Houston,
Texas

University of  Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center launched the public phase of the Billion dollar campaign

$1 Billion

Auburn,
Alabama

Auburn University has reduced the ASK Amounts on many of its’ naming opportunities

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Louisville,
Kentucky

The Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation reported a record setting fundraising year in 2009

$9.6 million

Roanoke,
Virginia

The United Way of the Roanoke Valley reporting surpassing the 2008 goal in its 2009 campaign

$6.1 million

                     MAJOR  GIFTS

Tulsa,
Oklahoma

T. Boone Pickens offered a $100 million challenge grant to Oklahoma State University to fund an endowment for scholarships

$100 Million

Boston,
Massachusetts

The Barr Foundation, with assets of approximately $1 billion, has pledged to support Boston-area nonprofits and efforts that fight climate change from a $50 million fund

$50 million

Mount Vernon,
Virginia

A grant from the Reynolds Foundation of Los Angeles to the George Washington Library 

$38 million

Miami,
Florida

Norton Herrick, chairman of Herrick Entertainment, made a gift of silent films of Charlie Chaplin, valued at $32 million to the University of Miami, School of Communication

$32 million

Bloomington,
Indiana

A gift from Bill & Gayle Cook to Indiana University basketball program, IU Trustees voted to name Cook Hall in recognition of their support

$15 million

Washington,
D.C.

A grant from the Leavey Foundation to Georgetown University to create three named programs to enrich the Catholic and Jesuit heritage

$6.9 million

Charlotte,
North Carolina

Carolinas Kids Cancer Research Coalition, a group of eight philanthropic organizations pooled their resources to make a gift o Kids Cancer Research at Levine Children's Hospital

$5.7 million

Cambridge,
Massachusetts

A gift from Glenn Dubin, co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management to Harvard University, Kennedy School of Gov’t

$5 million

Thousand Oaks,
California

A gift from Ventura County real estate developer William Rolland to California Lutheran University for a new 3,000 seat football stadium

Largest single gift to the school

$5 million

University Heights,
Ohio

John Carroll University received a bequest from an anonymous donor directed towards student scholarships

$4.45 million

Greenville,
North Carolina

East Carolina University has named the dental school building after Dr. Ledyard Ross in recognition of his gift

$4 million

St. Louis,
Missouri

A corporate gift from Emerson, based in nearby Ferguson, MO, to the St. Louis Public Library helped to expand the north side of the facility into an atrium

$4 million

New York

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research announced $3.5 million in awards

$3.5 million

Detroit,
Michigan

Gretchen Valade, CEO of Mack Avenue Records and chair of Dearborn-based Carhartt Inc., has come forward as the donor of an anonymous $3 million gift made to St. John Hospital and Medical Center

$3 million

St. Louis,
Missouri

A grant from the William T. Kemper Foundation to Washington University in St. Louis, split between support for the Kemper Art Museum, the Sam Fox School of Visual Arts and the Hope Ctr for Neurological Disorders

$3 million

Sioux City,
South Dakota

Avera McKennan Hospital received a grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support health care in South Dakota

$2.5 million

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania grant from the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs of the Gov’t of India, to support Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India

$2 million

San Francisco,
California

Google’s gift to support Wikipedia, matches the largest gift yet received by the online reference site

$2 million

Florence,
South Carolina

Francis Marion University received a gift from the PSARAS Foundation to support outreach programs

$2 million

West Lafayette,
Indiana

Purdue University College of Engineering received two scholarship gifts, both of $1 million; one an estate gift from Robert L. Turner and his wife, Catherine and the second from an anonymous donor

$1 million +
$1 million

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Wilson College celebrated the launch of its campaign with the naming of the C.Q. Smith Auditorium in recognition of the gift from the local businessman

$1.5 million

Raeford,
Arkansas

An estate gift by Dr. Doris Chambers, to the Hospice Foundation of Hoke County, a nonprofit with an annual budge of just $50,000

$1,185,000

San Antonio,
Texas

H-E-B gift to Witt Museum to support H-E-B Science Treehouse into an interactive center that focuses on the body and ways to live a healthy lifestyle

