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	Russell Sage Foundation
		The foundation was established with an initial endowment of $10,000,000 and the goal of promoting the improvement of social and living conditions for the poor.
		Sage and her leading adviser, Robert de Forest, chose to build a headquarters building that would be a physical memorial to Russell Sage.
		In 1949, the Russell Sage Foundation moved from this building and it was sold to the Archdiocese of New York, which used the structure to house the offices of Catholic Charities.
	www.preserve2.org /gramercy/proposes/ext/ension/122_130e22.htm (713 words)

	1939: Russell Sage Foundation - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		The Russell Sage Foundation was instituted by Mrs.
		Russell Sage in 1907 as a memorial to her husband.
		One of the first grants of the Foundation was to the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907-09, which had a part in starting a long series of studies of local social problems throughout the nation.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501531/1939_Russell_Sage_Foundation.html (372 words)

	Russell Sage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 1906) was a financier and politician from New York.
		Sage was born at Shenandoah in Oneida County, New York.
		In 1869, Sage was involved in a case concerning the Usury Laws in New York state, accused of being the gang leader in a usury group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Sage (713 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Russell Sage Foundation is a small foundation located in New York City that is devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences.
		The foundation was established in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United states" by a gift of $10 million from Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828-1918), widow of railroad magnate and financier Russell Sage.
		In its early years, the foundation worked with the problems of the poor and the elderly, to improve hospital and prison conditions, and in the development of social work as a profession; it helped achieve early reforms in health care, city planning, consumer credit, labor law, and social security programs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russell_Sage_Foundation (242 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation
		The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research.
		Invites individual scholars and collaborative groups working in areas of Foundation interest to participate in the Foundation's Visiting Scholar Program to pursue their research and writing projects;
		Russell Sage Foundation • 112 East 64th Street • New York, NY 10065
	www.russellsage.org /about (0 words)

	Russell Sage information - Search.com
		Sage was born at Shenandoah in Oneida County, New York.
		Sage was the first person to advocate, on the floor of Congress, the purchase of Mount Vernon by the government.
		In 1869, Sage was involved in a case concerning the Usury Laws in New York state, accused of being the gang leader in a usury group.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Russell_Sage (717 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Russell Sage Foundation
		The Russell Sage Foundation is a small foundation located in New York City that is devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences.
		The foundation was established in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United states" by a gift of $10 million from Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (1828-1918), widow of railroad magnate and financier Russell Sage.
		In its early years, the foundation worked with the problems of the poor and the elderly, to improve hospital and prison conditions, and in the development of social work as a profession; it helped achieve early reforms in health care, city planning, consumer credit, labor law, and social security programs.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Russell_Sage_Foundation (257 words)

	1947: Russell Sage Foundation - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Russell Sage Foundation was founded in 1907 by Mrs.
		Russell Sage as a memorial to her husband.
		Sage's original gift of $10,000,000 was increased by a bequest...
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461505311/1947_Russell_Sage_Foundation.html (156 words)

	Olivia Sage’s Legacy - Reviews & Commentary - Philanthropy Magazine - Philanthropy Roundtable
		She is best known for funding the Russell Sage Foundation in 1907, the first of the large foundations and the template later used by the creators of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Foundation.
		Olivia Sage, according to Crocker, is known to have imposed only two restrictions: that the foundation be called the “Russell Sage Foundation” as a memorial to her husband, and that the foundation could spend no more than a quarter of its endowment on what modern philanthropists would call program-related investments.
		Fully a quarter of the Russell Sage Foundation’s endowment was tied up in the construction of Forest Hills Estates, a housing complex for the poor whose backers promised the foundation “progress and six percent” return on their investment.
	prt.timberlakepublishing.com /article.asp?article=1407&paper=1&cat=148 (1663 words)

	RUSSELL SAGE PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
		Russell Sage (1816-1906) was a financier and railroad tycoon who left a philanthropic legacy.
		She also established the Russell Sage Foundation, which is an important contributor to research in the social sciences, and founded Russell Sage College in Troy, New York.
		The Russell Sage Foundation was created in 1907 to support “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It looked to urban planning, social work, and labor reform as a way to improve society.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12490 (675 words)

