After successfully completing that match, many major organizations such as the Philadelphia Public Library and the University of Pennsylvania joined, along with churches and other Christian organizations.
•
Using the swelling funds from these churches, Bennett expanded further, establishing offices in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
•
In addition, Prudential Securities was a prominent part of the setup (and became the subject of a $90 million lawsuit accusing them of complicity).
•
Bennett's particular scam collapsed because of an investigation headed by Mary Beth Osborn, head of the Charitable Trust Section of the Pennsylvania attorney general's office.
Victorian era | National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Common Era | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | philanthropy | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Apache Software Foundation | Philanthropy | foundation | Napoleonic era | ERA | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | Edwardian era | Reconstruction Era | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation |