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Sloan Foundation

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sloan Foundation fund established (1934) by automobile executive Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. as a philanthropic institution supporting research in various areas. In its early years it stressed support of U.S. economic education and research. After World War II its emphasis shifted in part to medical research, particularly cancer research. In the late 1960s its activities were expanded to include studies in current social problems, science, and technology. These interests, with the addition of a focus on the economy and its effects on standards of living, continued through the 1990s. The foundation has... Read more
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr
...intracompany competition. Sloan made a great philanthropic...he endowed the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with $10 million; to 1966...Major recipients were the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer...Weaver, Warren, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., philanthropist, New York:Alfred P. Sloan ... Read more
Sloan, Alfred P.
...pricing. As a philanthropist, Sloan, with his wife Irene, gave...president, he endowed the Sloan‐Kettering Foundation for the Study of Cancer in...the century, the Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center...Philanthropy and Philanthropic Foundations ; Reuther, Walter ; ... Read more

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