At its 122nd annual meeting on June 16, 2026, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission elected long-time board member and accomplished executive Michael A. Thompson chair of its board of directors. …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including a husband who pulled his wife from the jaws of an 8.5-foot alligator in Stuart, Florida; a 17-year-old who, …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including a 10-year-old boy who saved a 6-year-old from falling off a chairlift at a ski resort in Nellysford, Virginia; …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 17 individuals, including a 42-year-old man who disarmed a man with a pistol that entered a school in Pasadena, Texas; three men …
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is pleased to announce the election of two new members at its Sept. 16 meeting. Lance Ruttenberg is the president and chief executive officer for American …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including two men, awarded posthumously, who attempted to stop a gunman who opened fire in a crowded bowling alley in …
The Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund and the University of Pittsburgh’s Responsible Data Science Initiative will collaborate on a project that aims to make the Hero Fund’s 121 years of data …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 17 individuals, including two dads who died saving their children from drowning, a 13-year-old boy who saved his brother and mom from …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 17 individuals, including a husband who positioned himself between his wife and an attacking shark in the Gulf of Mexico off of …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including a New York City art teacher who intervened in a subway attack, a 34-year-old healthcare worker who saved a …
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is pleased to announce the election of new member Caroline D. (“Carrie”) Barmen at its Sept. 17 meeting. Carrie Barmen currently serves as the director …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including a veteran, who helped take down the gunman who opened fire in a Colorado Springs nightclub in 2022, a …
At its annual meeting on June 18, 2024, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission elected Thomas L. Wentling, Jr., to serve as the Commission’s chair, effective immediately. Mr. Wentling replaces Eric …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 individuals, including four women who saved their friend from an attacking cougar, five members of law enforcement, and a physician and …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 17 individuals, including a trained water rescuer who entered a capsized boat when other professional rescuers were unable, a recreational rock climber …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 18 civilians, including a father who died attempting to save his son from a burning home and a husband who died trying …
The Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 16 civilians, including four young adults, who risked serious injury or death to save others in acts of extraordinary heroism. Each individual …
In its second announcement of 2023, the Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 16 civilians who risked serious injury or death to save others, including three teachers who, in …
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission is pleased to announce the election of two new members at its March 21 meeting. Duane D. Holloway is a senior vice president, general counsel, …
In its first announcement of 2023, the Carnegie Hero Fund is honored to recognize 15 civilians who risked serious injury or death to save others, including four passersby who entered …
