2.6 Philanthropy in American History and Major Donors Today
Adam Tyler
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| The man with a heart full of money (that he gives away) |
1. Philanthropy is an act of giving or helping humanitarian support. Activities associated with philanthropy are rebuilding home, deciding what's best for the future, and helping big businesses. The difference between philanthropy and charity is that while philanthropy is more concerned with the world and lasts a while, charity is more concerned with maybe just one person or a few more and lasts just a bit.
2. Andrew Carnegie was known for being perhaps the most well known and influential philanthropist of all time. He built about 2,811 lending libraries around the globe, founded one of the world's great research universities, made one of the nation's most significant grandmasters, and established charitable organizations nearly a century after his death. By his death, he had given about $350 million. All his philanthropy came from how poor he was as a boy, and he decided he wanted others to have better lives than he had by giving them knowledge.
3. Carnegie and his business rival John D. Rockefeller, were actually pretty different people. While both gave up extremely large amounts of money and competed in the economic and industry business, Carnegie was actually doing his work for a noble cause, while Rockefeller just gave his money away to avoid persecution and prosecution from anti-monopolistic trusts after Standard Oil, so Carnegie was selfless while Rockefeller was actually selfish.
4. Carnegie eventually formed the Carnegie Foundation, whose accomplishments included the Flexner Report and the provisions of pensions to college faculty members. There were even other organizations that bared his name from this source (the list is way too long) that have all helped the world with poor families especially benefitting.
5. From a list listed under Resources below this blog, I found out that Bill Gates is a very big philanthropist, alongside his wife, owning the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest charitable organization (which could still be considered philanthropy). This organization improves global health and saves lives, and is even working with Rotary International to eliminate polio. He has even donated $35. 8 dollars worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.
6. If I was a philanthropist, I would be a philanthropist working with animals, helping them achieve better lives in better containment, while their health would increase. I would choose to do this because I've loved animals ever since I was a child.
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