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.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, his research partner and wife, and colleague Michael Kremer received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their experimental...more
Whenoma Naficy arrived in Hartford, Conn., from Paris as an 18-year-old in the 1990s, she had no idea she'd become a US citizen a decade later.
But her path to citizenship wasn't an easy one, she...more
Whenoma Naficy arrived in Hartford, Conn., from Paris as an 18-year-old in the 1990s, she had no idea she'd become a US citizen a decade later.
But her path to citizenship wasn't an easy one, she...more
A new poll found nearly nine in 10 women of color say voting in the 2024 election is extremely or very important.The number of abortions in New Mexico increased by 220% over a 15-month period ending...more
America's mega-donors are putting their money where their mouth is in an effort to save our democracy, the New York Times reports.
"Big Philanthropy is casting itself in the role of superhero,"...more
"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
First Enterprise Business Agency (FEBA), a Nottingham-based business support organization, is a contender for two categories at the first Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards to be held this coming February.