A roundup of notable gifts compiled by the Chronicle:
Kansas State University
Paul and Sandra Edgerley gave $20 million to the College of Business Administration to support two new efforts — the Digital Learning Repository and the Center for Financial Analysis — and a number of administration programs.
Paul Edgerley co-founded and is managing director of VantEdge Partners, a private investment firm in Overland Park, Kan. He earned a degree in accounting from the university in 1978 and served as managing director at Bain Capital from 1990 until his retirement in January 2016.
Hennepin Healthcare Foundation
Andrew and Lynne Redleaf donated $10 million through their Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation to expand mental-health services of the health system’s Mother-Baby Program and to establish the Redleaf Center for Family Healing, which will help families struggling with the emotional and psychological challenges of pregnancy and parenting.
Andrew Redleaf founded Whitebox Advisors, a hedge fund in Minneapolis, and worked earlier in his career as an options trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
American Cancer Society
Jerry and Gene Jones gave $7.5 million to help build a Hope Lodge facility in Dallas to provide cancer patients and their caregivers with a place to stay while traveling to receive care from medical centers in North Texas. The new lodge will be named for the donors.
Jerry Jones owns the Dallas Cowboys professional football team. In the 1970s he founded Jones Oil and Land Lease, an oil and gas exploration company, and later he started the Arkoma Production Company, another oil and gas business.
McKendree University
John Bailey pledged $6 million toward the university’s fundraising campaign, which is rising money to renovate and upgrade the technology in Holman Library and Voigt Science Hall. The gift will also endow scholarships and faculty posts.
Bailey founded the Allan Bailey Group, a commercial real-estate firm in Dallas. He earned a degree in business administration from McKendree in 1976 and has served on the Board of Trustees since 2004.
Tulane University
Bernard Panetta II and Marcela Villareal de Panetta committed $5 million to endow a professorship in an interdisciplinary area of academic study within the Tulane Brain Institute.
Bernard Panetta is a lawyer who served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington from 1973 to 1979, and then as an attorney in the Department of Justice from 1979 to 1983.
Marcela Villareal de Panetta helped establish the Fondo Guadalupano, a fund to support Mexican citizens studying at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
The couple have deep ties to the university through family and as graduates. He earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts in 1968 and she earned a bachelor’s degree in 1967. Her father, Leopoldo Villareal, graduated from the Tulane School of Medicine in 1934, and her brother, Leopoldo Villareal Jr., also attended Tulane. The couple’s daughter, Victoria, graduated from the university in 2008.
University of Texas at Austin Blanton Museum of Art
Carl and Marilynn Thoma gave $2 million through their Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation to endow a curatorial position, named for Marilynn Thoma, that will be devoted to art of the Spanish Americas.
The position is the second endowed curatorial position for Spanish-American art in the United States. Carl Thoma founded Thoma Bravo, a private-equity firm in San Francisco and Chicago.
To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week.