A Sea Of Red

So while rooting around the net for some articles for a post in the thread http://flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=67696#67696, I came across this little factoid:

(perhaps Flamefans needs a sticky for wealthy christian philanthropists similar to the coaching sticky)

1. That Phillip Anschutz, who founded, owns or has significant holdings in the following ventures Qwest Communications, Anschutz Entertainment Group (owner of several MLS teams and their respective stadiums), Walden Media (Narnia, Terabithia, Amazing Grace) and Bristol Bay, Regal Entertainment Group (movie theaters) and Union Pacific Railroad among others, is "a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and is considered extremely conservative."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz


2. He is considered to be worth $7.8 Billion today and is currently ranked number 31 on Forbes list according to wikipedia entry.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/DSAK.html Old 2006 ranking page


Wonder if JF could make a new best friend soon.
In order to become a beneficiary of Mr. Anschutz, perhaps LU would be willing to alter its google frontpage result from:



To:

1. Qwest Communications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest

Qwest currently owns the naming rights to the following buildings:

>Qwest Field (formerly Seahawks Stadium) in Seattle, Washington, home of the NFL Seattle Seahawks
>Qwest Center Omaha, in Omaha, Nebraska, convention center and arena complex
>Qwest Arena, a multi-purpose arena in Boise, Idaho

2. Anschutz Entertainment Group http://www.aegworldwide.com/home.html &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschutz_E ... ment_Group

(I see a nice synergy between the Sport Management Major here)

For the Link impaired:

AEG is the world’s largest owner of sports teams and sports events, the owner of the world’s most profitable sports and entertainment venues, and the world’s second largest presenter of live music and entertainment events after Live Nation.

The company also owns a number of sports teams, including Los Angeles Galaxy, Chicago Fire, Houston Dynamo, Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Riptide, Manchester Monarchs, five European Hockey franchises, 49% of Hammarby soccer team (Sweden), as well as interests in the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Sparks. The company also purchased the Champions on Ice figure skating tour in 2006.

3. a) Walden Media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Media & http://www.walden.com/walden/index.php

b) Bristol Bay Productions http://www.bristolbayproductions.com/

Makers of such films as Narnia, Teribithia, Amazing Grace, Ray et al.


4. Regal Cinemas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regal_Entertainment_Group


5. Clarity Media Group http://claritymediagroup.com/ & http://www.aegworldwide.com/05_affiliat ... shing.html

a) Clarity Media Group, a newspaper conglomerate which includes:
b) The San Francisco Examiner (purchased in 2004)
c) The Washington Examiner, which was spun off from a number of D.C. area suburban dailies.
d) The Baltimore Examiner, which was launched anew in April 2006.
(Anschutz has trademarked the name "Examiner" in more than sixty cities.)

6. Discovery Institute http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute & http://www.discovery.org/

The Discovery Institute is a think tank structured as a non-profit foundation, founded in 1990 and based in Seattle, Washington, USA. The stated mission of the organization is to "make a positive vision of the future practical." Several of the institute's practices have placed it at the center of numerous controversies, particularly its campaign promoting intelligent design and the religious goal outlined in the institute's Wedge strategy to "reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."

7. Union Railroad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Railroad & http://www.up.com/

So I propose offering the naming rights to the school of Business to Mr. Anschutz in exchange for an ongoing capital relationship to help propel LU toward the Liberty 20/20 goals, academically, institutionally, aesthetically, athletically and numerically. (Time for a campus visit invitation to Anschutz and his people.)

Liberty University Anschutz School of Business


Has a nice ring to it, don't ya think?

1. James Leininger http://www.texscience.org/reform/leininger.htm


Dr. James R. Leininger , a conservative and devoutly religious Republican businessman, probably is known by few Texans outside his hometown of San Antonio...

...Leininger, an unassuming man who has avoided the limelight, said he never has a grand game plan for his giving. It comes from his heart based on issues he believes in, he said, such as private school choice.

"It's always an emotional thing for me," Leininger said. "If I sat down and planned it out, I think I'd just go to Bermuda instead."

To his supporters, he is a philanthropist who mixes a free-market business philosophy with Christian beliefs to promote a better Texas.

His detractors portray him as the state's premier financier of "religious political extremists" whose agenda is shaped by the Christian Coalition.

"I don't find it offensive. I find it kind of sad," said Leininger, who denied being an extremist. "If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal. It's a sad commentary on where politics is today..."

...Leininger 's personal fortune and cash flow is on the verge of improving on the eve of the 1998 election season. A consortium of investors led by the financier husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, has offered a friendly buyout of Leininger 's Kinetic Concepts, according to records at the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.

Leininger owns about 47 percent of Kinetic Concepts' stock, with a market value of more than $350 million, according to SEC documents. The value of Kinetic Concepts stock in the past has put Leininger among the 100 wealthiest Texans.

Donations of Kinetic Concepts stock have financed Leininger 's two personal foundations, the Covenant Foundation and the JCL Foundation, formerly known as the Kinetic Concepts Foundation.

