Extending the Green Revolution to Africa
Three quarters of the world’s poorest people gain their income and their food by farming small plots about the size of a football field. The Green Revolution (see 1943 entry) Read more…
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Adopting a Whole Neighborhood (Tangelo Park)
Just a quarter of a mile from the tourist centers of Orlando, Florida, sat a squalid neighborhood plagued with drug problems and lousy schooling. Harris Rosen, who had made his Read more…
Youth Entrepreneurs (Kansas and Missouri)
Charles Koch is known for distilling the rules that make free markets work, and applying them to both his business endeavors and his philanthropy. He began this in his hometown Read more…
Matching Local Health-care Solutions (49 states)
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, established by the head of Johnson & Johnson, has a special interest in health care and is one of America’s largest foundations. Big national foundations Read more…
From State to Local (Minnesota)
William and Maude McKnight established the McKnight Foundation in 1953, after William had helped build the 3M Company. As the foundation has grown into one of the largest in the Read more…
Gabriel Homes (Virginia)
Gabriel Homes, a nonprofit launched by Catholics in northern Virginia, was a pioneer in helping people with mental disabilities. It was started by local residents who saw appropriate housing as Read more…
Elevating Home City and State (Louisville)
“Do things that will promote the well-being of the citizens of the city of Louisville and the state of Kentucky. Kentucky has long been thought of as a backward state Read more…
Morehead, Cain, and Levine Mint Scholars (North Carolina)
The Morehead-Cain Scholarship is a prestigious merit-based award that attracts top students to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by paying not only all tuition and board, but Read more…
Old Salem Museums & Gardens
In 1766, missionaries of the Moravians, a Protestant group mostly living in what is now the Czech Republic, arrived to establish a settlement in the North Carolina wilderness. The Moravians Read more…
Crazy Horse Memorial
Crazy Horse famously refused to be photographed, and after he died in U.S. Army custody in 1877 his burial place was kept secret. So what would he make of a Read more…
Soil Steward (Oklahoma)
Back before there was a state of Oklahoma, Lloyd Noble was born in the town of Ardmore, then part of the Chickasaw Nation. After stints teaching in rural schools and Read more…
A Forester Sprouts Research (Oregon)
Edmund Hayes owned small woodlands and sawmills in Oregon, and was a leader in finding newly efficient and effective ways to manage timberland. He started purchasing already-cut forestland and second-growth Read more…
Marquee Donors of Lafayette (Pennsylvania and New Jersey)
Fred Kirby was one of the founders of the F. W. Woolworth Company (predecessor to today’s Foot Locker). He revolutionized retail in America, introducing affordable fixed pricing across his 96 Read more…
Duke of the Carolinas (North and South Carolina)
James Duke was entirely committed to concentrating his philanthropy in the area where he grew up and then made good. In 1874, when he was 18, his parents opened a Read more…
Lilly Builds Civil Society (Indiana)
Eli Lilly made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, with a company he founded in 1876. In 1937, three members of his family, son J. K. Lilly and grandsons Eli and J. Read more…
Philmont Scout Ranch
Waite Phillips was one of the progenitors of the American oil and gas business, building Phillips Petroleum into an industry leader. He also loved the outdoors, and later in his Read more…
Grandaddy of Charity Marathons (Massachusetts)
In the early years of the twentieth century, Italians were one of the largest immigrant groups in America. So when a tremendous earthquake rocked southern Italy and Sicily in 1908 Read more…
Kamehameha Schools (Hawaii)
Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a daughter of Hawaiian royalty, was offered the throne of her Pacific land in 1872 but refused it, preferring to pursue good works through her private means Read more…
An Art Trove for the Hometown (St. Louis)
Charles Spink was a St. Louis institution. He was publisher of the locally based Sporting News, a national weekly considered the “bible” of baseball reporting, and his wife Edie was Read more…
Gates Doubles Spending Against Hunger
In 2015, Melinda Gates announced that the foundation she and her husband steer would double its investments against hunger in the developing world. “Malnutrition is the underlying cause of nearly Read more…