$1 million

Hartford,
Connecticut

The Hartford Hospital received a gift from an anonymous donor, funds to be used for the new Clinical Center

$1 million

Bloomington
Illinois

Illinois Wesleyan University recently opened the Joslin Atrium of the Memorial Center on campus, made possible by a gift from Roger and Stephany Joslin

$1 million

New York,
New York

Sumner Redstone made a gift to Autism Speaks

$1 million

Las Vegas,
Nevada

The Harrah's Foundation announced a gift to the William J. Clinton Foundation

$1 million

Provo,
Utah

A gift from Marc and Debbie Bingham to Utah Valley University to match money raised for a new science building

$1 million

Atlanta,
Georgia

Georgia College & State University received an estate gift from 1942 alum Martha Daniel Newell

$1 million

St. Joseph,
Michigan

A gift from Thomas Yeager to the Lakeland Health Foundations for the new cancer treatment center

$1 million

Black Hills,
Minnesota

Lloyd Paulson made a gift to the Black Hills Community Foundation as a challenge grant

$1 million

Beaumont,
Texas

Education First Federal Credit Union has signed on as a sponsor of Lamar University athletics with this gift

$1 million

Charlotte,
North Carolina

Bank of America announced two gifts of $500,000 each, one to United Way of Central Carolinas and the other to the Critical Need Response Fund administered by Foundation For The Carolinas

$500,000 +

$500,000

Moorehead,
Minnesota

An estate gift from Julien Burkness ’35, to Minnesota State University Moorhead for student scholarships

$860,000

Alma,
Michigan

Alma Colleges named The Charlie and Marion McIntyre Court in appreciation of their gift to Alma College athletics, the new facility opens this winter

$250,000

Apex,
North Carolina

A grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation to start the development of a virtual hospital on campus of Johnston Community College

$200,000

                     INTERNATIONAL
                       MAJOR GIFTS

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
CANADA

Karim (Kay) Nasser, his wife Dora, and their five children have donated $12-million worth of property to the University of Saskatchewan

$12 million

Zambia

BARCLAYS Bank Zambia made a gift of  K40 million to the University of Zambia to settle arrears owed by students
from 2009

$8.4 million US

Victoria,
British Columbia
CANADA

A pledge from an anonymous donor to The Land Conservancy to buy land between Jordan River and Sooke on Vancouver Island

$250,000

Las Vegas

UNLV raised $537 million in the just completed first ever capital campaign

$537 million
campaign

Haiti Relief

The American Red Cross updated the giving from mobile donors who committed $10 at a time to relief efforts in Haiti, creating a new plateau of philanthropy

$32 million

                       Philanthropy & Sponsorship

Columbus, Georgia

NASA has donated parts from the space shuttle  to Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center

$17 million

Los Angeles, California

UnitedHealth Group purchased Children’s Institute’s tax-exempt revenue bonds through the California Health Care Investment Program

$14.3 million

Simi Valley, California

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation made a gift to the Ronald Regan Presidential Library and Museum

$12.75 million

Edmonds, Washington

An estate gift from Hazel Miller has established the nonprofit Hazel Miller Foundation, goal to support local nonprofits

$12 million

Dallas, Texas

An anonymous donor has issued a $10 million challenge grant to the Dallas Opera to help the new fundraising campaign of $20 million

$10 million

Denver, Colorado

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science received a gift from the Morgridge Family Foundation to help build a new three storey addition

$8 million

Columbia, Missouri

Leo Journagan and his family gift of the family ranch including ,3300 acres, 1,000 head of cattle and other ranch assets to Missouri State University, Darr School
of Agriculture

$7 million +

Berea, Ohio

A bequest from Arthur and Helen Telfer to Baldwin-Wallace College for the science building

$7 million

Tulsa, Oklahoma

A gift from Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish the Dean John Rogers Endowed Chair for the College of Law at the University of Tulsa

$5 million

Tucson, Arizona

A Fenton L. Maynard estate gift to the University of Arizona, Arizona Cancer Center

