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