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