[1] After a few years he entered the business world and eventually began working for Loeb, Rhoades & Co., a Wall Street investment firm.
Bernstein also left considerable sums to the National Council of Churches' Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, and to the Institute for Policy Studies.
[5] The foundation was designed with an unusual mission that it hoped would be a model for other such efforts: that it spend all of its money in a few years in order to do the greatest good then and for the future.
This was an alternative to the traditional model of spending small amounts arising from investment activities and attempting to exist in perpetuity.
[6] The Bernsteins always considered themselves to be liberal, but after a visit to Cuba in 1960 shortly after the Cuban Revolution, the couple told their friends and acquaintances about their positive experiences.
In the 1960s, he supported the causes of civil rights, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the anti-Vietnam War movement became a major focus of Bernstein's attention.