{"id":56509,"date":"2018-01-31T04:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56509"},"modified":"2018-01-31T04:29:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T04:29:42","slug":"engineer-who-lived-life-modestly-leaves-37-million-to-local-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/01\/31\/engineer-who-lived-life-modestly-leaves-37-million-to-local-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineer who lived life modestly leaves $37 million to local charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired engineering executive Raymond Suckling lived a pretty modest life in\u00a0Sewickley, PA. He loved White Castle hamburgers, drove a Subaru and wore Velcro sneakers. No one ever thought him to be a wealthy man &#8211; not until he left a $37.1 million donation\u00a0to the Pittsburgh Foundation when he died in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gifts of this magnitude are always very thoughtfully made,&#8221; Foundation president and CEO Maxwell King said in a statement. &#8220;They serve as powerful testaments to the community foundation model and the compact between donors and staff that ensures their intentions will be honored beyond their lifetimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The recently finalized bequest will provide $500,000 annual grants to the Sewickley Public Library in the Sewickley Valley Hospital Foundation, both in suburban Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The bequest also provides $500,000 annually to the foundation for programs and services benefitting low-income youth and families around Sewickley.<\/p>\n<p>Read full story here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/modest-living-engineer-leaves-pittsburgh-foundation-37-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/modest-living-engineer-leaves-pittsburgh-foundation-37-million<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired engineering executive Raymond Suckling lived a pretty modest life in\u00a0Sewickley, PA. He loved White Castle hamburgers, drove a Subaru and wore Velcro sneakers. No one ever thought him to be a wealthy man &#8211; not until he left a $37.1 million donation\u00a0to the Pittsburgh Foundation when he died in 2013. &#8220;Gifts of this magnitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}