The United States World War I Centennial Commission is an American governmental commission created by the United States Congress.
Funding
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library is the founding sponsor of the Commission.[1] Additional donors include:[2][3]
- Ambrose Monell Foundation
- American Express
- American Legion
- Annenberg Foundation
- Bank of America
- Bloomberg Philanthropies
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- Coca-Cola Foundation
- Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
- Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
- Edward John and Patricia Rosenwald Foundation
- Freeman Foundation
- General Motors (GM)
- Google AdWords
- History Channel
- Huntington Ingalls Industries
- J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation
- Jones Day
- Justice Freedom & Liberty PAC
- Kentucky Veteran’s Program Trust Fund (VPTF)
- Lilly Endowment
- Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation
- Mellon Foundation
- Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
- National Football League (NFL)
- National World War I Museum and Memorial
- New York Life Foundation
- Patrick F. Taylor Foundation
- Richard Lounsbery Foundation
- Robert R. McCormick Foundation
- Sandra Pershing
- Schultz Family Foundation
- S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
- Solvay
- Starr Foundation
- Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation
- United Technologies
- Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
- Walmart
Publications
- May 20, 2019: “Waking Up to History: John Dos Passos, the Cut-up, and WWI” by M.C. Armstrong
External links
Thayer, K. (2014, December 6). Pritzker museum donates $5 million to WWI centennial programs. Chicago Tribune. http://archive.today/2014.12.07-193135/http://my.chicagotribune.com/%23section/-1/article/p2p-82210511/ ↩︎
Founding Sponsor. World War I Centennial. Retrieved December 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231211211521/https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/participate/organizations/pritzker-military-museum-and-library.html ↩︎
Donor Recognition. World War I Centennial. Retrieved December 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.12.11-213750/https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/honor/national-wwi-memorial/donor-recognition.html ↩︎
