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Former tennis star Andre Agassi has spent the last few years building schools. Recently, he has stopped doing it out of pure generosity.
The notoriously cheap owner of the Clippers is a big donor. Of Clippers tickets.
Can we trust the rich to fund our nation's cultural assets?
Donations to higher ed reached $33.8 billion in 2013.
And what are they giving to?
Decades ago, Carl Drake left the Smithsonian millions of dollars set aside specifically to collect bugs.
Recognition and peer pressure can motivate some. But donors — and fundraisers — say most people don't give millions unless they really care about the cause.
Warren Buffett's son Peter and his wife Jennifer wife talk about their ideas on philanthropy.
Philanthropists say they can take risks that government just can't — which helps them tackle the root causes of big problems.
Each year, Americans give away billions of dollars. Some of those donations, particularly the large ones, come in for criticism.
