The music world is still reeling from the premature death of Prince at the young age of 57. We’ve heard facts and rumors that he was up for 150+ hours straight before his death, he left no will, is worth less than we might have imagined (still hundreds of millions in wealth) and that he was a great basketball player.
Sadly, we’re learning more about him after his death, than knowing who he was in life. Prince was a very generous person, giving to deserving organizations under the premise that they not make that charitable act public. Prince was a very secretive person.
Prince donated $200,000 as seed money to revamp an old nursing home in his home town of Minneapolis, into what is known now as Harvest Prep and Seed Academy.
He donated $20,000 to a recording studio known as Urban Ventures in his hometown, and underwrote a plaque costing $50,000, an on-site memorial to the victims of the I-35 W. Bridge collapse victims from a few years ago. Prince also donated substantial money to the Circle of Discipline, a Minneapolis youth boxing organization.
Perhaps the charity that was closest to his heart was the ‘Love 4 One Another’ organization, giving over $1.4 million from 2005 to 2007.
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