Philanthropy For and By African-Americans
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Brewer's Fuel Fund1860
Henry Posner III
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Esther Barrazzone
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Carol Brown
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Henry Clay Frick
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Carnegie Institute of Technology receives major grant1946
St. Paul's Orphan Asylum1849
H.J. "Jack" Heinz II
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Education Fund Commission1909
Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Hunt make large gift to CIT1958
Founding of Girls Service Club1923
Ron Wertz
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Jared Cohon
Oral History
Birmingham Foundation1996
Teresa Heinz
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ALMONO purchases 178-acre brownfield site2002
Mary Schenley donates remnant of Fort Pitt
1895
David Shapira
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Gregory Curtis
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Torrence 'Tod' Hunt, Jr.
Oral History
Philanthropy For and By Women
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Falk Foundation2013
A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust established1930
Nancy Washington
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William P. Getty
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Morton Coleman
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Helen Clay Frick
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Transfer of Allegheny Observatory to Western University of Pennsylvania
1865
Allegheny Institute
1849
Constance Prosser Mellon
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DT Watson Home for Crippled Children founded1916
Heather Arnet
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Martin McGuinn
Oral History
Funds for first Carnegie library
1881
The Pittsburgh Survey1907
Torrence "Tod" Hunt, Jr.
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William L Mellon, Jr., M.D.
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Philip Hallen
Oral History
Mellon Institute dedicated by A.W. Mellon
1937
Atom smasher funded by Buhl Foundation
1946
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
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Mellon family grants $15 million to University of Pittsburgh1954
The Maurice and Laura Falk Fund is created1929
Jane Holmes
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Staunton Farm Foundation established
1937
Alan Scaife
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Robert Pease
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Bureau of Social Research established by Buhl Foundation1932
Scott Izzo
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Sebastian Mueller
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Vira Heinz
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Mary Schenley
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Westinghouse gave $200,0001948
Grable Foundation established
1976
Alma Illery
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Brunot and Brewer Endow The Church Home
1858
Eva Tansky Blume
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Martin McGuinn
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Cynthia Shapira
Oral History
Andrew W. Mellon
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Ron Davenport
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Roy A. Hunt
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Mary R. "Dee" Delaney
Oral History
Carnegie Free Library of Allegheny
1890
Orphan Society of Allegheny County
1832
A.J. Palumbo
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Maurice Falk
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With broad foundation support, the Pittsburgh Promise is established
2008
Doreen Boyce
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Buhl Planetarium constructed in Pittsburgh
1937
Charles L. McCune
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Luci Dabney
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Maurice Falk Medical Fund established
1960
William P. Getty
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Henry Clay Frick donates land to the City of Pittsburgh1919
The Eden Hall Foundation is Established1983
Carolyn Duronio
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Mellon Park land is donated1946
Henry Posner Sr.
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Leila College Opens
1908
Mary Schenley donates land to Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind1890
Henry Hoffstot
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Maxwell King
Oral History
Peter Mathieson
Oral History
Cathy Raphael
Oral History
Esther Barrazzone
Oral History
Madam CJ Walker Makes Large Gift1919
Heinz Endowments created
1986
Maxwell King
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A.W. Mellon pays University of Pittsburgh debt1921
Buhl Foundation funds social survey1937
Elsie H. Hillman
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John Denny
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Senator John Heinz
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Alfred "Burr" Wishart
Oral History
Carolyn Duronio
Oral History
The Federation of Girls' School Societies founded1911
Forbes Funds is Established1982
Minnie Kupperbursh Grable
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Protestant Home for Incurables1883
The Fine Foundation2007
Karen Wolk Feinstein
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Scott Izzo
Oral History
Allegheny Observatory1860
Grant Oliphant
Oral History
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation is Established1964
Judith Davenport
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POISE Foundation launches
1980
Henry Hoffstot
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Hillman foundations establish The Hillman Fellows Program for Innovative Cancer Research2005
Paul Jenkins
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Stanton Belfour
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Morton "Moe" Coleman
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Sylvia Fields
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Gordon Reynolds (Renny) Clark
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Home for Aged Protestant Men and Couples1881
Mark Lewis
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Anatomy of a Transformative Gift: Eden Hall Farm
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Benedum Foundation makes large gift to Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
1985
Colored Orphan Asylum1880
Richard P. Simmons
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Colcom Foundation is created
1996
James Adams coal assistance1841
The Home for Colored Children1880
Richard Mellon Scaife
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Saleem Ghubril
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R. Daniel McMichael
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George Greer
Oral History
Gregg Behr
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George Greer
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Mary R. "Dee" Delaney
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Allegheny Day Nursery1886
Madam CJ Walker
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Grant Oliphant
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FISA Foundation established
1996
Sigo Falk
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Robert Pease
Oral History
Mark Nordenberg
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William Strickland
Oral History
William Deitrich
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Doreen Boyce
Oral History
Risk and Failure
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Every Pittsburgher a Philanthropist
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Sigo Falk
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Chatham Village constructed
1931
Michael Benedum
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Rachel Miller Hunt
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Carnegie gives $1 million1891
Buhl Foundation funds metropolitan studies1953
Hillman foundations make $10 million gift to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation2005
Cecile Springer
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Christian Home for Women1871
Greater Pittsburgh Parks Associated is founded1932
$12 million gift to University of Pittsburgh1958
Henry Hillman
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Henry Posner Jr.
