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