	Russell Sage
		Marsh Island in the Gulf of Mexico was bought by her in 1912 and given to Louisiana as a bird sanctuary.
		Russell Sage - Russell Sage financier Born: 8/4/1816 Birthplace: Oneida County, N.Y. Having begun his career at...
		Russell SAGE - SAGE, Russell (1816—1906) SAGE, Russell, a Representative from New York; born in Shenandoah,...
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	Russell Sage - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Upon Sage's death, the distribution of his fortune was left in the hands of his widow, Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage, 1828-1918.
		Marsh Island in the Gulf of Mexico was bought by her in 1912 and given to Louisiana as a bird sanctuary.
		The great single benefaction was the establishment (1907) of the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Sage-Rus.html (763 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: Russell Sage Foundation
		The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) was a philanthropic organization that funded research efforts to analyze social problems and campaigned for reform initiatives to solve the very social problems that it studied.
		Russell Sage (1815-1906) was a wealthy financial speculator from New York who amassed a huge fortune through his ownership of several Western railroads and the Western Union Telegraph Company.
		For the next half-century, the RSF would continue to commission numerous studies to study and solve social problems, until budget problems in the late 1940s caused it to reduce the number of studies like the Pittsburgh Survey.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/organizations-rsf.html (789 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Russell Sage Foundation awards grants for research in the social sciences, including educational research.
		The Foundation website has a great deal of information concerning recent project awards, the award application process, its Visiting Scholar Program, the history of the foundation, and a search function for its archive of publications.
		Prospective applicants should submit a "brief letter of inquiry to determine whether the Foundation's present interests and funds permit consideration of a proposal for research" summarizing "the project's objectives, the work plan, the qualifications of persons engaged in the research, and an estimated budget" (see Russell Foundation website).
	www.ed.arizona.edu /adaa/Russell.htm (236 words)

	Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage - Internet Accuracy Project
		Russell Sage was a married businessman who would later reach the pinnacle of the business and financial world.
		Sage founded the Russell Sage Foundation April 11, 1907, as a memorial to her late husband.
		Four decades after the foundation was formed, its influence was waning, returns on financial investments were declining, and the gradual attrition of its staff prompted reorganization within the Russell Sage Foundation.
	www.accuracyproject.org /cbe-Sage,Olivia.html (1112 words)

	PND - News - Marshall A. Robinson, Former Foundation Leader, Dies
		Following a career in academia and with the Ford Foundation, Robinson headed the New York City-based Russell Sage Foundation from 1979 to 1986.
		Established in 1907, the foundation focuses on research in the social sciences, supporting and publishing studies on a wide range of topics.
		During his tenure, the foundation awarded millions of dollars in grants to explore topics such as risk perception and the way the changing roles of men and women were reshaping the country's institutions, drawing on scholars from both conservative and liberal institutions.
	foundationcenter.org /pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=128200006 (370 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: Russell Sage Foundation
		The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) was a philanthropic organization that funded research efforts to analyze social problems and campaigned for reform initiatives to solve the very social problems that it studied.
		Russell Sage (1815-1906) was a wealthy financial speculator from New York who amassed a huge fortune through his ownership of several Western railroads and the Western Union Telegraph Company.
		For the next half-century, the RSF would continue to commission numerous studies to study and solve social problems, until budget problems in the late 1940s caused it to reduce the number of studies like the Pittsburgh Survey.
	ocptest.hul.harvard.edu /ww/organizations-rsf.html (786 words)

	Columbia News ::: Russell Sage Fellows Ponder Voting Rights Act Renewal
		The Russell Sage Foundation invites visiting scholars to its headquarters to investigate topics in the social and behavioral sciences based on its three research programs -- future of work, cultural contact and immigration.
		Columbia faculty and former Russell Sage fellows David Epstein, professor of political science, Sharyn O'Halloran, professor of political science and public affairs, Rodolfo de la Garza, professor of political science, along with Richard H. Pildes, professor of law at New York University, organized the working conference.
		In 2004-2005, six of the Russell Sage visiting fellows had affiliations with the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), the research division of the social sciences at Columbia.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/05/07/voting_rights_act.html (361 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, University of California, Berkeley, July 2002
		Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institute in Behavioral Economics, University of California, Berkeley, July 2002
		The Russell Sage Summer Institute for Behavioral Economics will be held July 29-August 9, 2002 on the campus of the
		This two-week intensive program is designed to introduce Ph.D. students and new junior faculty to the methods and findings of behavioral economics, which involves the application of insights and findings from psychology to economics.
	elsa.berkeley.edu /symposia/sage02/index.html (68 words)

