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mrs. RUSSELL SAGE GIVES
100000 FOR CHARITY
Pounds Trust Fund to Improve
Living Conditions.
RESEARCH IMPORTANT FEATURE
Will Be known as Sage Foundation.
and is to Be National in Scope
Social Conditions Are to Be REM
edied-HeIen Gould q Trustee.

edied-Helen Gould q Trustee.
Albany, N. Y.-Ten million dollars
Of the Russell Sage fortune Is to be
given by Mrs. Sage to the improve
ment Of social and living conditions
in the United States. An organiza-
ton known as the Sage Foundation,
managed by prominent philanthropy
lists of both sexes, is to have charge
of the fund. Only the income from
the SO, 000,0 900 is to be used.
A bill incorporating the Sage Foun-
dation was introduced in the Assem-
bly, by Assemblyman Prentice, of New
York. These persons are named as
the incorporators of the Foundation:
Robert w. De Forest, Cleveland P.
Dodge, Daniel C. Gilman, John H.
Glenn, Miss Helen M. Gould, Mrs.
William B. Rice and Miss Louisa l..
Schuyler.
Mrs. Sage, through her attorney,
R. w. De Forest, makes the follow
ing statement concerning the founda-
ton: .
II have set aside $10,000,000 for
the endowment of this foundation.
Its object is the improvement OF So
cial and living conditions in the
United States.
1.-The means to that end will in
clude research, publication, educa-
ton, the establishment and mainte-
nance of charitable and beneficial
activities, agencies and institutions
and the aid of any such activities,
| agencies and institutions already es-
tablished.
"It will be within the scope of such
q foundation to investigate and study
the causes of adverse social condi-
tons, including ignorance, poverty
and vice, to suggest how these cond1-
lions can be remedied or ameliorated,
and to put in operation any appro-
pirate means to that end.
"It will also>be within the scope of
such a foundation to establish any
new agency necessary to carry out
any of it's conclusions and equally to
contribute to the u of any,
existing agencies which are doing eff
fcient and satisfactory work, just as
the present general education fund,
organized to promote higher educa-
ton, Is aiding existing colleges and
universities.
while it's scope is broad it should,
preferably, not undertake to do with
in that scope what Is now being done
or is likely to be effectively done by
other individuals or by other agencies
-y,4h 1Ncc -ncNtrrnnC IF will hQ ira
aim to take up the larger and more
difficult problems, and to take them
up, so far as possible, in such a man
ner as to secure cooperation and aid
in their solution. In some instances
it may wisely initiate movements
with the expectation of having them
maintain themselves unaided after
being once started. In other instances
it may start movements with the eX-
pectation of carrying them on itself.
Income only will be used for it's char
table purposes, because the founda-
ton is to be permanent and It's action
continuous. 1t may, however, make
investments for social betterment
which themselves produce income.
while having it's headquarters in
New York City, where Mr.. Sage and
1 have lived and where social prob
lens are pressing and complicated,
partly by reason of its extent and
partly because 1t is the port of entry
for about 100000 immigrants a
year, the foundation will be national
in its scope and in it's activities. I
have sought to select as my trustees
men and women who are familiar
with social problems and who can
bring to their solution not only zeal
and interest, but experience and judy
ment."