This book provides substantial profiles of individuals and families who made significant contributions to the American philanthropic tradition from the 1600s to the present.
Preface Introduction Addams, Jane Bacon, Leonard Baldwin, Roger Nash Barton, Clara Beecher, Lyman Benezet, Anthony Bethune, Mary McLeod Bishop, Bernice Pauahi Paki Booth Family Brace, Charles Loring Brookings, Robert Somers Carnegie, Andrew Chavez, Cesar Estrada Cooper, Peter Cuffe, Paul and James Forten Day, Dorothy Dayton Family Dix, Dorothea Lynde Drexel, Katharine Eastman, George Ford, Henry and Edsel Ford Franklin, Benjamin Garcia, Hector Perez Garrett, Mary Elizabeth Gates, William H. (Bill) III Girard, Stephen Goff, Frederick Harris Goodrich, Pierre Frist Gratz, Rebecca Guggenheim Family Higginson, Henry Lee Hogg, Ima Hoover, Herbert Clark Howe, Samuel Gridley Maria, Helen (Fiske) and Hunt Jackson Keayne, Robert Kelley, Florence Kellogg, Will Keith Kresge, Sebastian S. Lilly, Eli Low, Juliette "Daisy" Gordon Lowell, John Jr. Lowell, Josephine Shaw Lyon, Mary Mather, Cotton McCarty, Oseola McCormick, Nettie Fowler Mellon Family Moorland, Jesse E. Muir, John Native American Philanthropy: Family and Giving in Lakota Communities Olin, John M. Owen, Robert and Robert Dale Owen Packard, David and Lucile Packard Patterson, Frederick Douglass Peabody, George Pew Family Robinson, James Herman Rockefeller, John D. Sr. Rockefeller Family Rosenwald, Julius Rush, Benjamin Sage, Margaret Olivia Slocum (Mrs. Russell) Sanger, Margaret Seton, Elizabeth Ann Bayley Smithson, James Soros, George Stanford, Leland and Jane Lathrop Stanford Szold, Henrietta Tappan, Arthur and Lewis Tappan Thompson, Benjamin (Count Rumford) Tuckerman, Joseph Wald, Lillian D. Walker, Madame C.J. Washington, Booker Taliaferro Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Winthrop, John Appendix 1: Time Line of American Philanthropy Appendix 2: Videos Appendix 3: Children's Books Index
ROBERT T. GRIMM JR. teaches Philanthropic Studies and History and directs the American Philanthropists Project at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. In addition to currently serving as a regular columnist for Foundation News & Commentary, he has been an Earhart Fellow and published numerous works on American philanthropy and nonprofits.
"Notable American and Philanthropists usefully identifies great
philanthropists and lists their most important gifts and good
deeds."-Philanthropy
?[T]his collection of 78 profiles that describe 110 individuals and
in some cases families reveals that some people of modest means
have helped shape American life through voluntary service or
charitable donations....This volume complements other information
on some of the more famous persons and also introduces readers to
some forgotten or lesser-known persons. IT is recommended for large
public and academic libraries.?-Booklist/Reference Books
Bulletin
?Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.?-Gale
Reference Reviews
?Notable American and Philanthropists usefully identifies great
philanthropists and lists their most important gifts and good
deeds.?-Philanthropy
?This is a wonderful book. It profiles 79 individuals (or families)
and one group of people, the Lakota, who made or are making major
contributions to American society and to the world....This volume
inspires, and it provides its readers with a grand sense of
options. Few of us have the resources to donate billions of
dollars, but as these 80 chapters reflect, all of us have something
to give.?-CharityChannel.com
"ÝT¨his collection of 78 profiles that describe 110 individuals and
in some cases families reveals that some people of modest means
have helped shape American life through voluntary service or
charitable donations....This volume complements other information
on some of the more famous persons and also introduces readers to
some forgotten or lesser-known persons. IT is recommended for large
public and academic libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books
Bulletin
"Highly recommended for academic and public libraries."-Gale
Reference Reviews
"The first comprehensive collective biography of American
philanthropists. Recommended. General readers and lower-division
undergraduates."-Choice
"This is a wonderful book. It profiles 79 individuals (or families)
and one group of people, the Lakota, who made or are making major
contributions to American society and to the world....This volume
inspires, and it provides its readers with a grand sense of
options. Few of us have the resources to donate billions of
dollars, but as these 80 chapters reflect, all of us have something
to give."-CharityChannel.com
"[T]his collection of 78 profiles that describe 110 individuals and
in some cases families reveals that some people of modest means
have helped shape American life through voluntary service or
charitable donations....This volume complements other information
on some of the more famous persons and also introduces readers to
some forgotten or lesser-known persons. IT is recommended for large
public and academic libraries."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
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