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Funding for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY is provided by Lilly Endowment Inc. with additional support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Mutual of America Life Insurance Company.
The Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. was founded in 1937 by three members of the Lilly family through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. The Endowment is a separate entity from the company, with a distinct governing board, staff and location, and is devoted to the causes of religion, education and community development.
Now the country's largest single funder in the field of American religion, the Endowment supports a wide variety of efforts that strive to ensure a quality ministry for the future and build vital and healthy congregations. It also funds projects designed to promote informed dialogue about religion in American life, generate new knowledge, communicate fresh insights, and renew and sustain vital institutions of American Christianity.
Mutual of America Life Insurance Company founded in 1945 to provide retirement and insurance coverage to employees of nonprofit organizations. Today, Mutual of America continues to offer retirement and insurance products to this important segment of society as well as to corporate employers and their employees. With headquarters in New York, a national training and telecommunications center in Boca Raton, Florida, and 36 regional offices throughout the United States, Mutual of America and its affiliated companies are well positioned to deliver products and services for employee benefit plans of nonprofit organizations and corporations and their employees, life insurance and retirement products to individuals and mutual funds to institutional investors.
Mutual of America’s growth has been characterized by prudent management and a commitment to the financial strength of the company. All of Mutual of America’s employees share a mission: to address the needs of individuals and employers to build and preserve assets for a financially secure future. Accomplishing that mission means staying close to its customers — learning about their individual needs and providing them with solutions — whether they’re participants in a small group retirement plan or institutional investors with millions of dollars in assets.
Mutual of America’s commitment to stay close to its customers has given rise to an organization structured for service with success measured by the confidence and trust clients place in the company. Mutual of America recognizes that to help provide the security and stability that its clients and their employees seek, it must not only address their financial needs and objectives; but also continue to explore ways in which the company can support America’s complex society and help better the world.
The Henry Luce Foundation was established in 1936 by Henry R. Luce, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to honor his parents who were missionary educators in China. The Foundation builds upon the vision and values of four generations of the Luce family: broadening knowledge and encouraging the highest standards of service and leadership. A not-for-profit corporation, the Luce Foundation operates under the laws of the State of New York and aims to exemplify the best practices of responsible, effective philanthropy.
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities.
The Luce Foundation pursues its mission today through the following grant-making programs: American Art; East Asia; Luce Scholars; Theology; Higher Education and the Henry R. Luce Professorships; the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs; Public Policy and the Environment; and the Clare Boothe Luce Program for women in science, mathematics and engineering.
CPB, is a private, nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress to act as steward for the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,150 locally owned and operated public television and radio stations nationwide. CPB is also the largest single source of funding for general station-operation grants, program development for public radio, television, and on-line services, technology implementation, and research.
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