General Education Board
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The General Education Board was a philanthopy created by John D. Rockefeller and Frederick T. Gates in 1902. Rockefeller gave it $180 million, which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help Black schools in the South, as well as uplift farming practices in the South. It helped eradicate hookworm and created the county agent system in American agriculture, linking research as state agricultural experiment stations with actual practices in the field. By 1934 it was making grants of $5.5 million a year. It spent nearly all its money by 1950 and closed in 1964.
References
- Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Adventure in Giving: The Story of the General Education Board 1962 .
- General Education Board, The General Education Board: An Account of Its Activities, 1902-1914 ([1915])
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