The Almanac of American Philanthropy
The Almanac of American Philanthropy
Editor/Author
Karl Zinsmeister
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: The Philanthropy Roundtable
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-9861474-5-6
Category: Social Sciences
Image Count:
49
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Almanac conveniently encapsulates the history, purposes, effects, and modern direction of private giving. It lends missing perspective, and serves as a handy encyclopedic reference. People serious about donating money to good causes will consult it again and again as they refine their giving.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: How Philanthropy Fuels American Success
- Donors + Passion = Potent Accomplishment
- Good Charity, Bad Charity?
- Fixing Problems via Philanthropy vs. Government
- Common Criticisms of Philanthropy
- Big-Picture Benefits of Philanthropy
- Great Philanthropy Quotations
- Philanthropy Hall of Fame
- About this Section
- Alfred Loomis
- Andrew Carnegie
- Andrew Mellon
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop
- Bill Daniels
- Conrad Hilton
- David Packard
- Don Fisher
- Edward Harkness
- Eli Lilly
- Ellen Browning Scripps
- Enoch Pratt
- Ewing Kauffman
- George Eastman
- George Peabody
- George Washington
- Harry Earhart
- Henry Ford
- Henry Phipps Jr.
- Herbert Hoover
- Ima Hogg
- Isaiah Williamson
- J. Howard Pew
- J. P. Morgan
- J. Paul Getty
- James Duke
- James Smithson
- John Olin
- John Rockefeller Jr.
- John Rockefeller Sr.
- John Templeton
- John Walton
- Judah Touro
- Julius Rosenwald
- Leland Stanford
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Margaret Olivia Sage
- Mary Elizabeth Garrett
- Milton Hershey
- Nathan Straus
- Nettie Fowler McCormick
- Nicholas Longworth
- Oseola McCarty
- Peter Cooper
- Raymond Orteig
- Robert Smith
- Sebastian Kresge
- St. Katharine Drexel
- Stephen Girard
- Thomas Eddy
- Thomas Perkins
- W. K. Kellogg
- William Simon
- William Volker
- Zachary Fisher
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1735 to present) - Medicine & Health
- About this Section
- 1735 A Dying Sailor Endows the First U.S. Charity Hospital
- 1751 Rescuing the “Sick Poor and Lunaticks”
- 1786 A Revolutionary Medical Clinic
- 1791 New York Dispensary
- 1893 Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- 1901 Rockefeller University
- 1906 Peking Union Medical College
- 1908 A Mass Crusade Against Tuberculosis
- 1909 Eliminating Hookworm in the U.S.
- 1910 Modern American Medical Education
- 1913 American Cancer Society
- 1913 Rockefeller’s Medical Philanthropy Sprouts 61 Nobel Prizes
- 1913 Social Hygiene Movement
- 1915 George Eastman Popularizes Preventive Dental Care
- 1915 Henry Ford Hospital
- 1922 Discovery of Insulin
- 1922 Shriners Hospitals for Children
- 1927 Rural Hospitals
- 1931 Discovery of the Influenza Virus
- 1932 Putting Psychiatry on the Map
- 1933 A Standard Nomenclature of Disease
- 1935 Invention of Health Insurance
- 1937 Yellow Fever Vaccine
- 1938 March of Dimes
- 1941 Pap Smear Test
- 1941 Production of Penicillin
- 1944 DNA Uncovered
- 1945 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
- 1945 Sloan Kettering Institute
- 1948 Kinsey Reports
- 1949 Heart Catheterization
- 1952 Eradicating Polio
- 1952 Population Control Movement
- 1953 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 1954 Kidney Transplants and Dialysis
- 1962 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- 1965 Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
- 1971 A Supertanker of Anti-cancer Funding
- 1971 Foundation Fighting Blindness
- 1973 Emergency Medical Services
- 1974 Ronald McDonald Houses
- 1974 The Hospice Movement
- 1974 Tropical Disease Research
- 1975 Spine, Brain, and Neurological Health in Atlanta
- 1976 Biomedical Engineering Willed Into Existence
- 1978 Mercy Ships
- 1979 Nurse-Family Partnership
- 1980 Make-A-Wish Foundation
- 1982 Battling Substance Abuse
- 1982 Braun Labs Opens Up a New Biology
- 1982 Komen Races to Cure Breast Cancer
- 1982 Putting Geriatric Medicine on the Map
- 1983 Markey Trust Launches Biomedical Careers
- 1986 Development of the Automated DNA Sequencer
- 1986 Guinea Worm Eradication
- 1986 Health Surveys and Patient-centered Care
- 1989 Leading a Charge Against Psychiatric Disorders
- 1990 Fisher Houses Created for Families of Hospitalized Military
- 1990 Taking on the Top Cause of Preventable Death
- 1991 Aaron Diamond Foundation Unmasks HIV’s Weak Spots
- 1991 Mind-Body Links Uncovered by Templeton
- 1991 Painting a Target on Autism
- 1992 Bill Gates Helps Mass-produce DNA Arrays
