Topic: Environment

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

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

Funding on levels large and small helped this new area of scientific research grow and evolve.

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

An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.

Who defines the public good? The showdown caused when a wealthy philanthropist bought land and tried to give it to the American people.

Environmental education was once an unusual idea. The Audubon Society changed that and became the household name it is today.

One small grant gave enduring voice to one of the most famous critiques of postwar urban renewal, while another huge grant went to an opposing cause.