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Philanthropists Malin and Roberta Burnham announced Tuesday a $20 million donation to their two-year-old Burnham Center for Community Advancement to spur the organizations mission of promoting civic engagement.

There is a building at San Diego Yacht Club named after Malin Burnham, and you don't have to drive far from the club to find others. In his book Community

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It’s not mathematically correct, but I’ve long believed that 1+1=3 — that people working together can accomplish more than each person working on their own.

Burnham is a philanthropist who founded the Burnham Center for Community Advancement. He lives in Point Loma. The time has come for Americans to set aside our differences before they tear us apart and come together to tackle the real problems we face. For 50 years, I have dedicated my life to philanthropy in my home city of San Diego. For the last 20 years, I have extended that commitment to Tijuana, and to bringing these two great cities together. Along the way I have developed a philosophy I...

Pivot Points: How They Shape Us and Even Change the Entire Direction of Our Lives On 12/11/20 at 4:18 PM EST Every town in America, if its lucky, has at least one person living in it like Malin Burnham. A person who spent his life committed to helping his town prosper, be it through a business or other enterprise. San Diego is Burnhams hometown, and most people living there know his name. Many also know the man. And love him. In his autobiography, Community Before Self, Burnham dedicated the f...