More than half of the funding comes from philanthropists, among them Charles Bronfman, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Daniel Och, Marlene Post, Lynn Schusterman, Sheldon Adelson, and Michael Steinhardt.
Current notable Eastlake residents include wealthy insurance magnates-turned philanthropists Matthew and Julie Hancock, retired four-star General Andrew J. Kelly, and 2002 America's Cup runner-up Elleson Schurtz.
Walsh mounted an international fundraising campaign that secured the support of major philanthropists such as Chuck Feeney and Lewis Glucksman and permitted the University of Limerick to expand significantly at a time when government capital grants were being handed out scarcely.
In 1909 four Old Etonian philanthropists founded Eton Manor Boys' Club to provide sporting facilities in the Hackney area, purchasing the former Manor Farm in 1913.
Philanthropists and writers such as Hannah More, Thomas Coram, Robert Raikes and Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London, began to address the social ills of the day, and saw the founding of hospitals, Sunday schools and orphanages.
Prior to founding the company, Trevor Neilson provided strategic counsel for several well-known philanthropists including Bill Gates, Bono, Sir Richard Branson and others.
Conference calls feature presentations by media policy advocates in order to keep philanthropists up to date on issues such as broadband deployment, public media, and the state of journalism.
His younger daughter, Mary Le Mesurier, married Sir Charles Tertius Mander, first baronet, of the Mander family, industrialists and philanthropists dominant in the English Midlands.
The Huljich brothers: Christopher Peter "Chris" Huljich (born 1950), Paul Richard Huljich (born 1952) and Michael Huljich (born 1957) are Auckland manufacturers, merchants, entrepreneurs, rentiers and philanthropists of Croatian descent.
:For the European family of Jewish financiers and philanthropists, see House of Camondo.
He studied and published biographical articles on many Azerbaijani industrial magnates, oil tycoons and philanthropists such as Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.
Pennies for Peace in its current form was launched by CAI executive director Greg Mortenson to help broaden the horizons of youth in the developed world, and teach them about their capacities to be philanthropists by raising funds to cover the soft costs of building schools (paper, pencils, books, uniforms, desks, etc.) in remote, northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Director Geoff Callan, along with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and philanthropists Christopher Bently and Wilkes Bashford, hosted a wedding celebration titled The Pursuit of Equality in order to increase public awareness of this issue before the November 4th vote on California Proposition 8.
The Carnegie Foundation, the John D. Rockefeller family, and other northern philanthropists provided generous support for his idea.
Joel also increased the organization's financial stability and prestige by bringing on board major philanthropists such as Michael Steinhardt, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., and Lynn Schusterman and Charles Schusterman.
Declan Kiberd has argued that Pádraic Ó Conaire's seminal novel in Irish, Deoraíocht, has many parallels in its progressive socialism with Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists.
Initially financed by a group of philanthropists, later financial support included charitable trusts and foundations including: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the Big Lottery Fund.
His eldest daughter Mary Albinia (d. 1835) married Sir Thomas Crawley-Boevey, third baronet (1769–1847); their third daughter Matilda Blanche Crawley-Boevey married businessan William Gibbs, both becoming religious philanthropists and supporters of the Oxford Movement.