Now, philanthropists are spending millions — even billions — again.
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The philanthropists have long been close friends with Warren Buffett.
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Both Honey, 70 years old, and Barry were known philanthropists.
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But philanthropists can certainly fund studies that demonstrate what works.
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So too, we need a new generation of "political philanthropists".
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Policymakers, influencers and philanthropists, meet the green state of Texas.
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More philanthropists are using their giving to advance policy agendas.
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Wonderful human beings, incredible philanthropists, great leaders in health care.
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The effort was an immediate success, and philanthropists took note.
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Much like the poor, philanthropists have always been with us.
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For philanthropists today, it is the foundation that provides protection.
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The intervention of philanthropists in this area has attracted critiques.
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Now, philanthropists — including tech billionaires — are spending big fortunes again.
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Most philanthropists, though, don't seem to be looking for those opportunities.
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The event will also be attended by British ministers and philanthropists.
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Benioff has already emerged as one of the city's great philanthropists.
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Backed by philanthropists, it has paid for a lot of research.
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One of the greatest philanthropists in the history of the world.
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One way is to hold scientists, philanthropists and the press accountable.
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Contemporary philanthropists don't look like the tycoons of the Gilded Age.
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Together they were generous philanthropists and supporters of East End businesses.
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Another $22 million will be donated by local foundations and philanthropists.
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And I don't really think of my parents as philanthropists, either.
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After succeeding as art collectors, they formed a partnership as philanthropists.
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Philanthropists, businesses, and academics can provide valuable antidotes to this problem.
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A ridiculously disproportionate percentage of the Giving Pledge philanthropists are Jewish.
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It's not something where the philanthropists all homogenize what they're doing.
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They are philanthropists — and there's not a old white man in sight.
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But not all philanthropists are billionaires, or even millionaires for that matter.
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Current funding for IHMC's exo comes largely through grants and local philanthropists.
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Instead, Mr Boulay suggests that taxpayers or philanthropists should subsidise summer activities.
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IN THE 20th century people could become wealthy philanthropists by starting publications.
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These days, when philanthropists announce massive donations, they are hailed as heroes.
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That's a pittance next to the philanthropists Regnery has compared himself to.
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There's an unlikely pair of philanthropists behind Washington, DC's, newest think tank.
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Dozens of companies are pursuing the field, and philanthropists are supporting research.
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Philanthropists want to give to their alma mater, not a new college.
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Billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melina Gates have two dogs — Oreo and Nilla.
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So the partners, the philanthropists, have been investing in long-acting tools.
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At the same time, the rules encourage the great generosity of philanthropists.
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Philanthropists and entrepreneurs who made our province a better place to live.
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Investors, civic leaders and philanthropists need to extend that trust to everyone.
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What separates Chan and Zuckerberg from most other philanthropists is their age.
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More time to give also means more time to improve as philanthropists.
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Philanthropists in the diaspora threatened to cut off their aid to Israel.
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Meanwhile, big-name philanthropists shared their advice with the NYT's Paul Sullivan.
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are among the world's most generous philanthropists.
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Jennifer Gates is the eldest child of philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Philanthropists are noticing the success of strategies innovated by women of color.
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Answering to neither voters nor shareholders, philanthropists and foundations can move boldly.
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From the beginning, their pitch was geared to philanthropists, not venture capitalists.
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So what should philanthropists who want to avoid these pitfalls do instead?
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A separate report commissioned for the biannual Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy — of which Mr. Skoll is one of nine recipients this year — found that most philanthropists go through a six- to seven-step process in their evolution as philanthropists.
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Tax breaks are an important reason why philanthropists of all stripes like DAFs.
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The university plans to seek voluntary contributions from alumni, faculty, students and philanthropists.
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Lanning and Edwards are pitching the institute to philanthropists and potential corporate sponsors.
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Plus "not all philanthropists publicly disclose details about their giving," notes the Chronicle.
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What if she became one of the most generous philanthropists in the world?
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Philanthropists and entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick have pledged $750 million to Caltech.
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Net worth: £13.1 billion David and Simon Reuben are British businessmen and philanthropists.
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But like those English philanthropists, Antico makes distinctions between various types of debt.
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Jennifer Gates is the eldest daughter of billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Philanthropists have poured more than $6900 million into the school system since 2628.
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Yes, but: Efforts to support local news by billionaire philanthropists have mostly faltered.
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Some philanthropists are drawn to the challenge of renewing neighborhoods in big cities.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates became one of the world&aposs most respected philanthropists.
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Instead, philanthropists kept working with untrammeled optimism on microfinance in the developing world.
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Much vaccine research has been funded by philanthropists, the WHO, and national governments.
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At American and British opera houses, corporate sponsors and philanthropists top up public funding.
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But does it actually teach students anything about philanthropy or how to become philanthropists?
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Philanthropists love the scheme because it makes the use of their money more transparent.
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Several conservative philanthropists, like Betsy DeVos and James Arthur Pope, serve on its board.
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These days, wealthy philanthropists become press barons by rescuing publications like Mr Luce's brainchild.
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Bloch and his wife, Marion, were active philanthropists in his hometown of Kansas City.
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All this summitry provides an opportunity for politicians and philanthropists to make further commitments.
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The Lauders are active philanthropists, and sons Leonard and Ronald are major art collectors.
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Ontario politicians who spoke out on social media said the deceased were generous philanthropists.
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Cisneros and his wife won the lottery in 85033 and have since become philanthropists.
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And how do you get other philanthropists to support what was essentially your idea?
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Philanthropists and international aid organizations play key roles in areas such as immunizing children.
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The forum hosts rights campaigners, dissidents, philanthropists and tech entrepreneurs from around the world.
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But truth be told, several philanthropists said this should not be an either-or.
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That work eventually morphed another nonprofit, a network of philanthropists we called Resourceful Women.
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A team of designers and philanthropists constructed two 3D-printed homes in 24 hours.
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Mr. Obama had good material for most of them — philanthropists, movies stars, architect, alike.
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This progress is complemented by investments by industry and fellow philanthropists like Bill Gates.
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Others denounced the reputational boost bestowed on philanthropists at a time of national tragedy.
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Technology dramatically extends the reach of philanthropists compared to what was possible in the past.
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That's the convenient fiction repeated by business-minded politicians and philanthropists for some time now.
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That's why, independent of a tax break, what philanthropists do doesn't deserve our automatic praise.
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These days, we expect our ex-presidents to be philanthropists, foundation-establishers and world-changers.
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When it comes to parenting, the billionaire philanthropists take a straightforward approach: Lead by example.
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The money for Brown came from a voter-approved bond, as well as local philanthropists.
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As the public sector faces more fiscal constraints, philanthropists are stepping forward to provide leadership.
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Where fleets of carbon-gushing private jets fly in philanthropists to pontificate about climate change.
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Many of these new philanthropists have made their money from ambitious business and tech endeavors.
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School boards and local governments, philanthropists and the federal government all responded with reform initiatives.
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Her clients include tech entrepreneurs, CEOs, professors, scientists, and philanthropists from their 20s to 50s.
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Some philanthropists are working in the U.S. Justice System-- to deal with the inequities there.
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The organization has managed to address three persistent challenges that philanthropists at all levels face.
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I really feel it's so important museums listen to their artists, rather than their philanthropists.
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"If you study most philanthropists, most of those guys were all entrepreneurs," Mr. Casimiro said.
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In a 2010 interview, Ms. Fortune recalled her parents as "powerful role models" as philanthropists.
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He would not disclose the campaign's funders beyond saying that they included wealthy American philanthropists.
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They became important philanthropists by being clever about turning their money into even more money.
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The Dubins are prominent socialites and philanthropists in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida.
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But the challenges of turning around a community are complex and may deter many philanthropists.
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We are hearing from businesses, mayors, philanthropists and more about their commitments to reduce emissions.
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From entertainers to philanthropists, here are black women who will change the world in 2020.
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Reproductive health care, more than most issues, has been enormously shaped by individual billionaire philanthropists.
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I've written before about how billionaire philanthropists can spend their money to fight climate change.
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But average taxpayers are often subsidizing wealthy philanthropists whose charitable deductions significantly reduce their bills.
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Arnold Ventures marks a new turn for them, one that follows a recent trend among philanthropists.
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Obama had plenty to say about the other philanthropists, musicians, actors, architects, computer scientists and more.
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Indeed, from 2010 to 2016, donations from China's top 100 philanthropists have tripled to $4.6 billion.
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Philanthropists, Vallabh says, tend to support research on disorders that directly affect them or their families.
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These specialist lenders are nimble, and often get a leg-up from development agencies and philanthropists.
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Philanthropists now influence policy and affect real change, all in the name of the public good.
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With many large problems in the world, even the wealthiest philanthropists need to work with others.
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Pharmaceutical companies, philanthropists and the federal government's "cancer moonshot" program are pouring money into developing treatments.
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Sandberg writes that Doerr has, "taught a generation of entrepreneurs and philanthropists that execution is everything."
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Clinton's eventual pick, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia — African-Americans, military men, business executives and philanthropists.
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The three are as different in interests as they are in age, but all are philanthropists.
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Some say yes; others think that philanthropists may spend their money better than the government would.
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The new philanthropists of the Trump era are young, liberal, and ticked off — at their parents.
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The university and Mr. Roux's team are recruiting other philanthropists from around the state as donors.
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As suggested by the book's subtitle, Callahan is not here merely to praise the new philanthropists.
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There are many philanthropists and caregivers today who dislike theory and just want to get practical.
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Bezos and his soon-to-be ex-wife top the list of the world's biggest philanthropists.
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Billionaire philanthropists and the institutions they support have faced increasing scrutiny from the public in 7683.
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In time, the nonprofit attracted the attention of Silicon Valley and its deep-pocketed young philanthropists.
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And trade groups and lawyers representing philanthropists say there are good reasons to occasionally do so.
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Wealth Matters David Rockefeller, who died last week at 101, was a giant among American philanthropists.
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Instead, having engaged in philanthropy for years, he and his wife, Dorothy, became full-time philanthropists.
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This challenge makes the need for support from foundations, companies and private philanthropists more critical than ever.
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The two philanthropists oversee the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest and most charitable private foundation.
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In more recent years, charter schools have turned to philanthropists to raise money for rent and teachers.
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In June they amended the electoral law to bar candidates who are philanthropists or receive foreign funding.
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"They were cultural exchanges" where people including artists and philanthropists gathered and "talked about peace," he said.
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More recently, philanthropists have put money into social-impact bonds (SIBs), agreements between investors, charities and governments.
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Venture capitalists, charities and individual philanthropists are queuing up to add to the rising pile of cash.
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Instead, they will raise the money through donations from alumni, faculty, students and philanthropists, starting in 2020.
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When used by policy makers, philanthropists, and bankers, they steer billions of dollars of aid and investment.
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Wealth Matters Philanthropists may proclaim their desire for social change, but few, it turns out, follow through.
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He raised hefty sums from philanthropists: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook gave $100m to shake up failing schools.
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The ranks of local philanthropists have thinned, and their pockets aren't as deep as they once were.
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All three are philanthropists and have donated at least $855 million collectively to various causes and foundations.
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The situation is so bad that national philanthropists interested in school reform refuse to work in Detroit.
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Like many education philanthropists, she argues that children's ZIP codes should not confine them to failing schools.
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All three are philanthropists and have donated at least $855 million collectively to various causes and foundations.
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The desire to conceal cash unites world leaders and global banks, criminals and celebrities, philanthropists and spies.
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They are generous philanthropists and tend to have more stable employment, so they help cities weather downturns.
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"I asked philanthropists in South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Philippines" to contribute, he said.
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For philanthropists who commit to difficult projects that last many years, the challenge of disasters is different.
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Why do you think fund-raisers often confront ambivalence when pitching the cause to big-name philanthropists?
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It's not unprecedented for the funding for basic income experiments to come from philanthropists rather than governments.
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Mr. Ferguson said he wished philanthropists would invest parts of their portfolio in loans to small businesses.
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The brothers used their fortune from the pharmaceutical and medical advertising industries to become prominent art philanthropists.
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The group is funded by local philanthropists and through a partnership with Sinai Hospital in northern Baltimore.
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Dr. Krim influenced countless scientists, activists, philanthropists, and at least one fashion designer that I know of.
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They could do that by forming new companies or by being public advocates and philanthropists, he said.
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The approach appeals to Silicon Valley's pragmatism and has since been widely adopted by the region's philanthropists.
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It was a cheery scene filled with members of Chicago's elite: bankers, real estate moguls, lawyers, philanthropists.
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" But, Mr. Woodson added, "I'd hate philanthropists to be limited in what they're doing because of measurability requirements.
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Lincoln Center named 30 "founding legends" to the hall of fame on Friday, including artists, administrators and philanthropists.
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A teacher, doctor and now one of the world's top philanthropists, she's a dexterous empath determined to help.
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These efforts were spurred by unprecedented spending by public health–conscious philanthropists on the pro-tax lobbing effort.
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We spoke to Gates after the event, asking his advice to other philanthropists looking to make an impact.
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Ms. Quimby's gift is a reminder of the role that philanthropists have long played in protecting treasured landscapes.
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Along with a group of philanthropists, he's investing $30 million to create a venture fund for the project.
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Billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates will pay off $76 million of Nigeria's debt through their namesake foundation.
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The philanthropists will decide, and then it will be left to their foundations to fight it out. ♦
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Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and philanthropists.
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Some have started to compare Chan and Zuckerberg to other well-known philanthropists, like Bill and Melinda Gates.
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We could also call on the philanthropists who are making these enormous contributions to voluntarily forgo the deduction.
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Not all philanthropists are comfortable talking openly about using the influence their wealth buys them to reach politicians.
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Not really, but they have reportedly given millions to charity:water and shepherded it to philanthropists of Silicon Valley.
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And like a number of billionaire tech philanthropists, he has plunged into efforts to try to reshape education.
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There are some major tech philanthropists who would make these donation rates seem like less of a pittance.
