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Foundation Statement on Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project The Charles Koch Foundation issued the following statement on the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project: “The Charles Koch Foundation has long supported and will continue to support sound, nonpartisan, scientific research. Our grants are designed to promote independent research; as such, recipients hold full control over their … Continued

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 The Charles Koch Foundation today released the following statement about the Foundation’s support for the Heartland Institute: “Our giving to the Heartland Institute has been repeatedly misrepresented in recent stories by the media as reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s unfortunate that those reporting on the matter did … Continued

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