Editing Walter Annenberg (section)

==Philanthropy==
During his lifetime, it is estimated that Annenberg donated over $2 billion. He once said that "education... holds civilization together".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter02/annenberg.html|title=Winter 2002 – Trojan Family Magazine|publisher=Usc.edu|access-date=2013-10-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819074839/http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/winter02/annenberg.html|archive-date=August 19, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Many school buildings, libraries, theaters, hospitals, and museums across the United States now bear his name.

Annenberg established the [[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania]] and the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism|Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism]] at the [[University of Southern California]]. In 1993, he donated 100 million dollars to The Peddie School, the largest donation ever to a school when accounting for inflation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sontag |first1=Deborah |title=Publisher Gives $365 Million to 4 schools |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/20/us/publisher-gives-365-million-to-4-schools.html |access-date=21 February 2019 |agency=New Tork Times |date=20 June 1993}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, Annenberg founded the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower in Rancho Mirage, California. In the mid-1980s, he established the Annenberg Fellowship to [[Eton College]], a one-year fellowship for one US graduating college senior (chosen from a rotating list of US universities including Duke, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and others) to spend a year teaching and serving as a cultural ambassador to the famous British boys' school.<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/documents/AnnenbergFellowship2008.pdf Annenberg Fellowship 2008] {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904095512/http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/academics/fellowships/competitions/list/documents/AnnenbergFellowship2008.pdf|date=2015-09-04}}</ref> In 1989, he established the [[Annenberg Foundation]], and 1993, created the Annenberg Challenge, a US$500 million, five-year reform effort and the largest single gift ever made to American public education. 

In 2009, the [[Annenberg Foundation]] funded the opening of [[The Annenberg Space for Photography]]. In 2019, the center closed.<ref>Annenberg Space for Photography, 2009-2019. Annenberg Foundation. https://annenberg.org/initiatives/annenberg-space-for-photography/</ref> 
<ref>The Annenberg Space for Photography to Permanently Close". NBC Los Angeles.</ref><ref>Vankin, Deborah (June 9, 2020). "One of L.A.'s key showcases for photography is closing for good." ''The Los Angeles Times''.</ref>