0 the activity of helping the poor, especially by giving them money: --
1 the giving away of money, esp. in large amounts, to organizations that help people: --
Minnesota has long been considered a beacon of philanthropy.
What tax incentives exist encourage corporate philanthropy more than citizen initiatives, and unincorporated organizations are altogether ineligible for tax-exempt contributions.
Private institutions depend on tuition fees, sponsors and philanthropy.
The hospitals of the title were voluntary hospitals, so called because they were entirely dependent on voluntary financial support or philanthropy for their existence.
The collection contains a series of useful essays on a servants' 'strike', middle-class female philanthropy and the arrival of labour politics in the 1900s.
Nowhere has such a comprehensive treatment of this aspect of medical philanthropy been published previously, so that this section is very important.
Older forms of philanthropy often developed into a wider concern with social conditions.
The two evangelicals were somewhat more active than the others in politics and philanthropy.
Most of them would also have added that they believed that their society embodied their own particular virtues: open-handedness, hospitality, generosity and philanthropy.