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- Assets: $61,552,121 (2005)
- Grants Awarded: $5,604,500 (2005)
The Bauman Family Foundation was initially funded in 1982 by the estate of Lionel R. Bauman, a New York City lawyer and businessman who was a partner in the real-estate development firm Eugene M. Grant & Co. Today the Foundation is managed by Lionel's daughter, Patricia Bauman, who is also a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a member of the Pew Environmental Health Commission, Chair of the Preamble Center, and a Trustee of the Beldon Fund. Ms. Bauman was a featured speaker at a Democratic GAIN-sponsored training forum for Democrats and progressives, held during the four days of the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Democratic GAIN (an acronym for Grassroots Action Institute and Network) describes itself as "a national membership association for progressive political professionals and organizations . . . [which] provides an infrastructure that supports and connects our members across the country."
The Bauman Family Foundation identifies its fields of interest as the arts, economic development, education, the environment, public policy, and research. Its philanthropy is directed toward "local, state, or national organizations with a clear strategy for translating their projects into nationally applicable ideas, including support for issues at the intersection of the economy and the environment." Thus the Foundation supports numerous organizations committed to the anti-capitalist agendas of radical environmentalism, whose ultimate goal, as writer Michael Berliner has explained, is "not clean air and clean water, [but] rather . . . the demolition of technological/industrial civilization."
Among the groups funded by the Bauman Family Foundation are: the Tides Foundation; the Tides Center; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the U.S. Public Interest Research Council (PIRG); the National Environmental Trust; the League of Conservation Voters; the Sierra Club; America Coming Together; the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Environmental Advocates; Physicians for Social Responsibility; the Center for Health, Environment and Justice; the Labor Community Strategy Center; the Center for Environmental Citizenship; Womens Voices for the Earth; the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication; Environment and Justice; USAction Education Fund; Project Vote; INFORM; International Possibilities Unlimited; the National Religious Partnership for the Environment; the Public Health Advocacy Institute; Environmental Defense Fund; Friends of the Earth; the National Labor Committee Education Fund in Support of Human and Worker Rights; Environmental Media Services; Public Citizen; the World Resources Institute; the Pesticide Action Network; the Defenders of Wildlife; the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides; the Science and Environmental Health Network; Greenpeace; the Center for International Environmental Law; the Woods Hole Research Center; the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity; the Economic Policy Institute; the Environmental Research Foundation; the Environmental Working Group; the Endangered Species Coalition; the Foundation on Economic Trends; the Center for Science in the Public Interest; the Children's Environmental Health Network; the World Wildlife Fund; the Western Organization of Resource Councils; the Colorado Environmental Coalition; the Center for Media and Democracy; Waterkeeper Alliance; Citizen Action; Evangelicals for Social Action; Resources for the Future; Clean Water Action; the Focus Project; Economic Opportunity Institute; the Maasai Environmental Research Coalition (for the Maasai Girls Education Fund); the Rockefeller Family Fund; Civil Society Institute; People for the American Way (PFAW); the Proteus Fund; and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL).
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