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Gifts Roundup
Carole and Marcus Weinstein Give $25 Million to U. of Richmond for New Academic Services Center
Plus, Baltimore real-estate developer Sam Rose gave $2 million for full scholarships for students from Ukraine, and Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos, Steve Tisch, and a Campbell’s Soup heiress gave big to support scholarships and ocean research. -
Donor-Advised Funds
8 Proven Ways to Engage Wealth Advisers — and Raise More From DAFs
What works — and what doesn’t — when building ties with financial professionals to attract DAF gifts. -
Gifts Roundup
Roy and Diana Vagelos Give $175 Million for Physician-Scientist Training at Columbia U.
Also, Mary and Richard Templeton donated $20 million to Southern Methodist University for engineering education and scholarships, and California State University at Fullerton has received a pledge of $4 million for desert-science studies. -
Gifts Roundup
NYU’s Stern School of Business Gets a $53.6 Million Commitment for Global Learning
Also, the Heritage Foundation has received a pledge of $25 million to advance its policy goals, and the University of California at Los Angeles received a joint gift of $20 million to establish the Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center. -
Gifts Roundup
Michael Jordan Celebrates His Birthday With a $10 Million Gift to Make-a-Wish Foundation
Plus, the University of Michigan landed a $50 million donation for its education school, and three other universities received big gifts. -
Disaster Giving
Turkey-Syria Earthquake Hits a Region in Crisis U.S. Donors Have Long Neglected. Will That Change?
The U.S. charitable response to the disaster offers a mixed forecast of giving in the long run. -
Major-Gift Fundraising
How One University Used Data to Eliminate ‘Zombie Proposals’ and Improve Big-Gift Fundraising
Among the insights: The longer it took to close a proposal, the less chance for its success, but other factors played a role, too. -
Philanthropy 50
What’s Next for America’s Biggest Donors
This year’s Philanthropy 50 ranks tops donors by their giving in 2022. Here’s what some of these philanthropists plan to do in 2023 and beyond. -
Philanthropy 50
Meet the ‘Everyday Megadonor’: 2022’s List of Top Philanthropists Includes a Host of New Names
The number of people worth at least $50 million has nearly quadrupled in the past decade. Meet the big givers hiding in plain sight. -
Analysis
America’s Top Donors Are Helping to Shape the Future in an Old-Fashioned Way
Many of 2022 largest donors hewed closely to decades-old conventions of philanthropy. Two areas that attracted significant support: scholarships and medical research. Plus: See our entire special report on the Philanthropy 50.