Improving Education, Changing Lives: A Memoir to Encourage Philanthropy

Peter O'Donnell, Jr. has undertaken three major endeavors: politics, investments, and philanthropy. His investments enabled him to devote more than half his life to philanthropy, and many of the practices he developed in politics extended into the management of his philanthropy. His political associations proved to be important as he pursued his philanthropic goals, and his policy interests extended into his philanthropy. This memoir, based on interviews, published sources, and access to the voluminous and carefully maintained O'Donnell Foundation files, details O'Donnell s work as a philanthropist. O'Donnell agreed to let his story become public in an effort to encourage others to find similar satisfaction through philanthropy and to recognize people who helped him achieve his philanthropic goals.

This is the story of notable philanthropic achievements and successful concepts developed over many years by Peter O'Donnell, Jr.