Behind a Gift for an Endowed Chair: A Law Student Turned Faculty Member...
We'll say it again: Professors can become important donors to schools, and that's especially true if they're also alums. That's part of the backstory behind an SMU gift.
View ArticleAn "Inspiration" and Friend: A Prominent Professor Helps Spur An Engineering...
Universities obviously have a huge stake in keeping their alumni connected to campus. Less obvious, perhaps, is the power of ties between former students and professors, which can lead to big gifts.
View ArticleGratitude Really Matters: Behind $10 Million For Campus Scholarships
Scholarship gifts aren't necessarily the most exciting, but a recent gift to Belmont University underscores their enduring appeal to donors and involves lessons of gratitude that are worth remembering.
View ArticleWith Another Gift, More Evidence That Campus Donors Are Jazzed About...
Gifts to nurture student entrepreneurs keep coming, and often don't just help a school. They can also spur local economic growth, which can be especially appealing to alumni donors committed to the...
View ArticleThere's Moore Where That Came From: A Donor's Vast Giving to a Top Science...
Intel cofounder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty have now given Caltech over $700 million. Here's a closer look at their legacy, why they've given so much, and what's to come.
View ArticleBig Gifts for Campus Libraries Are Unusual. What Can We Learn From This One?
The University of Notre Dame recently received a $10 million gift from an alumnus and his wife for the school's Hesburgh Libraries. What's the story here?
View ArticleThe World Is a Mess. But Maybe Princeton Can Help Us Cope With An Extra Five...
Perhaps it's just a coincidence, but we've seen quite a few campus gifts related to international studies of late coming in reassuring tandem with headlines about ISIS or Russian separatists. Here's...
View ArticleWhy This Couple Gave Millions To Bolster Special Education at This University
Let's face it, the issue of preparing folks to teach in special education often goes under the radar. But the personal elements behind this uncommon gift hammer home common themes in higher education...
View ArticleOne Final Push: Anonymous Alumni Family Bolsters Capital Campaign
While we don't know the name of the family behind this gift, we do know a bit about them, and it's the kind of potentially big-giving profile we talk about all the time here at IP. Here are the lessons.
View ArticleFamily Ties Matter: Behind A Big Medical Center Gift At UT Southwestern
This Texas oil family has deep ties to the University of Texas, which explains a big $25 million gift to create a medical center. We look at the backstory.
View ArticleA Big Liberal Arts Gift Touches Multiple Areas on Campus
Often we write about gifts that touch a particular program or school on a college campus or university. Other times, though, gifts are spread wider. Take a recent $20 million gift to Connecticut College.
View ArticleA Campus Donor Known for Underwriting a B-School Gives Big for Law
Billionaire Stephen Ross is best known for his contributions to University of Michigan, whose business school bears his name. But Ross also studied law, including at NYU, which helps explain this large...
View ArticleThanks a Million: Immigrant Gratitude and the Making of a Big Campus Gift
We've written before about how foreign-born alumni often give big to the alma maters that helped them get their American starts. This time, we dig into the deeply personal motivations behind a gift to...
View ArticleA Perfect Prescription: Here's Why a Medical School Landed a $30 Million Gift
What do you get when add a bit of alumni loyalty, a long history of giving to a school, deep regional ties, and more? A big gift to University at Buffalo's medical school that's what. We take a look.
View ArticleCollaboration is Key: Behind A $25 Million Gift To This College Consortium...
We talk a lot about how gifts sometimes come together in a way that is a perfect fit for the school. A recent $25 million gift to the Claremont Colleges in Southern California by alumni couple Rick and...
View ArticleCrucial Linkages: $5.6 Million for Collaborative Finance Research at Princeton
Events of the past decade have underscored just how important it is to get a better understanding of complicated economic issues. A recent gift to Princeton aims to do just that.
View ArticleA Couple Steps Up: $45 Million Goes to Public Health at Drexel University
Philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife continue a family habit of making transformational gifts to their favorite universities.
View ArticleAn Emmy For Your Thoughts: Behind A Big Campus Music Gift By This Alumni Couple
Raising money for the arts can be tough, since alumni in these fields don't tend to have very deep pockets. Well, here's a couple with soaring music careers who created a new music institute at their...
View ArticleCampus Donors Who Give Big For Art—What Makes Them Tick?
Art collecting couple Jerome and Simona Chazen just gave yet another major gift to the Chazen Art Museum at their alma mater University of Wisconsin. We dig into the back story.
View ArticleAnother Day, Another Gift for a Campus Research Institute at an Elite University
Here's one kind of giving that jazzes up some alumni donors: Funding research institutes at their alma maters. We look at the latest such give, to Duke University, and the donor behind it.
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