POSTED BY MARTIN KICH

This update is from Ralph Wilson:

The Charles Koch Foundation changed their donor habits as a result of the pressure we’ve applied while exposing their strategy for undue donor influence. The Wall Street Journal just published an article “Charles Koch Foundation to Publish Future University Grant Agreements” wherein it was announced that “the Charles Koch Foundation says it will post online all future multi-year grant agreements with universities, aiming to head off some of the controversy surrounding the libertarian philanthropic group’s growing ambitions on college campuses around the country.”

We consider this a win because we know that the Charles Koch Foundation would not be making this strategic pivot were it not for this campaign. Your tireless efforts to hold them accountable [are] working!

There is just one thing, though. We aren’t done holding them accountable.

Unless they are going to release all past agreements, and documentation for all their programs, Koch is not providing enough clarity. Faculty, students, and the community deserve to know about all donor agreements, past and present.

Koch has already dumped over $200 million into over 350 universities. A pledge to publish future contracts effective hides that entire history.