,, well, I don’t really know anything too depraved to be pushed and accepted here, but you get my point.
A formerly conservative organization now completely riddled with the spawn of commie termites set loose by the Bolsheviks’ Comintern operations, now undesirable in Russia. What a laugh.
Google “MacArthur foundation gay” and look at the hit parade. NO wonder they were feeling unwelcome.
In a totally sarcastic kind of way, I wouldn’t entirely mind it if some of these “foundations” would close up shop here in the US too.
I get the feeling that many of them were hijacked by more liberal relatives who suffered from “white wealthy liberal guilt” and decided that the only way they could atone for this wealth was to spend it on the polar opposite of how the wealth was raised in the first place.
So who will be underwriting telecasts of Masterpiece Theater in Russia?
What better way to weaken a rival than to unleash a U.S. based liberal prog think tank on them? But I guess Putin is smarter than that.
The downside to this is that they may focus the extra resources on us.
I usually apologize to my Russian customers that they no longer have the U.S. Of the Reagan era to look towards. They still love the idea of that America.
Ah, that is that organization that pays for so many PBS shows.
These are the kind of NGO’s used to identify Putin’s internal competitors and report information to the CIA. Followed shortly by funneling American money back to the chosen opposition candidate.
Putin, he no dummy.
“Between 1979 and 1981, John’s son J. Roderick MacArthur, a political liberal, waged a legal battle against the Foundation, wresting control of the board of directors away from conservative members. The Foundation became and remains one of the pillars of the liberal philanthropic establishment.[7][8][9][10] “
And there it is.
foreign organizations in any country funding political campaigns of any kind should be against the law