ELK GROVE, Calif. – The American Federation of Teachers loves to spread its members’ money around to liberal and progressive causes. It’s one way of winning and keeping friends. Why else would they give $50,000 to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition?
Mike Antonucci’s Education Intelligence Agency website posted the AFT’s latest advocacy contributions.
Of the many radical causes, it’s worth noting the “Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment” is formerly known as ACORN. It’s interesting to see nothing’s really changed.
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Via EIAonline.com:
An Education Intelligence Agency analysis of AFT’s financial disclosure report for the 2011-12 fiscal year reveals the national union contributed $6 million to advocacy groups and charities.
A $1.2 million donation to Californians Working Together, the group formed to support Prop 30, the tax increase ballot initiative, was the national union’s largest single contribution. A host of special interest groups, charities and religious organizations also received money from AFT, including the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, the Economic Policy Institute, and the University of Colorado National Education Policy Center.
These figures do not include grants and contributions made to other unions (such as Colorado WINS) or union coalitions such as the AFL-CIO. For example, AFT contributed $1,150,000 to the AFL-CIO’s State Unity Fund.
Here is an alphabetic list of the recipients of AFT’s contributions, with relevant web links. All of these were paid for with members’ dues money (the union’s federal PAC is a separate entity funded through voluntary means):
Alliance for a Better California 2012 – $500,000
Alliance for Retired Americans – $6,000
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment – $25,364
America Votes – $5,000
America Works USA – $100,000
American Constitution Society – $5,000
American Friends of the Yitzhak Rabin Center – $10,000
American Labor Museum – $5,000
American Labor Studies Center – $5,000
The American Prospect – $200,000
American Rights at Work – $25,000
Annenberg Institute for School Reform – $41,333
A. Philip Randolph Institute – $5,000
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance – $10,550
Blue Green Alliance Foundation – $160,000
Brave New Foundation – $125,000
California Community Foundation – $24,000
Californians Working Together to Restore and Protect Public Schools, Universities and Public Safety – $1,200,000
Campaign for America’s Future – $10,000
Center for Citizenship Education (Mongolia) – $9,155
Center for Excellence in School Counseling and Leadership – $5,000
Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking – $5,000
Center for Tax and Budget Accountability – $100,000
Center for Teaching Quality – $10,000
Child Labor Coalition – $5,000
Citizens for Public Schools – $15,200
Citizens for Tax Justice – $15,000
Clergy Strategic Alliances – $96,000
Clinton Global Initiative – $250,000
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists – $5,000
Coalition of Labor Union Women – $6,000
Committee for Education Funding – $17,713
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. – $65,000
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute – $30,000
Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations – $25,000
Council on Competitiveness – $10,000
CTSP Haiti – $17,000
Economic Policy Institute – $230,000
Economic Research Institute – $5,943
Educating Maryland Kids – $100,000
Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate – $150,000
First Book – $15,178
Florida State Conference of the NAACP – $10,000
Freedom House – $10,000
Gamaliel Foundation – $60,000
Good Jobs First – $22,500
Healthy Schools Campaign – $12,000
Helmets to Hardhats – $7,000
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities – $6,000
In the Life Media – $5,000
Institute for Women’s Policy Research – $5,000
Jewish Labor Committee – $10,300
Keystone Research Center – $15,000
The King Center – $5,000
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement – $20,000
Labor Project for Working Families – $50,000
Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State – $15,000
La MaMa – $5,000
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights – $50,000
League of United Latin American Citizens – $17,500
Learning First Alliance – $53,964
Learning Forward – $30,000
Little Rock Nine Foundation – $5,000
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice – $28,450
The Nation Institute – $10,000
National Alliance of Black School Educators – $25,000
NAACP – $10,875
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund – $20,000
National Association for Bilingual Education – $5,000
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education – $15,000
National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund – $5,000
National Black Caucus of State Legislators – $5,000
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards – $10,000
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation – $7,500
National Conference of State Legislatures – $12,500
National Consumers League – $15,000
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education – $33,985
National Council of La Raza – $12,500
National Council of Negro Women – $5,000
National Democratic Institute – $25,000
National Labor College – $299,749
National Public Pension Coalition – $135,000
National Urban League – $5,020
Netroots Nation – $30,000
Network Education Program – $5,000
New York City Parents Union – $5,000
Ohio Unity Coalition – $7,350
Organizers in the Land of Enchantment – $24,619
OpenPlans – $10,000
Parent Teacher Home Visit Project – $46,665
The Peggy Browning Fund – $5,000
Policy Matters Ohio – $25,000
Pride at Work – $5,000
Progressive National Baptist Convention – $10,000
Rainbow PUSH Coalition – $50,000
Rebuild America’s Schools – $30,000
Save the Children – $10,000
Schott Foundation for Public Education – $10,000
Thomas B. Fordham Institute – $10,000
TransAfrica – $10,000
United States Student Association – $22,501
United Students Against Sweatshops – $5,000
United Way of the National Capital Area – $15,000
University of Colorado National Education Policy Center – $35,000
University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability – $25,000
Urban Farming Inc. – $5,000
U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute – $10,000
Vermont Medical Response Team – $5,000
We Are Ohio – $209,230
WNET.org – $150,000
Working America – $505,000
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