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The vision of modernizing the University of Rochester Medical Center that began several years ago moved 20 million steps closer to reality Thursday with a gift from businessman and philanthropist Tom Golisano for a new children’s hospital that will bear his name. URMC leaders expected the founder and chairman of the board of Paychex to contribute $18 million toward a $134 million building dedicated solely to the care of children. The curre…
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Thursday that he will donate $50 million to the Sierra Club to support its nationwide campaign to eliminate coal-fired power plants. Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune described the gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, to be spread over four years, as “a game-changer, from our perspective.” The group will devote the money to its Beyond Coal campaign, which has helped block the construction o…
Duke University has announced a five-year, $6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new initiative designed to broaden the role of humanities in its undergraduate curriculum. Building on the university’s existing humanties laboratory model, the initiative, Humanities Writ Large, will provide more experiential learning in and outside the classroom to help spark collaboration among undergraduates, graduate students, and fa…
The Houston-based Schlumberger Foundation has announced a $50 million grant from international oilfield services company Schlumberger Limited and its subsidiaries to support the foundation’s Faculty for the Future fellowship program. Faculty for the Future, now in its sixth year, awards fellowships to female scientists from developing nations to help them pursue advanced graduate degrees and postdoctoral fellowships in scientific disciplin…
In memory of their daughter, Angie, who died of melanoma at age 14, Char and Chuck Fowler have donated $17 million to establish the Angie Fowler Child & Young Adult Cancer Institute at University Hospitals (UH) Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Their daughters and sons-in-law, Chann and Ed Spellman and Holley and Rob Martens join them in making this transformational gift. The largest individual donation in the history of UH Rainbow B…
Fidelity Charitable, which manages the nation’s largest donor-advised fund program and is one of the largest public charities in the country, announced record-breaking contribution and grant levels for the first half of the year and a new name as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. Fidelity Charitable, formerly known as the Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund, reported a 30 percent increase in contribution volumes for the first six months of th…
The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announces the launching of a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary center focused on discovering novel treatments for orphan diseases. The Center will bring together, without institutional walls, all necessary approaches to attacking and treating orphan diseases: establishing dedicated research support facilities, translating findings into therapies, fostering targe…
The Walton Family Foundation announced today that it is investing $49.5 million over three years in the national nonprofit Teach For America. Roughly half of the investment will support Teach For America’s national effort to double the size of its teaching corps, as well as support its network of alumni leaders in education. The other half will support ongoing training and professional development for more than 5,000 first- and second-year teach…
San Diego developer and philanthropist Conrad Prebys has given Scripps Health $45 million for its new cardiovascular institute in La Jolla, making the donation the largest in Scripps’ history and the biggest Prebys has given any organization. Scripps officials plan to announce today that the $456 million center being built at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla will be named the Prebys Cardiovascular Institute. The seven-story institute is due to…
The bulk of Alexander McQueen’s 16-million pound ($26 million) estate will go to his Sarabande charity, according to documents made public Tuesday. The renowned fashion designer killed himself in February 2010, following closely on his mother’s death. McQueen said in his will that he hoped Sarabande would support scholarships at the Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, which he attended. Other beneficiaries named in his wil…