- 1993 Prostate Cancer Foundation
- 1994 Stowers Institute for Medical Research
- 1994 Volunteers in Medicine
- 1997 A Crusade Against Huntington’s Disease
- 1997 Ellison Medical Foundation
- 1999 A Foundation Acts Like a Venture Capitalist, and Scores Big
- 1999 Huntsman Cancer Institute
- 1999 Immunizing the Developing World
- 1999 Linking Engineering and Medicine
- 2000 Systems Biology is Created
- 2001 9/11 Funds and Subsequent Disaster Giving
- 2002 Boosting Electronic Health Records
- 2003 Allen Institute for Brain Science
- 2003 Agitating for Faster Cures
- 2003 Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
- 2004 Medical School Infusion
- 2005 Montana Meth Project
- 2006 Applying Genomics to Pediatric Medicine
- 2006 Nothing but Nets Campaign
- 2006 Starr Foundation Builds Research Collaboratives
- 2007 Healing the Upper Midwest
- 2007 Koch Cancer Institute at MIT
- 2007 Tamping Down Childhood Obesity
- 2009 Bridging Elderly Patients from Hospital to Home
- 2010 Dental Therapy
- 2011 Malaria Vaccine
- 2011 Top Cancer Center and a Medical Empire in Houston
- 2012 Anti-cancer Encyclopedia
- 2012 Debt-free Medical Students
- 2013 Making Invisible Brain Wounds Visible
- 2013 Regenerative Medicine in San Diego
- 2013 Targeting Cancer’s Weak Spots in Oregon
- 2014 Analyzing an Archive of Tumors
- 2014 Fighting Back Against Allergies
- 2014 Fighting Cancer at Johns Hopkins
- 2014 Quick Action Against Ebola
- 2014 Shot in the Arm for Public Health
- 2015 Cornell Biomedical Engineering School
- 2015 Creative Approach to Disease Research Pays Off
- 2015 Funding the Small and the Large of Regenerative Medicine
- 2015 Putting a $250M Shine on NYC’s Hospital District
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1636 to 2014) - Education
- About this Section
- 1636 Early American Colleges
- 1643 First Fundraising Campaign
- 1704 A School for Slaves
- 1721 Endowed College Chairs
- 1731 Philadelphia Library Company
- 1780 A University Across the Woods
- 1796 Washington and Lee University
- 1805 New York Free School Society
- 1824 Rensselaer School and the Rise of Scientific Education
- 1826 Western Reserve University
- 1831 Educating the Orphaned
- 1833 A College Against Slavery
- 1843 Western Colleges, Eastern Money
- 1859 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- 1861 Matthew Vassar’s College for Women
- 1867 Peabody’s Reconstruction Schools
- 1876 Johns Hopkins University
- 1880 Bringing Teacher Education to the University
- 1881 Wharton School and Economic Education
- 1882 Great Libraries From Enoch Pratt—and Others
- 1885 Stanford University
- 1887 Gifts to Public Universities
- 1888 Toward Collegiality on Campus
- 1888 Williamson Free School for Mechanical Trades
- 1890 Opening Medical Education to Women, and Higher Standards
- 1890 University of Chicago
- 1902 General Education Board
- 1903 Professionalization of College Management
- 1905 Financial Security for Teachers
- 1907 Collaborating to Educate the Segregated
- 1909 Milton Hershey School
- 1912 George Eastman Puts M.I.T. and Rochester on the Map
- 1912 Rosenwald Schools
- 1917 Desert Educator
- 1917 Lincoln School at Columbia
- 1918 John Sterling’s Golden Bequest to Yale
- 1918 Mental Hygiene for Children
- 1921 Carnegie Enhances Legal Education
- 1923 International Education Board
- 1924 Duke University
- 1936 John Bowlby and Child Psychology
- 1944 United Negro College Fund
- 1949 Earhart Fellowships
- 1952 Area Studies Programs
- 1954 Ford Bolsters Business Education
- 1955 Ford Foundation’s Special Appropriation
- 1959 Ford Foundation Aid for Inner-city Schools
- 1959 Olmsted Scholars Program
- 1961 A Gift Teaches Donors Not to Write Blank Checks
- 1966 Carnegie Seminar on the Coleman Report
- 1968 Children’s Television Workshop
- 1974 Olin Brings Law and Economics to Campus
- 1981 Keeping Phonics in the Reading Mix
- 1981 “I Have a Dream” Scholarships
- 1982 Educational Excellence Network
- 1984 Hillsdale College Shifts to Private Funding
- 1986 Bradley Foundation Puts School Choice on the Map
- 1989 Posse Foundation
- 1990 Teach For America
- 1991 Pat Rooney and Educational Choice
- 1991 Walton Family Foundation’s Support for Charter Schools
- 1992 JSTOR Makes Good Research Accessible
- 1992 Math and Science for All
- 1992 Rowan University
- 1993 Annenberg Challenge
- 1994 Targeting First-generation College Candidates
- 1996 Home Libraries From an Entertainer
- 1997 Olin College of Engineering
- 1997 Project Lead the Way
- 1997 Revolving Funds for Building Charter Schools
- 1997 The New Teacher Project
- 1998 A World-beating School Network
- 1998 Ave Maria University
- 1998 Children’s Scholarship Fund