Since 1991, the two foundations have made $5.6 million in contributions. About 57 percent of that money has gone to politically oriented nonprofit organizations, with the remainder being given to churches and Christian ministries, studies and missionary activities.

Leininger said that looking only at his foundations' activities might give the impression that his philanthropy is limited to religious or conservative business causes. He points out that he personally gave $6.8 million last year to medical and educational institutions, including $1.5 million to Vanderbilt University and $3 million to the University of Miami for an endowed chair in the medical school.

In addition, he said, Kinetic Concepts gave $2 million for a building to provide temporary residences for the families of cancer patients in San Antonio and another $300,000 for diabetes research at the University of Texas Medical Center.

Leininger -- a basketball fan who is part owner of the San Antonio Spurs -- gave $170,000 to build the Home Dome there, a gymnasium for home-schooled children.

I was rereading over some of this again in light of the greatest fundraiser LU has ever known passing on...

I've always liked the things I've heard about Jr.'s business savvy and understated persona. He has already seemed to be deft at making friends and partners with those who can really help the university (see: Worth Carter http://flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4607)

It really occurs to me that this guy would make a great contact for LU if at all possible in addition to the synergy the relationship would provide for the Business Grads, Sport Management Grads, Communications/Future Film Department, Athletes, etc...the guy has his hand in all places LU has stated it would like to go.

Would love to see him send in his management team to invest in and plan the future sports complexes of LU (maybe pie in the sky, but JF did have a knack for drawing in some deep pockets...business/entrepreneurial folks can find it hard to resist a growth story, i.e. LU...what a great time to get a connection established with this dude.


http://www.walden.com/walden/press/2005/021305_01.php

excerpt:

Nevertheless, I come not to praise Winn-Dixie, but to note a certain cultural shift taking place under the discreet directorship of unassuming billionaire Philip Anschutz—invariably appearing in print as "Christian billionaire Phil Anschutz"— whose Walden Media co-produced Winn-Dixie with Twentieth Century Fox....

..."Christian billionaire Philip Anschutz, disgusted with America's coarsening culture, has decided to infect the world with goodness, optimism, hope, forgiveness and charity."

In addition to Walden Media, Anschutz owns, well, a lot. Dusting the tip of the iceberg, his portfolio includes several sports teams (the Colorado Rapids and the Los Angeles Kings among them), a phone and broadband service provider (Denver-based Qwest Communications International), several radio stations and various newspapers, including two tabloids, both named The Examiner, in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the latter of which debuted Feb. 1.

His greatest cultural impact, however, may be through his movies. Walden Media is run by education reformer Michael Flaherty and Cary Granat, former president of Miramax's Dimension Films, who shared a vision, embraced by Anschutz, of reaching kids by marrying education and entertainment.

2. http://www.thebolthousefoundation.org/

The Bolthouse Foundation is a private family foundation funded by some of the former owners of Wm. Bolthouse Farms, Inc.

The purpose of The Bolthouse Foundation is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by supporting charitable and religious organizations whose ministry, goals, and operating principles are consistent with evangelical Christianity as described in The Bolthouse Foundation Statement of Faith.

This Website is designed to provide information to qualified organizations interested in submitting a Grant Inquiry on an unsolicited basis.

3. http://www.mediamouse.org/features/022707holla.php

Educational entities, ranging from colleges to Christian schools, have been heavily funded by the Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation. The Calvin Theological Seminary, where Elsa Prince is a trustee and where her current husband Ren Broekhuizen is an alumnus, received $800,000.

The Russian-American Christian University, where Broekhuizen is a trustee, received more than $1.3 million from the Foundation. Hope College, where the Prince's daughter Emilie Wierda has been a trustee, received $1.25 million from the Foundation.

Christian schools have also been extensively supported by the Foundation, with Holland Christian Schools receiving $202,500, Ada Christian School receiving $255,000, and Potter's House in Grand Rapids receiving $359,500. Christian schools around the country have been supported by the Foundation, most notably Rehoboth Christian School in New Mexico, which has received $550,000 from the Foundation.

According to the biographies for the Council for National Policy (conservative org), both men were members of the organization in 1984...It's a stretch, but perhaps Anschutz & Falwell crossed paths at some point and he is aware of LU and could be persuaded to throw a little bit of that pocket change for a soccer specific stadium or football stadium LU's way...(eh, stranger things have happened... )

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.f.htm#falwell

Dr. Jerry Falwell- CNP Board of Governors 1982,1998, member 1984, 1988, 1996, 1998; President and co-founder of the Moral Majority in 1979 and its successor, the Liberty Federation; Founder and Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, VA, president of the "Old Time Gospel Hour", Chancellor of Liberty Baptist College; chancellor of the Liberty University School of LifeLong Learning, a correspondence school; President, Jerry Falwell Minisistries 1; founded the Elim Home for Alcoholics and Liberty Godparent Home for Unwed Mothers; Member of Ed McAteer 's Religious Roundtable Council of 56 2 See: Religious Roundtable ; Signed Evangelicals and Catholics Together II...

http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm#anschutz

Philip F. Anschutz - CNP 1984; founder and president oil company, The Anschutz Corporation.