Christopher Reynolds Foundation
Template:TOCnestleft The Christopher Reynolds Foundation is a private grant-making foundation organized in 1952 by Libby Holman Reynolds. "Holman Reynolds established it in memory of her son, Christopher, who died in a mountain climbing accident in 1950 when he was 18 years old." Jack Clareman was Holman Reynolds' legal counsel and helped set up the Foundation.[1]
Board of Directors
- Dr. Michael Kahn, President Emeritus.
- John R. Boettiger, Ph.D., President Pro Tem.
- Suzanne Derrer, Board Vice-President
- Virginia Kahn
- Andrea Panaritis, Executive Director and the Board secretary and assistant treasurer
- Robert Vitarelli, Assistant to Ms. Panaritis.[2]
Cuba
Beginning in 1995, the Foundation began to financialy support work for U.S. policy with Cuba in a number of ways. A key way in which the Foundation has done this is in paying for both Congressmen and women, and the staffers of Congressmen and women to take diplomatic trips to Cuba. Reasons given for these trips include "fact-finding, study effects of U.S. embargo", "improving U.S./Cuba relations" and "meeting with officials to discuss embargo & human rights". The total cost of the 29 trips the Foundation has sponsored so far comes to $47,483.11. The following is a list of those whom the Foundation has sponsored to make a diplomatic trip to Cuba:[3]
- Sandra Caron
- Frederick Zylman
- Dawn Jackson
- Marsha McCraven
- Faith Blackburne
- David Madland
- Jennifer Park
- Nicole Venable
- Michelle Mancini
- Erich Pfuehler
- Kevin Casey
- Jodi Keyserling
- Hans Hogrefe
- Jonathan Fremont
- Maurice Hinchey
- Carolyn Kilpatrick
- Mel Watt
- Robert Odom
- Roshan Hodge
- Khalil Munir
- Kimberly Rudolph
- Julie Nickson
- Michael Collins
- Bennie Thompson
- Timla Washington
- Steve Gavin
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
- Murat Bokcigdem
- Diane Watson
Grantees
As at Sept. 13, 2008, the following organizations had received funding from the Foundation:[4]
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Association for World Health
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Friends Service Committee
- Aspen Institute
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Center for Cuban Studies
- Center for Defense Information
- Center for International Policy
- Center for Marine Conservation
- Center for National Policy
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Cuba Info
- Cuba Policy Foundation
- Cuban American Alliance Education Fund
- Cuban Committee for Democracy
- CUNY - Bildner Center
- DataCenter
- The Field Museum
- Florida International University
- Fund for Constitutional Government
- Fund for Reconciliation and Development
- Fundacion Amistad
- Georgetown University
- Global Exchange
- Global Links
- Green Map
- Hampshire College
- Hemingway Preservation Foundation
- Institute of International Education
- Inter-American Dialogue
- International Crane Foundation
- Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization
- Jane Addams Peace Association
- Latin America Working Group
- Latin American Studies Association
- Lehigh University
- Lexington Institute
- McGill University
- Mobile-La Habana Society
- MEDICC
- Muse and Associates
- National Audubon Society
- National Lawyers Guild Foundation
- National Medical Association
- National Public Radio
- National Security Archive
- North American Congress on Latin America
- Northeast Document Conservation Center
- Ocean Conservancy
- Organization Development Network
- Oxfam America
- Pell Center for International Relations & Public Policy
- Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting
- Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
- RARE Center for Tropical Conservation
- Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs
- Social Science Research Council
- TransAfrica Forum
- Tulane University
- Union for Radical Political Economics
- University of Florida/IFAS
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina
- University of Puerto Rico
- U.S. Cuba Sister Cities Association
- Washington Office on Latin America
- Wildlife Conservation Society
- William C. Velasquez Institute
- World Policy Institute