The Triad Foundation is an American nonprofit foundation formed in 2003 as a spin-off of the

Park Foundation The Park Foundation is an American nonprofit foundation founded in 1966 by entrepreneur and media mogul Roy H. Park. The foundation supports a variety of liberal and environmental causes, and has been a major supporter of the anti-fracking movem ...

. The triad in the newer foundation's title refers to Park Jr. and his children Roy Park III and Elizabeth Park Fowler. The foundation's endowment comes from the estate of entrepreneur and media mogul Roy H. Park. The foundation supports a series of Roy H. Park Fellowships at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school in the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and ren ...

and at

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States ...

's School of Journalism and Mass Communication. It is based in

Ithaca, New York Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named ...

and is chaired by Park's son, Roy H. Park, Jr. At the end of 2013, the foundation reported having $291 million in assets.

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