Harlan Crow Gave $500,000 to Bari Weiss to Start 'Anti-Woke' Nonprofit
and has a garden filled with statues of dictators, made his half a million dollar donation in 2021, while several other donors gave $1 million each.
developed its own corporate diversity-training program and a free ethnic-studies curriculum for schools, but it sounds like the organization faced a mutiny from staff and volunteers who wanted it to be more explicit than it was about concepts like critical race theory and to speak forcefully against “gender ideology”—aka acceptance of transgender and nonbinary people.in a 2022 email to
staff: “Sex-based rights matter. Single sex spaces for women and girls must be protected. Transgenderism is a fiction designed to destroy.” Weiss was apparently concerned that Edelman was airing her grievances to other donors. “I am quite nervous that she has gotten to the Crows, which would be really damaging to me personally,” Weissreporter: “I leaned on many of my personal relationships and friendships to help launch this nonprofit.
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