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Philanthropy

Philanthropy derives from Ancient Greek, meaning "to love people". Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. In a more general sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity intended to promote good or improve human quality of... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Jonathan Moyo Much philanthropy, including scholarship programs and support for sport over many years, has earned Moyo a place in Tsholotsho, his family area.

Annie Oakley Oakley continued to set records into her 60s, and she also engaged in extensive, albeit quiet, philanthropy for women's rights and other causes, including the support of specific young women that she knew.

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Spencer Museum of Art Philanthropies at the University of Kansas include the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the Kenneth Aldred Spencer Memorial Chapel at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

List of University of Kansas people Kenneth A. Spencer (1926), Spencer Chemical Company founder whose philanthropies to KU include the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art

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Mark Pigott Major philanthropy also includes strategic planning and implementation of capital projects at St Paul's Cathedral (London), the Royal Shakespeare Company and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Madam C. J. Walker Walker was known for her philanthropy, leaving two-thirds of her estate to educational institutions and charities, including the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Pi Beta Phi Over the fraternity's history, philanthropies have included education, literacy, and the preservation of regional arts and crafts.

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Pi Beta Phi Over the fraternity's history, philanthropies have included education, literacy, and the preservation of regional arts and crafts.

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Pi Beta Phi Over the fraternity's history, philanthropies have included education, literacy, and the preservation of regional arts and crafts.

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Lambda Phi Epsilon In addition to hosting bone marrow drives on a national level, individual chapters of Lambda Phi Epsilon participate in their own local philanthropies including Habitat for Humanity, AIDS walks, beach clean-ups, adopting highways, and assisting the elderly community.

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Jonathan Moyo Much philanthropy, including scholarship programs and support for sport over many years, has earned Moyo a place in Tsholotsho, his family area.

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Heather Murren In addition, she has received numerous awards for philanthropy including the Larry King Heart Award for 2004 , the Jameson Philanthropic Award from the Nevada Community Foundation, and the Humanitas Award from the Nevada Epicurean Club in 2005.

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Barney Rosenzweig Other philanthropies include a two-year term in Los Angeles as Chairman of the Entertainment Division of the United Jewish Fund, and as Chairperson of the President's Council of the American Lung Association.

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James A. Jim Bates Bates’ philanthropy includes contributing limited edition prints of his painting entitled “Homecoming” to the Warrior Foundation for fundraising which benefits members of the military recovering from injuries in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

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Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice The Foundation provides donors all administrative services related to their philanthropy, including tax documentation, record keeping of all fund activity and investments, and grant distributions to charities.

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Spencer Museum of Art Philanthropies at the University of Kansas include the Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the Kenneth Aldred Spencer Memorial Chapel at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

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Lino Saputo Lino Saputo is also known for his generous philanthropy and support of many causes including many hospitals in Montreal.

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Black Movement of Brazil It reemerged on May 13, 1977 with objectives focused more on assistance and philanthropy that included the creation of a school and free literacy courses.

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Madam C. J. Walker Walker was known for her philanthropy, leaving two-thirds of her estate to educational institutions and charities, including the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Norton Clapp Clapp was active in various philanthropies including the Boy Scouts of America and was to donate 10,098 acres (41 km²) including the summit of Baldy Mountain (Colfax County, New Mexico) for use at Philmont Scout Ranch.

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John Vartan Vartan's educational philanthropy also included the funding of a Harrisburg public school program of after-school tutoring, the results of which were praised by both parents and educators.

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Julien Cahn By the mid-1930s Cahn's cricket philanthropy had included the financially troubled Leicestershire.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Thurston Twigg-Smith Persis Corporation philanthropy includes The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, , Friends of Opal Creek, Goodale Farm, Hawaii Theatre Center, Historic Hawaii Foundation, the Laniakea Foundation, the Lyman House Memorial Museum, Punahou School, and Yale University.

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Mark Pigott Major philanthropy also includes strategic planning and implementation of capital projects at St Paul's Cathedral (London), the Royal Shakespeare Company and Trinity College, Dublin.

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Solomon Loeb His philanthropies included large amounts to Jewish charities.

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Madam C. J. Walker Walker was known for her philanthropy, leaving two-thirds of her estate to educational institutions and charities, including the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Detroit Media philanthropy includes the Detroit Free Press high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit.

