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The permanent purpose of The Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, is "to promote the well being of mankind throughout the world. Its program, in terms of broad objective, is the advancement of knowledge, with emphasis at present upon certain specific fields: Medical sciences (psychiatry); natural sciences (experimental biology); public health (development of general public health activities and study and control of certain diseases); social sciences (international relations, social security, public administration); the humanities (efforts tending to raise the general cultural level and to promote cultural interchange between countries). Except to a limited extent in public health, the Foundation is not an operating organization. Its activities are confined to the support of other agencies and to the training, through post-doctoral fellowships. of competent personnel in the various fields of knowledge.

Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York City, was established by Andrew Carnegie for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States and the British Dominions and Colonies. The present program of the Corporation includes the support of educational and scientific research, publications of professional and scholarly societies and associations, fine arts education through educational institutions and national organizations, adult education, library service and training, and support of various related projects which give promise of providing new knowledge.

The General Education Board was endowed by John D. Rockefeller with the stated object of "promoting education within the United States of America, without distinction of race, sex or creed." The present program concentrates on southern education. It takes the form of assisting state governments and higher institutions to undertake studies, experiments, and demonstrations in public education; studies of significant southern interests and problems; qualitative development of selected ⚫ institutions; improvement of personnel. Special programs in Negro education relate to supervision and promotion of public schools, basic development of selected higher institutions, and training of

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Hayden Foundation. The Charles Hayden Foundation, founded in 1937, aims to assist needy boys and young men; to aid clubs, gymnasia and recreation centers in this country for the training and development of boys and young men; and to place within their reach the privilege of education, mental recreation and coordinate physical training. Administrative offices are located at 25 Broad St., New York City.

The Duke Endowment was established by James Buchanan Duke to promote "the needs of mankind

along physical, mental and spiritual lines" in the South. Duke University (former Trinity college) is the chief beneficiary of the Endowment. Other schools in the Carolinas also receive funds. Other objectives of the trust are the maintenance of hospitals, the care of preachers and orphans. To the original endowment superannuated Methodist was added $10,000,000 and two-thirds of the residuary estate. The main office of the endowment is in New York City.

The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago, in 1940 completed the twenty-third year of its work. The year's activities included: Experimental work in rural schools, especially in the South, with a view to improving rural education and so improving rural life itself. Fellowships for advanced study by exceptionally able Negroes and white southerners. Aid to the most important Negro universities. General study of race and culture and particular activity in this racial field toward improving the opportunities and conditions of Negroes in America. Julius Rosenwald provided that capital as well as income may be spent at any time in the discretion of the trustees, and that the entire fund.

both capital and income, must be spent within twenty-five years of his death, which occurred Jan. 6, 1932.

The Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, was created by Mrs. Russell Sage in 1907, as a memorial to her husband. Its purpose is for the improvement of social and living conditions in America." Its departments give special attention to studies in the social work field and to research concerning various problems in the more general field of the social sciences. Its staff interprets these findings-makes the information available through publications, conferences, and other public education, and in various other ways stimulates action for social betterment.

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The Trustees of the Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund have disbursed all the capital funds left by the will of the late Mr. Rackham. Within a short time the corporation will be dissolved.

Mary Louise Curtis Bok Foundation, Philadelphia, was created in 1931 by Mrs. Edward Bok, for the "support of music and musical education, support and promotion of the fine arts, science, scientific research, invention, discovery, or general education." The principal beneficiaries are: Curtis Institute of Music and the Settlement Music School, both in Philadelphia, and the Research Studio, Maitland, Florida.

The purpose of the Buhl Foundation, Pittsburgh, is to stimulate the advancement of human welfare cipal grants have been to existing agencies or by experiment, demonstration, and research. Prinespecially established agencies for promotion of

ley, for charitable, civic and eleemosynary purposes within the State of North Carolina. by a grant of all the property received by them from the estate of their late brother, Zachary Smith Reynolds of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The first project undertaken by the Foundation was the inauguration of a campaign for the control of venereal disease in the State of North Carolina through a donation to the State Health Department.

The Children's Fund of Michigan, Detroit, was founded by the late United States Senator James Couzens to promote the health, welfare, and happiness of the children of the State of Michigan, and elsewhere in the world." Principal as well as earnings are to be spent within twenty-five years from the date of the gift. The work is confined to Michigan, where the Fund carries on directly local public health organization, health education, pediatric clinics in rural areas, oral hygiene, rural nursing, eye correction, child guidance through mental hygiene, and medical research. The Fund makes grants to other agencies in dependency and recreational fields.

The Juilliard Musical Foundation, New York City, was set up by Augustus D. Juilliard to extend musical education and recreation.