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" He called Mr. Bloomberg "one of the most important philanthropists on climate change in the last 2500 years.
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They will be joined by other philanthropists, including the Dolby family and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.
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Philanthropists and funders: support scientists and programs working for gender equality and other root causes to reduce VAWG.
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"More than 50 actors, athletes and philanthropists were inspired to fund classrooms in their states," Best told CNN.
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Organizers are seeking to close that funding gap by calling on companies, philanthropists and governments to contribute more.
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Today's tech philanthropists are also setting an example about the role that philanthropy can play in our lives.
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Philanthropists whose major giving rose out of their careers said it was a natural extension of their work.
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The role will be renamed after the donors, the Baltimore-based philanthropists Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown.
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Wood was the only non-American honored at the event, and one of two philanthropists honored for projects outside of the United StatesThe Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy is awarded to influential philanthropists every two years by the nonprofit organizations founded by Andrew Carnegie, the organization said in a press release.
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Each year I look forward to seeing what gifts people receive from Bill Gates, CEOs, philanthropists and different companies.
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More fundamentally, some philanthropists working in Haiti saw helping people leave Haiti as giving up on those left behind.
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Earlier this month, The San Diego Union-Tribune launched an unusual experiment: asking readers to become small-scale philanthropists.
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Most of the fledgling labour-tech projects rely on donations from philanthropists, socially minded investment funds and similar sources.
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You're warning us against taxing the wealthy because it could turn the 1% into Hitlers instead of kind philanthropists?
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The name of the family, made up of prominent philanthropists, also graces museum halls, university buildings, and hospital wings.
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Philanthropists like them follow a simple two-step pattern: First accumulate wealth, and then invest in critical social causes.
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Individual philanthropists as well as foundations now have enormous influence in significant areas of public policy, such as education.
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James Simons and his wife, Marilyn, are big-time philanthropists who reportedly donated around $700,000 earmarked for the Library.
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In America and increasingly abroad, museums are dependent on philanthropists to collect art, fund exhibition programmes and lend works.
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They bear not just on government but on civil society, public services, cultural institutions, philanthropists and the ordinary citizen.
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And so some of these philanthropists in California are privately financing this kind of walk-around of various places.
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As a result, "philanthropists become more deeply enmeshed in the machinery of civic life," jeopardizing the participation of others.
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Philanthropists have laid the groundwork for so many discoveries, and we will need their vision and generosity going forward.
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Paul Connolly, director of philanthropic advisory services at Bessemer Trust, said many philanthropists can finance social change through institutions.
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"That leaves using general fund money or finding philanthropists willing to bankroll, literally, a municipal bank," the spokesman said.
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Hitchcock styles clients including tech entrepreneurs, CEOs, professors, scientists, philanthropists, and Silicon Valley techies from their 20s to 50s.
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Ms. Schaaf has started asking local philanthropists if they will put up money to replace any lost federal funds.
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The effectiveness of the Global Goals relies on coordinated efforts between governing bodies, local organizations, business leaders and philanthropists.
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The investor also surrounds himself with fellow philanthropists like his billionaire pal Bill Gates, who came in second place.
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The darling of wealthy philanthropists and businessmen, he is aiming here to galvanize a development project, the Hudson Yards.
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" He has been "a public benefactor, to an extent seldom paralleled in the histories of professed and professional philanthropists.
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Though the city has struggled to contain the problem, it also has not received much help from local philanthropists.
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And that might be making many philanthropists less willing to invest in proven, cost-effective ways to do good.
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It's because many great philanthropists have spent vast sums of money to influence Congress for their own personal gain.
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But the demands of fighting a pandemic are much bigger than the capacity of even our wealthiest private philanthropists.
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Over the years, wealthy Saudi sheikhs and rich philanthropists have also stoked the war by privately financing the insurgents.
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Philanthropists have helped fund thousands of charter schools across the country, creating a parallel education system in many cities.
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And Kahn set out to convince philanthropists that a moonshot was worth it, even with no immediate business prospects.
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Mr. Goldman, a son and grandson of civic-minded lawyers and philanthropists, grew up in rarefied circles in Washington.
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Tech philanthropists are playing a major role in closing this aspiration gap by making big bets on social change.
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Mr. Bezos should be congratulated for moving beyond the small circle of urban charter schools favored by other philanthropists.
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"What philanthropists have done in America is much more to put their money to use in society," he said.
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The Hammer Museum received $30 million from philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick, the largest gift in the museum's history.
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I'm curious if you reconcile those real benefits that a small number of philanthropists provide with your broader critique.
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Salesforce is the city's largest employer and Benioff has been one of the city's most generous and prolific philanthropists.
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It's no surprise, then, that many prominent philanthropists like the Arnolds are interested in structuring their do-gooding operations differently.
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It is carefully designed, supported by deep-pocketed philanthropists and being carried out under a fair level of international scrutiny.
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Mr. Ross said the union had contacted local philanthropists, foundations and other hedge funds about the possibility of submitting bids.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Rubenstein, co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group, is one of the Washington area's leading philanthropists.
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Philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffett touted the value immigrants bring to America in a joint interview in The Atlantic.
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Now philanthropists like Raymond McGuire, a banker, and A.C. Hudgins, a collector, are doing the same for African-American artists.
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Ultimately in Newark, there were elected public officials who were making decisions about whether and how to relate to philanthropists.
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It would be safe to say that this is how his fellow Silicon Valley philanthropists would also define their giving.
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A former attorney, Arnold and her husband, former hedge fund manager John D. Arnold, became full-time philanthropists in 2012.
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Philanthropists Betty-Ann Heggie and Anne-Marie Canning plan to match the first $80,000 the festival garners, according to Variety.
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Bill Gates is known for being one of the world's biggest optimists, in addition to one of its largest philanthropists.
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A growing number of philanthropists are establishing foundations and other giving structures to focus, practice and amplify their social investments.
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Another region that is home to an outbreak, the Seattle area, is also turning to its own local billionaire philanthropists.
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The cathedral-like Muir Woods in California and what became Acadia National Park in Maine began with gifts from philanthropists.
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Governments or philanthropists try to make the program happen for more people, expanding it to new schools or new cities.
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"Little Farm has been the home of some remarkable people: farmers, soldiers, socialites, equestrians, adventurers, philanthropists, fathers, mothers," he wrote.
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It seems like a fun and intimate peek into the tech icon and one of the world's most prominent philanthropists.
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Across the country, city officials and philanthropists who have dreamed of such a map are planning how to use it.
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Mr. Smith of Microsoft said that tech companies and philanthropists were simply trying to give voice to an overlooked subject.
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Bill Gates and many other philanthropists and non-governmental organizations hitch themselves to dubious humanitarian projects, allegedly to help Africa.
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"It would be standing there as you pick up your bags," Berger had told two philanthropists on his foundation's board.
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Meanwhile, though philanthropists traffic in the idea that they're engaging root causes, a focus on actual structural reform is rare.
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I've worked with several high-net-worth philanthropists on designing and implementing multimillion-dollar grants aimed at creating social change.
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We need more philanthropists, advocates and celebrities to champion this cause and more families to open their homes and hearts.
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Mr. Giridharadas said he would like to see philanthropists make gifts instead to organizations that shake up the social order.
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Then, I think his second act of going and being one of the world's best philanthropists has absolutely influenced me.
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Now, according to Slat, the group relies on a group of anonymous philanthropists, split about equally between Silicon Valley and Europe.
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Philanthropists need to take a step back from the American education system before it ruins them, they ruin it, or both.
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As that becomes more evident for philanthropists, there will be movement in this direction and the risks won't seem so risky.
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Instead, universities have a wide range of patrons, from state governments to religious bodies, from fee-paying students to generous philanthropists.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan led a $500 million affordable housing pledge back in January alongside other philanthropists.
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Best known as cultural and academic philanthropists, some branches of the family derived wealth from Purdue Pharma, which developed the drug.
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The attendees of the summit included myself and nine other students — mostly first-generation college students — and nonprofit leaders and philanthropists.
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And it might bring more philanthropists and charity, athletes, and celebrities into Chicago and see if we can fix this mess.
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What is immediately apparent from Trump's private foundation is that its size pales in comparison to those of other wealthy philanthropists.
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John D. Rockefeller was one of the best philanthropists that ever lived, and Bill is following his example place after place.
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A couple of prominent Jewish philanthropists hedged their bets this year, getting an even earlier start on their Rosh Hashanah resolutions.
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As one of the city's highest profile philanthropists, she has served on local nonprofit boards for decades, often soliciting potential donors.
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In the early 1900s American philanthropists vied for Renaissance tapestries, seeking to add touches of aristocratic taste to new museum galleries.
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It's what philanthropists call an operating foundation, which means it doesn't give much money to outside groups to fulfill its mission.
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As the cost of college rises, some schools and philanthropists recently made announcements to pay tuition or student loans for graduates.
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The authors also say philanthropists should invest an additional $1 billion to boost social advocacy to demand solutions to these syndemics.
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So some of Silicon Valley's philanthropists have built their efforts to avoid some of the traditional limitations of a nonprofit foundation.
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Her greatest legacy could be to inspire a new generation of philanthropists driven, like her, not by vainglory but by justice.
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The Watercolour World is funded by London-based charity The Marandi Foundation, and British entrepreneurs and philanthropists Javad and Narmina Marandi.
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Another problem, Callahan observes, is that the search for innovative, clever grant opportunities is causing philanthropists to give less money overall.
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New York (CNN Business)Bill Gates co-founded America's most valuable company and has become one of the world's leading philanthropists.
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Bill and Melinda Gates didn't become the most important philanthropists of their generation simply because they have a ton of money.
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John Halstead, the group's head of applied research, spent nine months writing a 152-page report aimed at climate change philanthropists.
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Private philanthropists — including Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft — are paying for much of the early work, spending millions.
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It will take sustained commitment by our elected officials, business leaders and philanthropists to increase support for routinely underfunded community colleges.
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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta announced a major gift of 24 artworks from local philanthropists Doris and Shouky Shaheen.
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But we're less forgiving with charities, which we expect to be both philanthropists and educators, untainted by marketing sleight of hand.
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This week, the world's leaders, CEOs, and philanthropists (including my husband) are meeting in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum.
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Is it just an extension of the horrific early 20th century eugenics movement, which many philanthropists of the time eagerly embraced?
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Do philanthropists care about women's health care for the sake of those women, or just as a form of population control?
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Philanthropists get an immediate tax deduction for gifts to this account, and the balance can be invested and grow tax-free.
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These stories send a clear message to the next generation of philanthropists: Investing in improving social outcomes doesn't come without uncertainties.
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This is a question that philanthropists — and everyone who wants their money — have been wrestling with for a very long time.
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Buffett is regarded as one of the most generous philanthropists in the world, having donated more than $46 billion since 2000.
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Our country needs a new social compact that integrates the education system, business leaders, philanthropists, communities and civic leaders into the strategy.
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"I don't think that necessarily means that all billionaires are immoral," she qualified, citing Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, both major philanthropists.
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Unlike simply giving money away, impact investing does provide a return, which could enable philanthropists to sustain or grow their charitable giving.
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Today, the program announced 19 more philanthropists have signed their names to the pledge, bringing the total number of signatories to 204.
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And, "Wall Streeters – many of the top philanthropists in the world – need to tell their story of 'giving back,' " he told CNBC.
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After all, the core membership at Pathway's three sites consists of middle-income families with school-age kids, not high-dollar philanthropists.
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Yet in the past, as well as today, wealthy philanthropists have demonstrated that self-accumulated capital can be mobilized for social development.
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That's why I am asking politicians and philanthropists to make teacher training programs and professional development a priority in their education efforts.
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From child entrepreneurs to adolescent philanthropists, "Kid Talks" will feature children who have made it big by fearlessly pursuing their own passions.
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Gates ended up meeting with Epstein and other philanthropists in 2013 in New York to discuss "growing philanthropy" on a broader scale.
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"Artists, architects and philanthropists alike are motivated to attend a fund-raiser there, and show off their photos on Instagram," she said.
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Never offered at auction before, the work had been owned since 1975 by the Seattle philanthropists Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang.
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The announcements about these developments credit generous philanthropists, but fail to mention who else is footing much of the bill: American taxpayers.
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As philanthropists, the brothers' mission expanded to include large donations to colleges and universities as well as advocating for criminal justice reform.
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Philanthropists need to put their dollars behind a network of organizations to counter the organizational presence of the forces of upward redistribution.
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"I think his second act of going and being one of the world's best philanthropists has absolutely influenced me," Zuckerberg tells Recode.
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To the list of well-known artists, architects and philanthropists involved with the project, add the not-so-famous name Najee Omar.
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on Wednesday announced that philanthropists had donated $20 million to establish an institute studying kindness.
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Although the push for charter schools has created both enormous controversy and mixed results, top philanthropists in this field are doubling down.
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The list of the biggest philanthropists of 2017 is dominated by some of the most famous and powerful people in the world.
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Today, restricting alcohol is a tricky cause for philanthropists to support because drinking is ingrained in the social lives of the rich.
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Those risks receive little attention from other philanthropists, Ms. Tuna said, which is one reason Good Ventures decided to focus on them.
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First, this generation of philanthropists will become increasingly experienced and educated in the process of giving as they progress through their lives.
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After discussing the idea with friends, meeting with philanthropists and sending "millions of emails," she set up her classroom cafe in June.
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Buffett lives modestly and is one of the world's most generous philanthropists, opting to give away most of his billions to charity.
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Mazen is the nephew of Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst — philanthropists who in 1968 established the Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst Foundation in New York.
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This international event gathered some of the world's leading scientists, physicians and ethicists — along with leaders of faith, government officials, businesspeople and philanthropists.
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Over the past 11 years, the singer has become one of the most impactful philanthropists in southeast Africa with her charity Raising Malawi.
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Much of it comes from the Korean diaspora in the United States, along with churches in South Korea and private foundations and philanthropists.
