Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
Phil Knight has made some of the largest university donations in history. In 2016 he landed a whopping $500 million on his alma mater—the University of Oregon (which gave him Read more…
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USC School of Social Work
No donor had ever given a social-work school a gift as large as $60 million. The previous high was the $50 million that Constance and Martin Silver donated to New Read more…
Paying for Scientific Collaboration and Risk-taking
In 2015, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced that they will gradually give away 99 percent of their Facebook stock to “improve the world.” Their first Read more…
Immigrant Aid Societies Americanize New Arrivals
Ellis Island officially opened as America’s front door on January 1, 1892. A 17-year-old named Annie Moore from County Cork, Ireland, was the first immigrant to be processed at the Read more…
Donating to Science—Their Own!
Harald Hess and Eric Betzig are both brilliant physicists. But both hate running in a bureaucratic herd, and both have a deep aversion to the timid, bureaucratic mechanisms that dole Read more…
Fair Sport
When physician Gregory Rodchenkov, runner Yuliya Stepanov, and sports-training official Vitaly Stepanov told reporters about the massive program they had participated in to give Russian athletes an advantage in international Read more…
Business and Philanthropy Transform Exurbia (Orange County)
His whole life long, Henry Segerstrom introduced himself as a farmer. His Swedish immigrant family had grown lima beans in Orange County in southern California near an area that some Read more…
Banishing Blindness at $25 Per Person
Dr. Sanduk Ruit grew up in a remote village of Nepal that was 15 days walking distance from the nearest school. But after watching his sister died of tuberculosis he Read more…
DavisConnects
Recognizing that there is a “world beyond the academy” where college students can and should learn important lessons that might be hard to internalize on campus, donor Andrew Davis gave Read more…
Lenfest Institute for Journalism
The newspapers in Philadelphia, as in every city, have struggled mightily over the last decade to find a viable business formula in the era of Internet news. To save them Read more…
Collaborating for Child Prosperity
Led by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, about a half dozen living donors and another half dozen foundations have joined forces in a cooperative calling itself Blue Meridian Partners that Read more…
Flint, Michigan
The troubled city of Flint, Michigan, shifted in 2014 to a new public-water source that ended up exposing between 6,000 and 12,000 children to unhealthy levels of lead. After this Read more…
New Tools for Family Revival
Like other Americans, donors have worried about the direction of family trends since the 1960s, when mushrooming divorce, illegitimacy, father absence, and other problems began to expose children to new Read more…
Marcus Institute for Brain Health
Training accidents, sports injuries, and battlefield blasts put military service members at risk for concussions and brain injuries. Most of these heal with standard medical treatment and time, but some Read more…
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and now the second richest man on earth, is just getting started on philanthropy. Most of his giving comes through the foundation run by Read more…
UCSF Medical Education and Research
After Sanford Diller put together one of the most successful companies developing apartments in northern California, he and his wife Helen Diller became energetic philanthropists. They were long-time supporters of Read more…
New York Genome Center
In 2011, financiers Russell Carson and James Simons jointly launched the New York Genome Center. This new consortium encourages hospitals, research groups, universities, and medical schools in the region to Read more…
Cole Eye Institute
Thanks to donor support, the Cleveland Clinic’s institute for eye and vision problems went from a hole in the ground to one of the top programs in the country in Read more…
Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences
Retired oil executive James Mulva and his wife Miriam took aim in 2016 at “widespread and difficult diseases that impact so many people and families.” They donated $50 million to Read more…
Bowes Biomedical Investigator Program
In one of his last gifts, biotech investor and philanthropist Bill Bowes made a 2016 gift to the University of California, San Francisco to establish special support for medical research Read more…