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Philanthropy has also been influenced by different social movements, such as abolitionism, women’s rights, civil rights, and environmentalism. Some of the most prominent philanthropists in American history include George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, and Bill Gates. Charitable giving in the US ...
Harold Osher – American map collector and namesake of the Osher Map Library; Helen Phillips Levin – American social worker and disability rights activist, supported grantmaking through her family's Jay and Rose Philips Family Foundation; Henry Ford – co-founder of the Ford Foundation; Henry W. Bloch – founder of H&R Block Tax company ...
Prior to writing The Givers, Callahan wrote seven nonfiction books, including his 2010 publication, Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America, in which he described the emerging upper class of "cosmopolitan elite", "super-educated" "professionals and entrepreneurs" who adopt "key liberal ideas as multiculturalism and active government" and who work in ...
Pages in category "American philanthropists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,388 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2019, Rogers donated $5 million to the university's Special Collections to fund a curator of rare books and support the department's operations. In 2024, she donated rare books from her personal library to the collection, including rare editions of Jane Austen and George Eliot , as well as a book that Virginia Woolf had owned.
Charlotte Osgood Mason, born Charlotte Louise Van der Veer Quick (May 18, 1854, Franklin Park, New Jersey – April 15, 1946, New York City), [1] was a white American socialite and philanthropist. She contributed more than $100,000 to a number of African-American artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance , equal to more than $1 million in 2003.
In 1965, W. Clement Stone became Chairman of the Board of Hawthorn Books. Stone intended to use the publishing house as a vehicle to supplement his magazine Success Unlimited. [16] Then, in 1967 the publishing company was purchased outright by the Clement Stone interests. Hawthorn Books was then later sold in 1977 to W. H. Allen.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American philanthropists and Category:20th-century Native American philanthropists and Category:20th-century American women philanthropists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.