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Article: Financier donates $1 million to buy Viagra for poor men Move comes after he heard some insurance plans won't cover impotence drug

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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June 11, 1998
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Call it a new perspective on philanthropy: Alan Greenberg is putting up $1 million to make sure that money is no barrier to men's ability to have sex.

The head of the investment firm Bear, Stearns and Co. is donating the pile of money to buy Viagra for poor men.

"I made the money, and I'm going to give it away any way I want to," Greenberg said Wednesday. "The public interest in Viagra says a lot about how many people have been suffering in silence." It's not the Kansas-born financier's first unusual donation. Several years ago, he gave the Israel Museum in Jerusalem money to renovate its bathrooms and had a plaque installed in one to honor his brother. Greenberg's Viagra check is ...

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