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July 2007

$600 million worth of stock from Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. and his wife, Karen, to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. In the future, the Huntsmans plan to give away at least $1 billion in stocks and real estate holdings. (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 6/29)
100.3 million in grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to 144 organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and across the globe to benefit the Foundation’s six primary areas of interest: education, population, global development, the environment, performing arts and philanthropy. (pnnonline.com, 6/29)
$100 million from the Lundin Group to support the Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative. (Canada.com, 7/7)
$75 million gift from the Schmidt Foundation to Boca Raton Community Hospital to construct the Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center on the campus of Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton. (bocaratonnews.com, 7/17)
$50 million pledge from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins to The Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University to increase the school’s physical space and attract distinguished faculty. (whsc.emory.edu, 7/9)
$20 million gift from Alan Ginsburg and the Ginsberg Family Foundation to Florida Hospital to supply its new cardiovascular institute with the latest medical equipment. (orlandosentinel.com, 7/14)
$20 million pledge from the Gordon Foundation to the MIT School of Engineering to launch a major program to prepare students for engineering leadership. (web.mit.edu, 7/20)
$15 million gift from real estate developer Michael Staenberg to the Jewish Community Center’s capital campaign to raise funds for renovation, construction and maintenance at the organization’s locations in Creve Coeur and Chesterfield. (St. Louis Business Journal, 7/2)
$12 million gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore to support the expansion of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. (PRNewswire-USNewswire, 7/2)
$10 million lead gift from Time Warner Inc. to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund for the Campaign to Build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center. (timewarner.com, 6/26)
$9.1 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett and Bill & Melinda Gates foundations to Pratham to support the organization’s Read India initiative, which is teaming with Indian state governments to make certain young children achieve basic mastery skills in math, reading and writing. (Ascribe Newswire, 7/5)
$7.7 million over the next three years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Public Library Association to fund advocacy training. (schoollibraryjournal.com, 7/11)
$7 million pledge from James W. “Bill” Heavener to the University of Florida Athletic Association to name the new Florida football complex. (gatorzone.com, 7/10)
$6.6 million from Don Beall through The Beall Family Foundation to UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business to fund an endowment. (The Orange County Register, 7/7)
Almost $6.6 million of grants from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City to 55 area organizations that serve the uninsured and underserved. (Kansas City Business Journal, 7/19)
$6 million pledge from the Rasmuson Foundation to Anchorage to rebuild the city’s soccer fields. (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, 7/11)
$6 million worth of software from Microsoft Corp. to Junior Achievement Worldwide to provide administrative software for the organization’s offices and to offer online certification courses for computer skills free to middle and high school students who participate in the organization’s programs. (The Huntsville Times, 6/26)
$5.5 million gift from the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation to fund the new Harold Schnitzer Diabetes Health Center at Oregon Health & Science University. (Portland Business Journal, 7/10)
$5.5 million gift from the Paul Milstein family to Rockefeller University to create the Milstein Medical Research Program. (spiritindia.com, 7/24)
$5 million gift from Janet Knowles and her husband, Harry, to Cooper University Hospital in Camden to create the Cooper Cancer Institute and fund the Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center in the new institute. (blog.nj.com, 7/23)
$5 million gift from an anonymous Los Angeles businessman to the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine to support the department’s mission. (WebWire, 7/11)
$5 million from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to PBS “Frontline” to help improve the documentary series and its companion international newsmagazine “Frontline/World.” (upi.com, 7/5)
$5 million donation from the estate of twin brothers John and William Reiff to the Twins Day festival, an annual festival in Twinsburg, to help pay for operating costs. (Associated Press, 7/15)
$4.8 million from Winifred Weter, a former Seattle Pacific University professor, to the university to build a performance hall. Ms. Weter was a classics professor for four decades and passed away in January 2006 at the age of 96. (seattlepi.com, 7/2)
$3.2+ million from The Shaw Foundation to Duke University-National University of Singapore medical school to fund scholarships for local and international students pursuing Doctor of Medicine degrees. (Associated Press, 6/26)
$3 million gift from the estate of J.B. Fuqua to Emory University’s Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression to create the J.B. Fuqua Fund. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, 7/16)
$2.6 million from Richmond lawyer Everette G. “Buddy” Allen Jr. and his wife, Ann, to Randolph-Macon College to establish the Buddy and Ann Allen Scholarship Fund and to create a Randolph-Macon College Athletic Endowment. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 7/17)
$2.5 million pledge from philanthropist Ulla R. Searing to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art to endow a curator of collections position at the museum. (heraldtribune, 7/7)
$2.5 million gift from Orange County philanthropist and businessman Donald Bren to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research to create The Donald Bren Presidential Chair. (irvinecompany.com, 6/27)
$2.5 million pledge from Laguna Beach philanthropist William J. Gillespie to the Orange County Performing Arts Center to help fund the center’s $240 million “Building on the Vision” expansion campaign. (ocregister.com, 7/10)
$2.2+ million in semi-annual grant amounts from the Sarkeys Foundation to Oklahoma non-profits. (normantranscript.com, 7/21)
$2 million grant from QueensCare to LA County-USC Medical Center to provide treatment to uninsured patients. (Associated Press, 7/16)
$2 million gift from an anonymous donor to Bastyr University where $500,000 will fund the Dr. William A. Mitchell, Jr. Endowed Chair in Botanical Medicine and the remainder will support the university’s endowment fund. (Puget Sound Business Journal, 7/10)
$2 million from the Kantor Family to the new Melbourne Recital Centre to establish an endowment fund. (theage.com, 7/9)
$2 million pledge over the next five years from Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. to the Bell Foundation to help fund the construction of a new hospital. (The Mining Journal, 7/9)
$2 million gift from the BB&T Charitable Foundation to North Carolina State University’s College of Management to establish the BB&T Center for the Study of Free Markets and Institutions. (carolinanewswire.com, 7/4)
$2 million pledge from James Milgard of Gig Harbor to the University of Washington Tacoma to fund its new assembly hall. (Puget Sound Business Journal, 7/17)
Multimillion-dollar gift over five years from Gordon V. Smith and Helen Crider Smith to Ohio Wesleyan University to support its planned giving initiative. (news.owu.edu, 7/12)
$1.6 million gift from an anonymous donor to Wichita State University to fund the Janice M. Riordan Distinguished Professorship in Maternal Child Health which will focus on breast-feeding education and research. (The Wichita Eagle, 6/29)
$1.5 million from Oliver and Jane Lennox-King to Neighborhood Link Support Services to support its cause. (insidetoronto.com, 7/12)
$1.5 million gift from Howard S. Brown to University of Maryland School of Medicine to establish the David S. Brown professorship in trauma research. (The Wall Street Journal Online, 7/13)
$1.5 million from Jim and Vanita Oelschlager to Summa Health System to establish the endowed chair in Summa’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. (Akron Beacon Journal, 7/10)
$1+ million from The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada to 18 research projects focusing on prostate cancer. (newswire.ca, 7/9)
$1 million from Vincent DiGirolamo and his wife Nancy to Summa Health System to start an endowed chair in the Department of Oncology. (Akron Beacon Journal, 7/10)
$1 million grant from the Quantum Foundation to Florida Public Health Institute on the A.G. Holley Hospital campus to support its cause. (palmbeachpost.com, 7/12)
$1 million pledge from Stan Chesley and Susan Dlott to the United Way of Great Cincinnati to support its mission. (news.cincypost.com, 7/10)
$1 million gift from former wrestler Rodney Thornton to the University of Oklahoma to fund a $2.4 million construction project at the school’s McCasland Field House. (cstv.com, 7/17)
$1 million grant from the Hannaford Charitable Foundation to the University of New England to help fund its new College of Pharmacy. (presszoom.com, 7/19)
$1 million from Vincent DiGirolamo and his wife Nancy to Summa Health System to start the endowed chair in the Department of Oncology. (Akron Beacon Journal, 7/10)
$1 million gift from James and Betty Matarese to the Curtis Institute of Music to create the James and Betty Matarese Chair in Viola Studies. (pnnonline.org, 7/2)
$1 million gift from Turner Broadcasting System Inc. to the civil and human rights center proposed for downtown Atlanta and set to open in 2010. (Associated Press, 6/27)
$1 million gift over the next four years form Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill to the University of South Carolina’s nursing program to fund faculty positions. (wistv.com, 6/27)
$1 million gift from San Francisco philanthropist Nina Ireland to Pets Unlimited, the city’s oldest non-profit animal shelter, to help finance the care of animals. (San Francisco Chronicle, 6/30)
$1 million lead gift from KBS Construction, Inc. and its chairman, Dennis Klein, to Marquette University’s men’s and women’s soccer programs and the Athletic Department’s campaign to build a new soccer stadium to be named for the Klein family. (cstv.com, 6/7)
$1 million gift from Laurence and Jean DeLynn to the Morgantown Community Trust to establish the DeLynn Scholarship Fund which will benefit the children and grandchildren of Mylan Laboratories employees based in Morgantown. (wboy.com, 6/26)
$1 million bequest from Elizabeth “Betsy” Edwards, who passed away last year of a brain tumor, to Planned Parenthood of Northern New England to be placed in an endowment. (reformer.com, 7/7)
$1 million gift from the Bernard and Jean Trager family to Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, Kentucky to expand the Spinal Cord Medicine program at Frazier. (The Courier-Journal, 7/3)
$1 million gift from the Richard E. and Deborah L. Tarrant Foundation to the town of Winooski to transform a mostly empty shopping center into the Winooski Community Center, where such organizations as the YMCA, Boys and Girls Club youth center, and the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program will be housed. (burlingtonfreepress.com, 7/11)
$1 million gift from the estate of Mary Jane Carder to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Anne Arundel County to care for the animals. (hometownannapolis.com, 7/13)
$1 million gift from FitzGerald Bemiss and his wife Margaret to VCU Medical Center to help fund a proposed Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders Multidisciplinary Clinic. (inrich.com, 7/10)
$1 million gift from East West Bank CEO and Chairman Dominic Ng to United Way of Greater Los Angeles to support the organization’s new plan called Creating Pathways Out of Poverty. (sgvtribune.com, 7/12)
$1 million pledge from Robert E. Foss and his wife to the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Leeds School of Business to help fund the Leeds School’s $38 million renovation project. (Boulder City Business Report, 7/16)
$1 million initiative from Citizens Bank Foundation to five area nonprofits to increase their capacity in providing job training, job placement and small business assistance. The recipients are the Metropolitan Career Center, Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center, The Enterprise Center, Greater Philadelphia Minority Business Strategic Alliance and The Business Center at New Covenant Campus. (Philadelphia Business Journal, 7/12)
$1 million worth of stock from John L. Wroan III, a retired Bloomington contractor and businessman, to Illinois Wesleyan University and University High School to fund an endowment at the university and to support the remodeling of the high school’s vocational arts area into an engineering/technology center. (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, 7/19)

June 2007

$400 million pledge from a group of philanthropists to build centers and to recruit senior scientists for Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford I. Weill are contributing $250 million; Corrinne and Maurice R. Greenberg are giving $25 million, and their charity, the Starr Foundation, is giving another $25 million; and an anonymous donor is giving $100 million (The New York Times, 6/13)
$150 million gift from an anonymous donor to the cancer research program at U.C. San Francisco to help expand clinical research activities (kget.com, 6/21)
$105 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help create and support the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (The Gates Foundation, 6/4)
$100 million (£51m) from HSBC in Britain to four climate-change charities—Climate Group, the Earthwatch Institute, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the World Wildlife Fund—over the next five years. (The Independent, 5/31)
$100 million from an anonymous alumnus to Washington and Lee University to fund scholarships, two new professorships, establish a lecture series and help support student internships. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 6/7)
$100 million from mining financier and philanthropist, Frank Giustra, to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative which will create long-lasting economic projects that will provide jobs in several regions, beginning in Latin America and expanding to some African countries. For a full report on Mr. Giustra’s gift and initiative, please go here. (theglobeandmail.com, 6/22)
$100 Million from an anonymous alumnus to the University of Chicago to provide full scholarships to about 800 lower-income students and partial tuition for another 400 undergraduates annually. (Associated Press, 5/31)
$100 million pledge from Thomas Siebel to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. (WJBC, 6/2)
$50 million cash donation and a collection of art worth approximately $40 million from the Manton Foundation to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (The Associated Press, 6/15).
$50 million gift from Jim Balsillie to go towards the creation of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and to the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. Balsillie’s gift prompted additional donations by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University which will each give $25 million over the next ten years (Marketwire, 6/25)
$50 million restricted pledge from an anonymous donor to the University of Michigan’s new Cardiovascular Center where the first $25 million will be given over 10 years and the rest will be allotted as goals set forth by the donor are met (Detroit Free Press, 6/25)
$30 million grant from the Howard Charitable Foundation to Scripps Health to go towards its campaign to build a $430 million cardiovascular institute, which will make it the largest heart program in California (SignOnSanDiego.com, 6/18)
$26 million from Eli and Edythe Broad to Michigan State University to create the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum (PR Newswire, 6/1)
$22 million estate gift commitment from Dr. James A. and Marion C. Grant to the University of Illinois’s Chicago College of Medicine to support activities related to treatment and prevention of emerging immune system diseases (University of Illinois at Chicago, 6/5)
$19.17 million in gifts from Kosair Charities to 85 nonprofit groups throughout Kentucky including Kosair Children’s Hospital, the Masonic Home of Kentucky and the Ronald McDonald House (Courier-Journal.com, 6/24)
$18 million from the Deaconess Foundation to Eden Theological Seminary (St. Louis Today, 6/12)
$15 million gift from Bay Street financier Sheldon Inwentash and his wife, Lynn Factor, to the University of Toronto’s School of Social Work to fund five new research chairs in the faculty and provide scholarships to 50 students in the school’s Masters of social work program (The Globe and Mail, 6/15)
$15 million gift from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family to Brandeis University to establish a center that will encourage scholarship and teaching on the Jewish state’s history, language and culture (TheJewishAdvocate.com, 6/25)
$15 million pledge over the next five years from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly to create a new tuberculosis research center in Seattle, a non-profit center that will be a collaboration among Lilly, the Infectious Disease and Research Institute and other research organizations (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 6/22)
$14.5 million from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to Arkansas State University at Jonesboro to construct a three-story health sciences building to be called The Donald W. Reynolds Center for Health Sciences (kait8.com, 6/14)
$10 million gift from Ron Joyce to Hamilton’s McMaster University to initiate plans for a new Centre for Advanced Management Studies (theglobeandmail.com, 6/23)
$10 million from Mike Hagan to Saint Joseph’s University in support of the Michael J. Hagan Arena. (Philadelphia Daily News, 6/8)
$10 million from Paul Newman to Kenyon College to fund the Newman’s Own scholarships which will provide partial and full scholarships for 15 to 20 students annually. (Associated Press, 6/2)
$10 million commitment over the next five years from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to The China Law Center of Yale Law School to provide general support to the Center’s programs (M2 Communications, 6/19)
$8 million donation from the late philanthropist Hallie Ford to Oregon State University to fund a new center for family and children’s health that will be called the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families and will be housed at the University’s College of Health and Human Sciences. $2 million of the monies is a challenge gift. (The Register-Guard, 6/15)
$7.5 million from Dave Checketts to Salt Lake City to build a youth soccer complex (KSL News, 6/9)
$5 million from E. Gerald Corrigan to Fairfield University to fund a named scholarship and endowed professorship (Connecticut Post, 6/8)
$5 million from Oscar S. Schafer and his wife Didi to The New York Philharmonic to support the orchestra’s series of free summer performances, Concerts in the Park (playbillarts.com, 6/22)
$5 million from Craig and Connie Weatherup to Arizona State University for a basketball practice facility (The Arizona Republic, 6/4)
$5 million gift from Margaret and Charles Juravinski to St. Peter’s Hospital to help fund the new Alexander Pavilion, a home for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia (stoneycreeknews.com, 6/22)
$5 million from the Joyce and Jim Teel Family Foundation to the Crocker Art Museum for a major expansion (The Sacramento Bee, 6/3)
$5 million from Mort and Marcy Friedman to the Crocker Art Museum for a major expansion. (The Sacramento Bee, 6/3)
$5 million pledge from Jane and Jim Driscoll to the Orange County Performing Arts Center’s capital campaign. (The Orange County Register, 6/4)
$5 million from Furman C. Moseley Jr. in honor of his wife, Susan Reed Moseley, to Elon University providing an endowment for scholarships to women with great potential but limited means (Times-News, 6/2)
$5 million in grants from The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust to 16 local non-profit organizations to support such areas as health care, arts and culture, the elderly, education and religion (The Arizona Republic, 6/27)
$4.5 million gift from San Francisco residents Stephen and Nancy Grand to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where Stephen Grand has been treated for multiple myeloma, to fund cancer research (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 6/14)
$4.5 million gift from Fiesta Mart grocery chain co-founder, Trini Mendenhall Sosa, to the University of St. Thomas to help students pay tuition (Houston Chronicle, 6/22)
$4 million gift from John and Tashia Morgridge toward a new outdoor swimming pool at Hoyt Park in Wauwatosa (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/13)
$3.9 million from AMVETS Service Foundation to the Marion VA Health Care System to build a new facility that will house centers for mental health, rehabilitation and prosthetics, aquatherapy and patient resources (Marion Daily Republican, 6/5)
$3 million from Shalin Liu to the new Rockport Chamber Music Festival concert hall, with $500,000 earmarked for student programs (Gloucester Daily Times, 6/11)
$3 million gift from the Memphis City Council to LeMoyne-Owen College to help pay debts and avoid loss of accreditation (Associated Press, 6/6)
$2.8 million gift from the estate of Dr. Winifred Weter to Wycliffe Foundation to support areas most in need of funding as determined by Wycliffe USA (Orlando Business Journal, 6/26)
$2.5 million committed endowment over the next five years from Coca-Cola North America to the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service that will support efforts to link outdoor recreation, education and awareness to the physical and mental wellbeing of Americans (The Coca-Cola Company, 6/14)
$2.5 million pledge from SAGE Publications to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation to fund a new medical library at the hospital (santamariatimes.com, 6/27)
$2.3 million pledge from the Saudi Arabian Equestrian Federation to sponsor an exhibit and film on the Arabian horse, which will open at Lexington’s Kentucky Horse Park in 2010 when the first American-sponsored World Equestrian Games will occur (pr-inside.com, 6/20)
$2.3 million gift from FedEx Corp. to help build The FedEx Family House, a facility that will provide housing for families of patients receiving extended care at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center (news.moneycentral.msn.com, 6/26)
$2 million from Howard and Joyce Wood to the Nature Conservancy to help protect approximately 16,000 acres of the Current River watershed (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6/17)
$2 million gift commitment from Marvin A. Pomerantz of Des Moines to the University of Iowa Foundation to permanently endow the Pomerantz Family Chair in Ophthalmology (Press-Citizen.com, 6/15)
$2 million gift from an anonymous donor to Bowers Museum of Cultural Art to help support the museum’s special exhibitions program (ocregister.com, 6/20)
$2 million from BP America to Ducks Unlimited to match a North American Wetlands Conservation Act grant and fund conservation activities in southwest Louisiana (Ducks Unlimited, 6/2)
$2 million pledge from the chairman of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees to fund construction of a new computer engineering building (University of Kentucky Press Release, 6/12)
$2 million donation from MDS Inc., a diagnostics firm, to the B.C. Cancer Foundation to help fund the early detection of lung cancer (Canada.com, 6/15)
$1.5 million from Joseph Jamail to the Houston Parks Board in memory of his late wife who died in January. The gift, combined with other funds, will be used to complete the Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark. (Houston Chronicle, 6/20)
$1.5 million gift from Holler-Classic Automative Group to Winter Park Memorial Hospital’s Women’s Health Center to help complete the $24 million center (OrlandoSentinel.com, 6/23)
$1.39 million gift from Valero Energy Corp. to the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) through its company’s annual “Share the Shamrock Spirit” campaign which allows customers to make a donation to MDA (San Antonio Business Journal, 6/18)
$1.3+ million in grants from St. David’s Community Health Foundation to 17 Central Texas non-profit organizations that provide mental health services for Central Texas (genengnews.com, 6/26)
$1.1 million gift from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation to the Fisher House project in San Diego, a private-public partnership that supports America’s military during times of need, to support its cause (EarthTimes.org, 6/15)
$1 million+ from Bud Mayo to the Community Theatre of Morristown, which will now be renamed The Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, in support of the expansion of the facility (Daily Record, 6/2)
$1 million from David Beck to Lamar University to establish a fellowship for academically talented students in financial need (Houston Chronicle, 6/20)
$1 million gift from John Crosland Jr. and Crosland LLC to Habitat for Humanity to jumpstart their $5 million capital campaign (Philanthropy Journal, 6/20)
$1 million gift from Central New Jersey residents Dr. Gary and Janis Grover to the Foundation of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey to help finance research for scientists in physiology and biophysics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (rwjms.umdnj.edu, 6/14)
$1 million grant from the Quantum Foundation to the Florida Public Health Institute to pay salaries for three years for four employees (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 6/19)
$1 million from an anonymous donor to the Children’s Home Society of Florida to support an adoption center (Jacksonville Business Journal, 6/7)
$1 million from James J. “Jimmy John” Liautaud to Elgin Academy to help build a new media, science and fine arts center (News-Gazette, 6/9)
$1 million from David J. Beck to establish the David J. Beck Fellowship for students in financial need who exhibit high academic performance in any discipline (Lamar University, 6/11)
$1 million from Richard Barton and Jane Hopson to the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International (Burr Ridge Suburban Life, 6/4)
$1 million from Dr. Charles Winter to Millersville University to support renovations and additions to Lyte Auditorium (Intelligencer Journal Lancaster,6/5)
$1 million challenge grant from an anonymous almunus to the University of Rhode Island to establish the Robert S. Haas Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering (The Providence Journal, 6/4)
$1 million gift from Interpublic Group of Cos., parent of The Martin Agency in Richmond, to help fund a $10 million development campaign for the Virginia Commonwealth University Adcenter (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 6/16)
$1 million gift from Dan Meyers, chair of the Curry School of Education Foundation Board of Directors at the University of Virginia, to the university to name a courtyard in honor of outgoing Education School Dean David Breneman (U-WIRE, 6/21)
$1 million gift from Luby and Catherine Wood to Campbell University to help build its new Robert and Anna Butler Chapel (The Bradenton Herald, 6/22)
$1 million gift from a leading Victorian barrister, Allan Myers, to establish a national chair of law at ACU National’s new Institute of Legal Studies (cathnews.com, 6/22)
$1 million gift from Mitch and Elva Sill to help fund the new Duluth Heritage Sports Center (Duluth News-Tribune, 6/26)
$1 million gift from Allen and Sally Fernald to the University of Maine to support the university’s arts and academic programs (Bangor Daily, 6/26)
$1 million pledge over the next three years from the American Association of Managing General Agents to the J. Mack Robinson College of Business’ Department of Risk Management & Insurance to endow a distinguished chair (Atlanta Business Chronicle, 6/27)

