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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 |
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Montgomery, Maryland |
Montgomery College Foundation raised $25 million in its just completed campaign, a record for Maryland community colleges |
$25 million |
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Bowling Green, Kentucky |
Western Kentucky University had a record-breaking six months over the last half of 2009 taking in cash gifts |
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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 + |
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GIFTS Received |
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Trenton, |
The Lawrenceville School received a bequest from Henry C. Woods Jr., who had been a teacher at the school |
$60 million |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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University of Pennsylvania received a gift from George Weiss, a Penn alum and trustee, designated for faculty support |
$20 million |
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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 |
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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 |
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Athens, Ohio |
Ohio University named the Violet L. Patton Center for Arts Education in appreciation for her gift |
$13 million |
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Charlotte, |
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 |
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Queen’s University received a gift from to create a College of Health |
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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 |
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Indianapolis, |
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 |
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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 |
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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; |
$5 million |
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Eau Clair, Wisconsin |
Mayo Clinic and Luther Midelfort Hospital announced a gift from Albert and Judith Dunlap of Ocala, Florida |
$5 million |
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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 |
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Claremont, California |
Two gifts from Joan Lincoln and her husband, David, one |
$3.5 million + |
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Rochester, |
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 + |
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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 |
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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 |
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Jacksonville, Florida |
Community Hospice of Northeast Florida received a gift from Neviaser Charitable Foundation |
$2.5 million |
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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 |
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Atlanta, |
A gift from George A. Montgomery and his wife, Nancy to the University of Georgia, Richard B. Russell Library |
$2 million |
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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 |
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Nanticoke, Pennsylvani |
Luzerne County Community College named the new |
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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
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Moab, Utah |
An anonymous donor's gift to the Grand School District in southeast Utah |
$700,000 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Amherst, Massachusetts |
An estate gift from Nathalie Woodbury to the Jones Library, unrestricted |
$283,521 |
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Anschutz Foundation grant to Spencer Museum of Art |
$200,000 |
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A grant from the Hurst Foundation to the Jackson Community Foundation in support of the Legacy Program |
$200,000 |
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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 |
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Des Moines, Iowa |
Highline Community College Foundation received a gift from Justine Richards to support emergency assistance to Highline students |
$60,000 |
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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 |
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International Gifts Received |
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Auckland, |
An estate gift from Arthur Henry Harrison to Canterbury Museum |
$10 million |
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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 |
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Runnymede Healthcare Centre received its largest gift ever from 90 year old supporter Gordon Gooder |
$1 million |
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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
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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 |
Contributing researcher, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-438-8064. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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Dallas, Texas |
Sammons Dallas Foundation donates total of $100 million to Dallas nonprofits: Communities Foundation of Texas…………..$20 million Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, |
$100 million |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Cortland, |
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 |
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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 |
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Tulsa, Okalahoma |
University of Tulsa College of Law received a gift the Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish an endowed chair |
$5 million |
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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 |
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Amherst, Massachusetts |
National Yiddish Book Center received an unexpected estate gift from comedy writer Mickey Ross |
$3 million |
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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 |
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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 |
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Archbold, Ohio |
Northwest State Community College has received an estate gift from Francis O. Fackler of Napoleon, Ohio |
$2.9 million |
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Munci, Indiana |
Ball Memorial Hospital gets John Fisher’s estate gift, served on the hospital board for 55 years |
$2 million |
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Davis, California |
Margaret Mondavi's donation to UC Davis Art Museum helped to launch the campaign |
$2 million |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute received a 3 year grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation |
$1.8 million |
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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 |
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Hollywood, California |
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donate to Haiti victims of the recent earthquake |
$1 million |
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Boston, Massachusetts |
Brandeis University received a three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for experimental research into active matter |
$1 million |
