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Category: Philanthropy
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Andrew Cuomo Hits Fashion Runway at Style Across the Aisle
The former governors joined Curtis Sliwa and a group of assorted New York City luminaries as models at Style Across the Aisle, a bipartisan event.
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Death of Arts Patron Who Made Disputed $10 Million Donation Is Ruled a Suicide
Matthew Christopher Pietras, a young philanthropist sought after by some of New York’s leading arts institutions, died by suicide, the city’s chief medical examiner ruled.
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Jim Murray, Football Executive and Charity Founder, Dies at 87
Before helping lead the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl in 1981, he helped found the first Ronald McDonald House to help the families of seriously ill children.
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The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts.
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Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump
As President Trump dismantles the country’s efforts to fight climate change, environmental groups are back on their heels.
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Phil Knight, Ex-Nike Chief, and His Wife Pledge $2 Billion to Oregon Cancer Center
Oregon Health & Science University said the couple’s donation would be the largest single gift to a higher-learning institution in the United States.
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Leonard Tow, Cable TV Magnate and a Major Philanthropist, Dies at 97
Once on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, he donated substantially to the arts, higher education, hospitals and criminal justice reform.
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Larry Ellison Wants to Do Good, Do Research and Make a Profit
Oracle’s co-founder and the world’s second-richest person pledges to concentrate his vast resources on his own research institute and for-profit ventures to address health, hunger and climate change.
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Wallis Annenberg, Arts and Wildlife Philanthropist, Dies at 86
She put millions from her foundation into projects in California, like a performing arts center in Beverly Hills and a wildlife crossing over the busy 101 freeway.