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2016-12-03 -Land of the Free
Kellogg Foundation Gave Big to Soros Organization, Tides Foundation
[BREITBART] The institutional left’s funding behemoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with and given major donations to George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Tides Center as part of its massive push to promote a far-left agenda.
I've been doing my part for years, eating house brand breakfy foods.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the nonprofit arm of cereal and sweets giant Kellogg’s, based in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Company is chiefly known for its breakfast brands, including Special K™ cereal, Eggo® waffles, and Pop-Tarts®; but its namesake nonprofit W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of the largest institutional funders in the world and is the seventh largest philanthropic foundation in the United States.

The Kellogg’s website explains the history of the Foundation:

As the United States sunk into the Depression, W.K. Kellogg declared, "I’ll invest in people." He split shifts and hired new employees to work them. He also founded the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, whose mission -- to help children realize their potential -- complements that of the Kellogg Company to this day.

In recent years, however, the focus of the Foundation has drifted away from just helping children toward promoting left-wing political issues.

Examples of such funding include a direct grant to George Soros’s Open Society Institute, which received $200,000 from the Foundation to "eliminate racial inequities in the juvenile justice system and promote racial healing through community-based conferences, policy changes, and communication strategies."

Two other far-left groups, the Tides Center and Tides Foundation, both based in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, are also top recipients of funds and support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. A search of the grants given by the Foundation for "Tides" yields over 120 results.
Posted by Fred 2016-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 From where the sun now stands, I will eat Frosted Flakes no more forever.
Posted by SteveS 2016-12-03 02:42||   2016-12-03 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Forgive me, but I'm always a bit skeptical when the foundation web site opens to....'We're doing it for the children, Racial Healing.' Copious amounts of sugar and animal appropriation marketing, no help either. BTW, see any clinically obese children at the link ?

Probably just me...old habits, that sort of thing.

Kellogg Foundation link.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-03 06:04||   2016-12-03 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like the Kellog-Brand Pact is broken, cereal war imminent, C.W. Post is on high alert, General Mills and Captain Crunch are on the move.
Posted by Shipman 2016-12-03 06:15||   2016-12-03 06:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Malt-O-Meal brand (Lakeville, Minnesota) makes a good version of those, SteveS. Good Raisin Bran, too.

Gave up on Kellogg's years ago when their foundation started this sh*t.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2016-12-03 08:41||   2016-12-03 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 I can't go the onions, but McCann's Irish is an old favorite
Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-03 08:55||   2016-12-03 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Now if you really want to raise taxes. As Willie Sutton, you rob banks because that's where the money is. All these foundations need to be stripped of any tax abatement. Only religious organizations with at least a hundred years of establishment (See - separation of church and state), to receive any exemption.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-03 09:24||   2016-12-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#7 More to the saga, including Kellogg's boycotting of Breitbart owing to what K believes to be inappropriate (non-PC) content.

In case you are interested, their sub's include:
Kashi
Keebler Company
Bear Naked, Inc.

Wiki: "In August 2014, Kellogg's called on the President to support the Paris Agreement on climate change. In 2016, Kellogg Company urged President-elect Donald Trump to "continue the Paris Climate Agreement". The company also decided to remove their advertisements from the Breitbart News website. Breitbart News in turn called for a boycott of Kellogg's products."
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-12-03 12:04||   2016-12-03 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 http://discoverthenetworks.org/

It's been known for awhile
Posted by newc 2016-12-03 12:28||   2016-12-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like the foundation needs a good federal auditing.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-03 13:06||   2016-12-03 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Promoting diabetes for over 100 years.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-03 14:20||   2016-12-03 14:20|| Front Page Top

#11 SteveS with the Chief Joseph reference has me standing by the roadside with trash at my feet and a tear in my eye.
Posted by Regular joe 2016-12-03 14:42||   2016-12-03 14:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Stick to making cereal. Use the Foundation money for something useful. Stay out of politics, you will get hurt in the cash register.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-12-03 19:40||   2016-12-03 19:40|| Front Page Top

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