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Boulder, Colorado |
Amgen’s gift to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the new Caruthers Biotechnology Building |
$1 million |
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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 |
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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 |
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Indianapolis, Indiana |
Lily Foundation announced a grant to St. John's youth ministry program |
$875,000 |
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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 |
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New York, NY |
GE Foundation made a grant to AmeriCares |
$650,000 |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan |
A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Michigan Musical Society |
$600,000 |
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Leesburg, Virginia |
Thomas Balch Library of History and Genealogy in Leesburg received a bequest from the estate of Virginia L. Bowie |
$250,000 |
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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 |
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Chicago, Illinois |
Advocate Condell Medical Center received a gift from Joe Nemmers Sr. of Libetyville, a grateful patient |
$100,000 |
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Portland, Oregon |
Bienestar, a local non-profit housing provider, received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation |
$25,000 |
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Yawkey, Massachusetts |
The Hannaford Charitable Foundation made a grant to Special Olympics Massachusetts |
$25,000 |
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International |
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Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
BMO Financial Group made a gift to Queen’s University for the expansion of the School of Business |
$2 million |
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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 |
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Essex, England |
Essex lifeboat station celebrated after it was revealed an anonymous benefactor estate gift |
£1 million |
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
William Penn Foundation received $747 million from the Haas charitable trusts |
$767,000,000 |
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Cleveland, Ohio |
Cleveland Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of Ohio nonprofits including:
Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $750,000
Starting Point - $450,000 |
$15,000,000 |
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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 |
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Pasadena, California |
OneWest Bank, FSB establishes new corporate foundation with this gift |
$10,000,000 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Santa Paula, California |
Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from the |
$2,000,000 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Tufts Health Plan Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in the state of Massachusetts including: East End House - $25,000 Cambridge Community Foundation - $10,000 |
$2,000,000 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Mankato, Minnesota |
Al Annexstad’s gift to the St. Peter School District that he grew up in, a legacy gift |
$500,000 |
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Newark, |
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 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 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 |
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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. 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 |
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Charlotte, North Carolina |
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$250,000 |
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Athens, Georgia |
Athens Community Foundation $150,000 in grants to 28 local nonprofit organizations |
$150,000 |
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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 |
$100,000 |
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Sunman, Indiana |
Sunman Rural Fire Department received a grant from the Dearborn Community Foundation for a new mobile air compressor |
$90,651 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Topeka, Kansas |
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation awarded six area school nurses grants |
$53,000 |
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Bakersfield, California |
Ag Against Hunger has received a total of $34,590 in grants for equipment and operations from a group of donors: Grower-Shipper Foundation - $5,000 Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shop - $2,000 Heal Family Charitable Trust - $2,890 Tom & Mary Gallagher Foundation - $2,000 Miller Family Trust - $500 |
$34,590 |
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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 |
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Dedham, Massachusetts |
Needham Bank sponsors new scoreboard at Dedham High School |
Corporate Sponsor |
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International |
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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 |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2 million in grants to researchers: 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 |
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Paris, France |
The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation has set up an endowment fund after receiving a donation from an anonymous donor |
$500,000 |
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Hampshire, England |
Hampshire Autistic Society got a corporate gift from the Gannett Foundation |
£3,300 |
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Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
2009 wrapped up in fine fashion as a number of foundations chose to make year end announcements on grants and awards.
The second largest announcement of the year came from the Haas Trust as it bestowed $767 million to the William Penn Charitable Trust in Philadelphia. Only the billion dollar plus gift of Berkshire Hathaway funds to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation back in the summer topped this.
Other foundations joined in as well.
The Cleveland Foundation has chose to support the Cleveland School District with two large grants through their $15 million in awards to local charities.
Atlantic Philanthropies stepped up and made $12 million in grants to four East Baltimore Schools that are part of a redevelopment project in these schools where they will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families.
The grants extend over a four year period. Out of the Midwest the Alphawood Foundation of Chicago made a $10 million grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park.
In California the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation sent out grants totaling $9.8 million for research grants to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and to come up with new strategies to help patients suffering from this condition. Four separate researchers in the USA received those grants.
The personal gift announcements were down during the last week but overall the month of December was ahead of 2008 year over year. Last year major gift announcements totaled approximately $325 million while this year the final tally was in excess of $1.5 billion.
A new corporate foundation was also announced last week as OneWest Bank, FSB in California, set aside $10 million to establish the fund. As we head into 2010 it appears as though the shape of philanthropy has changed. Foundations and wealthy individuals are more willing to make the big gift.
