Big Gifts Boost Medical Services in Israel and Colo.
The Marcus Foundation has donated $25 million to the U.S. fundraising arm of Israeli emergency-services charity Magen David Adom to build a new blood-supply facility, reports the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Colorado State University received an anonymous $20 million gift for a research center focused on regenerative medicine, The Denver Post writes.
Advice on How Mark Zuckerberg Should Donate $45 Billion
After gathering thoughts from 40 researchers, fundraisers, foundation staff, and philanthropists about donations that have failed and those that have produced great results, Michael Hobbes sums up in the Huffington Post how the Facebook co-founder should give away his billions.
Gifts Roundup: $400 Million to Stanford U. From Nike Co-Founder
Other recent gifts include $10 million to Georgetown U. for a program on the Holocaust and $3.5 million to Drexel U. to help autistic youths transition to adulthood.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
The Scramble to Hire Big-Gift Fundraisers
With more baby boomers retiring, there’s a greater push to go for large donations — and to hire people who are good at getting them.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Finding a Fundraiser Who Can Find Big Gifts
With demand overwhelming supply, it pays to look outside the usual channels.
By HEATHER JOSLYN
Contributor
The Second Act for a Former Hollywood ‘Glamour Girl’: Tulsa Philanthropist
Instead of supporting remote charities, Peggy Helmerich decided she and her husband should create a “little gem of culture” in Oklahoma.
By Brennen Jensen
Contributor
Philadelphia Museum Gets $10 Million and Modern-Art Trove
A Pennsylvania art collector who died last year has left 50 modernist works, including a significant late-period Edward Hopper painting, and $10 million in endowment funds to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Obituary: Alfred Mann, Biomedicine Mogul and Big Donor
The billionaire entrepreneur, who gave hundreds of millions of dollars to support biomedical research after earning a fortune in the field, died Thursday at age 90, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Nike Chief’s Gift Speeds Stanford Fundraising Juggernaut
The Washington Post looks at Stanford University’s growing fundraising prowess following Wednesday’s announcement of Nike Chairman Phil Knight’s $400 million donation for a new scholars program.
Opinion: Public Pays Price for Knight’s Stanford Largesse
Phil Knight’s $400 million gift to fund Stanford University graduate-school scholarships “should reignite a dormant debate” over the cost to taxpayers of elite colleges’ burgeoning endowments and massive philanthropic support, a Los Angeles Times columnist writes.
Phil Knight Gives $400 Million for Stanford Scholars Program
The Nike chairman’s latest education megagift will support a program conceived by Stanford’s president to recruit graduate students to tackle major social and environmental challenges, reports The New York Times.
Donor’s Demands Spark Controversy at U. of California Campus
The University of California, Irvine, is weighing turning down $3 million from a Hindu foundation amid faculty and student protests over the level of control the group seeks over the professorships it supports, writes the Orange County Register.
Miami Museum Patrons Withheld Funds Amid Board Shakeup
The chief benefactors of the financially troubled Frost Museum of Science in Miami delayed a $1 million payment due on a previous pledge for several weeks, until the institution replaced its board with a new group headed by the donors, according to The Miami Herald.
Microsoft Co-Founder Donates $2 Million to Fight Zika
The grants from Paul Allen, who also gave money to help stop Ebola, will support mosquito control and diagnostic research, according to The Washington Post.
Gifts Roundup: $50 Million to the U. of Chicago
Other recent gifts include $10 million to Bowdoin College to study the environment and $2 million to Kosair Children’s Hospital for a cardiac ICU for children.
By ANAIS STRICKLAND
Contributor
Gifts From Tech Moguls Are More About Power and Self-Interest, Say Critics
Skeptics say giving with an eye toward corporate balance sheets runs counter to the time-consuming and not-always-efficient kind of philanthropy that helps solve big problems, says The Christian Science Monitor.