Topic: Education & Knowledge

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Refugee Scholar Program
Saving scholars threatened by Nazis was not easy, but choosing which ones to save was even more difficult.

1930s
1940s
World War II & the Rockefeller Foundation
Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.



1920s
1930s
Philanthropy and Oceanography: An Episode in Field-Building
Funding on levels large and small helped this new area of scientific research grow and evolve.