Tepper continues to focus his philanthropic efforts on education-- from the elementary school level to university--and feeding the hungry in his home state of New Jersey.

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Piasecka was an active supporter of Art for Autism and funded numerous philanthropic initiatives in her native Poland, recently opening a school for children with autism in Gdansk.

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The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.

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His philanthropic impulse and an absence of progeny prompted Hershey in 1909 to start a boarding school for orphan boys and to make the school's trust the main holder of Hershey stock.

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Therafter, Reddy had devoted himself to a variety of philanthropic causes, including providing drinking water to rural areas and mid-day meals to school-going children.

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