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He and his wife, Michelle Yee, are already high-profile philanthropists, having donated millions of shares of Zynga to a donor-advised fund.
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Physical therapists, philanthropists, med students, social media strategists, and referees are all in and around the show, and most of them are women.
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While we are happy about the progress we have made, we still are very eager to speak to America's philanthropists about the Fund.
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So we're creating an infrastructure for [philanthropists] to come in, where it's safe, it's legal, we're vetting these organizations out on the street.
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The Queen utilizes her knighthood (and damehood!) to recognize all sorts of people, such as military and political leaders, philanthropists and even celebrities.
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It was private land acquisition by U.S. philanthropists that led to the creation of Chile's Patagonia National Park system last year, Tabor said.
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The people I ... some philanthropists in California who are spending their money trying to make our census count more accurate. Mm-hmm. Right?
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Former President Barack Obama pushed philanthropists to tackle the problem late in his second term and proposed a broadband subsidy for poor households.
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The Lauders are active philanthropists — Leonard Lauder donated $1 billion worth of art to the Met — and own a lot of real estate.
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In an area often forgotten by politicians and philanthropists, her photos are a record of lives lived and the slow march of change.
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Between the 63s and 1915, white philanthropists supported public schools and school boards for black children, ostensibly as an avenue for black advancement.
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In 2015, his Goodwill opened an Excel school in Memphis, with Goodwill funding the bulk of the program and private philanthropists helping out.
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To be sure, philanthropists really can do a lot of good by looking for high-risk opportunities with the potential for outsize returns.
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It was served to 70 boldface types — Francophiles, Anglophiles, bibliophiles and, the organizers hoped, philanthropists who would donate to the cause being promoted.
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Not only does war on flu need more funds, Dr. Osterholm added, but it needs more coordination between researchers, pharmaceutical companies and philanthropists.
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With pledges from philanthropists, theater producers, union leaders and artists, a private, nonprofit corporation was formed, the City Center of Music and Drama.
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"We certainly understand why many people are skeptical about the idea of billionaire philanthropists designing classroom innovations or setting education policy," they write.
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In it, the billionaire philanthropists answer the 10 toughest questions they get asked, including: Is it fair that you have so much influence?
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Foundations, private philanthropists or the private sector working with academia must step up and take this opportunity to dramatically improve our democratic infrastructure.
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Her giving started the way it does for many philanthropists, with an issue close to her heart: alcoholism and its impact on families.
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I had more success with my own contacts: Anita and Gordon Roddick, Zanvyl Kreiger and, later, the family of James Rouse [all philanthropists].
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Funding from courageous philanthropists could catalyze geoengineering innovation and provide a critical bridge to government efforts, and very possibly to a safe future.
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Ms. Tanowitz's time at the Fisher Center is being supported by a $1.2 million gift from the philanthropists Jay Franke and David Herro.
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Many critics also cite the tax benefits that philanthropists may receive, allowing them to take advantage of dubious tax loopholes like carried interest.
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He presented a kinder, gentler face of private equity: Abraaj's $2100bn health fund, which closed in 2016, was backed by development banks and philanthropists.
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The fund will seek support from new donor countries, the commercial sector, foundations, philanthropists, diasporas and faith-based groups, as well as traditional donors.
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In addition, let philanthropists not hold to ransom the President and any official of her Government because they showed some kindness to any Malawian.
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They derive their income from a wide variety of sources, from fee-paying students to nostalgic alumni, from hard-headed businessmen to generous philanthropists.
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Still, more leaders and tech philanthropists should follow Mark Zuckerberg's lead in sticking up for the longtime residents their companies are inadvertently pushing out.
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I've been trying to break those expectations, defy those stereotypes, and say, "In addition to being philanthropists, women and femmes can also be investors."
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Some of Lumni's funders are philanthropists such as Alberto Beeck, who founded the eponymous center of social impact and innovation at Washington's Georgetown University.
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Along with Krasinski, the university will also be bestowing honorary degrees to filmmaker Ken Burns and five other notable philanthropists and leaders on Sunday.
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The bride, 51, is a senior vice president, advising charities and philanthropists, as an executive in two of Bank of America's wealth management divisions.
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But what puts Mr. Cohen in line with other hedge fund philanthropists is his belief in himself and his ability to guide the organizations.
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The other philanthropists to win the Carnegie Medal - that was established in 2001 and is awarded every two years - came from across the globe.
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You have philanthropists and emergent curators working toward the same goal, to make the city an arts destination with a living and thriving scene.
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It takes those groups on a tour, connecting them with philanthropists, entrepreneurs, investors and others, who then choose which nonprofits they want to support.
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To set things back in motion, Keleher, along with private funders and philanthropists, have started their own foundation called the Puerto Rico Education Foundation.
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Rich countries, as well as a group of philanthropists, will also provide $80 million to middle-track countries as incentives to attempt tougher goals.
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The script sprays its venom on arts philanthropists, four-horse-coach liberals and the ancestors of Wall Street scam artists with fire-hose force.
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These are business leaders, educators, philanthropists and social entrepreneurs ready to lead their community toward inclusion and problem-solving — even if formal leaders won't.
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"Most high-net-worth philanthropists, 71 percent, are relying on the organizations they're giving to," she said, "to tell them if they're having impact."
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The program, he said, appeals to some philanthropists who don't give to traditional performing arts organizations but do support educational and social justice initiatives.
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Thanks to $35 million raised by philanthropists, "The Battle of Atlanta," one of the largest oil paintings in the world, will be painstakingly restored.
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Philanthropists are giving larger charitable donations than ever before, their grant-making process has become increasingly data-driven and their aspirations ever more ambitious.
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Jean Fairfax wrote in an article in 1995 that she had initially been under the impression that philanthropists were white people with inherited wealth.
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Like many philanthropists, he gave matching grants, in which a charity must raise sums on its own to meet or exceed a donor's pledge.
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In his book Just Giving, Stanford University's Rob Reich examines the power philanthropists exercise in society and argues that we're too uncritical about it.
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The generic opioid manufacturer is linked to the infamous Sackler family, founders of multi-billion dollar drug company Purdue Pharma and notorious art philanthropists.
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The two billionaire philanthropists take turns doing the dishes every night, and Bill also drives their kids to school twice a week, Business Insider reported.
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Hollywood Bowl2301 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068 Back in the Roaring Twenties, cities and philanthropists loved to swing a big dick with cultural projects.
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It serves as an introductory statement reflecting the hopeful anticipation of a university, philanthropists, and staff, but also a larger city and region of onlookers.
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Some major medical centers, like Dana Farber, Memorial Sloan Kettering and Vanderbilt, use their own funds and funds from philanthropists to pay for genome sequencing.
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Why it matters: In his post-Microsoft life, Gates has emerged as one of the world's biggest philanthropists, focusing on global health and other issues.
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Hollywood Bowl2301 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 290042 Back in the Roaring Twenties, cities and philanthropists loved to swing a big dick with cultural projects.
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Bill Gates wears khaki pants and enjoys McDonald's, but he has achieved renown as the world's richest man and one of its most influential philanthropists.
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Most or all of that money will likely come from private foundations and philanthropists, since no U.S. government institution has backed research on banned substances.
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He worked to attract investors to the city, and raised hundreds of millions of dollars from philanthropists and business leaders, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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Private philanthropists, state representatives and community activists have all banded together to garner opportunities and funding for young and beginning farmers in their own communities.
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And Trump's foundation looks even smaller when compared with other wealthy philanthropists such as Michael Bloomberg's family foundation, which spent $279 million in 0003 alone.
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With the support of their community, golf tournaments, corporate donors and philanthropists who learned about the Dant family through news articles, funding began to grow.
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No entity has had the power to bring together the world's most influential governments, corporations, nonprofits and philanthropists to do more good for more people.
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One of the reasons philanthropists sometimes fail to measure what really matters is that the global political economy primarily seeks what is efficient and scalable.
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A: Philanthropists are still largely viewed in a positive light, because people tend to associate giving with support of museums, hospitals, and anti-poverty measures.
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The riskier issue, though, is when philanthropists donate too heartily to a social change organization without thinking through how that donation could affect that group.
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Our hope is that more philanthropists see how they can create significant social change by investing in the very industry that brought them such success.
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Details: The groups issued the report commissioned by Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a diverse group of companies and philanthropists ranging from oil companies to Bill Gates.
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He courted investment bankers, foundation executives, real estate moguls and private philanthropists, and reached out to N.Y.U. alumni across the country and around the world.
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Founded in 1999 by Jewish philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Michael Steinhardt, today Birthright's largest funder is the controversial GOP mega-donor and Zionist Sheldon Adelson.
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Related: Step Inside a Multicolored Sphere of Upcycled Plastic Memphis Makes a Bet on Unlikely Philanthropists—Millennials | #50StatesofArt Jeff Koons Recycles Birkin Bags as Art
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Why it matters: Silicon Valley's newer philanthropists are melding charity, advocacy and private sector investment — and have the potential to be hugely influential for decades.
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Both senators have proposed taxes on the ultra-wealthy in the US, much to the dismay of billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates and Leon Cooperman.
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At a time when tech billionaires are generally on the defensive, the coronavirus offers this class of philanthropists a legitimate opportunity to change the narrative.
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Ten years ago — in May 22010 — billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffett held a private dinner meeting with fellow billionaires in New York City.
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In two years of research, I interviewed several hundred teachers and tech billionaires, students, superintendents, start-up founders, parents, principals, professors, politicians, philanthropists and investors.
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This is not that surprising, really — wealthy philanthropists fund their causes to the level the effort requires, not merely as a way of reducing taxes.
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But Ms. McCaw said this was the time for philanthropists to stop being coy about their clout and use it to advance the social good.
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Many Americans right now are dependent on the generosity of companies and their products and philanthropists and their grants, and so any corporate giving helps.
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As noted in Axios' Philanthropy Deep Dive on Saturday, philanthropists are big-picture strategic thinkers who generally want to use their money to influence government.
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His campaign confirmed that none of the donations came from any of the presidential candidates, including the wealthy climate philanthropists Tom Steyer or Michael Bloomberg.
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By the 2020s, philanthropists and community builders realized the only way to change culture and weave the social fabric was by creating an A.F.L.-C.
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It would provide a new vehicle for the growing number of philanthropists interested in accelerating the ongoing energy transition to support work at the labs.
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Tech philanthropists are leading by example in not only how to embrace risk, but how to analyze mistakes and incorporate lessons learned into future giving.
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Interviews with young philanthropists complement this in-depth look at new approaches, strategies, and tools that are influencing and reshaping the world of charitable giving.
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But there's something of a bargain that seems to have been struck among investors, philanthropists and governments: Yeah, maybe some of the deals will go awry.
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"We are looking for VCs, impact investors, philanthropists or charitable foundations who believe in this idea and who don't want a rapid exit," says the CEO.
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For philanthropists especially, it's doubtful that investing heavily in a crowded, high-profile topic will turn out to be the most efficient possible use of resources.
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The business world served up a handful of contenders, including two of its most successful leaders, CEOs and big-league philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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"Hacker philanthropists have to recognize that their successes will be few and infrequent and that their rewards will be fleeting, personal and often unrecognized," he wrote.
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With help from philanthropists, Los Angeles established a $22019 million fund to provide legal assistance for the city's undocumented immigrants who are placed in removal proceedings.
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In the 2628th century, the Medicis, some of the greatest philanthropists in history, established the modern banking system and helped build the cultural empire of Italy.
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Young curators who are keen to make their mark are working more and more closely with philanthropists eager to make a case for under-represented artists.
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We need policymakers, impact investors, philanthropists and employers to invest in identifying and tackling the barriers that have, thus far, prevented the growth of on-ramps.
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"Practicing the Art of Saying No" speaks only to the defense mechanisms that we use as philanthropists — individuals and institutions operating in an incredibly privileged space.
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman led the funding, with additional participation from tech philanthropists Melinda Gates and Pierre Omidyar, as well as former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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However, given the Trump administration's advances for Keystone pipeline and DAPL, it seems like all the hard work done by organizers and philanthropists seems for nothing.
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Tech philanthropists, often to a fault, like to start their own charitable efforts rather than funding preexisting things with proven track records, like the Gates Foundation.
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A pair of Silicon Valley philanthropists, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, have announced new attempts to expand testing for the novel coronavirus in their local areas.
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The record is everywhere: The names of American Jewish philanthropists are emblazoned on our ambulances, university dorms, homes for the elderly and centers for disabled veterans.
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Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire whose charitable efforts are well known, conceived the fund as a way for philanthropists, corporations and others to help subsidize city initiatives.
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Baltimore will become the first city in the U.S. to pilot aerial surveillance, funded by philanthropists, to understand its impact on crime, per the Baltimore Sun.
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The mere fact that classroom internet access has improved, Mr. Hastings said, has had a much greater impact in schools than anything tech philanthropists have done.
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To extend the impact of this partnership, we'll need more companies inside and outside the wedding industry, as well as more foundations and philanthropists, to participate.
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To this end, both public and private research universities established "organized research units" to produce practical research on problems identified by government, industry, and private philanthropists.
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It's to preserve our cultural treasure, yes, and to educate, of course, and to give philanthropists the opportunity to feel they're doing more good than harm.
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A consortium of concerned Americans — philanthropists, foundations, small-dollar donors — could fund a trust to operate an independent CNN dedicated to news in the public interest.
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At their best, the Wilpons, self-made multimillionaires from the city's outer boroughs, shined as generous philanthropists who occasionally broke the bank for a star player.
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Last year, the Singapore-based Hurun Research Institute ranked Mr. Screwvala eighth among India's philanthropists; Swades plans to allocate $113 million over the next five years.
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El Museo's annual gala, held this year on May 2, is set to honor cultural philanthropists and advocates in a night of fundraising for the museum.
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Philanthropists Bernard and Lisa Selz have given millions to institutions like the Frick Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Art Museum, and the World Monuments Fund.