But they also have higher expectations of accountability and want to stay involved. The shift in giving comes with an enhanced sense of wanting to share in the long term success of the grant recipient. A trend we can count on for years to come. Best wishes for a productive year in 2010.
Good health to you.
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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Oakland, California |
20 private foundations help support state census process in the state of California |
$9,000,000 |
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Santa Paula, California |
Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from Dan Murphy Foundation in honor of the college’s late president and is a led gift in the new capital campaign |
$2,000,000 |
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Flint, Michigan |
An estate gift from of Earl Riopelle and his wife Lanice is one of the largest ever received Kettering University |
$1,200,000 |
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Manoa, Hawaii |
The University of Hawaii Mānoa’s School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene received this gift from four of Hawaii’s healthcare companies: Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i $50,000; and the Queen’s Medical Center $250,000 |
$1,050,000 |
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Macon County, Georgia |
The Community Foundation of Decatur/Macon County announced $1 million from the Charles D. and Patricia A. Perkinson Endowment Fund The $1 million gift qualifies for a matching gift of $1 million from the Grand Victoria Foundation in Chicago |
$1,000,000 |
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Watertown, Massachusetts |
St. James Armenian Church naming ceremony for the St. James’ Charles Mosesian Cultural and Youth Center in appreciation of the gift from Charles Mosesian a long time parishioner |
$1,000,000 |
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Bloomington, Indiana |
The Lilly Endowment made a grant to The Nature Conservancy in Indiana for its headquarters building |
$1,000,000 |
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Tahlequah, Oklahoma |
A gift from Gregg Wadley and his wife, Dr. Betsy Brackett to Northeastern State University, School of Education, will be used for a clinic to help students overcome reading deficiencies. This is the largest gift in the university’s history |
$1,000,000 |
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Manhattan, Kansas |
The Keatings, a local couple in Manhattan, donated this gift and named The Good Shepherd Hospice, a 12 bed facility |
$500,000 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County, got this gift from Lockheed Martin just about the time that Revolutionary War re-enactment volunteers were crossing the Delaware River |
$400,000 |
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Portland, Oregon |
Pacific University’s College of Arts and Sciences has been admitted to the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust’s College Science Research Program which means that it will receive a grant spread over a three-years |
$325,000 |
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Detroit, Michigan |
DTE Employees raise money for needy, see list below: 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 |
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Charlotte, North Carolina |
Leon Levine Foundation to double its pledge to United Family Services to expand the women’s shelter |
$250,000 |
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Washington, D.C. |
A grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to The Huffington Post Investigative Fund The Knight Foundation joins the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Markle Foundation as key supporters |
$200,000 |
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Cincinnati, Ohio |
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra received a $150,000 challenge grant from the Fifth Third Bank and Narley L. Haley, Trustees of the B.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation just one week after it received the mega gift of $75 million from Louise Nippert |
$150,000 |
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New Haven, Connecticut |
The Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut received a grant from The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven to fund the research, development and implementation of a certified nurse’s aide training program |
$135,000 |
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Tri-Cities, Washington |
The Arc (American Red Cross ) of Tri-Cities on Tuesday announced a donation from Washington River Protection Solutions toward its new building |
$100,000 |
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Fremont, Ohio |
Employee owned Meyer Company donated this gift to Terra Community College |
$50,000 |
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Chelsea, Michigan |
The Purple Rose Theatre Company got a grant from the Chelsea Community Foundation |
$17,000 |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
CIGNA has signed on as the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra's Free concert for 20th year. The free concert honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 18, 2010 |
Corporate Sponsor |
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International |
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Jerusalem, Israel |
The Israel Museum announced a gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations that capped off the $100 million campaign for its 20 acre campus |
$12 million |
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
A modest group of major gift announcements preceded the Christmas break. What the group lacked in dollar volume was balanced out by the range of the recipient organizations.
It is interesting to note the number of grants that from the Community Foundations to local nonprofits.
Six gifts ranging between $1 million and $1.5 million suggest that individual donors is on par with previous weekly gift announcements.
