As a teenager, Tim Luna thought he’d end up working in his mother’s taco shop or doing odd jobs around his small town in rural Texas. His family and teachers urged him to aim higher. Luna took college ...

Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and ...

An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

Cesiah Gonzalez had thought about joining the Marines, but in her sophomore year of high school in Albuquerque, she tried a paid internship as a medical assistant in a family health clinic. She ...

Congratulations to the 2024 Great Immigrants honorees! Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and ...

Mohammed (Mo) Amer was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents. When he was nine years old, Amer, his mother, and two siblings fled Kuwait during the Gulf War and immigrated to the United States, ...

Jensen Huang is the founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, which in 2024 became the most valuable public company in the world. Born in Taiwan, Huang was nine years old when his parents sent ...

The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program provides philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society. After a ...

Carnegie Corporation of New York’s resources are limited and cannot support all of the superb proposals submitted to us.

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) was among the wealthiest and most famous industrialists of his day. Through Carnegie Corporation of New York, the innovative philanthropic foundation he established in 1911 ...