- 1998 Leadership and Character Education at Our Academies
- 1998 NewSchools Venture Fund
- 1999 Center for Research on Education Outcomes
- 1999 Free Tuition at Music School
- 1999 Gates Millennium Scholars
- 2000 Don Fisher Takes KIPP Nationwide
- 2000 New Leaders for New Schools
- 2001 Hewlett and Packard Families Make Stanford a Powerhouse
- 2001 Largest Gift in History to a College
- 2002 Broad Prizes
- 2002 Inspired Schooling
- 2002 Opening University Offerings to the World
- 2002 Pulling Talented Leaders into Education
- 2004 Math for America
- 2005 Charter School Growth Fund
- 2005 Helping Disadvantaged High School Students Love the Classics
- 2005 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
- 2005 University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform
- 2006 Blended Learning Schools
- 2006 New Schools for New Orleans
- 2006 The Mind Trust
- 2007 National Math and Science Initiative
- 2007 Odyssey Scholarships
- 2007 Teaching America’s History and Founding Principles
- 2008 A New Kind of Teacher College
- 2008 Booth, and Other, Schools of Business
- 2008 Houston Charter School Bloom
- 2008 Khan Academy
- 2009 Chicago Preschool Experiment
- 2009 Value-added Teaching
- 2010 A State Model for Defending Reform on Multiple Fronts
- 2010 Common Core State Standards
- 2010 Counter-balancing Protectors of the K-12 Status Quo
- 2010 Newark’s School Struggle
- 2010 Philadelphia School Partnership
- 2011 Cornell Tech
- 2012 Chopping the Price of College Textbooks
- 2012 Easy Online Learning
- 2012 Providing an International Yardstick to Measure U.S. Schools
- 2012 Silicon Schools Fund
- 2013 Boston’s No-lemons Charter Schools
- 2013 Putting a Bloomberg on the Hopkins Rose
- 2013 Rating Teacher Colleges
- 2014 New Orleans School District Goes All-charter
- 2014 Protecting NYC Charter Schools From Political Opponents
- 2014 Scholarships for Engineers
- 2015 Building Real-world Leadership In Every Student
- 2015 Doubling Wisconsin’s Endowed Chairs
- 2015 Edgy Education News
- 2015 Flexibly Incubating New Ideas at Caltech
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1805 to present) Arts & Culture
- About this Section
- 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
- 1815 Re-Founding the Library of Congress
- 1836 Preservation of Monticello
- 1842 Wadsworth Atheneum
- 1846 Smithsonian Institution
- 1860 Preservation of Mount Vernon
- 1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1874 Corcoran Gallery of Art
- 1879 Art Institute of Chicago
- 1881 Carnegie’s Libraries, and Others’
- 1895 Carnegie Cultures Pittsburgh
- 1903 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 1905 Juilliard School
- 1907 MacDowell Artist Colony
- 1909 Preserving Fort Ticonderoga
- 1912 Loeb Classical Library
- 1916 Museum of the American Indian
- 1917 Godmother of the Harlem Renaissance
- 1917 Joseph Pulitzer Celebrates Letters and Arts
- 1919 Frick Collection
- 1919 Huntington Library
- 1921 America’s First Modern Art Museum
- 1921 Eastman School of Music
- 1923 West by Northeast to the Frederic Remington Art Museum
- 1924 Morgan Library
- 1925 Barnes Collection
- 1926 George Eastman Debuts Martha Graham
- 1926 Spencer and Katrina Trask’s Yaddo
- 1927 Revival of Colonial Williamsburg
- 1929 Black Creativity and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
- 1929 Museum of Modern Art
- 1929 Preservation of Mystic Seaport
- 1929 Samuel Kress Sprinkles Great Art Across America
- 1930 Saving George Washington’s Birthplace
- 1931 Severance Hall
- 1932 Folger Shakespeare Library
- 1933 Bringing the Science Museum to America
- 1933 Saving Negro Spirituals
- 1934 Centuries of Art Shown for Charity in Baltimore
- 1936 Creating a Cultural Village
- 1937 Andrew Mellon and the National Gallery of Art
- 1937 The Guggenheim
- 1938 The Cloisters
- 1940 Rare Books Made Accessible by Berg and Rosenwald
- 1940 Tex Met: Broadcasting the Metropolitan Opera
- 1940 Historic Hudson Valley
- 1943 Taming Western Art
- 1946 Old Sturbridge Village; Plimoth Plantation
- 1948 New York City Ballet
- 1949 Aspen Music Festival and School
- 1951 Corning Museum of Glass
- 1951 Ford and Carnegie Create Public Broadcasting
- 1953 Cultural Kingmaker at the Ford Foundation
- 1954 Columbus Discovers Modern Architecture
- 1954 Getty Museum
- 1956 To Create a Mockingbird
- 1957 Hidden Gems: Community Museums
- 1961 Revival of New Orleans Jazz
- 1962 Creating, and Re-creating, Lincoln Center
- 1962 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
- 1964 Saving Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpieces
- 1966 A Delicious Collection Donated by Campbell
- 1966 Avery Brundage Brings Asian Art to the U.S.
