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United States World War I Centennial Commission

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


  1. 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/ ↩︎

  2. 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 ↩︎

  3. 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 ↩︎