Baby Boomers Poised to Give $8 Trillion, Study Says
They also are much more likely than their parents to scrutinize the recipients of their donations and get into the specifics of how their money will be used.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Finance Industry Titans Pour Millions Into Universities
Northwestern gets a $25-million pledge from Patrick and Shirley Ryan, James McDonnell III and his family give $25 million to Davis & Elkins College, and James Parsons and Carrie Quinn give $20 million to Notre Dame.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Winners Receive Awards
Irwin and Joan Jacobs, prominent San Diego donors, are among the winners. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Atlantic Philanthropies founder Charles Feeney, and Huntsman Cancer Institute founder Jon Huntsman Sr., among others, also won.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: $50 Million to Georgetown University to Develop Leadership Skills
Other recent donations include $25 million each to Duke University and the University of Missouri.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: $100-Million Gift Goes to Conflict Resolution
Other notable recent donations include $50 million to the University of Florida from the inventor of UV coatings for sunglasses and $45 million for Drexel University.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
His and Her Giving: Separate Interests, Mutual Support
A wealthy couple living in the nation’s capital reaches out to nearby neighborhoods still struggling to recover from the legacy of racism and the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Designer and Immigrant Activist Are Among MacArthur ‘Genius’ Winners
One winner of the $625,000 stipend, Alex Truesdell, makes special tools and furniture for children with disabilities. Another founded a university in Ghana.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Catholic and Charter Schools Get Millions of Dollars
Other notable recent gifts include $8 million for the Campbell University Law School from one of the investigators in the Watergate scandal, and $10 million for the Kennedy Center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: National Zoo Pandas and U. of Buffalo Get Big Donations
Other notable recent gifts include $5.6 million for neuroscience at the Scripps Research Institute and $3 million from retired baseball legend Hank Aaron to the Morehouse School of Medicine.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Couples Give More to Relief Groups When Wife’s Pay Rises, Study Shows
More of a couple’s giving goes to groups like the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army if the wife’s paycheck grows, but if the husband’s income increases, the more likely recipients are umbrella groups like the United Way.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor