Cristeta Comerford is the White House's executive chef, the first ethnic minority to serve in that position. She arrived at the White House as an assistant chef during the Clinton Administration, but ...

Congratulations to the 2024 Great Immigrants honorees! Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and ...

Moncef Slaoui was born in Agadir, Morocco, and grew up in Casablanca. Even though both of his parents had only high school educations, they were dedicated to creating educational opportunities for ...

Physicist Roald Sagdeev is a former advisor to Mikhail S. Gorbachev and served as director of the Space Research Institute, the center of the Soviet space exploration program. There, he led the ...

"The Corporation seeks to understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion,” Louise Richardson DBE, President, Carnegie Corporation of ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropic career began in the 1870s. In his essay “The Gospel of Wealth,” published in 1889, he outlined a philosophy of giving: he asserted that the rich are “trustees” of their ...

Born in Israel, Shimon Shmueli is credited as the inventor of the USB flash drive, which he created while working at IBM in 1999. After serving in various leadership positions there, he went on to ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

Our database contains information on grants dating to 2004 (for older grants, please refer to our archives). Each record includes the grant amount, date awarded and duration, a description, and links ...

Radiologist Elias Zerhouni, born in 1951 in Nedroma, Algeria served as the fifteenth director of the National Institutes of Health, the country's leading biomedical research agency, from 2002 to 2008.