March 26, 2009
Terrance Keenan, Health Grant Maker
Age at death: 85
Major philanthropy job: Vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 1972, he became one of the foundation's first employees. He worked there until he retired in 2003, and continued to serve as a consultant until his death.
How he made his mark: Mr. Keenan was "revered as the man who took philanthropy out of the wood-paneled boardrooms and into the narrow alleys, the dirt roads, and the backwaters
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