generous giver

“Dolly Parton is a generous giver of books, which should inspire us all to give time and effort to things we believe in,” Williams said.

The Richmond-based utility has long been a generous giver to politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Its initial fund-raising success foreshadowed the rise of the Republican donor class as a political force: Another early and generous giver was the banking and oil heir Richard Mellon Scaife, who went on to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in conservative media outlets and nonprofit organizations that, among other projects, targeted the Clintons during the 1990s.

Florida-based hedge fund manager Donald Sussman, who said he gave $40 million to Democrats in 2016, clocked in as Perriello’s most generous giver in the latest period with $300,000.

To look closely at his playful pieces is to see the hand of a master craftsman at work, the mind of an original thinker at play and the heart of a generous giver doing his thing.