$5 million

Atlanta, Georgia

Georgia State University received an estate gift from namesake donor Ernest G. Welch to the Welch School of Art

$4 million

Pasadena, California

A gift from the estate of Edward and Ruth Hughes to the California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

$3.9 million

San Antonio, Texas

Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc. donation  to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for the Nursing program

$3.9 million

Seattle, Washington

Safeco Insurance announced it is  donating 840 pieces from its art collection to a consortium of museums in Washington state

$3.5 million

Salt Lake City, Utah

C.R. England, the trucking company that works throughout the western states, announced a gift to the University of Utah's new David S. Eccles School of Business, for a new student pavilion, named for Chester Rodney England

$3.5 million

Dallas, Texas

The JP Morgan Promenade was named after a sponsorship gift to the city of Dallas Woodall Rogers Deck Park

$3 million

Caledonia, Michigan

The M.E. Davenport Foundation made a gift towards the Robert W. Sneden Center of Davenport University

$2.5 million

Raleigh, North Carolina

Stephen Zelnak, chairman of the board and recently retired CEO of Martin Marietta Materials, announced his pledge to the Salvation Army, his gift was acknowledged with the naming of the Zelnak Center of Hope, a new headquarters and homeless shelter, $12 million campaign

$2.5 million

San Diego, California

A gift from Pauline Foster of San Diego to endow MBA student fellowships at the University of San Diego, Rady School of Business

$2.5 million

Washington County, Wisconsin

An estate gift from a private donor to build a community arts center at East Ridge High School

$2 million

Adair Village, Oregon

A gift from an anonymous donor to Santiam Christian Schools where the funds will be used for a new library, science and community building, it is the largest gift ever received by the school

$2 million

Greensboro, North Carolina

A pledge gift was given by Mark and Rena Norcross to Immaculate Heart of Mary campus

$2 million

Columbus, Ohio

A gift from the Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation to Ohio State University, split between OSU Medical Center and the Fisher College of Business

$2 million

Bismark, North Dakota

Sanford Health-MeritCare made a gift to establish the Dr. Roger Gilbertson Endowed Chair of Neurology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, matched by the University’s Foundation

$1.5 million

Rochester, New York

A gift from William B. and Sheila Konar created an  endowed professorship for support clinical research into memory loss at the University of Rochester

$1.5 million

Charlotte, South Carolina

A gift from alumna Patricia Whetstone Carter and her husband Ray Carter to Winthrop University

$1.5 million

Fort Worth, Texas

Thanks to contributions of its customers during the holidays, RadioShack announced a donation to Livestrong, an organization that helps people with cancer

$1.3 million

Cortland, New York

A bequest pledged to create the Michael J. O'Reilly '58 Scholarship in Science Teacher Education announced by SUNY - Cortland

$1.24 million

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Ivy Tech Community College Northeast dedicated The Steel Dynamics Inc. Keith E. Busse Technology Center in appreciation of Keith Busse’s gift to the college

$1.2 million

Waverly, New Jersey

A gift from David Bolger, president of the Bolger Foundation to the Bartels Retirement Community to help fund an expansion of the facility

$1.2 million

Minot, North Dakota

A gift from alumnus Clint Severson and his wife, Conni Ahart to Minot State University to start an academy of entrepreneurship and to develop business leaders

$1 million

Sterling, Kansas

Dr. Colin Bailey and his wife, Joan Bailey, have committed an irrevocable legacy gift to Sterling College to fund an Endowed Chair of Theatre

$1 million

Bettendorf, Iowa

A gift from a 1944 alumnus to Rivermont Collegiate that replaced her own school of St. Katherine’s School in Davenport, Iowa

$1 million

Cleveland, Ohio

A gift from insurance company owner Hoyt C. Murray and his family to University Hospitals to expand audiology programs at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital that are part of the UH system

$1 million

Corvallis, Oregon

A gift from Indie Hops to Oregon State University, Nor’wester Professorship in Fermentation Science

