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