The Annenberg Foundation, a charitable family trust, was created on July 1, 1989 by media magnate and former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Walter H. Annenberg. Initial funding of $1.2 billion came from the sale of Triangle Publications, the last media property held by Annenberg. The foundation is based in St. David's, Pennsylvania. Currently, The Foundation has a priority on granting funds for reform of elementary and secondary public school systems. The Foundation oversees the funding of the Annenberg Challenge. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ... The Court of St Jamess is the popular name of the royal court of the United Kingdom. ... Walter H. Annenberg Walter H. Annenberg (March 13, 1908 - October 1, 2002) was a billionaire publisher and philanthropist. ... St. ...

Since its founding, it has awarded over 5,200 grants, which total in excess of $2.8 billion. ^[1]

The Foundation is known for many cutting edge programs and especially for coining and developing the concept of Project Based Philanthropy. A recent example of this is Not A Cornfield Project in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

The current president, chairman and sole director of the Foundation is Leonore Annenberg, widow of Ambassador Annenberg, and a former United States Chief of Protocol. Their daughter, Wallis Annenberg is the vice president. The Chief of Protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the President of the United States, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State on official matters of national and international diplomatic protocol. ...

Annenberg Media

Annenberg Media is the arm of the foundation that is dedicated to the improvement of teaching by funding development and distribution of multimedia educational resources through a variety of channels. In addition to distributing the media directly to educational institutions and community agencies, the organization airs the programs on the Annenberg Channel — a free digital satellite channel — and makes its complete video collection available for no cost through broadband access to its web site, along with related activities and guides. Many of its programs are aired on PBS stations around the United States; in fact, the media unit was known previously as "The Annenberg/CPB Project" because of its close work with PBS' parent organization. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Corporation for Public Broadcasting logo, used from 1969 to 2002. ...

The original project was created in 1981 through a gift from Walter Annenberg the CPB and merged in 1999 with "The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project" (created 1990). In 2004, Annenberg/CPB became part of The Annenberg Foundation, later changing its name to Annenberg Media.

Programs developed by the media unit or by its predecessor, The Annenberg/CPB project (all developed for an audience of high school- or university-level learners), unless otherwise specified: Main article: Secondary education High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory education. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...

Languages

• Connect With English (1997), a serial drama with discussion segments for teaching English as a Second Language
• Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish (1992), a 52-episode serial drama for teaching Spanish, in the form of a telenovela (a sequel, Nuevos Destinos, was created in 1997)
• Fokus Deutsch (1998)
• French in Action (1987)

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Mathematics and science

• Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
• Algebra: In Simplest Terms
• The Brain: Teaching Modules
• Cycles of Life: Exploring Biology
• Earth Revealed (geology)
• Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth (microbiology)
• Journey North (wildlife migration)
• Math for All and Math for All—Plus (math for families of elementary school students, in English and Spanish)
• The Mechanical Universe…and Beyond (physics)
• The Mind: Teaching Modules (cognitive science)
• Planet Earth (Earth science and astronomy)
• Reactions in Chemistry
• Unseen Life on Earth: An Introduction to Microbiology
• The World of Chemistry

Social sciences

• The Africans (filmed in 16 African countries)
• Bridging World History
• A Biography of America
• The Constitution: That Delicate Balance
• Death: A Personal Understanding
• Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition
• Economics U$A
• Ethics in America
• Ethics in America II
• Growing Old in a New Age
• Human Geography: People, Places, and Change (economic and cultural geography)
• Inside the Global Economy
• Out of the Past (archaeology and anthropology)
• People’s Century (world history and social studies)
• The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century
• Rural Communities: Legacy & Change
• Seasons of Life (lifespan psychology)

Humanities

• American Cinema
• American Passages: A Literary Survey (college and teacher education)
• Art of the Western World (visual/fine arts)
• English Composition: Writing for an Audience
• Exploring the World of Music
• Literary Visions (literary analysis)
• News Writing
• Signature: Contemporary Writers (video documentary series featuring authors from the American South)
• Voices & Visions (American poetry)
• The Western Tradition (Western civilization)
• The World of Abnormal Psychology
• A World of Art: Works in Progress (art appreciation)

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Programs for teachers and administrators

In addition to programming designed for students, the project also has created several series for teachers in various subjects and for principals and other administrators. These series comprise workshops and documentary case studies on education in arts, composition, foreign languages, literature, mathematics, sciences, and social sciences, as well as on general topics of school reform and developments in cognitive science.

Other organizations and programs of the foundation

• The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (1958)
• The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (1971)
• The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences [1] at Eisenhower Medical Center (1981)
• The Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California (1993)
• Annenberg Challenge (1993)
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform [2] (1994) Brown University)
• The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania (1994)
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands (2001)

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References

1. ^ Creating Opportunities (PDF). AnnenbergFoundation.org (May 2005).

External links

• Annenberg Foundation
• Annenberg Political Fact Check A nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer advocate which monitors the factual accuracy of statements by political players
• Annenberg Media
• Annenberg Center for Health Sciences