$1 million

Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania

Hospice of Central Pennsylvania received support for its capital campaign with the gift from Dorotha Kitlinski of Susquehanna Township

$1 million

Bloomington, Indiana

3M has made a gift to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to support the new sales and communications lab

$1 million

Salt Lake City, Utah

Westminster College announced it will name the third floor of the new Meldrum Science Center for the gift received from The Sorenson Legacy Foundation

$833,000

Canandaigua, New York

The Wood Library in Canandaigua will get an expanded children’s room thanks to a gift from William B. Rayburn, retired president and chief executive officer of the tool company, Snap-On Tool, of $500,000

an estate gift from George Ewing, the former publisher of the Canandaigua Daily Messenger of $100,000

a gift from George Ewing’s son & daughter-in-law, George Jr. and Meg Ewing

a gift from Barbara and Stephen Hamlin

$500,000



$100,000

$250,000


$100,00

Louisville, Tennessee

A new computer lab named the Scripps Convergence Lab was dedicated at the University of Tennessee, a gift from the Scripps Howard Foundation

$500,000

     International Gifts

Victoria, British Columbia

United Way campaign raises record $6.7 million in the just completed efforts

$6.75 million

Kamloops, British Columbia

A gift from Mark and Ellen Brown made a historic pledge to Thompson Rivers University, the largest gift ever to the university

$2 million

Halifax, Nova Scotia

An estate gift from John Walker of Crapaud to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation

$1 million

England

The National Trust now counts 3.8 million members, up 300,000 in the last three years, that pay annual membership fees of between £35.63 for a single adult to £61.50 for a family

55,000 of volunteers spend time caring for the 600,000 acres of countryside, 700 miles of coastline and over 350-historic houses and gardens

+ 300,000 members since
2007

Rochester, Minnesota

 Mayo Clinic’s philanthropy campaign topped the $1 billion mark two years ahead of schedule; over 286,000 people donated to the campaign

 $1.35 billion
 Campaign success

Montgomery, Maryland

 Montgomery College Foundation raised $25 million in its just completed campaign, a record for Maryland community colleges

 $25 million
 Campaign success

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Western Kentucky University had a record-breaking six months over the last half of 2009 taking in cash gifts

 
  $12.5 million

 Hershey, Pennsylvania

Hershey Medical Center at Penn State received over $10 million in donations in the month of December 2009, the largest amount ever for the center in the month of December

  $10 million +

                 GIFTS Received

Trenton,
New Jersey

The Lawrenceville School received a bequest from Henry C. Woods Jr., who had been a teacher at the school

      $60 million

La Jolla, California

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute re-named in recognition of a five year pledge from T. Denny Sanford ( two days after the announcement the organization’s web site featured the name change )

      $50 million

Los Angeles, California

Trustee and alumnus Herman Ostrow made a gift to the USC School of Dentistry that has been re-named the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California

      $35 million

St. Louis, Missouri

A gift by Alvin Siteman to the Washington University in St. Louis that will generate $1 million per year, estimated gift of $30 – 35 million, awaiting confirmation of actual amount

    $30 - $35 million

 
University Park,
Pennsylvani

University of Pennsylvania received a gift from George Weiss, a Penn alum and trustee, designated for faculty support

      $20 million

Tempe, Arizona

T. Denny Sanford made another gift last week, this to Arizona State University and Teach for America that named the Sanford Education Project designed to improve public education

      $18.5 million

Marion, Ohio

An estate gift from Robert M. and Dorothy C. Wopat, longtime Marion residents to the local Community Foundation, doubled the size of the funds

      $16 million

Athens, Ohio

Ohio University named the Violet L. Patton Center for Arts Education in appreciation for her gift

      $13 million

Charlotte,
North Carolina

A gift from Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Malu, to Davidson University with $6.5 million given to date and the balance pledged by 2012

      $10 million

Charlotte,
North Carolin

Queen’s University received a gift from   to create a College of Health

       $7 million

Terre Haute, Indiana

Indiana State University Foundation received a gift from Lilly Endowment in support of Networks Financial Institute and the Donald W. Scott College of Business

