His mother is a program officer at the nonprofit Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, which conducts research on public opinion and government policy.

- Kettering Foundation report, "Citizens and Politics," June 1991.

She was also the chairwoman of the Kettering Foundation.

For the Dartmouth Conference's 50th anniversary, the Kettering Foundation published an additional volume to commemorate and chronicle all five decades.

Mathews currently serves as president and chief executive officer of the Kettering Foundation, a not-for-profit research foundation rooted in the American tradition of invention.

As the Kettering Foundation found in 1991, one big reason is they feel the system is controlled not by votes but by rich special interests.

If a big enough craving exists for an intelligent program, commercial producers can be counted on to satisfy it without urging from the Kettering Foundation.

Select Writings of Li Shenzhi, Dayton, Ohio: Kettering Foundation, 2010.

In 1927, he founded the Kettering Foundation, a non-partisan research foundation.

He worked with the Kettering Foundation to facilitate a federal-state-local negotiated investment strategy for Columbus, Ohio.