Philanthropists with Big Impact

Giving that is hands-on, savvy, proactive, transformational

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2019 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Honorees

Earhart, Anne G.

Hobson, Mellody and George Lucas

Kravis, Marie-Josée and Henry R.

Mandel, Morton L.

Smith, Robert F.

Tow, Leonard

Wood KT GBE, Sir Ian

About the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy

Stories About the World of Giving

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Great Scots

Carnegie Pride on Display at New York’s Tartan Day Festivities

Bringing Sesame Street to Life

The beginning of the iconic children’s program Sesame Street can be traced to an apartment in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park.

A Great-Grandmother, A Great Giver

Rather than sending Mother’s Day cards to her friends and family, this #GivingHero gave support in their names to strengthen the bond between mothers and their newborns.

One Woman Creates a Movement in Africa

Fiona was the first in her family to finish high school and continue on to university. Now she leads a pan-African network of rural philanthropists on track to grow to more than 130,000 women.

Eli Broad: Building a Better Future

Building homes, building art collections, building futures. Building has long been a path to success for Eli Broad.

Fred Kavli: A Laser-Like Focus

A global benefactor of scientific inquiry, Fred Kavli embodied Andrew Carnegie’s observation that the “scientific man of today lives in an atmosphere of wonder, arousing all his higher powers and compelling reverence.”

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