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.
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
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America's mega-donors are putting their money where their mouth is in an effort to save our democracy, the New York Times reports.
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"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
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