12939 Brandywine.qxd - Brandywine Health Foundation
12939 Brandywine.qxd - Brandywine Health Foundation
12939 Brandywine.qxd - Brandywine Health Foundation
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How can you give back to your community?<br />
Adds his mother, Franny Abbott, “It<br />
was always a priority for my parents<br />
that we all gave back.”<br />
“Franny Abbott with her mother, Betty Moran, and<br />
son, Max Abbott.<br />
“We’re blessed to be in the<br />
situation that we are in, and it’s<br />
a responsibility and a privilege<br />
to care for people who aren’t as<br />
fortunate.”<br />
— Max Abbott<br />
Giving back to the community through<br />
your support of the <strong>Brandywine</strong> <strong>Health</strong><br />
<strong>Foundation</strong> can take many forms.<br />
When Max Abbott was a young boy,<br />
each Christmas his grandmother, Betty<br />
Moran, requested a simple “gift” from<br />
him and her 14 other grandchildren —<br />
that they identify a worthwhile charity<br />
to which she would make a donation in<br />
their names.<br />
“We’ve grown up with philanthropy,”<br />
says Max, a student at the Parsons<br />
School of Design who now sits on<br />
the board of his family’s nonprofit<br />
foundation — one of seven his<br />
grandmother and the families of her six<br />
children now operate. “We’re blessed to<br />
be in the situation that we are in, and<br />
it’s a responsibility and a privilege to<br />
care for people who aren’t as fortunate.”<br />
For Max’s senior project at the Westtown<br />
School in 2005, he conducted a site<br />
visit on behalf of his grandmother’s<br />
foundation to the <strong>Brandywine</strong> <strong>Health</strong><br />
<strong>Foundation</strong>’s offices and the health<br />
center it supports. “I learned a lot<br />
about how people can do more good<br />
with their finances and really help to<br />
provide for the health and wellness of<br />
people who are less fortunate,” says<br />
Max. “I thought it was very effective<br />
how the foundation allocated resources<br />
to different types of organizations to<br />
help people.”<br />
His grandmother agrees. After touring<br />
the <strong>Brandywine</strong> <strong>Health</strong> & Housing<br />
Center construction site earlier this<br />
year, Moran — who also serves on the<br />
board of directors of Community<br />
Volunteers in Medicine — doubled her<br />
already substantial pledge for the center<br />
and wrote letters to others urging them<br />
to do likewise.<br />
“If you’re fortunate to be a philanthropist,”<br />
she says, echoing her grandson,<br />
“it should be an obligation to make the<br />
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“It allows us to use the expertise we have at the bank for a great cause.”
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