- Sara Miller McCune
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Sara Miller McCune (born 1941) is the co-founder and Chair of SAGE Publications.
She founded the independent academic publishing company SAGE with her late husband George McCune in 1965.[1][2] She is on the Board of Directors of The American Academy of Political and Social Science.[3] In 2008, she announced the launch of Miller-McCune magazine, published in print and online, by the nonprofit Miller McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, with support from SAGE.[4]
She has funded schools in the developing world,[5] and made contributions to California organizations and educational establishments, including $2.5 million to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital,[6] $3.5 million to found the SAGE Center For the Study of the Mind at UCSB,[7][8] and over $5 million to the Granada Theater Restoration Project.[9] She is also a trustee and supporter of the UCSB Foundation [8] She founded the charitable McCune Foundation in 1990.[10] In 2003, she received the Spirit of Entrepreneurship award at the Entrepreneur of the Year awards, sponsored by Ernst and Young.[11] Women’s Campaign International (WCI) recently honored her at an event entitled Shattering The Glass Ceiling: Honoring Inspirational Women Around The Globe.[12]
Notes
- ^ http://www.sagepub.co.uk/aboutCompany.nav
- ^ http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=179
- ^ http://www.aapss.org/section.cfm/3/14
- ^ http://www.independent.com/news/2008/mar/21/miller-mccune-launches-new-magazine/
- ^ http://www.ghimirefoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=45
- ^ http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/06/26/news/news03.txt
- ^ http://www.sagecenter.ucsb.edu/index.htm
- ^ a b http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1732
- ^ http://www.granadasb.org/donors.html
- ^ http://www.mccunefoundation.org/mission/index.htm
- ^ http://www.toacorn.com/News/2003/1211/Business/
- ^ http://www.womenscampaigninternational.org/2008/11/event-report-shattering-the-glass-ceiling/
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