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The Fletcher Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that supports civil rights, education, and environmental education. The foundation supports efforts to develop a more just society with more equal opportunities for more of the population primarily by leveraging the financial and non-financial contributions of Fletcher Asset Management, the Fletcher Family including New York financier and philanthropist Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.,〔http://fletcherphilanthropy.org〕 and others. Fletcher Asset Management has been accused of fraud related to its management of funds and the value of pledges Fletcher's charitable pledges are in dispute.〔(Waterford success story Buddy Fletcher accused of fraud ) 12/15/2013 The Day〕 A 1987 graduate of Harvard University, Fletcher worked in investment banking and in 1991 founded Fletcher Asset Management. A Harvard Class Marshal, Fletcher endowed a University Professorship at his alma mater, first held by philosopher Cornel West and now held by literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In 2004, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Fletcher Foundation announced the creation of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship program, described by foundation chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as "Guggenheims for race issues."〔(Fletcher Fellowship Awarded to Bob Moses ).〕 The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2005. == 2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows == (Graywolf Press ) *Elizabeth Alexander, poet and African-American studies professor, Yale University *Devon Carbado, law professor at University of California, Los Angeles *Kathleen Cleaver, author and former Black Panther Party activist *Stanley Crouch, cultural critic and author *Roland Fryer, economist and member of Harvard Society of Fellows *Anita Hill, civil rights attorney and law professor Brandeis University *Nina Jablonski, biological anthropologist and author of ''Skin'' *Glenn Ligon, artist, New York *Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem *Robert Parris Moses, educator and civil rights leader *Thomas Sugrue, civil rights historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania *Deborah Willis, photographer and documentarian and professor at New York University 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fletcher Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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