      $6 million

 Indianapolis,
Indiana

A grant from the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation to the Indianapolis Convention and Visitor Bureau, continues the trend of municipal major gift asks

     $5.4 million

Los Angeles, California

UCLA has established the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, named in appreciation for a gift from UCLA alumnus Morton La Kretz

      $5 million

Chicago, IL

Charles Ashby Lewis and wife Penny Bender Sebring have donated another major gift to the University of Chicago's research into urban education;
this brings to $15 million Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation has given to the Urban Education Institute

      $5 million

Eau Clair, Wisconsin

Mayo Clinic and Luther Midelfort Hospital announced  a gift from Albert and Judith Dunlap of Ocala, Florida

      $5 million

New York

A gift to the New York Historical Society lead to the naming of the DiMenna Children’s History Museum in appreciation for their gift

      $5 million

Claremont, California

Two gifts from Joan Lincoln and her husband, David, one
to Scripps College to fund of $3.5 million to fund the new ceramics building and $500,000 endowment gift to Claremount Graduate University

     $3.5 million +
     $500,000  

Rochester,
New York

The Sands Family Foundation and Constellation Brands both made a $2 million gift to F.F. Thompson Hospital, a nonprofit they have both supported previously

      $2 million +
      $2 million

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Kohl's Department Stores announced a partnering with Junior Achievement of Wisconsin, pledged over the next three years to create a new interactive learning facility, the Kohl's Education Center

      $3 million

Sweet Briar, Virginia

A gift from Margaret “Peggy” Jones Wyllie to Sweet Briar College engineering program, one of two woman’s colleges offering an engineering degree

      $3 million

Jacksonville, Florida

Community Hospice of Northeast Florida received a gift from Neviaser Charitable Foundation

     $2.5 million

East Lansing, Michigan

Michigan State University announced that billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have donated another major gift to the art Broad Museum yet to be built on campus. This brings their total giving to $28 million on the $40 million construction budget.

      $2 million

Atlanta,
Georgia

A gift from George A. Montgomery and his wife, Nancy to the University of Georgia, Richard B. Russell Library

      $2 million

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

GlaxoSmithKline made a gift to the University of North Carolina to convert the Morehead Planetarium & Science Center's Star Theater from analog to digital

     $1.5 million

Nanticoke, Pennsylvani

Luzerne County Community College named the new
Joseph A. Paglianite Culinary Institute for him, a local businessman

      $1 million

Honolulu, Hawai

A gift to the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific for research to stop breast cancer from spreading from Dr. Lawrence Tseu, a retired dentist, largest ever gift to the organization

     $720,000

Moab, Utah

An anonymous donor's gift to the Grand School District in southeast Utah

      $700,000

Pembroke, North Carolina

BB&T Distinguished Endowed Professorship in the Morality of Capitalism announced at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke; the second endowed chair supported by the company

      $500,000

Portland, Oregon

Concordia University received a pledge from Mr. & Mrs. Richard Paul Roe of Pasadena, CA and named the Richard Paul & Jane Roe Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre in appreciation of the gift

      $300,000

Amherst, Massachusetts

An estate gift from Nathalie Woodbury to the Jones Library, unrestricted

      $283,521

Kansas City, K

Anschutz Foundation grant to Spencer Museum of Art

      $200,000

Lansing, Michigan

A grant from the Hurst Foundation to the Jackson Community Foundation in support of the Legacy Program

      $200,000

Conway, Arkansas

University of Central Arkansas Foundation received a  gift from Paul and Mary Cantrell of Little Rock in support of the football program

      $100,000

Des Moines, Iowa

Highline Community College Foundation received a gift from Justine Richards to support emergency assistance to Highline students

      $60,000

Trenton, NJ

New Jersey’s Science & Technology University received a gift from Vincent Naimoli ’62, Chairman and CEO Anchor Industries Int’l; Chairman Emeritus/Founder, Tampa Bay Rays, for a new athletic facility to be named after him

