A History of Charitable Gift Planning: How Gift Annuities Shaped American Philanthropy

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By Ronald Brown ’72

Published Nov. 9, 2017

A History of Charitable Gift Planning (self-published) explores the evolution of a national system that supplies billions of dollars for services that change and save American lives. Ronald Brown ’72 focuses on George Augustus Huggins, who introduced groundbreaking actuarial principles in the 1920s for charitable gifts that are now commonplace.

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