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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 ...
Philanthropy in the United States is the practice of voluntary, charitable giving by individuals, corporations and foundations to benefit important social needs. Its long history dates back to the early colonial period, when Puritans founded Harvard College and other institutions.
[10] 8 RAG-Stiftung Germany: Essen, Germany: $24 billion 2007 [11] 9 Azim Premji Foundation India: Bangalore: $21 billion 2001 [12] [13] 10 Open Society Foundations United States: New York City: $19.6 billion 1993 [14] 11 Lilly Endowment United States: Indianapolis: $15.1 billion 1937 [15] 12 Ford Foundation United States: New York City: $13.7 ...
Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan ...
Pages in category "American philanthropists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,386 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Prior to writing The Givers, Callahan wrote seven nonfiction books, including his 2010 publication, Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America, in which he described the emerging upper class of "cosmopolitan elite", "super-educated" "professionals and entrepreneurs" who adopt "key liberal ideas as multiculturalism and active government" and who work in ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American philanthropists and Category:19th-century Native American philanthropists and Category:19th-century American women philanthropists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Pages in category "American women philanthropists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 323 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .