During his appearance on "This Week," Schweizer also acknowledged that he hadn't found any direct evidence that Clinton had intervened to help those who backed the foundation.
One chain of charter schools heavily backed by foundation money, for instance, is Green Dot - which founded the predecessor to Parent Revolution.
The program, called "Pack It Up for Kids," was financed with a $25,000 grant from the Idol Gives Back Foundation, which was established by the producers of "American Idol" and the Fox Broadcasting Company.
A regular contributor to the Guardian and Huffington Post, Mark is a recent recipient of the Global Green Millennium Award for Environmental Leadership, the Meera Gandhi Giving Back Foundation Award, and Riverkeeper's Big Fish Award.
There are other private museums, of course, but these are almost always backed by foundations or large companies, or they accept public financing.
Also most of the wording [in the news release] relates to "corporate" or "industry" funded efforts when in fact there are and have been substantial efforts backed by foundations and individuals who are not directly connected with industry.
The funding of the program was of concern to some commentators: It was backed by foundations linked to hedge fund billionaires Daniel Loeb and Paul Singer.
Such statistics helped provoke most of the world's leading developed nations to back the foundation of UN Women, following a so-called high-level panel in 2006.
And then they rallied again just a few months later when the club really needed them to back the Foundation so we could put a credible plan together.
"But it's great news and it's great credit to BDO and the supporters for not only backing the foundation but being robust during this process.
He is one of a handful of international scholars with well-established reputations as authorities on Leonardo whose backing the foundation would ideally like to secure.
