Gregory Carr at VOA, Founder Gregory C. Carr Foundation
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After retiring from his internet and phone businesses in 1998, Gregory Carr dedicated the rest of his life to philanthropy and charity. The year after, he got his start by creating the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, which seeks to implement save human rights across the world. In the same year he also founded the non-profit organization Gregory C. Carr Foundation. One of the big goals of this foundation is the 30 year long mission to restore the Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique along with aiding the communities around the park. In addition, he can even turn bad land into good land, as he purchased a compound formally owned by the Aryan nations and other Nazi oriented groups and turned it into a peace park in Idaho. Idaho also has a museum he helped co-found along with the Market Theater he opened. Today, he sits on the board of another non-profit organization, Internews, which advocates independent journalism.
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Gregory C. Carr - ParkTalk<br /><br />Source: Gregory C. Carr. (2012, May 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 22, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RR4Ol9">http://bit.ly/RR4Ol9</a>
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Helen Gould, Army Supporter
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You don’t have to be a soldier to help the war effort, and Helen Shepard proved that when she gave $100,000 to the United States government during the Spanish-American war. In addition, she gave $50,000 toward military hospital supplies and also aided wounded soldiers by becoming a member of the Women's National War Relief Association. When the war ended, she still found places that needed her aide and so put her efforts towards education. She gave the government another $10,000 to construct an engineering school, and gave additional contributions to Rutgers College. She also donated a library building at the New York University, and was active in the YMCA and YWCA programs.
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Helen Miller Shepard <br /><br />Source: Helen Miller Shepard. (2012, March 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 16, 2012, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Helen_Miller_Shepard&oldid=484770217">http://bit.ly/TZo5Ww</a>
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Henry Phipps, Member Carnegie Steel Company
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Henry Phipps, Jr. was a member of the original Carnegie Steel Company, and so found himself very wealthy and very able to help others. He bought huge masses of land to share and protect them, such as the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh and Island Beach State Park in New Jersey. He also helped make great strides in medicine by funding the Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis at the University of Pennsylvania and the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1905 Phipps funded the non-profit Phipps Houses to build affordable housing in New York City. The Houses are still in use today, and his great grandson, Stuart Symington Janney III, is on the board of trustees.
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Henry Phipps <br /><br />Source: Henry Phipps, Jr.. (2012, July 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 16, 2012, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Phipps_Jr.">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Phipps_Jr.</a>
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Jimmy Carter, Habitat for Humanity Supporter
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<strong>"Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed and housed, and influential enough to shape our own destiny from our neighbors who enjoy few, if any, of these advantages of life."</strong> - Jimmy Carter <br /><br />• A nonprofit, ecumenical Christian Ministry grounded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live. They build with people in need regardless of race or religion. They welcome volunteers and supporters from all backgrounds. <br /><br />• Former U.S. President <a href="https://www.habitat.org/volunteer/build-events/carter-work-project">Jimmy Carter</a> and his wife Rosalynn are Habitat's most famous supporters. The couple annually leads the <a href="https://www.habitat.org/volunteer/build-events/carter-work-project/locations">Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project</a>.
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Jimmy and wife, Rosalynn, help build a house. <br /><br />An additional photo of Jimmy Carter<br /><br />Source Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter and Habitat for Humanity. (n.d.). Habitat for Humanity. Retrieved Nov 1, from <a href="http://www.habitat.org/how/carter.aspx">http://www.habitat.org/how/carter.aspx</a>
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John J. Moores, Activist and Philanthropist
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John Moores has helped his team hit balls out of the park, and has also done his own home runs when it comes to helping others. When he contributed $51 million to the University of Houston in 1991, it was largest contribution in U.S. history to a public university. He worked to make Proposition 209 pass, which wouldn’t allow employers discriminate when it came to employing minorities and LGBT groups. He also founded the River Blindness Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to research and treatment of Onchocerciasis which is the second most common cause of infectious blindness. In addition to that medical foundation , he and his wife have also created the John and Rebecca Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego, and have donated $21 million to the cause. He has been regent on both the University of Houston System Board of Regents and the University of California and has extensively donated funds to both schools.
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John J. Moores<br /><br />Source: John J. Moores. (2006, July 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 21, 2012, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moores_(baseball)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moores_(baseball)</a>
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Katherine McCormick, Woman Activist
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When her husband passed away, Katherine McCormick became the heir to a vast fortune, and knew right away she wanted to use it to help women. After meeting with Gregory Goodwin Pincus and Dr. John Rock, she began to fund their trials for the first oral contraceptive. With their combined efforts, the FDA approved the pill and it became available to women across the country. She also created the Stanley McCormick Hall, an all female dormitory building for MIT that would house over 200 female students. When she passed away, her will left $5 million to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. With this money, Planned Parenthood created the Katharine Dexter McCormick Library in New York City.
