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Gifts Roundup
U. of South Carolina Students and Faculty to Benefit From $75 Million Windfall
Plus, a law school in Nebraska landed $2 million to enhance holocaust and international justice studies, and several other universities and a medical center in Hawaii received big gifts. -
Gifts Roundup
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Lands $25 Million for Pediatric Mental Health Program
Plus, the ArtCenter College of Design received a $17 million bequest from a long-time donor; and a hospital, three universities, and the education group Building African American Minds also received large gifts. -
Gifts Roundup
Wayne State U. Gets $50 Million From Former Instructor Turned Auto Executive
Plus, Hollywood film producer Sidney Kimmel gave Temple University more than $27 million to support media and communications and the performing and cinematic arts, and three other universities received big gifts. -
Gifts Roundup
Former Citigroup Boss Gives Weill Cornell Medicine $50 Million
Plus, Lyric Opera of Chicago landed a $25 million unrestricted gift from a long-time supporter, and a couple who are chemists and entrepreneurs gave USC’s Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute $15 million. -
Next-Gen Donors
Don’t Ignore Next-Gen as the Wealth Transfer Begins
Younger donors wield power even before they inherit. -
Gifts Roundup
Bezoses Pledge up to $500 Million to UNICEF USA’s Child Nutrition Fund
Plus, an alum left $35 million to Allegheny College to build an innovation lab, and Vanderbilt Law School will use $6.8 million to exonerate wrongfully convicted people in Tennessee. -
Gifts Roundup
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Lands $125 Million From Comcast CEO and Wife
Also, the University of Delaware received a commitment of $71.5 million for its business school, and Fairfield University will use a $50 million gift to enhance academic and interdisciplinary programs. -
Gifts Roundup
Billionaire David Duffield Gives Alma Mater $100 Million
Plus, Grove City College received a $70 million bequest, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts landed $10 million, and three other organizations received big gifts from supporters. -
Fundraising
Pivoting to Private Donors When Government Funding Isn’t There
The CEO of a social-service nonprofit and two of its major donors discuss how private support funded a key program — and helped win other grants. -
Fundraising
What Works Now: Rethinking Big Gifts 5 Years After the Pandemic
Three nonprofit leaders share the new ways they’re approaching major-gift fundraising in a post-Covid world — from Zoom-forward fundraising to outside-the-box events.