His endowment created the Nathan Cummings Arts Center at Stanford University and the Joanne and Nathan Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College in New London.
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation was endowed by Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), founder of Consolidated Foods, now called Sara Lee Corporation.
National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Nathan Bedford Forrest | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | E. E. Cummings | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Jim Cummings | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Apache Software Foundation | Nathan Lane | foundation | Nathan Hale | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Elijah Cummings | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Nathan Milstein | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | Starboy Nathan |
He is also the director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in The Bronx, a Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research, a senior fellow of the Brookdale Foundation and a former trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.
Prior to joining the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Halpern lectured throughout Asia on behalf of the United States Information Agency regarding public interest law and new directions in legal education.