Philanthropy

pay debts
let parents retire
buy a bunch of foreclosed homes and let families live there on rent until their first child graduates high school. if no children then 1 year lease.

If I had $500 million dollars
fund a bunch of projects,

$500k
-> to start up a muh language course at the local community college. develop coursework, textbook , teaching guidelines/materials, and pay for recordings
-> funding for a non-jewish perspective of every day life in USSR. massive cited detail from daily routine to food eaten on table, etc
->restarting development on opera 12

$50k each only on matching funds
-> local public radio-television
-> project gutenberg
-> archive.org
-> sunlight foundation
-> common cause
-> any group willing to tacking massive incarceration/sentencing reform/privately own prisons

$5k each
-> freecommander
-> reactOS
-> 0AD
-> ETLive
-> prop13 repeal group
-> legalize marijuana group