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  2. List of philanthropists - Wikipedia

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    Harold Osher – American map collector and namesake of the Osher Map Library; Helen Phillips Levin – American social worker and disability rights activist, supported grantmaking through her family's Jay and Rose Philips Family Foundation; Henry Ford – co-founder of the Ford Foundation; Henry W. Bloch – founder of H&R Block Tax company ...

  3. Philanthropy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Philanthropy has also been influenced by different social movements, such as abolitionism, women’s rights, civil rights, and environmentalism. Some of the most prominent philanthropists in American history include George Peabody, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, and Bill Gates. Charitable giving in the US ...

  4. Category:American philanthropists - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "American philanthropists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,388 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Category:20th-century American philanthropists - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American philanthropists and Category:20th-century Native American philanthropists and Category:20th-century American women philanthropists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.

  6. John D. Rockefeller - Wikipedia

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    University of Chicago view from the Midway Plaisance Central Philippine University in the Iloilo City was founded by the American Baptist missionaries through the benevolence as a legacy university of John D. Rockefeller in 1905. It is the first Baptist and second American university in Asia.

  7. Category:American philanthropists by state - Wikipedia

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  8. List of centenarians (activists, nonprofit leaders and ...

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    American philanthropist and donor [120] Mary Warburg: 1908–2009: 100: American philanthropist [121] Edgar Wayburn: 1906–2010: 103: American environmentalist [122] Irvin F. Westheimer: 1879–1980: 101: American businessman, banker and philanthropist [123] Jamye Coleman Williams: 1918–2022: 103: American activist [124] Sir Nicholas Winton ...

  9. List of richest Americans in history - Wikipedia

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    In 1957, Fortune magazine developed a list of the seventy-six wealthiest Americans, which was published in many American newspapers. [6] Jean Paul Getty, when asked his reaction to being named wealthiest American and whether he was worth a billion dollars, said, "You know, if you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars" and then added, "But remember, a billion dollars isn't ...