(n.) One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(2) Scientists at a major international research centre based in Mexico say recent donations from billionaire philanthropists have taken them significantly closer to providing poor farmers with more productive, nutritional and resistant varieties of wheat and maize at a critical time.
(3) Like traditional English philanthropists, the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these "poor creatures" if they can be shown to make art.
(4) But the spectacularly successful Sri Lanka-born philanthropist built his fortune through lies, according to federal agents who swooped on him for insider trading in New York yesterday.
(5) The campaign, called #ISurvivedEbola, is funded by US philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Paul G Allen’s foundation which has committed $100m to fight the disease.
(6) This week Jenkins had defended the ties with Sterling, 80, on the basis he was a philanthropist who financially supported the NAACP and other groups which campaigned for racial and ethnic minorities.
(7) Poroshenko should get support from George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, who is pushing European governments to offer Kiev more help.
(8) It comes days after the philanthropist Gates announced plans for a $100m scheme to cut malnutrition in Nigeria.
(9) He was a botanical collector, a philanthropist, and an active member of the Society of Friends.
(10) Maxway is owned by Art Pope, a conservative philanthropist who is arguably the most influential figure in state politics.
(11) The government hopes it will also encourage donations from philanthropists.
(12) The easyJet founder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , has promised to give more than half of his £2bn fortune to charity after he was “inspired” by the world’s richest man, the Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates.
(13) Everybody recognises the damage done by HIV, but few realise the burden of sickness and disability caused by the group of diseases identified by the billionaire philanthropist, which are transmitted mostly by parasites, flies and worms.
(14) Until we have zero new Ebola cases, the risk of continued severe economic impact to the three countries and beyond remains unacceptably high.” This tempering of hope with caution was also evident in Davos, where Ebola is among the global issues being discussed by policymakers, wealthy philanthropists and top officials from the world’s most influential non-governmental organisations.
(15) There the aristocratic owners, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, assembled an eclectic crowd of Pre-Raphalites, spiritualist mediums and emancipated slaves – thereby confirming to Marx and Engels' surprisingly modern-sounding critique of conservative or bourgeois socialism as "philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers … desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society".
(16) He may be best known in Europe as one of the world's most active art collectors - a couple of months ago, he spent more than $25m in the space of 24 hours, buying works by Cézanne and Renoir at Christie's and Sotheby's in New York - but in Las Vegas he is casino magnate, philanthropist, city father and enigma all rolled into one.
(17) Melinda Gates is a businesswoman and philanthropist, and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation .
(18) It took another 40 years for Turing's imagined game to become a reality, when in 1990 the American philanthropist Hugh Loebner founded the annual Loebner prize for artificial intelligence , "the first formal instantiation of the Turing test".
(19) The government is deploying 6,000 police to protect the event, which attracts world leaders, policymakers, philanthropists and business leaders to discuss Africa's economic growth prospects.
(20) Stephanie Mbida, executive director, KickLoans , New York City, USA, @StephanieMbida Stephanie is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Philanthropy
Definition:
(n.) Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy.
Example Sentences:
(1) One, known as the Institute for Philanthropy , runs classes for wealthy individuals, which it describes as an 'MBA' in philanthropy.
(2) I had written about philanthropy, but had never worked in a foundation before.
(3) About £60m in public funds, for example, is to be spent on an ornamental footbridge across the Thames, the Garden Bridge , which was originally to have been built from the philanthropy of private enterprise until the estimates of its cost rose by £115m to £175m, at which point the London mayor Boris Johnson pledged £30m from Transport for London, with another £30m promised from George Osborne at the Treasury.
(4) This article offers an historical analysis of the changing role of philanthropy and nonprofit hospitals in the structure and operation of the U.S. health care system throughout the 20th century and the implications for current policymaking.
(5) There's another cavil about the Moritz gift, and that is the anxiety that the dawning of a new age of philanthropy heralds a further withdrawal of the state from the funding of English universities.
(6) All four philanthropies are moving away from funding projects involving tertiary care.
(7) It has sneered at the 1906 reforms of Lloyd George , who recognised that 19th-century philanthropy (which was always pretty judgmental and selective) was no longer adequate for a modern industrial country.
(8) Jeremy Hunt's speech at the RSA unfortunately contained a misleading figure for our costs ( Tories want US-style philanthropy for arts , 15 January).
(9) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(10) Entrepreneurs bring business methods and disciplines to philanthropy – they don't like wasting money and like to be focussed and planned and their charitable partners to be vetted.
(11) I’d also like to see a new government look at ways of making philanthropy more attractive – that’s really important to North American universities, for instance.
(12) Parker, who holidayed with Cameron in South Africa in 2008, is given a knighthood for services to business, charitable giving and philanthropy.
(13) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(14) Iqbal Wahhab recently argued that philanthropy is dead and the charity sector needs to adopt commercial principles .
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest But neither this, nor Danny Boyle’s Michael Fassbender-starring Steve Jobs biopic due next month, is likely to win the approval of Jobs’ family or Apple’s executives, since both films dwell on the contradictions in Jobs’ character – the adopted child who initially denied paternity of his own daughter; the creator of the world’s most valuable company who considered philanthropy a waste of time; the Zen seeker who short-changed colleagues, and oversaw an executive culture of backdated stock options and tax avoidance schemes.
(16) From Russia to Colombia, Haiti to India and the Congo, the couple has repeatedly blurred the lines between private endeavor, public service, philanthropy and friendship – exposing themselves to blatant conflicts of interest, the book alleges.
(17) Cheryl Chapman is the director of City Philanthropy , which will be hosting two events on Giving Tuesday.
(18) From a Marxian perspective, the proliferation of CCUs and similar innovations is a complex historical process that includes initiatives by industrial corporations, cooperation by clinical investigators at academic medical centers, support by private philanthropies linked to corporate interests, intervention by state agencies, and changes in the health care labor force.
(19) While it's good to hear that lottery funding for the arts will eventually increase to 20%, the faith in (and encouragement to rely on) income from philanthropy is potentially very worrying, especially given the gradual disintegration of individual giving in the US.
(20) David Verey, a banker who ran Lazard Brothers when it donated tens of thousands of pounds to the Conservatives in the 1990s, has also been knighted, for his contribution to arts philanthropy.