Barbara Shubinski

The Rockefeller Foundation’s first intensive agriculture endeavor is now credited with launching the global transformation known as the “Green Revolution.”

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

Using new technology to save threatened world resources and keep free inquiry alive under threat of fascist destruction.

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

Key points in the history of American foundations’ engagement with public health.

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

Applying a vast fortune to the American race problem, but with decades of false assumptions and well-intended approaches that fell short.

A hundred years ago, hookworm disease was an epidemic across the US South. Northern philanthropy tried to help.

Century-old tips to prevent infection still make sense today.

Philanthropy helped carve out a public space for the expression of race, culture, and critical perspectives.