• College certainly looks different this semester. We hope students, staff, and faculty are coping with the challenges and disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. And we hope students can study together like this again soon! Image: Princeton Cooperative School Program, 1965, Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #college #university #collegelife #studygroup #oldschool #historypic @princeton #princeton #princetonhistory
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    College certainly looks different this semester. We hope students, staff, and faculty are coping with the challenges and disruptions the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. And we hope students can study together like this again soon! Image: Princeton Cooperative School Program, 1965, Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #college #university #collegelife #studygroup #oldschool #historypic @princeton #princeton #princetonhistory
  • Today is #WorldFoodDay and we recognize Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, who began his pioneering wheat research in 1944 in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agriculture Program. His work enabled what is now called the “Green Revolution,” developing and distributing high-yield, disease-resistant cereal crops to famine-threatened countries. Credited with saving more than 6 billion lives from starvation worldwide, Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. He inspired the creation of the World Food Prize in 1986, which recognizes individuals who have made vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world. The prize is presented each October on or around #unworldfoodday. @worldfoodprize has become a week-long set of events drawing over 1,000 participants from over 50 countries. Image: Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #foodaccess #foodmatters #foodforall #foodinsecurity #stopfoodwaste #foodjustice #Agriculture #GreenRevolution #AgDay #Philanthropy #ArchivesofInstagram #agricultureworld #agripics #agriculture_global #agriculture #farmerslife #farmer #agriculturelife #farming #agricultural #farmers @cimmyt
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    Today is #WorldFoodDay and we recognize Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, who began his pioneering wheat research in 1944 in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agriculture Program. His work enabled what is now called the “Green Revolution,” developing and distributing high-yield, disease-resistant cereal crops to famine-threatened countries. Credited with saving more than 6 billion lives from starvation worldwide, Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. He inspired the creation of the World Food Prize in 1986, which recognizes individuals who have made vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world. The prize is presented each October on or around #unworldfoodday. @worldfoodprize has become a week-long set of events drawing over 1,000 participants from over 50 countries. Image: Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #foodaccess #foodmatters #foodforall #foodinsecurity #stopfoodwaste #foodjustice #Agriculture #GreenRevolution #AgDay #Philanthropy #ArchivesofInstagram #agricultureworld #agripics #agriculture_global #agriculture #farmerslife #farmer #agriculturelife #farming #agricultural #farmers @cimmyt
  • Poet, author, playwright, and painter Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, was born #OnThisDay in 1894. During his prolific career, he wrote nearly three thousand poems, two novels, several essays, and a handful of plays. A modernist poet, cummings used lower case spellings and other unusual linguistic forms in his work. In this manner, he referred to himself as "e e cummings." In 1959, the Ford Foundation identified eleven American poets and authors to receive creative writers' grants. E. E. Cummings was one of them. Other recipients included Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin. Image: Ford Foundation records, RAC. #ThisDayInHistory #OTD #Poets #Poetry #eecummings #PhilanthropyHistory
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    Poet, author, playwright, and painter Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, was born #OnThisDay in 1894. During his prolific career, he wrote nearly three thousand poems, two novels, several essays, and a handful of plays. A modernist poet, cummings used lower case spellings and other unusual linguistic forms in his work. In this manner, he referred to himself as "e e cummings." In 1959, the Ford Foundation identified eleven American poets and authors to receive creative writers' grants. E. E. Cummings was one of them. Other recipients included Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin. Image: Ford Foundation records, RAC. #ThisDayInHistory #OTD #Poets #Poetry #eecummings #PhilanthropyHistory
  • In honor of #HispanicHeritageMonth we are featuring one of our favorite images from our collections documenting the story of public broadcasting. Making its debut in Los Angeles on KCET in October 1968, “Canción de la Raza," cast pictured here, was a Ford Foundation-funded television novella about a Mexican American family, the Ramoses. It was the first American TV program dedicated entirely to the Latinx community. “Canción de la Raza” ran for a year, and invited viewers to call in or write with their reactions to the drama and suggestions for future shows – an early version of crowd sourcing! Image: Ford Foundation records, RAC #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxHistory #MexicanAmericanHistory #PublicBroadcasting #PublicTelevision #TVHistory #TelevisionHistory #PhilanthropyHistory #PhilanthropyArchives
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    In honor of #HispanicHeritageMonth we are featuring one of our favorite images from our collections documenting the story of public broadcasting. Making its debut in Los Angeles on KCET in October 1968, “Canción de la Raza," cast pictured here, was a Ford Foundation-funded television novella about a Mexican American family, the Ramoses. It was the first American TV program dedicated entirely to the Latinx community. “Canción de la Raza” ran for a year, and invited viewers to call in or write with their reactions to the drama and suggestions for future shows – an early version of crowd sourcing! Image: Ford Foundation records, RAC #LatinxHeritageMonth #LatinxHistory #MexicanAmericanHistory #PublicBroadcasting #PublicTelevision #TVHistory #TelevisionHistory #PhilanthropyHistory #PhilanthropyArchives
  • This map is from the 1920s and shows plans for Forest Hills Gardens, a residential neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The Forest Hills housing development was an experimental project of the Russell Sage Foundation. It's an example of what one philanthropic advisor called "investment philanthropy," where foundation endowment funds are used to support for-profit activities that have a social benefit. Image: Russell Sage Foundation records, RAC. #MappyMonday #HistoricalMaps #Maps #NYC #NYCHistory #QueensNYC #QueensHistory #ForestHills #PhilanthropyHistory #ArchivesOfInstagram
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    This map is from the 1920s and shows plans for Forest Hills Gardens, a residential neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The Forest Hills housing development was an experimental project of the Russell Sage Foundation. It's an example of what one philanthropic advisor called "investment philanthropy," where foundation endowment funds are used to support for-profit activities that have a social benefit. Image: Russell Sage Foundation records, RAC. #MappyMonday #HistoricalMaps #Maps #NYC #NYCHistory #QueensNYC #QueensHistory #ForestHills #PhilanthropyHistory #ArchivesOfInstagram
  • Developing the first Hangul (Korean) dictionary was no small venture. In fact, the Korean-born project eventually came to fruition after ten years of development during political upheaval, widespread cultural repression, staff imprisonment, and all-out war. One unlikely partner in the publishing project was the Rockefeller Foundation, and the story is revealed through that institution's archives. Read more via link in bio. Image: Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #KoreanHistory #PhilanthropyArchives #PhilanthropyHistory #KoreanLanguage #Korea #HangulDay #한국 #한국문화 #한국역사 #한국어 #한글날이벤트
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    Developing the first Hangul (Korean) dictionary was no small venture. In fact, the Korean-born project eventually came to fruition after ten years of development during political upheaval, widespread cultural repression, staff imprisonment, and all-out war. One unlikely partner in the publishing project was the Rockefeller Foundation, and the story is revealed through that institution's archives. Read more via link in bio. Image: Rockefeller Foundation records, RAC. #KoreanHistory #PhilanthropyArchives #PhilanthropyHistory #KoreanLanguage #Korea #HangulDay #한국 #한국문화 #한국역사 #한국어 #한글날이벤트