Title: Carnegie Corporation of New York - Wikipedia
Headings: Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Contents
History
Founding and early years
Frederick P. Keppel
Charles Dollard
John Gardner
Alan Pifer
David A. Hamburg
Vartan Gregorian
Honours
See also
Footnotes
Further reading
External links

Content: Carnegie Corporation has endowed or otherwise helped to establish institutions that include the United States National Research Council, what was then the Russian Research Center at Harvard University (now known as the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies), the Carnegie libraries and the Children's Television Workshop. It also for many years generously funded Carnegie's other philanthropic organizations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT), and the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS). Contents
1 History
1.1 Founding and early years
1.2 Frederick P. Keppel
1.3 Charles Dollard
1.4 John Gardner
1.5 Alan Pifer
1.6 David A. Hamburg
1.7 Vartan Gregorian
2 Honours
3 See also
4 Footnotes
5 Further reading
6 External links
History
Founding and early years
By 1911 Andrew Carnegie had endowed five organizations in the US and three in the United Kingdom, and given more than $43 million to build public libraries and given another almost $110 million elsewhere. But ten years after he sold the Carnegie Steel Company, more than $150 million remained in his accounts and at 76, he wearied of philanthropic choices. Long-time friend Elihu Root suggested he establish a trust. Carnegie transferred most of his remaining fortune into it, and made the trust responsible for distributing his wealth after he died. Carnegie's previous charitable giving had used conventional organizational structures, but he chose a corporation as the structure for his last and largest trust. Chartered by the State of New York as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the corporation's capital fund, originally worth about $135 million, had a market value of $1.55 billion on March 31, 1999. In 1911-1912, Carnegie gave the corporation $125 million. At that time the corporation was the largest single philanthropic charitable trust ever established.