Philanthropy
As a philanthropist, Templeton established
- the John Templeton Foundation;
- the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities in 1972;
- the Templeton Library in Sewanee, Tennessee;
- the Templeton College of the University of Oxford (by endowing the Oxford Centre for Management Studies to become a full college of the university having as a focus business and management studies).
Templeton College is now closely associated with Oxford's Saïd Business School. In 2007, Templeton College transferred its executive education program to Saïd Business School. In 2008, Templeton College merged with Green College to form Green Templeton College. This is one of the exceptional mergers in recent history of the University of Oxford.
He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts. Templeton was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1996, and in 2003 awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership.
His philanthropic activities had been estimated at over 1 billion US dollars in total.
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