遺囑 部分退休金

我十年前注意到，英國大學呼籲校友的遺囑中，考慮捐獻母校......

"民運人士王丹昨上午在臉書粉專「王丹网站 Wang Dan's Page」分享身邊一則暖心故事，訴說他有一名在哈佛大學圖書館工作多年的台灣友人將退休，但對方認為哈佛大學費正清中心圖書館的中文藏書，與台灣有關的不夠多，「決定將自己的部分退休金捐獻出來」，希望在館內開設「台灣書庫」收藏，「讓台灣在這所美國最高學府被更多的人看到」。......"

4個捐贈故事 (近十個美國、1個台灣)：

Rooms By The Sea

Artwork

Artist: Edward Hopper

Dimensions: 73 cm x 1.02 m

Location: Private collection

Created: 1951

Media: Oil paint

Periods: Neoclassicism, Modernism

Rooms by the Sea - Yale University Art Gallery

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As a mature artist, Edward Hopper spent most of his summers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There, he designed and built a sunny, secluded studio at Truro, ...

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Artist: Edward Hopper, American, 1882–1967

Rooms by the Sea

1951

Oil on canvas

74.3 x 101.6 cm (29 1/4 x 40 in.)

Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903

1961.18.29  此畫由1903級文學士Stephen Carlton Clark在1961贈給母校耶魯大學之藝廊。

~~~~2018年起碼可加好幾位美國善人，捐給John Hopskins大學、Rice大學、哥倫比亞大學醫學院等等的免學雜費.......


Scholars Delve Deeper Into The Ethics Of Artificia..

美國律師事務所 K&L Gates LLP 捐1千萬美金給Carnegie Mellon大學，資助研究"人工智能的(諸多面向)倫理學"......


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林義正

〈儉德菩薩──山東榮民趙維良〉
ㄧ生儉若此，德行終不俗；
臨終捐積蓄，造就後人福。

老榮民生前「1天只花100元」被朋友說太過節儉，但他死後做出的這件事完全打爆了洪素珠的臉啊！

近日洪素珠辱罵榮民是「中國難民」的影片鬧得沸沸揚揚，許多人都對她刻…

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Making food banks more efficient | New book: 'Food Citizenship'; Former US President Barack Obama dropped in at a food bank in Chicago this week

Making food banks more efficient | New book: 'Food Citizenship'

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

The public is losing trust in many institutions involved in putting food on our table, says Ray A. Goldberg, author of the new book Food Citizenship. Here's what needs to be done.

CNN International

Former US President Barack Obama dropped in at a food bank in Chicago this week to help prepare Thanksgiving meals. "You guys are doing such a great job...I'm proud of you," he told a young, awe-struck volunteer https://cnn.it/2FyMQrH

Michael Bloomberg donates $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins

NPR

The donation is designed to make the private research university in Baltimore both need blind and loan-free.

NPR.ORG

Michael Bloomberg Gives $1.8 Billion To Financial Aid At Johns Hopkins University

The former New York City mayor and Johns Hopkins University are calling it the biggest contribution to an academic institution in American history, according to a press release

CNN.COM

Michael Bloomberg donates $1.8 billion to Johns Hopkins

林志玲榮登富比士「亞洲慈善英雄榜」

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唯一入選明星！林志玲榮登富比士「亞洲慈善英雄榜」 | 蘋果日報

美術史老師 Marcia Lay的遺囑捐助

2018年11月14日 星期三

胡適讀 《獄中七日記》Within Prison Walls 兼論美國慈善觀念與社會之樂利； Marcia Lay leaving a generous gift in her will to the National Gallery, which fully funded the purchase of one of Wilkie’s finest example of portraiture.

Hanching Chung 分享了 1 張相片。

2015年11月15日下午10:15 · 

今天分享蔡英文某故支持者的"小豬"。
英國國家畫廊的這幅畫的購入，是一位故美術史老師的遺囑捐助。

作畫者：Sir David Wilkie (1785 –1841)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(artist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilkie_(artist)

National Gallery

2015年11月15日下午7:29 ·  Marcia Lay

In 2014 we were able to purchase David Wilkie’s 'Young Woman Kneeling at a Prayer Desk' thanks to – an art teacher who taught at Lordswood Girls School, Harborne, for more than 20 years. She passed away in June 2012, leaving a generous gift in her will to the National Gallery, which fully funded the purchase of one of Wilkie’s finest example of portraiture.

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胡適讀 《獄中七日記》Within Prison Walls 兼論美國慈善觀念與社會之樂利 2015.9.7

Within Prison Walls: Being a Narrative of Personal Experience During a Week of Voluntary Confinement in the State Prison at Auburn, New York

Book by Thomas Mott Osborne 1914

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