Casebook for the foundation : a great American secret / Joel L. Fleishman, J. Scott Kohler and Steven Schindler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleishman, Joel L.

Contributor:

Kohler, J. Scott, 1982-

Schindler, Steven, 1980-

Fleishman, Joel L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--United States--Case studies.

Charities.

Endowments--United States--Case studies.

Endowments.

Associations, institutions, etc--United States--Case studies.

Associations, institutions, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Public Affairs, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unique in all the world, the American foundation sector has been an engine of social change for more than a century. In this companion volume to The Foundation: A Great American Secret, Joel Fleishman, Scott Kohler, and Steven Schindler explore 100 of the highest-achieving foundation initiatives of all time. Based on a rich array of sources--from interviews with the principals themselves to contemporaneous news accounts to internal evaluation reports--this volume presents brief case studies of foundation success stories across virtually every field of human endeavor. <p

Contents:

contents; introduction; Case 1 Rockefeller University; Case 2 General Education Board Support for Public High Schools; Case 3 The Transformation of American Medical Education: The Flexner Report; Case 4 Curing and Preventing Disease and Promoting Public Health; Case 5 Carnegie Public Libraries for America's Communities; Case 6 Learning to Understand the Problems Faced by Cleveland: America's First Community Foundation; Case 7 The Development of Insulin to Treat Diabetes; Case 8 Providing Scientific Knowledge to Solve Public Problems: National Research Council

Case 9 Pensions for America's Educators: TIAA-CREF, One of the Wealthiest Pension Funds in the WorldCase 10 Building Schools for Rural African Americans; Case 11 Economic Policy Research of theHighest Quality: National Bureau of Economic Research; Case 12 Reforming the Legal Profession through Education and Practice; Case 13 The Rural Hospitals Program; Case 14 Mount Palomar "Hale" Telescope; Case 15 The Development of Molecular Biology and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA; Case 16 Predecessor to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Case 17 Transforming America's Perceptions of Relations Among its Races: Karl Gunnar Myrdal's AN AMERICAN DILEMMACase 18 Support for the Development of the Pap Smear Test; Case 19 Support of the National Institutes of Health; Case 20 The Green Revolution; Case 21 The Rochester Regional Hospital Council; Case 22 Institution Building for Evidence-Based Public Policy; Case 23 Preventing Crashes on America's Highways; Case 24 Curbing Global Population Growth: Rockefeller's Population Council; Case 25 Facilitating Global Knowledge Creation: University Area Studies Programs

Case 26 Howard Hughes Medical InstituteCase 27 Program to Strengthen Business Education; Case 28 Financing Higher Education for America's Talented Students: National Merit Scholarship Corporation; Case 29 Vera Institute of Justice: Manhattan Bail Project; Case 30 Measuring American Education Reform: National Assessment of Educational Progress; Case 31 The Development of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Professions; Case 32 America's System of Public Broadcasting and Public Radio; Case 33 Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Rise of the Community Development Corporation

Case 34 Children's Television Workshop and SESAME STREETCase 35 Federal College Scholarships for America's Needy Students; Case 36 Social Movements and Civil Rights Litigation; Case 37 The Police Foundation; Case 38 The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program; Case 39 Environmental Public Interest Law Centers; Case 40 The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union; Case 41 Programs to Enhance the Rights and Opportunities of Women; Case 42 The Emergency Medical Services Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Case 43 Hospice Care Movement

Case 44 The Tropical Disease Program

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Related Work:

Fleishman, Joel L. Foundation.

ISBN:

1-283-07319-6

9786613073198

0-7867-3425-6

OCLC:

712015998