Topic: Self-Sustaining Initiatives
![Red Cross Nurses at Riverside Theater in 1918.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/93131588_MCNY_Display_Story-500x500.jpg)
Success and Failure in Community-Based Healthcare: The East Harlem Health Center
An innovative nursing program gathered crucial data and brought healthcare to needy families, but ultimately lost its way.
![City Housing Corporation published material, "Radburn Garden Homes". This colorful pamphlet depicts community members playing in a playground and other sports, as well as an illustrated map of the community lay out.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Radburn-Garden-Homes-brochure_Display-500x500.jpg)
Photo Essay: Radburn, New Jersey – the Town for the Motor Age
Philanthropy helped architects and planners create a new kind of suburban community in the 1920s.
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1950s
1960s
Early Experiments in Public Broadcasting
The American public broadcast system as it exists today came out of years of work by organized philanthropy.
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1910s
20th Century
“Investment Philanthropy” Investing for Social Good, a Century Ago
An early twentieth-century foundation tried using its endowment to support for-profit projects that also would achieve a social goal.
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1960s
1970s
Photo Essay: Supporting Minority Enterprise in the late 1960s
In 1968, the Ford Foundation began to make social investments using a new tool borrowed from the for-profit world, the Program-Related Investment.
![Black and white image of local residents sitting around a large table discussing the start-up capital for Progress Plaza.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FA738_S3-17_B106_F1902_018_Display-500x500.jpg)
1960s
20th Century
Supporting Economic Justice? The Ford Foundation’s 1968 Experiment in Program Related Investments
How the largest US foundation began supporting market-based projects in the late 1960s.