Leading business men who give back to educational institutions
Our planet is progressively witnessing businessmen establishing and financing schools. In pairing their entrepreneurial flare with their substantial resource banks, multi-billionaire philanthropists are in a position to enable worthwhile investments in academic foundations and, equally critically, provide a constant source of funds to keep these bodies operational. Infrastructural support is of important value in the setting up and maintenance of non-profit foundations, in particular when these are of an educational function. Putting resources into in the future generations in the form of offering a sound schooling, and therefore desirable skillset, is something which philanthropists are increasingly turning their eyes, initiatives, and money towards.
A business person who is devoted to being philanthropic, especially when it comes to education is Wafic Said. Over the years the billionaire has donated more than £50m to establish and fund an assortment of academic organizations, such as establishing an eponymous business school in Oxford, and has a charitable organisation committed to helping disadvantaged children. In giving so much back to the community, the Syrian-born business owner has attained quite the track record for aiding those less fortunate than himself. In his spare time, he has been an promoter for peace in his native Syria, and has been a tremendous source of sophisticated cultural diversity in London, opening trendy eateries in London’s Kensington High Street, and has furthermore been helpful in boosting the English capital’s infrastructure as an entity. The business owner has an visible entrepreneurial flare, and it is great to see his great riches being put to such constructive use, with a particular stress on helping future generations.
A former Ivy League graduate, Charles Johnson, earned considerable attention when he donated US$250m to one of the league’s institutes for higher education in Connecticut, USA. Significantly, private universities such as the one the billionaire businessman donated to are highly reliant on financial philanthropy, much of which comes from its alums. In making educational contributions, the former chairman of a highly prestigious intercontinental investments firm can be viewed as an advocate for the value of schooling. Offering undergraduates universities blessed with adequate resources and an environment in which they will be inspired. In receiving a superior education, the next generation of highly successful business owners can emerge and give back to the foundations and organisations through which they were educated.
A chairman of one of the most highly regarded hedge fund companies in the world is James Simons. The multi-billionaire has invested much of his riches into academic establishments on an international spectrum. In particular, his foundation in Nepal is an example of his philanthropic ways with its training scheme for rural healthcare workers. The successful businessman has a nous for the academic needs of modern society, no doubt in light of his unparalleled schooling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied for a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied for his Ph.D. in the same discipline.
