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