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Katherine McCormick <br /><br />Source: Katharine McCormick. (2012, September 15). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 17, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RTkeG7">http://bit.ly/RTkeG7</a>
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Margaret Sage, Philanthropist
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When Margaret Sage inherited a fortune from her husband’s passing, her wealth went up along with many new buildings. She used her newfound fortune to aide women and education, such as creating Russell Sage College for women in Troy, New York. It offered liberal arts and professional degrees to women to help empower their lives. A few years after the built the college, the funded the Russell Sage Foundation Homes as a suburban community. She also organized and funded the effort to build the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, which was named after her grandfather. For continuing education for women, she gave $300,000 to Cornell University for the construction of a women's dormitory, Risley Hall, and the construction of the Olivia Josselyn House at Vassar College.
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Margaret Sage <br /><br />Source Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage. (2012, October 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved, October 17, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/TuPslO">http://bit.ly/TuPslO</a>
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Milestones in Philanthropy - Alexis de Tocqueville
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<p><span>"I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns... as at the inadequate securities which one finds there against tyranny."<br /></span><br />Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19<sup>th</sup>century French Aristocrat what democracy was a highly exotic and new political option.</p>
<p>He was born in 1805 when Napoleon was the populist dictator but Alexis believed that democracy was going to be the future all over the world and so he wanted to know what that would be like, and so he traveled to America in order to further explore, and then embarked on a nine month journey around the new nation once he got there.</p>
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<p>In 1835, Tocqueville published “Democracy in America,” where he compiled of his thoughts into one of the greatest works of political philosophy. In this book, he touched on the problematic and darkest issues of society.</p>
<p>Five issues struck Tocqueville in particular. These main issues are provided as follows:</p>
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<ol><li>Democracy Breeds Materialism – Americans believed that money seemed to be the only achievement that people believed to be considered admirable</li>
</ol><p>democracy and capitalism – a very oppressive and flat way of life</p>
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<ol start="2"><li>Democracy Breeds Envy and Shame – in a chapter of his book “Why the Americans are often so Restless Amidst their prosperity” high expectations and dissatisfaction, between political equality and envy < relationship between</li>
</ol><p>when inequality is the general rule in society the greatest inequalities attract no attention but when everything is level, the slightest variation is noticed.<br /><br /></p>
<ol start="3"><li>The Tyranny of the Majority</li>
</ol><p><br />Generally, we think of democracy as being the opposite of tyranny, but in a tyranny of the majority – society has an aggressive leveling instinct regarded as a civic of virtue to take down anyone that seems to be getting “above themselves” and cut anyone down to size.</p>
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<ol start="4"><li><span> </span> Democracy Turns Us Against Authority</li>
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<p><span> </span>In the United States, people of no distinction tend ot believe that anyone could be “better than them” b/c they trained to be a doctor for 6 years, or wrote a lot of great books, etc. <span> </span>In sum, Tocqueville believed that democracy in the Americas was fatally bias towards mediocracy.</p>
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<p>Tocqueville believed that one could find few places with less freedom of mind and Americans gave up on independence of mind and freedom of discussion, giving up on critical thinking and giving their faith to newspapers instead and hesitant of stepping too far out of line with their neighbors, who could be potential customers, as it could undermine business.</p>
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Morris Ketchum Jesup, Founder of Nonprofit Organizations
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A black and white photograph of Morris Ketchum Jesup, a banker, philanthropist, and president of the American Museum of Natural History.
Whether creating his own foundations or giving away to ones already made, Morris Jesup spared no expense to make sure others were better off. He organized and founded the United States Christian Association, the Young Men’s Christian Association, and the Five Points House of Industry in New York, which helped teach immigrants the skills they needed to find jobs. For science and health, he donated $100,000 to The Woman’s Hospital in New York City, and funded Arctic expeditions before becoming president of the Peary Arctic Club in 1899. For education, he was a member of the Peabody Educational Board and of the General Education Board, gave Williams College $35,000, became treasurer of the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen and gave Jesup Hall to the Union Theological Seminary. For museums, he was appointed president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and gave the museum over $1,000,000 in his lifetime.
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Morris Ketchum Jesup - Wikimedia<br /><br />Source: Morris Ketchum Jesup. (2012, June 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved October 22, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/RPOD7Q">http://bit.ly/RPOD7Q</a>
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Mrs. Kate Wallert Barrett, Co-Founder National Crittention Mission
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Kate Barett understood that in order to achieve her goals, she’d need to be taken seriously, which is why she pursued a medical degree in order to the title that would hold people’s attention. With it, she co-founded the National Florence Crittenton Mission, which strove to provide aid and homes to prostitutes and unmarried mothers. She helped gain the first-ever federal charter for a charitable organization thanks to an act of Congress signed by President McKinley. As the homes expanded, Barett took notice that nearby maternity hospitals weren’t satisfactory, and so helped fund hospitals by her homes to better aid them. The homes joined with the Topeka Home, founded by Topeka Blacks, to provide the same aid for African-American women in similar situations. Her other donations and works included participation in the League of Women Voters, the Parent-Teacher Association, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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A black and white photograph of Kate Waller Barrett, an activist, physician, and philanthropist. <br /><br />Source Prater, T. (2012, September 13). Kate Waller Barrett (1858–1925). Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved November 1, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/bGHpaF">http://bit.ly/bGHpaF</a>
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