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This via The Philanthropic Enterprise email group:
The July 4 WASHINGTON POST had an obituary by Joe Holley of Thomas Cannon, the Richmond, Virginia postal worker who gave away $150,000 furing his lifetime even though he never made more than $20,000 a year. I thought this paragraph was of interest:
“Mr. Cannon made it known that he was opposed to a foundation carrying on his philanthropy after his death, since a foundation would require a bureaucracy and reams of paperwork. Nor did he want his name attached to anything. What he wanted in his honor and memory, he told the (Richmond) TIMES-DISPATCH, was simple: ‘Help somebody.'”
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