Adaline Emerson Thompson
American educational worker and reformer
Category Archives: Philanthropy
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Jane Dowdall
Irish philanthropist and politician
Dr Susan Alberti
Australian businesswoman, philanthropist and sports advocate
Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
Teresa Teng
“The Eternal Queen of Asian Pop”
Anne Cox Chambers
Anne Cox Chambers was a media mogul, philanthropist, and former U.S. ambassador.
Elena Diaz-Verson Amos
Philanthropist Elena Diaz-Verson Amos, a Cuban immigrant, was active in educational, philanthropic, and political causes and dedicated to increasing intercultural understanding in Georgia.
Rebecca Buffum Spring
New Jersey’s Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811-1911) founded the middle-class utopian communities of The North American Phalanx at Red Bank as well as the Raritan Bay Union at Perth Amboy.
Carrie Steele Logan
Carrie Steele Logan founded the Carrie Steele Orphan Home in Atlanta, recognized as the oldest predominantly Black orphanage in Georgia and possibly the oldest organization of its type in the country.
Anna Maria O’Brien
1800s Irish philanthropist