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$461 million into public education system from MacKenzie Scott puts her giving over $26 billion
$12 million to college fund caps three decades of giving for Jamie and Judy Dimon, whose foundation has distributed nearly $290 million
$34.5 million new gift commitment to launch nurse practitioner, physician assistant programs from James C (Jim) Walton and family
$400 million—and hundreds of millions more on the way: Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman commit to a landmark brain institute inspired by their daughter’s recovery
$25 million gift from Jim and Lauren Whitehurst expands support for first-generation, limited-income undergraduate students
$3.3 billion: how Peter Thiel’s unconventional philanthropy turned a college dropout into a billionaire at 25
$25 million from Robert and Janice McNair helps lift university to a record $357.6 million year of giving
$32.2 million gift from David Vélez and wife Mariel Reyes Milk to rebuild schools after deadly earthquake
$101 million gift from philanthropists Mark and Robyn Jones brings classrooms, study areas, offices and clinical simulation learning under one roof, giving nursing students a place designed around the realities of their training and the responsibilities waiting for them after graduation
$64.5 million gift: Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo leads earthquake relief effort
$125 million new gift from Steve and Connie Ballmer to university: couple’s lifetime giving now totals well over $1 billion
$75 million new gift from Lifestyles Magazine/Meaningful Influence Board member Ronald S. Lauder aims to encourage next‑generation philanthropists
$500 million for cancer research: V Foundation and Susanna Greer and team honor Jim Valvano’s “Don’t Ever Give Up” legacy
$15 million gift to Red Cross: how Teresa and Byron Pollitt are giving the nation’s blood supply a lifeline
$10.5 million in new SCI research grants announced by Ray Neilsen
$40 million latest gesture by inventor and investor Herbert Wertheim raises his philanthropic giving towards the middle nine figures
$20 million donation from Susan Sturm opens new wing Museum of Nature & Science
$200 million gift from philanthropists Mark and Mary Stevens launches a university wide artificial intelligence initiative that will touch everything from cancer research to cinematic arts
$28 million gift from Dick and Cornelia Corbett built Tampa’s Egypt moment
$400 million he didn’t need: Eddie Smith Jr.’s fortune now belongs to everyone
$100 million new effort headed by Anna Adeola Makanju will fund partnership aimed at closing the stubborn gap between medical discovery and actual care
$250 million in philanthropic giving: Larry Gies still calls his own rise improbable—pouring resources into the people and places that made him who he is and letting everything else follow
$401 million gift to university from Greg and Dawn Williams is a game changer for school athletics
$33 million in gifts to his school by Stephen Schanwald will build a state-of-the-art golf performance center and pump new life into business school program
$25 million to rewrite rare disease medicine: Michael Hund’s unique blueprint behind Rare Ventures