Presidents and Faculty Gave Millions to Their Own Universities, Data Shows
New data from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Almanac also shows that Stanford University raised $1.6 billion in private support, more than double the amount of any other university except Harvard, which raised $1 billion.
By dan.parks
Contributor
Gifts Roundup: Eli Lilly CEO Gives $5 Million to Central Indiana United Way
Other notable gifts include $5 million from basketball legend Michael Jordan to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
$20 Million Pledge Supports Pediatric Care in Miss.
The commitment from Friends of Children’s Hospital advances a $100 million capital campaign to expand pediatric treatment facilities at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, reports The Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss.
Michael Jordan Donates $5 Million to African American Museum
A gallery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be named for the basketball icon in recognition of the gift, the largest from the sports world to the newest Smithsonian institution, The Washington Post reports.
Gifts Roundup: Michael Jordan Gives $2 Million to Mend Police-Community Ties
Also, a finance executive donates $10 million to expand a program that creates 3D models of patients’ hearts to help doctors prepare treatment.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
A Timeline for Planning a Year-End Campaign
A tool to map out steps to take for a successful year-end fundraising campaign, online and off.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Data and the Search for Big Donors
How fundraisers crunch numbers, sift Facebook chatter, and analyze their results to learn exactly what donors want.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Ideas that analysts noodle around with today could become the cutting-edge approaches of tomorrow. Here are two still largely on the drawing board.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
‘The Serena Williams of Fundraising’
Outgoing Stanford President John Hennessy raised billions for the university by steering clear of talking about goals in dollar terms and communicating clearly what a gift would accomplish.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
‘Development’ No More: Fundraiser Job Titles Change With the Times
From “chief progress officer” to “director of e-philanthropy,” nonprofits say they are trying to better reflect the heart of the job. Are they sowing confusion instead?
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
Gifts Roundup: U. of Notre Dame Gets $5 Million for Marching Band and Sports Fields
Other major donations include a $16-million estate gift to Riddle Hospital near Philadelphia and a $5-million estate pledge supporting the Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Northern California.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
Combined Endowment and Planned-Giving Campaign Is a Hit With Donors
The Minneapolis Foundation’s Pay It Forward Forever Fund, which will not be used for 50 years, asks supporters to consider what the fund might have accomplished if it had existed during previous half-century spans.
By Heather Joslyn
Contributor
Obituary: Conrad Prebys, Major Calif. Health and Arts Donor
The property magnate, who donated hundreds of millions of dollars to support health care, higher education, and cultural institutions in his adopted hometown of San Diego, succumbed to cancer Sunday at age 82, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
Michael Jordan Gives $2 Million to Police and Civil-Rights Groups
Speaking out for the first time on the killings of unarmed black men by police and retaliatory targeting of officers, the basketball great made a pair of $1 million donations to groups working to bridge the racial divide, according to the Charlotte Observer and sports-news site The Undefeated.
Gifts Roundup: Art Dealer Gives UCLA $20 Million to Expand Studios
Other notable donations include $4 million to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and $2.7 million to the Kansas City Symphony.
By Eden Stiffman
Senior Editor
U. of Michigan Board Chair Pulls Donation in Naming Flap
Mark Bernstein and his wife, Rachel Bendit, withdrew their $3 million pledge because naming a new structure to house the university’s multicultural center after them could have eliminated the only building name on campus that honors an African-American, according to the Detroit Free Press.