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Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Rebecca W. Rimel received an RN degree from the University of Virginia in 1973. For the next two years she worked as an emergency room nurse. In 1975 she was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia Medical School. The first nurse to hold a faculty position at the university's medical school, Rimel published widely on the treatment of head injury and trauma.

In 1982 she participated in a Kellogg foundation fellowship program aimed at equipping emerging leaders with the skills to deal with an array of global problems. After earning an MBA from James Madison University the following year, she left Virginia to become a program manager in health with The Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Started by the heirs of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew in 1948, The Pew Charitable Trusts consisted of seven separate trusts administered by The Glenmede Trust Company. Rimel earned rapid promotions to assistant vice president, vice president responsible for funding in the health sciences and, executive director and, in 1994, to president and CEO.

As executive director Rimel guided The Pew Charitable Trusts through a period of intense reorganization. The once low profile, Philadelphia-focused trusts began to invest in solutions to high profile, national problems. They continued to extend their reach with Rimel as president an CEO. In 1995 they assumed sponsorship of the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press. The conservation and environment program grew most significantly. In May 1998 the trusts gave 5.2 million dollars to start the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington, D.C. Critics maintained that under Rimel the trusts had severed their ties to Philadelphia and to the vision of their politically conservative founders. Although the trusts did sell the remainder of their Sun Oil Company stock in 1998, they also played a central role in Philadelphia's efforts to promote regional development in the late 1990s.

From the description of Records of Rebecca W. Rimel, 1994-1997. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 79828423

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associatedWith Altman, Drew. person
associatedWith Bacon, Edmund N. person
associatedWith Berresford, Susan V. 1943- person
associatedWith Boldt, David. person
associatedWith Burns, Ken, 1953- person
associatedWith Cooley, Robert E. person
associatedWith Cornell University. corporateBody
associatedWith Evans, John R., 1929- person
associatedWith Feulner, Edwin J. person
associatedWith Fineberg, Harvey V. person
associatedWith Fleishman, Joel L. person
associatedWith Ford Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Fouhy, Edward M. person
associatedWith Fox Chase Cancer Center. corporateBody
associatedWith Glenmede Trust Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Godfrey, Marian A. 1947- person
associatedWith Goldmark, Jr., Peter C. 1943- person
associatedWith Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. corporateBody
associatedWith Gwatkin, Davidson R. person
associatedWith Hackney, Sheldon, 1933- person
associatedWith Hamilton, Edward K. person
associatedWith Harvard University. corporateBody
associatedWith Harvey, Hal. person
associatedWith Jane, John A., 1931- person
associatedWith John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Kean, Thomas H. person
associatedWith Kohut, Andrew. person
associatedWith Lederberg, Joshua. person
associatedWith Loew, Franklin M., 1939- person
associatedWith Morse, Suzanne W. person
associatedWith Moyers, Bill D. person
associatedWith National Environmental Education and Training Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith O'Neil, Edward H. person
associatedWith Pepper, Jane G. person
associatedWith Pew Center for Civic Journalism. corporateBody
associatedWith Pew Charitable Trusts. corporateBody
associatedWith Pew Partnership. corporateBody
associatedWith Philadelphia Museum of Art. corporateBody
associatedWith Reichert, Joshua Sidney. person
associatedWith Reilly, William K. 1940- person
associatedWith Rendell, Edward G. 1944- person
associatedWith Richardson, William C. person
associatedWith Ridge, Thomas J. person
associatedWith Rimel, Rebecca W. 1951- person
associatedWith Rockefeller Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Seiple, Robert A., 1942- person
associatedWith Simmons, Adele. person
associatedWith Specter, Arlen. person
associatedWith Taylor, Humphrey. person
associatedWith Thier, Samuel O., 1937- person
associatedWith Thomas Jefferson Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Venturi, Robert. person
associatedWith Wiesel, Torsten N. person
associatedWith Williams, Eddie N. person
associatedWith Wirth, Timothy E. person
associatedWith W.K. Kellogg Foundation. corporateBody
associatedWith Wofford, Harris. person
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Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Citizenship
Community development
Education, Higher
Environmental economics
Health care reform
Journalism
Medical policy
Sustainable development
Tourism
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