Hello, I'm Michael Watson, and this is the 400th episode of the Influence Watch podcast. For us,

it is a time for looking back and a time for looking forward. We will have a special announcement

at the conclusion of today's episode. Joining me to discuss their work at Capital Research Center,

our Director of Communications and External Relations, and my usual co-host, Sarah Lee, investigative researcher Parker Thayer, and senior research analyst Robert Stelts.

Everybody, welcome. Welcome. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks, Mike.

All right. So I will start with Robert, but it'll be to each of you in turn.

What are you working on that our listeners might find interesting that you'd like to discuss?

Well, I guess one of the projects we just, I just finished up an article that went up on our website last week is about a philanthropic effort called.

It's called the Decolonizing Wealth Project. And it's kind of interesting because last year

this group announced that they're trying for a one trillion,

you know, with a T, Moonshot is what they call it,

to encourage big philanthropy to engage in what it calls

reparative philanthropy.

And by this they mean, you know, they believe that philanthropic wealth across the world,

particularly in the United States, is rooted in, you know, oppression and colonialism and racism.

And they want big philanthropy to engage in giving that's specifically, in their mind, counteracts

this.

So in practice, this is left-wing activist groups

with a heavy, you know, racial ethnic prioritization in their grantmaking. And so I kind of went

through and, you know, the founder of this group is, his name is Edgar Villanueva.

And he previously worked at the Marguerite Casey Foundation, which probably

isn't surprising.

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