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Related: About this forumAtheist Philanthropist Makes $10,000 Donation to Support Right Wing Watch Blog
July 31, 2014
by Hemant Mehta
I said a couple of years ago that atheist philanthropist Todd Stiefels most effective donation may have been the one he made to Religion News Service to hire a journalist to focus on atheism-related issues.
But his latest gift, to the tune of $10,000, is going to an equally-worthy cause.
Stiefel is giving the money to People For the American Way in order to support their brilliant Right Wing Watch blog:
The work of exposing the Right Wings extremism is critical to having a transparent conversation about the direction of our country, said PFAW President Michael Keegan. Journalists, bloggers and thought leaders rely on Right Wing Watch for trustworthy, authoritative information on whats going on within the far right movement. We are grateful for the support of individuals like Todd Stiefel in helping us to expose the Right Wings incendiary rhetoric and extreme agenda.
People For the American Way and Right Wing Watch do critical work uncovering the vicious language the Right uses to attack anyone whose religious beliefs differ from their own especially those with no religious belief at all, particularly atheists, said Stiefel. This gift is an opportunity to show gratitude to an organization that does critical work to protect and bolster the rights of both religious and secular Americans, and to help make sure they can continue this work in the future.
People For the American Way and Right Wing Watch do critical work uncovering the vicious language the Right uses to attack anyone whose religious beliefs differ from their own especially those with no religious belief at all, particularly atheists, said Stiefel. This gift is an opportunity to show gratitude to an organization that does critical work to protect and bolster the rights of both religious and secular Americans, and to help make sure they can continue this work in the future.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/07/31/atheist-philanthropist-makes-10000-donation-to-support-right-wing-watch-blog/#ixzz39L7RKlgn
http://www.stiefelfreethoughtfoundation.org/about.html
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Atheist Philanthropist Makes $10,000 Donation to Support Right Wing Watch Blog (Original Post)
rug
Aug 2014
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navarth
(5,927 posts)1. kicking for later nt
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)2. Just checked-out the RIGHT WING WATCH BLOG ...
... and bookmarked it.
Then had the thought that most people don't think of including organizations like this in their Wills, but maybe should.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)3. IIRC, he took some heat over his last donation to RNS.
I like the way he thinks and appreciate what he has done.