On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:02:58PM -0500, Timothy Francis-Wright wrote:
> I was poking around the 2000 tax return for the Kenneth P.
> and Linda K. Lay Foundation
> (http://www.guidestar.org/pdf/2000/760/454/2000-760454168-1-F.pdf)
>
> The Lay Foundation planned, according to charts in the return,
> donations of $500,000 per year from 2002 to 2004 to Resources
> for the Future, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Given that
> almost all of the Foundation's assets (shares of ENE) are
> now essentially worthless, those planned donations are very much
> ephemeral.
>
> I welcome any ionsight as to the ideology behind RFF. Their
> website (rff.org) is at once informative and opaque. Ken Lay
> is on its board, along with a bunch of well-connected folks
> (e.g., John Deutch--hope he doesn't leave computers at board
> meetings--and an executive from the Carlyle Group).
> They seem very much into market solutions for environmental
> problems. Are they just bleeding-heart capitalists? Or
> am I missing something?
>
> Tim Francis-Wright
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