Current Program Interests

In actively carrying out its Maggi, the Bradley Foundation?s current program interests are

many and varied, though they are all pursued with a focus on achieving positive outcomes.

Consistent with the smLceMcmiimsm? interest in helping to sustain the principles and
institutions underlying our democratic way of life, the Foundation?s grantmaking program
generally seeks to identify and support projects, initiatives, and organizations that promote

civic identity, maintain ordered liberty, and uphold human dignity.

The Foundation?s national and international grantmaking supports research and education
on policy issues and aims in the areas of economic growth and prosperity, equal opportunity
and individual liberty, law and legal reform, employee rights, education, family and society,
defending and advancing freedom, and philanthropy.

a Specificaily, it seeks to secure a growing and prosperous economy and thus better
prospects for a good life for all, by helping effect government policies that lower
taxes, cut spending, and reform entitlements.

a It identifies and supports policy initiatives and activists promoting and defending
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.?s traditional conception of civil rights, by which
individuals are judged ?by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.?

a It identifies and supports public?interest entities defending and advancing its
program in the face of legal challenges to it and legal?reform activities that confront
anti?free-enterprise trial attorneys and their allies.

It identifies and supports institutions and projects exposing and highlighting Big
Labor?s role in obstructing the program.

a It helps create and protect competitive education marketplaces that have wide
universes of options for families.

a It helps programs that promote duality gifted education.

a It identifies and supports institutions and projects that help strengthen, assist, and
renew the family, churches, and various other components of civil society.

a It identifies and supports institutions and projects that develop and promote US.
foreign, nationalnsecurity, and defense doctrines that further the freedom of
Americans and others.

a And it identifies and supports institutions and some projects that maximize and
enhance philanthropic freedom and effectiveness.

Bradley helped create and continues to fortify the underlying intellectual infrastructure of
ideas, institutions, and individuals that underpinned conservatism?s ascendance in American
and around the globe including in the areas of higher education, basic and applied
research in academia and at ?think tanks," and in the public discourse.

a Specifically, in colieges and universities, it identifies and supports institutions that
and scholars who, with their research work, sustain and nurture the Foundation?s

 

 

ideas. Its emphases in higher education include economics, law, history, the
humanities, political theory and philosophy, and national security and defense.

It also identifies and supports institutions and projects that expose and highlight the
need for reform of higher education and that seek to reform it.

It identifies and supports institutions and projects at research organizations that
sustain and nurture Bradiey?s ideas.

And it supports traditional and occasionaliy some new organs of media that develop
and disseminate the Foundation?s ideas.

The Foundation?s iocai giving preserves the Bradley family legacy, as weii, by helping
Miiwaukee?s and Wisconsin?s socialwservice, arts, cuitural, recreational, and educationai
institutions, along with the area?s economic development.

It supports institutions that strengthen and renew Milwaukee?s and Wisconsin's
unique civic identity, prominently including in arts and culture.

As with its national and internationai program, it identifies and supports locai
institutions and projects that heip strengthen, assist, and renew the family,
churches, and civil society.

It identifies and supports state and local institutions and projects that spur the area?s
overall economic growth and the prosperity of those iiving and working in it.

And, consistent with its national education program, it identifies and supports
specific choice and charter schools and supports organizations that, in Milwaukee?s
dynamic education marketplace, are beacons of exceiience to which others should
aspire.