Philanthropy
Merrill donated $7 million to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. The building, the Phillip Merrill Center, was awarded the first LEED platinum certificate in the country.
In 2001, Merrill donated $10 million to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Merrill donated $4 million in 2003 to create the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Eliot A. Cohen is the director of the Merrill Center.
Merrill donated the funds to build the Cornell Sailing Center at Cornell University http://www.rso.cornell.edu/sailing/merrill-sailing-center.php which is named for the Merrill Family and was dedicated in 2009.
Merrill was a benefactor of the Aspen Institute and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni annually awards the The Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education.
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“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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