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In the years before Brown v. Board, a philanthropic fund hoped research and data would turn the tide on attitudes toward segregation.

Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.

The origins and legacy of a research project conducted in the American concentration camps for Japanese Americans.

In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment.

Against a backdrop of white, establishment concepts of literary excellence, one foundation struggled to appreciate Black voices.

A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.

When a friendly interaction unexpectedly emerged between American and Chinese table tennis players, one nonprofit seized the opportunity to support broader cultural diplomacy.

In the aftermath, Foundation staff struggled to rectify their organization’s involvement with this weapon of mass destruction.

What might appear to be a simple publication project came to fruition only after a decade of political upheaval, cultural repression, war, and Rockefeller Foundation support.

Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.

As the scarcity of global resources became increasingly worrisome in the 20th century, these organizations more boldly approached work in population and family planning.

A foundation set on eradicating mosquito-born diseases had to accept that disease control was good enough.