Finally, the city and private philanthropists also provided cheap or free housing; the largest public housing projects were launched in the 1890s in Boloto.

Ten years of work and the support of three Governors, the state's largest corporations, private philanthropists and local political leaders have now made that vision a reality.

Nor has there been much help from sponsors, or private and corporate philanthropists.

In other ways, too, private philanthropists are free to venture where governments fear to tread.

He was a consultant to the Rothschild Foundation and other foundations and private philanthropists in Israel and abroad.

Even before this week's veto, anger over the ban has prompted states and private philanthropists to put up their own money.

My tuition will be paid not through a city program, but by a private philanthropist.

In addition, money donations by private philanthropists provided the seed capital to get many libraries started.

Throughout the 1930s, Lawrence pushed to create larger and larger machines for physics research, courting private philanthropists for funding.

Baroness Burdett-Coutts was a private philanthropist who gave to many and varied charitable endeavours.