May 2007

$10 billion from Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and prime minister of United Arab Emirates, to start a foundation which will provide scholarships and support research in the Middle East. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 21)
$107.5 million pledged by Lone Star Funds as a “social contribution” to the South Korean people following the Dallas-based equity firm’s sale of Korea Exchange Bank. (Associated Press, May 22)
$100 million gift—to be allotted upon the contributors’ deaths—from Robert and Jeannette Powell to the University of the Pacific. No specific details have been determined on how the gift will be used, but the university will propose that a significant portion of the monies be used for scholarships and to raise the quality of selected academic programs to nationally recognized status. (The Record, May 8)
$100 million in American art from Peter H. and Paula Crane Lundner to Colby College’s art museum. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 21)
$70 million from the “Idol Gives Back” fundraiser, a two-night broadcast of American Idol, to charities working to support poor children throughout the U.S. and Africa (American Idol broadcast, May 1)
$51 million pledged grant from Raymond and Kathryn Eckstein to Marquette University to construct a new law school building (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 4)
$35 million pledge from David and Reva Logan and their family to the University of Chicago for a planned $100 million arts center that is to serve the campus and its South Side neighbors (Chicago Tribune, May 4)
$35 million from Christopher Goldsbury to the Culinary Institute of America to promote Latin American cuisine in the U.S. and to provide scholarships for a 30-week program at the Center for Foods of the Americas in San Antonio.
$33+ million unrestricted funds from ExxonMobil Foundation’s 2006 Educational Matching Gift Program to 953 colleges and universities across the United States (M2 Communications, May 3)
$25 million from Peter and Nancy Meinig to Cornell University in support of life-sciences research. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, 5/30)
$26.9 million proposed gift from former UNC President C.D. Splangler’s foundation to the university system campuses to help create as many as 96 endowed professorships across the 16 universities (The News & Observer, May 12)
$25 million gift from William A. Franke to Northern Arizona University’s business school in support of scholarships for minority students, ethics education and faculty recruitment. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, Philanthropy Online, May 15)
$22.5 million from Robert Wilson to the Archdiocese of New York in support of its inner-city scholarship program, enabling 3,000 children to attend inner-city Catholic elementary schools of their choice. (Newsday, 5/24)
$21.8 million in grants from Nationwide Foundation to more than 1,000 nonprofits, including more than 800 local United Way chapters in communities where Nationwide is based (Philanthropy Journal, May 8)
$20.4 million from Donald Adam to the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute for the development of a comprehensive melanoma research center. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, May 22)
$20 million gift over 10 years from the Engelstad Family Foundation to the University of North Dakota to support academics at the university (Grand Forks Herald, May 7)
$20 million pledge from Penn State alumni J. Lloyd and Dorothy F. Huck to fund an endowment to support teaching, research and other academic activities at the University’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (PSU.edu, April 26)
$15 million from Hallie E. Ford to the Pacific Northwest College of Art for capital expenses and to launch an artists-in-residence program. (Associated Press, May 22)
$12 million from Earl and Thelma Hodges to International College, thereby renaming the institution Hodges University. (News Press, May 16)
$10.8 million from Stewart and Marilyn Blusson to Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in to support the university’s work in the health sciences. (The Vancouver Sun, May 15)
$10 million gift from Connie L. Lurie to San Jose State University to establish endowments and education programs and to launch San Jose’s first independent doctoral program for secondary school administrators (San Jose Mercury News, May 5)
$10 million from Melvin and Bren Simon to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to endow the position of museum director. (Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 21)
£5 million from John Studzinski to the Tate Modern in London for its capital campaign and physical expansion. (U.TV, May 22)
$9 million from the estate of J. Robert Jones to Midland College in support of scholarships. (Midland Reporter Telegram, May 22)
$6.4 million from Baosteel Co., Ltd. to the Chinese Environmental Protection Foundation in support of the Chinese Environmental Awards which honor institutions and individuals for their contributions to environmental protection. (Xinhua News Agency, May 14)
$5.8 million from William Porter to Adams State College in Alamosa for math and science education. (Rocky Mountain News, 5/28)
$5 million challenge grant from Lorry I. Lokey to Santa Clara University's new Learning Commons, Technology Center and Library. (Business Wire, 5/29)
$5 million worth of vacant land in DuPage County, Illinois from Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl to an unnamed nonprofit organization. (The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 20)
$5 million gift from Alan Ginsburg, chief executive of CED Cos. in Maitland, to Rollins College’s Hamilton Holt School to endow a scholarship fund and to promote curriculum and faculty development (The Orlando Sentinel, May 12)
$5 million gift from Tenafly couple Bill and Maggie Kaplen to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center to kick off the center’s $35 million campaign for the facility, which will more than double the size of the emergency room. (NorthJersey.com, May 10)
$5 million from Dallas philanthropist Adelyn Hoffman, channeled through Southwestern Medical Foundation, to UT Southwestern Medical Center to support genetic and epidemiology research and to create the Hoffman Family Center in Genetics and Epidemiology (The Dallas Morning News, May 14)
$5 million gift from Robert H. Smith and Clarice Smith to the Newseum for its new state-of-the-art theater (WashingtonPost.com, May 3)
$5 million gift from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry alumnus and former chairman and CEO of Aetna John Wallis “Jack” Rowe, M.D. to support the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center’s comprehensive campaign to expand cancer care and research (Media-Newswire.com, May 3)
$5 million from Santee Cooper and the state’s 24 electric cooperatives to the University of South Carolina to bankroll research at the University to make coal a cleaner and more efficient fuel (The Post and Courier, May 2)
$4.5 million (Canadian) from Maggi and Gord Renwick to the Cambridge & North Dumfries Foundation, a community foundation in Ontario, in support of local charities focusing on health care, animals, strengthening neighborhoods and physical activity. (Cambridge Times, 5/29)
$4 million from the Tyson Family Foundation to the University of Arkansas to study spirituality in the workplace. (United Press International, May 21)
$4 million challenge grant from the Walton Family Foundation to NorthWest Arkansas Community College to go towards the $8.5 million cost of a new entrepreneurial center at the community college. The foundation will match other donations dollar for dollar over the next two years, up to $4 million. (The Morning News, April 26)$
4 million pledge from Stanford University biochemist Paul Berg and his wife, Millie, to Stanford’s School of Medicine to help build the Learning and Knowledge Center, the focal point for the school’s future educational activities (Digital50.com, April 25)
$3 million gift from Middletown residents Morgan E. Cline and Benjamin R. D’Onofrio to Monmouth Medical Center to help fund the enlarging and renovating of the medical center’s emergency room which has been renamed to the Cline-D’Onofrio Emergency Services Pavilion (Atlanticville.com, May 3)
$3 million grant from the Eden Hall Foundation to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation to support the naming of the 20,000-square-foot Elsa M. and Alma E. Mueller Family Resource Center which will host non-medical services for inpatients and their families (PR-Inside.com, May 7)
$3 million gift from Robert Hassell to the Peace Arch Hospital and Community Health Foundation to kick-start the fundraising campaign. Hassell is the honorary campaign chairman and resident of White Rock, British Columbia. (Vancouver Sun, May 7)
$3 million from the estate of Edward S. Hallman to the University of South Carolina’s book collection. (TheState.com, May 19)
$2.5 million gift from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in honor of Sidney J. Winawer, the former chief of the Gastroenterology and Nutrition Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to create an endowed chair for a senior researcher in the field of digestive cancers (Philanthropy Journal, April 25)
$2.5 million grantfrom the CVS/Caremark Charitable Trust to the Rhode Island Quality Institute to further the mission of the private agency that works to improve communication and information-sharing among doctors and hospitals (Associated Press, April 30)
$2.4 million gift from Melvin Simon and his wife, Bren, to St. Vincent Health to help complete a new outpatient care center for the under- and uninsured (IndyStar.com, April 30)
$2.25 million gift from Erich and Shelley Mohr to the University of Victoria to establish a new chair in the Centre of Aging that will allow the university to hire a scholar to look at how the stages of aging contribute to health or sickness (Canada.com, April 27)
$2 million challenge from Howard and Joyce Wood to The Nature Conservancy to help conserve approximately 16,000 acres in the Current River watershed (Nature.org, April 27)
$1 million pledge from CKE Restaurants to the Campaign for Cottage Health System, the fundraising drive for the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. (PR Newswire, May 11)
$1 million gift from the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation to help fund the Salvation Army Kroc Community Center in Coeur d’Alene (The Spokesman-Review, May 13)
$1 million grant from BP Foundation, Inc. to the Morton Arboretum to fund the arboretum’s Science Programs for Schools over the next decade (Chicago Daily Herald, May 8)
$1 million gift from Dan Brown, author of “The Da Vinci Code”, and his wife, Blythe, to the Squamscott Community Commons (SCC) project in Stratham. The SCC will house a YMCA and a number of local service agencies. (Seacoast Online, May 15)
$1 million gift from Peter and Elizabeth Tower to Canisius College to establish the Peter Tower Endowed Professorship at the Richard J. Wehle School of Business and to fund the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Scholarship Fund for students. (The Buffalo News, May 15)
$1 million donation from Third Federal Foundation to the Cleveland Municipal Schools to underwrite the launch of the Family Academy, an initiative designed to help at risk students succeed in school and be better prepared to enter the workforce. (Primezone Media Network, May 14)
$1 million grant from the Feinstein Foundation to Knotty Oak Middle School, which will be renamed the Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School of Coventry, to expand the school and to build classroom wings in what is not the administration building next door (The Providence Journal, May 9)
$1 million from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s charitable foundation to help refugees of the war in Sudan. The donation will be split among the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, International Rescue Committee and the SOS Children’s Villages (World Entertainment News Network, May 11)
$1 million gift from the Joan Irvine Smith and Athalie R. Clarke Foundation to the new School of Law at the University of California, Irvine to support the establishment of the law library’s core collection (WebWire.com, May 2)
$1 million gift from the estates of E. Lucile Brown, Mary P. Humble and Roberta Butler Kidwell to the Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Foundation where $800,000 will support funding for continuing nursing education and scholarships and $200,000 will be used for the greatest needs of the faith-based health-care provider (IndyStar.com, May 8)
$1 million gift from Hubbard Properties Inc. to the volunteer Fire Department in the Renfroe, Alabama area to fund building a new and improved fire station, along with a donated piece of property to house it (Firehouse.com, May 1)
$1 million pledge from CKE Restaurants Inc., headquartered in Carpinteria, to the Campaign for Cottage Health System to support fundraising efforts to build a new Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SantaMariaTimes.com, May 1)
$1 million pledge from Abbott and Abbott Fund, the company’s philanthropic foundation, to HealthReach to renovate HealthReach’s Open Door clinic in Mudelein and for ongoing operations at HealthReach (Lake County News-Sun, April 24)
$1 million gift from 24 Hours of Booty, Inc. to the Lance Armstrong Foundation to help fund cancer research and programs to eradicate the disease (CarolinaNewswire, com, April 30)
$1 million gift from Les and Irene Dube to help fund the construction of a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Saskatoon which will be built behind St. Joseph High School (Canada.com, April 28)

April 2007

$500 million pledge over the next five years from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton to help children and their families learn to eat healthier foods, make those foods more accessible, and increase their physical activity (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 3)
$400 million pledge from billionaire media entrepreneur John Werner King to Columbia University for financial aid to students. The gift will come from his estate when he dies. (Associated Press, April 11)
$100 million gift from retired media executive Frank Batten Sr. to the University of Virginia to establish the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy (Associated Press, April 12)
$100 million pledge over the next five years from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to grant recipients—that will begin being named in June—to speed the development of new energy technologies that can reduce the threat of global warming (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 9)
$35 million gift from media mogul Sumner Redstone through his Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation to Massachusetts General Hospital for its burn unit and emergency department (The Boston Globe, April 19)
$35 million grant over the next five years from Sumner M. Redstone through his Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation to FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions to support the organization’s Research Association Acceleration and Innovation Network which coordinates the work of more than two dozen nonprofit, disease-research organizations, as well as its Philanthropy Advisory Service and Patients Helping Doctors program (Philanthropy News Digest, April 20)
$35 million grant over the next five years from Sumner M. Redstone through his Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation to Cedars-Sinai Prostate Cancer Center in Los Angeles to support a new initiative that focuses on understanding the biology of prostate cancer and the development of new drugs and treatments for the disease (Philanthropy News Digest, April 20)
$30 million gift from Eugene and Marilyn Glick to the Indiana University School of Medicine to establish the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute where $20 million will support the new facility and $10 million will create an endowment that will advance research in eye disease (InsideIndianaBusiness.com, April 13)
$25 million pledge from David R. Hayworth to High Point University to aid in the $110 million transformation of the university, which includes construction of 11 new buildings (HighPoint.edu, April 3)
$15 million unrestricted gift from David R. Hayworth, former chief executive officer of Alma Desk Company, to High Point University to help build new facilities, endow scholarships, and support academic and student-life programs (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19)
$10 million gift from Toronto financier Lawrence Bloomberg to the University of Toronto’s faculty of nursing to support a 10-year plan that will fund more scholarships, develop advanced clinical education, create an office of continuing nursing education and recruit scholars to teach and do research at the renamed Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing (The Canadian Jewish News, April)
$10 million gift from Ellen Noel of Odessa and Lissa and Cy Wagner of Midland to the facility that will be known as The Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center (Midland Reporter, April 21)
$10 million pledge from Mike Cottrell, owner of Cottrell Incorporated, to North Georgia College & State University to support the School of Business and Government (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19)
$10 million pledge, over the next five years, from Collier County philanthropists Jay and Patty Baker to the Naples Museum of Art to an endowment fund (NaplesNews.com, April 2)
$10 million challenge gift from an anonymous donor to John Brown University to help expand scholarships and other programs at the school. The $10 million will be given if the college matches the donation within the next five years. (The Morning News, April 14)
$7 million gift from Susan E. Cooper to Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills to support an anthropology hall, programs, salaries, and operations (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$6 million grant during 2007-2008 from Cox Enterprises, through the James M. Cox Foundation, to the Newseum to sponsor an exhibit on the First Amendment (Atlanta Business Chronicle, March 28)
$5 million from The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust to the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix in Partnership with Arizona State University to fund recruiting nationally known faculty and matching future private gifts (The Arizona Republic, April 20)
$5 million gift from The ASLAM Foundation to Idaho State University’s College of Pharmacy to acquire more teaching and research space in the Treasure Valley and to fund pharmacy scholarships for minority students (ISU.edu, April 20)
$5 million bequest from Nancy and Daniel O’Connell to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center to help finance a recently approved eight-story patient-care building that will house an expanded emergency room, 19 modern operating rooms, and 108 new inpatient rooms (Courant.com, April 5)
$5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the Barnes Foundation in Merion to help establish a permanent endowment for scholarly studies. The grant must be matched by three dollars for every one dollar. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 19)
$5 million pledge from Carl Zwerner to Georgia State University to build an auditorium as part of the proposed GSU Professional Center (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 19)
$5 million challenge gift from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and another unnamed source to the financially troubled Milwaukee Public Museum to help the museum quickly raise an additional $5 million privately and bring together various museum supporters for a more comprehensive museum recovery effort (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 30)
$5 million challenge pledge from Texas Children’s Hospital to support Dr. Mark Kline’s Pediatric AIDS initiative in Africa, called the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (Primezone Media Network, April 4)
$5 million gift from Columbia Sportswear CEO and University of Oregon alumnus Tim Boyle to the university where $3.5 million will go to improve and expand the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, and the remaining monies will be awarded to the university’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts. (U-WIRE, April 16)
$5 million anonymous pledge to Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston to endow a fund to support music lessons for children and adults (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$4.6 million pledge from Nancy Calabrese and her husband, Steve, to Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital to endow a professorship in pediatric care, research, and education (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$4 million gift from the Sealy & Smith Foundation to the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to support the university’s efforts to create a new approach where clinical care is delivered alongside ongoing basic and applied research and prevention and education (The Daily News, April 21)
$4 million gift from the Yelda family of Chicago to Swedish Covenant Hospital to endow capital and program needs (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$4 million pledge from the McGuinness McDermott Foundation to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital of which $2.5 million will go towards new equipment, research and support programs for children with cancer, and the remaining $1.5 million will be used to create an oncology survivorship program. The foundation and hospital are located in Australia. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News Online, April 11)
$2.5 million gift from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation in honor of Sidney J. Winawer, the former chief of the Gastroenterology and Nutrition Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to create an endowed chair for a senior researcher in the field of digestive cancers (Philanthropy Journal, April 25)
$2.5 million gift from the Cousins family of Atlanta to Auburn University to benefit the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Pebble Hill and special collections of the Ralph B. Draughon Library (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March 29)
$2 million pledge from the Inasmuch Foundation to the University of Oklahoma Cancer Institute for a cancer outreach program, an endowed chair and to start a family services program (KSWO.com, March 30)
$2 million gift from an anonymous family to Elder High School to support professional development and the school’s faculty retirement plan and to help build its new athletic complex (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$2 million gift from the Washington Nationals’ charitable foundation to Children’s Hospital to create a diabetes care and education facility (NBC4.com, April 1)
$2 million pledge from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to University of Oklahoma’s journalism program to continue an expansion of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication (KSWO.com, March 30)
$2 million gift from Chuck and Kim Watson to Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business to update its trading floor and renovate and expand its building (Tulsa World, April 17)
$2 million gift from the Abbott Fund to the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative to help provide lifesaving treatment and education to children throughout the world hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic (Primezone Media Network, April 4)
$1.8 million bequest from Henry Donahoe to St. Mary’s School in Lee to endow scholarships and to offset tuition increases for all families of children who attend the school (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$1.7 million gift from Elizabeth Whatley to Northeast Texas Community College of which $1.2 million will help fund construction of the Elizabeth Whatley Aquatics Center (Longview News-Journal, April 7)
$1.1 million pledge over five years from Oklahoma City-based Chasepeake Energy Corp. to the University of Oklahoma primarily for scholarships (Tulsa World, April 3)
$1 million gift from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation to the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative to help provide lifesaving treatment and education to children throughout the world hit hardest by the AIDS epidemic (Primezone Media Network, April 4)
$1 million gift from Genevieve McMillan to Maryland Institute College of Art to endow a professorship in painting (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$1 million grant from the Washington Dental Service to King County for uninsured children to have better access to dental care (King County, April 12)
$1 million gift from an anonymous Cincinnati family to the Bayley Place retirement community and its Eldermount adult day program that will help pay for the care of residents who have outlived their assets and to help support the Senior Scholarship Fund (Cincinnati.com, April 12)
$1 million gift from the AT&T Foundation to the Oasis Institute to help older people become savvier using the computer (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 13)
$1 million gift from the Foundation for the Carolinas to the Afro-American Cultural Center in Charlotte to help kick-start the Center’s $83 million cultural endowment campaign (The Charlotte Observer, April 12)
$1 million pledge from Professional Medical Transport's owner, Bob Ramsey, to Arizona State University's School of Public Affairs to change the name of one program to the Bob Ramsey Executive Education Program (KVOA.com, April 10)
$1 million gift from Ron Harper of Charlotte to Appalachian State University to support the flexography program, student scholarships, and other needs of the Department of Technology (News.Appstate.edu, April 2)
$1 million gift over the next three years from Midwest Athletes against Childhood Cancer, Inc., known as the MACC Fund, to the Cancer Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin to help develop a tumor vaccine (The Business Journal of Milwaukee, March 28)
$1 million gift from the Christopher Family Foundation to the Chicago Project, an international consortium of physician-scientists who are seeking a functional cure for diabetes (NewsRx.com, March 29)
$1 million commitment from Tobias “Toby” Buck to Pheasants Forever to further the organization’s youth and education efforts (PostBulletin.com, April 19)
$1 million gift from philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. and his wife, Karen, to the Utah Department of Health to help support life-saving information and vaccines to prevent cervical cancer (KSL.com, April 4)
$1 million pledge from Denny Sanford to the Whispering Hope Ranch Foundation to help fund a Lodge and Welcome Center at the Ranch (PaysonRoundup.com, April 3)
$1 million gift from former University of Florida president Marshall Criser and his wife, Paula, to support the new cancer hospital being built at Shands at the University of Florida (Gainesville.com, April 6)
$1 million gift from the Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club Foundation to Children’s House, a child abuse treatment organization in Arkansas, to launch “The Campaign for Children,” an effort to build a new facility and expand services to help even more abused children in Northwest Arkansas (M2 Communications, April 12)
$1 million gift from Dennis G. Punches, president of Payback, to Carroll College in Waukesha to help build an outdoor track and field complex (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 19^th issue)
$1 million pledge from Abbott and Abbott Fund, the company’s philanthropic foundation, to HealthReach to renovate HealthReach’s Open Door clinic in Mudelein and for ongoing operations at HealthReach (Lake County News-Sun, April 24)

