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Appendix C
Appendix C
Pages 243-248
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If, after a reasonable period of foundation nurture, the seedling shows no positive signs of becoming self-sustaining, the foundation usually will arrange to phase out its support and move on to more promising ventures. This risk of failure is inherent in most of the grants foundations make; in practice, a foundation naturally will try to assure itself in advance that the new enterprise has a reasonable chance of success.
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WHAT FOUNDATIONS HAVE D ONE FOR MATHEMATICS No private foundation has a separate division or program labeled "Mathematics." For reasons which the Committee will appreciate, the support of mathematics as a major undertaking has not been overwhelmingly attractive to even the most sophisticated of the large foundations. Warren Weaver has written: "The great private philanthropies have for the most part been rather cold to mathematics." ~ Where mathematics has entered into foundation grants, it has usually appeared in projects to strengthen research and teaching in the sciences generally or to strengthen the scientific and technological capabilities of specific institutions.
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Other large grants were $1,265,700 for a laboratory of mathematics and physics at the California Institute of Technology; $1,000,000 for a mathematics center at Stanford University; and $500,000 for a mathematics center at Dartmouth College. Grants to improve the teaching of mathematics have included $135,000 to Syracuse University for a project to upgrade selected high school teachers of mathematics, and contributions totaling $65,000 were made to the Mathematical Association of America in partial support of two summer institutes for college mathematics teachers.
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This foundation's interest also has been primarily in educational projects. In recent years, the Carnegie Corporation has granted $500,000 to Educational Services, Inc., for development of supplementary teaching materials in English and mathematics; $200,000 for the teaching of mathematics for engineering technicians in Milwaukee vocational and adult schools; $250,000 for curriculum-revision work at Webster College's Institute of Mathematics and Science; and $176,000 for the Mathematics Learning Center of the Pacific Science Center :Foundation.
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The Research Corporation since 1946 (a departure from the time span applied to other foundations in this report) has distributed $127,500 in grants to strengthen college mathematics departments; $16,000 in project grants; $28,000 for the Summer Research Institute of the Canadian Mathematical Congress, 1954-1956; $30,000 for a summer seminar of the Mathematical Association of America in 1964; and $10,000 to two mathematicians in its annual Research Corporation Award for 1963.
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The pursuit of new knowledge has a strong appeal to many foundations. The problem for mathematics will be to demonstrate that new mathematical knowledge and its application-is directly relevant to the social concerns that animate foundations.
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