philanthropy
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Those close to him say his philanthropy was not always performed for an audience.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy, had backed dozens of startups and drawn venture capitalists to Type 1 diabetes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In some corners of philanthropy this trend is shifting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Parton was an icon whose music, philanthropy and authenticity superseded genre, class, sexuality, color and politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Maybe the whole thing was a lesson about philanthropy.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The Oracle of Omaha reiterated his support for his successor Greg Abel, and said he would step up the pace of gifts to his three children’s philanthropies.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Their targets include billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations are among the country’s largest philanthropies, and the Ford Foundation, another of the nation’s top grantmakers.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
Then he heard of a new, experimental program run by philanthropies and private businesses that would loan him what he needed to finish college — at zero interest and with no fees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
The pinch of the Depression forced many research philanthropies to reduce their grants for basic science in physics and chemistry, but money still flowed abundantly for projects in biology and medicine.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing philanthropy
The Vocabulary of College
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This Week in Words: May 5 - 11, 2018
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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