March 2007

$33 million challenge pledge from H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest to Washington and Lee University to subsidize faculty salaries. The donation will require a match of $33 million to be raised from other sources by the university (The Roanoke Times, March 23).
$25 million gift from Jack Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and his wife, Susan, to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis to establish the Enterprise Rent-a-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels, where a team of researchers will study sustainable energy sources (Chronicle of Philanthropy, March 8)
$25 million pledge from LSU alumni Emmet and Toni Stephenson to LSU for the College of Business and to create the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute (Houston Chronicle, February 24)
$25 million gift from Highmark, Inc. to Penn State--$20 million will go towards the planned Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey, and $5 million will go towards clinical research for cancer and other diseases (Associated Press, March 7)
$25 million gift from BP to the Los Angeles County Museum to help support the museum’s expansion plan (Associated Press, March 6)
$20 million gift from Dr. M. Lee Pearce to Holy Cross Hospital to assist the hospital in the establishment of a comprehensive off-campus ambulatory/outpatient services center (PRNewswire, March 19)
$15 million pledge from Tulsans Charles and Peggy Stephenson to the University of Oklahoma to build a Life Sciences Research Center (Tulsa World, February 22)
$12 million from Chicago-based Dr. Richard A. Chaifetz to St. Louis University to rename the university’s new arena the Chaifetz Arena which will open in March 2008 (Belleville News-Democrat, March 1, 2007)
$12 million gift from the inventor of a heart valve and San Diego resident, Donald Shiley, and his wife, Darlene, to the University of Portland’s engineering building to upgrade and expand the engineering department (United Press International, March 19)
$10 million gift from Mike Cottrell to North Georgia College & State University to benefit the School of Business & Government (Dawson Times, March 20)
$10 million gift from financier Lawrence Bloomberg to the University of Toronto to endow 50 one-year graduate and undergraduate scholarships, four new professorships, 20 new visiting professorships plus post-doctoral fellowships (TheStar.com, March 9)
$10 million gift from Scott Niswonger to build a new home for The Children’s Hospital at Johnson City Medical Center (TriCities.com, March 2)
$10 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to the University of Florida’s Lastinger Center for Learning and The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation, based in Miami, to improve learning by smoothing the transition to school for children who are likely to begin school unprepared (University of Florida News, March 5)
$10 million pledge from the Annenberg Foundation to Lankenau Hospital to establish The Annenberg Medical Education Program which will provide support for graduate medical education at the Wynnewood, PA medical center (Philadelphia Business Journal, February 21)
$10 million in SAPPHIRE healthcare information system licensing fees from IntraNexus Inc. to facilities impacted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita (NewsRx.com, March 1)
$10 million gift from Marguerite Lenfest and her husband, H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, to Wilson College in Chambersburg to fund renovations and a 25,000-square-foot addition to its science center (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 27)
$10 million gift from Don and Sally Lucas to San Jose State University’s College of Business (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$10 million gift from Connie Ballmer and her husband, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, to found an agency—Partners for Our Children—that aims to bring state government, college experts and private money together for the first time to improve the state child-welfare system (The Seattle Times, March 14)
$7 million donation from Harold and Sue Ann Hamm of Enid through their year-old foundation, the Harold and Sue Hamm Foundation, to the Oklahoma Diabetes Center where $3.6 million will fund three endowed chairs, $2 million will go towards faculty, and $1.4 million will provide funding to support research and clinical activities during the next four years. The Oklahoma Diabetes Center will have locations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa (Tulsa World, March 27)
$5.5 million gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to San Jose State University’s School of Nursing (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$5.1 million gift from an anonymous donor to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children to fund a promising yet controversial program into stem-cell research (The Globe and Mail, February 26)
$5 million grant from residential developer John Wieland and his wife, Sue, to Emory University’s Center for Ethics to help build a new Center for Ethics, which will be renamed in the Wielands’ honor (Atlanta Business Chronicle, March 21)
$5 million gift from J. Ronald Terwilliger, chairman and chief executive officer of Atlanta-based Trammell Crow Residential and vice chairman of Habitat for Humanity International, to Enterprise Community Partners, a Columbia-based nonprofit aimed at providing affordable housing, to start a $100 million Maryland Regional Workforce Housing Fund and to finance other efforts to provide more affordable housing in the Atlanta area and throughout the United States (The Baltimore Sun, March 14)
$5 million gift from the Chicago-based Boeing Company to the Foundation for the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, to make resources from the National Archives accessible to more Americans via the Internet and traveling exhibits. (Philanthropy News Digest, March 10)
$5 million from the Crown family in Chicago to Duke University to fund student scholarships and summer fellowships, with part of the money going to scholarships for lacrosse players (The News & Observer, March 23)
$5 million gift from former Merrill Lynch Chairman and CEO William Schreyer and his wife, Joan, to Princeton HealthCare System’s proposed Plainsboro hospital which will fund a state-of-the-art community and professional education center (nj.com, March 20)
$5 million gift from Wall Street multimillionaire John Mack and his wife to Raleigh’s Shaw University to establish a new scholarship fund (The News & Observer, March 18)
$4.6 million gift from Steve and Nancy Calabrese to the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital to establish a chaired position in pediatric care (Crain’s Cleveland Business, March 21)
$4 million pledge from Des Moines businessman Marvin Pomerantz to the University of Iowa to fund two endowed chairperson positions: the John W. Colloton Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine and the Marvin A. and Rose Lee Pomerantz Chair in the College of Public Health (Press-Citizen.com, March 10)
$3+ million bequest from Daniel Roselli and his parents Victor and Evelyn Roselli to Montpelier High School to form a college and vocational scholarship (The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, March 23)
$3 million unrestricted gift from Sonic Restaurant chain founder Troy Smith and his wife, Dollie, to the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond (Philanthropy News Digest, February 24)
$3 million unrestricted gift from an anonymous donor to Massachusetts-based Homes for Our Troops, a nonprofit that builds or adapts homes to meet the needs of severely wounded service members (PressZoom.com, March 20)
$3 million gift from an anonymous donor to Savannah Country Day School for construction of its new environmentally-friendly lower school building (Savannah Morning News, March 13)
$3 million pledge from international financier George Soros to fund a coalition of non-governmental health groups for work in sub-Saharan Africa on how to prevent and treat an extremely drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that is fueled by the HIV epidemic (VOANews.com, March 14)
$3 million challenge gift from an anonymous donor to Savannah Country Day School to help fund the construction of the school’s new environmentally-friendly lower school building (Savannah Morning News, March 13)
$2.5 million gift from Vicki and John Q. Adams, Jr. of Southlake to Austin College to help fund a science facility that’s planned for the Sherman campus (DallasNews.com, March 7)
$2.5 million endowment from Dr. Theresa Cheng, a neurosurgeon in the Affinity Health System, to the Mercy Health Foundation where the annual interest from the Dr. Theresa M. Cheng Endowment for Medical Excellence and Compassion will improve the hospital’s neurosurgery program and create a medical mission outreach program (TheNorthwestern.com, March 21)
$2.5 million pledge from the former Georgia Pacific Chairman and CEO Pete Correll and his wife, Ada Lee, through the Correll Foundation to the Emory University School of Medicine to support scholarships for medical students as well as faculty research and teaching and to fund four new term professorships for five years (GoDeKalb.com, March 26)
$2.4 million gift from an anonymous donor to French Hospital Medical Center’s new cardiac care center (San Luis Obispo Tribune, March 7)
$2.1 million gift from the Dan Cameron Family Foundation to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation to support the hospital foundation’s capital campaign (WilmingtonStar.com, February 26)
$2+ million gift from Jerry and Joan Lozinski to The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation, Canada’s National Ballet School Foundation and the Dancer Transition Resource Centre to support the three organizations’ particular missions (Huliq.com, March 27)
$2 million unrestricted gift from David Breazzano to Union College. Breazzano is an alumnus whose son currently attends the Schenectady school. (Times Union, March 21)
$2 million gift from The RCHN Community Health Foundation to The George Washington University Medical Center’s Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health Policy to advance policy research and scholarship related to community health centers and the populations they serve (PRNewswire, March 19)
$2 million gift from the Koret Foundation to San Jose State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$2 million gift from the Jack Taylor Family Foundation to Mayo Clinic Jacksonville to help construct Mayo’s 214-bed hospital at its San Pablo campus (The Times-Union, March 6)
$1.95 million gift of beach-front property in Florida from Stanley Benecki to Indiana University to provide students with an opportunity to maximize the property’s value (U-WIRE, March 19)
$1.5 million pledge from the MeadWestvaco Foundation to the Richmond CenterStage project to support a performing-arts center in downtown Richmond (Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 28)
$1.33 million gift from Eddie Smith and his wife, Jo Allison, through their foundation to the East Carolina Heart Institute. This donation, along with matching funds from the University of North Carolina, will create the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Endowed Chair (Reflector.com, March 22)
$1.2 million from the estate of Ruby Pope Drumm, a former nurse who passed away in 2004, to the Riverside School of Professional Nursing to fund scholarships for registered nursing students (Daily Press, March 21)
$1.1 million gift from John G. McCoy to Habitat for Humanity to build nine houses on what is to become John McCoy Circle in North Linden (The Columbus Dispatch, March 11)
$1 million gift from Jeremy Jacobs, chairman and CEO of global hospitality company Delaware North Companies and owner of the Boston Bruins, and his family to Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York to support an endowed chair in Immunology (Market Wire, March 12)
$1 million pledge from Phil Long Dealerships to Trinidad State Junior College to create a state-of-the-art training facility for an automotive service technology program (The Pueblo Chieftain, February 28)
$1 million gift from Vancouver-based Goldcorp, Inc. to the Vancouver Aquarium to create the 170-seat Goldcorp Ocean Theatre in the Aquarium’s new building (Huliq.com, March 24)
$1 million gift from the Edward M. Armfield Sr. Foundation to the $4 million capital campaign for the Randolph Hospital’s outpatient center and Randolph Cancer Center (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, March 21)
$1 million gift from The Jim Syfan Family Foundation to Northeast Georgia Medical Center to support the expansion of the neonatal intensive care unit (AccessNorthGeorgia.com, February 21)
$1 million gift from the National Association of Realtors to help build a memorial to Martin Luther King Junior on the National Mall (wjla.com, February 27)
$1 million gift from the Winnipeg-based Canad Inns hotel chain to help fund the proposed Canadian Museum for Human Rights (cbc.ca, February 23)
$1 million grant from the ExxonMobil Foundation towards a new helicopter for Memorial Hermann Life Flight in Houston which will result in faster service to the East Houston area (M2 Communications, March 21)
$1 million technology grant to St. Louis-based, national nonprofit The OASIS Institute to provide technology access, tools, and training to underserved communities (M2 Communications, March 17)
$1 million gift from the Fisher family to Pressley Ridge, the North Side-based organization that offers education, treatment, foster care and community services in eight states, Washington D.C. and internationally (Associated Press, February 28).
$1 million gift over the next ten years from the Aflac Foundation to the National Infantry Foundation’s National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park project (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, March 5)
$1 million gift from Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc. to the University of Kentucky’s College of Engineering to support a new institute of Research for Technology Development in the college, pending acceptance and approval by the UK Board of Trustees (UK News Release, March 5)
$1 million gift from Dr. and Mrs. W. Lester Brooks Jr. of Charlotte to Carolinas Medical Center for its orthopedic-research program (Charlotte Business Journal, March 6)
$1 million gift from Niles resident Charles Huizenga in honor of his wife, Muriel, to the Lakeland Community Hospital with $500,000 of the funds given outright and another $500,000 set up as a challenge gift for completion of a total renovation of the hospital’s Obstetrics Unit (NilesStar.com, March 8)
$1 million gift from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to San Jose State University’s King Library (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$1 million gift from the Koret Foundation to San Jose State University’s Athletic Training Center (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$1 million gift from the Valley Foundation to San Jose State University’s School of Nursing (San Jose Mercury News, March 9)
$1 million gift from Peter Morgane, a researcher and professor of pharmacology, to the University of New England to help fund a new biomedical research center (Portland Press Herald, March 8)
$1 million gift from Louisiana resident Eva Rowe to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis in memory of her parents who perished in a fire at a 2005 BP refinery in Texas City, Texas. At the time of the announced gift, no statements were made concerning how the donation will be used (myeyewitnessnews.com, March 15).
$1 million gift from the Hallock Foundation to the National Infantry Foundation to honor the late Col. Dick Hallock (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, March 28)

February 2007

$10 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Duke University for scholarships (The News & Observer, February 21)
$10 million pledge from the Annenberg Foundation to Lankenau Hospital to establish The Annenberg Medical Education Program which will provide support for Graduate Medical Education and components of interdisciplinary and other clinical training programs (PRNewswire, February 13)
$5 million gift from Gerald Schuster, founder and president of Continental Wingate Company, to Brandeis University to support its Institute for Investigative Journalism (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$5 million gift from John and Marilyn Moretz to Lenoir-Rhyne College to build a sports center on campus and fund a nursing scholarship program (Charlotte Business Journal, February 7)
$5 million gift from The Woodlands developer George Mitchell and his wife, Cynthia, to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to expand research at the university's George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (Houston Business Journal, February 6)
$3.5 million gift from the Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to the University of Miami to create, evaluate, and implement new global news techniques at the Knight Center for International Media (Philanthropy News Digest, February 13)
$3.4 million in grants from the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation to partnerships in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin to reform adult education to better serve the Midwest labor market and promote regional growth (Philanthropy News Digest, February 13)
$3 million gift from Roy and Gretchen Jackson to the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine to endow a chair in the name of Dean Richardson (The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14)
$3 million gift from the Leon Lowenstein Foundation to White Plains Hospital Center to create the John & Maxine Bendheim Family Urgent Care Center on the second floor of the emergency department (The Journal News, February 12)
$3 million matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville to create a dedicated fund, to be called the Mellon Core, that will address building its endowment and attracting and retaining talented faculty (Philanthropy News Digest, February 10)
$3 million gift from the Leon S. Peters and Pete P. Peters foundations to Clovis Community Medical Center to support the Clovis hospital’s maternal child services including renovation of the hospital’s maternity department and creating space for additional labor and delivery beds (The Fresno Bee, February 10)
$2.6 million pledge from Willow Creek Community Church to continue to fight against AIDS and poverty in Africa in 2007 (Chicago Daily Herald, February 7)
$2 million gift from Cook Medical to Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute Foundation to establish the “Barry T. Katzen Medical Director Endowment Fund” (NewsRx.com, February 8)
$2 million pledge of property from Patricia N. Nanon to The Yard, an artists’ residence and performance venue on the island of Martha’s Vineyard (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$2 million gift from Truck OEM Paccar to Gonzaga University to build a new science center to be named the “Paccar Center for Applied Science” (Fleet Owner, February 20)
$2 million endowment from the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation in Columbus, Ohio to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for research at its Center for Chronic Disorders of Aging that studies age-related chronic diseases (Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31)
$2 million gift from Westboro-based National Grid and its employees to the United Way for undisclosed purposes (Worcester Business Journal, February 13)
$1.5 million from William Orthwein Jr. and Laura Rand Orthwein to St. Luke’s Hospital for the hospital’s Brain and Spine Center and the Cardiovascular Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (St. Louis Business Journal, February 5)
$1 million from Ward Bullock, an emeritus professor of medicine at UC, to the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center to fund research and education on infectious diseases (The Enquirer, February 20)
$1 million from the estate of Helen McLoraine to Colorado State University-Pueblo to fund scholarships for students from low-income or working-class families, first-generation college students, non-traditional students and students from traditionally under-represented groups (The Pueblo Chieftain, February 11)
$1 million from Bank of America to the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center to serve its four institutions—Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta University and Interdenominational Theological Center (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 16)
$1 million from Judith and Albert Glickman of Cape Elizabeth to the Spring Harbor Hospital to establish the Glickman Family Center for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hospital (MaineToday.com, February 15)
$1 million gift from AT&T to the Atlanta History Center to support educational outreach (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 13)
$1 million gift from AT&T to the Piedmont Park Conservancy to support its current capital campaign (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, February 13)
$1 million from an anonymous donor through the Valade Family Trust to Lyndon State College to be used in various ways including $100,000 for academic support, $200,000 for honors programs, $100,000 lectures in the arts, $200,000 faculty department, and $325,000 for matching endowment funds (The Caledonian-Record, February 10)
$1 million pledge from Countess Henrietta de Hoernle, of Boca Raton, to Caldwell Theatre to support its capital campaign to build a new theater (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to St. Thomas University to help build and support a science and technology building (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$1 million gift from Sara Blakely, Spanx founder, through The Sara Blakely Foundation to The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation to help fund its educational initiatives (Oprah.com Press Release, February 1)
$1 million+ from Dr. Ishwar Dass and his wife to McLaren Regional Medical Center for an undetermined use (The Flint Journal, January 31)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to Hillsdale County Community Foundation to support human services (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$1 million pledge from Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger, a restaurateur in Colorado, to Bennington College to support science programs and a collaborative project with the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 6)
$1 million gift from the Suzanne & Richard Pieper Family Foundation to Lawrence University in Appleton to establish an endowed professorship for the purpose of fostering and promoting the concept of altruistic leadership at the school (Philanthropy News Digest, February 4)
$1 million gift from Bruce McLaughlin to Trillium Health Centre to further the cause of the hospital and to name a suite of three cardiac operating rooms after Mr. McLaughlin’s wife, Patricia McLaughlin (The Mississauga News, January 30)

