When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he read a book entitled Essays to Do Good, by Rev. Cotton Mather. The book changed his life. Fifty years later, in a letter to Cotton's son Samuel, Ben Franklin wrote "...if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book."Ben Franklin was involved with philanthropic pursuits his entire adult life. In his Will he set in motion a charitable legacy that continues...