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The rich get richer by giving away their wealth! It is a fact and undeniable. Read on if you have any doubts, I will prove beyond any doubts and then some. The first fact is people in the United States yield more than $ 200 billion, yes that is billions of dollars to $ 200 annually. Would not be able to find a way to go in front of this train of cash?

This is one of the greatest biographies of philanthropists of all time:

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Carnegie

(25 November 1835-11 aoa»t 1919) was a Scottish industrialist and American, businessman, entrepreneur and a great philanthropist.

There was a strong supporter of the movement for spelling reform as a means of promoting the dissemination of the English language.

His method was to build and equip, but only provided that the local authority matched that provide the land and a budget for operation and maintenance. To ensure local interest in 1885, he gave $ 500,000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886 he gave $ 250,000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library, and $ 250,000 in Edinburgh for a free library. In total Carnegie funded some 3,000 libraries, located in States United States 47, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, which is today the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and Fiji. He also donated £ 50,000 to help establish the University of Birmingham in 1899

Public Library Broome County in New York opened in October 1904. Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, was created with a donation of $ 75,000 from Andrew Carnegie. The building was designed to serve both a public library and community center.

He gave $ 2,000,000 in 1901 to launch the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) at Pittsburgh and the same amount in 1902 to found the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC He later contributed more to these and other schools. CIT is now part of Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie has served on the board of Cornell University.

In 1911, Andrew Carnegie became a benefactor to support George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson, and donates ten million $ 10 million to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to accelerate the construction of the telescope: "I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so looking forward to hearing the results expected of him. I want to be fulfilled before I go, we're going to repay the old earth a part of the debt we owe them by revealing more clearly than ever for new heavens. 'The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with the Carnegie still alive [20].

In Scotland, he gave 10 million dollars ($ 10,000,000) in 1901 to establish the Carnegie Trust for Universities of Scotland, a fund to support education in Scottish universities. [21] He was then elected Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews. He has also won large sums of money to Dunfermline, the place of his birth. In addition to a library, Carnegie also bought the private domain has become Pittencrieff Park and open to all members of the public, establishing the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust [22] to benefit the people of Dunfermline. A statue of him stands today. He gave an additional $ 10 million in 1913 to endow the Carnegie UK Trust, a foundation grant. [23] [24]

His interest in music led him to finance the construction of 7,000 church organs. He built and owned at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Carnegie was an important benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for the education of African Americans. He helped to Booker T..