It can be funds for public goods with practical purposes, such as schools and museums. (Think Andrew Carnegie and libraries.) Giving can also be dedicated to parks, zoos, public swimming pools and concert halls, all of which grant the poor a more equal standing as citizens.

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He fashioned himself as a modern-day Andrew Carnegie who used his fortune to build libraries.

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Winterson also offered the companies in question another option - "do an Andrew Carnegie and build us new kinds of libraries".

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Facebook could take the Andrew Carnegie approach and start creating public access makerspaces in libraries.

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In addition to the funding of some 2, 800 public libraries across the United States and as far away as Fiji and New Zealand, he had endowed the Carnegie Institute of Technology in his adopted hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Carnegie Research Institution in Washington, D.

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