Faculty and students discuss how donor support has impacted their experience at Carnegie Mellon University.
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If Obama loses, I'm going to be pissed off at this godforsaken country.
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/05/NewsHour_with_Legendary_Journalist_Jim_Lehrer
Jim Lehrer, author and news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says philanthropists could save the declining news industry by funding a “serious, nonprofit, major news gathering organization for everybody.”
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Anchor of one of the most respected news programs in America, Jim Lehrer has dedicated his life to reporting informative and unbiased news coverage of the nation’s most pressing issues. Though his journalistic accomplishments are numerous, Lehrer is most proud of his success as a novelist.
Lehrer talks writing, reporting and telling America’s story. - Commonwealth Club of California
Jim Lehrer is an American journalist and the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Lehrer is an author of non-fiction and fiction, drawing from his experiences and interests in history and politics. He is most recently the author of Oh, Johnny: A Novel.
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I want something fun that everyone will participate in. I do not want to just ask people for money I was wondering if anybody had ideas that will make people excited to give out a few bucks
Rent a ballroom in a local hotel for $400. Hire a local band for $250. Buy some balloons. Charge $15 at the door and you can easily make $1,500. If you sell chips and soda, you will make more. Be brave. The hotel and the band will wait for payment.
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Highlights from the panel discussion The Next Decade: The Future of Family Philanthropy, featuring Stephen Toben, Joel Fleishman, and Carol Larson National Symposium on the Value
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His gifts include:
* $2,000,000 to the University of the South (1902);
* $1,000,000 to the Harvard Medical school;
* $1,350,000 for a lying-in hospital near St. George's church, N.Y.;
* $500,000 to St. John's cathedral;
* $100,000 to the Young Men's Christian association;
* $500,000 to the Loomis hespital for consumptives;
* $100,000 for a library in Holyoke, Mass.;
* $125,000 for preserving the palisades along the Hudson river;
* $300,000 for a new Parish house and rectory for St. George's church;
* $500,000 to the New York Trades Training school
and many other large benefactions. He contributed largely to the Galveston Relief fund; to the Queen Victoria memorial fund, and presented to the Metropolitan Museum of Art a rare collection of Greek ornaments valued at $200,000. He was one of the chief patrons in the international yachting contests for the America's cup; was commodore of the New York yacht club, and owner of the steam-yacht Corsair, one of the largest and finest pleasure boats afloat, which he presented to the government for use during the war with Spain. He was twice married: first, Oct. 7, 1861, to Amelia, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Pemberton (Cody) Sturges, of New York; and secondly, May 31, 1865, to Frances Louisa, daughter of Charles and Louisa (Kirkland) Stacy. In January, 1902, he purchased for $500,000 Raphael's famous "Madonna of St. Anthony of Padua" from the heirs of King Ferdinand II. of Naples; and in the same year he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor of France.
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I'm very excited about combining my experience in technology with my passion for philanthropy - either in raising the quality of education/life worldwide, or in global sustainability.
What other organizations besides the One Laptop Per Child initiative (laptop.org) should I look in to? NYC area is a plus.
Check this website out for research, it's for technologists at non-profits: http://www.techsoup.org/index.cfm
Hope that helps as a starting point. Good luck!
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Keynote Address: Financing Poverty Alleviation Introduction: Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
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I'm making a flyer for a philanthropy involving Mario (video game mario). If it isn't okay to use his face can I use the turtle shells or bananas from mario kart?
The whole Mario setup is copyright protected. You can't use any of it without permission but you can create your own content that's similar to the theme or hints of Mario
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Eighty-seven year old Dempsey Travis is an extraordinary man who’s led an extraordinary life. In this part of our interview, he htalks about some of his philanthropic activities, and about his early days.
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