Weills Give $100 Million for Tech-Driven Cancer Research
Plus, tiny Harcum College, whose enrollment stands at about 1,150, received a $40 million bequest. Three other institutions received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Is the Giving Pledge Living Up to Its Potential?
Only 13 percent of U.S. billionaires have signed the Giving Pledge, and almost 80 percent of the original signers’ gifts have gone toward their foundations.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Depression Research Gets Big Boost From Steel Magnate’s $40 Million Gift
Plus, Amway heirs gave $20 million to Northwood University, medical students in Ellsworth, Kan., will benefit from a $15 million donation, and a $10 million gift will support budding lawyers pursuing public service careers.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Lurie Family Gives $50 Million to Back Autism Research
Plus, Vassar College received $28 million for its music programs, a Chicago art collector sold her collection to back quantum science, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center got $50 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Colgate U. Lands $105 Million for Student Housing Campus
Plus, the widow of the founder of Cintas gave the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra $60 million, and the Heinz History Center and two universities received big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
MIT and Other Institutions to Share $90 Million Gift
Plus, construction projects at three universities attracted more than $35 million from private donors, and nursing students at an HBCU will benefit from a $1 million windfall.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
$50 Million Gift Launches New Women’s Health Program
Plus, hedge fund investor Ken Griffin gave $10 million to NYU Langone Health to create a center that will offer programs focused on women’s health and well-being, and three other universities landed big gifts for health-care programs.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
Houston Couple Gives $150 Million to Launch Pediatric Cancer Center
Plus, Georgetown University received $25 million for its nursing school, and the National Constitution Center got a $15 million donation to celebrate the founding of the United States, and the donor is loaning a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution and a document that led to the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
N.Y. Couple Gives $125 Million to Help Israeli Medical Students
Plus, USC Shoah Foundation landed $30 million to endow the Holocaust remembrance organization’s efforts to collect and preserve thousands of Holocaust survivor testimonies from around the world, and the Library of Congress received $20 million to purchase a rare 17th century viola for its collection.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor
UCLA Lands $25 Million to Launch a Center for Digestive Health
Plus, the National Academy of Sciences received $20 million, Agnes Scott College got $15 million, and three other universities received eight-figure gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Contributor