     Private Gift

      International Gifts Received

Auckland,
New Zealand

An estate gift from Arthur Henry Harrison to Canterbury Museum

      $10 million

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto collector and former art dealer Ydessa Hendeles made a gift of 32 works of Canadian and international art to the Art Gallery of Ontario

      $5 million

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Runnymede Healthcare Centre received its largest gift ever from 90 year old supporter Gordon Gooder

      $1 million

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

A gift from entrepreneur Sreedhar Natarajan to Queensway Carleton Hospital to help fund expansion of the hospital surgical and outpatient areas

      $1 million

National in Canada

The PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Foundation Leadership Grants program for 2010 has $160,000 set aside for grants up to $2,500 each

    $160,000

Dallas, Texas

Sammons Dallas Foundation donates total of $100 million to Dallas nonprofits:

Baylor Health Care System…………………...$20 million

Methodist Health System…………………..…$20 million

Communities Foundation of Texas…………..$20 million

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas….$20 million

Salvation Army, Dallas…………………………$15 million

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas,
educational trust fund…………………………..$5 million

$100 million

26 cities in USA

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has promised $70 million to community foundations that serve the 26 cities where the Knight newspapers are found, a seven year program

$70 million

Marian, Ohio

Marian University will now develop Indiana's first college of osteopathic medicine thanks to the gift from an anonymous donor, largest in school history

$30 million

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Rajawali Foundation, the charitable arm of the PT Rajawali Corporation, made a gift to Harvard to create a new Institute for Asia and an Indonesian program within the Kennedy School’s Ash Center

$20.5 million

Kansas City, KS

The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City has pledged  to the University of Kansas Cancer Center and the Midwest Cancer Alliance for the cancer center to meet its goal of designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Ctr.

$18 million

Chicago, Illinois

The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation made a gift to the new Children’s Hospital to establish an emergency care center that will be named after the couple

$16 million

Athens, Ohio

Violet L. Patton who graduated in 1938 from Ohio University announced her gift for a new arts education center at the university

$13.3 million

Columbia, South Carolina

Solomon Jackson, Jr., winner of the Powerball Lottery, made a gift to his alma mater, Morris College, from his winnings

$10 million

New Haven, Connecticut

Lei Zhang, a 2002 grad of Yale School of Management and founder of the largest investment fund in China, made this gift for the school’s new campus

$8,888,888

Cortland,
New York

SUNY Cortland alumnus John Fantauzzi '58, now living in Cape Coral, Florida, will bequest this gift to the university a scholarship he set up in 1990

$5.18 million

Los Angeles, California

Television celebrity Bob Barker announced a gift to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named its new 1,200-ton anti-whaling ship The Bob Barker

$5 million

Tulsa, Okalahoma

University of Tulsa College of Law received a gift  the Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish an endowed chair

$5 million

Provo, Utah

James Lee Sorenson Leadership Pavilion named for a gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation including James Lee Sorenson a1975 grad, at Univ. Utah

$4.3 million

Amherst, Massachusetts

National Yiddish Book Center received an unexpected estate gift from comedy writer Mickey Ross

$3 million

Cedar City, Utah

The George S. and Dolores Doré  Eccles Foundation made a gift to Southern Utah University for the construction of a building on campus for the Utah Shakespearean Festival

$3 million

Clemson, Alabama

The Cliffs Communities gift to Clemson includes the financial pledge plus all rights to the Zest Quest program and name to Clemson University

$3 million

Archbold, Ohio

Northwest State Community College has received an estate gift from Francis O. Fackler of Napoleon, Ohio

$2.9 million

Munci, Indiana

Ball Memorial Hospital gets John Fisher’s estate gift, served on the hospital board for 55 years

$2 million

Davis, California

Margaret Mondavi's donation to  UC Davis Art Museum helped to launch the campaign

$2 million

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute received a 3 year grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation

$1.8 million

Little Rock, Arkansas

Dillard's, Inc. announced a gift from the sale of its Southern Living Christmas Cookbook to to Ronald McDonald House Charities

$1.4 million

Hollywood, California

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donate to Haiti victims of the recent earthquake

