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	Andrew Carnegie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Young Carnegie started work at an early age as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill, and a few years later was engaged as a telegraph clerk and operator with the Atlantic and Ohio Company.
		Carnegie married Louise Whitfield in 1887 and had one daughter, Margaret, who was born in 1897.
		Carnegie was one of over 50 wealthy members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, which operated an exclusive and secretive retreat at a mountain lake near South Fork, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Carnegie (2614 words)

	Andrew Carnegie, Famous Philanthropists and the Foundations They Built - Part 3 - The Carnegie Corporation - ...
		Carnegie’s father was greatly discouraged by his inability to support his family, and his mother made it clear that she was greatly disappointed in her husband and saddened by their poverty.
		Carnegie’s investment income was almost $50,000 per year by 1868, and although he’d promised himself he’d retire from business and devote himself to philanthropy and education at the age of 35, a trip to England resulted in a change of plans.
		Carnegie’s love of reading developed from his childhood experience in the library of a local businessman and he had always wanted to make the reading experience available to everyone as a means of self education.
	www.plannedlegacy.com /newsletter/andrew-carnegie-bio.html (1454 words)

	Carnegie International Corporation, et al.: Lit. Rel. No. 18229 / July 14, 2003
		The individual defendants are E. David Gable, Carnegie's chairman, Lowell Farkas, Carnegie's president and chief executive officer, David Pearl, a lawyer and the former corporate secretary of Carnegie, Richard J. Greene, Carnegie's former chief financial officer, Scott Caruthers, a former Carnegie director, and Dashielle Lashra Caruthers, the wife of Scott Caruthers.
		The complaint further alleges that Carnegie's financial reporting was highly susceptible to the financial fraud because Greene, Carnegie's former chief financial officer, failed to implement an adequate system of internal accounting controls.
		Carnegie is also alleged to have materially misrepresented Talidan's expected future performance in the company's 1998 Form 10-KSB, by failing to disclose known adverse events and uncertainties that were materially impacting Talidan's revenues.
	www.sec.gov /litigation/litreleases/lr18229.htm (813 words)

	Andrew Carnegie: A Scottish Immigrant's View of the Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The corporate form of ownership would not do this since it is seldom that shareholders have the interests of the firm as their own.
		Carnegie Steel was large but by 1899 we had reached a point where the partnership could not longer provide the capital needed to stay competitive.
		Corporations have their critics in every generation, for example Charles and Henry Adams and Ray Stannard Baker, but David Korten demonizes the corporation by attributing to it all human malaise of the present and future.
	www.pamij.com /99_4_1_wren.html (5191 words)

	AllRefer.com - Carnegie Corporation of New York (Private Foundations) - Encyclopedia
		Carnegie Corporation of New York, foundation established (1911) to administer Andrew Carnegie's remaining personal fortune for philanthropic purposes.
		Carnegie directed the foundation's activities until his death in 1919; in accordance with his early interests he gave grants to public libraries and church organs.
		Andrew Carnegie also established the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905), and the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission (1904).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CarnegieCNY.html (278 words)

	CCNY history
		Carnegie Corporation of New York, which was established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 "to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding," is one of the oldest, largest and most influential of American foundations.
		Carnegie earmarked a portion of the endowment to be used for philanthropic purposes in Canada and what were then the British Colonies.
		The Corporation moved away from higher education, placing priority on the education and healthy development of children and adolescents and the preparation of youth for a scientific and technological, knowledge-driven world.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/collections/carnegie/CCNYhistory.html (3387 words)

	University Receives Academic Leadership Award from Carnegie Corporation
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that Carnegie Mellon University and its president, Jared L. Cohon, are among the winners of the newly established Academic Leadership Award.
		Carnegie Mellon was honored for its commitment to interdisciplinary education and ability to integrate academic and co-curricular experiences.
		Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." The corporation seeks to carry out Carnegie's vision of philanthropy, which he said should aim "to do real and permanent good in the world." For more on the award, visit http://www.carnegie.org/sub/news/leadership.html.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/050304_carnegie.html (417 words)

	Complaint: Carnegie International Corporation, et al
		Carnegie also materially misrepresented the terms of transactions in its public filings and press releases, and to its auditors, and failed to timely disclose adverse events that were materially impacting revenues.
		Carnegie's financial reporting was highly susceptible to this fraud because defendant Richard J. Greene ("Greene"), Carnegie's former chief financial officer, failed to implement an adequate system of internal accounting controls at Carnegie.
		Carnegie is a Colorado corporation headquartered in Laurel, Maryland.
	www.sec.gov /litigation/complaints/comp18229.htm (3210 words)

	Carnegie, Andrew on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carnegie, concentrating on production rather than stock-market manipulations, further expanded his plants and consolidated his hold in the depression of 1893-97.
		By 1900, the Carnegie Steel Company was producing one quarter of all the steel in the United States and controlled iron mines, coke ovens, ore ships, and railroads.
		Carnegie's essay “The Gospel of Wealth” (1889) set forth his idea that rich men are “trustees” of their wealth and should administer it for the good of the public.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CarnegieA1.asp (625 words)

