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Harvard just got its biggest donation ever The gesture marks the largest gift in the university's 379-year history, surpassing last-year's record-setting donation by Hong Kong-born investor Gerald Chan, who gave $350 million to the School of Public Health. Paulson graduated from Harvard Business School in 1980 and went on to found Paulson & Company in 1994.
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J K Rowling makes Â£10m donation to new MS research centre in memory of mother The £10m donation is the largest single gift that J K Rowling has ever given. Her mother, who had MS, died when Miss Rowling was just 25. She has donated £10million for research at a multiple sclerosis centre which will be named in honour of Anne, who died in 1990. Miss Rowling, who never told her mother that she had started the book, has said she is haunted by the death, describing it as 'a literal pain in my heart'.
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Suggested Donation Levels Increase Donation Sizes Suggested Donation Levels Motivate Supporters and Increase Online Giving Size. OPAL Community Land Trust was chosen as the nonprofit organization to receive the donation of the Edith Macefield House, also known to many as the “Up” house.
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10 Universities With the Biggest Endowments Among the 10 colleges with the largest endowments at the end of fiscal year 2016, the average endowment was $16.6 billion – this represents a drop of around $300 million compared with the prior year.
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UFT leader puts increasing distance between union and de Blasio The UFT and City Hall spent the first half of de Blasio’s tenure operating in near-perfect harmony, so much so that the union’s parent, the American Federation of Teachers, gave de Blasio’s nonprofit a $350,000 donation shortly before contract talks were settled in the spring of 2014.
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- In 2011, the Smithsonian undertook its first-ever capital fundraising campaign. The $1.5 billion effort raised $1 billion at the three-year mark. Smithsonian officials made the campaign public in October 2014 in an effort to raise the remaining $500 million. More than 60,000 individuals and organizations donated money to the campaign by the time it went public. This included 192 gifts of at least $1 million.
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Columbia Campaign expands to raise $5 billion by end of 2013 Now the University is expanding the campaign in hopes of raising an additional $1 billion by the end of 2013. According to University officials, this will enable Columbia to raise money for a variety of unmet needs, as well as for new priorities as they emerge.
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Future of Steve Jobs' $6.7 Billion Wealth Likely to Remain as Private As He Was Many speculated Steve Jobs was the anonymous donor that gave $150 million three years ago to the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. But a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed he was not.
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Potchefstroom Campus The Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University (nicknamed Pukke) was formerly known as the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated PU for CHE).his is the largest of the NWU’s campuses, having had 35,174 students registered in 2008, of which more than 18,800 were enrolled for distance learning programmes. The Potchefstroom Campus also accounts for most of the NWU’s research output and National Research Foundation-rated researchers.
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University of Georgia The American Library Association's list of the Nation's Largest Libraries outlines institutions with the most volumes, including the Library of Congress (30,011,748 volumes), Harvard University (15,555,533) and the Boston Public Library (15,458,022).
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- Philanthropist Shelby Davis has created a $40 million endowment that provides 50 U.S. students with full scholarships to attend a UWC every year. did you know Our more than 3,357 UWC-USA alumni are spread across the globe: North America 26%, Latin America and Caribbean 16%, Africa 10%, Middle East 6%, Asia 14%, Europe 21%, Pacific 2%
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The 10 Largest Universities In The United States University of Central Florida (53,537 students) – Located in Orlando Florida, the University of Central Florida or UCF has the third largest student enrollment in the U.S. at 53,537. UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida.
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UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RECEIVES $300 MILLION GIFT, LARGEST IN HISTORY OF U.S. PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION The gift is the largest ever made to a U.S. public university. It is twice the size of what was announced on March 2, 2002, as the largest gift to a single public university - an estate gift estimated to be worth $150 million to the University of Texas at Austin.
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10 Universities Where the Most Alumni Donate Donations from alumni increased by more than 10 percent in 2015 compared with the previous year, reaching a total of $10.85 billion in alumni contributions among U.S. colleges and universities, according to a survey by the nonprofit Council for Aid to Education.
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- For every $100 of new revenue raised from major donors by the University of Oregon, over 80% is being directed to the athletic department. Even with the large increases in numbers of total donors since 1994, academic giving struggles to remain stable while donations to athletics experience huge growth.or every $100 of new revenue raised from major donors by the University of Oregon, over 80% is being directed to the athletic department. Even with the large increases in numbers of total donors since 1994, academic giving struggles to remain stable while donations to athletics experience huge growth.
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"University Hospitals CEO reports solid financial results in annual ""State of the System"" address" University Hospitals CEO reports solid financial results in annual State of the System address. University Hospitals reported a 3.5 percent growth in revenue from operations in 2013, steady community benefit contributions, and donations to its fundraising campaign of about $119 million.
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United Methodist Committee on Relief Unlike most relief organizations, UMCOR was designed so that 100% of all donations go directly to the intended projects. This goal was achieved by instituting the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) donation. The OGHS is an annual collection taken at United Methodist churches around the world in March.
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Buffett Donates $2.8 Billion, Breaks Personal Giving Record Buffett Donates $2.8 Billion, Breaks Personal Giving Record. Warren Buffett has bested his own personal philanthropy record once again, donating $2.8 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several other charities as part of his annual giving pledge. The gifts given Monday top last year’s $2.6 billion donation.
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J K Rowling makes Â£10m donation to new MS research centre in memory of mother J K Rowling makes £10m donation to new MS research centre in memory of mother. When her mother died, JK Rowling was a struggling writer who had just started work on the first Harry Potter book.
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Haiti donations exceed $305 million Charities: The American Red Cross has raised the most money, with nearly $137 million in donations as of Wednesday, the Chronicle of Philanthropy said. Partners in Health had received more than $25 million by Monday, and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF had raised $22.5 million as of Tuesday.
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Sidney & Lois Eskenazi An extraordinary gift, from two extraordinary people. In June 2011, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi provided a $40 million gift to the Eskenazi Health Foundation to build new hospital facilities in Downtown Indianapolis. It was the largest donation ever received by the hospital and one of the largest gifts to a public hospital in the United States.
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- Lori A. Redfearn on Alumni-L The California State University collected data on our cost to raise a dollar for three years from 2001-2003. Both the mean and the median of our 23 university system was 16 cents. The interquartile range was 9 - 21 cents. This figure compares fundraising costs to amount raised.
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Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation The patriarch and matriarch of one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent families in real-estate development and philanthropy, John A. ’60 and Susan Sobrato, have made a gift of $100 million to Santa Clara University to help create the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation. The University’s largest-ever gift, $100 million from John A. and Susan Sobrato, will fund a 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for transformational STEM education.
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Press Release for Monday, February 16, 2015 (904) 620-2102. The University of North Florida will host “The Dredging of the St. Johns River: A Town Hall Meeting on the Proposal to Deepen the River” from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 9, at the Adam W. Herbert University Center, Building 43, Board of Trustees Room, Room 1058, on the UNF campus.
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Bill Gatesâ Foundation Gives Its Largest Gift Ever To Combat Ebola Crisis The billionaire philanthropist's foundation has pledged $50 million to fight the viral outbreak in West Africa, according to a statement by the organization. The Associated Press noted the donation is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's largest ever toward a humanitarian cause.
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- Giving USA: Americans Donated an Estimated $358.38 Billion to Charity in 2014; Highest Total in Report’s 60-year History.