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His fortune polishes atheists’ reputation

BY YONAT SHIMRON
Posted: March 19, 2010.

Print: NewsObserver.com

Todd Stiefel, who received a windfall from the sale of his family business, has emerged as a big donor to atheist causes.

excerpt:

Last month, Stiefel gave $500,000 to the Secular Coalition of America, a Washington-based coalition that lobbies on behalf of 10 groups of atheists, humanists and agnostics. That’s on top of two smaller gifts to two of the coalition’s members: a $100,000 matching grant to American Atheists and a $50,000 matching grant to the Secular Student Alliance.

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