The experience proved critical to her later philanthropy. Already ill with cancer, Madeline Goddard returned home to Rhode Island, and died in 1931. In her will, she left $100,000 to The Rhode Island Foundation - to that point the largest donation ever made to the Foundation - as a "field of interest" fund for "the relief of incurables."
The experience proved critical to her later philanthropy. Already ill with cancer, Madeline Goddard returned home to Rhode Island, and died in 1931. In her will, she left $100,000 to The Rhode Island Foundation - to that point the largest donation ever made to the Foundation - as a "field of interest" fund for "the relief of incurables."
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