| A very wealthy entrepreneur, Andrew Carnegie is | | | | lower income students that could not afford to go to |
| mainly known for his wealth and leadership during the | | | | college otherwise. Without these grants and financial |
| late 19th and early 20th centuries - but many people | | | | aid, millions of college students and graduates would |
| may not be aware of some of his very influential | | | | never have risen to the areas that they are now. |
| writings. After immigrating to the United States with | | | | Many people don't even realize that Andrew Carnegie |
| his parents from Scotland, his family was not always | | | | and this organization were the driving force behind |
| wealthy. In fact, he started out as a normal factory | | | | what financial aid is now for college. |
| worker in a bobbin factory. It wasn't long before he | | | | Another organization that he founded that touches |
| worked his way up in the company and then rose up | | | | many peoples lives is the Carnegie Endowment For |
| the ranks in a telegraph company. After learning how | | | | International Peace. This think tank is based in |
| to operate a business, he build Pittsburgh's Carnegie | | | | Washington DC and is not associated with any |
| Steel Company. Later, he would merge this large | | | | political party, yet continues to help promote |
| company with several others to form U.S. Steel. With | | | | international engagement by the U.S. into peaceful |
| this venture, he made a fortune and later in life, he | | | | cooperation between nations all around the world. |
| concentrated more on philanthropy and helping those | | | | Andrew Carnegie believed that war could easily be |
| less fortunate than he was. He founded many | | | | eliminated by stronger international laws and better |
| different corporations, museums, universities, and | | | | international organizations. In 1907, he wrote: "I am |
| more and also gave away mountains of money to | | | | drawn more to this cause than to any,". In fact, on |
| libraries, schools, and universities - both in the United | | | | his 75th birthday, he announced the establishment of |
| States and the United Kingdom. | | | | this organization with a $10 million dollar gift and |
| Of course, on top of his massive wealth and business | | | | charged the trustees of the organization to help fund |
| savvy sense, Andrew Carnegie was also a brilliant | | | | the abolition of international war and gave them the |
| writer that penned many essays, articles, | | | | widest discretion as to their measures and policy that |
| contributions, and even wrote several novels. He was | | | | they should adopt when needed. |
| a frequent contributor over labor issues to many well | | | | One of his best known organizations is the Carnegie |
| known publications, helping businessmen and women | | | | Corporation Of New York, which was founded in 1911 |
| all over the world understand their workers and help | | | | by Andrew Carnegie to help "promote the |
| to provide a better working environment for | | | | advancement and diffusion of knowledge and |
| everyone. His novels include: "The Gospel Of Wealth", | | | | understanding". This organization is one of the most |
| "Triumphant Democracy", "Round The World", "The | | | | influential American organizations and they have |
| Empire Of Business", "The Secret Of Business Is The | | | | contributed so much to the world, including: a massive |
| Management Of Men", "James Watt", "An American | | | | expansion of higher education and even adult |
| Four-In-Hand In Britain", and "Problems Of Today". His | | | | education, advancement of research on early |
| literary works became so well known around the | | | | childhood learning and development, major promotion |
| world that they inspired both writers and business | | | | of educational and public broadcasting, advancement |
| men, world leaders and poverty stricken peoples, and | | | | of women and minorities in higher education, helping |
| anyone that they touched. | | | | to raise public understanding of both education and |
| His writings were so important to business and the | | | | health needs of children and young adults, and to help |
| world in general, that his own personal papers reside | | | | further the investigation of risks of superpower |
| at the Library of Congress where they can be | | | | confrontation, ethnic and civil strife, as well as nuclear |
| viewed by those wishing to read them in the | | | | war. Along with all of these influences upon |
| Manuscript Division. Of course, most of his writings | | | | education, international relations, this organization also |
| are public domain today, and can easily be found | | | | helped to establish several other institutions, including |
| over the internet. The written work he did helped to | | | | the Carnegie libraries, the National Research Council, |
| inspire so many business people all over the world | | | | the Russian Research Center at Harvard, the |
| and helped to change relationships between both | | | | Children's Television Workshop (including Sesame |
| workers and their managers. His way of viewing the | | | | Street), and so much more. |
| workplace, especially industrial areas, aided in so many | | | | In fact, his constant contributions to libraries, schools, |
| different organizations being founded to help continue | | | | and universities as well as his literary works prompted |
| his work, his beliefs on business, and his giving nature. | | | | the United Kingdom to create the Carnegie Medal for |
| Some of the different organizations that he founded | | | | the best children's literature. There are also many |
| included the Carnegie Foundation For The | | | | different schools and universities named after him, |
| Advancement Of Teaching, which was created to be | | | | including Carnegie College in Dunfermline. And, believe |
| an independent research center that would help | | | | it or not, he even has both a dinosaur and a cactus |
| those in any teaching area. The organization's primary | | | | named after him, the Diplodocus Carnegiei (he |
| activities include writing and research over every | | | | sponsored the expedition that discovered it's |
| different level of education to help promote higher | | | | remains) and the Saguaro Cactus's scientific name, |
| education and a higher standard for education for | | | | Carnegiea. |
| every child all over the world. One of the main things | | | | Without his massive contributions to teaching, |
| that the Carnegie Foundation For The Advancement | | | | literature, and his commitment to education in general |
| Of Teaching helped to create was federal aid for | | | | all over the world, many of the great institutions and |
| higher education as well as Pell Grants, to help those | | | | organizations we know today would not exist. |