Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The William T. Grant Foundation was established in 1936, originally as the Grant Foundation, by American businessman and philanthropist William Thomas Grant.In 1938, the Foundation funded its first major research project, the Grant Study at Harvard University, in which some of the subjects were followed for over 75 years. [4]
Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [35] 35 Children's Investment Fund Foundation United Kingdom: London: $5.9 billion £5.2 billion 2002 [36] 36 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation United States: Westlake Village, California: $5.9 billion 1944 [37] 37 Nemours Foundation United States: Jacksonville: $4.6 billion ...
He retired from both the W. T. Grant Company and the Grant Foundation at age 90, yet still served in an honorary capacity until his death in 1972 in Greenwich, CT at age 96. By that time his nationwide empire of W. T. Grant Co. (Grants) and Grant City stores had grown to almost 1,200, although the company failed in 1975 and was soon liquidated.
In 1906 the first "W. T. Grant Co. 25 Cent Store" (equal to $8.48 today) opened in Lynn, Massachusetts.Modest profit, coupled with a fast turnover of inventory, caused the stores to grow to almost $100 million (~$1.73 billion in 2023) annual sales by 1936, the same year that William Thomas Grant started the W. T. Grant Foundation.
She went onto to lead a study of immigrant origin young adults attending community colleges. Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, [14] the Research on Immigrants in Community College (RICC) study considered the experience of 646 immigrant community college students attending 3 community colleges in New York. [15]
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Friday held that a trial judge correctly found that American Airlines' now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue Airways violated federal antitrust law.
In 2013 he became the president of the William T. Grant Foundation, which funds social science research meant to improve the lives of young people. [3] He is a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Now, this doesn’t mean you should skip weight-bearing exercises as you age, though—they’re still important to help prevent conditions like osteoporosis, per the National Library of Medicine.