January 2007

$130 million gift over the next 20 years from Kosair Charities to Kosair Children’s Hospital to ensure a stream of funds to treat children whose families cannot afford to pay (The Courier-Journal, January 16)
$100 million gift from the Warren Alpert Foundation to Brown University to enlarge, enhance and rename its medical school (The Providence Journal, January 29)
$75 million gift from the Schmidt Family Foundation to Boca Raton Community Hospital to fund The Charles E. Schmidt Medical Center which is expected to be completed in 2011 and will feature 530 private patient rooms (Boca Raton Community Hospital, January 30)
$52 million gift from the estate of Khoo Teck Puat to Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School to grow the school’s medical research initiatives, especially in infectious diseases (Channel NewsAsia, January 17)
$35 million gift from billionaire biopharmaceutical executive Patrick Soon-Shiong and his wife, Michele Chan, to Saint John’s Health Center to go towards rebuilding costs to replace the half-century-old facility with a state-of-the-art hospital (www.surfsantamonica.com, January 18)
$35 million gift from Jaylee Montague Mead and her husband, Gilbert D. Mead, to Arena State to help renovate its facilities and build a theater campus (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$30 million gift from Leonore Annenberg to Eisenhower Medical Center’s $400 million capital campaign (The Desert Sun, January 12)
$27.5 million gift from W. Hall Wendel, Jr., a retired chairman and chief executive of Polaris Industries, to the Mayo Clinic to support their Musculoskeletal Center and research fund (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 12)
$25 million gift from Dr. Phillips Charities to the Orlando Performing Arts Center to fund general expenses (Email, December 18)
$25 million gift from Bill Greehey, chairman of Valero Energy Corp., to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and will go towards the development of modern cancer research laboratories, assisting the university in recruiting high-caliber clinicians and scientists, funding scholarships to attract students interested in the fields of children’s health, and supporting community outreach programs geared toward pediatric patients and their families (Austin Business Journal, January 19)
$20 million gift from Sherman Smith, founder of Service Drilling Company in Tulsa, to Oklahoma State University to support a new sports facility (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 12)
$20 million gift from John A. Sabrato and his family to Santa Clara University to help fund the construction of the new Learning Commons and Library on the University’s campus (Business Wire, January 28)
$20 million gift from Suzanne and Wesley Dixon to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to help translate laboratory experiments into bedside treatments (Chicago Business, January 10)
$20 million gift from the Aslam Foundation to the University of Utah’s College of Pharmacy to help with the design and construction of a new research facility (www.ksl.com, January 8)
$16 million pledge from Barry Kaye to Florida Atlantic University to enhance the College of Business (South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 11)
$15 million+ in grants from BP America and the BP Foundation to KCET in Los Angeles with the largest portion going towards supporting the national rollout and distribution of A Place of Our Own, the Peabody Award-winning series for parents, grandparents, and caregivers of preschool age children, and its Spanish-language version, Los Niños en Su Casa (Philanthropy News Digest, January 11)
$15 million gift from Helen and Robert Appel to Weill Cornell Medical College to establish the Appel Institute for Alzheimer's Research at the Medical College (Medical News Today, January 2)
$15 million gift from Ralph J. Roberts, founder and retired chairman of Comcast, to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia to help build and equip a proton-therapy center to treat cancer (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$12.5 million gift from Micron to Boise State University’s business school (www.fox12news.com, January 19)
$12.5 million gift from a settlement of the BP refinery explosion to the University of Texas Medical Branch’s Truman G. Blocker Burn Unit (The Baytown Sun, December 15)
$10 million gift from the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation to UC Berkeley’s Center for Weight and Health to help advance its research on the roots and effects of childhood obesity (Daily Californian, January 26)
$10 million pledge from Dorothy McIlvain Scott to the Baltimore Museum of Art to fund expansion of its American collection of furniture and decorative arts into the present day (The Baltimore Sun, January 17)
$10 million gift from co-founder of Aflac, Paul Amos, and his wife, Jean, to Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY to provide an endowment for the seminary’s doctoral program in biblical studies (Lexington Herald-Leader, January 23)
$7 million gift from Carl J. Shapiro to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to support renovations and expansion (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$6 million gift from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation to Johns Hopkins University to fund their eye-research institute (Dallas Morning News, December 28)
$6 million gift from an anonymous donor to Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle to build a penguin exhibit and a new entrance to the park (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$5.1 million gift from Jennifer A. Chalsty to Liberty Science Center to help build its Center for Learning and Teaching (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$5 million gift from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation to Texas Woman’s University to fund a health-sciences center (Dallas Morning News, December 28)
$5 million gift from David Rubenstein, a Johns Hopkins University trustee and managing director of the Carlyle Group, to Johns Hopkins University to support the new and only Hopkins outpatient facility exclusively devoted to children and adolescent health care (www.exduco.net, January 29)
$5 million pledge from Art and Patricia Modell to help start a public boarding school for disadvantaged students when an anticipated open date of Fall 2008 (The Baltimore Sun, January 17)
$5 million gift from T. Boone Pickens to The University of Texas at Dallas to fund educational and research initiatives in the area of brain science (AScribe Newswire, January 22)
$5 million in grants from Exxon Mobil Foundation to organizations that help to improve education and opportunities for women and girls in developing countries (M2 Communications, January 22)
$5 million gift from Jim and Jackie Lee Houston to Eisenhower Medical Center’s expansion efforts (The Desert Sun, January 12)
$5 million pledge from Sheila C. Johnson, a co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, to the University of Virginia to establish a center for human services at its Curry School of Education (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$5 million pledge from John Randall Cook to Longwood University to endow scholarships and support programs (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$3.8 million bequest from the estate of Florence Weaver to Summa Health System to support cardiac treatment and research at Akron City Hospitals (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$4 million unrestricted bequest from the late Wynonia Pallmeyer to the town of Grandview, TX and the Grandview Nursing Home (Associated Press, January 24)
$3.5 million gift from Robert G. and Jean A. Reid, UW alumni and the former owners of Reid Sand & Gravel, to the University of Washington School of Nursing to establish an endowment for the school’s current and future deans (Puget Sound Business Journal, January 23)
$3 million gift from Bruce Bacon to the University of Kentucky’s College of Social Work to create and endow the H. Otto Kaak Chair in Early Childhood Mental Health (www.Kentucky.com, January 21)
$3 million from the Welborn Baptist Foundation to 42 area nonprofit organizations targeting areas such as early childhood education, faith-based programs and improvements in community health (Courier Press, December 1)
$2.5 million gift from Stuart S. Piltch to Hobart and William Smith Colleges to help support its capital campaign (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$2.5 million gift from Melvin J. and Claire Levine to Palm Beach Zoo to help construct a new animal hospital (Palm Beach Daily News, January 17)
$2.5 million gift from Tom Ryan, CEO of CVS, and his wife, Cathy, to the University of Rhode Island’s College of Pharmacy to support several of its programs and initiatives (The Providence Journal, January 19)
$2.5 million from Billy Webster, retired CEO and vice chairman of Advance America, and his wife, Liza, to Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System for a women’s health center focused on breast cancer (www.goupstate.com, January 22)
$2.5 million endowment from the Mellon Foundation to the University of Pennsylvania for a new interdisciplinary program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionality (U-WIRE, January 8)
$2 million unrestricted gift from Tom and Betty Scott to the University of Missouri-Columbia’s College of Veterinary Medicine (Columbia Tribune, January 8)
$2 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to Three Square, a collaborative effort to enhance the production of delivery of meals to residents of Las Vegas are who lack sufficient food (Philanthropy News Digest, January 17)
$2 million gift from Cook Medical to Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute Foundation to establish the “Barry T. Katzen Medical Director Endowment Fund” (Genetic Engineering News, January 18)
$2 million pledge over the next two years from Sharon and Timothy Ubben of Glencoe, IL to the Posse Foundation, to leverage college scholarships for public high school students across the country (Primezone Media Network, January 9)
$2 million bequest from Brady P. Gentry to Southern Methodist University to endow scholarships (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$1.75 million anonymous gift to Noble Hospital to go directly towards acquiring the latest mammography technology and providing funds for additional capital improvements (The Republican, January 27)
$1.5 million gift from PACCAR Inc. of Bellevue, Washington to the University of North Texas to benefit research and teaching in the UNT College of Engineering (University of North Texas News Service, December 20)
$1.5 million gift from Char and Chuck Fowler to Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital to fund the first endowed chair in the United States for adolescent and young adult cancer, and the Angie Fowler Adolescent and Young Adult Treatment Suite in the new cancer outpatient space being built at Rainbow (PRNewswire, January 9)
$1.5 million gift from Donald and Irene Dizney of Windermere to the University of Florida to establish the Donald R. Dizney Chair in Addiction Medicine in order for scientists to study the addictive behavior (www.Gainesville.com, January 10)
$1.5 million gift from State Farm Companies Foundation to YMCA for a new Bloomington-Normal YMCA building (www.pantagraph.com, January 11)
$1.5 million grant from the Pittsburgh-based Richard King Mellon Foundation to Seton Hill University to support the construction of its performing arts center in downtown Greensburg (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January 17)
$1.5 million gift from The William I. and Patricia S. Snyder Foundation to the Sewickley Valley Hospital Foundation to support the Emergency Department capital campaign (Heritage Valley Health System Press Release, January 18)
$1.3 million bequest from the estate of Harry Boone to the Chi Omega Foundation (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$1.25 million grant from the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation to the MetroHealth medical system to help fund a new center that MetroHealth and three other organizations are developing to provide one-stop, comprehensive health care for senior citizens (The Plain Dealer, January 12)
$1 million gift from Governor Huckabee to the University of Arkansas Medical Science as seed money for a cancer research center in honor of late Lt. Governor Win Rockefeller (www.kait8.com, December 28)
$1 million gift from Acusis CEO William Benter to the University of Pittsburgh to establish the University Center for International Studies endowed visiting professorship in contemporary international issues (Pittsburgh Business Times, January 8)
$1 million gift from Brown Badgett Sr., founder and chief executive officer of Brown Badgett Enterprises, to Madisonville Community College to help build a new technology center (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$1 million gift from Capital Federal Foundation of Topeka, KS to the University of Kansas to fund a new professorship that will help the University coordinate a statewide network of cancer care providers that will reach out to patients battling cancer (www.kumc.edu, January 17)
$1 million unrestricted gift from Al “Corky” Angelo Jr. and Linda Angelo to Southwest Washington Medical Center (The Columbian, January 21)
$1 million gift from Wink and Libba Hartman to the Kansas Humane Society to help build the organization’s new animal care center (The Wichita Eagle, January 18)
$1 million gift from Jackie Flanagan to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to help support its cause which is to fund HIV-AIDS projects for women in sub-Saharan African countries (The Chronicle Herald, January 20)
$1 million gift from Dan Amos, chairman and chief executive office of Aflac, and his wife, Kathelen, to Columbus Technical College’s campaign to develop local work force of much-needed health care professionals (The Ledger-Enquirer, January 20)
$1 million gift from Charles Hammond, Jr. to the University of Illinois to create a scholarship intended for students from Fulton County, IL who attend the University, with preference to students from Hammond’s hometown of Canton, IL (U-WIRE, January 22)
$1 million gift from Irwin M. Jacobs and his wife, Joan, to the San Diego Natural History Museum to support an exhibition of the Dead Sea scrolls and related artifacts (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$1 million gift from the Col. Harland Sanders Foundation Inc. to Jewish Hospital Shelbyville in Kentucky to help fund their project to expand and renovate the hospital’s emergency room (Business First of Louisville, January 4)
$1 million gift from Jerome B. Miller, a pediatric dentist in Oklahoma City, to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation to support pediatric dental education (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 8)
$1 million gift from Karl Watson to Immaculate Heart High School in Arizona to support the school’s capital campaign (The Arizona Daily Star, January 9)
$1 million anonymous gift to the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival to create an endowment fund (The Baltimore Sun, January 9)
$1 million gift from Danny and Liz King to Sevier County for a library that will be named after the family (KnoxNews.com, January 8)
$1 million gift from John A. Cable to Lehigh University to support construction costs of an arrival court at the University’s Alumni Memorial Building (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January8)
$1 million in grants from The Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation to 33 nonprofit organizations in Texas and Arkansas to support programs serving the elderly, children and youth (Dallas News, January 8)
$1 million gift from CIGNA to Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. to help build a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C. (CIGNA Press Release, January 14)

December 2006

$83.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fuel the fight against malaria, funneling the money towards such efforts as developing a vaccine to beat back the disease (Red Herring, December 11)
$50 million gift from trustee emeritus William Polk Carey of W.P. Carey & Co. to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to go toward the creation of the university’s first separate business school (B-School News, December 5)
$35 million from physicist Gilbert Mead and his wife, astronomer Jaylee Mead, to Arena Stage to construct a campus in Washington that will include three theaters, classrooms, rehearsal halls and apartments for artists to live, work and perform (Associated Press, December 6)
$15 million gift from Brian L. Roberts, CEO of Comcast, and his family to the cancer center at the University of Pennsylvania to support a new $144 million proton-therapy center at the University (The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 8)
$10 million gift from insurance giant New York Life to the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College to establish The New York Life Endowment for Emerging African-American Issues at the Powell Center (Daily News, December 6)
$10 million in grants from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trust to several nonprofit organizations in the Chicago area. The amounts range from $25,000 to $1.5 million. (Chicago Tribune, December 12)
$6 million in technology grants from The AT&T Foundation to more than 480 regional and local nonprofit organizations in and surrounding San Antonio (San Antonio Express-News, December 7)
$6 million from Les and Pam Muma to University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital to focus on research and care for newborns (Tampa Bay Business Journal, December 6)
$5 million in grant funds from CVS/pharmacy Charitable Trust to non-profit organizations across the U.S. for programs serving children with disabilities (CVS Corporation Press Release, December 7)
$4 million gift from Marilyn Ziering to the Los Angeles Opera to feature the work of composers whose work was affected by the politics of Nazi Germany (Associated Press, December 10)
$2 million gift from Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile Jr. to the St. Elizabeth Medical Center Foundation to add four rooms to the free-standing hospice that is scheduled to open in March (The Kentucky Post, December 6)
$2 million gift from Dave and Penny Lowther of Philomath to Trillium Family Services to jump-start renovations at the Trillium Children’s Farm Home campus in Corvallis (Portland Business Journal, December 6)
$1.6 million from William and Pamela Myers of Miami through the Sara H. Myers estate to the Manatee Community Foundation to be applied to the Myers Family Charitable Fund (Bradenton Herald, December 12)
$1.25 million gift from Lea’s Foundation for Leukemia Research to the Health Center of Connecticut to establish a new center to study and treat blood diseases (University of Connecticut Press Release, December 11)
$1 million gift from The Pevehouse Family to the Peterson Regional Medical Center for its construction (The Daily Times (Texas), December 9)
$1 million gift from Chedoke Health Corporation to the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice to help with its construction (Stoney Creek News (Canada), December 8)
$1 million gift from David and Ann Trick to the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital to pay for medical equipment (Brockville Recorder & Times, December 8)
$1 million gift from American Furniture Warehouse founder and president Jake Jabs to Denver-based Project CURE, a nonprofit relief agency that collects medical supplies and equipment and delivers them to hospitals and clinics in more than 100 developing nations (www.ncbr.com, December 8)
$1 million gift from actress Jada Pinkett Smith to her high school, Baltimore School for the Arts, to fund the new school theatre (World Entertainment News Network, December 12)
$1 million gift from the estate of Waukesha, Wisconsin couple Lester and Marie Winzenried to Carroll College to provide scholarships in perpetuity for students at the college (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 7)
$1 million endowment from KMTelecom to the Rochester Area Foundation to support local charities (Post-Bulletin, December 7)
$1 million gift from John and Susan Sykes through the John H. Sykes Foundation to The Florida Orchestra to be used for day-to-day operations (Tampa Tribune, December 7)
$50 million gift to Butler and Purdue universities to fund pharmacy education and research as well as to reduce medication errors and boost public health initiative. The two universities will receive $25 million each. (IndyStar.com, December 13)
$40 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Hewlett Foundation to support third world schools (M2 Communications, December 19)
$30 million gift from Monte Ahuja and his family to University Hospitals, a major nonprofit hospital chain, to support UH’s $1.2 billion five-year strategic plan called Vision 2010 (DailyIndia.com, December 14)
$25 million pledge from an anonymous engineering alumnus and his wife to Marquette University’s College of Engineering to further its purpose (Associated Press, December 19)
$10 million gift from Table Mountain Rancheria to Fresno State’s library to fund the library’s new north wing (The Fresno Bee, December 15)
$5.3 million bequest from the late Lucy Tull to the Salisbury University Foundation to benefit nursing and other medical profession programs (www.delmarvanow.com, December 15)
$5 million challenge grant from the Hersh Foundation to support the construction of the Robert K. Hoffman Center on the St. Mark’s School campus (Dallas Morning News, December 10)
$5 million trust fund set up by Carbondale philanthropist Jim Calaway to help several nonprofit organizations, many in the Roaring Fork Valley from Glenwood Springs to Aspen (The Daily Sentinel, December 18)
$3.5 million bequest from William G. “Bill” Sackett through The Sackett-Graves fund to the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust which has permanent endowments and distributes income annually to charitable organizations in Central Virginia (Lynchburg News & Advance, December 16)
$2 million pledge from Julie and Kenneth A. Hersh to St. Alcuin to jumpstart the capital campaign to build the Galbraith Family Middle School (Dallas Morning News, December 10)
$1.5 million in grants and distributions from the Beazley Foundation to agencies and programs serving the community (The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, December 14)
$1.2 million unrestricted gift from Patrick and Jill McCuan and the McCuan Family Trust to Howard Community College in Columbia (The Baltimore Sun, December 14)
$1 million gift from T. Boone Pickens to the $275 million campaign for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (Dallas Morning News, December 19)
$1 million gift from Harley-Davidson, Inc. to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to fund the UWM Research Foundation that will invest in patents, company spin-offs and entrepreneurialism (www.totalmotorcycle.com, December 15)
$1 million challenge gift from Zdenek Bakala, a Czech financier who is chairman of that country’s largest black-coal mining company, to Hilton Head Preparatory School’s capital fundraising campaign (The Island Packet, December 16)
$1 million gift from Verizon Foundation to benefit the Community Partnership Schools in Los Angeles (Los Angeles Daily News, December 14)
$1 million gift from the Miami-based Knight Foundatin to help build the new $85 million National Infantry Museum near Fort Benning (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, December 15)
$20 billion endowment from Hank Greenberg and three other men of American International Group to fund a new foundation called Starr International Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, which will focus on a broad range of international education, medical and cultural causes (www.theaustralian.news.com, December 23)
$135 million gift from T. Boone Pickens to set up a charitable foundation named T. Boone Pickens Foundation which will give to educational programs, medical research, athletics and other causes (Dallas Business Journal, December 22)
$24 million gift from the Roland S. Boreham Jr. Living Trust to six different organizations: First Presbyterian Church of Fort Smith, The Salvation Army in Fort Smith, United Way of Fort Smith Area, the Sparks Health System, the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, and the University of Arkansas—Fort Smith (www.uafortsmith.edu, December 21)
$20 million in grants from the Champlin Foundations to several nonprofit organizations with the largest beneficiaries being open space, conservation and parks and the environmental organizations (www.wpri.com, December 22)
$15 million gift from Neuberger Berman managing director Robert Appel to establish a research center for Alzheimer’s disease at Cornell University’s medical school (www.bloomberg.com, December 19)
$4.25 million gift from Venture Philanthropy Partners to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington which will be used to round out its management team, implement program standards tied to specific outcomes, develop a club-location strategy, improve information technology and establish long-term financial sustainability (Washington Business Journal, December 20)
$4 million pledge from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation to help build a new senior center in Fayetteville, Arkansas (www.todaysthv.com, December 20)
$4 million gift from the Starr International Foundation to Doctors Without Borders to help fund their mission (www.theaustralian.news.com, December 23)
$2 million grant from the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to assist the residents of Cameron Parish, Louisiana (www.prenewswire.com, December 20)
$1 million gift from the Richmond-based Burford Leimenstoll Foundation to the University of Virginia Child Health Advocacy Program to provide critical assistance for families who are treated at University of Virginia Children’s Hospital (www.virginia.com, December 20)

