Word: philanthropists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...students of the Class of 2007 knew they’d be leaving Harvard Yard for potentially the last time on Commencement Day, June 7, carrying a diploma, but the added weight of the world probably took at least a few of them by surprise. Bill Gates, billionaire philanthropist and one time member of the Class of 1977, delivered quite a challenge with his Commencement speech...
...delighted to join my TIME colleagues and more than 400 distinguished guests, including TIME Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons, TIME Warner President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, TIME Inc. CEO Ann Moore, actress and environmental activist Heather Graham, human-rights activist and former hostage Terry Waite, and philanthropist Sabrina Guinness at London's Royal Courts of Justice on Oct. 25 to honor our awardees...
...that even good intentions seem of no avail. Barber, for example, was treated with unwavering kindness by Johnson, who had him educated, saw him almost as a son and worried about what would happen to him after his own death. The Barber story is narrated by a self-styled philanthropist who wishes that "all ebony personages" be resettled in Africa or the West Indies - but only because the English air "soon reduces these creatures to a state of childish helplessness," bringing the whole country down...
...Orleans. It has long had an active biracial improvement association, which the storm kicked up a couple of notches. It formed a partnership with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which has sent more than 90 students and faculty to help plan and rebuild, and aid from the philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and Bill Clinton's foundation soon followed. Thus fortified, LaToya Cantrell, president of the association, and Hal Roark, executive director of the Broadmoor Development Corp., helped the community take control of the neighborhood school. They formed a school board and selected Edison Schools, the education company founded by entrepreneur...
...average person who Fred Kavli is, and you'll probably draw a blank stare. Pose the same question to the scientific community, however, and you're likely to get an admiring smile. Since 2000, when the Norwegian-born engineer started a foundation that bears his name, the upstart philanthropist has funded work in several critical scientific areas and virtually created a new class system among research universities: those that can boast of having a Kavli Institute and those that wish they could...