The Philanthropy Initiative’s long-term exhibition, Giving in America, also explores educational equity. Explore online content in its changing case exhibit, "Who Pays for Education?," curated by Dr. Amanda B. Moniz, the museum’s David M. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy, and Dr. Sarah Jones Weicksel, Project Historian. Learn how Americans, since the nation’s beginning, have grappled with who gets educated and who pays for education. Highlights include objects from women educators like Nannie Helen Burroughs, who founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909 in Washington, DC and an Oklahoma teacher who made headlines for her roadside fundraising sign in 2017.

Fundraising Poster, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2017. 
Gift of Teresa Danks Roark.
National Museum of American History