Charles Benton
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Charles Benton is CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Benton Foundation
and former CEO of Public Media Incorporated, a film and video publisher and distributor.
He graduated from Yale University
, and did post graduate work at Northwestern University
.
He led the Foundation through its evolution from a grantmaking to an operating foundation devoted generally to the field of communications.
In 1978, President Carter appointed Charles as chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
and as chairman of the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services, held in November 1979.
In 1980, he was re-appointed for an additional 5-year-term, during which time he was elected chairman emeritus by unanimous vote of NCLIS commissioners.
From the fall of 1997 to December 1998, Charles was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, (Gore Commission).
In 2004, Benton and his wife, Marjorie Craig Benton, received the Distinguished Grantmaker Award from the Council on Foundations, for lifetime achievement.
Benton Foundation
The Benton Foundation is a nonprofit organization set up by former U.S. Senator, William Benton and his wife, Helen Hemingway Benton. Its present chairman and CEO is their son, Charles Benton....
and former CEO of Public Media Incorporated, a film and video publisher and distributor.
He graduated from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, and did post graduate work at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
.
He led the Foundation through its evolution from a grantmaking to an operating foundation devoted generally to the field of communications.
In 1978, President Carter appointed Charles as chairman of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science was an agency in the United States government between 1970 and 2008. The activities of the Commission were consolidated into the Institute of Museum and Library Services.-Origins:...
and as chairman of the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services, held in November 1979.
In 1980, he was re-appointed for an additional 5-year-term, during which time he was elected chairman emeritus by unanimous vote of NCLIS commissioners.
From the fall of 1997 to December 1998, Charles was a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, (Gore Commission).
In 2004, Benton and his wife, Marjorie Craig Benton, received the Distinguished Grantmaker Award from the Council on Foundations, for lifetime achievement.
External links
- Benton Foundation
- "Charles and Marjorie Benton", Foundation News and Commentary, Paula J. Kelly