Famous+Philanthropists

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Group D: Bill Gates ====**William Henry Bill Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. **** His father was a lawyer and his mother worked at a bank. He had one older sister and one younger sister. At school, he became intrigued with computers. Bill went to Harvard, but dropped out in 1975 to begin the Microsoft computer company. This made him the richest person in the world. He decided to start a charity, the William H Gates Foundation. This foundation deals with global health, poverty, and education. They give out vaccines and Bill and his wife Melinda were the second most generous philanthropists, having given over $28 billion to charity. **====


 * This is the [|William H Gates Foundation] website. It tells us about what they do and who they help. **

Group E: Henry Ford Henry Ford was one of the greatest philanthropists of all time. Henry Ford lived from 1836-1947. He is best known for founding the Ford motor company in 1903. Henry didn’t invent the automobile, but he made it more efficient and affordable. In 1913, the cost of a Model T Ford was only $450. Despite this low price, he made a surprisingly large amount of money, and gave most of it away. He was the first to pay his employees $5 a day and reduce the workday to eight hours. The entire city of Detroit closed during his funeral. Henry left the largest share of his estimated $500-$700 million of wealth to the foundation he created. As you can see, Henry Ford was a great man.

Group F: Richard Branson Richard Charles Nicholos Branson was born July 18, 1950 in Blackheath, London. Richard Branson started a small company called Virgin Record in the 1970. Then it whent on to be Virgin Megastores. He then went on to make other virgin msrketed company's such as Virgin Mobile and Virgin Airways. He is the 3rd richest person in the UK and in the top 300 richest people in the world. He donates to charities like International rescue corps and prisoner abroad that helps britons that are detained out of the U.K. Group G: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

 Abigail “Abby” Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was born October 26, 1874 in Providence, Rhode Island    Was the daughter of Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, had a sister, Lucy Aldrich was nearly deaf, and her best friend.    She was taught by a Quaker governess and at age 18 was enrolled in a Miss Abbott’s School for Young Ladies were she studied English composition and literature, French, German, Art History, Ancient History, Gymnatics, and dancing. She graduated in 1893 and made her debut in November 1893.    In 1894 she sailed for Liverpool which began a lifetime of extensive European and Asian travel and helps foster her love for art and art collection. The initial four-month journey included the countries of England, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Itlay, and France.    In the fall of 1894, she meet her husband John David Rockefeller, Jr. the son of a famous philanthropist and they met at a friends house in Providence. They went through a protracted engagement, during which they were invited to attend a trip to Cuba in 1900, on President William McKinley’s yacht.    They lived in a nine story mansion then moved to a fourty room triplex apartment.    They became parents of six children who continue the six generation business/philanthpic/banking/real estate dynasty    She gave most of her money to museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Arts and The Cloisters which received a lot of her collection of sculpture and decorative arts, and her collection of Japanese woodblock prints to Rhode Island School of Design.    She had an art gallery named in her honor which is now called the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Gallery.    She truly was a great philanthropist and a powerful woman. <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;">   Credicted to Wikipedia.org

Group H: Ana Patricia Botin

Ana Patricia Botin is a very powerful woman born in 1960 to a Spanish billionaire. She is about 50 years old today and in 2009, she was voted the 45th most powerful woman in the world. In November 2010, she became Santander UK's chief executive. She has 3 kids. She majored in economics at Bryn Mawr College. Ana Patricia Botin is also the vice chairman of Empresa y Crecimiento, and this organization finances some companies in Latin America. (picture from [|www.forbes.com])