Video: Charles Koch Accepts Simon Prize Last fall Charles Koch received the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership at Philanthropy Roundtable’s 20th Annual Meeting. In his acceptance speech, Mr. Koch discussed economic freedom, Market-Based Management®, and applying MBM® to philanthropy. “My own philanthropic efforts were shaped in the early ’60s… by my passion to understand the principles … Continued
BEST Physicist Interviewed on MSNBC about Charles Koch Foundation Support Richard Muller, with the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, was recently interviewed by MSNBC’s Martin Bashir to discuss the study’s findings. Below is an excerpt of Dr. Muller discussing the Charles Koch Foundation’s support of his research: “MARTIN BASHIR: still supporting you, but were you … Continued
Charles Koch Honored with Simon Prize and Profiled in Philanthropy Magazine Charles G. Koch last week received the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership at Philanthropy Roundtable’s 20th Annual Meeting. The award honors living philanthropists who have exhibited leadership through charitable giving and recognizes the power of philanthropy to promote positive change. Mr. Koch was selected … Continued
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 FSView & Florida Flambeau August 25, 2011 by Shannon McGuire With classes just beginning at Florida State, I am interested to see the mood within the economics department after the dust has settled from the Koch donation. The decision of the FSU Faculty Senate Committee exonerated the FSU President and … Continued
Bizarre: It’s the word that best describes the brouhaha over the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation’s controversial grant to Florida State University, where I’m an undergraduate majoring in economics. This controversy seems even more bizarre if you lean toward a free-market school of thought, as I do. That’s the perspective from which I have viewed … Continued
As state governments around the U.S. struggle with weak economies and structural budget crises, funding available to higher education is likely to continue to come under severe pressure. To meet this challenge, public universities across the nation will need to seek new sources of financial support to fill the gap. Repeated budget cuts have been … Continued
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah launches the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has announced the creation of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, following a $10 million gift from the George … Continued
Washington, July 6, 2017 — Capital Preparatory Schools is pleased to announce a combined gift of $1.35 million from the Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation. Capital Preparatory Schools, a charter management organization (CMO) led by founder and head of schools Dr. Steve Perry, started charter schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut and … Continued
Charles Koch Foundation Awards $100K to Police Executive Research Forum to Study Precursors to Police Use of Force Washington, June 29, 2017 – Today, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a Washington-based police research and policy organization, announced the launch of a new study that will identify and examine factors that give rise to use-of-force occurrences … Continued
Wiley College, home of ‘The Great Debaters,’ leading timely organizing efforts among HBCUs with help of Charles Koch Foundation grant.
