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first 2 lines or more are from their website http://www.sloan.org/main.shtml . It is also not very NPOV. special, random,Merkinsmum 22:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
a lot of the rest of it is from http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=223 -unless that is a copy of this? It's an advertisment (that link is- and by association, this article is) for the foundation. special, random,Merkinsmum 23:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
another sentence is mainly from here (scroll down a bit, highlighted for ease of reading) http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:W5LSiPTgZ0oJ:www-math.mit.edu/department/awards.html+The+Sloan+Fellowships+are+annual+awards+given+to+more+than+100+young+researchers+and+university+faculty,+to+further+studies+in+science,+economics,+neuroscience,+computer+science,+and+molecular+biology.&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk In reality most of this is perhaps from the sloan site somewhere? special, random,Merkinsmum 23:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
They have benefited humanity specially in the area of cancer.
Although the Sloan Foundation award to the Wikimedia Foundation is big news for WMF and its projects, this is not the most significant award it ever presented and no other awards are mentioned within the article. If no one expands the article to include a survey of Sloan Foundation gifts, I propose eliminating the specific mention of WMF. I removed that mention once last night and another IP swiftly re-added it. Do other editors agree that's undue weight and recentism? DurovaCharge! 20:31, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Does anyone else think we (as Wikipedian editors) owe it to them to at least bring up their article to GA status? If someone gave me 3 mil I'd feel pretty obligated to give something back! See [1] for press release. -- Ϫ 23:57, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Where does the foundation earn it's current money, and or how did its "nest egg" grow so large? No body has said word one. This seems a good line of inquiry for the main article.
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I want to be 100% transparent. I am a long-time consultant to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and would like to suggest changes to address existing content on this page that is now out-of-date. The section "Gomory and Joskow presidencies (1989–present)" is no longer accurate because Paul Joskow is no longer president of the foundation. I suggest making the following changes:
1) removing the extensive biographical section about Paul Joskow (currently under Leadership)
2) moving the bulk of the information currently listed under "Gomory and Joskow presidencies (1989–present)" to the "Programs" section.
3) Replacing the current "Leadership" section with a "Presidents" section that lists each president in chronological order, much like the Ford Foundation page does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation#Presidents
Here is a list of all of the Foundation’s presidents, with source links for the ones that are not currently mentioned on the page:
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. 1934-1961
Everett Case 1962-1968 [Source link: http://www4.colgate.edu/scene/sept2000/case.html]
Nils Y. Wessell 1968-1979 [Source link: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/us/09wessell.html]
Albert Rees 1979-1988 https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/07/us/albert-rees-71-labor-economist-and-an-adviser-to-president-ford.html
Ralph E. Gomory 1989-2007
Paul L. Joskow 2008-2017
Adam F. Falk 2018 - Present — Preceding unsigned comment added by P. Giglio (talk • contribs) 15:38, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
Edit request partially implemented
Notes
Suggest adding the following information to the end of the current “Programs” section:
The Sloan Foundation is the primary funder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a major astronomical survey that began data collection in 2000. [Wiki link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Digital_Sky_Survey]
In 1945, the Sloan Foundation donated $4 million to launch the Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, now the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. [ Source linl: https://www.mskcc.org/blog/sloan-kettering-institute-marks-70-years-changing]
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. [Source link: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/about-mit-sloan/history/] — Preceding unsigned comment added by P. Giglio (talk • contribs) 17:54, 4 October 2018 (UTC)