Word: philanthropist
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...Broad donation is not an endowment: it is earmarked to directly fund research over the next decade. It is also unusual in that Eli Broad—chair of financial service giant AIG SunAmerica and a noted philanthropist who helped fund the Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles—has no prior connection to MIT or Harvard...
Lavietes was an avid philanthropist, who both donated money to and volunteered at organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club and the United...
DIED. PRINCE SADRUDDIN AGA KHAN, 70, tireless philanthropist and environmentalist; after a short illness; in Boston. Both the youngest and longest serving U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin spent nearly four decades working with the U.N. on disaster relief before devoting his later years to preserving the Alps and protecting rare birds...
DIED. J. PAUL GETTY JR., 70, reclusive philanthropist and one of five sons of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, in his day considered the richest man in the world; after being treated for a chest infection; in London. Though American-born, Getty loved and primarily patronized Britain, officially changing his citizenship in 1997. Known in his youth as a man fond of drugs and parties, Getty withdrew, focusing on art and philanthropy, after two personal tragedies: the loss of his second wife to a drug overdose and the kidnapping for five months of his then 17-year...
...immigrants: Jesica--the shy 17year-old battling a congenitally enlarged heart and failing lungs--and her poor, devout parents, who three years ago paid a coyote to smuggle Jesica and themselves into the U.S., where they hoped to find help for the dying girl. There was the wealthy philanthropist Mack Mahoney, who read of Jesica's plight in a North Carolina paper and made it his mission to get her a heart-and-lung transplant to try to save her life. Finally, there was the venerable institution where the story would unfold, Duke University Hospital, renowned for the brilliance...