Topic: Resource Use

From demonstration farms launched when farming was still unmechanized to confronting climate change in the twenty-first century, American philanthropy has played a key role in shaping and supporting efforts to lift rural communities out of poverty through agriculture.

A short-lived environmental research program in the 1970s was an early foray into climate change funding.

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