anti-terrorist language in foundation grants

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

Foundations' limits on grants draw fire from universities
By Justin Pope
Associated Press

May 6, 2004 

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/8598978.htm?1c

When evidence surfaced last year that grants from a prominent charitable
foundation had funded a Palestinian group accused of anti-Israel
activities, Jewish leaders called for new restrictions to prevent grant
money from being used to support terrorism.

But now, some top universities are protesting language the Ford Foundation
has added to its grant conditions, saying the changes could threaten
academic freedom by inhibiting campus presentations of partisan lectures
or films.

...

The controversy began last fall when the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a news
service, reported that Ford money had supported several groups that
engaged in anti-Israel activities at a 2001 U.N. conference.

In November, after meeting with Jewish leaders, Ford announced it would
cut funding for a group called the Palestinian Society for the Protection
of Human Rights and would add language to grant agreements prohibiting
recipients from promoting violence, terrorism, bigotry, or calls for the
destruction of any nation-state.

May 7, 2004 

http://fdncenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=69000053
PND News
Top Universities Protest Foundation Grant Requirements 

The provosts of nine prominent universities, in co-signed letters of
protest, have challenged antiterrorism language that the Ford and
Rockefeller foundations recently added to their standard grant agreements,
the Associated Press reports.

...

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Ford Foundation agreement notes
that the foundation would withdraw its funding if any of a university's
expenditures promoted "violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of
any state," no matter what the source of the funds. Rockefeller's language
states that a grantee shall not "directly or indirectly engage in,
promote, or support other organizations or individuals who engage in or
promote terrorist activity."

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223
phone 704 687-2825