• Source: Fletcher Foundation

      • The Fletcher Foundation was a nonprofit foundation that supported civil rights, education, and environmental education.


      History


      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 "Buddy" Fletcher Jr., 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. The Foundation lost its tax-exempt status 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." The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2006.


      2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows


      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


      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


      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
      Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, Vanderbilt University
      Rachel Swarns, correspondent, The New York Times
      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


      Further reading


      The Root, 21 June 2012 (article about 2012 Fletcher Fellowships)
      The Wall Street Journal, 15 April 2005 (article about Fletcher Fellowships)
      Boston Globe, 20 May 2005 (article about Fletcher Fellowships)


      External links


      Fletcher Foundation official website


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