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Ronald Wertz
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William "Bill" Strickland
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Seeding and Sustaining Innovation: From Campus to Company
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RK Mellon makes $25 million Life Sciences grant2007
The Transformation of the Cultural District
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Ann Burgwin Scully
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Alcoa Foundation established
1952
Fund for unemployed men1894
Schenley Park
1889
Cynthia Shapira
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John Denny
Oral History
A.W. Mellon dies1937
The Buhl Foundation created
1927
Philip Hallen
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Paul Jenkins
Oral History
Howard Heinz
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Home for Aged Protestant Women1871
Jared Cohon
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Mark Nordenberg
Oral History
Diana Bucco
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Richard King Mellon
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Hillman Foundation established
1951
H. J. Heinz
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Frick Collection opens1935
Sunil Wadhwani
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Heather Arnet
Oral History
Carnegie establishes pension fund and library maintenance fund1901
Gordon Reynolds (Renny) Clark
Oral History
Buhl Foundation endows Doreen Boyce Chair at University of Pittsburgh1999
McCune Foundation established
1979
Peter Mathieson
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Cecile Springer
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Milton Fine
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Sarah Mellon Scaife announced bequest1966
Karen Wolk Feinstein
Oral History
Lemington Home for the Aged1900
Gregory Curtis
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Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation1944
Gospel of Wealth
1889
Richard King Mellon Foundation established
1947
Women and Girls Foundation established
2002
Diana Bucco
Oral History
Groundwork laid for regional park system1958
Henry Clay Frick Education Commission affiliates with the Buhl Foundation1993
Three Rivers Youth established1970
Sarah Benedum
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Sylvia Fields
Oral History
Mellon brothers donate land for Cathedral of Learning1925
St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum
1874
Henry Posner III
Oral History
Andrew Carnegie gave 55 million for libraries1885
R. Daniel McMichael
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Henry Buhl, Jr.
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Robert E. Eberly
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Saleem Ghubril
Oral History
Luci Dabney
Oral History
The Pittsburgh Foundation is established
1945
Andrew Carnegie
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Judith and Ron Davenport
Oral History
Sunil Wadhwani
Oral History
Maurice Falk Fund2004
Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Women1883
Nancy Washington
Oral History
Ann McGuinn
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Gregg Behr
Oral History
$7 million sports arena proposed in Hill District
1953
Giving Circles and Sankofa Case Study
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Mellon Square Park established
1953
United Presbyterian Women’s Association and Women’s Home1879
Howard Heinz Endowment established1941
Cathy Raphael
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The Sisters of Mercy
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Civic Light Opera founded
1946
Harmarville Rehabitation Center1956
"Baltimore" Jane Holmes
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Alfred "Burr" Wishart, Jr.
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Carnegie Technical Institute
1900
Hillman Family Foundations2009
Buhl Foundation funds Children's Museum1970
Carol Brown
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Allegheny Vocational Counseling Center established1946
Bernard H. Jones
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Cordelia Scaife May
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Ann McGuinn
Oral History
Laurel Foundation is Established1951
Corporate Philanthropy
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Eden Hall Farm gifted to Chatham University
2008
H.J. Heinz II named man of the year1942
Mark Lewis
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Jewish Healthcare Foundation1990
Maurice Falk Fund and Leon Falk Family Trust2006
The Carnegie Library of Homestead.1896
Hunt Foundation is Established1951
