Markle Foundation

The Markle Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization concerned with technology, health care, and national security.[5]

John and Mary R Markle Foundation
FoundedApril 26, 1927 (1927-04-26)[1]
FounderJohn and Mary R. Markle
13-1770307[2]
Legal status501(c)(3) private foundation[2]
FocusTechnology, Health care, and National security
HeadquartersNew York City[2]
President
Zoë Baird [3]
Managing Director, Health
Carol Diamond[4]
Revenue (2014)
$6.931,781[2]
Expenses (2014)$13,552,735[2]
Websitewww.markle.org

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.[6] The foundation tends 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.[5]

History

Formally incorporated on April 26, 1927,[1] as the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation,[7] 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 Zoë 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. For fiscal year 2008, Ms Baird's compensation from this tax exempt charitable organization was recorded as $505,750.00, in the Form 990-PF filed by Markle.[8]

In 1948, the Foundation established an award to assist qualified people wishing to remain in academic medicine.[9]

People associated
  • Zoe Baird - President[3]
  • Carol Diamond - Managing Director Health[4]

References
  1. "Markle Foundation Ready to Operate". The New York Times. April 30, 1927. p. 6.
  2. "Form 990-PF: return of Private Foundation". John and Mary R Markle Foundation. Guidestar. June 30, 2014.
  3. News & Events (1997-06-03). Zoë Baird to Assume Presidency of Markle Foundation. 'The 'Markle Website, retrieved August 22, 2011
  4. Events: Information Page (July 2009). Carol C. Diamond Archived 2011-09-06 at the Wayback Machine. Center for American Progress, retrieved August 22, 2011
  5. "Markle Advancing and National Security in a Connected World", About the Markle Foundation, Policy Archive Research Collection, retrieved April 4, 2011
  6. On The Web (2001-09-18). Markle Foundation. Philanthropy News Digest, retrieved August 22, 2011
  7. "Incorporation of Markle Foundation Sought: J.P. and Junius Morgan Jr. Among Signers". The New York Times. February 4, 1927. p. 2.
  8. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2012-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Markle Foundation Scholarships in Medicine". Nature. 163 (4142): 437–438. 1949-03-19. Bibcode:1949Natur.163S.437.. doi:10.1038/163437c0. ISSN 1476-4687.
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