The Pew Charitable Trusts
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The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent collection of nonprofit organizations. The trusts serve as successors to a group of seven charitable foundations founded between 1948 and 1979 by members of the family of Joseph Pew, who founded the Sun Oil Company. Their primary base of operations is in Philadelphia. The Pew Charitable Trusts are dedicated to three broad purposes: Improving public policyTrust beneficiaries study, develop, and promote non-partisan policy initiatives and solutions for urgent needs of both the American and global communities.Informing the publicThe Pew Research Center, a subsidiary based in Washington D.C., is home to a number of information initiatives funded by the Pew family of trusts. It promotes impartial, fact-based public-opinion polls and other statistical and demographic research tools to track important issues and trends.Stimulating civic lifeThe Pew Trusts support nation-wide programs that promote civic engagement and greater participation in public life and the political process.The Pew trusts promote these goals by funding efforts in a broad range of disciplines, including the performing arts, education, technology, public broadcasting, health, and more. Interestingly, although the Pew trusts support a number of programs that are considered to be politically liberal, such as public broadcasting, the Pew family were politically conservative. The Pew Freedom trust, for example, had as one of its stated goals to "acquaint the American people with the evils of bureaucracy" and the "values of a free market." Joseph N. Pew, Jr. called Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, "a gigantic scheme to raze U.S businesses to a dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs." This conservative political slant has softened over time, however, and nowadays the Pew trusts are regarded as fairly neutral, politically. The Pew Charitable Trusts also provide support to the Pew Research Center, which provides financial support for promising scientists dedicated to the study and advancement of human health. More information may be found at The Pew Charitable Trusts Web Site.
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