Margaret Mahoney Papers 1924-2007

Mahoney family

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Commonwealth Fund.

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The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 with an endowment of ten million dollars from Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness (nee Anna M. Richardson).Its charter was broad: "to do something for the welfare of mankind." TheFund's earliest activities were directed towards supporting the American Relief Administration in its post-war program of civilian relief in Austria and Eastern Europe. Edward Harkness, who led the Fund from 1918 to 1940, encouraged the development of programs in child welfare, child g...

Carnegie corporation of New York

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The World Center for Women's Archives was created by Mary Ritter Beard in 1936 to collect material on women in the United States and abroad on the grounds that without documents women would continue to be excluded from written history. A secondary purpose was to encourage research an teaching on women's history. The WCWA was disolved in 1941 due to financial problems, and the outbreak of World War II; collections were distributed to Radcliffe and Smith Colleges, and other universities and librar...

Mahoney, Margaret, 1924-

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Margaret Ellerbe Mahoney, born Nashville TN, was a foundation executive for Carnegie Corporation of New York; vice-president, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1973-1980); and president of the Commonwealth Fund (1980-94). In 1995, she established MEM Associates, a consulting firm specializing in health care delivery systems. She's served on the boards of numerous education and medical foundations, and was on the faculty of the Princeton University Program in Science and Human Affairs (1975-79). ...