- 1966 Ima Hogg and the Houston Arts Scene
- 1966 Preservation of Olana
- 1968 Business Committee for the Arts
- 1968 New York Music and the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
- 1971 Masterpiece Theatre
- 1971 Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
- 1972 Worthy Art at the Kimbell Museum
- 1973 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
- 1974 Hirshhorn Museum of Contemporary Art
- 1977 Spoleto Festival USA
- 1981 Sundance Institute
- 1981 YoungArts
- 1982 The New Criterion
- 1982 Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
- 1984 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- 1987 A New Generation Discovers Jazz at Lincoln Center
- 1987 Moses Asch and American Folk Music
- 1987 National Museum of Women in the Arts
- 1990 Carnegie Hall is Rescued, and Reoriented
- 1991 $1 Billion Annenberg Art Collection Donated to the Metropolitan Museum
- 1993 Saving the Joffrey Ballet
- 1994 Knight Foundation Experiments in Saving Orchestras
- 1995 Preservation of Copland House
- 1999 $60 Million for San Diego Art
- 1999 Ira Fulton Feeds the Digital Imagination
- 2000 See the Good TV
- 2001 Doris Duke Foundation Invests in New Artists
- 2002 Ruth Lilly, Patroness of Poetry
- 2003 Driehaus Prize in Architecture
- 2005 Classical Music Popularized in San Francisco
- 2006 A Broad Infusion of Modern Art in Los Angeles
- 2008 Lincoln’s Cottage
- 2009 History Philanthropy
- 2011 Archimedes Palimpsest
- 2011 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
- 2012 Saving Consecrated Ground
- 2012 A Private Performance Hall
- 2012 A Revolutionary Museum Challenge
- 2012 Kickstarter Exceeds the NEA in Arts Funding
- 2013 An Art Donation Cubed
- 2013 Boosting Traditional Architecture
- 2013 Space for Arts Education
- 2014 Art for the West
- 2014 Foundations Rescue Detroit’s Accumulated Art
- 2014 Last of the Mellon Pictures
- 2014 Making an Impressionism on Denver
- 2015 A Nonpareil Book Collection
- 2015 Art of Native America to Indiana
- 2015 Stringing Houston’s Art Pearls
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1856 to present) - Nature, Animals, & Parks
- About this Section
- 1856 Henry Shaw’s St. Louis Parks
- 1866 ASPCA Births the Animal Welfare Movement
- 1876 Appalachian Mountain Club
- 1890 Trustees of Reservations
- 1892 From Snowy Egrets to Jungle Gardens
- 1903 Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- 1906 Pierre du Pont Creates Longwood Gardens
- 1907 Grand Canyon of the East
- 1908 Muir Woods National Monument
- 1911 Camel’s Hump State Park
- 1916 Stephen Mather Builds the National Park Service
- 1919 Acadia National Park
- 1928 Great Smoky Mountains
- 1930 Hunter-led Wildlife Recoveries
- 1930 Mount Katahdin and Baxter State Park
- 1930 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 1934 Hawk Mountain
- 1937 Appalachian Trail
- 1947 Mellon Parklands
- 1949 Cementing Grand Teton National Park
- 1950 Bernheim Arboretum
- 1951 John Olin Launches Scientific Game Management
- 1951 The Nature Conservancy
- 1954 Humane Society of the United States
- 1956 Virgin Islands National Park
- 1958 Kentucky’s Floracliff
- 1963 Henry Doorly Zoo
- 1969 Francis Beidler Forest Sanctuary
- 1970 Ordway Prairie Preserves
- 1971 Saving the Winged Cheetah
- 1972 Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- 1976 Yawkey Wildife Center
- 1978 Citizen-led Bluebird Recovery
- 1978 Early Use of Conservation Easements in Montana
- 1980 Central Park Conservancy
- 1980 Free Market Environmentalism
- 1982 Land Trusts Take Off
- 1983 Improving Water Quality with Market Incentives
- 1984 Monterey Bay Aquarium
- 1987 Kohlers Fly to the Aid of Endangered Swans and Cranes
- 1987 Using Economic Incentives to Sustain Predators
- 1988 American Land Conservation Program
- 1989 Atlanta Botanical Garden Fuqua Centers
- 1989 Reviving the Bison by Eating It
- 1990 Andorra Forest
- 1990 Civil War Land Purchases
- 1991 Fort Worth Zoo
- 1992 A National Park for Vermont
- 1992 Disney Wilderness Preserve
- 1994 Fred Meijer and Rails-to-Trails
- 1995 Arc of Appalachia Preserves
- 1995 Kentucky’s Largest Old-growth Forest
- 1995 Swift Fox Revival
- 1999 Creation of the High Line
- 1999 Gorges State Park
- 1999 Rose Center for Earth and Space
- 2000 Paying for Lynx Habitat at Loomis Forest
- 2000 T-Rex Cliffhanger
- 2003 Saving Fisheries Through Catch Sharing
- 2004 Donor-created Public Parks in Louisville
- 2005 A Noah’s Ark in the Sunshine State
- 2005 Acres Across America
- 2005 Great Rivers Partnership
- 2005 Maine North Woods
- 2005 World’s Largest Aquarium
- 2005 Yosemite Falls Restoration
- 2007 Dinosaur Hall at the Museum of the Rockies
- 2007 Garden in a Quarry
- 2007 Largest Park in Chester County, at No Public Cost
- 2007 Transforming Parks in Memphis, Atlanta, and Beyond
- 2007 Trust for the National Mall
- 2008 Saving America’s Mustangs
