Fletcher Foundation Explained

The Fletcher Foundation was a nonprofit foundation that supported civil rights, education, and environmental education. The foundation supported 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.,^[1] 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.^[2] The Foundation lost its tax-exempt status^[3] in 2018.

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."^[4] The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2006.

2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows

Press release, 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
Bob 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

2006 Fletcher Fellows

Fletcher Fellows Press Release

Lawrence Bobo, race relations scholar and professor at Stanford University
Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University
Miranda Massie, civil rights attorney, Detroit, Michigan
Lorna Simpson, artist, New York
Anna Deavere Smith, performance artist, actress, and University Professor, New York University
Valerie Smith, professor of English and director African-American Studies Program, Princeton University
Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania
Brent Staples, award-winning journalist, The New York Times
Patricia Sullivan, associate professor of history, University of South Carolina
Loïc Wacquant, professor of sociology and boxer, University of California, Berkeley

2007 Fletcher Fellows

Fletcher Fellows Press Release

Hilton Als, journalist and literary critic
Cheryl Finley, assistant professor of art history, Cornell University
Joy A. James, professor of Africana Studies, Williams College
Kenneth W. Mack, professor of law, Harvard University
Charles Payne, professor of sociology and education, Duke University

2008 Fletcher Fellows

Clayborne Carson, professor of history, Stanford University
Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law, UCLA and Columbia Law School
Kellie Jones, associate professor of art history and archaeology, Columbia University
Stacy L. Leeds, professor of law, University of Kansas

2009 Fletcher Fellows

Emily Bernard, associate professor of English, University of Vermont
Rachel Devlin, associate professor of history, Tulane University
Llewellyn M. Smith, filmmaker
Keivan G. Stassun, associate professor of physics and astronomy, Vanderbilt University

2010 Fletcher Fellows

Mia Bay, associate professor of history, Rutgers University
Richard Thompson Ford, professor of law, Stanford University
Tyrone Forman, associate professor of sociology, Emory University

2011 Fletcher Fellows

Ian Haney-López, professor of law, University of California, Berkeley
Sharon D. Raynor, associate professor of English, Johnson C. Smith University^[5]
Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, Vanderbilt University
Rachel Swarns, correspondent, The New York Times^[6]
Jonathan Holloway, professor of history and African American studies, Yale University

2012 Fletcher Fellows

Jane Dailey, associate professor in the Department of History, the College, and the Law School University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago
Trey Ellis, assistant professor at the School of the Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia University
Rucker Johnson, associate professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

External links

Fletcher Foundation official website

Notes

Web site: Filantropía y ayuda - Información acerca de caridad, filantropía, negocios internacionales . Fletcherphilanthropy.org . 2022-08-15.
http://www.theday.com/article/20131215/NWS01/312159915/Waterford-success-story-Buddy-Fletcher-accused-of-fraud Waterford success story Buddy Fletcher accused of fraud
Web site: Archived copy . 2019-02-21 . 2019-02-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190222042235/https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=820174&ein=133775587 . dead .
http://thealgebraproject.org/a_fletcher_fellowship_awarded_to_bob_moses Fletcher Fellowship Awarded to Bob Moses
Web site: Carolina Art News. 2012-09-29.
Web site: Fellows study effects of major civil rights ruling. 2012-10-12.
Web site: Fellowships Honor 'Brown v Board' Legacy. 2012-09-29. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120920072211/http://www.theroot.com/buzz/fellowships-honor-brown-v-board-legacy. 2012-09-20.