Carnegie Corporation of New York was founded by a steel baron-turned-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in November 1911. During that time, the Corporation was the largest single philanthropic trust that had ever been established.
The vision of the Corporation is to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
They aim to benefit the people of the United States. Their goal is doing real and permanent good in this world and deemed that its efforts should create ladders on which the aspiring can rise.
"In recent years the fragility of our democracy has been exposed to a degree that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago," Dame Louise Richardson, president of the Carnegie Corporation of...more
A new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York finds that more than half of America's public schools opened in the last 30 yearsand that's a big deal.
"That is wild!" says Robin Lake,...more
When Hannah Davis traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.