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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904) Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (CFAT) (1905) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) (1910) After Carnegie died in 1919, the trustees elected a full-time salaried president as the trust's chief executive officer and ex officio trustee. For a time the corporation's gifts ...
A Carnegie library is a library built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. A total of 2,509 Carnegie libraries were built between 1883 and 1929, including some belonging to public and university library systems.
The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie that Changed America (McFarland, 2012) online. VanSlyck, Abigail A. (1991). "'The Utmost Amount of Effective Accommodation': Andrew Carnegie and the Reform of the American Library." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 50(4): 359–383. ISSN 0037-9808. Zimmerman, Jonathan.
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
What eventually became the largest corporation in the world was created by J.P. Morgan and others who financed the merger of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Co. with rival Federal Steel at the ...
The American way was for the self-made millionaires to become self-made philanthropists, a model that was perfected in the next generation by Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) and John D Rockefeller (1839–1937). They agreed with Peabody that riches produced a duty to give most of it back to the community through specialized permanent foundations.
Carnegie began funding libraries in Iowa before the arrival of Bertram in the USA. In 1892, Fairfield, Iowa, received a grant from Andrew Carnegie for $30,000 to build a public library. Apparently, this was at the request of an Iowa senator: hitherto Carnegie had only funded libraries at places to which he was personally connected.
On his seventy-fifth birthday, November 25, 1910, Andrew Carnegie announced the establishment of the Endowment with a gift of $10 million worth of first mortgage bonds, paying a 5% rate of interest. [10] The interest income generated from these bonds was to be used to fund a new think tank dedicated to advancing the cause of world peace. In his ...