The international scene took top honors with the $12 million announcement from the Israel Museum. A gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations helped to cap off the $100 million campaign for the museum’s 20 acre campus.
As we head towards 2010 one of the trends worth following is the number of international campaigns at the $100 million mark and above. At last count I have identified 12 of them.
Cause and effect of this suggests that more American fundraisers may start looking overseas for new job opportunities.
Major gifts listed here come from individuals, private foundations and corporate philanthropy. The 2009 Major Gifts Archive began publication in May of this year and is sponsored by DonorSearch.net.
To view previous week by week reports & my editorials click through to the web site listed above.
Happy New Year!
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
Major Gifts in the USA - $171.8 million
Week of December 14 to 18, 2009
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Cincinnati, Ohio |
Ohio arts patron Louise Nippert has donated $75 million to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and another $10 million to the city’s opera and ballet companies and other classical-music entities This is considered to be one of the largest gifts ever to an American symphony |
$75,000,000 + |
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St. Louis, Missouri |
The John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics was established this past week with this gift from the Danforth Foundation to the University of Washington in St. Louis |
$30 million |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan |
A gift from the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation to the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital |
$15 million |
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Encinitas, California |
A gift from the Leichtag Family Foundation to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas |
$10 million |
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Austin, Texas |
The St. David's Foundation awarded 30 grants, to local nonprofit organizations that provide health care services |
$7.2 million |
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Peoria, Illinois |
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center to name the Rita Northrup pediatric floor when the Milestone campaign is completed. Donation made by Northrup's son-in-law and daughter, Don and Barbara Western of Peoria |
$5 million |
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Charlotte, North Carolina |
Every male African American student who graduates from West Charlotte High School will receive a $1,000 college scholarship, thanks to a gift announced Wednesday by C.D. Spangler Jr. |
$4 million |
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Boston, Massachusetts |
Challenge grant to Boston College from anonymous donor |
$3 million |
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Hudson Valley, New York |
Hudson High School gets a grant for a new football stadium from the Joy and Tom Murdough Foundation |
$2 million |
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Estate gift from Vivian Ann Hotuiz of Tulsa, Oklahoma to the University of Marquette, School of Nursing, the sole beneficiary in her will |
$1.8 million |
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Raleigh, North Carolina |
Estate gift from Gordon and Louise Smith will provide funding for both undergraduate and graduate students at North Carolina State University, School of Engineering |
$1.5 million |
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Modesto, California |
E.&J. Gallo Winery has pledged the $1 million gift and John and June Rogers pledged their gift, both to the Gallon Center for the Arts |
$1,000,000 + |
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Bismark, North Dakota |
North Dakota’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives have combined to donate to the expansion of the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck. In honor of their gift, a new gallery featuring traveling exhibits will be named the Touchstone Energy Cooperative Governors Gallery |
$1,300,000.00 |
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Waterbury, Connecticut |
An anonymous donor made this gift to the Waterbury Symphony |
$1 million |
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New York, NY |
Alec Baldwin Drama Scholarship Fund set up with gift from the actor to the Tisch School for the Arts |
$1 million |
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Baltimore, Maryland |
Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker gift to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s music education and life-enrichment program, OrchKids |
$1 million |
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Seattle, Washington |
A grant from Boeing to the Museum of History & Industry |
$500,000.00 |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
The Hill House Association just received a corporate gift from EQT Corporation, the largest gift in the just completed $10 million campaign |
$500,000.00 |
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Austin, Texas |
A corporate gift to the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Operation Uplink from Sport Clips, the largest single donation made to the organization |
$250,000.00 |
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Fort Collins, Colorado |
Fort Collins Museum and the Discovery Science Center received a gift from a local couple, John and Nina Bodenhamer towards the joint campaign underway from both nonprofits |
$100,000.00 |
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Bakersfield, California |
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County, received a gift from Chevron to support CASA, the organization represents children headed for foster care or group homes, and attempts to get them placed in permanent homes, the largest gift ever received |
$100,000.00 |
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EnCana Corporation has given Bossier Parish Community College a donation to jump start a new degree and certificate program in oil and gas technology |
$100,000.00 |
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Tempe, Arizona |
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust commitment to Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation to continue its support for a second year |
Private Grant |
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International |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
CIBC proud to announce $3.5 million raised for children's charities |
$3,500,000.00 |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Toronto actor, Paul Gross, gives his $25,000 award to Remix Project for youth |
$25,000.00 |
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada |
Jean Pare, founder and author of Company's Coming Cookbooks, recently donated her private collection of more than 6,000 cookbooks to the University of Guelph Library’s culinary archives |
In-Kind Gift |
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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The CASE V conference held annually in Chicago is one of the highlights of the year for me. It brings together development and communications staff from higher education across the mid-west. The volunteer staff did an outstanding job once again of coordinating a splendid array of educational sessions and get together opportunities.