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Philanthropists and government aid agencies are only starting to get interested in the challenges of distribution — one new philanthropy that does have this focus is Good Ventures.
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I'm not alone in arguing that higher education philanthropists should move away from elite institutions; Malcolm Gladwell made an eloquent case along those lines on his podcast.
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As a philanthropist, his generosity has been a magnet for other philanthropists, to inform the public of what the climate crisis means to them in their lives.
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He has long been one of Silicon Valley's most generous philanthropists, but more recently has become a vocal advocate of various causes, including gay and transgender rights.
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The big picture: SpaceIL — the non-profit behind the mission — wasn't backed by a government, but instead raised money for the mission through donations from wealthy philanthropists.
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Cooperman signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, a group of wealthy philanthropists organized by Buffett and Bill Gates to give a majority of their wealth to charity.
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Chinese and American tech philanthropists, rallied by Bill Gates, put up money, as did the G20, creating an unprecedented kitty of $40bn for its first five years.
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Firms such as Factary in Britain and DonorSearch in America find links between philanthropists and a charity's trustees to help with setting up the crucial first meeting.
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It is one response—funded by Heartland Alliance, a big non-profit group, and philanthropists—to a surge in violence in 2016, when Chicago saw 762 murders.
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The gift from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and other philanthropists follows the completion of "Austin," a $15 million, 2,715-square-foot building that Kelly designed at Blanton.
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Another reason for the gap is that venture capitalists or philanthropists often are unaware of the importance of the problems that minority founders are seeking to tackle.
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Members include the chief executives of multinational firms such as Edelman, Pearson, Investec, Merck, Safaricom, Abraaj, Alibaba and Aviva, alongside academics, environmentalists, trade union leaders and philanthropists.
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But they helped set the stage for a sector of the tech industry that has, of late, been flooded with money from philanthropists and venture capitalists alike.
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"They were such kind-hearted, open people," friend Rhonda Lenton says of the couple, known as gregarious socialites and generous philanthropists, in this week's issue of PEOPLE.
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The institute is a striking example of how wealthy philanthropists are reshaping the landscape with smaller versions of the foundations established by Bill Gates and George Soros.
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Some philanthropists have also paid off student loan debt for grads, like billionaire Robert F. Smith's decision to pay educational debt for Morehouse College's entire graduating class.
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Many of them have become rivalrous amalgams of traditional public schools and charters, which are publicly funded but privately operated and have been promoted by education philanthropists.
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Three takeaways from this week's Milken Global Conference, where many of the world's top financiers, politicians and philanthropists gathered to exchange ideas and host dinners: 1. Optimism.
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"Philanthropists were also aggressive in targeting the fossil fuel industry, spending $69.4 million to limit coal power, ban/restrict fracking, and hold the industry accountable," it states.
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Many philanthropists are not aware of, or do not utilize, charitable-giving tax strategies beyond basic deductions, even though such strategies can enable them to give more.
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Philanthropists need organizations working in the social sector that have proved their approach can work but also have an infrastructure in place that allows them to grow.
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Women have long been active philanthropists, but Ms. Taylor observed that women tend to give to smaller organizations that might not offer the flashiest rewards for donors.
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" The prize, which is named in honor of the philanthropists Barbara and David Zalaznick, carries a $50,000 cash award, along with the unofficial title "American historian laureate.
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Businesspeople and philanthropists like Michael R. Bloomberg and Bill Gates also attended, as did the heads of multinational corporations and banking institutions, and celebrities like Sean Penn.
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Philanthropists tried again in California over the summer, when they spent $23 million to bolster the former Los Angeles mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, in the primary for governor.
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Conservationists and philanthropists including Christine Schuler Deschryver, the director of V-Day Congo, an organization that aims to end violence against women and girls, will also attend.
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With philanthropists' backing, pedestrian and bicycle paths were added and over a billion dollars in private real estate funding poured in to develop properties along the route.
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This month, the DVF Awards — von Furstenberg's initiative to support female philanthropists — presented a $50,000 grant to four honorees working to better the lives of other women.
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Go deeper: Billionaire philanthropists turn money into influence For space billionaires, their companies are their gift Donor-advised funds: A tax break now, money for charity later
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"The philanthropists are doing really important work, but they could be doing so much more if they thought about their capital in a different way," he said.
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Rogers: You're now one of the best-known philanthropists of your generation, but you've focused your giving on a population not many other donors have: African Americans.
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The deduction, they reasoned, saved the government money: If philanthropists stopped funding research, museums, libraries, and programs for children, then the government would have to do it.
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On the surface, gifts like these help enshrine Page as one of America's most generous philanthropists, with a charitable track record befitting the world's seventh-richest person.
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These philanthropists typically support disruptive new ideas, get more directly involved in their giving and show a willingness to move quickly to another approach when one fails.
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The couple, who made the pledge after years of conversations with scientists and other philanthropists, did not donate the money to a leading medical institution or university.
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Go deeper: Billionaire philanthropists turn money into influence Donor-advised funds: A tax break now, money for charity later For space billionaires, their companies are their gift
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"The plutocrats continue brazenly flaunting the excesses that have enraged much of humanity," said Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All," and a critic of wealthy philanthropists.
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She's stepping out to more openly argue on behalf of women who are artists, demonstrate the importance of women supporting women and try to inspire other philanthropists.
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Charter schools have also been championed by prominent business leaders and philanthropists in Los Angeles, including Eli Broad, who backed Mr. Beutner's selection as superintendent last year.
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That assessment was evident on the picket lines all over Los Angeles during the strike, with signs railing against "privatizers" and the "greedy side" of the philanthropists.
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Over the past few years, we can verify that young philanthropists and patrons are key to arts and culture sustainability and are a virtually untapped donor population.
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This is how we've arrived at a point where Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of the biggest philanthropists in the world, are the leading providers of access to contraception worldwide, and Buffett is the leading provider of abortion access for poor women in the U.S. If you could snap your fingers and rid the world of billionaire philanthropists instantly, hundreds of millions of women worldwide would lose access to contraception.
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Wealth Matters PHILANTHROPISTS have poured millions of dollars into improving education in the United States — paying for new buildings, buying new computers and even creating new charter schools.
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Gaming, too, offers a new frontier for creative philanthropists: "Playmob", a platform that connects game developers with charities, claims to have fed 10,000 families and saved 31 pandas.
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Pactor believes that women are better able to understand how we can leverage our money putting us in a better position to step into our role as philanthropists.
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They've made more than $1 billion in grants so far, which makes them stand out among billionaire philanthropists — not many have been giving away their money as rapidly.
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After all, he points out, support for neglected areas of academic research has traditionally been one of the main reasons elite philanthropists have offered for funding higher education.
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Even Angelina Jolie re-booted her brand after divorcing Billy Bob Thornton, ditching the vials of blood in favor of becoming one of the leading philanthropists in Hollywood.
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Rome issued a €500-million (~$556 million) SOS to companies and philanthropists in a bid to raise the funds necessary to protect and restore the city's historic landmarks.
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America spends more than twice as much per student as the OECD average (about $22,000 versus $10,000 in 2001), and alumni and philanthropists routinely shower universities with gold.
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Dubbed "Project Level Forward," the plan was assembled by a team of media executives, philanthropists, lawyers, and other investors—with the partnership of The New York Women's Foundation.
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Both are among a number of philanthropists who plan to remake education—Mr Zuckerberg's other goal is for children to "learn 100 times more than we learn today".
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The over 120 works in the current show are culled primarily from the collection of billionaire philanthropists Edythe and Eli Broad, the founders and namesakes of the museum.
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Helperbit, an Italian Blockchain startup, uses the Blockchain protocol to enable philanthropists to donate digital currencies to underfunded, hard to reach nonprofits in remote regions of the world.
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They recruited Sue Gardner, a former executive at the Wikimedia Foundation and the CBC, and raised money — $20 million from Newmark and a few million from other philanthropists.
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Look out world—one of America's most influential media proprietors, talk show hosts, actresses, and philanthropists is about to become one of its most watched news reporters, too.
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Prior to this, the only real attempt to rehouse the urban poor had been inadequate attempts by private philanthropists and social reformers such as American banker George Peabody.
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Many patients wait in the hope that philanthropists, who sometimes visit during Easter and Christmas holidays, will clear their debts when they next visit, the hospital director said.
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Mr. Addy said that all philanthropists should periodically look at their portfolios and make sure they have been giving money the way they thought they were giving it.
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The Walk Free Foundation, a global human rights organization with a mission to end modern slavery in a generation, was founded by Australian philanthropists, Andrew and Nicola Forrest.
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If you're struggling to do business or just live under your country's administration, a movement of philanthropists, academics and investors is working on a very sci-fi alternative.
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"To do that effectively we have to move beyond the numbers and statistics," Clarida, a former economics professor, told community leaders, philanthropists and business leaders at the event.
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Philanthropists are hoping to either create and distribute a new treatment alongside pharmaceutical companies, or to repurpose an existing drug, even one that may already have regulatory approval.
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That same month, a group of Bay Area philanthropists, including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, also committed $2110 million to protect and expand affordable housing in the area.
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It is, I'd argue, the most democratic section of the paper because children and adults, billionaire philanthropists and minimum-wage workers, and people of all genders can contribute.
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Nor are we critiquing the magnanimity of wealthy philanthropists who choose to bestow some of their accumulated wealth on causes they believe will make us all better off.
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But critics say it is intended mainly to stifle independent points of view and to stigmatize as unpatriotic those groups that receive support from Western philanthropists and foundations.
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Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple founder Steve Jobs, is one of the world's most important philanthropists, overseeing a sprawling media, political, and charitable empire called Emerson Collective.
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Other big urban park projects have raised similar concerns, and in Baltimore, alarm bells went off when philanthropists funded an aerial surveillance project by the city's police department.
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At least one element of the mystery came to an end on Monday, when the Durham Constabulary said that two people had come forward as the village's philanthropists.
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Ms. Wyatt, one of Houston's most prominent socialites and philanthropists, asked Nixon to speak about world affairs, and Nixon stood, gave a brief speech and then took questions.
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Well-designed tax credit programs help alleviate this problem by providing a powerful incentive for philanthropists and ordinary taxpayers to invest their dollars in providing choice for students.
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In doing so, they've sent a strong message to future generations of philanthropists that achieving desired social outcomes often requires working with and influencing government, nonprofits and businesses.
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"Our role as philanthropists is not only to take risks that support innovation but to work with our partners to overcome the challenges of scale in delivering it."
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"Philanthropists have worked through private foundations to fund civil rights campaigns, education for marginalized kids, vaccinations for deadly diseases, and the renewal of public parks," Sparks points out.
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In reality, the NEA has an outsized impact in rural communities and less densely populated states, where funding from private foundations and wealthy philanthropists is harder to obtain.
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"Some people, when they hear the word 'philanthropists,' they think 'rich, white old man,' " Masha Chernyak, vice president of programs and policy at the Latino Community Foundation, tells Refinery29.
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None will accept future gifts from the Sackler family, prolific philanthropists who own Purdue Pharma, a firm that created an opioid, OxyContin, and claimed it was not terribly addictive.
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One of the country's most intriguing billionaire philanthropists is sounding the alarm about a highly controversial tax loophole that has advantaged his class of donors over the last decade.
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In February, dozens of governments and private philanthropists pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to a global fundraising initiative called She Decides, launched by Dutch Development Minister Lilianne Ploumen.
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Total giving by the top 50 philanthropists in America dropped 2165.6 percent last year, totaling $2100.9 billion, and marking the lowest amount since 223, according to a new report.
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Charter school applications supported by community partnerships and philanthropists were approved at a relatively high rate (a 58 percent clip) but accounted for just six percent of proposed schools.
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If surfers, fishermen and retirees are upset over this dune project, imagine what could happen when the corps' work reaches the hedgerows of the financiers and philanthropists farther west.
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To jump-start that research, Gates announced today that he has joined a coalition of philanthropists who are investing $30 million to create a venture fund called Diagnostics Accelerator.
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As well-known and influential philanthropists have joined this cause, the original concept has gradually evolved into a large-scale international project for the construction of a memorial complex.
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The Obama administration can further alleviate humanitarian crisis by launching a privately-funded refugee resettlement program, empowering U.S. philanthropists to cover the costs of refugees in their first year.
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Clinton wins or loses, the Clinton Foundation would end the Clinton Global Initiative, an annual gathering of global leaders, philanthropists, donors and celebrities to discuss topics of international concern.
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Now the Met finds itself forced to court both philanthropists and audiences as it faces difficult questions about what it knew, or should have known, about its star conductor.
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Mr. Carranza also secured donations from officials and philanthropists in San Francisco to help with the response, including a $1 million donation from the founder of Salesforce, Marc Benioff.
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Because of all these problems — and because of the track record of embarrassing high-profile failures — my colleague Dylan Matthews has called for philanthropists to stop funding education interventions.
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Also honored were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the athlete; Raf Simons, the designer; Carol Sutton Lewis and William M. Lewis Jr., the philanthropists; Kehinde Wiley, the artist; and Chelsea Clinton.
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Governors and mayors, business owners, university presidents, philanthropists, pastors and nonprofit groups of all kinds have taken the initiative to mobilize, guide and protect those they lead and serve.
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The cast of multinational leaders this year ranges from chief executives like Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase to philanthropists like Bill Gates and policymakers like Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor.
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The Sacklers own Purdue Pharma, which produces the highly-addictive opioid OxyContin, and are prolific art philanthropists with ties to dozens of museums across the United States and Europe.
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And while there are a lot of philanthropists out there who could donate to charities, there's only one person who can truly "fix" Facebook by doing away with it.
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Such strategies help companies and philanthropists alike influence public schools far more quickly than in the past, by creating legions of supporters who can sway legislators and education officials.
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For now, we can only encourage and support Venezuelan artists — and it is now that any support from philanthropists, collectors, and Venezuelan curators with international stature is most needed.
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The room was filled with funders, donors, and influencers such as, government officials, philanthropists, and employers; board, staff, and current clients — all of whom we hoped would be inspired.
