Summary
Wooster focuses on eight cases where huge foundations made mistakes: the Rockefeller Foundation's attempt to recast American medical education; the Lasker Foundation's war against cancer; the populationcontrol campaign of the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; the Ford Foundation's "Gray Areas" program; the Carnegie Corporation's public-television campaigns; the Ford Foundation's school-decentralization initiative; the MacArthur Fellows program; and the Annenberg Foundation's public-school-reform crusade.
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Great Philanthropic Mistakes
Great Philanthropic Mistakes by Martin Morse Wooster Hudson Institute * 2006 * 157 pages * $14.95 paperback
Reviewed by George C. LeefThe University of Chicago was founded with John D. Rockefeller's money, and numerous public libraries were created through th...See the full content of this document
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