Wendy Schmidt’s Advice for Donors
Wendy Schmidt leads her and her husband’s broad network of philanthropies, the largest of which is the $2 billion Schmidt Family Foundation, which they started in 2006.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Financier and Wife Give $25 Million to Work-Force Development Charity
Plus, Ken and Kathryn Chenault give $1 million to help formerly incarcerated people, and three universities and an art museum in Michigan land big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Texas A&M Athletics Lands $25 Million From Houston Energy Mogul
Plus, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum receives $15 million for arts education, and a science organization, an Urban League, and two universities all got big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Silicon Valley Real-Estate Mogul and Wife Give UC-Berkeley $30 Million
Plus, three donors give big gifts to support mental-health programs at two universities and at a treatment center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
SPCA Monterey County, Calif., Lands $22 Million Bequest From Longtime Supporter
Plus, Bill Gates gives his foundation $20 billion, Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest receives $10 million, and three nonprofits get big gifts for psychiatry and mental health and wellness.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Bill Gates Gives $20 Billion and Plans to Increase Foundation’s Annual Giving by 50%
In announcing his plans, Gates said that he hoped other billionaires would follow suit to give generously as the world deals with continuing crises like climate change and recovery from the pandemic.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Prominent Lawyer Gives Oxford $35 Million Gift That Will Also Benefit U. of Pittsburgh
Plus, Vassar College received $10 million from Hollywood producer Jason Blum.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Dolly Parton and Tipper Gore Give Big
Plus, the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven received a $35 million bequest to endow support for four New Haven, Conn., nonprofits, and the Holocaust Museum Los Angeles landed a gift of $5 million.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Investor Gives Cornell $30 Million to Launch Real-Estate Department
Plus, five other universities landed big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Plus, Texas A&M receives $50 million, and four other universities and an art museum land big gifts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor