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Giving away a lot of money isn't that easy. "Every one of us is going to give the money away at some point," says Bill Davidow, a venerable Silicon Valley philanthropist and multimillionaire, "but some of us just haven't chosen to part with it yet." Some charitable foundations and organizations, he says, haven't learned ways to make folks feel good about giving away their money: "My wife and I, for example, contribute to a wonderful organization that has one of the most disorganized development groups I have ever seen...
...hardly surprising that so many people showed up to hear the billionaire philanthropist speak. After all, investment banking is one of the most popular fields for graduating seniors and economics is the most popular concentration at Harvard. Soros spoke at a campus divided between seniors pursuing economic success and those pursuing social ideals...
After selling his empire to J.P. Morgan in 1901 to form the centerpiece of the new behemoth, U.S. Steel, Carnegie devoted himself to good deeds. A prodigious philanthropist, he created 2,800 free libraries worldwide. "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," he declared bluntly. Like Rockefeller, Carnegie endowed large corporate foundations with elastic charters that took on an autonomous existence. At his death he had disbursed almost his entire $350 million fortune...
Julio Quinones and Blanca Jimenez received the Thomas J. White Prize in a ceremony in Science Center B. The prize was named in honor of White, a local philanthropist who graduated from Harvard...
...examined the new pages but legally could only paraphrase them, says that Suijk "got the pages because Otto didn't want to destroy them." The rest of Anne's original texts, including her revisions, are kept at the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Suijk is hoping that a philanthropist will buy his fragments and donate them to the Institute so that he can use the proceeds to support his center in New York...