The Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA, Norman grantee 1959) was founded in 1874 to serve the social and spiritual needs of New York’s Jewish community and help immigrants assimilate. In 1927 — years before the Assistance Fund was incorporated —…
When then-deputy director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Jack Greenberg reflected on the organization’s funders in the early 1950s, he recalled that philanthropic support was scarce and modest. As he put it: “A big contribution was $100, and $1,000…
The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students (NSSFNS, Norman grantee 1950–1975) was founded in 1947 by Felice Nierenberg Schwartz, a Smith College graduate who had briefly worked for the NAACP and was determined to address the near-total exclusion…