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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Rockefeller Foundation"”.
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The medium is the medium : the convergence of video, art and television at WGBH (1969)
… This pairing was the brainchild of the Rockefeller Foundation, which decided to bring these two together in what was the Artists-in-Television program. Founded in 1967 it gave seed grants to two public broadcasting stations, WGBH in Boston and KQED in San Francisco. These grants enabled …
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REPARATIONS FOR CONTEMPORARY BLACK HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THE FLEXNER REPORT
… by private institutions such as the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Medical Association and the U.S. federal government in initiating, funding or upholding the changes resulting from Flexner’s report are …
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HENRY A MURRAY AND THE HARVARD PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC, 1926-1938: A STRUGGLE TO EXPAND THE DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES OF ACADEMIC PSYCHOLOGY
… and tenure review highly doubtful. However, the Rockefeller Foundation intervened and used its financial influence to secure Murray's promotion and ultimately to further the development of research on personality. This served to allow academic psychology to develop as a broadly defined field that …
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Epidemics, Politics and Public Health: Ludwig Rajchman, MD, The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Institution
… Geneva, documents from organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, articles from medical journals and other relevant secondary sources, I argue that the Health Section, became the world’s first transnational health organization. Under League auspices, the Health Section initiated important …
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Beyond Relief and Rehabilitation: The Role of NGOs in Kenya's Development, 1924--2000
… Non-governmental organizations (INGOs)---the Rockefeller Foundation, CARE International and Oxfam in Kenya's development process between 1924 and 2000. Based on secondary and primary research conducted in the United States and Kenya between 2002 and 2004, the dissertation historicizes INGOs in …
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Governing Poor Whites: Race, philanthropy and transnational governmentality between the United States and South Africa
… such as the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as the careering experts they employed. The dissertation argues that these attempts constituted a transnational ‘governmentality’ according to which these organisations and their experts attempted to discipline a Poor …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
… serves as a cases study for the findings of the Rockefeller Foundation-Boston University Commission on Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-Making (3-D Commission). The dissertation assessed public views of what matters for health, the degree of incorporation of SDoH in Covid-19 …
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The CLAEM and the construction of elite art worlds: philanthropy, Latinamericanism, and avant-garde music
… the result of philanthropic efforts led by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Di Tella family.
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The moments of, and movements for national accounts: contextualising changes to British national accounting during the 1930s to 1950s
… bodies such as the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation during the 1930s upon a new data-driven, “realistic” approach to economics. Chapter 5 looks at how wider pressures for new wartime finance approaches justified new technocratic approaches which led to the publication of the …
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Who shapes agricultural transformation in Africa? exploring the case of the alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) from a think tank perspective
… in Africa (AGRA), which was initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006 and is often labelled as an agricultural think tank. Through its activities, AGRA aims to improve food security in African countries by establishing industrial agricultural …
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Political Applications of Systems Theory in the Twentieth Century: From Cybernetic Control to Spontaneous Emergence
… by major philanthropic organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation. Theoretical concepts from the nascent systems sciences, including the subfields of information science, cybernetics, and systems biology, migrated into social science fields including political theory and economics. The …
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Mellan nation och omvärld : debatt i Sverige om vetenskapens organisering och finansiering samt dess internationella och nationella aspekter under 1900-talets första hälft
… United States through the financial support from Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Foundation is discussed. A picture of the fundamental feature concerning the relationship between research, economy and politics in Europe and United States is given. In order to relate the international picture …
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Developing a National-Level Intercity Resilience-Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Network for New Zealand
… as the 100 Resilient Cities pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Making Cities Resilient programme launched by the United Nations. Despite the acknowledged benefits of resilience-knowledge sharing and collaboration between cities at the international level, national-level …