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The townhouse sold by Mr. Unterberg and his wife, Ann Unterberg, both philanthropists, sits in the Upper East Side Historic District, at 244 East 24.7th Street, off Park Avenue.
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Heads of state, captains of industry, prominent academics, philanthropists and a retinue of journalists, celebrities and hangers-on will descend Tuesday on Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.
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"It's unfortunate that, in every profession, we find individuals who suffer from addiction," Eli Broad, one of the city's leading philanthropists and a major donor, said in a statement.
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The largely white city establishment bypassed the majority-black community, inviting philanthropists and the federal government to rebuild its public schools as the nation's first citywide, all-charter system.
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An unlikely group of conservatives and liberals, capitalists and philanthropists, U.S. lawmakers and small-town mayors have successfully created one of the greatest tax-avoidance opportunities in American history.
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Buffett spends most of his billions on philanthropy; he's considered one of the most generous philanthropists in the world, having donated more than $46 billion to causes since 2000.
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Take this as a cue, rich philanthropists of the world: Somebody needs to make one of those concerts where 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne perform with a philharmonic orchestra happen.
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Gates made the remark on Monday in the annual letter he jointly pens with his wife Melinda, in which the pair spell out their broad areas of interest as philanthropists.
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The Center for Individual Rights traces its history to the late 1980s, after conservative philanthropists and activists had spent years lamenting the ineffectiveness of the right's public interest law firms.
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While most philanthropists are, by definition, generous, they usually get repaid in part for their efforts with recognition, maybe their names attached as a sponsor or engraved on a building.
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The big picture: McClatchy's efforts are a byproduct of the nearly $1 billion invested by tech companies, philanthropists and lawmakers to ensure that local news is revived in news deserts.
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Additionally, legislation passed in July imposes a 25 percent tax on foreign donations to organizations whose activities support migrants – making it harder for philanthropists like Soros to provide substantive funding.
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An alliance of scientists, conservationists and philanthropists said experts will select 50 reefs around the globe during 2017 and then test conservation techniques that will be extended elsewhere if successful.
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The trick shot experts (and philanthropists) at "How Ridiculous" decided to find out ... with the help of a high frame rate slow-motion camera ... and it's pretty cool to watch.
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This weekend's Koch network gathering at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs is the largest seminar the group has ever held, with more than 500 donors, business leaders, lawmakers and philanthropists.
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Today, Marcus is known as one of the most influential philanthropists in the southern US. Marcus and his wife Billi funded the opening of the Georgia Aquarium,Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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For nuclear power to be effective in the future, one key lies in upgrading technology, designing safer and more efficient fission reactors with the support of philanthropists like Bill Gates.
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The decision put a roadblock — at least temporarily — in front of a national movement, financed by several philanthropists and businesspeople, to challenge entrenched protections for teachers, championed by their unions.
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As Bazelon ably reports, the reality of the anti-incarceration movement in this country is that rich philanthropists have been footing much of the bill, prompted simply by evident injustice.
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I've also worked over the years with dozens of philanthropists and investors—those who put money into ventures that promise environmental and public health benefits in addition to financial returns.
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In attempt to curb this trend, Khan will collaborate with a group of entrepreneurs and philanthropists called Studiomakers, which launched in March and is led by Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
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The grand ballroom was crowded with dark-suited businessmen and hipster chefs, philanthropists and clergy, dancers and artists, and the tiger and bear mascots of the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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We look for books that allow readers to become more informed philanthropists, stimulate discussion, trigger personal reflection, demonstrate how to make a difference, and change readers' perceptions of the world.
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Credit...Calla Kessler/The New York Times The coronavirus pandemic is a test of how philanthropists can use their wealth to fill an enormous gap in revenue for nonprofit groups.
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Her father was a journalist who was later elected Indiana state treasurer; he had come from a long line of civic leaders and philanthropists who were instrumental in developing Indianapolis.
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"I will learn from Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and a lot of great philanthropists in the world, but I want to do something using my own way," Ma told Bloomberg.
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While I laud his admission that philanthropists and foundations can be nimble in finding solutions, I take issue with his suggestion that philanthropy will act in place of government spending.
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" To the point of distraction, he asks "whether we think it's O.K. overall for any philanthropists to have so much power to advance their own vision of a better society?
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It gave no detailed figures of the size of the prizes or how they would be funded, saying the project was supported by a global coalition of philanthropists and organizations.
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Mr. Stifler and Ms. McFadden, married philanthropists based in Massachusetts, have dedicated themselves to helping preserve western Maine's rich mining history, of which the Perham store was an integral part.
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Last year, Najam Sethi, a senior official of the Pakistan Cricket Board and a leading political commentator, suggested that it be renamed after one of the country's most noted philanthropists.
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The couple is guided by effective altruism, a philosophy popular with West Coast philanthropists that says donors should choose projects that deliver the greatest social benefits as efficiently as possible.
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The Sacklers, longtime philanthropists worth an estimated $13 billion, are attempting to reach a settlement covering all the litigation and will need to agree among themselves how much to pay.
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The partnership is backed by the foundations of the Los Angeles billionaire Eli Broad and the Walton family, founders of Walmart — philanthropists deeply involved in the overhauling of America's public schools.
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I can't name names, (sorry, TED rules), but I will say the crowd included movie stars, television stars, music stars, and philanthropists whose net worth runs into the tens of billions.
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The J. Paul Getty Trust received a $5 million gift from philanthropists John E. Bryson and Louise Henry Bryson to establish a fund supporting the work of the Getty Conservation Institute.
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The ascent began this past Thursday as part of Australian neurosurgeon Charlie Teo's Million$Mission initiative, which saw Troxler hit the trails with nine other philanthropists, including Olympic medalist Lachlan Jones.
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The direct outreach by two of America's most influential businesspeople and philanthropists focuses more scrutiny on Facebook, the social media giant that has been criticized for its influence on political discourse.
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So, not surprisingly, there is an Indian charity that tries to get girls into school and ensure they learn something, and there are Western philanthropists willing to pay for its work.
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The Met is one of several cultural centers that have enjoyed the Sacklers' largesse over decades, helping the family earn a reputation as transatlantic patrons of the arts and generous philanthropists.
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Purdue Pharma's conduct is a problem for the Guggenheim and other museums because the firm is owned by members of the Sackler family, who are among the world's biggest cultural philanthropists.
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Although middle-class philanthropists and technocratic politicians gave voice to policies that began to curtail inequality, they did not generate the conditions that made such policies either politically possible or effective.
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And you can see this in part, where if you look at the sponsors of many of the universal basic income trials, it's Sam Altman, it's Chris Hughes, it's private philanthropists.
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Settlers' groups are also often funded from outside Israel, by Jewish philanthropists and evangelical Christian movements; but the law will not affect them, as their money does not come from governments.
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If policymakers ignore the growing attacks on NGOs around the world, it will only get harder for philanthropists to address problems that neither states nor markets can tackle on their own.
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This year's Social Good Summit will feature philanthropists such as Jean Case, who — alongside her husband, AOL founder Steve Case — has pledged to give the majority of their wealth to philanthropy.
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But instead Gates learned something valuable from the experience, and went on to become Microsoft's general manager of information product and, later, one of the most prominent philanthropists in the world.
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The opportunity to join a museum with a continued focus on diversity and the cultivation of the next generation of leaders — artists, emerging curators, young philanthropists, and activists — is really exciting.
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And that is a really important role that philanthropists big and small can ... She also does a lot of artistic and social media things that have ... It's a really interesting thing.
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Last year, leading philanthropists pledged a $459 million commitment to rescue shrinking tropical forests that suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a Global Climate Action Summit in California.
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Wood acknowledged this fact, but noted that since most philanthropists are also successful businesspeople, they should be able to figure out how to use their existing knowledge to make it work.
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Both of these pieces of legislation are encouraging collaboration of impact investors, nonprofits, philanthropists and government agencies in innovative public-private partnerships that direct resources to communities and people in need.
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With Plouffe running advocacy, CZI might have the storyteller it needs to inspire government, other philanthropists and the public to cooperate in harnessing the Zuckerberg fortune for the benefit of humanity.
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A witch hunt followed against bureaucrats, businesses, journalists, teachers, philanthropists and ordinary citizens with perceived sympathies for Mr. Gulen, who has been living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.
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The stakes this year were high, for the beverage industry and for the philanthropists like former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who invested millions in campaigns in favor of the taxes.
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Philanthropists tended to support vocational schools for black people that prepared them for unskilled, low-wage labor, to the exclusion of the liberal-arts education that was open to white people.
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In a recent interview, Ms. Unterberg, 77, said she came forward so that she could work more openly on behalf of women who are artists, and try to inspire other philanthropists.
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With their future now in jeopardy, a wide range of well-organized, well-financed supporters are lining up behind the Dreamers, including celebrities, philanthropists, religious groups and pillars of corporate America.
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A group of San Francisco Bay Area philanthropists has pledged to spend half a billion dollars to protect and expand affordable housing in the region, according to an announcement on Thursday.
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On the other hand, while politicians and wealthy philanthropists have always given outsize attention to charters, they educate just about 6 percent of American public school children, some three million students.
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Their responses could serve as a guide for similar philanthropists, as well as inspire smaller donors who want to know the quickest ways to ensure their dollars have the biggest impact.
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Go deeper: Billionaire philanthropists turn money into influence Donor-advised funds: A tax break now, money for charity later "Giving Circles," which pool money for a cause, are on the rise
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While government has stood still — or suffered as good ideas have been blocked by ideology — nonprofits and philanthropists have kept innovating and kept looking for new ways to make a difference.
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Salman arrives on the West Coast on March 30, making stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle to meet with philanthropists and leaders from the tech, defense and entertainment industries.
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Mr. Rubenstein, who is worth about $2 billion, wants to give away well over half, hoping to inspire would-be philanthropists in America and abroad, where such charity is less prevalent.
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The new dean of Tuft University's Fletcher School and former U.N. Sustainable Energy envoy, told Global Translations that it's a good thing if other climate-shy philanthropists can learn from Bezos.
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Here was a classic use case for the vision of Benioff and other wealthy philanthropists, one in which the private sector steps up to address problems traditionally the province of government.
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To some degree, this is similar to the argument, people think that there are going to be philanthropists who are going to fly in and save everybody, or billionaires or whatever.
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In July, recognizing the significance of the new wave of climate protests and the need to sustain them, a small group of environmental philanthropists came together to create the Climate Emergency Fund.
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As a result of the work done by family planning advocates, philanthropists and religious leaders like Imam Fall, the number of contraceptive use increased by 8 percent in from 2012 to 2014.
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Yet many new mega-donors arrive on the philanthropy scene with much bravado, sure that whatever acumen helped them get rich will make them better philanthropists than those who came before them.
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Maybe there is something to learn from biologists and ecologists—the people who study the complex and messy real world of nature—when philanthropists are thinking about how to save the planet.
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But when Intel said in September that it was ending its sponsorship of the United States contest, she said, more than 50 companies and philanthropists expressed interest in taking over the donation.
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After decades of the type of success that gives someone the means to make a gift of more than $10 million, many philanthropists do not want to look foolish with their donations.
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Of course, not everyone agrees with the idea that philanthropists talk about social change in theory but shy away from it in practice — or that big donations are even a good thing.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "every billionaire is a policy failure" slogan, The revenue raised by a wealth tax could be used to tackle issues being worked on by billionaire philanthropists, Riffle told Vox.
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The optics of Wall Street-funded philanthropists taking control of a poor, majority-black district fed a narrative that moneyed white outsiders were covertly taking over Newark while padding private consultants' pockets.
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Huang has been among China's top six philanthropists named by the Hurun Report since it began publishing a list of top donors in 2012, and donated an estimated $125 million in 2015.
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" The Sosnoffs, longtime arts philanthropists who built their fortune in money management, pledged $1 million in September 2011 "to be used for the arts at City College as determined by the president.
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Last weekend, researchers, philanthropists and policy advisers from across the country came together at the CAO Summit in D.C. to discuss this research and its implications for the next generation of lawmakers.
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They were recently named the most generous philanthropists in the US by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, having donated more than $36 billion to charitable causes through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Rachel Cardone, a philanthropic consultant and one of the report's authors, said one common thread in people's philanthropic approaches was how they thought about what they were doing before they became philanthropists.
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But a trial will cast some of the first sunlight into these institutions and offer a real example in what has been an abstract, static debate between cranky academics and stubborn philanthropists.
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In February, PAIN Sackler held a die-in at the Guggenheim and then marched to the steps of the Met for a large protest of the Sacklers's major influence as art philanthropists.
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He said the concept had helped energize philanthropists and investment professionals who worry about parts of the country being left behind economically and may need some incentive to direct their dollars there.
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As its auto-parts industry was falling apart, it pivoted to biotech, raising money from local philanthropists to attract the main campus of Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine to town.
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On Wednesday, the Cleveland Museum of Art announced that the Keithleys, prominent local philanthropists, have donated more than 100 artworks by Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, Andrew Wyeth and others to the institution.
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Silicon Valley corporate philanthropists describe in frank terms how some perverse incentives can lead to inflated figures: The PR value and tax deductions are correlated with the size of the claimed gift.
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Hubert Sagnieres, the chief executive of Essilor, a French eyeglass company and a partner in the fund-raising campaign, said he often confronts ambivalence when pitching the cause to big-name philanthropists.
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Melinda Gates told me in an interview earlier this year that she initially eschewed a focus on women's issues, seeing it as one of the "soft" areas typically reserved for female philanthropists.
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It had been owned by the foundation of the New York philanthropists Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson since 1994, when not many people had heard of Ms. Steir — or, indeed, Mr. Marshall.
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Jane D. Hartley, a former ambassador to France under President Barack Obama, said that the donors were a "very diverse" group that included philanthropists who have previously not engaged in political giving.
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"I thought about immigration in terms of Silicon Valley's needs, about education the way Robin Hood Foundation philanthropists did, about climate change in terms of carbon emissions, not mining jobs," he said.