	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		Carnegie’s China Program and China Vitae recently hosted a day-long conference on the role of leadership differences in the formation of China’s domestic and foreign policies.
		Carnegie Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis argues that critics of the July U.S.-India deal fail to see the shrewdness of rewarding India’s record of voluntary non-proliferation with urgently needed civilian nuclear programs, while placing India’s future nuclear development within an international framework.
		Carnegie's Joseph Cirincione argues that arms control has suffered at the hands of nuclear expansionists, who favor deploying new nukes and fighting proliferation with military muscle.
	www.carnegieendowment.org (372 words)

	DCPL: Library News: Carnegie Corporation Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Carnegie Corporation announced on June 10, 1999, in New York, that the D.C. Public Library and 24 urban public libraries were awarded grants in honor of the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's gifts to establish public libraries in New York City and more than 1,350 other American communities.
		Attending the Carnegie Corporation ceremony and press conference were Dr. Marie Harris Aldridge, president of the Board of Library Trustees, Mrs.
		Carnegie's gift supported the construction of four facilities, three of which are still serving the public as libraries.
	www.dclibrary.org /news/carnegie.html (455 words)

	Andrew Carnegie
		Carnegie could serve as as great a personal tribute to the great Founder of Libraries, the earnest Champion of Peace and the resolute Captain of Industry as presenting his own words online--available electronically and immediately to the whole world through the World Wide Web.
		Carnegie's chiefest joys, celebrates this November its 100th anniversary, a refuge to August Wilson and to thousands and thousands of inquiring minds over ten decades.
		Such men become interested in firms or corporations using millions; and estimating only simple interest to be made upon the capital invested, it is inevitable that their income must exceed their expenditures, and that they must accumulate wealth.
	www.andrewcarnegie.net (4769 words)

	Carnegie Corporation - The Corporation's Program
		Andrew Carnegie’s charge that the Corporation dedicate itself to the “advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding” has led it, over nearly 100 years of work, to support efforts to improve teaching and learning that have the potential to make a lasting and long-term contribution to the field of education.
		Since Carnegie Corporation of New York began its current efforts to improve the nation's schools and teachers almost 20 years ago (spurred by the seminal 1983 report, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform), research and practice have led to increasing agreement on essential elements for excellent teacher education.
		Given Carnegie Corporation’s history of attention to the problems of the field, the foundation is well positioned to stimulate a major restructuring of teacher education.
	www.carnegie.org /sub/program/education.html (2000 words)

	Andrew Carnegie
		Andrew Carnegie, the son of a handloom weaver, was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on 25th November, 1835.
		In the article Carnegie argued that it was the duty of rich men and women to use their wealth to benefit the welfare of the community.
		Carnegie set up a trust fund "for the improvement of mankind." This included the building of 3,000 public libraries (380 in Britain), the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution of Washington for research into the natural and physical sciences.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAcarnegie.htm (915 words)

	PND On the Web - Carnegie Corporation of New York
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York is a general-purpose, grantmaking foundation established in 1911 by Andrew Carnegie for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States.
		Currently, the corporation awards approximately $75 million in grants each year to nonprofit organizations and institutions for projects that are broadly educational in nature and show promise of having national or international impact.
		Visitors to the Carnegie Corporation's home page are always up-to-date on the organization's newsworthy activities thanks to a pop-up box that features a headline, summary, and link to the corporation's most recent news story.
	fdncenter.org /pnd/ontheweb/otw.jhtml?id=9400068 (522 words)

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		During the past few decades, the political leanings of the Carnegie Corporation (CC) have shifted leftward (as is true of many large foundations).
		One notable individual who served on the Carnegie board of directors until recently was Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wealthy wife of the John Kerry.
		A Carnegie Corporation representative also sits on the steering committee of the Peace and Security Funders Group, which is an unincorporated association of individual philanthropists, private foundations, public foundations, operating foundations, charitable trusts, and other grantmaking programs that give money to leftwing anti-war and environmentalist causes.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /funderProfile.asp?fndid=5266 (609 words)

	Carnegie Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Carnegie Corporation was founded by the will of Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to "promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." It is the tenth of twelve
		Based on an initial 135-million dollar grant, the Corporation is now worth 1.9 billion dollars.
		At its current rate, it gives away 80 million per year; thus, if the Corporation ceased making a profit today, it would be able to continue its charitable works for another 23 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnegie_Corporation (112 words)

	CARNEGIE LIBRARIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One condition of every Carnegie grant was that a community must pledge an annual amount of 10 percent of the grant, from tax monies and not from endowment or gift, to maintain the library.
		At first the Carnegie Corporation did not require that a library be designed by an architect, and no stylistic criteria were attached to the building's appearance, other than it should signify the importance of the building to the community.
		Carnegie Libraries have distinctive styles; more than half were designed as Classical Revival, often called Carnegie Classical, identified by columns and a large pediment over the main entrance.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/carnegie.htm (590 words)

