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Since 2006, Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, have contributed to many charitable organisations and started philanthropic initiatives of their own, including Schmidt Futures and the Schmidt Family Foundation. The Schmidt’s relationship with the Rhodes Trust came about in 2017, and initially, the couple committed $25 million over three ...
The fellowship is supported by Schmidt Futures, the philanthropic initiative of Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt, [2] who pledged $25 million for the first three years as part of a broader $100 million drive to fund scientific research. [3] The program has Dr. Megan Kenna as the executive director and Professor Sir Keith Burnett as the chair of ...
Ruth has held many exhibitions of her art work, starting in Zambia in 1980, and subsequently in the UK and France. Her painting, The Bombing of Chinkumbi Camp, is in the Zambia National Museum. In 1984 Ruth was invited to become Managing Director of the Mpapa Gallery , founded in Lusaka by Joan Pilcher and Heather Montgomerie as the first ...
Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic venture [1] founded by Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt [2] in 2017. [3] The philanthropy funds science and technology research [4] and talent networking programs. [5] The organization's grants include large-scale "moonshots". [6] Schmidt Futures is based in New York City [7] with offices in Washington, D.C., [8 ...
Ruth Price Hartley Mosley (September 23, 1886 – August 14, 1975) was an American nurse, businesswoman, and civil rights activist. In 1910, she became the first black woman to be the head of a nursing department. [ 1 ]
It has supported several Schmidt family projects. In 2010, it made a $1 million grant to the Marine Science and Technology Foundation, [4] a private operating foundation founded in 2010 by Eric Schmidt. [9] [10] The 11th Hour Project was founded by Wendy Schmidt in 2005, and
Pride of the Marines is a 1945 American biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker.It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation.
Ruth Hartley Mosley (1886–1975) 1994 Philanthropist [95] Emily Harvie Thomas Tubman (1794–1885) 1994 Founder of the first public high school for girls in Augusta [96] Dicksie Bradley Bandy (1890–1971) 1993 Philanthropist, businesswoman, campaigned to restore the historic Cherokee Chief Vann House Historic Site [97] Mary Musgrove Bosomworth