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5 unusual facts about Carnegie Foundation


Carnegie Foundation

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a policy and research center in the United States

Carnegie Corporation of New York, a grantmaking foundation in the United States associated with libraries among other projects

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, D.C.

Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek

From 1936 till his death in 1942 he served as chairman of the Carnegie Foundation.

InBloom

The Gates Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Carnegie Corporation and others donated $100 million for bringing data to schools.


Doctor of Arts

The Carnegie Foundation was the first to fund ten universities with seed money to initiate the degree, and D.A. programs (though far fewer in number than those of the Ph.D.) are currently offered in many different disciplines at universities in the United States and in other parts of the world.

Enfield Highway

A public library, built with the aid of a grant from the Carnegie Foundation was opened Enfield Highway in 1910.

Errors and Expectations

This research—funded in part by the Carnegie Foundation grant—coupled with her own experience provides the foundation of the book which seeks both to inform basic writing instructors and provide them with a means for approaching their students’ areas of weakness.

Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School

The Carnegie Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller family, and other northern philanthropists provided generous support for his idea.


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