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MORE LINKSMilwaukee Shepard-Express Michael Joyce: Gone but not ForgottenMichael Joyce has retired as head of the Bradley Foundation Michael Joyce is not a household name. But as head of the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Joyce wielded pivotal power in the service of a highly conservative agenda of deregulation, privatization, lower taxes, reduced social services, and attacks on progressive initiatives such as affirmative action. During his tenure, Joyce built Bradley into the most powerful conservative foundation in the country. According to the watchdog group Media Transparency, Joyce oversaw approximately $359 million in grants from 1985 to 1999. Equally important, Joyce forged a working alliance among conservative foundations that tied grant-giving to an ideologically disciplined conservative strategy...
Media Transparency Americans for Community, Faith-Centered EnterpriseJoyce creates, and heads with his wife, two new tax-exempt organizations dedicted to passing George W. Bush's Faith-Based Initiative.
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PERSON PROFILEMichael S. Joyce[FORMER] President, Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, WI. Michael S. Joyce, Bradley's [FORMER] president, is a former high school teacher from an Irish-Catholic, Democratic Party family in Cleveland, Ohio. By 1972 he was voting for Richard Nixon and advancing in conservative circles. "His move to the political big time came in 1978," wrote Barbara Miner in the Spring 1994 issue of the Milwaukee-based education newspaper Rethinking Schools, "when he went to New York to work for the Institute for Educational Affairs, a neoconservative organization started by right wing trailblazer Irving Kristol and William Simon, secretary of the treasury for Presidents Nixon and Ford. The following year Simon asked Joyce to head the Olin Foundation" ...Joyce is a well-connected man. He served on President Reagan's transition team in 1980. Over the years he has been on several other Reagan-Bush advisory boards and task forces. Some say he helped William Bennett get his job as secretary of education under Reagan, according to a 1985 profile in the Milwaukee Business Journal. To this day, Joyce and Bennett remain close. Says Bennett, "When I've needed his advice, he has returned my calls saying, 'This is Coach Joyce and this is what I want you to do,'" [Miner in Rethinking Schools.] In 1986, Joyce was named in an Atlantic Monthly article as one of the three people most responsible for the triumph of the conservative political movement. About the same time, The Chicago Tribune said he may be the voice of the GOP's future. "Mike is pretty close to being the central figure [within conservative foundations]. The chairman of the board or whatever you want to call it," says Waldemar Nielsen, author of "Golden Donors," a book on the foundation movement. By 1992, Joyce was receiving $310,000 in salar and benefits as president of the Bradley Foundation. [Miner in Rethinking Schools.] Joyce's personal viewpoint is more than traditional, emphasizing a view of family, "kinship" and community drawn from the cultures of ancient Israel and Greece. "I'm not talking about the 1950s," Joyce once told an interviewer, "I'm talking about 1950 B.C." [Milwaukee Journal, 10/30/1994.] ...a large portion of Bradley money goes to the major colleges and universities. Bradley president Michael Joyce "...believes that investment in academia is vital to the long-term success of the conservative movement, and has directed millions toward academic research and program development. According to Joyce, Bradley has helped pay for the work of approximately 600 graduate students over the years. 'That's like building a wine collection.' he said." [From "Buying a Movement."]
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MORE LINKSBruce Murphy The legacy of Michael Joyce...In a war of ideas, you naturally funded the people who were on your side, and you made sure they were warriors who expressly aimed to influence government, the media and public policy. But ideological soldiers are rarely the same as great scholars.
Mark O'Keefe Foundation Excels at Fueling Conservative Agenda..."At Olin and later at Bradley, our overarching purpose was to use philanthropy to ... recover the political [emphasis added] imagination of the (nation's) founders -- the self-evident truth that rights and worth are a legacy of the creator [emphasis added] -- not the result of some endless revaluing of values," said [former head Michael] Joyce...
Press Release Michael S. Joyce, Bradley Foundation CEO Since 1985, Announces Early RetirementMilwaukee ... After 26 years in the world of private philanthropy, including 15 as President of the Bradley Foundation, Michael S. Joyce, CEO of the Milwaukee institution announced that he will be taking early retirement as of July 5, 2001, when he becomes 59 years of age. Called “the godfather of modern philanthropy” by noted public intellectual Irving Kristol, Mr. Joyce was the youngest chief executive in his field when he headed the Goldseker Foundation in Baltimore at age 33. Having also led the John M. Olin Foundation in New York before moving to Milwaukee, he is today one of the most senior foundation executives in the country.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "No one ever accused me of being pleasant"The Bradley Foundation's Michael Joyce is retiring
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Michael Joyce (1942-2006)
