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Grant makers and grantees cooperated to craft a unique program in dance.

The American public broadcast system as it exists today came out of years of work by organized philanthropy.

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

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller’s passion for modern art influenced her children, especially her son Nelson Rockefeller, and continues to reach the public through the museum she co-founded.

How a foundation provided the final ingredient to an era-defining novel.

Supporting American writers and the journals that publish their work.

The Downtown Lower Manhattan Association records include rarely-viewed photographs, drawings, maps, brochures, and other papers that document the design and construction of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, built between 1966 and 1975.

One foundation’s program in Mexico created the blueprint for ending hunger worldwide.

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

The nation’s parks, perhaps our most remarkable public resource, have a history of development through private giving.

Battling hookworm on rural farms laid the groundwork for a global public health system.

Philanthropy helped architects and planners create a new kind of suburban community in the 1920s.