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campaigns and the treatment of infected persons. As part of this program, more than

25,000 public meetings were attended by more than 2 million people who were given

the facts about hookworm and its prevention. So successful was its work that a new

agency was created as part of a new Rockefeller philanthropy to expand the work to

other countries and to attack other diseases both in the South and abroad.

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION

In 1913, Rockefeller established The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) to “promote the

well-being of mankind throughout the world?. In keeping with this broad commitment,

the Foundation through the years has given important assistance to public health,

medical education, increasing food production, scientific advancement, social research,

the arts, and other fields all over the world.

The Foundation?s International Health Division expanded the work of the Sanitary

Commission worldwide, working against various diseases in fifty-two countries on six

continents and twenty-nine islands, bringing international recognition of the need for

public health and environmental sanitation. Its early field research on hookworm,

malaria, and yellow fever provided the basic techniques to control these diseases and

established the pattern of modern public health services. Th RF built and endowed the

world’s first School of Hygiene and Public Health, at The Johns Hopkins University, and

then spent over $25 million in developing public health schools in the U.S. and in

twenty-one foreign countries. Its agricultural development program in Mexico led to

what has been called the Green Revolution in the advancement of food production

around the world; and the RF provided significant funding for the International Rice

Research Institute in the Philippines. Thousands of scientists and scholars from all over

the world have received RF fellowships and scholarships for advanced study. The

foundation helped to found the Social Science Research Council and has provided

significant support for such organizations as the National Bureau of Economic Research,

the Brookings Institution, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Russian Institute at

Columbia University. In the arts the RF has helped establish or support the Stratford

Shakespearean Festival in Ontario, Canada, and the American Shakespeare Festival in

Stratford, Connecticut; Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; Karamu House in Cleveland;

and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

OTHER ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

In addition to creating these corporate philanthropies, Rockefeller continued to make

personal donations. Among others whose activities received his financial support were

various colleges and universities, including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Spelman,

Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Vassar; theological schools; the Palisades Interstate Park

Commission; San Francisco Earthquake victims; the Anti-Saloon League; Rockefeller

Park and other parks in Cleveland; Baptist missionary organiz

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