Philanthropy For and By African-Americans
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R. Daniel McMichael
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Home for Aged Protestant Women1871
St. Paul's Orphan Asylum1849
Benedum Foundation makes large gift to Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
1985
Sylvia Fields
Oral History
Westinghouse gave $200,0001948
Gregg Behr
Oral History
Gregory Curtis
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Home for Aged Protestant Men and Couples1881
Richard King Mellon
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Greater Pittsburgh Parks Associated is founded1932
Minnie Kupperbursh Grable
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McCune Foundation established
1979
Madam CJ Walker
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Maurice Falk Medical Fund established
1960
Richard P. Simmons
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$12 million gift to University of Pittsburgh1958
Michael Benedum
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Brewer's Fuel Fund1860
Harmarville Rehabitation Center1956
H.J. "Jack" Heinz II
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Fund for unemployed men1894
Milton Fine
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Seeding and Sustaining Innovation: From Campus to Company
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Allegheny Vocational Counseling Center established1946
Henry Hillman
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DT Watson Home for Crippled Children founded1916
Carol Brown
Oral History
Heinz Endowments created
1986
Henry Clay Frick
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Madam CJ Walker Makes Large Gift1919
William "Bill" Strickland
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Henry Posner III
Oral History
A.W. Mellon pays University of Pittsburgh debt1921
Maxwell King
Oral History
Gregg Behr
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Gordon Reynolds (Renny) Clark
Oral History
William Strickland
Oral History
Henry Buhl, Jr.
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Carnegie gives $1 million1891
Ann McGuinn
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Risk and Failure
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Peter Mathieson
Oral History
Every Pittsburgher a Philanthropist
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Diana Bucco
Oral History
Education Fund Commission1909
Esther Barrazzone
Oral History
Maxwell King
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William Deitrich
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Chatham Village constructed
1931
Funds for first Carnegie library
1881
Carnegie establishes pension fund and library maintenance fund1901
"Baltimore" Jane Holmes
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Hillman foundations establish The Hillman Fellows Program for Innovative Cancer Research2005
Helen Clay Frick
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Women and Girls Foundation established
2002
Laurel Foundation is Established1951
Alan Scaife
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Gregory Curtis
Oral History
Buhl Foundation endows Doreen Boyce Chair at University of Pittsburgh1999
Lemington Home for the Aged1900
Mary Schenley
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Founding of Girls Service Club1923
Cordelia Scaife May
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Morton Coleman
Oral History
A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust established1930
POISE Foundation launches
1980
Judith Davenport
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Torrence "Tod" Hunt, Jr.
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The Buhl Foundation created
1927
Sylvia Fields
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Grable Foundation established
1976
Hillman Family Foundations2009
Sigo Falk
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The Fine Foundation2007
Alfred "Burr" Wishart
Oral History
Carol Brown
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Teresa Heinz
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Cynthia Shapira
Oral History
RK Mellon makes $25 million Life Sciences grant2007
Andrew Carnegie
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FISA Foundation established
1996
Birmingham Foundation1996
Gordon Reynolds (Renny) Clark
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A.J. Palumbo
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With broad foundation support, the Pittsburgh Promise is established
2008
Christian Home for Women1871
The Maurice and Laura Falk Fund is created1929
The Eden Hall Foundation is Established1983
Alma Illery
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Schenley Park
1889
Henry Posner Sr.
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Alfred "Burr" Wishart, Jr.
Portrait
Bureau of Social Research established by Buhl Foundation1932
Luci Dabney
Portrait
Martin McGuinn
Oral History
Henry Hoffstot
Portrait
The Home for Colored Children1880
Richard Mellon Scaife
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Mary R. "Dee" Delaney
Oral History
Robert Pease
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Charles L. McCune
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Maurice Falk Fund and Leon Falk Family Trust2006
Saleem Ghubril
Oral History
Howard Heinz Endowment established1941
John Denny
Oral History
Maurice Falk Fund2004
The Transformation of the Cultural District
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Mary Schenley donates remnant of Fort Pitt
1895
Howard Heinz
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Cecile Springer
Oral History
Mary Schenley donates land to Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind1890
Morton "Moe" Coleman
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Groundwork laid for regional park system1958
The Pittsburgh Foundation is established
1945
Luci Dabney
Oral History
Karen Wolk Feinstein
Oral History
H. J. Heinz
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Paul Jenkins
Oral History
Atom smasher funded by Buhl Foundation
1946
Ron Davenport
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Leila College Opens
1908
Transfer of Allegheny Observatory to Western University of Pennsylvania
1865
Andrew Carnegie gave 55 million for libraries1885
Mark Lewis
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Ann Burgwin Scully
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Richard King Mellon Foundation established
1947
James Adams coal assistance1841
Mellon brothers donate land for Cathedral of Learning1925
Karen Wolk Feinstein
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Scott Izzo
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George Greer
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Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation1944
Orphan Society of Allegheny County
1832
Henry Posner Jr.
