• Business education as it exists today came out of a massive mid-century philanthropic program. From 1954 to 1965, the Ford Foundation spent $46.3 million on business education reform (approximately $375 million in 2019 dollars) -- essentially creating the MBA as we know it today. These two women, photographed in 1966, were part of the business school at Texas Southern University, which received a $575,000 grant (roughly $4.75 million in 2019 dollars) through the program. Read more on RE:source, our storytelling platform where we delve into the history of philanthropy. Link in bio. Photo: Women studying at Texas Southern University's Business School in 1966, Photographer Marc St. Gil, Ford Foundation photographs, RAC. #NationalPhilanthropyDay #PhilanthropyArchives #WomenInHigherEd #PhilanthropyHistory #MBA #BusinessEducation #BusinessSchool #TexasSouthernUniversity #HBCU #HBCUhistory #HBCUsMatter
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    Business education as it exists today came out of a massive mid-century philanthropic program. From 1954 to 1965, the Ford Foundation spent $46.3 million on business education reform (approximately $375 million in 2019 dollars) -- essentially creating the MBA as we know it today. These two women, photographed in 1966, were part of the business school at Texas Southern University, which received a $575,000 grant (roughly $4.75 million in 2019 dollars) through the program. Read more on RE:source, our storytelling platform where we delve into the history of philanthropy. Link in bio. Photo: Women studying at Texas Southern University's Business School in 1966, Photographer Marc St. Gil, Ford Foundation photographs, RAC. #NationalPhilanthropyDay #PhilanthropyArchives #WomenInHigherEd #PhilanthropyHistory #MBA #BusinessEducation #BusinessSchool #TexasSouthernUniversity #HBCU #HBCUhistory #HBCUsMatter
  • More than 700 major contributors and countless individual donations helped restore the Statue of Liberty and create a museum devoted to immigration on Ellis Island in the 1980s. This massive fundraising campaign underscores the power of philanthropy and philanthropic giving to preserve important symbols of history and culture. Learn more from RE:source via our link in bio-- Photograph: Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association records, RAC. #statueofliberty #ellisisland #philanthropyhistory #downtownlowermanhattan @statueellisfdn
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    More than 700 major contributors and countless individual donations helped restore the Statue of Liberty and create a museum devoted to immigration on Ellis Island in the 1980s. This massive fundraising campaign underscores the power of philanthropy and philanthropic giving to preserve important symbols of history and culture. Learn more from RE:source via our link in bio-- Photograph: Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association records, RAC. #statueofliberty #ellisisland #philanthropyhistory #downtownlowermanhattan @statueellisfdn
  • On #youngreadersday we celebrate America's libraries, and the inter-generational joy of reading! At the turn of the twentieth-century, many American philanthropic organizations were involved in programs to help the influx of new immigrants from Eastern Europe adjust to and succeed in their new lives in America. The program shown in this 1928 photograph, the Neighborhood Teacher's Association, was funded with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and hosted educational opportunities for newly arrived immigrants in New York City public libraries. The immigrant women who attended often had their children in tow. Photograph: Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial records, RAC #publiclibrary #publiclibraries @nypl #immigrantexperience #immigrants #lowereastside #teachersofinstagram
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    On #youngreadersday we celebrate America's libraries, and the inter-generational joy of reading! At the turn of the twentieth-century, many American philanthropic organizations were involved in programs to help the influx of new immigrants from Eastern Europe adjust to and succeed in their new lives in America. The program shown in this 1928 photograph, the Neighborhood Teacher's Association, was funded with support from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and hosted educational opportunities for newly arrived immigrants in New York City public libraries. The immigrant women who attended often had their children in tow. Photograph: Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial records, RAC #publiclibrary #publiclibraries @nypl #immigrantexperience #immigrants #lowereastside #teachersofinstagram
  • We express our gratitude to all of our nation's veterans on this #veteransday. This photograph shows Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, the fourth of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's six children, in his naval uniform. Laurance served in the @usnavy during the Second World War, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Following the war, he went on to have a successful career as a businessman and philanthropist, notably in the area of environmental conservation. For his varied conservation efforts, Laurance received the first Theodore Roosevelt National Park Medal of Honor in 1995 from then-President Bill Clinton. Photograph: Laurance Spelman Rockefeller records, RAC #usnavy #usarmedforces @usairforce @usarmy @usarmyreserve @uscg @usmarinecorps #usveterans
