¶ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization based in New York City, New York.
¶ History
In 1946, the Sloan Foundation provided multiple grants John Sutherland Productions (via Harding College) to produce a series of educational cartoon videos about capitalism titled "Fun and Facts about American Business," part of the Foundation's decades-long effort to start "a bombardment of the American mind with elementary economic principles through partnering with educational institutions."[1][2]
¶ Pandemic preparedness
The Sloan Foundation became involved in biosecurity in October 2000, just one year prior to the 2001 anthrax attacks, when foundation president Ralph E. Gomory decided the United States Federal Government's bioterrorism prevention strategy was "wishful thinking." Gomory tapped Paula Olsiewski to lead the initiative.[3]
The Sloan Foundation co-sponsored a bioterrorism pandemic preparedness exercise called Atlantic Storm which took place on January 14, 2005, at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[4]
In 2008, the Sloan Foundation gave a $1 million grant to the Wikimedia Foundation and pledged a further $2 million through 2010.[5] The Sloan Foundation also provided funding to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, which began in January 2008.[6]
¶ COVID-19
The Sloan Foundation funded the three-year Mercury Project, launched in November 2021 to apply "social and behavioral science to combat the growing global threat posed by low Covid-19 vaccination rates and public health mis- and disinformation."[7]
¶ Organization
The Sloan Foundation is a member organization of the Science Philanthropy Alliance[8] and a partner of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America Institute.[9]
¶ Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ralph E. Gomory | President (1989-2007)[3:1] | IBM, United States Navy, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) |
| Paula Olsiewski | Program Director (former)[10] | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security |
| Doron Weber | Vice President and Program Director[11] | Science & Entertainment Exchange, Wikimedia Endowment |
¶ Activities
The Sloan Foundation has provided notable funding to:
- Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)[12]
- The Conversation[1:1]
- Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS)[13]
- Data & Society[14]
- Institute for Advanced Study[15]
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)[6:1]
- PBS Foundation[16]
- Population Reference Bureau (PRB)[17]
- Resources for the Future[18]
- Science & Entertainment Exchange[19]
- Wikimedia Foundation[5:1]
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars[20]
¶ External links
Godeanu-Kenworthy, O. (2020, February 27). How socialism became un-American through the Ad Council’s propaganda campaigns. The Conversation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220121061307/https://theconversation.com/how-socialism-became-un-american-through-the-ad-councils-propaganda-campaigns-132335 ↩︎ ↩︎
Jack, C. (2015). Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series. Enterprise & Society, 16(3), 491–520. https://doi.org/10.1353/ens.2015.0036 ↩︎
Gronvall, G. K. (2012, December 12). Preparing for Bioterrorism: The Sloan Foundation’s Leadership in Biosecurity. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. https://web.archive.org/web/20180418162251/http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/publications/preparing-for-bioterrorism-the-sloan-foundations-leadership-in-biosecurity ↩︎ ↩︎
About the Project. Atlantic Storm. Retrieved October 20, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131020090646/http://www.atlantic-storm.org/about.html ↩︎
Gardner, S. 2007/2008 Annual Report. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved July 7, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220707152205/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/WMF_20072008_Annual_report._high_resolution.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎
Oregon Health Insurance Experiment - Funding. National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved January 12, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230112005210/https://www.nber.org/programs-projects/projects-and-centers/oregon-health-insurance-experiment/oregon-health-insurance-experiment-funding ↩︎ ↩︎
Mosenkis, J., & Dukuly, D. (2022, August 23). Mercury Project to Boost Covid-19 Vaccination Rates and Counter Public Health Mis- and Disinformation in 17 Countries Worldwide. Rockefeller Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20240902233252/https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/mercury-project-to-boost-covid-19-vaccination-rates-and-counter-public-health-mis-and-disinformation-in-17-countries-worldwide/ ↩︎
Who We Are. Science Philanthropy Alliance. Retrieved June 20, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.06.20-230011/https://sciencephilanthropyalliance.org/who-we-are/ ↩︎
Partners. TIAA Institute. Retrieved July 4, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220704002406/https://www.tiaainstitute.org/about/partnerships/partners ↩︎
Paula Olsiewski. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved May 19, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230519061514/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/who-we-are/our-people/paula-olsiewski ↩︎
Doron Weber. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Retrieved September 2, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240902221222/https://sloan.org/about/staff/doron-weber ↩︎
Our Supporters. Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics. Retrieved January 14, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.14-071035/https://www.beammath.org/our-supporters/ ↩︎
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Workshops on Tiered Data Access. Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. Retrieved April 2, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200402160255/https://copafs.org/reports/arthur-p-sloan-foundation-funded-workshops-on-tiered-data-access/ ↩︎
Data & Society Funder List. Data & Society. Retrieved December 28, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221228084750/https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Funders-List-2021-December-2021.pdf ↩︎
Simonyi, C., & Dijkgraaf, R. (2021). Report for the Academic Year 2020-2021. Institute for Advanced Study. https://web.archive.org/web/20220802073655/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/IAS AR 2021_finaldraft_2-1_web.pdf ↩︎
Foundations & Corporations. PBS Foundation. Retrieved June 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220626070609/https://www.pbs.org/foundation/support/foundation-corporate-partners/ ↩︎
Baldwin, W. 2013 Annual Report. Population Reference Bureau. Retrieved July 23, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20210723200955/https://www.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/prb-annual-report-2013.pdf ↩︎
Our Supporters. Resources for the Future. Retrieved July 24, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.07.24-180942/https://www.rff.org/donate/our-supporters/ ↩︎
Our Sponsors. Science & Entertainment Exchange. Retrieved July 14, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230714064232/http://scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/about/our-sponsors/ ↩︎
2021 Donors. Wilson Center. Retrieved August 8, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.08.08-202202/https://www.wilsoncenter.org/2021-donors ↩︎