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Black billionaires Much of Winfrey's charity goes towards educating girls in South Africa while Walker's philanthropy supported the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Black billionaires Much of Winfrey's charity goes towards educating girls in South Africa while Walker's philanthropy supported the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Black billionaires Much of Winfrey's charity goes towards educating girls in South Africa while Walker's philanthropy supported the NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute and Bethune-Cookman College.

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Phi Sigma Sigma The sorority's official philanthropy is the Phi Sigma Sigma Foundation, which supports the National Kidney Foundation (NKF).

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Fraternities and sororities Alpha Delta Pi supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities as its national philanthropy, Gamma Phi Beta supports Campfire USA and Zeta Tau Alpha support the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

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The 21 Society The 21 Society has also used its public message boards to encourage philanthropy supporting the University of Virginia.

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Charles E. Merrill Merrill's estate funded the Charles E. Merrill Trust, an engine of philanthropy, supporting the Merrill Science Center at Amherst College and Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, built in 1968.

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National Center for Children in Poverty At its inception, NCCP was supported by private philanthropies but today is primarily funded by foundation grants and federal funding.

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Menachem Mendel Schneerson Some American Jewish philanthropies stopped financially supporting Chabad-Lubavitch since most of their members were connected to Reform and Conservative Judaism.

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Colel Chabad Colel Chabad is an umbrella philanthropy supporting a network of soup kitchens, day care centers, dental and medical clinics, camp scholarships, senior centers, interest-free loans, immigrant absorption programs, and other social welfare projects throughout the Land of Israel, and more recently in the former Soviet Union.

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Leong Sin Nam His influence has always been exercised in the best interests of the community and his unobtrusive but generous philanthropy has supported many deserving institutions.

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Kevin Rollins His philanthropy has also extended to financially support various political campaigns, including most recently Mitt Romney's bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Presidency.

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Richard Crouch Upon his defeat, he decided to forsake politics for philanthropy, travel, writing, and encouraging Australians to take a greater interest in their history.

Community development In the late 1960s, philanthropies such as the Ford Foundation and government officials such as Senator Robert Kennedy took an interest in local nonprofit organizations--a pioneer was the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn--that attempted to apply business and management skills to the social mission of uplifting low-income residents and their neighborhoods.

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Venture philanthropy Venture philanthropy, also known as philanthrocapitalism, takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals.

NewSchools Venture Fund Venture philanthropy takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals.

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Venture philanthropy Venture philanthropy, also known as philanthrocapitalism, takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals.

NewSchools Venture Fund Venture philanthropy takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals.

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Rafik Hariri It was during the period of Hariri’s life that his business and philanthropy began to take a more political tone.

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Philanthropy American philanthropy has met challenges, and taken advantage of opportunities, that neither government nor business ordinarily address.

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Jimenez, Misamis Occidental Many Jimeneznons live outside the country (such as the United States) but have retained close ties to the town, with "balikbayans" offering community service and philanthropy, and others taking up residence upon retirement abroad.

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  • Philanthropy

    Philanthropy is the effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations. ... It is generally agreed that the word was coined 2500 years ago in ancient Greece, by the playwright Aeschylus, or whoever else wrote Prometheus Bound (line 11).

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  • Venture philanthropy

    Venture philanthropy, also known as philanthrocapitalism, takes concepts and techniques from venture capital finance and high technology business management and applies them to achieving philanthropic goals. Venture philanthropy is characterized by:

  • Youth philanthropy

    Youth philanthropy is the donation of time, energy or resources, including money, by children and youth towards philanthropic causes. According to one study, "youth philanthropy is, at the broadest level, youth giving of their time, talents and treasure."

  • Prize philanthropy

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  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy

    The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world. Based in Washington, DC, it is the top news source for charity leaders, foundation executives, fund raisers, and other people involved in philanthropy.

  • High impact philanthropy

    High impact philanthropy is the practice of making charitable contributions with the intention of maximizing social good. The aim is to make the biggest difference possible given the amount of capital invested.

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    New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) is a charitable organisation based in London. ... Philanthropy

  • Philanthropy Roundtable

    The Philanthropy Roundtable is a private, non-partisan, 501(c)(3) organization. Its stated mission is "to foster excellence in philanthropy, to protect philanthropic freedom, to assist donors in achieving their philanthropic intent, and to help donors advance liberty, opportunity, and personal responsibility in America and abroad."

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