The Crowell Trust (full name: The Henry Parsons Crowell and Susan Coleman Crowell Trust) is a charitable foundation in the United States which states that it "is dedicated to the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of Evangelical Christianity". It has funded a television program opposing
evolution, which television station
KNME refused to broadcast.
The foundation was established in 1927 by American businessman
Henry Parsons Crowell
Henry Parsons Crowell (1855–1944) was an American businessman, 1901 founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a philanthropist.Musser, Joe (1997). ''The Cereal Tycoon''. Moody Press. , p.3, 154.
Career
As the founder of the Quaker Oats Company, He ...
, who was founder of the
Quaker Oats Company
The Quaker Oats Company, known as Quaker, is an American food Conglomerate (company), conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001.
History Precursor miller companies
In the 1850s, Ferdinand Schumacher and Robert Stuar ...
, but not himself a
Quaker
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
. The foundation makes grants to various organizations in order to promote
Evangelical Christianity
Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...
.
References
1927 establishments in the United States
Christian charities based in the United States
Charities based in Colorado
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