- 2010 Putting the Bayou Back in Bayou City
- 2012 A Park on the Freeway
- 2012 Rolling Restoration of Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
- 2013 Carving Out New Urban Oases
- 2013 High-adventure Haven for Boys
- 2013 Largest Cash Gift to National Parks
- 2013 Lufkin Prize
- 2014 $350 Million for a City Park in Tulsa
- 2014 A Park on the Water
- 2014 Natural History Education
- 2015 A Golden Age for Parks
- 2015 Healing Horned Owls and Breeding Bugs
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1657 to present) - Prosperity
- About this Section
- 1657 The Continent’s First Ethnic Charity
- 1727 Franklin’s Network for Good
- 1743 Ben Franklin Advances Learning
- 1770 Charity for State-side Britons
- 1776 Financing our Revolution
- 1785 Manumission in New York
- 1797 A Charity By Women for Women
- 1799 Fighting Ships by Subscription
- 1801 Serving Elderly Sailors in America’s First Secular Charity
- 1806 An Orphanage for New York
- 1812 A Privately Won War
- 1819 A Bank for Modest-income Workers
- 1825 A Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents
- 1829 Educating the Blind
- 1837 Building the Underground Railway
- 1837 Initiating Black Colleges
- 1841 Purifying the Air of American Business
- 1842 Fraternal Lodges Supply Health Benefits
- 1843 Fighting Poverty in a Personal Way
- 1853 Connecting Orphans to Families
- 1856 Education for the Deaf
- 1861 Sanitary Commission Saves Lives in the Civil War
- 1865 Private Donations to Settle Freed Slaves
- 1868 Voluntary Organizations Pioneer Life Insurance
- 1877 Steering the U.S. Between Dependence and Neglect
- 1881 Creation of the American Red Cross
- 1881 Rescuing Refugees
- 1889 Settling the Poor
- 1892 Millions of Lives Saved by Pasteurized Milk
- 1899 Pioneering Worker Bonuses and Profit-sharing
- 1907 Creating Business Philanthropy
- 1907 Sage Social Science
- 1908 Franklin Institute of Technology
- 1910 Scouting Improves Boys and Girls
- 1914 The Community Foundation
- 1915 Birth of cryptology
- 1918 Andrew Carnegie Popularizes Pensions
- 1919 Speeding Flight
- 1920 Economic Research
- 1925 Enabling Aeronautics and Commercial Aviation
- 1925 Reversing the Rhodes Scholarship
- 1928 200-inch Telescope
- 1930 Launching Rocketry
- 1932 Making Books Talk for the Blind
- 1933 Inventing Molecular Biology
- 1933 Saving European Intellectuals
- 1936 Building Up the Boys Clubs
- 1940 Loomis Laboratory Creates Radar
- 1948 Counting, and Comforting, Disadvantaged Children
- 1952 Highway Safety Breakthrough
- 1955 Artificial Intelligence
- 1957 Science for the Nation in Time of Need
- 1958 Saving Traditional City Neighborhoods
- 1960 Cultivating Community Colleges
- 1967 Marriage Encounter
- 1975 Addicts Support Themselves in Group Living
- 1975 Settling a Million Vietnamese Refugees
- 1983 Turning Addicts Into Workers
- 1984 Job Training for Hard Cases
- 1985 Helping Immigrant Families Flourish
- 1985 Keck Observatory
- 1985 Training the Homeless to Do for Themselves
- 1987 Guiding Poor Kids to Business
- 1988 Fighting Poverty With Data
- 1989 Funding a Harlem Rebound
- 1989 Homes for Philly’s Homeless
- 1990 Advancing the Science of Business-building
- 1991 Beating Homelessness in Chicago
- 1993 Improving Public Understanding of Technology
- 1994 Financial Services for Low-income Workers
- 1994 Fostering Complex Math and Science
- 1996 Advancing Work as a Cure to Poverty
- 1996 Launch of Non-governmental Space Transport
- 1997 Finding Techniques That Strengthen Families
- 1997 Jobs for People With Impediments
- 1997 Violence-free Zones
- 1998 Reinforcing Vocational Education
- 2000 Lifting Risky Cases Into the Work Force
- 2000 Sending Diamonds in the Rough to College
- 2001 Battling Poverty via Family Support and Economic Incentives
- 2002 Building Basic Science
- 2003 World’s Most Powerful Telescope
- 2005 Nutrition Research Hub in North Carolina
- 2006 Clearing Minefields for Peanuts
- 2006 Creating an Ecosystem of Aid for Servicemembers
- 2006 Helping People Who Are Ready to Change
- 2006 Sanford Underground Research Facility
- 2007 Strengthening Character Through Sports
- 2008 Science Prizes and Research Institutes
- 2009 Helping Community-college Students Complete Degrees
- 2011 Venture For America
- 2012 Mapping Killer Asteroids
- 2012 Pay-for-Performance Social Investing
- 2012 Skilled Jobs and Vets, Brought Together
- 2012 Speeding Safe Shale-gas Production
- 2013 Betting on Cross-fertilization
- 2014 Allen Invents New Methods for New Science Puzzles
- 2014 Computing Promoted to the Major League of Scientific Prizes
- 2014 Supporting Drug Discovery as an Economic Engine
- 2015 Engineering Improvements at Harvard
- 2015 Jailing Efficiently—and Less Often
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1681-present) - Religion
- About this Section
- 1681 Quaker Prison Reform
