Markle Foundation

Markle Foundation
Markle Foundation
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Founder(s) John and Mary R. Markle
Location New York, NY, USA
Key people Zoe Baird (President)[1]
Lloyd N. Morrisett (Former President)
Carol Diamond (Managing Director) Health[2]
Focus Technology, Health care, and National security
Website www.markle.org

The Markle Foundation is an organization concerned with technology, health care, and national security.

Emerging communications media and information technology create unprecedented opportunity to improve people's lives. The Markle Foundation works to realize this potential and promotes the use of information and information technology that address public needs.[3] Some of the current areas where the Markle Foundation is active in: Health and National Security.[4] They tend to collaborate with innovators and thought leaders from the public and private sectors whose expertise lies in the areas of information technology, privacy, civil liberties, health, and national security. This has enabled the Foundation to offer comprehensive recommendations to the highest levels of government, many of which have passed into law through acts of Congress and by executive order.[4]

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History

Started in 1927 as the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, the organization began by funding traditional social welfare programs as well as projects that focused on medicine and medical research. In 1969, Lloyd Morrisett, the Markle Foundation's president at that time, shifted the foundation's focus to mass communications in a democratic society. In 1998, when Zoe Baird became president, she shifted the foundation's focus to accelerating the use of information and information technology to address critical public problems, particularly in the areas of health and national security.

People associated

Current Programs

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References

  1. ^ News & Events (1997-06-03). Zoë Baird to Assume Presidency of Markle Foundation. 'The 'Markle Website, retrieved August 22, 2011
  2. ^ Events: Information Page (July 2009). Carol C. Diamond. Center for American Progress, retrieved August 22, 2011
  3. ^ On The Web (2001-09-18). Markle Foundation. Philanthropy News Digest, retrieved August 22, 2011
  4. ^ a b "Markle Advancing and National Security in a Connected World", About the Markle Foundation (Policy Archive Research Collection), http://www.policyarchive.org/collections/markle/index?section=7, retrieved April 4, 2011 
  5. ^ News & Events (1997-06-03). Zoë Baird to Assume Presidency of Markle Foundation. 'The 'Markle Website, retrieved August 22, 2011
  6. ^ Events: Information Page (July 2009). Carol C. Diamond. Center for American Progress, retrieved August 22, 2011

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