November 2006

$120 million gift from the estate of Daniel K. Ludwig, a New York businessman who founded the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the early 1970s, to six cancer research organizations that include: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston; Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York; Stanford University, in Palo Alto, CA; and the University of Chicago. The organizations will receive at least $20 million each. (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 14)
$15 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help low-performing schools in California which will be determined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (Associated Press, November 14)
$10 million gift from the family of Charles Lakin to help build a nonprofit human services campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa (www.woi-tv.com, November 13)
$10 million gift from the Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation to Riley Hospital for Children in Indiana to help offer better care for children with diabetes and to help find a cure (The Indianapolis Star, November 13)
$6 million gift from the St. David’s Community Health Foundation to help Texas State University—San Marcos establish a nursing program (Austin Business Journal, November 9)
$5 million gift from T. Boone Pickens to Texas Women’s University to go towards a $32 million Health-Sciences Center which will be named after Pickens (WFAA.com, November 7)
$3 million gift from Carmelo Anthony to Syracuse University to create a new basketball practice facility (Associated Press, November 7)
$2.5 million gift from the Kaplan Family Foundations to the Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center to help with the construction of a new building (Times Herald-Record, November 13)
$2.5 million gift from Alan and Marilyn Korest to the Florida Gulf Coast University’s music program that opened this fall (www.news-press.com, November 10)
$2.2 million pledge from The Ford Foundation of the US to help carry out health and environment projects in Vietnam (www.VietNamNet.com, November 11)
$2 million gift from Carole and Ray Neag to the UConn Health Center to make available a revolutionary new cancer treatment (University of Connecticut press release, November 13)
$2 million gift from Tim Hortons founder Ron Joyce to the IWK Health Centre in Nova Scotia to be earmarked for the construction of modern operating rooms (www.thechronicleherald.com, November 12)
$1 million gift over the next five years to Texas Exes alumni association members Jane and John Barnhill to the organization’s bimonthly magazine, The Alcalde (U-WIRE, November 8)
$1 million gift from Torrance-based Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc. to Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute to help pay for construction of one of the new buildings planned to modernize the campus (www.DailyBreeze.com, November 12)
$1 million gift from the Community Foundation Silicon Valley to De Anza College to expand its nursing program (www.lavozdeanza.com, November 13)
$1 million lead gift from Homer and Dolly Hand to Stetson University to help build an art center (Southwest Florida Online, November 13)
$60 million gift from Fort Worth billionaire Ed Bass to Yale University to pay for the renovation and construction of facilities for the sciences. (Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 5)
$50 million gift from anonymous donors to the University of Tennessee where half of the monies will go towards the Athletic department, about 80% of the other half will go towards the College of Veterinary Medicine, and the remaining will go towards the College of Engineering (www.volunteertv.com, November 3)
$50 million gift from the Starr Foundation to The Rockefeller University to create the Starr Fund for Collaborative Science at the University that will promote and enhance scientific exchange and shared knowledge (Newswire, November 1)
$8 million from Bob Wegman to the Fisher School of Nursing in Rochester, NY to help pay for the completion of the school (13wham.com, November 1)
$5 million pledge from Armonk couple David and Mary Boies to Northern Westchester Hospital to fund a new emergency room (1010wins.com, October 31)
$4 million pledge from Paramount Farms to Children’s Hospital to help care for children in Central California (www.PRWeb.com, November 3)
$2.5 million gift over a five-year period to five nonprofit centers: Baptist Health, Flagler Hospital, Mayo Clinic of Jacksonville, Shands Jacksonville and St. Vincent’s Medical Center. The monies will be used to support stroke research and deliver health care to inner city neighborhoods and rural communities. (www.weartv.com, November 6)
$2 million gift from Earle P. “Chuck” Charlton II to St. Luke’s Hospital in Massachusetts to help the hospital approach its expansion fundraising goal of $33 million (Herald News, November 2)
$2 million gift from William and Amanda Madar of Cleveland to the Cleveland Clinic’s Neurological Institute to establish an endowed chair and professorship within the institute (wkyc.com, November 1)
$2 million gift from an anonymous donor to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute to help establish a center dedicated to increasing the number of patients enrolled in studies of new and improved treatments. (Buffalo News, October 31)
$1.5 million gift from the estate of Elsie Hoffman Burkhart to Medcenter One and its College of Nursing to help fund rural health, scholarships, and cancer and heart research (www.bismarcktribune.com, November 3)
$1 million gift in the memory of longtime Glynn County educator, Carol Branch Palmatary, to Emory University Hospital’s Winship Cancer Institute to support scientific research into leukemia prevention, treatment and cures (The Times-Union, November 4)
$1 million gift from alumnus Estelle Wilhelm to the Syracuse University School of Information Studies to build a computer lab and classroom. (U-WIRE, October 31)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to the Texas Children’s Hospital Cancer Center to advance the efforts at the hospital (Houston Chronicle, November 2)
$261.5 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to Emory University to help fund strategic projects, including building a new model patient-centered health-care system, building a new clinic, contributing to “The President’s Fund” to promote the school’s leadership, and renovating the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building (Atlanta Business Chronicle, November 17)
$225 million pledge from David Rockefeller, the 91-year-old financier and last living child of John D. Rockefeller Jr., to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to support the foundation’s works. The gift will be made as a bequest from his estate after his death. (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$60 million gift from Edward P. Bass, chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm in Fort Worth, to Yale University to renovate and build science facilities (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$50 million gift from Melvin and Bren Simon of Indianopolis to the Indiana University Cancer Center to support both cancer research and patient-care initiatives (Indiana University Press Release, November 20)
$30 million gift from Irwin M. Jacobs, a co-founder and chairman of Qualcomm, and his wife, Joan, to the American Technion Society to found a graduate school at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$25 million in grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to four of the Bay Area’s premier performing arts institutions to pursue projects that range from education programs for youth to commissioning new works. The recipients are as follows: San Francisco Symphony, $5 million; San Francisco Opera, $10 million; American Conservatory Theater, $5 million; San Francisco Ballet, $5 million. (www.hewlitt.org, November 16)
$25 million gift from William and Joan Schreyer to Penn State University to help fund the Schreyer Honors College (The Patriot-News, November 18)
$25 million gift from Dorrance H. “Dodo” Hamilton, granddaughter of Campbell Soup founder John T. Dorrance, to the University of the Arts to fund its endowment (Associated Press, November 16)
$20 million gift from the late Elsa Farr to Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network to support nurses returning to school, attending regional and national conferences and earning certifications in special areas of care (The Morning Call, November 17)
$15 million gift from an anonymous donor to City of Hope, in Duarte, CA, to build its Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology (The Chroncle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$15 million gift from Leland Pillsbury, a co-founder and chief executive officer of Thayer Lodging Group, in Annapolis, MD, and his wife, Mary, to Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration to support the Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$10 million gift from The Aslam Foundation to the School of Pharmacy at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to help pay for construction of a new building (The Denver Business Journal, November 15)
$10 million gift from Timothy and Sharon Ubben to the Posse Foundation to help fund its endowment campaign (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$10 million gift from Timoth O’Neill, a managing director of Goldman Sachs, in New York, and his wife, Linda, to Georgetown University to create an institute for national- and global-health law (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$10 million gift from Nancy B. Hamon to Presbyterian Healthcare System, in Dallas, to support its expansion project (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$9.6 million gift from an anonymous donor to the College of William and Mary to go towards its visual arts program (Daily Press, Newport News, November 15)
$5 million gift from Dr. Phillips Charities to the Orlando Regional Healthcare Foundation to double the size of the Orlando Regional Sand Lake Hospital (Orlando Business Journal, November 15)
$5 million gift from William B. Quarton to Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa to help fund its endowment (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$5 million gift from businessman and philanthropist David Mugar to Cape Cod Hospital to help finish building a new patient wing. Mr. Mugar donated $5 million to the same project four years ago. (Cape Cod Times, November 15)
$3 million challenge gift from an anonymous donor to Childrens Hospital Los Angeles to provide space for the Childrens Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases in its new building (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 22)
$2 million gift from John S. “Jack” Cullen, founder and head of Multisorb Technologies Inc. of West Seneca, NY, to St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute to construct new science labs and classrooms and to fund the annual school musical (The Buffalo News, November 17)
$2 million gift over the next four years from Ezekiel Dumke to Weber State University’s pre-medical program to enhance student opportunities for undergraduate research (The Salt Lake Tribune, November 17)
$1.5 million gift from Rockville, MD businesswoman Helen G. Nassif to St. Luke’s hospital to create a new main entrance by February 2008 (The Gazette, November 20)
$1 million gift from the Columbus Regional Medical Foundation and St. Francis Hospital to Columbus Technical College’s capital campaign which will fund construction of a health sciences facility (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, November 16)
$1 million gift from the estate of Robin Weeks to the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine to help ensure the construction of new facilities (Alligator Online, November 20)
$1 million unrestricted gift from Rochester entrepreneur and renowned wine connoisseur, Sherwood I. Deutsch, to Strong Memorial Hospital (www.media-newswire.com, November 16)
$1 million pledge from Doug Harvey, president and CEO of Maxim Transportation, to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights to help with the $161 million fundraising goal (www.winnipegfreepress.com, November 18)
$1 million unrestricted gift from retailer Target to the Salvation Army (www.eurweb.com. November 17)
$1 million gift from Georgia philanthropist Jane Seddon Wilson to Children’s Hospital Central California to grow an endowment designed to help the Children’s Hospital Heart Center continue to provide world-class care to Central Valley children (PRWeb, November 17)
$137.1 million in grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to a total of 235 organizations whose missions range from the environment and education to global development and the performing arts (PNNOnline.org, November 27)
$29.5 million gift from the R.P. Simmons family to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to be used as a catalyst for a major endowment campaign (Philanthropy News Digest, November 27)
$25 million unrestricted gift from the R.B. Terry Charitable Foundation in High Point, North Carolina to Woodberry Forest, a boys boarding school in Woodberry, Virginia (Philanthropy News Digest, November 26)
$7 million gift from Steve G. Stevanovich, founder of an asset management firm with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, to the University of Chicago’s Center for Financial Mathematics to fund renovations and further the Center’s mission (Ascribe Newswire, November 27)
$5 million gift from the family of Adam Williams to Mission Hospital to go toward the construction of a neuroscience floor. Adam Williams was a patient of Mission Hospital six years ago. (Los Angeles Times, November 22)
$2 million gift from brothers Alberto and Jose Perez to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to endow a permanent chair for ALS research (The Miami Herald, November 28)
$1.9 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Bellevue Schools Foundation to develop a Web-based curriculum that improves student achievement within the Bellevue School District (Philanthropy News Digest, November 28)
$1 million gift from Joan and Irwin Jacobs to National Public Radio and member station KPBS-FM to strengthen the San Diego station’s local journalism efforts and its news collaboration with NPR (Philanthropy News Digest, November 25)
$1 million gift from alumna Tonie Staudenmaier Wallace-Aitken and her husband, Greig Aitken, to the Catholic High School of Baltimore to support technology upgrades and possibly aid in renovating some facilities (Philanthropy News Digest, November 26)
$1 million gift from Beth Houston and Scott Wagman and their families to Great Explorations, the Children’s Museum, to help establish an endowment and to operate debt-free (St. Petersburg Times, November 22)
$1 million gift from the family of the late Cheryl Brown who died of ovarian cancer in 1993 to Ovarian Cancer Canada and the BC Cancer Agency for the Cheryl Brown Outcome Unit (Vancouver Sun, November 27)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to Itasca Hospice Partners to go towards the construction of a new Hospice House proposed for Grand Rapids (Herald-Review, November 27)

October 2006

$50 million gift—$25 million from Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg, through his family foundation, and $25 million from The Starr Foundation—to Yale University to create the Maurice R. Greenberg Yale-China Initiative, advancing the University’s collaborations with China in critical areas (M2 Communications, September 29)
$25 million gift from the Leona and Harry Helmsely charitable trust to New York Presbyterian Hospital to expand the hospital’s comprehensive digestive diseases programs and to help create four futuristic operating rooms (Associated Press, October 2)
$18.5 million gift from Peter Munk to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to further the long-term sustainability of the state of Israel (TheGlobeandMail.com, September 29)
$10.5 million gift from Roger Howe and his wife, Joyce, to Miami University’s “For Love and Honor” campaign to create the new Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence (The Journal-News, September 25)
$5 million gift from Doug Berthiaume and his wife, Diana, to the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts to benefit the curriculums within the School of Management (U-WIRE, September 26)
$4.5 million gift from Harold and Phyllis Thomas to Idaho Northwest Nazarene University to expand a new health and science center (Idaho Press Tribune, October 2)
$4 million gift from the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation to the University of Michigan to establish the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Flight Vehicle Institute in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (The Regents of the University of Michigan, September 26)
$3.8 million bequest from Roberta Langtry, a former elementary school teacher who passed away last year, to the Nature Conservancy of Canada to buy more wetlands and preserve a rural area north of Toronto (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 29)
$3.6 million gift from Richard Strachan to Oregon State University to endow a faculty position that will support forest management research and a new OSU undergraduate degree that will blend forestry, new technology, business and entrepreneurship (U-WIRE, October 2)
$1 million gift from The Lutheran Foundation to Indiana University School of Medicine at Fort Wayne to establish The Lutheran Foundation Endowed Senior Professorship of Cardiovascular Research (Indiana University Media Relations, October 2)
$1 million gift from former University of Virginia football stars and current National Football League All-Pros, Ronde and Tiki Barber, to the University of Virginia to launch the University’s $3 billion campaign (Charlottesville News Plex, October 1)
$1 million gift from Marvin and Betty Danto to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art for children’s programs (Tampa Bay Business Journal, September 29)
$1 million gift upon his death from Donald Mickelwait to the University of Oregon’s libraries to be used at the library’s discretion (U-WIRE, September 26)
$50 million gift from Helen and Peter Bing to Stanford University to build a world-class concert hall that will provide a premier venue for both artists and audiences on the Stanford campus (Stanford Report, October 6)
$35 million unrestricted gift from Jeannik Littlefield to the San Francisco Opera to go into annual operating expenses and to augment the company’s endowment (Associated Press, October 4)
$30 million gift from Jay A. Precourt, chief executive officer of Hermes Consolidated Inc., to Stanford University to establish the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
$12.5 million gift from former Morgan Stanley Chairman and Chief Executive Philip Purcell to the University of Notre Dame, his alma mater, to endow a renovated basketball arena (Associated Press, October 5)
$10 million gift from Conrad Prebys, president of Progress Construction and Management Co., to Scripps Mercy Hospital’s emergency department and level 1 trauma services (San Diego Business Journal, October 9)
$10 million gift from American Express to The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation to go towards the construction of the memorial (Associated Press, October 5)
$9 million bequest from the family of Dr. C.W. Bixler to the University of Colorado to be divided equally into three endowments of $3 million and given to CU’s programs in architecture and planning, music, and art and art history (The Daily Times—Call, October 3)
$6 million gift from Margot and Ross Perot to Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation to establish the Margot Perot Center for Women and Infants at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano (The Dallas Morning News, October 10)
$5 million gift from Theodore and Linda Desloge Jr. to St. Luke’s Hospital to break ground on the new West Campus Outpatient Center which will be named after the couple (St. Louis Business Journal, October 4)
$1.5 million gift from Keith and Betty Beedie to the Burnaby Hospital Foundation to go towards the purchase of a MRI machine (NewsLeader, October 6)
$1.5 million gift from the National Football League to United Way of America to support long-term recovery efforts of communities that were affected by last year’s hurricanes and the 2004 tsunami in South Asia (San Antonio Business Journal, October 6)
$1.5 million grant over the next three years from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation to PATH Foundation to support green-space projects (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 5)
$1.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to The Opportunity Project, an early education program for children living in poverty, to establish a structured program designed to teach social and emotional learning skills to 3- and 4-year-old children (The Wichita Eagle, October 4)
$1 million gift from Dr. Monroe Trout and his wife, Sandra, to a University of the Cumberlands program that builds houses in Appalachia for those in need to provide a new house a year and to also add money to the university’s Trout Scholars Fund (Lexington Herald-Leader, October 4)
$1 million gift from Jay Shaw to Colgate University to support the school’s Wellness Initiative which seeks to help undergraduates establish healthy behavior patterns that extend beyond their time at college (Greenwich Time, October 4)
$100 million gift from biomedical entrepreneur and philanthropist Alfred E. Mann to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to establish a biomedical research institute which will concentrate on developing products based on the knowledge developed at the Technion in life sciences, biomedical engjneering, and medical instruments and equipment fields (Haaretz.com, October 12)
$50 million pledge over the next fifty years from Enterprise Rent-a-Car to the Nebraska City-based National Arbor Day Foundation to fund planting of 50 million trees over the next 50 years (Omaha World-Herald, October 12)
$10 million gift from Air Canada and WestJet to over 175 charitable organizations to benefit children and youth across Canada. The monies will be dispersed throughout the remainder of 2006, and Children’s Miracle Network has received the single largest donation of $2.5 million. (Newswire, October 12)
$5.5 million gift from Dr. Benjamin Schuster and his wife, Marian, to the new heart hospital on the Kettering Medical Center campus to complete the building project (Dayton Business Journal, October 12)
$2 million gift from an anonymous William Jewell alumna to the William Jewell College to break ground on a Sorority Complex and Greek Commons (Kansas City Star, October 17)
$1 million pledge from Martha Stewart to Northern Westchester Hospital’s emergency department to build a new department. Stewart will not give the money to the hospital until other donors give $2 million by the end of 2006. (Associated Press, October 17)
$1 million gift from Julia Irene Kauffman, daughter of the Kansas City Royals’ founder, to help build the Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center (Kansas City Star, October 15)
$1 million gift from Don Steininger, a commercial real estate developer and former president of the Community Foundation, and his wife, Kathy, to the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne in Indiana to build a 16,000 square-foot office on land donated by the Foellinger Foundation (The News-Sentinel, October 12)
$200 million gift from the late Joan Palevsky to the California Community Foundation to support a variety of civic and social causes. (Associated Press, October 30)
$50 million gift from Joseph and Wolf Lebovic, brothers who survived the Holocaust and went on to make their fortunes in real-estate development, to Mount Sinai Hospital in Canada to be distributed according to the needs of the hospital with the women’s and infants’ health unit as priorities. (GlobeandMail.com, October 27)
$25 million from Sheldon Adelson, and American billionaire who is considered the wealthiest Jew in the world, and his wife, Miriam, to Yad Vashem to expand its international activities in the area of Holocaust education. (Haaretz.com, October 27)
$5 million gift from Walt Disney Company to the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles to build a new hospital building. (Associated Press, October 30)
$4.3 million gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center to help pay for nurse training and new technology to prevent medication errors. (Mercury News, October 31)
$4 million gift from Paramount Farms, the world’s largest grower of tree crops, to Children’s Hospital of Central California to create an endowment for subsidizing patient care to patients in the San Joaquin Valley (ModBee.com, October 24)
$2.5 million from Carole and Ray Neag, Torrington natives who now live in New York, to the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington to allow the facility to become the first in New England to offer a new and innovative type of cancer treatment to patients from throughout the region (Republican-American, October 24)
$1 million grant from The Xerox Foundation to The Nature Conservancy to improve management of global forests. (Xerox Press Release, October 26)
$1 million from an anonymous donor to Dr. Barry Wolf, a Henry Ford Health System genetics expert who discovered a deficiency in newborns that led to widespread screening for the disorder, biotinidase deficiency, to continue his research. (Detroit Free Press, October 25)
$1 million gift from Sarah D. McKay to The Roux Library at Florida Southern College to pay for an archive wing with a space dedicated to preserving and displaying the drawings, notes and memorabilia of Frank Lloyd Wright. (The Ledger, October 27)
$1 million unrestricted gift from the estate of George W. Prentiss to Holyoke Medical Center. (MassLive.com, October 25)
$1 million gift from Sherry Gold to Albany Law School’s Law Clinic and Justice Center to establish the Barry A. Gold ’70 Health Law Clinical Endowment Fund. (The Business Review, October 25)

