source: new express
US 98 year old man showing charitable "template"
live in the United States according to the Seattle times of the United States Macdonald, an old man in a nursing home in Seattle, Washington, on weekdays, is extremely thrifty and likes to buy things with discount coupons. He passed away two months ago, leaving behind 187 million 600 thousand dollars (1 billion 140 million yuan) trust fund, which will be donated to three different institutions.
the largest donation of
3 institutions, Seattle children's Hospital Research Center and University of Washington law school, announced on 26 days of the joint press conference, Jack Macdonald, 98, died in September, leaving a $187 million 600 thousand trust fund to these 3 institutions. The children's Hospital Research Center of Seattle pointed out that this is the highest amount of donation received by the children's medical research institution in the United States. Although Donna donated huge sums of money to children, he did not have children of his own.
Macdonald was born in BC, Canada. He grew up in Seattle and worked as a lawyer for more than 30 years. Macdonald, who lived in the home of the old man in his later years, gave the impression of being tall, amiable, shy and untalkative, low profile and unpopular, like buying things with coupons, buying a lot of fruit juice, and wearing a sweater with holes.
he donate money to charity every year, and presents gifts to his children in his hometown. At the same time, he has been running his own stock.
tried very hard to pretend poverty
only some family members and close friends knew that McDonald had such a huge fortune. Macdonald's stepdaughter Denise told the media that Macdonald's wealth mainly came from the meat companies that inherited their parents, and he was very good at investing and managing money.
, she said, Macdonald invested in stocks with first-rate judgment, not trusting others' stock analysis, but choosing the stocks they wanted to buy.
Macdonald got married at the age of more than 50 and married Denise's mother. Denise said that her mother and Macdonald lived in the old man's home before 1997, but two years later, her mother died, and Macdonald had been quietly running stock investment, but on the surface, he maintained "nothing", including worn clothes.
Denise asked McDonnell why he was so rich but he didn't move to a big house and buy a new car. Macdonald said they were happy, and matter was not important. Denise said: "he tried very hard to pretend to be poor, partly because he did not want to be entangled with people who wanted to get money from him." (Zhong Xin)
McDonnell's contribution to the United States fifth
New Express statistics, according to the statistics, the United States billionaires in 2012 charitable donations of $5 billion 100 million, of which Buffett has occupied 3 billion 90 million US dollars, accounting for more than 60%, ranking the first in the United States to donate the rich list.
if Buffett's donation is removed, the donation in 2012 will be less than $2 billion 600 million in 2011. According to last year's donation list, Macdonald's donation of 187 million 600 thousand dollars can be ranked fifth.