Topic: Institution Building

Rockefeller Foundation agriculture programs begun in Mexico achieved global reach through four major research institutes. Building them was the result of partnership.

In the early 20th century, the General Education Board was devoted to the cause of improving education throughout the United States, without distinction of race, sex, or creed.

Two decades of funding helped legitimize the study of psychiatry as a medical issue, not a problem of character.

India was not the first country to take up the new seeds and methods developed by the Rockefeller Foundation, but the story of India’s adoption of them in the 1960s is dramatic.

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.

An innovative nursing program gathered crucial data and brought healthcare to needy families, but ultimately lost its way.

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

In honor of Women’s History Month, we highlight thirteen individuals from our collections to show the range of contributions women have made in the field of philanthropy and in the world at large.

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

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