September 2006

$3 billion gift over ten years from Richard Branson, the U.K. billionaire who controls Virgin Group Ltd., to combat global warming. Branson made the commitment during the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York. (Bloomberg, September 21)
$175 million gift from filmmaker George Lucas, through Lucasfilm Foundation, to the University of Southern California’s film school with $75 million going towards new construction and $100 million for an endowment (United Press International, September 20)
$100 million gift from the Starr Foundation to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, the Rockefeller University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a Harvard and MIT-backed institute in Boston for creating a consortium for cancer research (The Sun, September 22)
$53 million gift--$26.5 million to Syracuse University and $26.5 million to Brown University—from the estate of Frederic N. Schwartz, the former chairman and chief executive of Bristol-Myers. Both gifts will support student scholarships. (Associated Press, September 20)
$50 million gift from John and Jacque Weberg of Phoenix, former retail furniture entrepreneurs, to Opportunity International, an Oak Brook, IL based nonprofit that works to help the poor in the developing world through microfinance (Business Week Online, September 21)
$40 million pledge from entrepreneur Steve Bing at the second annual Clinton Global Initiative last week for a clean energy campaign in California (U-WIRE, September 25)
$40 million pledge from Jonathan Tisch at the second annual Clinton Global Initiative last week to Tufts University for a school of public service (U-WIRE, September 25)
$15 million gift from Pfizer through Clinton’s Global Initiative to address critical treatment gaps in malaria. Pfizer will partner with leading international and local health organizations (Press Release, September 20)
$3 million gift from Charles P. Gallagher and his wife, Diane, to Central Catholic High School for completing the Gallagher Athletic Complex (The Blade, September 24)
$2.6 million bequest from the estate of Dr. David Shupp to the Horizons Foundation to benefit Horizons’ LGBT Community Endowment Fund (Bay Area Reporter, September 21)
$2 million gift from Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to two organizations, Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders, to support the organizations’ missions (Associated Press, September 20)
$2 million gift from the Wetzel Family to Healdsburg District Hospital for an expanded emergency department to be named after the Wetzel Family (San Francisco Business Times, September 19)
$1.5 million endowment from Pennsylvania couple Frederick R. and Barbara A. Engstrom to Cooper University Hospital for an endowment in the name of Dr. Edward Viner, chief of medicine at Cooper which will fund programs and research and at the department of medicine (CourierPostOnline.com, September 24)
$1 million gift from Dee Haslam and husband Jimmy, CEO of Pilot Corp., to Pellissippi State’s media technology program and fine arts to furnish and equip the new $6.5 million building (KnoxNews.com, September 25)
$1 million gift from Pat and Patricia Wilson to Stetson University for naming a 24-unit residential building on campus Maxcy Hall in memory of Patricia’s great-great grandfather (Orlando Business Journal, September 25)
$150 million gift, $100 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with $50 million from the Rockefeller Foundation, to launch a new initiative aimed at sparking a “Green Revolution” in Africa. The last Green Revolution, originating in the 1950s research of a wheat scientist at Washington State University which led to an international agricultural improvement scheme saved millions of lives worldwide in India, Asia and Latin America but skipped over Africa. (Seattle Post-Intelligence Reporter, September 13)
$100 million gift over the next five years from health insurer Highmark Inc. to child-related health programs in Pennsylvania (The Patriot-News, September 15)
$100 million gift from Ronald P. Stanton, chairman of petrochemical and fertilizer fuel company Transammonia Inc., to Yeshiva University in New York to further undergraduate Jewish education by recruiting top faculty, renovating and acquiring university facilities and supporting research and scholarships (Associated Press, September 13)
$50 million gift from billionaire financier and global philanthropist George Soros to the anti-poverty work of the Millennium Village project in Africa to reduce extreme poverty in African communities through a multi-pronged approach covering areas such as health, education and food productivity. The gift is being matched by other donors to bring the total contribution to $100 million. (Associated Press, September 13)
$30 million gift from financier William E. Macaulay to the City University of New York to make a permanent home for its esteemed Honors College (NY Post, September 14)
$25 million gift from Jill and John Freidenrich, alumni and longtime supporters of Stanford, to the Stanford University School of Medicine to boost its work in translational research in cancer and other diseases (BIOWIRE, September 14)
$10.5 million gift from Roger Howe, retired chairman and chief executive of U.S. Precision Lens, and his wife, Joyce, to Miami University to expand service at the school’s writing center (Associated Press, September 16)
$10 million gift from Robert Walter, founder and chairman of medical products and service company Cardinal Health, and his wife, Peggy, to the Columbus Museum of Art for undetermined use (The Beacon Journal, September 14)
$10 million gift from San Diego developer Conrad T. Prebys, president of Progress Construction and Management Co., to Scripps Mercy Hospital for help funding the new critical care facility being built (10News.com, September 14)
$5.7 million gift from Dr. Norman Levan to Bakersfield College for humanities programs, scholarships and building renovations (Turnto23.com, September 13)
$5 million gift from The Gerber Foundation to the new Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Michigan to help fund a neonatal intensive care unit (The Grand Rapids Press, September 15)
$5 million gift from Howard Phanstiel and his wife, Louise, to Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs for an endowed chair (The Daily Orange, September 18)
$5 million gift from family members of the late Marcy Horvitz to University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Ohio for its new pediatric emergency department (The Plain Dealer, September 13)
$5 million gift from Clayton L. Mathile and his wife, Mary Ann, to Ohio Northern University for help building science education and research facilities on campus. In addition to the $5 million gift, the Mathiles have also pledged an additional $5 million in matching funds. (The Lima News, September 13)
$5 million gift from previously anonymous donors, Julie Fisher Cummings and her real estate developer and philanthropist husband, Peter Cummings, to the Cranbrook Kingswood School in Michigan for help building a new middle school (Detroit Free Press, September 15)
$3.6 million gift from Richard Strachan, an alumnus of the Oregon State University College of Forestry, to the University in order to endow a faculty position that will support forest management research and a new OSU undergraduate degree that blends forestry, new technology, business and entrepreneurship (Medford News, September 12)
$3.5 million gift from Peter A. Thiel, co-founder and former chief executive of the Internet payment system PayPal, to the Methuselah Foundation in Springfield, VA to support controversial scientific research that seeks to help postpone the effects of aging (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 18)
$2.1 million gift from CVS/Pharmacy to the ALS Therapy Alliance to support a series of ASL (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) research initiatives at medical centers in Boston and throughout the world (NewsRx.com, September 14)
$2 million gift from Boston University alumnus Richard Cohen to the School of Management to create a new professorship chair to be filled by operations and technology management professor Michael Shwartz (U-WIRE, September 18)
$2 million gift from James M. Hull to Augusta State University for the College of Business Administration which will be renamed after Mr. Hull (The Augusta Chronicle, September 16)
$2 million gift from the Estate of Townsend Hornor to the National Marine Life Center in New England for help funding an expansion project at the NMLC’s Buzzard’s Bay facility (Cape Cod Today, September 12)
$2 million gift from McDonald’s Corp. to the La Jolla, California-based Scripps Institute to fund research and programs aimed at preventing childhood obesity (Daily Herald, September 14)
$2 million gift from The Libra Foundation to the New College of Florida for faculty development, scholarships and student research (The Bradenton Herald, September 13)
$1.3 million gift from the late Edna Diehl who was a high school teacher and counselor at Davison High School in Michigan to the Genessee County school district. The money will be held in trust by the Davison Educational Foundation, and the interest will be used to fund scholarships for at least five students each year. (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, September 12)
$1 million gift from QUALCOMM to the San Diego Police Foundation to buy handheld communication devices and geographic-based location equipment (Mobile Radio Technology, September 18)
$1 million gift from Penn National Gaming, Inc. to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical center for building Penn State Children’s Hospital (Business Wire, September 13)
$1 million gift, over a four-year period, from Tops Markets LLC to the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo for renovating the pediatric ambulatory surgery center. (Business First of Buffalo, September 12)
$1 million gift from North Texas auto dealer J.L. Huffines Jr. and his wife, Sydney Thweatt Huffines, to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation to go towards the completion of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts (The Dallas Morning News, September 11)
$1 million gift from the Noland Memorial Foundation to the Newport News surgery center run by Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters to help pay off building costs for the new center (Daily Press, September 18)
$23.5 million gift from the International Association of Fire Fighters to the Muscular Dystrophy Association during the Jerry Lewis annual Labor Day telethon which raised a record $61 million altogether (Associated Press, September 4)
$25 million gift from University of Hawaii and real estate mogul Jay Shidler to the College of Business Administration pending approval by the Board of Regents (U-WIRE, September 6)
$15 million gift from Monsanto Co. to the nonprofit Donald Danforth Plant Science Center where half of the gift will bolster the center’s endowment and the remaining monies will fuel work in Africa (St. Louis Post, September 5)
$15 million gift from Charles and Margaret Juravinski on their 50^th wedding anniversary to Hamilton, Ontario healthcare of which $10 million will go towards to the Hamilton Health Sciences’ Cornerstone of Care campaign, and $5 million will match other new donations from the community (The Hamilton Spectator, September 7)
$11.9 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to continue cardiovascular research (Dallas Business Journal, September 5)
$6 million gift from Eli and Edythe Broad to the Los Angeles Opera for presenting Richard Wagner’s epic “Der Ring des Nibelungen” for the first time (Associated Press, September 6)
$5 million gift from Tom and Carol Loser of Langhorne, PA to the College of New Jersey’s School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science in honor of the Losers’ 25^th wedding anniversary (Associated Press, September 10)
$5 million gift from the Murdough Foundation, whose President Thomas Murdough Jr. founded the toy companies Little Tykes and Step-Two, to the University Hospitals of Cleveland for research and treatment of the skin disease psoriasis (NewsNet5.com, September 5)
$2.92 million gift from an anonymous donor and the El Pomar Foundation to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado for funding the new Rocky Mountain Wild exhibit which will feature mountain lions, moose, and bald eagles (The Gazette, September 6)
$2.5 million gift from Ernie Townsend and his son, Josh, who co-own an Anaheim Hills Land Rover-Jaguar dealership to St. Joseph Hospital in California towards a new cancer center. Ernie Townsend was a cancer patient at the hospital three years ago and wanted to show his appreciation. (The Orange County Register, September 9)
$2.3 million gift from the John William Pope Foundation of Raleigh to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which will mostly go towards the football program as well as study-abroad and summer research fellowships for undergraduates who study Western cultures (The News & Observer, September 8)
$2 million gift from wrestling champ and film actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his wife to the University of Miami to help fund the construction of an alumni center on the school’s Coral Gables campus. A room will be named after the couple. (Associated Press, September 10)
$2 million gift from Dan Rather to his alma mater, Sam Houston State University for scholarships and discretionary spending in the school’s communications program (Associated Press, September 5)
$1 million gift from actor Denzel Washington to Save Africa’s Children, a charity based in Los Angeles that cares for orphans in Africa, towards finding homes for the 17 million children made orphans by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa (United Press International, September 10)
$1 million gift from Suzanne F. Cohen to the Baltimore Museum of Art to support its new policy of free admission to the public that begins on October 1 (The Baltimore Sun, September 11)
$1 million gift from Cook Group, Inc. to COPS (Concerns of Police Survivors), a nonprofit organization that provides money to families whose relatives were officers killed in the line of duty, for unrestricted use (Indiana Daily Student, September 8)
$1 million gift from the late Margaret W. Beckner, a former faculty member at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, to the center for establishing a distinguished chair in otolaryngology in honor of her late father, a West Virginia physician (Dallas Morning News, September 10)
$1 million gift from the Listwin Family Foundation to the Center for Children’s Brain Tumors at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital to fund research into medullablastoma, the most common primary central nervous system tumor that arises in childhood. A previous pledge from late 2005 by the San Diego-based Price Charities will match the Listwin donation. (Bay City News Service, September 6)
$1 million gift from The University of Western Ontario alumnus and owner and Chairman of the Trudell Medical Group, Mitch Baron, to the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry for assistance in fostering research and innovation (Western News, September 7)
$20 million gift from Leanor and Alvin Segal to the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada for a new cancer facility (CBC News, August 28)
$13.25 million gift from Pierre Lassonde to the David Eccles School of Business to create a new entrepreneur center that will be called Pierre Lassonde Entrepreneur Center (U-WIRE, August 29)
$5 million gift from Loyola University alumni John and Terese Terry to Loyola University Chicago for a new student center at the downtown campus (Chicago Tribune, September 5)
$2.2 million gift from the California Endowment to ten organizations in the San Joaquin Valley to advocate on behalf of Hmong health-care consumers (The Fresno Bee, September 4)
$2 million gift from Ann Arbor businessman Phil Jenkins to the University of Michigan Depression Center to support the research of a scientist whose work may help explain the disease’s roots in the brain (WebWire, August 30)
$1.35 million gift from Thomas and Georgia Gosnell to the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School to establish a faculty chair in Christian ethics (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, August 30)
$1.07 million gift from Heather Ryan and L. David Dubé to the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan for its equine and companion animal health programs (Equestrian News Release, August 29)
$1 million gift from Nonesuch Records, a division of Warner Music Group’s Warner Bros. Records, to Habitat for Humanity International for rebuilding homes in the Gulf Coast area (Market Wire, August 29)
$1 million gift over a two-year period from the AT&T Foundation to the Gulf Coast Library Recovery Initiative established by the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries for buying books and other educational materials for Louisiana and Mississippi public and private school libraries damaged by hurricanes last year (San Antonio Express-News, August 30)
$1.1 million gift from the PepsiCo Foundation to a pilot program at the University of Florida, called the Family Health Self-Empowerment Project, which will aim to increase health-promoting behaviors and prevent and modify obesity in low-income and ethnic minority families (University of Florida News, August 29)

August 2006

$1 billion gift in software from UGS Corporation to 50 engineering colleges and universities in Florida and four other states directly impacted by Hurricane Katrina and Rita (Orlando Business Journal, August 14)
$500 million gift over a five-year period from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to an international fund that provides AIDS assistance in poor countries, the Geneva-based, United Nations' Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Associated Press, August 9)
$125 million gift from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg to existing organizations over two years to implement anti-smoking measures (Associated Press, August 15)
$105 million gift from Nike Inc. Founder and Chairman Philip Knight to the Stanford Graduate School of Business going primarily towards a new $275 million campus being built for the school (U-WIRE, August 3)
$40 million gift from the Gordon Foundation, created by Bernard M. Gordon, founder of the Peabody medical imaging company Analogic Corp., and his wife, Sophia, to two major Boston institutions: the Museum of Science and Northeastern University (The Boston Globe, August 10)
$35 million gift from Dallas businessman Ray Hunt to Southern Methodist University to buy a shopping center that could be the site of the George W. Bush Presidential Library or a related foreign policy center. The gift was given confidentially last fall and was confirmed by SMU on Friday, August 11th. (The Dallas Morning News, August 12)
$25 million gift from Business Wire Founder and Chairman Lorry I. Lokey of Atherton, California to The American Technion Society (ATS) for a combined life sciences and engineering center the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Business Wire, July 24)
$15 million gift from The Hormel Foundation, who have pledged $10 million, and the Hormel Foods Corporation to The Hormel Institute, a research unit of the University of Minnesota, which will provide a majority of financing for a new research facility. (BIOWIRE, August 23)
$11 million gift from the late Russell Fischer, a former Camarillo citrus farmer, to the Ventura County Community Foundation which will be used to create an endowment fund in Fischer's name that will benefit five organizations that he supported: the Camarillo Library, the American Red Cross' local chapter, the Camarillo Health Care District's Care-A-Van transportation program, the Salvation Army and Oddfellow-Rebekah Children's Services in Gilroy (InsideVC.com, August 18)
$10 million from Enlow Ose and Melena Adams Ose to Sutter Medical Center for its expansion project. (Sacbee.com, August 4)
$10 million gift from George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management in New York, to the Open Society Institute for helping cities with more than 250,000 residents develop systems to treat drug addicts (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 3)
$7 million gift from Eric Sprott, an Ottawa-born investor, to Ottawa Hospital for stem cell research and to find cures for a range of debilitating diseases (CBC News, July 25)
$6 million pledge from Joe Craft, president and chief executive officer of Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. in Tulsa, Okla. and alumnus of the University of Kentucky, to the University of Kentucky's athletics department which will complete funding for the school's new basketball practice facility (Lexington Herald-Leader, August 18)
$6 million gift from the Charles C. and June S. Gates Family Fund to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center for creating the Charles C. Gates Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology Program (Denver Post, August 23)
$5.5 million gift from FedEx Corp. over the next five years to ORBIS International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of blindness worldwide (SmartHouse Media, August 9)
$5.1 million gift from Safeway Inc. to the Prostate Cancer Foundation raised during their annual June fundraiser in Safeway stores across the nation (Craig Daily Press, August 28)
$5 million gift, payable over three years, from UnitedHealth Group to University of California - Merced to support the development of medical and health science education programs (Modesto Bee, July 23)
$5 million gift, payable over three years, from UnitedHealth Group to University of California - Riverside to support the development of medical and health science education programs (Modesto Bee, July 23)
$5 million gift from Universal Health Services, based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia for a new building for the business school (Associated Press, July 27)
$5 million gift from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. to the Israel Crisis Relief Fund of United Jewish Communities (UJC) through The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore to provide humanitarian and social services to victims of the ongoing air strikes on Israeli cities (PNN Online, July 25)
$5 million gift from David Barley, owner of autoparts manufacturer Orlick Industries, and his wife, Nancy Gordon, to McMaster University's new $43 million sports and athletics complex (The Hamilton Spectator, August 18)
$5 million gift from entrepreneur and businesswoman Brenda Lawson to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for making the campus more pedestrian-friendly, to upgrade the college's female athlete leadership program and miscellaneous, unforeseen needs (Chattanooga Times, August 26)
$3.4 million gift from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in Chicago, to nine nonprofit groups, each with budgets of less than $2.5 million, whose objectives vary from promoting democracy in Russia to preserving low-cost housing in Chicago (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 24)
$3 million gift from John W. and Janet M. Creighton of Bellevue, Washington, to Washington State University to be used to create a Lewis and Clark scholar chair (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 26)
$3 million gift from Madonna to Malawi orphans (World Entertainment News Network, August 3)
$3 million gift from Paul and Linda Demo of Palm Harbor, FL to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana for a new softball stadium in honor of their late daughter, Melissa Cook, who graduated from the university in 1994. (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 3)
$3 million gift from the United Health Foundation to EXCELth, a nonprofit primary-care-firm, to build its Daughters of Charity Health Center at the former St. Cecelia Catholic Church in New Orleans (The Times-Picayune, August 23)
$2.8 million gift from Sir Paul McCartney to the Adopt-A-Landmine charity after pulling out of its fundraising concert causing the event's subsequent cancellation and will go towards the United Nations' efforts to remove landmines across the world (World Entertainment News Network, August 24)
$2.5 million gift from A.D. "Pete" Correll, Georgia-Pacific Corp.'s retired Chairman and CEO, and his wife Ada Lee to the Georgia Aquarium Center for Aquatic Animal Health in order to further the growth of the facility so that it will be a global center for aquatic animal health and conservation (Atlanta Business Journal, August 17)
$2 million gift from Sterling Stamos Capital Management, L.P., to the William J. Clinton Foundation for its HIV/AIDS Initiative's work in Cambodia and the Dominican Republic (PRNewswire, July 20)
$2 million gift from James Chris Miller, a land developer in Tyler, TX, and his wife, Shirley, to Harvard University for scholarships for graduate students in the business school, the divinity school, and the School of Medicine (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 3)
$2 million gift from Herbert and Sylvia Fisher, the owners of Coastal Realty in Wilmington, NC, to endow a student center (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 3)
$2 million gift from Fullerton resident Kathryn T. McCarty to St. Jude Medical Center where the hospital's breast center will be renamed Kathryn T. McCarty Breast Care Center (The Orange County Register, August 12)
$2 million gift from Michael Cucchiara and Marty Hayes of Chapel Hill to the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina's School of Law for supporting the goal of permanently endowing the operations and expenses (The Herald Sun, August 23)
$1.9 million in-kind gift of a large helium balloon from Lennar Corporation to the City of Irvine that will become an icon for the Orange County Great Park (PRNewswire, July 25)
$1.6 million gift from Wright and Jaclyn Cochran of Hamilton, MO to the Kansas State University's College of Engineering to be used for scholarships (U-WIRE, August 22)
$1+ million grants from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to 26 foundations, nonprofits and film schools (Daily Variety, August 18)
$1 million gift pledge from Arthur R. Paulsen, a native Tacoman and University of Washington alumnus, to UW Tacoma to host a lecture series featuring prominent speakers (Tacoma Daily Index, July 25)
$1 million gift from retired Cal State University Long Beach (CSULB) Luster E. Hauth and his wife, Audrey Nichol Hauth, to CSULB to support the university's Hauth Center for Communications Skills (Long Beach Press Telegram, July 24)
$1 million gift from the Daron and Ron Barness Family Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona to the Children's Museum of Phoenix for the capital campaign (The Arizona Republic, July 24)
$1 million gift from Jon and Abby Winkelreid of the Marvine Ranch near Meeker to Colorado State University to the university's equine veterinary programs that will support internationally known equine orthopedics and reproduction research (Colorado State University Press Release, July 27)
$1 million gift from The ExxonMobil Foundation to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. to help build a national memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. (Business Wire, July 27)
$1 million gift from The Meadows Foundation to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts to help establish a permanent endowment (The Dallas Morning News, August 3)
$1 million gift from Robert T. Priddy, a co-founder and retired chief executive officer of the Dual Drilling Company in Wichita Falls, TX, to Hollins University in Roanoke, VA for an endowment that will support new construction, renovation projects, and facility maintenance (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, August 3)
$1 million gift from Weyerhaeuser Company and the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation to The Nature Conservancy for supporting a range of forest conservation and biodiversity projects in both the Northwest and the Southeast (Weyerhaeuser Company Press Release, July 31)
$1 million gift from Jordan Zimmerman, a University of South Florida graduate and founder/chairman of Zimmerman Advertising, and his wife, Denise, to University of South Florida's Zimmerman Advertising Program in the School of Mass Communications (Tampa Bay Business Journal, August 7)
$1 million gift from Barbra Streisand to Climate Change Initiative, which aims to unite cities across the world in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (World Entertainment News Network, August 10)
$1 million gift from The Righteous Persons Foundation, created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, to relief efforts in Israel through various funds and foundations including the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles Israel Crisis Fund and the New Israel Fund (Associated Press, August 9)
$1 million gift from Dallas oilman Bobby Lyle to the Circle Ten Council Boy Scout Foundation to create the William C. "Billy" Gamble Endowment Fund (The Dallas Morning News, August 11)
$1 million gift from Jack A. Erdle, founder of Eldre Corp., and his wife, Norma, to the University of Rochester Medical Center for stem cell research (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 10)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Maryland for the library's new projects including new spaces for children and youth, exterior and interior lighting, landscaping, and new signage (Baltimore Business Journal, August 16)
$1 million gift from Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc. to the Disabled American Veterans for use over a five year period towards projects such as helping veterans in rural areas to access medical centers (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 16)
$1 million gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal Poly which will create a permanent endowment to support the organization and also has scholarships available for those interested in taking courses which will lead them on lighthouse tours, to study economics, and more (The Tribune, August 16)
$1 million gift from Margot and Ross Perot to the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation (Dallas Morning News, August 14)
$1million gift from the estate of pharmacist Saul Sair of Winnipeg, Canada to Siloam Mission, a Christian drop-in center, for providing essential healthcare services for poor
and homeless people (Sun Media, August 20)
$1 million gift from News Corporation's Asian arm, STAR, to UNICEF for its tsunami recovery projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia (WorldScreen.com, August 21)
$1 million grant to the American Refugee Committee (ARC) from the South Asian Earthquake Relief fund, which is administered by the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy and led by corporate executives from five national companies: General Electric Co., United Parcel Service, Inc., Pfizer Inc., Xerox Corp. and Citigroup Inc. ARC said it will use the grant to train local health care providers, educate the public about disease prevention, and stock local clinics and health centers with medicine, equipment and other supplies. (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, August 21)
$1 million gift from the Robert H. Dedman family through the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation to go towards the construction of the $275 million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. (The Dallas Morning News, August 26)
$1 million gift from Phelps Dodge Corp. to the Una Promesa Para el Futuro campaign launched in 2005 by Arizona State University, the ASU Foundation and local Hispanic community organizations to help raise scholarship funds for under-represented students (The Arizona Republic, August 28)
$1 million gift from Greenville business and civic leader Jack Finney to the Hunt Memorial Hospital District Charitable Health Foundation for funding a cancer center that will be built soon on the campus of Presbyterian Hospital of Greenville (The Dallas Morning News, August 24)

