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The Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The late oil and gas entrepreneur Lovett C. Peters and his late wife, Ruth Peters, established the foundation in 1994 in Massachusetts. The foundation's primary mission is U.S. K-12 education reform, with a focus on school vouchers, other school choice initiatives, and charter schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.insideronline.org/archives/2009/spring/DanPeters.pdf )〕 More recently, the foundation has focused on technology-based education improvements like blended learning. Lovett Peters also founded the Pioneer Institute in Boston, one of the earliest State Policy Network think tanks and an organization which the foundation continues to support. ==The founders== Lovett C. ("Pete") Peters was born in 1913 in Amherst, Massachusetts. He persuaded Phillips Andover to admit him on scholarship at age 15, where he met his future wife, Ruth Stott, and he graduated from Yale University. Peters worked for Bankers Trust in New York City, served in the Army Air Corps in World War II, and then entered the oil and gas industry, working at Laclede Gas in St. Louis, Missouri, and rising to executive vice president at Conoco in Houston.〔 Peters returned to Massachusetts in the 1960s as an executive at chemical company Cabot. He later went into oil and gas on his own, making a fortune that he called "a fair chunk of money." Lovett and Ruth Peters worked alongside each other in their charitable activities, with Ruth dealing with "the human-relations end of things," complementing Lovett's approach of "solving complicated problems." Ruth Stott Peters died in 2009 at the age of 92, and Lovett Peters died at the age of 97 in 2010.〔 The Boston Globe described the Peters' philanthropic record as making "grand and genuine gestures toward charity, while rarely seeking credit for them."〔 During their lifetimes, they founded two principal nonprofits, the Pioneer Institute and the Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation, the latter of which has continued to support Pioneer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lovett and Ruth Peters Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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