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The Sloan Foundation makes grants to support original research and broad-based education related to science, technology, and economics. The foundation is an independent entity and has no formal relationship with General Motors. As of 2022, the Sloan Foundation's assets totaled $ 2.0 billion.
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The Sloan Work and Family Researchers Network supports research and education about work-family issues. The foundation also funded the national workplace flexibility campaign as part of the Working Families program led by
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Harold Stephenson Sloan, a retired manufacturer, economist, teacher and author who was a brother of the industrialist Alfred P. Sloan, died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Lopatcong Township, N.J. He was 100 years
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In 1950, the Sloan Foundation made a gift of more than $ 5 million to establish a School of Industrial Management, now known as the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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In 1945, the Sloan Foundation donated $ 4 million to launch the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, now the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation makes grants in seven broad subjects, known within the foundation as major program areas.
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The Sloan Foundation also made many civic contributions to the foundation's home city of New York, including grants to
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Starting January 2018, Adam Falk, past president of Williams College, assumed the presidency of the foundation.
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are annual awards given to more than 126 young researchers and university faculty, to further studies in
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Research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College
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In March 2008, the foundation awarded a $ 3 million grant to the
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: A Grantmaking History 1934-2009
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Public Understanding of Science, Technology & Economics
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