$1 million

Boston, Massachusetts

Brandeis University received a three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for experimental research into  active matter

$1 million

Boulder, Colorado

Amgen’s gift to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the new Caruthers Biotechnology Building

$1 million

Rosemead, California

Southern California Edison has launched a Green Jobs Education Initiative to fund “green” education and job training at 10 California community colleges

$1 million

Princeton, New Jersey

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, a hospital volunteer on campus, made her donation to the new University Medical Center at Princeton for the Infusion Suite in the Center for Cancer Care

$1 million

Indianapolis, Indiana

Lily Foundation announced a grant to St. John's youth ministry program

$875,000

Orlando, Florida

Orlando Magic Youth Fund, a fund of the McCormick Foundation, announced grant to 23 organizations from three counties in Central Florida

$700,000

New York, NY

GE Foundation made a grant to AmeriCares

This is part of GE’s Developing Health program,  3 year, $25 million commitment that provides grant funding and employee engagement to selected healthcare centers across the USA

$650,000

Ann Arbor, Michigan

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Michigan Musical Society

$600,000

Leesburg, Virginia

Thomas Balch Library of History and Genealogy in Leesburg received a bequest from the estate of Virginia L. Bowie

$250,000

North Adams, Massaschusetts

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation of Falmouth, Maine for a campus wide assessment

$225,000

Chicago, Illinois

Advocate Condell Medical Center received a gift from  Joe Nemmers Sr. of Libetyville, a grateful patient

$100,000

Portland, Oregon

Bienestar, a local non-profit housing provider, received a  grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation

$25,000

Yawkey, Massachusetts

The Hannaford Charitable Foundation made a grant to Special Olympics Massachusetts

$25,000

International

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

BMO Financial Group made a gift to Queen’s University for the expansion of the School of Business

$2 million

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Stanford computer science professor, David Cheriton, a mentor for the founders of Google, made a gift to the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia

$2 million

Essex, England

Essex lifeboat station celebrated after it was revealed an anonymous benefactor estate gift

£1 million
( approx. $1.6 million US)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William Penn Foundation received $747 million from the Haas charitable trusts

$767,000,000

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of Ohio nonprofits including:

Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $1,000,000 +
for the education initiative

Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $750,000
to help implement its transformation plan

Starting Point - $450,000

Youth Opportunities Unlimited - $300,000

Cuyahoga County Family and Children First Council - $270,000

$15,000,000

Baltimore, Maryland

A grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to four East Baltimore public schools in support of a redevelopment project the schools will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families under a four-year grant program

$12,000,000

Pasadena, California

OneWest Bank, FSB establishes new corporate  foundation with this gift

$10,000,000

East River Area of New York

The Alphawood Foundation of Chicago grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park

$10,000,000

Palo Alto, California

The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation awarded research grants to four groups working to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and design new strategies to boost the efficiency of treatment development

Ronald A. DePinho and Lynda Chin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

John H. Sampson and Joseph R. Nevins, Duke University

Sanjiv Gambhir and Andrei Iagaru, Stanford University

Michael Prados, University of California, San Francisco

$9,800,000

Madison, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support studies to identify virus mutations that may serve as early warnings or pandemic influenza viruses

$9,500,000

Reston, Virginia

ASNE received a grant over five years from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to sustain the country's premier training opportunity for high school journalism advisers from 2010 through 2014

$4,646,100

Santa Paula, California

Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from the
Dan Murphy Foundation lead gift to the college’s new capital campaign

$2,000,000

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Tufts Health Plan Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in the state of Massachusetts including:

Cambridge Community Foundation and Cambridge’s East End House – combined grant of $35,000

East End House - $25,000

Cambridge Community Foundation - $10,000

$2,000,000

Indianapolis, Indiana

A cash gift to Community Health Network Foundation from John W. "Jack" Heiney, a retired president and CEO of Indiana Gas Co. that later merged to become Vectren Corp.

