Rockefeller Foundation

museum devoted to contemporary art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller(wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.) and two of her friends, Lillie P. Bliss and Quinn Sullivan Lillie P. Bliss is one of the leading collectors of modern art in New York. Mary Quinn Sullivan is a pioneer modern art collector. They all felt a need to challenge the traditional policies of museums and to make a foundation devoted exclusively to modern art. Abigail Greene "Abby" Aldrich Rockefeller was born on October 26, 1874. She is an…

amongst the aristocracy through illegal means. Men like John D. Rockefeller became philanthropists and they created foundations to help reverse this kind of bad publicity. They also got useful tax breaks. Foundations would allow robber barons to do the work governments couldn’t or wouldn’t do in areas like sanitation and transportation, healthcare, and especially education. The Influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations on American Foreign Policy, Edward H. Berman argues that…

Large scale industry boomed in the late 19th century as a result of the growing urbanization and immigration of the expanding metropolises of America. Historians often refer to this period of time as the “Gilded Age” from a Mark Twain novel of the same name with details of a time with growing societal problems with a light golden surface. While the industry provided many jobs for the American workforce, the employers handed these jobs to immigrants and other minority groups for extensive work…

for the company to profit and monopolizing his industry and in 1901, J.P Morgan gained Carnegie Steel and built U.S Steel. In his time Andrew Carnegie came to represent the entire steel-making complex of men and decisions just like how John D. Rockefeller personified Standard Oil . Of course despite the role these influential individuals played into contributing to the development to the American culture, people would attack big business men like these two corporate owners not for…

help of Andrew. Libraries weren’t the only way that Carnegie gave back, he gave back to charitable foundations and institutions and universities were opened because of him. Carnegie wouldn’t have been able to give back as he did without the wealth that he had, and he obtained that wealth through free enterprise and beating the competition. Along with Andrew giving back so did his rival, J.D. Rockefeller. Andrew’s beliefs that those of great wealth are responsible socially to give back were put…

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research is a private operating foundation. It was founded in 1941 with two million US dollars in Electrolux and Servell stock with an original mission to promote “research, educational, technical and scientific work.” However, it rapidly became clear that the endowment was too small to compete with major foundations such as Ford or Rockefeller and its focus shifted to the then nascent field of anthropology. The founders’ original justification…

100 million Americans gave more than $2.5 billion dollars per year for philanthropic causes during 1928. These numbers increased from $1.75 billion in 1921 to $2 billion in 1924 (Bremner 133). Charity giving through federated programs, community foundations, churches, and workplaces encouraged American families to budget for charitable giving, which gave America an everlasting philanthropic imprint. Donating money turned into “a routine part of American Life” (Zunz…

Langston University Biology professor Gnanambal ( Charmaine) Naidoo spent seven weeks during the summer in South Africa as a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow. Dr. Naidoo collaborated with Professor Mark Laing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg. Dr. Naidoo reviewed the both the undergraduate and graduate Plant Pathology curriculum and the laboratory exercises. She also mentored graduate students and postdocs and presented seminars at two locations of the host institution.…

Born Losers by Scott A. Sandage is a book that tells about the lives of American men who were so called “losers.” He focuses on the failure of the United States in the nineteenth century and how America moved from a cultivated society to an industrial society. Sandage tells a story about how this switch was painful for some Americans. He referred to the growth of things as big as Standard Oil and he also referred to America’s railroad. Sandage also focused in on what this growth predicted for…

It doesn't take much to notice all the madness going on in the world in today's times. Every magazine, television or website has carnage and destruction on it. It makes you question if genuinely good people still exist anymore or if everyone is out to get every one else. Humanity is pretty cruel but luckily not everyone is out to drag someone else down, and there are people who are trying to do good for fellow man. Thor Halvorssen is a human rights activist from Venezuela who is trying to…