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Orinda: Barclay Simpson, businessman and philanthropist, remembered...
2014-11-20 22:53:29| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Barclay Simpson, the founder and longtime chairman of Pleasanton-based Simpson Manufacturing Co., a 12-year member of the BART Board of Directors and a key figure on the central Contra Costa arts and philanthropic scenes, died Nov. 8 at age 93 after a battle with bone cancer. Simpson, an Orinda resident for over 50 years, is being remembered not only for his success in building a worldwide construction materials company but for then giving many millions of dollars to more than 30 charities and civic causes.
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China's controversial philanthropist
2014-10-13 21:00:44| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The singing billionaire whose charity work courts controversy
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Service for philanthropist Frances Roderick Axelson will be Friday
2014-10-09 08:48:48| Food - Topix.net
Funeral services for life-long philanthropist and El Paso Community Foundation member Frances Roderick Barnard Bagwell Axelson will be Friday at St. Clements Church. Axelson died Oct. 2 at Hospice El Paso.
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VIDEO: Taiwan's most unlikely philanthropist
2014-10-07 02:11:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A humble Taiwanese vegetable seller shows you do not have to be rich to donate money and make a difference.
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Volunteer, philanthropist Billie Lou Wood dead
2013-12-22 04:27:58| Biotech - Topix.net
Billie Lou Wood, an Indianapolis philanthropist, teacher and "consummate volunteer," died Friday.