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Throughout the country's 40 years of democracy (1958–98), Venezuelans developed an interest in contemporary art, and philanthropists and collectors funded private institutions such as Sala Mendoza, Espacio Mercantil, and Fundación Calara.
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It is beholden on community leaders, public health specialists, philanthropists, policymakers, and well-intentioned industry to take the lessons from the dark ages of tobacco and use them to prevent future transgressions.
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SLE has caught the attention of notable philanthropists, including Twitter co-founder Biz Stone; co-owners of Townsend Press, Judy Nadell and John Langan; and Goldman Sachs executive Scott Rofey, among others.
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Since this interview was part of our season on how philanthropists shape the world around us, often in undemocratic ways, we were also interested in the funding that the Federalist Society receives.
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For many philanthropists, undertaking an initiative like this, in which success is hard to quantify in the short term and endless amounts of money could be spent over time, could be too daunting.
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VIDEO: Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and most active philanthropists, brandished a jar of human faeces at a Beijing forum to draw attention to the worldwide lack of toilets pic.twitter.
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Di Suvero's work is a staple of sculpture parks the world over, to the point where I suspect there's a line in some secret rule book passed between philanthropists and foundations mandating it.
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As a new generation of philanthropists begins giving younger in life and wants more control over how their money is used, we can likely expect more and more giving to happen through LLCs.
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The Geena Davis Institute head saw the Kickstarter, and so many women philanthropists came on board, and then we contacted [USC] Hugh Hefner [Archive of The Moving Image] to pay for this excavation.
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Until the UN gets its act together, the task of preventing future bonfires of history will fall largely to private philanthropists, who can stump up cash, and to museums in the rich world.
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He called for action before the Global Fund conference in Paris in October that will aim to raise at least $14 billion from governments, companies and philanthropists to fight malaria, AIDS, and tuberculosis.
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Her commitment to the Giving Pledge, spearheaded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, should be lauded, especially in light of the current cynicism about the giving of mega philanthropists.
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That's got investors — from major global investment banks to billionaire philanthropists such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma — looking at renewable energy differently than they did just a few years ago.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Finding the solutions to social issues like infectious diseases should be left to democratically elected governments instead of billionaire philanthropists, Riffle told Dan Riffle, the policy adviser who wrote Rep.
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By testing different fund-raising methods and spearheading initiatives to raise funds by alternative means, philanthropists will stop saying no and begin saying yes to helping community groups across America become more sustainable.
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But before the power-duo philanthropists were spending billions on everything from wiping out diseases to lifting people out of poverty, Melinda was touting a similar message at her own high school graduation.
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A number of philanthropists refused to be interviewed for this article, including Vanessa Getty, a socialite and museum trustee with Ms. Wilsey, and the heiress Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, San Francisco's chief of protocol.
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Dressed in black, with red lanyards around their necks, they've been integral to the Broad's identity since the museum, founded by the philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, opened last fall on Grand Avenue.
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Makdissi said the goal is to get five other medical facilities in Syria running like this by the end of spring 2018 with funding from places like institutions, foundations, government agencies, and philanthropists.
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Previously, she was the founding executive director of Spark, the world's largest network of millennial philanthropists; she also co-founded The W. Haywood Burns Institute, a MacArthur Award-winning juvenile-justice reform organization.
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Barbara Jonas, who with her husband collected Abstract Expressionist paintings and sold them three decades later to promote a cause seldom embraced by philanthropists — the recruitment and training of nurses — died on Oct.
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Billionaire philanthropists Tom Steyer and George Soros are pouring extraordinary manpower and money - each committing about $1 million so far - into Gillum's campaign ahead of Florida's nominating contests for governor on Aug. 28.
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Every one of us — citizens, philanthropists, business and government leaders — should be troubled by the enormous gap between how little of our natural world is currently protected and how much should be protected.
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While Mr. Callahan sees nothing intentionally nefarious in these donations — even the ones from philanthropists on the other side of the political spectrum from him — he does want people to be more aware.
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The new prize, made possible by the nonprofit Better Angels Society and the Boston-based philanthropists Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine, was created to recognize documentarians who focus on some aspect of American history.
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New data collected by the Chronicle of Philanthropy offers the best yearly snapshot of the United States' 214 biggest philanthropists, and it's no surprise that technologists once again rank among the biggest givers.
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He is the founder and editor of the website Inside Philanthropy, which tracks the world of giving and a surprising number of wealthy philanthropists have spoken to him candidly about their charitable efforts.
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The prize creators, including Mr. Gregorian and two other prominent philanthropists of Armenian descent, Noubar Afeyan and Ruben Vardanyan, announced the prize a year ago on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
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Yet after taxpayers spent years supporting an imperiled painting in a building troubled by leaks and temperature fluctuations, formal opposition to the effort, which is privately funded by multiple philanthropists, is strikingly scarce.
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This methodical approach is characteristic of tech-industry philanthropists, said Emmett D. Carson, chief executive of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which has advised about 2,000 donors in the region on their giving.
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It also comes after billionaire philanthropists — including Michael Bloomberg and Laura and John Arnold — started pouring millions into pushing back against beverage makers and helping city officials make their case for public health.
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Related: Memphis Makes a Bet on Unlikely Philanthropists—Millennials | #50StatesofArts After Getting Sober, An Artist Helps Other Recover Through Creativity | #50StatesofArt A Free Arts Camp in Oregon Fights Poverty and Nurtures Kids | #50StatesofArt
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I am not talking about the fabled legacy brands that have been thankfully resuscitated and turned digital by wealthy philanthropists like the LA Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post.
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The conference, which brings hundreds of right-leaning donors and philanthropists together each year in California, is the largest gathering of elite donors in the country, representing some of the deepest pockets in politics.
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In partnership with other like-minded philanthropists, conservation activists and leaders of various political parties in those countries, with this latest donation, more than 13 million acres have been conserved in the two countries.
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"With a lot of these philanthropists, you don't know what the motives are or whether they're going to be indicted in the next week," said James Reginato, a writer at large at Vanity Fair.
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Many take place in the banquet halls of the Parsi residential colonies known as baugs, some established by Parsi philanthropists as an affordable housing option for lower- and middle-class members of the community.
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His approach is unusual compared with many big philanthropists from the technology field, like Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft, whose foundation has tackled long-term global health problems like malaria, among other challenges.
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More than 40 states signed on to the plan, known as the Common Core State Standards Initiative, after it was rolled out in 2010 by a bipartisan group of governors, education experts and philanthropists.
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Bill and Melinda Gates are busy: The husband and wife billionaire philanthropists are working to advance the U.S. education system, improve healthcare conditions around the globe, and empower women, all while raising three children.
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The document singled out "the rise of the global philanthropists" in rationalizing a global health focus: In the US alone, individuals will donate $5.5 to $7.4 trillion to charitable causes between 1998 and 20143.
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"Tech people tend to be interested in more early-stage start-ups," said William Foster, head of consulting at the Bridgespan Group, which works with nonprofits and philanthropists on high-impact social change projects.
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Another example of tech philanthropists' willingness to embrace risk and go far afield to create impact is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's focus on stopping the spread of infectious diseases in the developing world.
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I think you could make a case that it would be a better world — you would be not giving your talks about effective altruism in front of philanthropists, but in front of government officials.
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I.O. officials that the network of conservative philanthropists assembled by Charles G. and David H. Koch is far along in building a sophisticated turnout infrastructure that could give Republican candidates an advantage in November's elections.
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The Halsteads are artists — Cathy a painter, Peter a musician — as well philanthropists; both come from money (Cathy's father was the creator of Grey Goose vodka; Peter's father and grandfather worked in banks and oil).
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"Today, I'm sounding the alarm on prevention," he said to the crowd of 18,000 doctors, scientists, AIDS activists, politicians, philanthropists, drug company representatives, people living with HIV and heads of state from around the world.
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If you speak to one of the city's surgeons or their assistants, it won't be long before you're treated to a protracted sermon framing their work as a moral mission and themselves as great philanthropists.
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Between the allies Taubes planned to meet in Zurich and the philanthropists he's lined up to fund his new study, it's possible he could continue to carry out NuSI's core mission without his novel nonprofit.
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"From scientists, philanthropists, and public servants to activists, athletes, and artists, these 21 individuals have helped push America forward, inspiring millions of people around the world along the way," President Obama said in a statement.
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We need philanthropists, entrepreneurs, advocates, scientists, and policy-makers from all sides of the political spectrum to join us in a collaborative to identify and activate a roadmap of solutions—based on the Texas model.
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The Walk Free Foundation was founded in 2012 by Australian philanthropists, Andrew and Nicola Forrest, and developed what it described as the world's first all-encompassing global estimate of slavery with country-by-country data.
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In her recent book, "WEconomy, " co-authored with philanthropists Craig and Marc Kielburger, Branson talks about the importance of building a purposeful career that allows you to make money while impacting the world around you.
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Many builders and developers, city planners, housing commissions, politicians, business leaders, bank lenders, philanthropists, and, yes, millions of complacent New Yorkers — and not just the Trumps — all played a role in that awful racial prejudice.
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The California Institute of Technology said Thursday it has received a pledge of $750 million from philanthropists and entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick to support research into environmental sustainability in the face of climate change.
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Unique among the education philanthropists, his foundation has also contributed more than $216 million over 213 years to a nonprofit that trains superintendents and administrators, convinced that they are key to transforming urban school systems.
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One solution to climate change that's considered "realistic" by wealthy philanthropists is geoengineering—even though it's not remotely physically realistic, and science-fiction schemas of geoengineering programs include a host of unwanted environmental side effects.
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And while the top three names are familiar tech names, most of the names on the list are fairly unknown to the broader public, showing that many of America's biggest philanthropists keep a low profile.
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That decision will be made in the next few months — by public officials, philanthropists, Facebook (which is expected to announce another wave of local news funding soon) and other tech companies, and people like you.
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The winners were selected by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts board of directors, which in addition to Ms. Brown includes Mr. Johns and philanthropists like Agnes Gund, president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art.
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She cites the move in recent years toward more laissez-faire capitalism, the rise of the 24-hour news cycle, the emergence of social media and a shift in power toward corporations and wealthy philanthropists.
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The money was then managed not by philanthropists but by top Trump campaign staff members, who handed it out to veterans' organizations across Iowa just before the caucus — converting the donations into illegal campaign contributions.
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Getting upset about token donations, but being supportive of real and substantive donations, hopefully creates pretty good incentives for corporate would-be philanthropists, rather than making them feel they're stuck in a no-win situation.
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The British business magnate has approached governments and would rally support among financial institutions and fellow philanthropists on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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" And he said the group also is hoping to possibly get additional financing from "philanthropists who are sick of this activity" by drug companies that is "creating shortages and driving prices in an irrational fashion.
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The first response would be evasion — philanthropists would try to use LLCs and other corporate forms to avoid the tax or put loyal aides in charge of the foundation while still de facto controlling it.
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This concept received top honors at the Visioneers Summit finale and was qualified as "ready for launch" by a group of 250 mentors, including prominent corporate and political leaders, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, artists, technologists and scientists.
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Garcetti is traveling to the state for a two-day conference hosted by Accelerator for America, the non-profit group that he launched last year to develop policy with other mayors, business leaders and philanthropists.
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We're seeing a new wave of young philanthropists come from the tech community, from WhatsApp founder Jan Koum to GoPro founders Nicholas and Jill Woodman, as well as all of the entrepreneurs I've already mentioned.
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To truly combat urban violence, however, we need a new commitment from all city leaders and stakeholders — business leaders, educators and researchers, philanthropists and public officials — not just law enforcement or the neighborhoods most immediately affected.
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Data on poverty, life expectancy, and deaths from war really does show that the world is improving, and there's strong evidence that philanthropists and governments can help alleviate extreme poverty and the burden of deadly disease.
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Soros — one of the world's largest philanthropists — adds a key voice to a growing set of calls to rein in the giant tech companies, which are struggling to respond to a rising tide of public criticism.
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A $1.5 million gift from local philanthropists helped the conservatory purchase the building from the developer, who offered the building for sale after failing to get the permits needed to fulfill their plans for the building.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Philanthropists pledged millions of dollars to fund U.N. data gathering on Thursday, saying it was vital to learn more about the world's women to tackle the poverty that disproportionately affects them.
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Gathering over 300 influential philanthropists, artists, investors, celebrities and executives to attend, the evening "raises funds and resources to help thousands of vulnerable children in some of Los Angeles' most challenged communities," according to its website.
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"Our 2017 Grand Marshals are a snapshot of the numerous organizations, individuals, and philanthropists that will leads us through this unprecedented time in our nation," noted NYC Pride March Director Julian Sanjivan in a press release.
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Hong Kong (CNN)US President Donald Trump has called for major cuts in foreign aid under his America First policy, raising alarm among philanthropists and sparking warnings it could be a "death sentence" for some countries.
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Here's how TechCrunch explains it: "With Plouffe running advocacy, CZI might have the storyteller it needs to inspire government, other philanthropists and the public to cooperate in harnessing the Zuckerberg fortune for the benefit of humanity."
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Larry Leibowitz, a former chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext, gives to animal welfare and women's rights organizations, but his Wall Street background led him to ask how he could supply better information to other philanthropists.
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At a time when tech philanthropists and companies are scrambling to fill in for the government's failures — offering up resources such as masks and testing kits — CZI's role in developing possible treatments is actually fairly traditional.
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But a new report by the Bridgespan Group, a philanthropic consulting firm, suggests that wealthy philanthropists who want to make a large gift that will have an impact on social change are limited in their options.
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But sporadic disclosures and interviews paint a picture of a support base including mostly libertarian or anti-establishment donors, as well as so-called donor-advised funds that allow philanthropists to donate without fingerprints to nonprofits.
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More than a dozen philanthropists, including Connie and Steven Ballmer and Michael Bloomberg, offered tips on how to make the most of charitable giving in a time of crisis to ensure donations have the biggest impact.