- 1727 Ursuline School, Hospital, and Orphanage in New Orleans
- 1740 A Great Awakening of Mass Philanthropy
- 1763 A Shrine to Religious Liberty
- 1768 California’s Missions
- 1770 Benezet and the Quakers Aid the Forgotten
- 1792 Sunday Schools Spread Literacy and Constructive Behavior
- 1801 Charleston’s Hebrew Orphan Society
- 1801 Rebecca Gratz
- 1804 Building Evangelicalism
- 1807 Andover Theological Seminary
- 1809 Bible Societies
- 1809 Catholic Schools Launched by the Sisters of Charity
- 1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- 1816 American Colonization Society
- 1827 Evangelical Do-gooding by the Tappan Brothers
- 1842 Religious Colleges Come (and Go) in Waves
- 1845 Society of St. Vincent de Paul
- 1849 Perpetual Emigration Fund
- 1851 YMCA Comes to America
- 1854 Jewish Community Centers
- 1854 Judah Touro, Friend to Religion
- 1861 United States Christian Commission in the Civil War
- 1864 Baptist Colleges Bolstered by Rockefeller
- 1873 Temperance Movement
- 1874 Spiritual Growth On Chautauqua Lake
- 1876 Seventh-day Adventists Create Health Food
- 1880 Salvation Army Marches to America
- 1884 Expansion of Catholic Schooling
- 1884 Jacob Schiff’s Philanthropy
- 1889 Nettie McCormick Bolsters Religious Schools
- 1891 Katharine Drexel Devotes Her Fortune to Indians and Blacks
- 1892 Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- 1900 A Cookbook Helps Americanize Jews
- 1902 Andrew Carnegie, Organ Donor
- 1905 Goodwill Industries
- 1908 Getting the Word Out
- 1910 Catholic Charities
- 1911 Making Group Homes Work
- 1915 Early Fundraising for Endangered Jews
- 1917 American Friends Service Committee
- 1922 Junior Rockefeller Promotes Liberal Protestantism
- 1924 James Duke and the Methodist Church
- 1928 Pershing and the National Cathedral
- 1929 Capuchin Soup Kitchen
- 1933 Catholic Worker Movement
- 1936 LDS Welfare System
- 1937 Lilly Endowment
- 1938 Sealantic Fund
- 1939 Jewish Federations of North America
- 1941 Young Life
- 1943 Catholic Relief Services and the Raskob Family
- 1947 Weyerhaeuser’s Stewardship Foundation
- 1950 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
- 1950 World Vision
- 1951 Religious Fellowship on Campus
- 1952 Giant Mainz Bible
- 1954 Fellowship of Christian Athletes
- 1956 Pew Builds the Evangelical Parachurch
- 1966 Saving Addicts, and Other Faith-based Social Work
- 1968 Covenant House
- 1968 Pregnancy Resource Centers
- 1970 Samaritan’s Purse
- 1972 Templeton Prize
- 1973 North American Islamic Trust
- 1976 Christian Study Centers on Campuses
- 1976 Habitat for Humanity
- 1976 Prison Fellowship
- 1978 Michael Novak Synthesizes Catholicism and Capitalism
- 1981 Healthcare-sharing Ministries
- 1981 Institute on Religion & Democracy
- 1982 National Christian Foundation
- 1984 Leadership Network Helps Build Megachurches
- 1985 LDS Charities
- 1986 Sponsoring Low-income Children in Catholic Schools
- 1988 Ralph Beeson’s Orthodox Philanthropy
- 1988 StepUp Ministry Encourages Work
- 1990 MANNA from Heaven
- 1990 Milken Archive of Jewish Music
- 1990 Synthesizing Religion and Democratic Capitalism
- 1991 Sisters of Life
- 1992 Tikvah Fund
- 1993 Alliance for Catholic Education
- 1993 Bolstering Lutheran Tradition
- 1996 Rebuilding Christianity Behind the Iron Curtain
- 1999 Birthright Israel
- 1999 Jubilee Schools
- 2000 Generous Giving
- 2000 Melding Work and High School via Cristo Rey
- 2001 LDS Perpetual Education Fund
- 2002 Christian Union
- 2002 Faith Angle Forum
- 2002 Reconciliation and Economic Progress
- 2004 Boston Jewish Day Schools
- 2005 Moving Unprotected Children into Forever Families
- 2006 Creating More, and Better, Foster Families
- 2007 Giving It All
- 2008 Encouraging Muslim Giving
- 2008 Last Languages for Bible Translation
- 2008 New Leaders for Catholic Schools
- 2011 An Illuminated Bible for the Computer Age
- 2011 Green Collection
- 2014 Polin Museum
- 2015 A Fund to Seed New Catholic Schools
- 2015 A Record for Catholic-school Scholarships
- 2015 Museum of the Bible
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1833 to 2014) - Public-Policy Reform
- About this Section
- 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society
- 1841 Amistad Decision
- 1846 American Missionary Association
- 1848 Adding Active Resistance to Abolitionism
- 1892 John Muir Guides the Sierra Club to Activism
- 1895 Jane Addams Pushes Social Reform
- 1902 Rockefeller Sends the South to High School
- 1903 Booker T. Washington’s Secret Litigation Donations
- 1910 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- 1911 Mothers’ Pensions
- 1916 Brookings Institution
- 1919 Hoover Institution
- 1919 Private Scholarly Institutes to Guide Government
- 1921 Building the ACLU
- 1936 Laying the Intellectual Foundation for Racial Equality
- 1946 RAND Corporation
- 1946 Rockefeller Keeps the U.N. in U.S.
