The Largest Gift Ever

By Vernon C. Grounds on March 27, 2002

The Largest Gift Ever

Ted Turner, successful broadcasting entrepreneur, asked a provocative question of his good friend Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation: “You’re a big fund-raiser. What’s the largest gift ever?” Gregorian told him that it was the $500 million donation Walter Annenberg had made to education. Turner replied: “How about a…

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