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It's too early to say, but DAFs could get a boost from President Trump's new tax code, allowing philanthropists to take an up-front tax break long before the money makes it to any specific cause.
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This lets philanthropists feel that they are checking off the "people of color box" without having to change to whom they are writing their checks or confronting their discomfort with trusting people of color with money.
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The most successful are forging what I call "complex adaptive coalitions," where business, labor, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, educators and local government all network together to create jobs, attract businesses, grow housing, fix potholes and improve schools.
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The success of entrepreneurs and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates has taught John Jacobs, the co-founder of apparel company Life is Good, one crucial lesson: Entrepreneurs don't have to choose between making money and doing good.
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But he also used his fortune to cement his place as one of Canada's most prominent philanthropists, donating generously to causes as varied as the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem and Canada's Liberal Party.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Donating billions of dollars to global funds that fight poverty and disease is one of the best investments governments can make to boost security and economic growth, philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates said on Thursday.
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Instead of tripling fees at national parks, Congress should encourage philanthropists to spend more at home and end the practice of having American middle-class taxpayers foot the bill for programs that provide no benefit to them.
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Billionaire Americans don't spend enough of their money on international causes, Sir Ian Wood told a group of the nation's most prolific philanthropists at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Ceremony in New York Public on October 16.
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The Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy is awarded every two yearsThe Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy is awarded to influential philanthropists every two years by the nonprofit organizations founded by Andrew Carnegie, the organization said in a press release.
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In addition to Pettus-Davis, the program will be led by Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden and deputy general counsel Jenny Kim, as well as a half-dozen other philanthropists with close ties to the Kochs.
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I've built a career advising some of the biggest conservative philanthropists in the country on how to advance LGBTQ rights at the helm of American Unity Fund, a nonprofit, and American Unity PAC, a federal Super PAC.
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Private-sector satellite companies have in recent years been expanding the business of collecting and selling Earth observational data, but it's very unlikely that such firms (or a group of tech philanthropists) could adequately replace NASA's work.
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Married collectors and philanthropists who have reached a happy place — Mr. Silverstein is the co-founder of the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners — they are enjoying life and don't particularly feel the need to prove themselves further.
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But it's that a growing chorus of critics argues that private philanthropists use major gifts as a tool to skew public policy — and that it is the role of government, not billionaires, to address our common problems.
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"There is a tendency to see if we can segment out philanthropists based on age, gender, level of experience, and see that they might behave differently," said Tracy Mack Parker, a senior adviser at the Philanthropy Workshop.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Friday, August 5, I attended a dinner held at the 8th Floor, an exhibition and event space founded by philanthropists Shelley and Donald Rubin and artistic directed by Sara Reisman.
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The issue stretches back to the days of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Rockefellers, cultural philanthropists whose sources of income were characterized at some point as monopolistic, or anti-union or harmful to the environment.
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Financial support from philanthropists and governments is critical to helping these leaders conserve places like the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the glaciers of Argentina and what is known as the "place of many elephants" in Zimbabwe.
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The Common Core, which began almost a decade ago, has been a national effort by governors, state education chiefs, philanthropists and school reformers to enrich the American curriculum and help students compete with children around the world.
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"The 2017 giving spree was fueled by huge donations from many major philanthropists who are still accumulating great wealth — and who are likely to make big gifts for years to come," according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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"The smartest place for philanthropists to invest is in this new generation of activists who refuse to accept the excuses of the adults whose lazy approach to climate is leading us off a cliff," Mr. Neilson said.
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And while many of these very richest are also among the biggest philanthropists of the modern era, the amount they give on a yearly basis often doesn't even keep up with the appreciation of their net worths.
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And several impact investors are working with philanthropists to try to establish accountability standards for the funds that the federal government does not yet require, to address issues like the quality of jobs created in poor areas.
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For one thing, and certainly in the eyes of some Yellow Vests, these philanthropists are offering only a small fraction of enormous fortunes they have amassed partly by avoiding taxes otherwise needed to fund basic public services.
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"The megarich increasingly use their foundations and their celebrity as philanthropists to mold public policy to an extent not possible for other citizens," Joanne Barkan, who has long been a critic of big philanthropy, wrote in The Guardian.
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The NEA's granting setup is relatively simple, and designed for two purposes: one, to make sure the funds are spread as widely as possible; and two, to help smaller organizations in particular attract interest from foundations and philanthropists.
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Over the span of a year, the Sacklers have gone from the museum world's top philanthropists to personae non gratae because of their role in the ongoing opioid epidemic, which has killed an estimated 200,000 Americans to date.
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A coalition of filmmakers, activists, philanthropists, and investors is exploring the possibility of buying assets from Harvey Weinstein's embattled film company and directing profits to groups that serve survivors of assault, harassment, and discrimination, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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It comes five years after activists, philanthropists and leaders gathered at an earlier summit and set a goal to empower 120 million additional women and girls in the 69 least developed countries to use modern contraception by 2020.
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Bamsey said the fund would likely seek at least $10 billion, and the board could also decide to widen its pool of donors - now limited to governments - to include philanthropists and others that have shown interest in contributing.
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In its 18 years, Birthright Israel – established as a partnership between Jewish philanthropists and the Israeli government – has welcomed over 500,000 young adult Jews from around the world, providing them with free 10-day educational trips to Israel.
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Other philanthropists and alumni have been known to donate large sums of money to British universities, including Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation donated $210 million and set up a scholarship program at Cambridge University back in 2000.
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As the outlet reported, Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs was working on the project in conjunction with Mosaic United, a state-affiliated fundraising organization that finances programs connecting Jewish college students, businesses leaders and philanthropists worldwide with Israel.
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In his new book The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, David Callahan argues that today's philanthropists are energized by data-driven solutions and seek social causes where they can have a high impact.
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The conference comes five years after activists, philanthropists and leaders gathered at an earlier summit and set a goal to empower 120 million additional women and girls in the 69 poorest countries to use modern contraception by 2020.
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To the red-carpet supporters, billionaire philanthropists, and trust-fund intellectuals who cheer the club's ambition to shut down another 2628 gigawatts of coal-based generation, the jobs impact of this new goal will be lost in translation.
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Mr. Hertzan said the network was recruiting top progressives to host a new wave of shows and developing a weekly program with Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC enfant terrible whose book, "Winners Take All," denounces self-serving billionaire philanthropists.
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"Mike had built a world-leading company, became one of the leading philanthropists of any era and become a model political leader," said Daniel L. Doctoroff, Mr. Bloomberg's former deputy mayor, who is chairman of the Shed's board.
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In 2016, the Open Philanthropy Project published "Hits-Based Giving," an argument that philanthropists should accept more risk because many of the giving opportunities with the highest expected value would be ones that were unlikely to pan out.
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Nationally, the pro-charter tent is large and unwieldy enough to include education-reform wonks, hedge-fund managers, billionaire philanthropists and politicians from both parties, and Trump's tapping of DeVos has placed the movement in a complex situation.
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The news culminates a multiyear push by the trust to raise money from philanthropists, expand the number of scholarships and broaden the program — which until recently was limited to a fairly short list of countries — into something global.
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The company's pitch was tailor-made for the new generation of tech-industry philanthropists, who are impatient to solve the world's problems and who see unleashing the free market as the best way to create enduring social change.
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Bloomberg's David Ramli similarly reported in September that a group of five Chinese heirs has made climate change the singular focus of their philanthropy, despite being the fifth most popular cause for Chinese philanthropists across all age ranges.
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Civil society groups do try hard to raise funds within the country, but Indian philanthropists remain tightfisted when it comes to issues like land or labor rights, health care access, quality of education, or resource exploitation by corporations.
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Philanthropists stepped in; efforts to bring safer European IUDs to market in the US, and to raise public awareness of their benefits and drawbacks as an option, were made possible by grants from the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.
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Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook co-founder, and his wife, Cari Tuna, are models of the approach, hoping to help others become better philanthropists by opening up their process of giving away most of their estimated $13 billion fortune.
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Some people might find his focus on the far future absurd, but there's no question that it's an area that governments and existing philanthropists are mostly ignoring — meaning that if he's right, he could have a big impact.
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Celebs back Clinton while others protest at DNC At night on Tuesday, Clinton will venture to Northern California for an event in Piedmont hosted by Quinn Delaney and Wayne Jordan, philanthropists and real estate developers in the Bay Area.
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While it's possible that media, telecommunications or technology companies could express an interest in the magazines, a sale to wealthy individuals, such as philanthropists or billionaires, is viewed by Meredith as more likely, according to one of the sources.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - No longer content to build hospitals and give art to museums, America's elite philanthropists more and more often write supersized checks in efforts to steer educational, environmental and government policies, according to wealth tracker David Callahan.
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Mr. Rubenstein made the lead gift of $50 million; the rest was donated by other philanthropists, some of whom are seeking good will in Washington, including the Boeing Company and the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Leading philanthropists pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to rescue shrinking tropical forests that suck heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, on the eve of a global climate change summit in San Francisco.
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In this difficult time, I asked more than a dozen philanthropists, who have billions of dollars at their disposal and included Microsoft founders, tech and financial services entrepreneurs, and one former New York mayor, what they were doing differently.
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I call these community-led projects complex adaptive coalitions — where business, labor, educators, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and mayors are all working together to build more adaptive local citizens and companies, and setting aside traditional party affiliations to do so.
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She has met with the Canadian prime minister, the queen of Jordan, United States ambassadors (representing both the Obama and Trump administrations), two successive secretaries general of the United Nations and, on several occasions, halls of dignitaries and philanthropists.
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The businessman and his late wife Marti were major philanthropists to South Florida organizations, donating millions to charities such as the Boys & Girls Club of Broward County, the Humane Society of Broward County, Holy Cross Hospital and Junior Achievement.
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More troublingly, though, the Day 224 fund suggests that Bezos, like other billionaire philanthropists before him, think the problems of homelessness, poverty, and displacement should be solved by a network of donors and nonprofits — and not by elected officials.
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That's not to take away from some of the most successful philanthropists, like Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft who has spent years devoting himself to learning everything about polio and malaria, for example, and working toward eradicating them.
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While these problems have hit home for the art community for decades, the opioid crisis in particular has become the subject of a sustained campaign spearheaded by artist Nan Goldin due to OxyContin's ties to arts philanthropists Mortimer and Raymond Sackler.
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It raises questions about other venture philanthropists (like those in the art world, including Eli Broad) who are pushing their own public education agendas: Then the foundation set its sights on improving teaching, specifically through evaluating and rewarding good teaching.
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While many philanthropists and politicians want to tackle problems such as poverty or homelessness, "they are never aligned with a major studio that may be spending $20, $40 or $60 million to sell that issue to the public," Budnick said.
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That surge was driven by large gifts from major philanthropists to their own foundations — including $1 billion from Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, and $2 billion from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
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Tudor Jones is among 19 philanthropists who have signed the Giving Pledge in the last year, a commitment created by Gates and Buffett to donate at least half of one's fortune to philanthropic causes during their lifetime or after their death.
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In this deeply retrograde dynamic, donors and patrons reap uncritical plaudits for their generosity without prodding the discourse toward any serious discussion of the sort of change that might produce a fairer society in which billionaire philanthropists no longer exist.
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Before billionaire philanthropists showed up on the global aid scene (starting with the Gateses), he argues, the world of global poverty interventions was a mess of politically motivated, inefficient trophy projects with little accountability and no real interest in results.
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SEATTLE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some of the world's most influential billionaire philanthropists plan to launch a powerful digital platform to harness the avalanche of data sent from satellites each day - and make it freely available for humanitarian and environmental causes.
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In this climate, Morales would do well to begin to diversify the economy, investing more in farmers large and small, foreign and domestic, so that his country can maintain the independence from foreign aid and chicken-wielding philanthropists it so craves.
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One of the risks of what Mr. Addy calls "financier philanthropy" is that people with the means to be significant philanthropists wait for what they think will be the perfect organization and miss a lot of opportunities along the way.
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Sources with direct knowledge of a 2013 encounter between Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein told CNBC that the tech titan was bombarded with outreach efforts from the late financier's business associates before Gates met with him and other philanthropists.
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The Henry Art Gallery is having a good week: in addition to the Souls Grow Deep acquisitions, it just received a gift of 51 contemporary artworks from John and Shari Behnke, Seattle-based philanthropists and collectors on the museum's board.
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The UBS Optimus Foundation, which works with the UBS bank and private philanthropists to help vulnerable children, told the conference it would pledge at least $2 million to Lumos and other organizations to promote family-based care and strengthen care systems.
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In their 10th Annual Letter, billionaire philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates answer the 10 toughest questions they get asked, from how President Trump's policies affect their foundation's work to whether or not it's fair that they have so much wealth.
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His approach is to use money from philanthropists in the same way founders use venture seed rounds to get concepts off the ground, and then, if they work out, raise more funding to drive to a self-sustaining, nonprofit revenue model.
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Ronald Jumeau, the ambassador from the Seychelles to the United Nations, has largely stayed away from the formal climate negotiations this week, instead talking about similar innovative financing arrangements with philanthropists and private investors who have showed up in Bonn.
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I've been noticing for years that teachers are angry about all sorts of things: the proliferation of standardized tests and mandated curricula, demands for reform from philanthropists and policymakers who have little experience in public schools, and, of course, stagnant pay.
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The painting, along with dozens of other first-rate artworks and hundreds of pieces of furniture, ceramics, porcelain and knickknacks on sale this week, belonged to David and Peggy Rockefeller, potent symbols of New York society and formidable collectors and philanthropists.
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The big picture: Philanthropists don't want to give a man a fish; instead they want to take credit for building a proof-of-concept that will persuade governments around the world to invest in large-scale programs of fishing pedagogy.
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"I can find no better investment in our country than our battlefields," Zinke told NPS employees, philanthropists and reporters as he stood among the hills and cornfields where thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers died on a single day in 21625.
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While most self-identified liberal philanthropists reject trickle-down economics, they buy into "trickle-down social change," a phrase used by my colleague Carmen Rojas, the founder of the Workers Lab, which funds ideas that build power for low-wage workers.
