ISSUE 235

Fall 2011

Giving Green

IN THIS ISSUE

$300 million gift from June and Fred Kummer to Missouri S&T yielding big results
$50 million to Weizmann Institute from the Azrieli family
$50 million gift to NYU Stern from William R. Berkley and his wife Marjorie
$129 million new gift from Christy and Daryl Burton
$130 million gift from the Rogers family
$101 million gift from Mark & Robyn Jones to train nurses
$200 million gift to the Smithsonian from Bezos sparks imaginative design competition
$100-million gift to the University of Toronto from Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman
$60 million new gift from James S. and Merryl H. Tisch to Mount Sinai Health
$50 million scholarship gift in NYU Stern’s history from William R. Berkley and his wife Marjorie
$70 million new gift to University of Iowa from Jacobson Family Foundation
$175 million gift from Ronnie Chan to UMass Medical School
$50 million to Dana-Farber Hale Family to Accelerate Pancreatic Cancer Research and Care with One of the Largest Single Gifts Ever to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
$166 million gift to NYU Langone Health from the Bezos family
$21 million gift to UMBC from the Shermans
$250 million gift to U of T by James and Louise Temerty
$20 million gift to the ACLU from Joan and Irwin Jacobs
$200 million gift to University of Oxford by Nguyen Phương Thảo
$50 million from Bill Miller to Santa Fe Institute
$25 million from Francis and Dionne Najafi