Current Program Interests
In actively carrying out its mission, the
Bradley Foundation’s current program interests are many and varied,
though they are all pursued with a focused desire to achieve good
outcomes.
The Foundation continues its historic commitment to helping ensure
widest possible universe of educational options for all parents in
Milwaukee and around the country. This commitment includes supporting
school choice and charter schools, efforts to improve curricula,
standards, and accountability, and gifted education.
Bradley also seeks to secure a growing and prosperous economy, and
thus better prospects for a good life for all, by funding organizations
that research and educate the public and policymakers about the
conditions necessary for such growth and prosperity. This research and
education can be on and about taxes and spending, regulation, and
entitlements.
As well, we fund groups furthering the interests of or directly
assist community-based, voluntary, often grassroots and faith-based
groups that people -- exercising a vigorous, active citizenship --
create and which preserve their deeply held values and solve their once
seemingly intractable problems. This funding is mostly local, but it is
national and international, too.
In addition, Bradley helps those working to strengthen private
initiative in America in other contexts -- specifically including
employee rights, legal reform and public-interest law, equal opportunity
and individual liberty, and philanthropy.
The Foundation also defends and advances the promise and practice of
freedom in the U.S. and around the world, by backing those scholars,
commentators, and others who are urging and justifying an aggressive
stance against enemies attacking that freedom and thus our national
interests in foreign-policy and national-security debates.
We remain faithful to its historic role in creating and fortifying
the intellectual infrastructure of ideas, institutions, and individuals
that underpinned conservatism’s ascendance in America and around the
globe, as well. We do so with grants to think tanks, the media, and
higher education.
Finally, of course, we forcefully follow through on its core mission
of preserving the Bradley family legacy locally by helping Milwaukee’s
and Wisconsin’s social-service, arts, cultural, recreational, and
educational institutions, along with the area’s economic development.
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