Topic: Changing Political Contexts

The People’s Institute and the Ukrainian Needlecraft Guild offer a lens through which to examine the entanglement of Progressive Era reform, immigration, labor, and early twentieth-century philanthropy.

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.

Ireland’s independence revived the nationalist campaign for mandatory Irish language. The debate discouraged Rockefeller Foundation funders.

Launched in the 1960s, this program provided financial support for more than two decades to strengthen universities in the Global South.

Encouraging cross-cultural knowledge in an interconnected postwar world by shaping new interdisciplinary programs and retooling traditional academic fields.

A foundation-supported publication challenged McCarthyism and caused a controversy.

Foundation policy toward reconstruction was shaped by uncertainty over Europe’s — and in particular Germany’s — future

Saving scholars threatened by Nazis was not easy, but choosing which ones to save was even more difficult.

Saving threatened scholars and confronting a dramatically changed world.

When the restrictive military regime that had taken power in Brazil in 1964 became even more repressive by 1969, staffers at the Ford Foundation found themselves facing a conundrum.