July 2006

$100 million gift from Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle, to the Ellison Medical Foundation. Mr. Ellison agreed to make the gift to settle a shareholder lawsuit (Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 27)
$60 million planned gift from San Diego business titan Ernest Rady, 69, to San Diego’s Children’s Hospital to expand facilities and treatment program. It is the second-largest private donation ever made to an American children’s hospital (Associated Press, June 29)
$25 million pledge from the John M. O’Quinn Foundation to the Menninger Clinic to help create a future campus uniting mental health care, research and education. (The Topeka Capital-Journal, July 9)
$20 million gift from Bruce Kovnar, chairman of Caxton Associates, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in New York, for renovation projects (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$15 million pledge from Peter and Florine Ministrelli to The Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan for cardiology and urology programs (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$13 million grant from the Argosy Foundation to Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts to help create a program that enlists students for public service projects (Associated Press, July 20)
$13 million gift from Griffith Energy chairman E. Philip Saunders to the College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology to help promote entrepreneurship and to help grow the economy in Rochester (Associated Press, July 11)
$11 million grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to develop a new 100-acre art and nature park (Associated Press, July 21)
$11 million bequest from the estate of Russell Fischer of Camarillo, California to the Venture County Community Foundation to benefit four local charities and a children's home near San Jose (Los Angeles Times, July 18)
$11 million gift from Lewis and Dorothy Cullman to the New York Botanical Garden to endow a research program in molecular systematics that will be conducted jointly with the American Museum of Natural History in New York (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$10 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to the Miami Performing Arts Center Foundation to rename the complex's new concert hall which is set to open this fall (The Miami Herald, July 20)
$10 million gift from Carnival Cruise Lines to the Miami Performing Arts Center Foundation to rename the Miami Performing Arts Center the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts which is set to open this fall (The Miami Herald, July 20)
$10 million grant from the Exxon/Mobil Corp. to New Orleans area schools to help focus on promoting excellence in teaching math and science (Associated Press, July 20)
$10 million pledge, payable over 10 years, from Michael Cline and Tom Kaplan, both of the Panthera Foundation, to the Wildlife Conservation Society to support a scientific effort aimed at saving tigers (FOXNews.com, July 7)
$10 million pledge from Newport Beach bond fund manager Bill Gross, and his wife, Sue, to UC Irvine’s stem cell research center to boost research that offers potential cures for many debilitating diseases. (Los Angeles Times, July 6)
$10 million gift from John W. Glynn and his wife, Barbara, to the University of Notre Dame to expand the school’s honors program in the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Science (Associated Press, July 11)
$8 million grant, payable over three years, from the Wallace Foundation to the City of Chicago to strengthen out-of-school-time learning (Associated Press, July 2)
$8 million pledge from Lonnie “Bo” Pilgrim to Dallas Baptist University to serve as the foundation for a $16 million chapel campaign (Dallas Morning News, June 29)
$7 million grant from the Cleveland-based Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation to Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital to help upgrade newborn care (Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 29)
$6 million gift from Chuck and Jackie Sullivan to the University of Toledo for new construction and additions to Savage Hall (University of Toledo Press Release, July 17)
$6 million gift from J. Gary Shansby, co-founder and chairman of San Francisco-based TSG Consumer Partners, to the University of Washington’s Business School to create an endowed professorship in marketing and to help with the school’s capital campaign (Puget Sound Business Journal, July 5)
$5 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to Teach for America to launch a five-year partnership designed to improve the quality of math and science education in America’s underserved public schools (PRNewswire, July 1)
$5 million grant from the William Lyon Foundation to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in southern California for construction of the new Segerstrom Concert Hall (Playbill Arts, July 15)
$4 million gift from an anonymous donor to TCU in Dallas for an indoor practice facility (Star Telegram, June 29)
$3.1 million gift from Howard and Ellen Katz of Carefree, Arizona, to the Phoenix Art Museum to fund a new 25,000 square foot space to showcase the Museum’s modern and contemporary art (Arizona Republic, June 28)
$3 million gift from Paul and Linda Demo to the University of Norte Dame to build a new softball stadium in memory of Melissa Cook. (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, July 17)
$3 million gift from comedian Bill Cosby to Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine. It is the largest individual gift ever given to the school (NPR, June 16)
$3 million grant from the Jane & John Justin Foundation to TCU in Dallas for an indoor practice facility (Star Telegram, June 29)
$3 million gift from the Jack R. and Jane E. Filanc Endowment to the Construction Engineering and Management Program at San Diego State University for general funding purposes (California Builder and Engineer, July 7)
$2 million grant from Toyota Motor Corp. to the City of Detroit for the redevelopment of the Detroit Riverfront (Detroit Free Press, July 21)
$2 million grant from the Dr. Robert C. Atkins Foundation to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to establish the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity and Diabetes Research (Dallas Morning News, June 26)
$2 million grant from the Kind World Foundation to the Siouxland YMCA toward construction of a new building (Sioux City Journal, June 27)
$2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation of Las Vegas, to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center to develop a program to train doctors in caring for the elderly (PRNewswire, July 5)
$2 million gift from Nicolas Cage, the actor, to Amnesty International USA to establish a fund to help former child soldiers around the world (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$1.6 million gift from Jud and Jo Ellen Ammons of Raleigh to Mars Hill College for the football center which will include refurbished grandstands, a new all-weather fields and an entry plaza (The News & Observer, July 12)
$1.6 million gift from Gustave and Rita Hauser to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to endow a professorship in conducting (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Oregon State University to help bolster science education at all grade levels throughout the state (Medford News, July 17)
$1.5 million gift from Wichita Area Pizza Hut Franchisees to the Wichita Boys and Girls Club to benefit the $8 million capital campaign for a new Boys & Girls Club facility to be completed next year (Business Wire, July 17)
$1.5 million grant from the AT&T Foundation to the League of United Latin American Citizens to help open 36 community technology centers in low-income Hispanic neighborhoods across the United States (San Antonio Business Journal, June 30)
$1.5 million gift from Dennis and Sandy Kuester to the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to establish a scholarship fund (Chronicle of Higher Education, July 21)
$1.3 million bequest from the estate of Evelyn French to Foothill Country Day School in Claremont, California for endowment (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$1.25 million pledge from Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Auburn University Montgomery for academic fellowships (Montgomery Advertiser, July 15)
$1.1 million bequest from the estate of Albert Louis Vuillermet to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center to help support healthcare services for children (East Hartford Gazette, June 29)
$1 million gift from the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California to Children's Hospital of Orange County which will help fund the initial phase of a master campus plan to include the renovation of the outpatient clinics (PRNewswire, July 17)
$1 million gift from Walter L. Youngquist of Eugene, Oregon to Gustavus Adolphus College for an endowment for music scholarships (Gustavus Adolphus College Press Release, July 20)
$1 million gift from Harold and Annette Simmons to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support kidney disease research (Dallas Morning News, July 19)
$1 million gift from Ray and Nancy Hunt to the Old Red Museum of Dallas County History & Culture toward construction of this new museum (Dallas Morning News, June 29)
$1 million bequest from the estate of Howard and Lorene O’Bryan to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital for unrestricted support (Brattleboro Reformer, June 26)
$1 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross for flood relief efforts (U.S. Newswire, June 29)
$1 million bequest from the estate of Alice Levin to Oklahoma State University for scholarships for veterinary students (KTEN, June 30)
$1 million gift from the Marion General Hospital to the Grant County Family YMCA for a new sports clinic (Chronicle-Tribune, July 1)
$1 million gift from the Tom Bender family to Mission Hospital Foundation to help transform the hospital’s 49-room maternity center (Orange County Register, June 30)
$1 million grant from the Lintilhac Foundation to the University of Vermont toward supporting construction of a new plant sciences building on campus (Burlington Free Press, June 30)
$1 million gift from an anonymous donor to the Independence Seaport Museum on Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia for a boating program. It is the largest single gift in the museum’s 46-year history (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 9)
$1 million gift from the Martin V. and Martha K. Smith Foundation to the Channel Islands Harbor Foundation to help build a boating instruction center on the west side of the Oxnard-area harbor (InsideVC.com, July 7)
$1 million gift from the Tony Stewart Foundation to the Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman, North Carolina for unrestricted purposes (Associated Press, July 14)
$1 million gift from the Koret Foundations of San Francisco to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine for a program dedicated to improving the health and well-being of shelter animals (UC Davis Press Release, July 12)
$1 million gift from Marie Schwartz to the Metropolitan Opera of New York City to fund the opera’s new contemporary visual arts gallery (Opera News Online, July 14)
$1 million pledge from Bobby and Charlotte Lowder to Auburn University in Montgomery, Alabama, to support the Small Animal Teaching Hospital at the College of Veterinary Medicine (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)
$1 million gift from Thomas and Mary James to Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, to endow a finance professorship (Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20)

June 2006

$150 million gift from Stanley W. Anderson, who heads a technology and consulting company, to the Presbyterian Church of the USA to bankroll an array of programs over the next six years, including new churches and supporting seminary programs for pastors (The Associated Press, June 17)
$120 million bequest from the estate of financier Arthur Zankel to six institutions. The largest portion of the Zankel estate, $42 million, will go to Skidmore College in upstate New York to serve as the lead gift for a new music facility. (The Saratogian, June 3)
$104 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development to bring a new antibiotic drug through Phase 2 studies and Phase 3 clinical tests. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 25)
$100 million gift from Bay Area real estate mogul John Arrillaga to Stanford University for the school to use at its discretion. In the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans in 2005, Arrillaga ranked 346, with an estimated net worth of $1 billion. (San Jose Mercury News, May 25)
$100 million gift from Highmark, Inc. to the Highmark Foundation, created in 2000, to fund children's health programs during the next five years. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 3)
$100 million commitment from AT&T and the AT&T Foundation to One Economy Corp. and Habitat for Humanity to provide Internet and technology access to 50,000 low-income families and underserved communities throughout the United States. (San Antonio Business Journal, June 14)
$86.4 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to be shared among fifty organizations including $1.8 million to Lehigh University for the biological sciences program. (The Morning Call, June 3)
$64 million award from the Ray and Joan Kroc estate to the Salvation Army's South Mountain Youth Center in Phoenix, Arizona to help pay for a new facility for inner-city kids to build an endowment to help run the new building and its many program (Arizona Republic, June 13)
$58 million in-kind gift of software from UGS Corporation to Hampton University to enhance engineering programs in the School of Engineering and Technology (PRNewswire, June 13)
$52 million gift from a consortium of new organizations to the Washington, DC-based Newseum for the capital campaign. Two of the largest donors are The New York Times and Ochs Sulzberger family, and News Corp., the empire of Rupert Murdoch, which each gave $10 million. (Washington Post, May 24)
$50 million gift from Toronto businessman Larry Tanenbaum and his wife to the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto to fund the Larry & Judy Tanenbaum Family Endowment Fund. (Canadian Jewish News, May 25)
$50 million pledge, payable over 10 years, from The Chili's Grill & Bar restaurant chain to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to name the new state of the art building that will house the Department of Radiological Sciences (Commercial Appeal, June 24)
$32 million pledge from Houston natives Burt and Deedee McMurtry to Rice University to create a long-term fund to support the University's 50-year-old residential college system (Houston Chronicle, June 15)
$30 million gift from the family of Edward A. Doisy to St. Louis University toward construction of a new $67 million research building. Doisy, now deceased, is the University's first and only Nobel Prize winner. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 8)
$25 million gift from Tristram and Ruth Colket, Jr. to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to help build an eight-story research center on the site of the former Philadelphia Civic Center. (Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3)
$25 million pledge from the Karmanos family to the Detroit-based Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute for the capital campaign (Crain's Detroit Business, June 15)
$20 million gift from Marvin J. Herb of Barrington, Illinois to Rush University Medical Center to help with a planned renovation and expansion of the health systems' West Side campus. (Chicago Business, June 14)
$15.5 million gift, via two charitable trusts, from William and Toby Austin and Bart and Barbara Singletary to the University of California, Riverside, to back a proposed medical school at the campus and to attract top-quality professors to the school (San Jose Mercury News, June 18)
$15 million grant from the Marcus Foundation to Georgia Tech to help begin construction on a new science research center. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 3)
$11.7 million gift from The Walton Family Foundation to Choate Rosemary Hall for scholarships and professional development funds for the school's teaching faculty. (Hartford Courant, May 3)
$11 million gift from Lewis Cullman to the New York Botanical Garden primarily for a program in molecular systematics studies (Wall Street Journal, June 23)
$10.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the State of North Carolina Department of Education to help overhaul the education system of the state's high schools. (Associated Press, May 23)
$10 million bequest from the estate of Roy and Elnora Danley to the University of North Dakota. The majority of the gift will be used for unrestricted support. It is the second largest gift ever given to the university. (Grand Forks Herald, May 25)
$10 million gift from philanthropists Frank and Carol Morsani to the University of South Florida for the Center for Advanced Health Care and to help build a new football practice complex. (Tampa Bay Business Journal, June 1)
$10 million grant from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties to build the proposed Taube-Koret Campus for Jewish Life in South Palo Alto. (Mercury News, June 1)
$10 million pledge, payable over five years, from American Express to the World Monuments Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation to help preserve historic sites both in the U.S. and around the world. (PRNewswire, June 14)
$10 million gift from David and Patricia Nierenbeg to help fund the Yale Center for Corporate Governance and Performance in the Yale School of Management at Yale University (Yale Daily News, June 20)
$8 million gift from the Marilyn Moyer Charitable Trust in Portland, Oregon to the City of Portland for a new downtown park block. The Trust is named for Marilyn Moyer, the late wife of Portland businessman Tom Moyer. (The Oregonian, May 25)
$8 million bequest from the estate of Margaret Waters Jordan to The University of Missouri-Columbia to be used for scholarships and indigent health care. Ms. Jordan was a 1931 graduate of the University (Columbia Daily Tribune, June 15)
$6 million bequest from the estate of Albemarle County educator Mortimer Y. Sutherland, Jr. to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville primarily for an endowment that will generate support for need-based scholarships (University of Virginia Press Release, June 20)
$5.9 million gift from Dr. E. Vernon Smith to the University of Kentucky to establish two endowed chairs in Alzheimer's research and macular degeneration research and to create several professorships (The Courier-Journal, June 13)
$5 million gift from Delta Dental of Massachusetts to the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine for an endowment to expand care to underserved populations. (NewsRx.com, May 25)
$5 million gift from Leonard and Carolyn Miller to the University of Vermont to support the university's Center for Holocaust Studies. (Burlington Free Press, June 3)
$5 million gift from Dr. John W. Rowe to the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Dr. Rowe is the new chairman of the board of trustees for the Laboratory. It is the largest gift by an individual in the institution's 118-year history. (Cape Cod Times, June 3)
$5 million gift from an anonymous donor to Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills to help build a new campus for the Cranbrook Kingswood Girls' Middle School. (Lansing State Journal, June 1)
$5 million gift from William R. Rhodes to the Northfield Mount Hermon School to help with the construction of a new Center for the Arts. Rhodes is a 1953 graduate of the school and is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Citibank, N.A. (The Republican, June 5)
$5 million pledge from Florida-based healthcare industry entrepreneur Miguel B. Fernandez to Xavier High School in New York to build a multipurpose auditorium (The Villager, June 14)
$5 million grant from the Fort Lauderdale-based Lillian S. Wells Foundation to the University of Florida's McKnight Brain Institute to help recruit world-class doctors and scientists and to conduct research on brain and spinal cord tumors (University of Florida Press Release, June 22)
$3.5 million gift from General Motors to the VFW National Home for Children on Eaton Rapids, Michigan for unrestricted support. (Associated Press, June 5)
$3.5 million gift from Benedict and Dorothy Gorecki to CentraCare Health System to build a new 40-room wing at St. Benedict's Senior Community in Milaca, Minnesota (Grand Forks Herald, June 21)
$3.5 million gift from Penn State alumnus Donald G. Abbey to fund the restoration of the Beta Theta Pi chapter house on Penn State's University park campus (Penn State Press Release, June 19)
$3.3 million gift from Macon and Joan Brock to Virginia Wesleyan College to support several programs. The Brock's are the founders of Dollar Trees Stores and K&K Toys. (The Virginian-Pilot, May 25)
$3 million gift from Toyota to the National Center for Family Literacy to expand the highly successful Toyota Family Literacy Program into five additional communities across the country. (PRNewswire, May 31)
$3 million gift from Richard H. Shindell to Rutgers University to endow a chair in neuroscience in the Division of Life Sciences. Shindell is a 1957 graduate of Rutgers and is a former vice president of the T. Rowe Price investment firm (The Home News Tribune, June 15)
$3 million pledge from Johnson Controls to Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin to finance the education center's largest exhibit "The TechnoJungle: The Hunt for the New Great Idea" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 12)
$3 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to the new Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 22)
$2.8 million bequest from the estate of Pauline Evetts Weinberger to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support clinical and research programs. (The Dallas Morning News, June 2)
$2.6 million gift from Dallas philanthropists Charles and Dana Nearburg to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore to create the Rett Nearburg '07 Endowed Scholarship for students interested in interactive media. (Dallas Morning News, May 25)
$2.6 million gift from the Cleveland Clinic to the Cleveland Municipal School District to help strengthen math and science curriculums for students in sixth through tenth grades (PRNewswire, June 13)
$2.5 million gift from Arthur and Joan Weisberg to Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in support of the Division of Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Information Technology and Engineering. (Philanthropy News Digest, May 26)
$2.5 million pledge, payable in cash and in-kind support over five years, from Starbucks Coffee Company to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to further social and economic equality. (Urban Mecca, May 31)
$2.5 million gift from David and Carolyn Miller to Southern Methodist University to be divided between the Edwin L. Cox School of Business and SMU Athletics (Dallas Morning News, June 19)
$2.5 million gift from an anonymous donor to LeMoyne Owen College to the give the financially strapped college a shot in the arm and a shot at a new life (WMCTV, June 23)
$2.5 million grant from the Lilly Foundation to the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission to help promote the city's growing cultural offerings through 2008 (The Indianapolis Star, June 23)
$2 million gift from Tom and Karyn Dingledine to James Madison University for the Dingledine Scholarship Endowment for Achievement in Academics and Service to provide tuition and fees for six Virginia resident for four years. (Daily New-Record, June 8)
$2 million gift from the Junior League of Nashville to the Center for Advanced Maternal-Fetal Care at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt to allow the center to treat more patients and conduct more research. (The Tennessean, June 6)
$2 million gift from Kosair Charities to Brooklawn Child & Family Services to allow Brooklawn to find apartments and other places for about 30 abused or neglected teenagers who have completed treatment (The Courier-Journal, June 15)
$2 million gift from ConocoPhillips to Oklahoma State University to be divided among three colleges, two programs and one building. ConocoPhillips is OSU's largest corporate donor. (The Daily O'Collegian, June 14)
$2 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the Florida State University College of Medicine to expand it curriculum (Orlando Business Journal, June 22)
$2 million grant from Citigroup to Habitat for Humanity International to support Habitat's 2006 Jimmy Carter Work Project which focuses on providing quality affordable housing to families in need (Business Wire, June 22)
$1.8 million bequest from the estate of Glenn Thiel to the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois for unrestricted purposes. (Rockford Register Star, June 5)
$1.7 million bequest from the estate of Russel Greenwood to McKendree College to support a scholarship fund. (Belleville News-Democrat, May 31)
$1.7 million gift from the John M. Templeton Foundation to Baylor University's Center for Religious Inquiry Across Disciplines to study spiritual beliefs and practices in China. (Waco Tribune-Herald, June 5)
$1.7 million gift from the Lincoln College Education and Research Fund and the Florida Chiropractic Foundation to The University of South Florida (The Tampa Tribune, June 23)
$1.6 million gift from Justus and Jo Ellen Ammons to Mars Hill College to help upgrade the school's athletic facilities. It is the largest athletic donation ever received by the college. (Citizen-Times, June 4)
$1.5 million gift from Evergreen, Colorado lawyer Robert E. Youle to the University to Iowa College of Law to establish an endowed chair in antitrust and trade regulation. Youle graduated from the UI College of Law in 1976. (Iowa City Press-Citizen, May 25)
$1.5 million gift from the Louis R. Cappelli Foundation to White Plains Hospital Center to support a Pediatric Emergency Center in the Hospital's new Emergency Department. (Westchester News, June 6)
$1.5 million gift from Ralph Nelles to the St. Vincent Healthcare Foundation to make permanent a temporary scholarship program that helps nursing students pay tuition (The Billings Gazette, June 12)
$1.425 million gift from Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. to The American Diabetes Association Research Foundation to support two diabetes-related fellowship programs. (PRNewswire, June 5)
$1.3 million gift from Max and Lucile Jackson to Queens University of Charlotte to refurbish a building that will house the school's arts programs. (Charlotte Observer, June 4)
$1.1 million grant from the Christ is Our Salvation Foundation to Baylor University's Center for Family and Community Ministries in the School of Social Work to primarily help educate future community ministry leaders for churches (Baylor University Press Release, June 21)
$1 million gift from William and Margaret Clark, a Little Rock couple, to the University of Arkansas for Sciences (UAMS) to establish the J. Thomas May Chair in Oncology. Both Mr. Clark and Mr. May served together for nine years on the UAMS Board of Trustees. (Associated Press, May 25)
$1 million grant from The Ford Foundation to the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) to fund the DTH School and Dancing Through Barriers, its education and community outreach program. (PRNewswire, May 24)
$1 million grant from The Pepsico Foundation to the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial to help with construction costs of the memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. (U.S. Newswire, May 24)
$1 million pledge from Delbert and Pat Allen to the Siloam Springs School District in Arkansas toward construction of the future Siloam Springs Elementary School. (The Morning News, May 24)
$1 million gift from Portland, Oregon-based Paulson Investment Company, Inc. to the University of Oregon to support the University of Oregon Libraries' Special Collections. (University of Oregon Press Release, May 23)
$1 million gift from Arnold and Constance Pohs to the University of Michigan to support ground-breaking research and teaching on the content and effects of mass media in the Department of Communications Studies. The Pohs' are both graduates of the University. (University of Michigan Press Release, May 22)
$1 million pledge from Bernard and Shirlee Brown to Cumberland County College in New Jersey to pay for the operating expenses of a new University Center that will host professors that will teach junior and senior-level as well as graduate-level courses. (Bridgeton News, May 23)
$1 million gift from Wayne and Cheryl Smith, of Nashville, to Auburn University for the College of Education to enhance current and emerging priorities. It is the largest single donation to the college. (Times Daily, June 4)
$1 million gift from Hanna Oil and Gas to the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith to support the Family Enterprise Center in the UA Fort Smith College of Business. (UA Fort Smith News, June 2)
$1 million grant from The CVS/pharmacy Charitable Trust to the CVS Highlander Charter School in Providence, RI to support programs for children with learning disabilities. (PRNewswire, June 1)
$1 million gift from The Foundation Baptist Church in Summit, New Jersey, to the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery efforts. (Newsday, May 31)
$1 million gift from Charles and Erdie Brodahl to Trinity Lutheran College with half of the funds set aside for scholarships and the other half to be used toward the college's efforts to move its campus. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 27)
$1 million gift from David and Amy Jaffe to Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to create the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts. (RPI Press Release, June 8)
$1 million bequest from the estate of John Nelson to the Marion School District in Marion, Ohio for unrestricted support. (Associated Press, June 8)
$1 million grant from MetLife Foundation to Big Brothers Big Sisters to launch a second phase of the MetLife Foundation Partnership for School-Based Mentoring. (PRNewswire, June 8)
$1 million gift from Jack and Robbye McKibbon to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for construction of a new chapel as part of a new patient tower. (Access North Georgia, June 8)
$1 million gift from The Norfolk Foundation to the YMCA of South Hampton Roads to help the YMCA build a new regional outdoor camp for children and add Family Fun Zones at four local Y's. (The Virginian-Pilot, June 10)
$1 million pledge from The Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation to the Sequin Conservation Society in Texas to help restore a historic 350-seat movie theater in downtown Sequin, Texas. (San Antonio Express-News, June 10)
$1 million pledge from the estate of Dallas real estate investor and developer John R. Carmichael III to Texas A&M University's Mays Business School to enhance the school's real estate programs. (The Dallas Morning News, June 12)
$1 million gift from Dick and Sue Grimm of Hunting Valley, Ohio to the Western Reserve Land Conservancy (WRLC) to help preserve and protect the Geauga County duck marsh (WRLC Press Release, June 19)
$1 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to City Year to continue support of the Young Heroes Program, a leadership development and community service program for sixth to eighth graders (PRNewswire, June 14)
$1 million gift from Akron philanthropist Olga A. Mural to Kent State University for the renovation of baseball facilities and to provide scholarships for student-athletes (Kent State University press Release, June 12)
$1 million gift from Thomas and Mary James to Eckerd College to endow the James Professorship in Finance. Mr. James is chairman and CEO of Raymond James Financial. (St. Petersburg Times, June 13)
$1 million pledge, payable over ten years, from The Irvine Company to Santa Ana-based THINK Together to allow the after-school tutoring program to expand across the Santa Ana Unified School District and provide low-income students with reading and homework assistance (Hispanic PR Wire, June 13)
$1 million challenge grant from Schmieding Foundation of Springdale to the International Longevity Center - USA for a national project aimed at improved training and standards for caregivers serving older people (Baxter Bulletin, June 13)
$1 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gibbs to the Highland Park Education Foundation to establish an endowment in support of teacher salaries in the Highland Park Schools (Park Cities News, June, 2006)
$1 million grant from the Phyllis E. Dake Foundation to the Saratoga Springs, NY YMCA toward construction of a new YMCA on West Avenue (The Saratogian, June 23)
$1 million grant from the Wachovia Foundation to help build and equip the new Levine Children's Hospital which will be a part of the Carolina's Medical Center when it is completed in 2007 (Charlotte Observer, June 20)
$1 million gift from Houston-based Land Tejas Companies to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (Houston Business Journal, June 19)
$1 million in-kind pledge of computers, to be distributed over three years, from Lenovo to Opportunity International for the agency's microfinance programs (PRNewswire, June 23)

