i've read about strong lengh thinkers in books, but i've never actually talked with one before. Do you ever imagine that a president of stamford might go to a funder and say, at this point in our history, the best use of your money is to give to the u c system, not to stamford? He thinks about it for a moment. Then he comes up with something really dramatic. I'd have to do something really dramatic for ten billion dollars.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead?
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