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.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
11 More Donors Sign the Giving Pledge
The number of billionaires committed to giving away their wealth has edged up to 114. The new donors include people with backgrounds in apparel, finance, politics, real estate, and technology.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
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.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Charities Deal With a Stream of Lawsuits From Disenchanted Donors
Lawsuits raise thorny questions about a benefactor’s demands and a nonprofit’s responsibility to adhere to them.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Big Changes Help Hospital Attract More Big Gifts Much Faster
Virginia Mason Hospital’s fundraising arm found a way to relieve fundraisers of their most hated task and then improved efficiencies.
By Holly Hall
Contributor
$50-Million Given to Support Creative-Writing Students
Helen Zell, whose husband is the investor Sam Zell, wants the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to use the money in its master of fine arts program.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Financier Gives $40-Million to NYU for Urban-Planning Institute
Donald Marron says he wants to help find ways for cities to do better in providing jobs, low-cost access to culture, and great lives for families.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Mr. Zuckerman, 65, pledged $200-million to Columbia University to endow a new neuroscience research institute.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts of $1-Million or More in 2012, by Cause
America’s rich continue to give most of their money—$7 of every $10 donated last year—to their alma maters, to hospitals and cultural groups that have served them, and to their own foundations.
No. 21 (tied): Jonathan and Karin Fielding
Jonathan Fielding, 69, and Karin Fielding pledged $50-million worth of investment assets to the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mr. Perelman, 70, pledged $25-million to establish the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 40 (tied): Joseph and Katherine O’Donnell
The O’Donnells pledged $30-million to Harvard University.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mr. Golisano, 71, pledged $20-million to the Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida to expand the medical center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
Mark Zuckerberg, 28, and Priscilla Chan, 27, gave 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at about $498.8-million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 49: Patrick and Tandra Cadigan
The Cadigans pledged $15-million to Boston College for a new alumni center, and they committed $12-million to Boston College High School to build a new arts and recreation center.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 17: Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver
The couple gave a total of $73.7-million in cash and stock to the Community Foundation in Jacksonville.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor