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  • 1910
  • Medicine & Health

Modern American Medical Education

  • 1910
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Scouting Improves Boys and Girls

  • 1910
  • Public-Policy Reform

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  • 1910
  • Religion

Catholic Charities

  • 1909
  • Education

Milton Hershey School

  • 1909
  • Local Projects

Grandaddy of Charity Marathons (Massachusetts)

  • 1909
  • Arts & Culture

Preserving Fort Ticonderoga

  • 1909
  • Medicine & Health

Eliminating Hookworm in the U.S.

  • 1908
  • Medicine & Health

A Mass Crusade Against Tuberculosis

  • 1908
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Muir Woods National Monument

  • 1908
  • Prosperity

Franklin Institute of Technology

  • 1908
  • Religion

Getting the Word Out

  • 1907
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Grand Canyon of the East

  • 1907
  • Education

Collaborating to Educate the Segregated

  • 1907
  • Prosperity

Creating Business Philanthropy

  • 1907
  • Prosperity

Sage Social Science

  • 1907
  • Arts & Culture

MacDowell Artist Colony

  • 1906
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Longwood Gardens

  • 1906
  • Medicine & Health

Peking Union Medical College

  • 1906
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Pierre du Pont Creates Longwood Gardens

  • 1905
  • Education

Support for Teachers

  • 1905
  • Arts & Culture

Juilliard School

  • 1905
  • Religion

Goodwill Industries

  • 1903
  • Public-Policy Reform

Booker T. Washington’s Secret Litigation Donations

  • 1903
  • Arts & Culture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

  • 1903
  • Arts & Culture

Carnegie and Music for God

  • 1903
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

  • 1903
  • Education

Professionalization of College Management

  • 1902
  • Education

General Education Board

  • 1902
  • Prosperity

Strengthening the Southern Poor

  • 1902
  • Public-Policy Reform

Rockefeller Sends the South to High School

  • 1902
  • Religion

Andrew Carnegie, Organ Donor

  • 1901
  • Medicine & Health

Rockefeller University

  • 1901
  • Overseas

Carnegie Bolsters Scottish Universities

  • 1901
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Missions to the Philippines

  • 1900
  • Religion

A Cookbook Helps Americanize Jews

  • 1899
  • Prosperity

Pioneering Worker Bonuses and Profit-sharing

  • 1895
  • Public-Policy Reform

Jane Addams Pushes Social Reform

  • 1895
  • Arts & Culture

Carnegie Cultures Pittsburgh

  • 1893
  • Medicine & Health

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

  • 1893
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

  • 1892
  • Prosperity

Immigrant Aid Societies Americanize New Arrivals

  • 1892
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

From Snowy Egrets to Jungle Gardens

  • 1892
  • Prosperity

Millions of Lives Saved by Pasteurized Milk

  • 1892
  • Public-Policy Reform

John Muir Guides the Sierra Club to Activism

  • 1892
  • Religion

Cathedral of St. John the Divine

  • 1891
  • Religion

Katharine Drexel Devotes Her Fortune to Indians and Blacks

  • 1890
  • Medicine & Health

Coeducation in American Medicine

  • 1890
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Trustees of Reservations

  • 1890
  • Education

Opening Medical Education to Women, and Higher Standards

  • 1890
  • Education

University of Chicago

  • 1889
  • Prosperity

Settling the Poor

  • 1889
  • Religion

Nettie McCormick Bolsters Religious Schools

  • 1888
  • Education

Toward Collegiality on Campus

  • 1888
  • Education

Williamson Free School for Mechanical Trades

  • 1887
  • Education

Gifts to Public Universities

  • 1887
  • Education

Kamehameha Schools

  • 1887
  • Local Projects

Kamehameha Schools (Hawaii)

  • 1887
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Hunters Preserving Wildlife

  • 1885
  • Education

Stanford University

  • 1884
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Catholic Schooling

  • 1884
  • Religion

Expansion of Catholic Schooling

  • 1884
  • Religion

Jacob Schiff’s Philanthropy

  • 1882
  • Education

Great Libraries From Enoch Pratt—and Others

  • 1881
  • Prosperity

Wharton School and Economic Education

  • 1881
  • Prosperity

Creation of the American Red Cross

  • 1881
  • Prosperity

Rescuing Refugees

  • 1881
  • Arts & Culture

Carnegie’s Libraries, and Others

  • 1881
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Red Cross Founded by Clara Barton

  • 1880
  • Education

Bringing Teacher Education to the University

  • 1880
  • Religion

Salvation Army Marches to America

  • 1879
  • Arts & Culture

Art Institute of Chicago

  • 1877
  • Prosperity

Steering the U.S. Between Dependence and Neglect

  • 1876
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Appalachian Mountain Club

  • 1876
  • Education

Johns Hopkins University

  • 1876
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Seventh-day Adventists Create Health Food

  • 1874
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Spiritual Growth On Chautauqua Lake

  • 1874
  • Arts & Culture

Corcoran Gallery of Art

  • 1873
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Father Damien Redeems the Lepers of Hawaii

  • 1873
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Temperance Movement

  • 1872
  • Local Projects

Grassroots Giving By a Former Slave

  • 1870
  • Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • 1868
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Bringing Literacy to Former Slaves

  • 1868
  • Prosperity

Voluntary Organizations Pioneer Life Insurance

  • 1867
  • Education

Peabody’s Reconstruction Schools

  • 1866
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

ASPCA Births the Animal Welfare Movement

  • 1865
  • Prosperity

Private Donations to Settle Freed Slaves

  • 1864
  • Religion

Baptist Colleges Bolstered by Rockefeller

  • 1864
  • Overseas

First Modern College in China

  • 1863
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American Colleges Abroad

  • 1862
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Peabody Battles London Slums

  • 1861
  • Religion

United States Christian Commission in the Civil War

  • 1861
  • Education

Matthew Vassar’s College for Women

  • 1861
  • Prosperity

Sanitary Commission Saves Lives in the Civil War

  • 1860
  • Arts & Culture

Preservation of Mount Vernon

  • 1859
  • Education

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

  • 1856
  • Nature, Animals & Parks

Henry Shaw’s St. Louis Parks

  • 1856
  • Prosperity

Education for the Deaf

  • 1854
  • Religion

Judah Touro, Friend to Religion

  • 1854
  • Religion

Jewish Community Centers

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