$1,000,000

Uniontown, Pennsylvania

An estate gift from retired coal miner Joseph Raymond to Uniontown Church who was 90 years old when he died earlier this year

$1,000,000

Mankato, Minnesota

Al Annexstad’s gift to the St. Peter School District that he grew up in, a legacy gift

$500,000

Newark,
New Jersey

The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey grants to eight New Jersey nonprofits to support health services and arts programs for local communities.

New Jersey YMCA State Alliance in Trenton - $143,000

New Jersey Network Foundation in Trenton - $75,000

American Heart Association in Robbinsville - $50,000

Children's Futures in Trenton - $50,000

HiTOPS in Princeton - $25,000

Prevention Education in Lawrence - $15,000

Women's Heart Foundation in West Trenton - $15,000

The Arts Council of Princeton - $7,500

Thirty-eight charitable organizations received $936,500 during this fourth round of grant giving in 2009; the Horizon Foundation has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to 96 organizations in 2009.

$380,500

Detroit, Michigan

DTE Energy employees and the DTE Energy Foundation raised more than $300,000 to help the hungry during their annual holiday fund-raising drive.

DTE Energy employees gave $100,000 during the six-week drive and the Foundation, which for many years has matched employee gifts dollar-for-dollar, today announced it would double its match for an additional $200,000.

51 recipient nonprofit organizations included:

Salvation Army, multiple locations - $56,321

Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit - $36,074

Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit - $32,651

Gleaners Community Food Bank, multiple locations, - $27,738

 St. Martin Lutheran Church, Port Huron - $11,120

Forgotten Harvest, Inc., Oak Park - $10,070

Macomb Food Program, Clinton Township - $5,570

Mel Trotter Ministries, Grand Rapids - $3,545

Family Counseling and Shelter Services of Monroe County, Monroe - $2,945

$300,000

Charlotte, North Carolina

United Family Services received a check from the Leon Levine Foundation to help expand a women’s shelter

$250,000

Athens, Georgia

Athens Community Foundation $150,000 in grants to 28 local nonprofit organizations

$150,000

Dover, Delaware

Delaware Does More, a nonprofit run by the United Way of Delaware and the Food Bank of Delaware received a corporate donation from AstraZeneca

$50,000 allocated to the United Way of Delaware and $50,000 to the Food Bank of Delaware

$100,000

Sunman, Indiana

Sunman Rural Fire Department received a grant from the Dearborn Community Foundation for a new mobile air compressor

$90,651

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

CSL Behring, a global leader in the plasma-protein biotherapies industry and a subsidiary of CSL Limited  awarded four advocacy grants to patient organizations in the USA through the Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development

$87,000

Youngstown, Ohio

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. received a donation from JP Morgan Chase to help fund two projects for homeownership and the reuse of vacant land

$60,000

Topeka, Kansas

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation awarded six area school nurses grants

$53,000

Bakersfield, California

Ag Against Hunger has received a total of $34,590 in grants for equipment and operations from a group of donors:

Community Foundation for Monterey County - $10,000 Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County - $10,000

Grower-Shipper Foundation - $5,000

Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shop - $2,000
Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation - $1,800
Logan Family Foundation - $400

Heal Family Charitable Trust - $2,890

Tom & Mary Gallagher Foundation - $2,000

Miller Family Trust - $500

$34,590

San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Foundation awarded a grant to Conard House, a one year grant, to continue implementation of a five-year strategic mental health education initiative

$30,000

Dedham, Massachusetts

Needham Bank sponsors new scoreboard at Dedham High School

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Paris, France

Constellation Energy Group announced a contribution by Electricite de France to the company's foundation

The Constellation Energy Group Foundation supports programs and makes grants to nonprofit organizations in four focus areas: energy, education, economic growth and the environment.

$36,000,000

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2 million in grants to researchers:

Jeffrey Hausdorff, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel

Simon Lewis, MD, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Wayne Martin, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

$2,000,000

Paris, France

The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation has set up an endowment fund after receiving a donation from an anonymous donor

$500,000

Hampshire, England

Hampshire Autistic Society got a corporate gift from the Gannett Foundation

£3,300