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Carnegie's single largest commitment in this field was his creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [ 9 ] On his seventy-fifth birthday, November 25, 1910, Andrew Carnegie announced the establishment of the Endowment with a gift of $10 million worth of first mortgage bonds, paying a 5% rate of interest. [ 10 ]
As to the greatest endowment of all, the Carnegie Corporation, that was merely Andrew Carnegie in permanently organized form; it was established to carry on, after Carnegie's death, the work to which he had given personal attention in his own lifetime.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) (1910) After Carnegie died in 1919, the trustees elected a full-time salaried president as the trust's chief executive officer and ex officio trustee. For a time the corporation's gifts followed the patterns Carnegie had already established.
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust is an independent, endowed charitable trust [1] based in Scotland that operates throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Originally established with an endowment from Andrew Carnegie in his birthplace of Dunfermline, it is incorporated by a royal charter and shares purpose-built premises with the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, [2] the Carnegie ...
In 2001, the Trust established a Centenary Fund to celebrate the centenary of Andrew Carnegie's original 1901 endowment. The yearly income for this fund (£80,000 in 2004-5) [11] goes towards the appointment of two world-class Carnegie Centenary Professors per year for a sabbatical period in Scotland.
It was founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of the United States Congress. Among its most notable accomplishments are the development of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association (TIAA), the Flexner Report on medical education, the Carnegie Unit , the Educational Testing Service , and the Carnegie ...
Pages in category "Andrew Carnegie" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. ... Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Carnegie Foundation ...