Board notes: Carnegie Hero Fund stays true to founder’s values
By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission What was Andrew Carnegie up to when he created the Hero Fund in 1904? You might think the answer is obvious, but …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission What was Andrew Carnegie up to when he created the Hero Fund in 1904? You might think the answer is obvious, but …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission The Carnegie Hero Fund works across a broad geography, recognizing heroic acts in the United States and Canada, and collaborating with Carnegie …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Once the Carnegie Hero Fund has identified, investigated, and awarded the Carnegie Medal for a heroic act, it works in many ways …
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The summer 2018 issue of imPULSE brims with stories of the 10,000th and 10,001st Carnegie Medal awards, covering the rescuers, their rescues, and the joyful ceremony at which Vickie Tillman and …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Abigail Marsh, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University, has written a galvanizing account of her research into the …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission It is pretty rare that a discussion of heroism erupts into the national discourse the way it did this fall. Almost everyone …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Organizations that prosper for 113 years must have something special going for them. Walter F. Rutkowski was certainly something special for the …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “So, you’re from Pittsburgh. What do you think about Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike?” Andrew Carnegie created and endowed about 21 …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission The Carnegie Hero Fund is dedicated to telling the stories of the heroes who have earned the Carnegie Medal. But, why? Is …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “Judge not, lest you be judged.” —Matthew 7:1 That is how Jesus put it. In more modern terms, someone accused of questionable …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” —From …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Who needs these heroes, the men and women who earned the Carnegie Medal? Those they rescued did, of course, but isn’t the …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Little did I suspect when I joined the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission in 1992 that I would one day travel to Norway …
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By Mark Laskow, Chair Carnegie Hero Fund Commission imPULSE, which you are reading at this very moment, has had an interesting effect on the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Before the …