A Digital Superstar Gets Ready to Help an Iconic Museum Get Connected
Sree Sreenivasan will become the first chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after serving in that role at Columbia University.
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Family Gives $50-Million to Build Advanced Pediatric Care Facility
The family of Alan Buerger, who founded Conventry life-insurance company, donated the money to build an advanced pediatric care facility.
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Investment-Company Head Commits $30-Million to Expand Science Prizes
Supporting young talent, says the National Academy of Sciences donor, is an investment in “developing the future.”
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Grant Maker Uses Data to Weigh a Project’s Potential
Two economists who have led the foundation’s efforts have written a book to help other donors use tougher standards of cost-effectiveness to judge the value of charity programs.
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Dallas Businesswoman Pledges $50-Million for Program to Reduce Cancer Deaths
Lyda Hill, the granddaughter of the late oilman E.L. Hunt, supports a collaborative scientific approach at the University of Texas’s M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Give USC $70-Million
The two music producers gave $35-million each to start a program to help students become entrepreneurs.
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Group With No Ad Budget and an Unfulfilled Gift Meets Goal 5 Years Early
Room to Read founder John Wood says his charity’s goal is to reach 10 million children by 2015 by using creative ways to get publicity.
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Selling and Fundraising Are Both About Finding Common Ground, Says Expert
Daniel Pink, author of To Sell is Human, says successful salespeople and fundraisers know how to find common ground.
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Yeshiva U.’s Medical College Gets $160-Million From Real-Estate Heir
Muriel Block, who inherited a real-estate fortune, earmarked some of the money for biomedical research; the rest will finance brain research and other needs.
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A Veteran College Administrator Leaves Retirement to Run an Education Fund
Judith Shapiro, a retired leader of Barnard, is taking over as head of the Teagle Foundation.
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