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At first glance, the $1 billion fundraising campaign that Stanford Hospital officially launched Monday sounds audacious, even by Silicon Valley standards. But in one more example of the valley’s mind-boggling wealth and Stanford’s ability to tap into it, half the goal — $500 million — has already been committed. The donors are a who’s who [...]
The Rockefeller University has received a $15 million gift from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to fund research into digestive disorders including metabolic diseases, cancers and infections, university officials announced today. The funds will establish a new center, to be known as the Center for Basic and Translational Research on Disorders [...]
A family donating $30 million to McMaster University wants to speed up the development of stem cell therapies. Of the total going to the Hamilton, Ont., university, $24 million will be used to establish the Boris Family Centre in Human Stem Cell Therapies, which will speed the commercial development of discoveries made at the McMaster [...]
The Latino population is growing and now represents a larger share of the U.S. population than any other minority group, but the share of foundation funding for this segment of society has remained about the same over the past decade, a new study says. From 2000 to 2009, the Latino population grew to 16 percent of [...]
Northwestern University researcher Fay Lomax Cook believes that if we’re going to have a national conversation about income inequality, we need to know much more about the 1 percent. To that end, Cook and two colleagues have compiled a study that offers a rare glimpse into what the Chicago area’s really-well-to-do think about philanthropy and [...]
In nearly 90 percent of high net worth households, women are either the sole decision maker or an equal partner in decisions about charitable giving, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2011 Study of High Net Worth Women’s Philanthropy, released today. The power and influence of women in philanthropy may mean that some [...]
The National Institutes of Health announced plans on Tuesday to spend $416-million over the next four years on genomics research at universities and medical centers across the country. The biggest chunk of the money will go to existing large-scale sequencing programs at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts, the Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, [...]
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The University of Michigan today announced that Detroit-area philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman has given an additional $56 million to the school for stem cell research and other treatments for life-threatening diseases.The gift brings to $100 million th…
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