Casebook for The Foundation: A Great American Secret: Unique in All the World, the American Foundation Sector has been an Engine of Social Change for More Than a Century.

Joel L. Fleishman, J. Scott Kohler, Steven Schindler

PublicAffairs, Mar 25, 2009 - History - 354 pages

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.

The influence of the foundations on American, and indeed global society, has only occasionally come into the public view. For every well-known foundation achievement -- Andrew Carnegie's massive library building program or the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's public efforts to curb tobacco use -- there are a great many lesser-known, but often equally important stories to be told.

The cases in this volume provide a wealth of evidentiary support for Joel Fleishman's description of, and recommendations for, the foundation sector. With lessons for grant-makers, grant-seekers, public officials, and public-spirited individuals alike, this casebook pieces together 100 stories, some well known, others never before told, and offers hard proof of the foundation sector's immense and enduring impact on scientific research, education, public policy, and many other fields. The work that foundations have supported over the past century has achieved profound results. Yet foundations are capable of more and better. This volume, a window onto great successes of the past and present, is at once a look back, a look around, and a point of reference as we turn to the future.

Contents

• Case 1 Rockefeller University: 1
• Case 2 General Education Board Support for Public High Schools: 4
• The Flexner Report: 7
• Case 4 Curing and Preventing Disease and Promoting Public Health: 11
• Case 5 Carnegie Public Libraries for Americas Communities: 14
• Americas First Community Foundation: 18
• Case 7 The Development of Insulin to Treat Diabetes: 20
• National Research Council: 23
• TIAACREF One of the Wealthiest Pension Funds in the World: 25
• Case 10 Building Schools for Rural African Americans: 27
• National Bureau of Economic Research: 30
• Case 12 Reforming the Legal Profession through Education and Practice: 33
• Case 13 The Rural Hospitals Program: 36
• Case 14 Mount Palomar Hale Telescope: 38
• Case 15 The Development of Molecular Biology and the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: 39
• Case 16 Predecessor to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina: 42
• Karl Gunnar Myrdals AN AMERICAN DILEMMA: 44
• Case 18 Support for the Development of the Pap Smear Test: 46
• Case 19 Support of the National Institutes of Health: 48
• Case 20 The Green Revolution: 51
• Case 21 The Rochester Regional Hospital Council: 58
• Case 22 Institution Building for EvidenceBased Public Policy: 61
• Case 23 Preventing Crashes on Americas Highways: 66
• Rockefellers Population Council: 70
• University Area Studies Programs: 72
• Case 26 Howard Hughes Medical Institute: 74
• Case 27 Program to Strengthen Business Education: 76
• National Merit Scholarship Corporation: 79
• Manhattan Bail Project: 81
• National Assessment of Educational Progress: 84
• Case 31 The Development of the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Professions: 86
• Case 32 Americas System of Public Broadcasting and Public Radio: 90
• Case 33 BedfordStuyvesant and the Rise of the Community Development Corporation: 94
• Case 34 Childrens Television Workshop and SESAME STREET: 99
• Case 35 Federal College Scholarships for Americas Needy Students: 102
• Case 36 Social Movements and Civil Rights Litigation: 104
• Case 37 The Police Foundation: 106
• Case 38 The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program: 108
• Case 39 Environmental Public Interest Law Centers: 111
• Case 40 The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union: 113
• Case 41 Programs to Enhance the Rights and Opportunities of Women: 116
• Case 42 The Emergency Medical Services Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: 119
• Case 43 Hospice Care Movement: 125
• Case 44 The Tropical Disease Program: 128
• Case 45 Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation: 133
• Case 46 Conservative Legal Advocacy: 135
• Case 47 Grameen Bank: 137
• Case 48 Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research Institute: 140
• Case 49 Human Rights and the International Criminal Court: 142
• Case 50 The NurseFamily Partnership: 146
• Law and Economics: 148
• Case 52 Local Initiatives Support Corporation LISC: 151
• Case 53 Support of Democratization and Civil Societies in Central and Eastern Europe: 156
• Case 54 MacArthur Fellows Program: 162
• Case 55 The Enterprise Foundation: 164
• Case 56 SelfHelp: 166
• Case 57 Conflict Resolution Program: 169
• Case 58 The Health Care for the Homeless Program: 171
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards: 173
• Case 60 Cleaning up Bostons Harbor and Waterfront: 175
• Case 61 Biodiversity Protection: 179
• Vouchers in Milwaukee: 181
• Case 63 The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center: 183
• Case 64 Clare Boothe Luce Program: 187
• The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics: 189
• Case 66 Goldman Environmental Prize: 192
• Case 67 Cooperative Security and the NunnLugar Act: 193
• Case 68 Care at the End of Life: 198
• Case 69 New Standards Project: 201
• Case 70 Sustainable Environment Programs: 204
• Case 71 KIDS COUNT: 207
• Case 72 The Transformation of the Kaiser Family Foundation: 208
• Case 73 The Energy Foundation: 213
• Case 74 Central European University: 215
• Case 75 Living Cities: 217
• Case 76 The Tobacco Use Programs: 219
• Case 77 Charter Schools Funding: 223
• Case 78 JSTOR: 225
• Case 79 International Science Foundation: 228
• Case 80 Support for Asian Studies and Cultural Exchange: 231
• Case 81 The Prostate Cancer Foundation: 234
• Case 82 Paul B Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program: 236
• Case 83 Picker Institute: 238
• Case 84 College and Beyond Database: 240
• Case 85 National Violent Death Reporting System: 242
• Case 86 National Urban Reconstruction and Housing Agency NURCHA: 244
• Case 87 Pew Research Center for the People and the Press: 247
• Case 88 Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 249
• Case 89 Computational Molecular Biology and Professional Science Degrees: 251
• Case 90 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations: 253
• Case 91 United Nations Arrears Campaign: 256
• Case 92 Youth Development Program: 259
• Case 93 The Plan for Transformation of Public Housing in Chicago: 263
• Case 94 China Sustainable Energy Program: 265
• Case 95 Smart Growth Initiative: 267
• Case 96 International Fellowships Program: 269
• Case 97 Sustainable Development in the Great Bear Rainforest: 271
• Case 98 Talented Students in the Arts Initiative: 275
• KIPP Academies: 277
• A PublicPrivate Collaborative: 279
• notes: 283

Bibliographic information

• Title: Casebook for The Foundation: A Great American Secret: Unique in All the World, the American Foundation Sector has been an Engine of Social Change for More Than a Century.
• Authors: Joel L. Fleishman, J. Scott Kohler, Steven Schindler
• Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2009
• ISBN: 0786734256, 9780786734252
• Length: 354 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General