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