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In an unusual crowdsourcing campaign, more than 22,21.5 students, philanthropists, sailors, businesspeople and others raised 1003 million Canadian dollars, or $2100 million in American currency, that the British Columbia Parks Foundation needed to buy nearly 2000,2100 acres in Princess Louisa Inlet.
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Yet the power that billionaire philanthropists can wield—not to mention the income inequality surrounding it—has faced significant backlash, as noted in a recent WIRED profile of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff who has made hundreds of millions in donations.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to 21 artists, sports figures, scientists and philanthropists on Tuesday in a bravura performance that had the East Wing, stuffed to capacity, laughing and whooping with appreciation.
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These trends among young philanthropists are especially noteworthy after three of New York&aposs leading museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art all faced protests in 2019 for accepting donations from controversial billionaires.
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Changing the paradigm won't be cheap: The acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz is getting the kind of multifaceted support I'm talking about at Bard College's Fisher Center, thanks to a gift of $1.2 million from two philanthropists, Jay Franke and David Herro.
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We discussed the geographic and political forces that have held Africa back; whether economic development brings political freedom; the risk posed by artificial intelligence; how we should weight future human lives; whether philanthropists should worry about animal suffering; and much more.
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Usually heroically optimistic, the philanthropists fear that some aspects of global progress—of which the report demonstrates there has been lots—are under threat thanks to changes in demography and insufficient funding, as the priorities and moods of international donors have changed.
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As children donned costumes for Halloween, art collectors, furniture dealers and philanthropists made their way to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, where the European Fine Art Fair (Tefaf) held a V.I.P. preview hosted by the Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering.
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Huddleston serve as an advisory board member for so many years, as we have been honored to have many other prominent Democrats, Republicans, military officials, academics, and philanthropists provide input on one of the most important public policy issues of our time. Sen.
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Sources with direct knowledge of the lobbying told CNBC that Epstein used his powerful network of business associates to aggressively pursue the Microsoft founder, leading to an early 2013 meeting the two had with a group of other philanthropists in New York.
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They were philanthropists, advocates, religious leaders and overseas Jewish organizations like the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish humanitarian group, which has aided the Jewish community here for more than 100 years, including helping to purchase arms for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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Truong told TechCrunch his original idea for the company was inspired by courses that he took at Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and MIT, as well as by failed efforts by non-government organizations and philanthropists to feed the world.
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Monet's 1877 Impressionist masterwork, "La Gare St.-Lazare, Vue Extérieure," from the celebrated collection of the Texas philanthropists Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass, sold for £25 million to a North American bidder in the room who was representing an undisclosed private collector.
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The media mogul David Geffen, one of the cultural world's leading philanthropists, attacked wealthy New Yorkers on Wednesday for what he called a "shameful" record of failing to donate to the city's concert halls and allowing these institutions to downsize their ambitions.
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They are investors who have seen their portfolios hammered, business owners trying to triage their holdings and take care of their employees, philanthropists with links to cultural institutions at risk of collapse, or even health care systems bracing for the virus's full impact.
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If the answers are not clear yet, there is a hint of answers coming, now that we have fine-grained data on millions of children, now that cities alarmed by the results are taking notice, now that philanthropists are lining up to help.
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The cause has attracted support from self-made philanthropists who identify with high-achieving students — "the Horatio Alger crowd," as Nicole Farmer Hurd, the advising corps's founder, puts it — like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York and a billionaire businessman.
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Their allegiance is not to the old consumers by the side of the runway — the ladies who lunch, the philanthropists, the wives of Wall Street, the gallerists of Chelsea (though those consumers still exist and there are plenty of designers who dress them).
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Photographer Nan Goldin founded PAIN Sackler, a drug policy advocacy organization condemning the Sacklers and contesting their high-profile roles as art philanthropists — the family's name is carried on a host of institutions, including Metropolitan Museum of Art's Sackler Wing and Harvard's Sackler Museum.
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And however many times they take a run at it, they don't come up with anything more scandalous than the revelation that maybe billionaire philanthropists have an easier time getting the State Department to look into their visa problems than an ordinary person would.
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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, physician Priscilla Chan, are staking out aggressive positions as philanthropists in contentious areas like education, affordable housing and criminal justice, according to an Axios analysis of public disclosures, press reports and statements provided by grantees of their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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A new wave of critics have called into question the power big philanthropists have in democracies — and not just in the cases where we think they spent their money cruelly and unwisely, but also in the cases where we think they spent it well.
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Smart administrators and faculty have remade colleges to better serve the educational needs of a changing market; have worked together to recruit students, contain costs and generate revenue; and have secured necessary financial support from alumni and philanthropists supportive of their mission and legacy.
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As for where the money will go, there's currently little clarity: The family could use it to pay dividends to shareholders, reinvest in something else, or use it to retire and become full-time philanthropists, ABN Amro Bank NV analyst Thijs Berkelder told Bloomberg.
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Even when they're not out to destroy people who criticize them, the boy geniuses of the tech world often get far more than their fair share of the benefit of the doubt, even when they are philanthropists who have done good in the world.
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"I realized there were a lot of poor people in China and this drove me to earn more money so I could help them," said Zhai, 53, who was one of nine philanthropists named on Thursday as winners of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.
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In a recent interview at her Upper East Side home, she said she has decided to come forward so that she can more openly argue on behalf of women who are artists, demonstrate the importance of women supporting women and try to inspire other philanthropists.
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In the same vein, museums might strongly consider rejecting further donations from the Sackler family, major philanthropists in the arts, whom the world recently learned bear a large share of responsibility for the opioid epidemic, through their pharmaceutical company's production and fervid promotion of OxyContin.
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If there was any community in which Mr. Ghosn seemed to finally fit, it was the global elite, a coterie of chief executives and billionaire philanthropists who have yachts in the south of France and standing invitations to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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West and his wife, Mary — philanthropists, telecommunications barons, horse owners — watched as their colt splashed home on a soupy track beneath Churchill Downs' familiar spires, bringing them the Kentucky Derby win that had eluded them for 40 years, before it was snatched away from them.
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Despite giving billions to his foundation, Mr. Soros is one of the highest-profile billionaire philanthropists not to have signed the Giving Pledge, in which people like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have promised to give the bulk of their fortunes to charity. Nov.
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What she must do is leverage the authority and political capital of the White House, to coordinate internally and attract serious commitments from stakeholders who matter — key cabinet members, governors, pharmaceutical CEOs, hospitals CEOs, health-care organizations, health professionals, philanthropists and community nonprofit leaders.
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A true iconoclast, Giridharadas is utterly unapologetic in criticizing the biggest heroes of the past generation: business titans and philanthropists like Zuckerberg and Bill Gates who give away billions but, he argues, do so mainly to hide greed, exploitation, and the subversion of democracy.
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For the next generation of philanthropists, it's these types of private reflection and public statements that will help them understand how missteps should be used as learning opportunities to inform future giving, not as excuses for stepping away from philanthropy or setting less ambitious goals.
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With his hyperbolic attacks on immigrants and minorities — African-Americans "living in hell," Latino "gangs roaming the street" and insinuations that a long list of Jewish philanthropists and politicians was conspiring against him — Mr. Trump sounded like a character straight out of my research.
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Whereas in the 1960s and '70s you would have had a fairly narrow bandwidth of collectors and therefore philanthropists affecting museums, I think now you have many more people at the table, including some people whose philanthropy is motivated by quite specific ideological reasons.
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What I didn't know was that within a month, the conspiracy theories about one of America's most prominent Jewish philanthropists spread by that far-right network -- including members of the US President's entourage -- would lead to bombing attempts and mass murder on US soil.
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" The lawsuit also delves into the Sacklers status as major art and culture philanthropists, stating: "Ultimately, the Sacklers used their ill-gotten wealth to cover up their misconduct with a philanthropic campaign intending to whitewash their decades-long success in profiting at New Yorkers' expense.
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All we can do [as philanthropists] in the middle of that, as the politics are being worked out, is you go in and make sure that people are getting financial services, getting good latrines, getting cooling, and getting those who move into different countries good jobs.
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Instead of "going off and funding census [work] on their own," as philanthropic organizations usually do, "they're doing it in a strategic manner" this time, Bass said, because philanthropists realize that an inaccurate census can have an effect on every other field the groups donate to.
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Speaking with businesswoman Mellody Hobson and young philanthropists Chantelle Stefanovic (of Full Effect, a program of The Royal Foundation) and David Peterson (of The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum), Harry also noted how the charitable work of the royal family is a true commitment.
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Although today's philanthropists are more visible than those of previous generations, they account for less than a quarter of all charitable giving in America—which has remained roughly constant, at around 2% of GDP, for decades, according to David Callahan of Inside Philanthropy, a specialist website.
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That is, until this month, when John Arnold, a Houston-based billionaire who is widely considered one of the most thoughtful philanthropists when it comes to reckoning with the power of the wealthy, sharply criticized DAFs in a way that ricocheted around the world of philanthropy.
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Daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, basketball greats Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actors Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates are among the star-studded recipients poised to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House this month.
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According to researchers at Harvard's Kennedy School, over a third of China's biggest philanthropists made money in property; nearly 60% of their donations go to education, reflecting a wider Chinese concern; and most give to the province where they work, replicating and reinforcing China's overall wealth gap.
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He and his wife, Cindy, local entrepreneurs and philanthropists who recently gave $30 million to Arizona State University to found the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, were looking for something to do in their quasi-retirement after selling their construction equipment rental company.
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But what Callahan is pointing out is that this shift in priorities had a cost — a growing sense, at least among some philanthropists, that the only cool, innovative, or valuable projects are the "big bets," that merely saving lives with global health interventions is somehow outmoded.
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Eventually, Ms. Schroth managed to capture the attention, and the wallets, of the Getty Foundation and the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, a group of mostly British and American philanthropists, as well as individual donors like John and Virginia Gildea of Palm Beach, Fla.
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As I was writing this column, I got a call from Ken Burns, a friend and renowned documentary maker, who told me about a new prize endowed by Boston philanthropists Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine in collaboration with the Library of Congress and The Better Angels Society.
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The Kochs, who have made a name for themselves as philanthropists with their donations to Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, have preferred to wield their influence away from the glare that comes with owning major media properties.
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Professor of higher education policy and sociology at Temple University As colleges and universities try to raise graduation rates, college presidents, policymakers and philanthropists often focus on what students know when they enter college, how they perform on tests and what courses and majors they choose.
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Walker hoped to persuade Indian philanthropists to take an interest in governance and human-rights groups, but, since such groups were often run by people who were given to proclaiming their hatred and contempt for corporate India, it was difficult to persuade corporate India to fund them.
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The appeal itself is an acknowledgment of a new reality: A growing number of talented black athletes, endowed with both fortunes and platforms that were largely unavailable to their counterparts in past eras, increasingly see themselves not only as role models, but also as businessmen and philanthropists.
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Ten percent of American women use an IUD, developed through billionaire philanthropy, and it's billionaire philanthropists who are working to develop the next generation of contraceptives, from developing even more reliable, lower-side-effect options for women to innovating the first reversible contraceptive options for men.
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The wealth at the top is rising so rapidly that even when Bill and Melinda Gates, the greatest philanthropists of our age, nobly give away several billion dollars each year to fight disease and hunger, their wealth soars anyway, with new capital gains vastly outpacing their giving.
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" Scarborough, a former Republican congressman, described what generous philanthropists the brothers had been, noting that "the charity of the Kochs" had funded hospitals in New York and had eased the suffering of people with cancer; without the Kochs, he declared, "you can't enjoy the arts in Manhattan.
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Directed by Peter Kunhardt, whose film subjects have included President Richard Nixon and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, the documentary was largely narrated by Buffett and contains interviews with people close to him, including his sisters, three children, Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.
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Some of our main investors have been Formation 8, Joe Lonsdale, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Hemant Taneja — who actually, most recently, was in a lot of news with the Stripe investment — and a number of other high-profile philanthropists or people who care a lot about health investments.
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Past legalization campaigns—including the statewide ballot initiatives that passed in 2012 and 2285—were funded in large part by a handful of wealthy philanthropists,including George Soros, Progressive Insurance founder Peter Lewis, Men's Wearhouse magnate George Zimmer, and John Sperling, the founder of the University of Phoenix.
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Arvin H. S. Javadi New York City As someone who is working to elect a Democrat in a Republican-held congressional district, I asked myself why none of the philanthropists mentioned in Kolbert's article are working to protect the most basic mechanism of democracy: the right to vote.
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The prize, created by Mr. Gregorian and two other prominent philanthropists of Armenian descent, Noubar Afeyan and Ruben Vardanyan, has a twist that distinguishes it from other prizes: The winner receives $100,000 and designates an organization that inspired his or her work to be the beneficiary of $1 million.
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The exhibit's wall text explains that 19th-century philanthropists such as John D. Rockefeller were moved by the squalid conditions of tenements, which were concentrated in poorer neighborhoods, had little light or ventilation, and were ground zero for epidemics such as the 1849 cholera outbreak that killed 5,000 people.
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But Mr. Rogers, the Nest co-founder, said that money from major philanthropists would not be enough to get even one start-up up to speed, much less the dozens needed to meet the carbon-reduction goals set by international bodies like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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In a report citing nearly 2 million tweets in multiple languages, the GEC said thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts pushed and amplified unfounded conspiracy theories of the U.S. and prominent American philanthropists manufacturing the outbreak as part of a racist and profit-making campaign against China.
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And certainly, the half-dozen Silicon Valley philanthropists who spoke with Recode all agreed that the companies could do more than they are doing now, especially given the goodwill that these announcements engender, which could be useful to the tech giants on the other side of the crisis.
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For more than a decade, the Clinton Global Initiative was the star-studded marquee attraction during the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, a place where heads of state, celebrities, billionaire philanthropists and business people mingled, made deals and gave away millions, sometimes billions, of dollars.
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