Charity Work
In October 2004, Brown and his siblings donated US$2.2 million to Phillips Exeter Academy in honor of their father, to set up the Richard G. Brown Technology Endowment to help "provide computers and high-tech equipment for students in need."
Brown and his wife, Blythe are also supporters of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
On April 14, 2011 Brown and his wife created the Dan /86 and Blythe Brown Scholarship Fund to celebrate his 25th reunion from Amherst College, a permanently endowed scholarship fund at the college whose income provides financial aid to students there, with preference for incoming students with an interest in writing.
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Famous quotes by charity work:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—‘Miss Clark,’ U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)