[8], White poverty defied traditional understandings of white racial superiority and thus became the subject of study. The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. This page was last edited on 21 August 2020, at 20:54. Charles Dollard had joined the staff in 1939 as Keppel's assistant and became president in 1948. Gardner had a strong interest in education, but as a psychologist he believed in the behavioral sciences and urged the corporation to funded much of the US' basic research on cognition, creativity, and the learning process, particularly among young children, associating psychology and education. ), Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland § Carnegie Scholarships, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Carnegie Commission on the Poor White Problem in South Africa, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies", Racially segregated school libraries in KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, "Cidadãos Estrangeiros Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas", Carnegie Corporation of New York archives at Columbia University. The corporation developed three interlocking objectives: prevention of educational disadvantage; equality of educational opportunity in the schools; and broadened opportunities in higher education. A new emphasis for the corporation was the danger to world peace posed by the superpower confrontation and weapons of mass destruction. A 1980 report on an influential study, the Perry Preschool Project of the HighScope Educational Research Foundation, on the outcomes for sixteen-year-olds enrolled in the experimental preschool programs provided crucial evidence that safeguarded Project Head Start in a time of deep cuts to federal social programs. "[4] Corporation strategies changed over the years but remained focused on education, although the trust did also increasingly fund scientific research, convinced that the nation needed more scientific expertise and "scientific management". This study stimulated aid increases from the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States to African nations' systems of higher and professional education. The name “Carnegie Corporation of New York” and logo are the property of Carnegie Corporation of New York. The Carnegie corporation pulled its philanthropic endeavors from South Africa for more than two decades after this political change, turning its attention from South Africa to developing East African and West African universities instead. [9] The authors of the report suggested that white racial deterioration and miscegenation would be the outcome[8] unless something was done to help poor whites, endorsing the necessity of the role of social institutions to play in the successful maintenance of white racial superiority. Gardner had a strong interest in education, but as a psychologist he believed in the behavioral sciences and urged the corporation to funded much of the US' basic research on cognition, creativity, and the learning process, particularly among young children, associating psychology and education. Three groups covered the educational and developmental needs of children and youth from birth to age fifteen: the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development (1986), the Carnegie Task Force on Meeting the Needs of Young Children (1991), and the Carnegie Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades (1994). The foundation took greater interest in the social sciences, and particularly the study of human behavior. Under Gardner, the corporation embraced strategic philanthropy—planned, organized, and deliberately constructed to attain stated ends. Any use of the name or logo, including use on such items as printed literature, signage, exhibits and displays, publications, interactive media, websites, sponsored program literature and signage, joint publications, letterhead, news releases and/or announcements, must be cleared with the appropriate … A memorandum sent to Keppel said there was "little doubt that if the natives were given full economic opportunity, the more competent among them would soon outstrip the less competent whites"[8] Keppel endorsed the project that produced the report, motivated by his concern with maintaining existing racial boundaries. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) (1905). Jointly with the Rockefeller Foundation, the corporation financed the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, whose report, What Matters Most (1996), provided a framework and agenda for teacher education reform across the country. Carnegie reserved a portion of the corporation's assets for philanthropy in Canada and the then-British Colonies, an allocation first referred to as the Special Fund, then the British Dominions and Colonies Fund, and later the Commonwealth Program. Carnegie's previous charitable giving had used conventional organizational structures, but he chose a corporation as the structure for his last and largest trust. Keppel believed foundations should make facts available and let them facts speak for themselves. Better known as the "Carnegie Poor White Study", it promoted strategies to improve the lives of rural Afrikaner whites and other poor whites in general. Charter amendments have allowed the corporation to use 7.4 percent of its income in countries that are or once were members of the British Commonwealth. [citation needed], Maintaining its commitment to early childhood education, the corporation endorsed the application of research knowledge in experimental and demonstration programs, which subsequently provided strong evidence of the long-term positive effects of high-quality early education, particularly for the disadvantaged. As a cross-program initiative, and in cooperation with other foundations and organizations, the corporation instituted a scholars program, offering funding to individual scholars, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, in the independent states of the former Soviet Union. Dollard urged it to fund quantitative, "objective" social science research like research in physical sciences, and help to diffuse the results through major universities. It also initiated a multifaceted program to train black lawyers in the South for the practice of public interest law and to increase the legal representation of black people. [7], In 1927 Keppel toured sub-Saharan Africa and recommended a first set of grants to establish public schools in eastern and southern Africa. Becoming involved with South Africa again during the mid-1970s, the corporation worked through universities to increase the legal representation of black people and increase the practice of public interest law. [7], In 1927 Keppel toured sub-Saharan Africa and recommended a first set of grants to establish public schools in eastern and southern Africa. Andrew Carnegie endowed the Corporation with the bulk of his fortune, $135 million. During Hamburg's tenure, dissemination achieved even greater primacy with respect to strategic philanthropy. Gardner simultaneously became president of the CFAT, which was housed at the corporation.

In 1911-1912, Carnegie gave the corporation $125 million. News We are a grantmaking foundation, investing in knowledge that inspires informed action in democracy , education , and international peace since 1911. We encourage you to engage the media about your work proactively. With Frederick P. Keppel as president (1923-1941), the Carnegie Corporation shifted from creating public libraries to strengthening library infrastructure and services, developing adult education, and adding arts education to the programs of colleges and universities. Funding criteria no longer required just a socially desirable project. Richard Glotzer, "A long shadow: Frederick P. Keppel, the Carnegie Corporation and the Dominions and Colonies Fund Area Experts 1923–1943.