The general purpose of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D. C., is "to hasten the abolition of international war." The activities of the Endowment are of an educational nature and are conducted through the issuance of publications, arrangements for lectures and meetings of individuals and groups in the United States and other countries to advance the cause of peace among nations, to hasten the renunciation of war as an instrument of international policy., to encourage and promote methods for the peaceful settlement of international differences, and for the increase of international understanding and concord, and to aid in the development of international law and the acceptance by all nations of the principles underlying such law.

The purposes of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, New York City, include providing "retiring pensions without regard to race. sex, creed, or color, for the teachers of universities, colleges, and technical schools in the United States, Dominion of Canada, and Newfoundland" and in general to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education" in those countries. For these purposes the Foundation has paid retiring allowances to 1,945 former teachers and pensions to 1,083 widows. Through its Division of Educational Enquiry it has studied and reported upon numerous problems of higher education in the United States and Canada. The object of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C., is to encourage investigation, research and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind. The Institution desires to advance fundamental research in fields not normally covered by other agencies, and has organized its own departments of research in astronomy, in the terrestrial sciences, in the biological sciences and in historical research.

Cranbrook Foundation was established in 1927 with an endowment of $6,682,055 from George G. and Ellen S. Booth, to be devoted to the completion of the religious, educational and cultural projects begun by the founders at Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

The principal purposes of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, Pittsburgh, as expressed by the founder, Andrew Carnegie, are: "To place those following peaceful vocation, who have been injured in heroic effort to save human life, in somewhat better positions pecuniarily than before, until again able to work. In case of death, the widow and children, or other dependents, to be provided for until she remarries, and the children until they reach a self-supporting age. For exceptional children exceptional grants may be made for exceptional education. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the Commission thinks advisable-each case to be judged on its merits. A medal shall be given to the hero, or widow, or next of kin, which shall recite the heroic deed it commemorates, that descendants may know and be proud of their descent. The medal shall be given for the heroic act, even if the doer be uninjured, and also a sum of money, should the Commission deem such gift desirable."

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City, grants fellowships to citizens and permanent residents of the United States, to assist research in any field of knowledge and creative work in any of the fine arts. The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or unusual creative ability in the fine arts. The Fellowships are granted for varying periods, long or short, depending on the amount of time needed by the Fellows for the work they propose. The stipends granted Fellows are normally $2,500 a year. Fellows may go to any part of the world where their work can best be done. Foundation also offers a limited number of Fellowships, for work in the United States, to Canadians and, on its Latin American Fellowship plan. to Puerto Ricans, and to citizens of Argentina. Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. The purpose of the Foundation is "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding and the appreciation of beauty, by aiding without distinction on account of race, color or creed. scholars, scientists, and artists of either sex in the prosecution of their labors."

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The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, New York City, has limited its new interests to support of research programs in the medical sciences. Prior to 1935 the Foundation was interested in the field of social welfare and there are a few organizations outside of medical research to which fairly substantial support has been given for a number of years, which it has been felt expedient to continue temporarily.

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The Spelman Fund of New York was chartered in 1928. Its present program is centered upon the improvement of methods and techniques in public administration. Support is extended to public and quasi-public agencies for dissemination of information on current administrative developments; for study and improvement of administrative practices; and for testing new methods and devices under actual operating conditions.

The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation, Pittsburgh, confines its activities to the making of grants to economic research studies. Within this field, it makes its appropriations to established economic research organizations; the Foundation, itself, does not conduct research. The grants are for the specific budgets of studies which deal directly with matters affecting American trade, industry and finance. It is the purpose of this research to result in publications which are addressed to the lay audience of the general public.

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation was established in 1936 by Richard J. Reynolds. Mrs. Mary

The Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, was bank Anderson in 1905 as a memorial to her father and mother, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lake Milbank. with an initial gift of $3,000,000. The general purpose of the foundation is to improve the physical, mental and moral condition of humanity and generally to advance charitable and benevolent objects." Mrs. Anderson increased her gifts from year to year until they amounted to $9,315.175 at the time of her death in 1921. The Fund assists official and private agencies and institutions in the field of public health and medicine, education, social welfare and research. Emphasis is given to activities which are preventive rather than palliative.

The Permanent Charity Fund was organized in Boston in 1915 to accept gifts to the fund, the principal to be held invested and income each year to be applied to charitable purposes. The committee consists of 7 residents of Massachusetts and no person seeking or holding public office is eligible. The first funds were received in 1917 and amounted to $2,836,553.

The general purposes of the Kresge Foundation, Detroit, as set forth in the declaration of trust by S. S. Kresge, are: "The purposes for which this Foundation is created are the promotion of eleemosynary, philanthropic and charitable means of any all of the means of human progress, whether