May 2006

$10 million gift from Edward P. Fitts to North Carolina State University to help fund three new professorships, four assistant professorships and 14 fellowships in the new Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (The News & Observer, April 28)
$10 million gift from philanthropists Nicholas and Louella Martin to Baylor All Saints Medical Center to help launch a new women's hospital and the expansion of other services (Star-Telegram, April 26)
$10 million gift from Harland and Kathy Crow to St. Mark's School of Texas to be used in part to build a new academic center (The Dallas Morning News, April 28)
$10 million gift from FedEx founder Fred Smith and his wife, Diane, to the Memphis Zoo, to build Teton Park, a showcase for grizzly bears (Commercial Appeal, April 23)
$10 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Seattle University to help expand the A.A. Lemieux Library with a focus on technology and group learning (Seattle Times, April 21)
$8 million gift from David and Carol Lackland to Centenary College to help fund a student and cultural center on campus (Courier News, April 28)
$7.5 million grant from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation to the Indiana University Cancer Center for an endowment to help attract and retain nationally recognized researchers and scientists. (Indiana Daily Student, May 18)
$6.5 million gift from the Belo Corporation, the Belo Foundation and Robert and Maureen Dechard to help fund just over half the cost to develop a planned park in downtown Dallas (WFFA-TV, April 25)
$6 million gift from Jack and Laura Milton to Syracuse University toward the school's proposed $107 million Life Sciences Complex (Associated Press, April 18)
$5 million gift from Swiss businessman and philanthropist Thomas Schmidheiny to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University to help launch a new international business degree program (The Fletcher School Press Release, May 9)
$5 million gift from Robert Greenheck to Marquette University to endow a new engineering chair in the College of Engineering. Mr. Greenheck graduated from the University more than fifty years ago (Associated Press, May 11)
$5 million gift from Bristol-Myers Squibb to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and its Bristol-Meyers Squibb Children's Hospital to help address the growing problem of childhood obesity (Therapeutics Daily, May 11)
$5 million grant from the Micron Technologies Foundation to Boise State University to help hire new faculty, buy new instruments and renovate existing labs in building up the school's new Ph.D. program in computer and electrical engineering (KTRV, May 5)
$5 million grant from Harold Simmons to the University of Texas to fund the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment in West Texas (The Daily Texan, May 1)
$5 million gift from Edward A. St. John, founder and CEO of St. John Properties, Inc. to the Severn School for construction of a new gym and fitness complex (The Capital, April 23)
$4 million grant from the Agora Foundation to WaterPartners International to help bring clean water to the world's poorest communities. Agora is a donor-advised fund at the Peninsula Community Foundation near San Francisco. (Market Wire, May 19)
$3.5 million pledge, payable over 15 years, from Monticello, Indiana resident Pat McVady to White County Memorial Hospital to allow the hospital to own 51 percent of a new medical office building that will be constructed this summer (The Herald Journal, May 19)
$3.4 million bequest from the estate of Howard E. Charles, a St. Charles pharmacist, to the Aurora Foundation to assist students pursuing a career in health care (Chicago Sun Times, April 18)
$3 million gift from world-renowned artist LeRoy Neiman to the Chicago-based School of Art Institute to fund a weeklong master class in figure drawing for fifteen students. Neiman is an alumnus of the institute and a former faculty member (Chicago Sun-Times, May 4)
$3 million gift from businesswoman and philanthropist Marion Knott to Chapman University in Orange County, California to help construct the Marion Knott Studios which will include two soundstages, a 500-seat theater and a television and broadcast journalism center (The Orange County Register, May 3)
$2.7 million bequest from the estate of Kathleen Strunk to the University of Virginia's College at Wise to bolster the school's nursing program the bulk of which will be used to create endowed professorships. (Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 18)
$2.6 million grant from the Daniels Fund to the University of Wyoming College of Business to help establish the Bill Daniels Distinguished Professorship of Business Ethics (University of Wyoming Press Release, April 20)
$2.5 million in-kind gift of a neighborhood arts center from Brooklyn, New York real estate tycoon Ron Hershco to the Russell Simmons' Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (SOHH.com, May 2)
$2.5 million grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida to the Foundation for Florida's Community Colleges for scholarships for nursing students (Orlando Business Journal, April 18)
$2.45 million grant from an anonymous Christian Foundation to Faith Baptist Church near Lafayette, Indiana to help build a residential center to house up to 24 girls and young women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, addictions, eating disorders and other hardships (Journal and Courier, May 15)
$2 million gift from an anonymous couple to the Trinity School in Durham toward the school's efforts to build a new high school and other projects (Herald Sun, May 8)
$2 million gift from Boca Raton philanthropist Judy Levis Markhoff to the Jewish Association for Residential Care toward construction of a new apartment building (Boca Raton News, May 7)
$2 million gift from developer Carl D. Silver to the Mary Washington Hospital Foundation to help build a new Lloyd F. Moss Free Clinic which provides free medical care to the uninsured poor (Associated Press, April 26)
$2 million bequest from the estate of an anonymous donor to the Yale School of Medicine to start an endowment for the combined M.D./Ph.D. program (Yale Daily News, April 21)
$2 million gift from Stratus Properties to the Hill Country Conservancy in Texas to help conserve thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive land over the Edwards Aquifer west of Austin (Austin American-Statesman, April 21)
$1.6 million grant from the Alleghany Foundation to the Alleghany Highlands YMCA to help facilitate the completion of a new 37,000 sq. ft. athletic facility (Rockbridge Weekly, May 5)
$1.5 million gift from the Lawrence P. Castellani family Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY to provide annual seed funding for research into new skin cancer treatments (The Buffalo News, May 17)
$1.5 million bequest from the Richard E. Dyke Foundation, established by alumnus and Maine entrepreneur Richard E. Dyke, to Husson College in Bangor, Maine for the college endowment. It is the largest gift in the history of the college. (Bangor Daily News, May 11)
$1.5 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to the University of Arkansas to help establish the Joel R. Stubblefield Chair for the Dean in the College of Business (UA Fort Smith News, May 5)
$1.5 million gift from George and Jane Pfaff to the College of St. Rose in Troy, New York to establish the first endowed chair in the College's history. The College will create The George and Jane Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Values within its Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy (College of St. Rose Press Release, May 8)
$1.5 million gift from philanthropist Beverly Taylor Sorenson to the McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University to prepare teachers to endow a love of music, dance and theater (The Daily Herald, April 25)
$1.5 million gift from an anonymous donor to Concordia University in Wisconsin to help stabilize part of the Lake Michigan bluff on campus (Duluth News Tribune, April 25)
$1.5 million grant from the Fund for Our Economic Future to JumpStart, an organization that helps early-stage small businesses, to provide business expertise, investment capital and networking opportunities to Northeast Ohio entrepreneurs (The Beacon Journal, April 22)
$1.4 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, payable over three years, to The University of Arizona in Tucson to help support American Indian students pursuing graduate degrees in mathematics, science, engineering and agricultural fields (UA News, May 17)
$1.25 million grant from the Kelly Gene Cook Foundation to the University of Southern Mississippi's DuBard School to enable the school to serve more children, and fund training for teachers and professionals in the field of language disabilities (Hattiesburg American, May 9)
$1.25 million gift from the Scripps Howard Foundation to Ohio University to establish an endowment for scholarships and internships in the Scripps College of Communication (PRNewswire, April 19)
$1.25 million grant from the eBay Foundation to The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to create the eBay Foundation Community Engagement Program (PRNewswire, April 18)
$1.2 million bequest from the estate of Marjorie W. Anderson to Judson at University Circle in Cleveland, Ohio, to be used to create the Judson Retirement Support Endowment Fund. It is the largest donation in the retirement community's 100-year history (Crains Cleveland Business, May 15)
$1.2 million gift from the Dean Foods Company to Children's Medical Center to support the establishment of the Dean Foods LEAN (Lifestyle, Exercise And Nutrition) Families Program. (Press Release, May 1)
$1.2 million gift from Amway co-founder Rich DeVos to Kuyper College (formerly the Reformed Bible College) to fund a faculty chair for a new music and worship major (The Grand Rapids Press, April 29)
$1.15 million gift from Universal Studios to the United Flight 93 Memorial Fund to help build a memorial in Pennsylvania (Associated Press, May 5)
$1.04 million gift from Retired Air Force Col. John Bremer, and his wife, Aurelia, to the University of Wisconsin-Superior for the capital campaign. Bremer is a 1965 graduate of the university. (Duluth News Tribune, May 21)
$1 million gift from Herb Peyton, president of Gate Petroleum Company, to The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida toward the construction of a boathouse for the school's crew program. It is the largest capital gift in the private school's 74-year history. (The Business Journal of Jacksonville, May 19)
$1 million gift from Coca-Cola North America to the United States Olympic Committee to assist in all aspects of preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and beyond. The donation is the largest received by the USOC this year. (USOC Press Release, May 17)
$1 million gift from Ernest Hodge, co-owner of 20 auto dealerships, mostly on the East Coast, to Norfolk State University, a historically black university, to start a center for entrepreneurship in the School of Business. (The Virginian-Pilot, May 20)
$1 million in-kind gift of 260 photographs by acclaimed American photographer Brett Weston (1911-1993) to University of California at Santa Cruz which will make the UCSC library among the strongest repositories for Brett Weston materials (UCSC Currents, May 22)
$1 million grant from the AT&T Foundation to Texas Health Resources, the largest nonprofit health care system in North Texas, to fund several information technology initiatives as well as a national educational forum on community health issues (Texas Health Resources Press Release, May 16)
$1 million gift from Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs to the University of California at San Diego to support graduate fellowships in the Division School of Sciences (San Diego Daily Transcript, May 17)
$1 million pledge from Majic Window, payable over 10 years, to the Detroit Ronald McDonald House for unrestricted support. It is the single largest pledge in the history of the organization. (PRWeb, May 19)
$1 million gift from the John E. Morgan Foundation to Penn State's Schuykill County campus to fund scholarships for undergraduates. Mr. Morgan made a fortune by selling thermal underwear. It is the largest gift ever to the campus for student aid. (Centre Daily Times, May 17)
$1 million pledge from Michael and Lisa Kittredge to Cooley Dickinson Hospital to name the new surgical center. Kittredge is the founder of the Yankee Candle Company in Deerfield, Massachusetts. (The Republican, May 13)
$1 million grant from the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation of New York City to the CentraState Healthcare System in New Jersey toward construction of $48 million complex. (Asbury Park Press, May 10)
$1 million pledge from Betty Bott of Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania to the Holy Redeemer Health System for its cancer center, which will be renamed to honor Ms. Bott. (Philadelphia Business Journal, May 10)
$1 million grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to the University of Southern Mississippi to help establish the Beckman Presidential Scholars program for students interested in the sciences and impacted by Hurricane Katrina (WLOX, May 5)
$1 million pledge from Dr. Cheng-Yang Chang to the University of Michigan Museum of Art to name the Shirley Chang Gallery of Chinese Art in the museum's new addition (Detroit Free Press, May 6)
$1 million gift from the Springs Close Foundation to the York Technical College Foundation in Chester County, South Carolina to help kick off a fundraising campaign to help build a proposed technical college campus (The News & Reporter, May 5)
$1 million gift from Anne Voilleque and Louise Nelson to Idaho State University to create the school?s first endowed professorship in the Native American Business Administration program (The Idaho Statesman, May 7)
$1 million gift from Palm City, Florida residents Howard and Elaine Cook to Martin Memorial Healthcare Systems to establish a Cardiac Nursing Fund (TCPalm, May 3)
$1 million gift from Curt Mueller, CEO of Mueller Sports Medicine, to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to benefit both the Department of Athletics and the School of Education (Wisconsin Athletic Communications, April 28)
$1 million gift from the Woodward Governor Company to the Crusader Clinic in Rockford, Illinois for the capital campaign (Rockford Register Star, April 26)
$1 million gift from Richard Meese, an economist and expert on foreign currency to the University of Wisconsin's Department of Economics to establish a new professorship (The Badger Herald, April 25)
$1 million pledge from First Bank Corporation to the University of Arkansas at For Smith for scholarship support for business students (Times Record, April 19)
$1 million gift from railroad giant Canadian National Railway Company to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center in Memphis to help support the capital campaign and a child safety program (Memphis Business Journal, April 21)