- 1947 Volker Bolsters Economic Liberty
- 1950 Philanthropists vs. Communism
- 1952 Rockefeller III Births the Population Council
- 1954 AEI Guards Free Enterprise
- 1957 Spawning Birth Control
- 1958 Pastor Robinson Blazes a Path for the Peace Corps
- 1959 Law School Clinics Institutionalize Political Activism
- 1960 Pierre Goodrich and the Liberty Fund
- 1960 Putting Bail on a Scientific Footing
- 1962 Disarmament Lobbies
- 1964 A Report Card for Schools
- 1964 Buffett Billions for Abortion
- 1965 Making a Case for Government Arts Spending
- 1966 Ford Invents Advocacy Philanthropy
- 1967 Race-rights Lawsuits
- 1968 Carnegie Pushes a “G.I. Bill” for the Poor
- 1969 Ethnic-rights Lawsuits
- 1970 An Explosion of Giving for Gay Advocacy
- 1970 Environmental Lawsuits
- 1972 Feminist Flurry From the Ford Foundation
- 1972 Joe Coors Brews Up the Heritage Foundation
- 1973 Filer Commission Defends Private Giving
- 1974 Linking Law and Economics
- 1976 A Donor-advised Fund for Liberal Policy Reform
- 1977 Improving Ideological Diversity Among Reporters
- 1977 Rise of the Cato Institute
- 1978 A Popular Tax Revolt
- 1978 MacArthur’s Money Moves Left
- 1978 Questioning Statism in Manhattan and Elsewhere
- 1980 Austrian Economics Along the Potomac
- 1980 Human Rights Campaign
- 1980 Mothers Against Drunk Driving
- 1980 Putting Milton Friedman on PBS
- 1980 Starting the Presses for Conservative Student Journalists
- 1981 Give Peace a Grant
- 1981 New Efforts to Open Minds on Campus
- 1982 Birth of the Federalist Society
- 1984 Koch Brothers Take Up Advocacy
- 1984 Religion in Public Life
- 1985 Minting New Democrats
- 1986 ACLU LGBT Project
- 1986 Creating State Think Tanks
- 1986 Organizing School Choice
- 1986 Sparking Welfare Reform
- 1988 A Think Tank for Family Reinforcement
- 1988 Pew Warms to Climate Change
- 1989 New Approach to Race Discrimination
- 1991 Backscratching Philanthropy Sows Havoc
- 1991 Campaigning Against Tobacco
- 1991 Energy Foundation
- 1991 Institute for Justice
- 1993 Scuttling HillaryCare with Faxed Memos
- 1994 A New Way to Fight Crime
- 1994 Dick Weekley Trims Lawsuits in Texas
- 1994 Soros Declares War on the War on Drugs
- 1994 Tim Gill Puts Big Money Into Gay Rights
- 1994 Tug-of-war Over Campaign Finance
- 1997 Nudging Congress By Funding School Choice in DC
- 1998 Moving On to Internet Politics
- 1999 A Donor-advised Fund for Conservative Policy Reform
- 2000 Open Society Opens Door to Gay Marriage
- 2003 Remaking the Think Tank Into Political War Room
- 2004 Skoll Pioneers “Filmanthropy”
- 2005 Democracy Alliance
- 2006 Intelligence Squared Debates
- 2006 Nudging States Left
- 2006 Stryker Roils Michigan Politics
- 2007 Designed to Win Climate-policy Fights
- 2007 ED in ’08
- 2008 Advocating for Generational Fairness in Fiscal Policy
- 2008 Cause-oriented Journalism
- 2008 Painting Colorado Bluer
- 2009 Refocusing Governance in Wisconsin
- 2010 $27 Million to Pass Obamacare
- 2010 A New Top Dog in Public-policy Funding
- 2010 Exposing Top Students to the Classics
- 2010 Fracking Gets Drilled
- 2010 Painting North Carolina Redder
- 2011 Avoiding Meltdowns of Public Pensions
- 2011 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
- 2011 Koch Programs for Students
- 2013 A Bit of Diversity in the Faculty Lounge
- 2013 Supreme Assistance
- 2014 $50 Million for Gun Control
- 2014 A $250 Million Media Experiment
- 2014 Boosting Policy Instruction at U. Chicago
- 2014 Helping Transitions to Freedom
- 2014 Keeping the Lights on in Detroit
- 2014 Suing for Reform
- 2015 Building U.S. Interest In Israel
- 2015 Gestating an Iran Deal
- 2015 Independence Project for Veterans
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1810-2015) - Overseas
- About this Section
- 1810 A Board to Fund American Missionaries
- 1820 Pioneer Missions to Hawaii
- 1821 Support for Greek Independence
- 1847 Responding to the Great Famine of Ireland
- 1862 Peabody Battles London Slums
- 1863 American Colleges Abroad
- 1864 First Modern College in China
- 1873 Father Damien Redeems the Lepers of Hawaii
- 1901 Carnegie Bolsters Scottish Universities
- 1901 Missions to the Philippines
- 1913 Building a Palace for Peace
- 1913 Rockefeller Pioneers Public Health in Foreign Lands
- 1914 Birthing Modern Medicine in China
- 1914 Rescuing Jews Amid World War
- 1915 Aiding Armenians After Genocide
- 1919 Inventing International Exchange Programs
- 1928 Aluminum-clad Asian Education
- 1943 Green Revolution
- 1944 Heifer International
- 1956 A Life Serving the Poor in Haiti
- 1962 Averting Millions of Deaths by Starvation
- 1962 Ford Boosts Market Democracy in Latin America
- 1974 New Urgency Against Tropical Diseases
- 1976 Ford Launches Microfinance
- 1982 Turning Peasants Into Landowners
- 1984 Archaeology Goes Donor-funded
- 1984 Opening Former Communist Societies
- 1985 Eradicating Polio
- 1986 Mobilizing African Aid
- 1987 Donating Drugs to Stop Dreadful Diseases
- 1987 Partners in Health
- 1989 A Cool Billion After Armenia’s Earthquake
