$200 Million Gift Goes to Mayo Clinic for Medical Education: Daily News Roundup
November 14, 2018 | Read Time: 1 minute
Top News
Mayo Clinic Gets $200 Million Gift (Associated Press). Plus, learn how Mayo raised nearly $3.8 billion in a capital campaign. And see the Chronicle’s “America’s Favorite Charities” report, which ranked the Mayo Clinic No . 5 for its prowess in raising cash from private sources.
Airbnb Vows $5 Million to Fight Homelessness (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ken Griffin Joins Dan Loeb and John Paulson With $10 Million Gift for Success Academy (Bloomberg)
30 Under 30 2019 Social Entrepreneurs (Forbes)
Ideas, Opinion, and Innovation
Jeff Bezos Still Hasn’t Signed the Giving Pledge (Quartz). Plus, read more about Bezos’s $2 billion pledge.
New Public Spaces Are Supposed to Be for All. The Reality Is More Complicated. (New York Times). Plus, see a Chronicle opinion article about grant-making efforts focused on connecting people by reinvigorating public places.
