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Paul J. Aicher participates in the Ford Foundation’s Fund for Adult Education—“study-discussion” groups on political, economic, and international affairs, and humanities topics. It is his first experience with “owning an issue for himself.”
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Paul Aicher founds Topsfield Foundation, Inc., after selling Technical Materials Inc., his company in Rhode Island. “My father came to visit me in the early 80s, and asked what I thought of him selling the company he founded, leaving business, and pursuing his interest in social change and what he then dimly conceived of as a philanthropic future. In graduate school, studying literature, I thought it was a good idea and told him why: Over the years, he’d gotten used to being the boss, and
