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George C. Marshall Institute
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According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "The Marshall Institute investigates facts concerning global climate change. The Institute also studies the implications of the Kyoto Protocol upon national security. The Institute is partially supported by the Exxon Education Foundation and American Standard Companies."[2]
In a 2009 essay, former Marshall Institute Executive Director, Matthew B. Crawford, wrote that after he commenced with the group in September 2001 "certain perversities became apparent as I settled into the job. It sometimes required me to reason backward, from desired conclusion to suitable premise. The organization had taken certain positions, and there were some facts it was more fond of than others. As its figurehead, I was making arguments I didn't fully buy myself. Further, my boss seemed intent on retraining me according to a certain cognitive style — that of the corporate world, from which he had recently come. This style demanded that I project an image of rationality but not indulge too much in actual reasoning."[3]
Former Marshal
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Personnel
Board of Directors
- William Happer, Chairman of the Board of Directors; also Eugene Higgens Professor of Physics, Princeton University
- Frederick Seitz, Chairman Emeritus (GMI); President Emeritus of Rockefeller University
- William O'Keefe, CEO (GMI); President, Solutions Consulting, Inc.
- Gregory Canavan, Scientific Advisor, Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Thomas L. Clancy, Jr., Author
- John H. Moore, President, Grove City College
- Rodney W. Nichols, Consultant on Science and Technology Policy
- Robert Sproull, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Rochester
Former Board members
- Robert Jastrow, Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Bruce N. Ames, Professor of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley
- Sallie L. Baliunas, Astrophysicist
- Willis M. Hawkins, Senior Advisor to Lockheed Corporation
- Bernadine Healy, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Charles Krauthammer, Syndicated Columnist
- William A. Nierenberg
- Chauncey Starr, President Emeritus, Electric Power Research Institute
Staff
- Jeff Kueter, President
- Lynn Wallis, Vice President of Operations
- M. Herlong, Program Director
Former staff
- Matthew B. Crawford (appointed September 2001; departure date unknown).
Funding
In its 2006 annual return, the Institute states that its total revenue for the year was $969,923 with total expenses of $877,156.[4] Of its program areas, it reported that $308,819 was on global warming work, $43,000 on general energy policy discussion, $148,729 on bio-terrorism, and $110,841 on missile defense system.[4]
The Institute received $ 7,178,803 in 105 separate grants from only five foundations between 1985 and 2006 [1]:
- Earhart Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- Scaife Foundations - Sarah Mellon Scaife and Carthage Foundation's
The George C. Marshall Institute no longer shows an overview of recent funders, but in 2000 [5] they listed:
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation
- Sarah Scaife Foundation
- Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
- American Standard Companies
- Exxon Education Foundation
- H.B. Earhart Foundation
- John M. Olin Foundation
- Gelman Education Foundation (Charles Gelman)
- Fieldstead Foundation
- Historical Research Foundation
- Charles and Jean Brunie Foundation
Petro-Dollars
Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets lists the George Marshall Institute as having received $715,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.[6]
This includes:
- $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 1999 for "support for science and public policy education programs;
- $50,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2000 for general support;
- $60,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2001 for "climate change work";
- $80,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2001 for "'global climate change program" in 2002; plus a further $10,000 for the Awards Dinner;
- $95,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation in 2003 for Global Climate Change Program
- $145,000 ExxonMobil Foundation in 2004 for "climate change" and a further $25,000 from Exxon Corporation for "Awards Dinner -- Climate Change Activities";
- $90,000 from ExxonMobil Foundation for, according to the Institute's IRS return, "climate change" and a further $25,000 from ExxonMobil Corporate Giving for "Awards Dinner and General Operating Support"; and
- $85,000 from ExxonMobil Corporate Giving for "General support and annual dinner" in 2006.
SEPP
Several people of GMI are also involved in the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP):
- Bruce N. Ames, Board of Science Advisors
- Charles Gelman, Board of Directors
- William A. Nierenberg, Board of Science Advisors
- Frederick Seitz, Chairman
- Chauncey Starr, Board of Science Advisors
Contact information
George C. Marshall Institute
1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20006
phone: 202.296.9655
fax: 202.296.9714
info AT marshall.org
web site: www.marshall.org
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ "George C. Marshall Institute", accessed March 2008.
- ↑ "George C. Marshall Institute", MediaTransparency.org, accessed March 2008.
- ↑ Matthew B. Crawford, "The Case for Working With Your Hands", New York Times, May 21, 2009.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 George C. Marshall Institute, "2006 Annual Return", 2006, page 1.
- ↑ George C. Marshall Institute, "George C. Marshall Institute: Recent Funders", August 2000.
- ↑ Factsheet: George C. Marshall Institute, GMI", ExxonSecrets.org, accessed March 2008.