	Reading Research Quarterly : July/August/September 2005 : New Directions in Research: The Evolution of an Adolescent ...
		Andrew Carnegie's legacy includes over 2,500 free public libraries that he saw as a link “bridging ignorance and education.” In fact, Carnegie, the man, quickly became known as the “Patron Saint of Libraries” (Wall, 1970).
		During this same period, Carnegie Corporation helped establish and give credence to the important policy issues of early childhood education and care and funded groundbreaking institutions and research in the area.
		Vartan Gregorian was appointed president of Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1997 and has continued the foundation's concern with access to books, the search for better methods of teaching reading, and building a body of knowledge associated with adolescence and literacy.
	www.reading.org /Library/Retrieve.cfm?D=10.1598/RRQ.40.3.7&F=RRQ-40-3-Henriquez.html (795 words)

	The Carnegie Corporation of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		he Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911 to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding.
		The last of Carnegie's great endowments, it is the only one of the various Carnegie agencies to be established as a grant-making foundation.
		Under Carnegie's will, grants must benefit the people of the United States, although up to 7.4 percent of the funds may be used to benefit the people of some countries that are or have been members of the British overseas Commonwealth.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/George_Street_Journal/carnegie.html (573 words)

	Carnegie Corporation of New York
		While current program directions have been designed to correspond with the Corporation's historic mission and legacy and to maintain the continuity of its work, they are also intended to serve as catalysts for change.
		In the 21st century, under Vartan Gregorian, Carnegie Corporation is facing the challenge of how to support the development of a global community in an age when both isolationism and nationalism seem to be fostering a fractured view of the world.
		The Corporation's capital fund, originally donated at a value of about $135 million, had a market value of approximately $1.9 billion on September 30, 2004.
	www.carnegie.org (441 words)

	Carnegie Corporation - Publications & Multimedia
		Carnegie Corporation of New York has developed a model virtual library to demonstrate one method of supplementing collections in African universities where Internet connectivity is limited and expensive.
		Carnegie Corporation of New York has initiated a virtual library project designed to address the problem of low Internet connectivity and limited access to web-based academic materials in African universities.
		Carnegie Corporation was also invited to include material from the Open Mind Television Project which has digitized many programs from the series.
	www.carnegie.org /sub/pubs/virtlibreport.html (3854 words)

	Carnegie Corporation (CNM on ASX). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Carnegie Corporation (CNM:ASX) (Berlin) - stockpile of 40,000 tons @ 25% placer zircon in Gambia.
		Carnegie Corporation is Perth Western Australia-based with a portfolio focused on
		Carnegie Corporation has interests in mineral sands, and to generate early cash flow is seeking to export a zircon sand stockpile of 40,000 tons @ 25% zircon, before contemplating development of the major alluvial deposits of
	www.mine.mn /Placer_Stockfile_Carnegie.htm (99 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Holyrood is chosen to host prestigious awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The ceremony is dedicated to the memory of a famous Scot, Andrew Carnegie, and the modern-day billionaires who follow in his footsteps by dedicating their private wealth to public good.
		The awards were inaugurated in December 2001 by 22 Carnegie Corporations that the philanthropist established worldwide during his lifetime.
		The Carnegie Corporation of New York hosted the 2001 awards in New York’s Public Library, and the Carnegie Corporation of Washington hosted the 2003 awards in the Carnegie Institution.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=393062004 (573 words)

	4-2001 Steelmaking: Faster heats, fewer impurities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel was the largest of the ten companies that merged to form United States Steel Corp. Carnegie and his trusts built 2,800 libraries as well as Carnegie Hall in New York.
		Carnegie fancied himself a social philosopher, moralizing for the good of others' souls when he should have been tending to the devious side of his own.
		All in all, the corporation at its founding controlled 213 steel mills and transportation companies, 41 iron-ore mines, a fleet of 112 ore barges, and 57,000 acres of coal and coke properties.
	www.newsteel.com /articles/2001/April/NS0104f2.htm (3682 words)

	Carnegie Corporation - About
		Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835.
		Many persons of wealth have contributed to charity, but Carnegie was perhaps the first to state publicly that the rich have a moral obligation to give away their fortunes.
		One of Carnegie's lifelong interests was the establishment of free public libraries to make available to everyone a means of self-education.
	www.carnegie.org /sub/about/biography.html (409 words)

	Clark University - Hiatt Center for Urban Education - Carnegie Corporation Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In June of 2000, the partnership was awarded one of ten 15-month, $250,000 planning grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to develop a systemic (district-wide) secondary school reform plan.
		Carnegie expects a new model of secondary education that promotes youth development in a "new society" that will require mastery of new tools of communication and information exchange, collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to problem-solving, an ability to think in terms of global as well as local concerns, and a proactive, responsible and creative citizenry.
		Carnegie contends that current models do not foster development and intellectual achievement for all students, and fall far short of the kind of education needed to ensure opportunity, quality of life, and the vitality and growth of local, national and global communities.
	www.clarku.edu /departments/education/hiatt.shtml (1696 words)

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