It was the awards table that caught my eye. As I strolled slowly by, pausing to read a headline, view a unique page design or some other attribute of the award winning hard copy, it occurred to me just how much the communications department is so vital to the success of a campaign.
Once a campaign is launched it is the development staff that take center stage. Celebrations take place to announce the launch of the public phase of the campaign, acknowledge the leadership gifts already received and to gather some emotional momentum towards the development efforts yet to come.
Think about the recent campaigns you have heard about. Think about how many times you have heard the news that they had a number of first time donors who made a gift of $1 million.
When we stop and think about that for a moment it really is quite remarkable.
People who have never made a gift before stepping up and making a gift / pledge of $1 million. We saw this at the University of Arkansas, University of Michigan, Stanford, University of Miami and many others across the USA. The billion dollar campaigns, of which there are many, over 40 currently underway according to some sources, now count on these newbie big gift donors to help them reach their goals.
In fact that trend has spread internationally to Canada where the University of Toronto, University of Alberta and McGill have each reported $1 million first time donors.
But where do all these people come from? What makes them want to give so generously, especially the first time they have ever made a gift to the nonprofit organization? Development staff are the ones who take center stage and get the lions share of recognition for campaign success but is that the whole picture.
I don't think so.
It is something you may have heard me mention before, in-direct stewardship. Think of all those press releases and communication bulletins published by in the weeks, months and years leading up to a campaign. The messages are about accountability, responsible actions, showing the donor community that the nonprofit is doing what they said they were going to do with the money they received.
Getting the word out to community in advance of the campaign is the ongoing and often under-appreciated work of the communications staff. I suggest to you that their work represents in-direct stewardship, perhaps one of the most valuable assets of your nonprofit organization. They blaze the path and tell the story of the mission and vision in advance of the development staff. You could say they help pay-it forward to the donor community.
So as you celebrate the gifts received this past year and ready yourselves for 2010, take a moment a acknowledge your communications team.
Seasons Greetings
Next entry comes in January 2010
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
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San Jose, CA |
Lorry Lokey’s gift to Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Lokey is on the board of trustees for Santa Clara University, Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, the University of Oregon Foundation, the Leo Baeck School in Haifa, Israel and Mills College in Oakland. He is also a member of the board of governors of the Peninsula Jewish Community Center and the San Francisco Opera Association |
$110 million |
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Chicago, IL |
Loyola University Chicago historic gift from John Cuneo, Jr., his wife, Herta, and the Cuneo Foundation |
$50 million |
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Encinatas, CA |
A gfit from the Leichtag Family Foundation in honor of Lee and Toni Leichtag to Scripps Memorial Hospital |
$10 million |
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Indianapolis, IN |
Indianapolis Parks Foundation received a grant from the Lily Endowment, the largest grant the foundation has ever received |
$7.3 million |
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Tucson, AZ |
University of Arizona's Eller College of Management gift from three foundations
The Emerald Foundation has established the Frances McClelland Chair in Accounting, the Tyler family has established the Tyler Family Endowed Chair in Finance and the Cottrell Foundation has established the Munsinger Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
$4.5 million |
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Los Angeles, CA |
Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced its 2009 grants to California nonprofits was over $4 million |
$4.3 million |
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Fort Wayne, IN |
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri will split equally an estate gift from Thelma O. Pietsch of Texas, for student aid |
$2.48 million |
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Fort Wayne, IN |
Community Partnerships Inc. grant to Ivy Tech Community College to support the Advanced Manufacturing program |
$2.2 million |
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Bloomington, IN |
Indiana Historical Society gift from Lilly Endowment to support its current campaign |