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Philanthropy For and By Women
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Hillman foundations make $10 million gift to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation2005
Jared Cohon
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Grant Oliphant
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Buhl Planetarium constructed in Pittsburgh
1937
Hillman Foundation established
1951
Buhl Foundation funds social survey1937
Sunil Wadhwani
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William L Mellon, Jr., M.D.
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Henry Clay Frick donates land to the City of Pittsburgh1919
Grant Oliphant
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Henry Hoffstot
Oral History
Mellon Park land is donated1946
Henry Posner III
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Cecile Springer
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Torrence 'Tod' Hunt, Jr.
Oral History
David Shapira
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Mark Nordenberg
Oral History
Protestant Home for Incurables1883
Nancy Washington
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Mellon Institute dedicated by A.W. Mellon
1937
Allegheny Observatory1860
Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Hunt make large gift to CIT1958
Philip Hallen
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Roy A. Hunt
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Senator John Heinz
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Carnegie Institute of Technology receives major grant1946
Heather Arnet
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Anatomy of a Transformative Gift: Eden Hall Farm
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Sunil Wadhwani
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The Pittsburgh Survey1907
United Presbyterian Women’s Association and Women’s Home1879
Jane Holmes
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Esther Barrazzone
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Gospel of Wealth
1889
Falk Foundation2013
George Greer
Oral History
A.W. Mellon dies1937
Buhl Foundation funds metropolitan studies1953
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
1874
John Denny
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Carolyn Duronio
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Giving Circles and Sankofa Case Study
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Allegheny Day Nursery1886
Frick Collection opens1935
Allegheny Institute
1849
Three Rivers Youth established1970
Paul Jenkins
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Vira Heinz
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Mellon family grants $15 million to University of Pittsburgh1954
The Sisters of Mercy
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ALMONO purchases 178-acre brownfield site2002
Doreen Boyce
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Martin McGuinn
Portrait
Sigo Falk
Oral History
H.J. Heinz II named man of the year1942
Bernard H. Jones
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Diana Bucco
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Rachel Miller Hunt
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Judith and Ron Davenport
Oral History
Cynthia Shapira
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Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
1890
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation is Established1964
Elsie H. Hillman
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Colored Orphan Asylum1880
Doreen Boyce
Oral History
Ann McGuinn
Oral History
Carnegie Technical Institute
1900
Forbes Funds is Established1982
Mark Nordenberg
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Mark Lewis
Oral History
Maurice Falk
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Ronald Wertz
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Scott Izzo
Oral History
The Federation of Girls' School Societies founded1911
Jewish Healthcare Foundation1990
Saleem Ghubril
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Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Women1883
Constance Prosser Mellon
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The Carnegie Library of Homestead.1896
Jared Cohon
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Buhl Foundation funds Children's Museum1970
Andrew W. Mellon
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Mary R. "Dee" Delaney
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Eva Tansky Blume
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Robert E. Eberly
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Nancy Washington
Oral History
Eden Hall Farm gifted to Chatham University
2008
Sebastian Mueller
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Carolyn Duronio
Oral History
Philip Hallen
Oral History
$7 million sports arena proposed in Hill District
1953
Civic Light Opera founded
1946
Hunt Foundation is Established1951
Robert Pease
Oral History
Brunot and Brewer Endow The Church Home
1858
Alcoa Foundation established
1952
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
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Stanton Belfour
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Henry Clay Frick Education Commission affiliates with the Buhl Foundation1993
Staunton Farm Foundation established
1937
Peter Mathieson
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Corporate Philanthropy
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William P. Getty
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Mellon Square Park established
1953
Sarah Mellon Scaife announced bequest1966
William P. Getty
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Cathy Raphael
Oral History
Ron Wertz
Oral History
Heather Arnet
Oral History
Cathy Raphael
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R. Daniel McMichael
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Colcom Foundation is created
1996
Sarah Benedum
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