Peter Lewis Philanthropy
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Peter Lewis took control of a small Cleveland insurance firm during one of the first LBO’s in history. Lewis took that small insurance firm from an 100-employee company to a 14,000-employee company over the course of 30 years and without any major acquisitions.
- Peter Lewis has given millions to higher education. He gave $37 million to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. His gifts to Princeton, his alma mater, are well over $233 million.
- Invests in people with clear, creative, courageous visions that produce results. Lewis’ reputation is that he insists on the organizations to which he donates be both financially accountable and sound.
- Lewis is a major arts patron. Among the many things he has done for the art world include: creating and supporting the Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, donating $50 million to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and donating $1 million to Princeton for a contemporary gallery at the Princeton Art Museum.
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