$2 million |
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Kingston, NY |
Raymond A. Rich, who owned the Payne Mansion, a 60-acre riverfront estate in Esopus also known as Omega and Wiltwick, has left and estate gift to the Benedictine Health Foundation; |
$1.2 million |
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Minneapolis, MN |
Target gift to of more than $1.25 million in cash and in-kind gifts to the Salvation Army annual holiday fundraising |
$1.25 million |
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Jupiter, FL |
Gift from nursing home developer Elizabeth Fago to Scripps Institute for their campaign |
$1 million |
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Saint Peter, MN |
Gustavus Adolphus College announced a commitment from the Greater Gustavus Fund |
$1 million |
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Baltimore, MD |
Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker gift to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, OrchKids program |
$1 million |
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Dallas, TX |
The ACE Community Fund and the company’s customers gift to the March of Dimes |
$685,125 |
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Fort Collins, CO |
Winter grants from the Bohemian Foundation's Pharos Fund will provide funds for 37 Fort Collins area nonprofits |
$546,177 |
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Tucson, AZ |
University of Arizona’s 'Living with Hearing Loss' Program received two pledges of $25,000 per year for 10 years each
Donors were James S. & Dyan Pignatelli and the UniSource Corp. |
$500,000 |
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Hershey, PA |
Eleven Pennsylvania Public Schools share a grant from Verizon Foundation |
$150,000 |
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San Diego, CA |
The Escondido Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation, awarded $61,000 to four nonprofits for their work in the areas of math and science education.
Recipients included: Bernardo Elementary School, Escondido Union High School District, Escondido Education Foundation and Grace Lutheran Church and School |
$61,000 |
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Fort Morgan, CO |
The Dahms-Talton Foundation grant to the Morgan Community College Foundation to support the Glenn Miller Music Project |
$10,000 |
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Bangor, ME |
Machias Savings Bank gift to the University of Maine Art Museum |
$7,500 |
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Baltimore, MD |
Univ Maryland named the Turtle Smith Baseball Stadium for 7 figure gift from Bob “Turtle” Smith and his wife Carol |
Private Gift |
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International |
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
David Cynamon and Howard Sokolowski gave notice that their families have made a joint to the Jewish Community Center, in honor of the gift the Cynamon/Sokolowski Sports Complex was named |
$5 million |
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Wairarapa District , New Zealand |
Margaret Heaney has made good on her promise to gift the Wairarapa District Health Board a new ambulance after sharing a $36.9 million lottery ticket |
$1 million |
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What an amazing week of philanthropic announcements!
Over $228.5 million in gifts, grants and pledges to more than 250 nonprofit organizations.
Along with Lorry Lokey’s $110 million gift to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, we heard of the $50 million + gift to Loyola University of Chicago from John Cuneo, Jr., his wife, Herta, and the Cuneo Foundation.
In other major gift news the secret identity of a nonprofit benefactor was revealed in New York this week. David Gelbaum, a former hedge-fund manager who has made large donations anonymously, confirmed that over the past five years he has given a total of nearly $388-million.
Gelbaum’s gift went to three nonprofits, the ACLU that received $93.5 million, $246.8 million to the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund and $47.7 million to the Sierra Club Foundation.
However, the identity of the anonymous donor to women led universities and colleges remains a mystery. The gifts have become less frequent over the summer and fall of 2009. One reports puts the tally at over $74 million.
What isn’t a mystery is the timing of more than $250 million of grants and pledges made this last week across the USA.
As we move towards year end the money and the announcements of the act of giving are combining to create a positive theme, helping to define a path towards better things to come in 2010.
Major gifts listed here come from individuals, private foundations and corporate philanthropy. The 2009 Major Gifts Archive began publication in May of this year and is sponsored by DonorSearch.net.
To view the week by week reports & my editorials click through and read on. Enjoy and you are most welcome.
Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.