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    We express our gratitude to all of our nation's veterans on this #veteransday. This photograph shows Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, the fourth of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's six children, in his naval uniform. Laurance served in the @usnavy during the Second World War, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Following the war, he went on to have a successful career as a businessman and philanthropist, notably in the area of environmental conservation. For his varied conservation efforts, Laurance received the first Theodore Roosevelt National Park Medal of Honor in 1995 from then-President Bill Clinton. Photograph: Laurance Spelman Rockefeller records, RAC #usnavy #usarmedforces @usairforce @usarmy @usarmyreserve @uscg @usmarinecorps #usveterans
  • Abby Babs Rockefeller MauzĂ©, the eldest child and only daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was born #OTD in 1903. She joined her five younger brothers, who founded the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, on the Fund's board of trustees in 1954. Babs--who famously (and scandalously) omitted the word obey from her wedding vows to her first husband--sat on the board of @sloankettering, and donated time and money to many New York cultural institutions, including the @themusemofmodernart , @metropolitanmuseum, and @asiasociety. In 1968, Babs created and became president of the still-extant Greenacre Foundation to maintain and operate New York City parks for the benefit of the public. Through the Greenacre Foundation, Babs created a lush, verdant oasis complete with waterfall in New York City's midtown in 1971, @greenacreparkny. She is shown here with a model of the proposed Greenacre Park. Image: Rockefeller family photographs, RAC #urbangarden #urbanoasis #gardening #newyorkcity @rockbrosfund #midtown #greenacrepark
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    Abby Babs Rockefeller Mauzé, the eldest child and only daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, was born #OTD in 1903. She joined her five younger brothers, who founded the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, on the Fund's board of trustees in 1954. Babs--who famously (and scandalously) omitted the word obey from her wedding vows to her first husband--sat on the board of @sloankettering, and donated time and money to many New York cultural institutions, including the @themusemofmodernart , @metropolitanmuseum, and @asiasociety. In 1968, Babs created and became president of the still-extant Greenacre Foundation to maintain and operate New York City parks for the benefit of the public. Through the Greenacre Foundation, Babs created a lush, verdant oasis complete with waterfall in New York City's midtown in 1971, @greenacreparkny. She is shown here with a model of the proposed Greenacre Park. Image: Rockefeller family photographs, RAC #urbangarden #urbanoasis #gardening #newyorkcity @rockbrosfund #midtown #greenacrepark
  • Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born #OTD in 1867. Curie and her husband, Pierre, were renowned for explorations of radioactivity, famously isolating the radioactive elements polonium and radium. Curie presented this 1929 signed photograph of herself to Elsie G. Mead, one of the founders of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (today the American Cancer Society) and a champion of Curie's work. Mead had been the secretary of a committee of women, including Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, that organized in 1921 to raise $100,000 to provide Curie with a gram of radium, designated for her unrestricted use. The committee included a panel of notable scientists and scholars, including Dr. Simon Flexner, the first director of what became Rockefeller University. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. authorized a donation of $10,000 to the Marie Curie Radium Fund via his mother's memorial fund, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and included a separate, personal donation of $200 to the drive. Curie visited America for the first time in 1921 to receive this gift of the radium from President Warren Harding. Photograph by Blanche de Loriere, Rockefeller University records, RAC #mariecurie @sorbonne_univ @rockefelleruniv #pierrecurie #radium #physics #womenphysicists #americanphysicalsociety @aapmhq @nobelprize_org @americancancersociety
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    Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born #OTD in 1867. Curie and her husband, Pierre, were renowned for explorations of radioactivity, famously isolating the radioactive elements polonium and radium. Curie presented this 1929 signed photograph of herself to Elsie G. Mead, one of the founders of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (today the American Cancer Society) and a champion of Curie's work. Mead had been the secretary of a committee of women, including Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, that organized in 1921 to raise $100,000 to provide Curie with a gram of radium, designated for her unrestricted use. The committee included a panel of notable scientists and scholars, including Dr. Simon Flexner, the first director of what became Rockefeller University. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. authorized a donation of $10,000 to the Marie Curie Radium Fund via his mother's memorial fund, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and included a separate, personal donation of $200 to the drive. Curie visited America for the first time in 1921 to receive this gift of the radium from President Warren Harding. Photograph by Blanche de Loriere, Rockefeller University records, RAC #mariecurie @sorbonne_univ @rockefelleruniv #pierrecurie #radium #physics #womenphysicists #americanphysicalsociety @aapmhq @nobelprize_org @americancancersociety