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==Philanthropy== ===Sloan Foundation=== [[File:MITSloanE62.jpg|thumb|MIT Building E62, home of the Sloan School of Management]] In 1934, Sloan organized the [[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation]], a [[philanthropy|philanthropic]] [[nonprofit organization]]. Sloan gave extensively to programs in business management. The world's first university-based executive education program, the [[Sloan Fellows]], started in 1931 at MIT under the sponsorship of a Sloan Foundation grant. MIT opened a School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed the [[MIT Sloan School of Management|Alfred P. Sloan School of Management]]. Additional grants established a Sloan Institute of Hospital Administration in 1955 at [[Cornell University]], a [[Sloan Fellows]] Program at [[Stanford Graduate School of Business]] in 1957, and at [[London Business School]] in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.center-osvita.dp.ua/programs/97u.php |title=Educational Information & Advising Center OSVITA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308191114/http://www.center-osvita.dp.ua/programs/97u.php |archive-date=2012-03-08 |url-status=dead}}</ref> They became degree programs in 1976, awarding the degree of [[Master of Science in Management]].{{cn|date=March 2025}} Sloan's name also lives on in the [[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center|Sloan-Kettering Institute and Cancer Center]] in New York. In 1951, Sloan received [[the Hundred Year Association of New York]]'s Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York". The Sloan Foundation bankrolled the 1956 [[Warner Bros.]] cartoon ''[[Yankee Dood It]]'', which promotes mass production. In the late 1940s, the foundation made a grant to Harding College (now [[Harding University]]) in [[Searcy, Arkansas]]. The foundation wanted to fund the production of a series of short films extolling the virtues of capitalism and the American way of life.<ref>[http://cartoonician.com/2012/05/animating-ideas-the-john-sutherland-story/ "Animating Ideas: The John Sutherland Story," ''Hogan's Alley'' #12, 2004]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> This resulted in the production of a series of animated cartoons by [[John Sutherland (producer)|John Sutherland]] that were released on the 16mm non-theatrical market, and also distributed theatrically in 35mm by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. The Sloan Foundation's programs and interests are in the areas of [[science]] and [[technology]], [[standard of living]], [[economics|economic performance]], and education and careers in science and technology. For the year ending December 31, 2023, the total assets of the Sloan Foundation had a market value of about $2.38 billion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 14, 2024 |title=ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/131623877/202443199349105344/full |url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2017}}, the Sloan Foundation has made three grants, of $3 million each, to the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] (WMF). These are some of the largest grants WMF has received.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Wikimedia Foundation receives $3 million grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the web |date=9 January 2017 |url=https://wikimediafoundation.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data/ |access-date=17 March 2019 |url-status=live |website=Wikimedia Foundation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711143026/https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data/ |archive-date=2019-07-11}}</ref> ===Political causes=== According to [[Edwin Black]], Sloan was one of the central, behind-the-scenes 1934 founders of the [[American Liberty League]], a political organization whose stated goal was to defend the Constitution, and which opposed [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]]. In turn, the league financed other groups with openly more extreme agendas. One such group was the [[Sentinels of the Republic]], to which Sloan himself donated $1,000. After a Congressional investigation into this group went public in 1936, Sloan issued a statement pledging not to further support the Sentinels.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} Also according to Black, Sloan continued to personally fund and organize fund-raising for the [[National Association of Manufacturers]], which was critical of the New Deal.<ref>{{cite book |last=Black |first=Edwin |title=Nazi Nexus, America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust |publisher=Dialog Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0914153092}}</ref>
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