Research Catalog

Title

Great philanthropic mistakes / Martin Morse Wooster.

Author

Wooster, Martin Morse, 1957-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal at Hudson Institute, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.
• Hudson Institute

Description

x, 158 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Explores the history of and evaluates eight major philanthropic programs undertaken by six United States charitable foundations, Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Lasker Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Annenberg Foundation, spanning from the early 1900s to the present"--provided by publisher.

Subject

• Charities > United States > Case studies
• Charities > United States > History
• Endowments > United States > Case studies
• Endowments > United States > History

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Medical education : the Rockefeller Foundation, 1913-28 -- The war on cancer : the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, 1944-76 -- Population control : the Rockefeller Foundation/Ford Foundation, 1952-81 -- The "gray area" program : the Ford Foundation, 1959-65 -- Public television : the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1965-67, 1977-79 -- School decentralization : the Ford Foundation, 1967-68 -- The Macarthur Fellows program : the John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation, 1981-present -- School reform : the Annenberg Foundation, 1993-2001 -- Conclusion.

ISBN

1558131477 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006009936

OCLC

• 65205059
• SCSB-12161882

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library