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…
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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…
New Music in Mizzou (Missouri)
Rex Sinquefield had taken himself from a Missouri orphanage in 1951 to leadership of a major investment firm in 1981. He developed some of the first index funds, and his Read more…
Entrepreneur High (Providence and Newport)
Rhode Island resident Bill Daugherty was wealthy by the age of 40. While in business school he came up with an idea for an online media and search company, then Read more…
Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention (Gainesville)
James Cade was a creator. Best-known for Gatorade, he also invented the first shock-dissipating football helmet, a diet-changing method for treating autism, and many other things. On the side, he Read more…
Video Medicine in the Desert (New Mexico)
There aren’t enough medical specialists available to treat some illnesses, particularly in rural areas. Telemedicine, however, allows primary physicians and nurses in more remote locations to bring in specialists to Read more…
Decentralized Giving at El Pomar (Colorado)
Spencer Penrose went west in 1892 to seek his fortune, and found it in copper mines, then went on to build important institutions across his adopted home state of Colorado, Read more…
Entrepreneurs Adopt Classes (District of Columbia)
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship has been showing high schoolers how to lift themselves out of poverty by creating their own businesses since 1987. But the organization added a new Read more…
Winged History (Virginia)
As they glide into Washington’s Dulles Airport, air travelers pass an enormous hangar complex. Beneath its gently curved roof lies one of the world’s greatest collections of aviation treasures. The Read more…
Charitable Food Distribution Initiative (Nevada, Oklahoma, Arkansas)
The Donald Reynolds Foundation has made some high-profile national gifts like the one to Washington’s National Portrait Gallery that created the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture, Read more…
New Museum for New South (Charlotte)
The Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte has a tricky mission: to faithfully tell the story of the American Southeast since 1865. It’s a period that brought the Read more…