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1. SIAHGI_190624_001.JPG: Illustration, What to Do at Recess, 1910 In the early 1900s, philanthropists led the establishment of playgrounds to foster physical, moral, and civic health.
2. SIAHGI_190624_004.JPG: American Red Cross researchers with the children on playground in France, 1918 After World War I, Americans built playgrounds in Europe. They aimed both to improve children's health and to promote democratic values of fair play as part of their efforts to help rebuild war-torn societies.
3. SIAHGI_190624_007.JPG: Painting by Chase Walker for Medical Textbook, around 2014 After serving on international disaster relief missions, psychiatrist Craig Katz recognized a need to enhance teaching about mental health issues in a global context. He and his colleague Jan Schuetz-Mueller commissioned this painting for their medical textbook. They asked the painter to depict a man with clinical depression in a community that has endured a typhoon and civil war.
4. SIAHGI_190624_013.JPG: Mosquito Net, 2018 Medical philanthropy programs can extend American power abroad, but the people they serve directly shape those programs. Soft Power Health is working in Uganda to prevent malaria, which is typically spread by mosquito bites, with mosquito nets. Ugandans noted that nets were discarded if they appeared dirty, so Soft Power made a colorful net with intricate patterns that was less likely to show dirt.
5. SIAHGI_190624_018.JPG: Operating Room Cap Worn on Medical Mission in Liberia, 2007 Since the 1800s, doctors and other Americans have served on medical missions within the United States and around the world. Members of a New York-based medical team in Liberia taught skills, such as sewing, to their women patients. The program intended to help women who might need to support themselves. One of their patients made this cap.
6. SIAHGI_190624_024.JPG: Breast Cancer Awareness Coin, 2018 Breast Cancer Awareness Petition, 1992 "Most Landmarks Illuminated for a Cause in 24 Hours," Guinness World Records 2012 The Estée Lauder Companies used the power of a global brand to launch a pink ribbon campaign to raise awareness about breast cancer. Through purchases at makeup counters, consumers support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Aiming to cure breast cancer worldwide, the foundation funds researchers in countries around the world.
7. SIAHGI_190624_034.JPG: Breast Cancer Awareness Coin, 2018
8. SIAHGI_190624_037.JPG: New York Chinatown Health Fair Poster, 1973 Concerned about Chinese Americans' access to health care, activists in the 1970s organized health fairs. Their efforts grew into a community health center supported by federal funds and private philanthropy. Such health centers have roots in a South African health clinic.
9. SIAHGI_190624_041.JPG: Grant Application to Rockefeller Foundation, 1957 In the 1950s, American medical student Jack Geiger, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, studied the South African clinic and helped bring the model to the United States.
10. SIAHGI_190624_046.JPG: "Most Landmarks Illuminated for a Cause in 24 Hours," Guinness World Records 2012
11. SIAHGI_190624_054.JPG: Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Medal, 1852 Starting in 1780s, leading Americans, including many doctors, worked through charities known as humane societies to promote the rescue and resuscitation of drowning victims. The societies collaborated closely with foreign humane societies in recognition that in a maritime world, saving lives on the water was a common cause.
12. SIAHGI_190624_063.JPG: Polio Eradication Campaign Cap, around 2002 Since 1985, members of the service organization Rotary International have volunteered their time and raised money for public-private efforts to end polio abroad.
13. SIAHGI_190624_068.JPG: March of Dimes Collection Can Mid- to Late-1900s In the early 1900s, nationwide charitable organizations expanded their influence and increasingly relied on support from everyday donors and volunteers. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, renamed the March of Dimes, was founded in 1938 to combat polio and later shifted its mission to preventing birth defects.
14. SIAHGI_190624_074.JPG: Collection Box 1800–1840 Collection boxes have been used for centuries to solicit money for religious institutions and charities. Even those with little to spare might contribute coins anonymously to a strategically placed box. Unfamiliar in some American communities in the 1700s, these boxes became more commonly used in the United States in the 1800s.
15. SIAHGI_190624_081.JPG: Plaque from Oregon's Big Pine
16. SIAHGI_190624_084.JPG: Virginia Bluebird Society Nest Box
17. SIAHGI_190624_091.JPG: Art Show Poster
18. SIAHGI_190624_100.JPG: Toy Gifted to WGBH/Channel 2 Supporters
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Description of Subject Matter: Giving in America
November 29, 2016 – Permanent
Giving in America, a permanent exhibit that looks at the history of philanthropy’s role in shaping the United States, opened November 29 which is also #Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving. The exhibit showcases four major themes of American philanthropy centered on the questions of “Who Gives?” “Why Do We Give?” “What Do We Give?” and “How Do We Give?” and uses artifacts ranging from an alms box of the 1800s to a bucket used during the 2014-15 “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” which went viral on social media. The exhibit features a section devoted to an annual topic and will open with a look at “Sustainability and the Environment."
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