A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle:
University of Illinois
Technology entrepreneur Thomas Siebel and his wife, Stacey, gave $25 million through their foundation to establish the Siebel Center for Design, a campuswide hub for programs in product, process, and user-interface design.
Mr. Siebel founded Siebel Systems, a software company that merged in 2006 with the Oracle Corporation. He now heads another software firm, C3 IoT. He earned three degrees from the university: a bachelor’s in history in 1975, a master’s in business administration in 1983, and a master’s in computer science in 1985.
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A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle:
University of Illinois
Technology entrepreneur Thomas Siebel and his wife, Stacey, gave $25 million through their foundation to establish the Siebel Center for Design, a campuswide hub for programs in product, process, and user-interface design.
Mr. Siebel founded Siebel Systems, a software company that merged in 2006 with the Oracle Corporation. He now heads another software firm, C3 IoT. He earned three degrees from the university: a bachelor’s in history in 1975, a master’s in business administration in 1983, and a master’s in computer science in 1985.
Intermountain Foundation
Kem Gardner pledged $20 million to build the Intermountain Transformation Center, which will house institutes that train medical and other health-care professionals.
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Mr. Gardner founded the Gardner Company, a real-estate firm. He currently chairs the board of the foundation, the fundraising arm of Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare.
University of Southern California
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, donated $20 million to help build the Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, which will combine interdisciplinary research with cancer treatment and prevention programs.
Before he launched Salesforce, a cloud-computing company, Mr. Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle, the software firm founded by Mr. Ellison, the institute’s main benefactor.
Mr. Benioff graduated from the university in 1986 and has served on its Board of Trustees since 2010. Ms. Benioff is a marketing consultant and co-founded Star Community Home, a short-term residential center for homeless families in San Francisco.
University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
Mitchel Wong, his son, Shannon, and their family committed more than $20 million to establish the Mitchel and Shannon Wong Eye Institute, a center that will train ophthalmologists and provide patients with medical and surgical eye care.
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Mitchel Wong graduated from the university in 1960 and opened an ophthalmology practice in Austin in 1969. His son joined the practice in 1997.
Indiana University at Bloomington
Milton and Judi Stewart pledged $7.7 million to support the Center on the Global Legal Profession at the university’s Maurer School of Law. The money will provide an endowment for the center, which will be renamed for the donors, and for a professorship.
Mr. Stewart retired as a partner at the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. He earned his law degree at Maurer in 1971.
University of Nevada at Reno
Professional basketball player Ramon Sessions gave $1 million to create a new basketball practice facility. The Ramon Sessions Basketball Performance Center is scheduled to open in August 2017
Mr. Sessions attended the university from 2004 to 2007 and now plays point guard for the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets.
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To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week.
Maria directs the annual Philanthropy 50, a comprehensive report on America’s most generous donors. She writes about wealthy philanthropists, arts organizations, key trends and insights related to high-net-worth donors, and other topics.