	Visiting Scholars at Russell Sage \| ISERP
		The Russell Sage Foundation, the only foundation to exclusively support research in the social sciences, appointed six visiting scholars in 2004-2005 with current or past affiliations with ISERP.
		As part of the Foundation's Cultural Contact program, which focuses on understanding and improving relations between racial and ethnic groups, Mignon Moore is examining the culture and values of fl and Latina lesbian women, who face the dual challenge of being racial and sexual minorities.
		Polletta is studying the public deliberations on the rebuilding of lower Manhattan in order to examine the effectiveness of such community forums in policy making, a topic she began investigating with David Stark through ISERP seed funding.
	www.iserp.columbia.edu /news/articles/russell_sage_scholars.html (473 words)

	Where Most Needed: Russell Sage Foundation Helps Behavioral Economics Gain Currency
		Foundation seeing pay off for early support of research in a formerly unpopular field.
		During that time, the Russell Sage Foundation (EIN 13-1635303 Form 990) supported behavioral economics with over 100 grants and started a summer institute for scholars in the field.
		This shows that a foundation may be able to have a greater impact outside the popular model of funding existing organizations.
	www.wheremostneeded.org /2006/05/russell_sage_fo.html (386 words)

	Research Projects (2001-2004)-UCI Immigration Center
		Russell Sage Foundation, "Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los Angeles," 2003-2006, (Co-Principal Investigators Rubén G. Rumbaut, Frank D. Bean, Leo Chavez, Min Zhou, Jennifer Lee, Susan (Wierzbicki) Brown, and Louis Desipio).
		Russell Sage Foundation, "Immigration, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, and Multiracial Identification", 2001-2004, (Co-Principal Investigators Frank D. Bean and Jennifer Lee).
		Russell Sage Foundation, "The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: A Decade-Long Panel Study" 2000-2003 (Co-Principal Investigators Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes).
	www.cri.uci.edu /research.htm (799 words)

	Transcript
		He's played a big role in developing the Foundation's research programs on poverty and inequality and on immigration in the United States, and most recently on the causes and consequences of the accelerating changes in the nature of work.
		The Foundation became interested in this really around 1985, '86, '87 and we began to fund, initially, research on why this was happening.
		It's grown particularly among the minorities where having an incarceration record is a very negative tag for employers and again the Russell Sage Foundation has some books coming out on the effect of incarceration on the labor market.
	www.lowwagework.org /Transcript.htm (7061 words)

	Russell Sage
		Sage was for many years closely connected with the affairs of the Union Pacific road, of which he was a director.
		Russell Sage, 1816 1906, finance, $100 million, $29.1 billion.
		Sage College for Women, in Historic Troy; Junior College at Albany, on...
	www.stanklos.com /virtualpubliclibrary/halloffounders/businessfounders/RUSSELLSAGE.COM (582 words)

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		With the beginnings of the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) in 1907, a new kind of philanthropy began to emerge: research and action programs linked together to understand and deal with the social issues of the time.
		The Sage Foundation from the start played a leading part in the new field of social work as well as in city planning, public health, criminal justice, and education.
		A two-volume history of the foundation written in 1947 by its executive director, John M. Glenn.
	www.lexisnexis.com /Academic/2upa/Asw/RussellSageFoundation_pf.asp (327 words)

	Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		General Description: RSF is an American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences.
		One of the oldest private foundations in the United States, RSF was established by Mrs.
		Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for `the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.' In its early years the foundation undertook major projects in low-income housing, urban planning, social work and labor reform.
	www.nira.go.jp /ice/nwdtt/2005/DAT/1427.html (149 words)

	Russell Sage — Infoplease.com
		Upon Sage's death, the distribution of his fortune was left in the hands of his widow,
		Russell Sage - Russell Sage financier Born: 8/4/1816 Birthplace: Oneida County, N.Y. Having begun his career at...
		Russell SAGE - SAGE, Russell (1816—1906) SAGE, Russell, a Representative from New York; born in Shenandoah,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0842945.html (450 words)

	FOUNDATION/GRANTS, October 2000; Internet Prospector
		He was president of the Dana Foundation from 1950 to 1966 and actively shaped its programs and principles until his death in 1975.
		This foundation describes itself as "the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences." Located in New York City, the foundation is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions and an active member of the nation's social science community.
		The foundation awards currently average about $100,000, with a range running roughly from $20,000 to $300,000.
	www.internet-prospector.org /fdn1000.htm (338 words)

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