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philanthropist

noun as in humanitarian

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The city’s new mayor, Daniel Lurie, a nonprofit leader and philanthropist, has shaken off left-wing taboos and focused on delivering results.

Named for a philanthropist and activist who worked to improve jail conditions for women in L.A. starting in the 1940s, the commission’s findings were recently cited in a state lawsuit over what Atty.

Vance also named liberal philanthropist George Soros and the Ford Foundation as targets of the federal government, accusing them of funding The Nation magazine, which he had attacked over its criticism of Kirk.

From Salon

Her husband is a businessman and philanthropist who helped broker the controversial al-Yamamah arms deal in the 1980s.

From BBC

The project might never have come to life without the support of the Jacobs’, San Diego’s most prominent arts philanthropists.

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