- 1989 Reinventing Development Economics
- 1991 Central European University
- 1993 Saving Bosnians and Serbs
- 1994 Massive Gifts to Global Health from the Gates Family
- 1996 Fair Standards to Fuel Trade
- 1999 Sustainable Energy in China
- 2000 Bolstering African Universities
- 2000 Building Civil Society After Communism
- 2000 Gates Cambridge Scholarships
- 2000 Gordon Moore’s Andes-Amazon Initiative
- 2001 Accelerating Microfinance
- 2001 Clean Water Thanks to Coke
- 2001 Ford’s International Fellows
- 2003 Private Schools in Poor Countries
- 2006 Extending the Green Revolution to Africa
- 2006 Soros Overseas Spending
- 2007 A People’s Bank in Rwanda
- 2007 Bloomberg Campaign Against Tobacco
- 2007 Bolstering Property Rights
- 2007 Road Safety in Poor Countries
- 2009 Robertson Adopts New Zealand
- 2010 American Missionaries
- 2010 Giving Pledge Spreads Philanthropy Abroad
- 2010 Preempting Nuclear Enrichment
- 2010 Promoting Good Government Abroad
- 2010 Radios Against Genocide
- 2011 Collaborating for a Bigger Bang
- 2011 Mobile Payments in Poor Countries
- 2012 Clean Water to Drink
- 2013 Overseas Giving by U.S. Churchgoers
- 2014 A Chinese Rhodes Scholarship
- 2014 Bolstering Science in Israel
- 2014 Boosting Art in Hong Kong
- 2014 Preserving Jewish History In Tel Aviv and Venice
- 2015 Gates Doubles Spending Against Hunger
- 2015 Global Studies at Northwestern
- Major Achievements of American Philanthropy (1887 to 2014) - Local Projects
- About this Section
- 1887 Kamehameha Schools (Hawaii)
- 1909 Grandaddy of Charity Marathons (Massachusetts)
- 1914 World’s First Community Foundation (Cleveland)
- 1924 Duke of the Carolinas (North and South Carolina)
- 1931 Marquee Donors of Lafayette (Pennsylvania and New Jersey)
- 1937 Lilly Builds Civil Society (Indiana)
- 1940 A Forester Sprouts Research (Oregon)
- 1945 Soil Steward (Oklahoma)
- 1948 A Gonzo Memorial to Crazy Horse (South Dakota)
- 1950 Old Salem (Winston-Salem)
- 1951 Morehead, Cain, and Levine Mint Scholars (North Carolina)
- 1954 Elevating Home City and State (Louisville)
- 1982 Gabriel Homes (Virginia)
- 1986 From State to Local (Minnesota)
- 1987 Financial Literacy for Young Americans (Colorado)
- 1987 Matching Local Health-care Solutions (49 states)
- 1991 Youth Entrepreneurs (Kansas and Missouri)
- 1993 Adopting a Whole Neighborhood (Tangelo Park)
- 1993 Transforming His City’s Worst Neighborhood (Atlanta)
- 1994 FareStart (Seattle)
- 1995 Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park (Grand Rapids)
- 1996 A Donor-assisted Urban Turnaround (New York City)
- 1996 Pritzker Prizes (Chicago)
- 1996 Reclaiming a City (Hartford)
- 1997 Bubble-Up Economics (Texas)
- 1997 Health Care for the Needy (Orlando)
- 1998 Banking on the Palmetto State (South Carolina)
- 2000 Largest Gift for Literacy (Mississippi)
- 2001 Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville)
- 2001 New Museum for New South (Charlotte)
- 2001 Respectable Education (Las Vegas)
- 2002 Charitable Food Distribution Initiative (Nevada, Oklahoma, Arkansas)
- 2003 Decentralized Giving at El Pomar (Colorado)
- 2003 Entrepreneurs Adopt Classes (District of Columbia)
- 2003 Video Medicine in the Desert (New Mexico)
- 2003 Winged History (Virginia)
- 2004 Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention (Gainesville)
- 2005 Entrepreneur High (Providence and Newport)
- 2005 New Music in Mizzou (Missouri)
- 2006 Boosting Boy Scout Councils (Phoenix, Lebanon, Parkersburg)
- 2006 Taking the Ache Out of Bush Life (Alaska)
- 2007 Outdoor Therapy (Bozeman)
- 2009 ArtPrize (Michigan)
- 2010 Aviation School (Grand Rapids)
- 2011 Brisk Disaster Relief (Alabama and Missouri)
- 2011 Loans with Integrity (Lancaster County)
- 2012 Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival (Auburn)
- 2012 Gates Pushes Schools to Cooperate (Boston, Denver, Hartford, Philadelphia, etc.)
- 2012 Polishing Jewels of Columbus (Ohio)
- 2013 Remembering the Outer Boroughs (New York City)
- 2014 An Art Trove for the Hometown (St. Louis)
- 2014 California Techies Find Philanthropy (Silicon Valley)
- 2015 Safety and a New Life for Women in Crisis (Dallas-Fort Worth)
- ESSENTIAL BOOKS & ARTICLES ON PHILANTHROPY
- Preface
- Strategies for Giving
- Case Studies and the History of U.S. Giving
- Biographies of Some Great Donors
- Philanthropy and the American Character
- Pursuing Philanthropy Like a Business
- The Role of Moral Issues in Charitable Success
- The Power of Grassroots Civil Society
- Charity in Literature
- The Special Case of Corporate Philanthropy
- Respecting the Intentions of Donors
- In Defense of Private Giving
- Results of an Original 2015 National Poll
- Results of an Original 2015 National Poll
- Statistics on US Generosity
- Statistics
- Who Gives Most to Charity?
- Who Gives Most to Charity?
- Why is Charitable Activity Tax-Protected? (Think Freedom, Not Finances)
- Why is Charitable Activity Tax-Protected? (Think Freedom, Not Finances)
- TIMELINE of AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY 1636-2015