Ed Snider
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Ed Snider was the founder, co-chair (with his wife), and biggest donor to the Snider Foundation. He passed away in April 2016.[1] [2]
He also founded the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center in his father's name at Wharton, and the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation in 2005, which serves at-risk urban youth in Philadelphia and Camden. [3]
Contacts with Counterjihad and far-right groups
- He teamed up with billionaire Charles Koch in 2014 to give $5 million to the University of Maryland's business school for the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets. Ade Adeniji from Inside Philanthropy said:
- 'That gift, like the higher ed gifts that Koch makes all the time, is aimed at advancing free market ideals on campus.'
- In the 1980s, Snider put down founding money to help establish the Ayn Rand Institute. Snider also earned an executive producer credit on Atlas Shrugged Part I, a film version of Rand's best known work. According to Snider, he had a 'love affair' with Atlas Shrugged for fifty years because it is the 'only book that provides a moral defense of capitalism.' [3]
References
- ↑ ED SNIDER BIOGRAPHY: CHAIRMAN, COMCAST SPECTACOR AND FOUNDER, PHILADELPHIA FLYERS, Comcast, 11 April 2016. Accessed 18 October 2016.
- ↑ Ed Snider Passes Away, Jewish Exponent, 11 April 2016. Accessed 18 October 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ade Adeniji, Ayn Rand Acolytes Have a Friend in This Philly Philanthropist, Inside Philanthropy, 14 November 2014. Accessed 18 October 2016.
