Stanton Foundation
| Founded | January 2009 |
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| Founder | Dr. Frank Stanton |
| Type | Private Independent Foundation |
| 13-3598005 | |
| Focus | Informed Citizen/First Amendment, Nuclear Security, Canine Welfare |
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Key people
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Liz Allison Co-director Andrew Weiss Co-director |
| Endowment | $226,026,377 (2014) |
| Mission | To complete Frank Stanton’s philanthropic agenda |
| Website | thestantonfoundation |
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Formerly called
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Frank and Ruth Stanton Fund |
The Stanton Foundation is a private foundation established by Frank Stanton, a long-time president of Columbia Broadcasting System (“CBS”). The Foundation focuses primarily on three areas in which Stanton was unable to complete his philanthropic plans within his lifetime: (1) supporting the First Amendment and creating a more informed citizenry, particularly in regard to civic issues, (2) supporting policy research in international security, with special emphasis on nuclear security and (3) advancing canine welfare. The Stanton Foundation is primarily a “no unsolicited proposals” foundation, although it operates several open application programs as detailed on its website.
The Stanton Foundation is the creation of Frank Stanton, who served as president of CBS from 1946 through 1971, and, following his retirement from CBS, as chairman of the American Red Cross, chairman of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Visiting Committee, trustee of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California, Harvard Overseer, trustee of the Museum of Broadcasting, and chairman of the RAND Corporation. He died in December 2006 at the age of 98.
The Stanton Foundation’s mission is to complete Frank Stanton’s philanthropic agenda. The areas it funds are three: Informed Citizens/First Amendment, Nuclear Security, and Canine Welfare.
The Foundation’s interests include classic and twenty-first century First Amendment issues and the larger challenge of the creation of a better informed citizenry.
Numerous small grants are also made to innovative high school teachers in U.S. History and Civics.
Frank Stanton was generally praised for his "passionate and courageous commitment to a free press."
Major grants in this area include: a First Amendment professorship at Stanford Law School, the creation of First Amendment Fellowships at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), and, jointly with the Knight Foundation, at Yale Law School’s Media freedom and Information Access Clinic.
Within the general area of international security, the Foundation has a very strong emphasis on nuclear security issues. It defines nuclear security as including nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, nuclear force posture, and, as it relates to nuclear security, nuclear energy.
Major grants in this area include two nuclear security professorships at Stanford, and one at MIT in the Political Science department, currently held by Frank Gavin. It also funds postdoctoral Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows six major research centers, including the Carnegie Endowment,Council on Foreign Relations (CFR),Harvard,Massachusetts Institute of Technology,RAND, and Stanford.
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