Major Gifts
June 26, 2015 at 12:39 pm
The medical world just got some major ammunition in its battle to cure cancer—a $1 billion donation spearheaded by Nike chairman and CEO Phil Knight. In September 2013, Knight and his wife, Penny, pledged to give $500 million to Oregon Health & Science University for cancer research if the school could raise a matching donation in two…
June 22, 2015 at 12:41 pm
If any one of these traits are yours, either you need to change something or decide that perhaps you are in the wrong position. Look, we are all on a journey. But why continue on the path that is making you miserable? Doing it just for the money is not fair to you or your organization’s donors.
June 18, 2015 at 8:00 am
Wealthy donors gave over $700 million more to nonprofits in the first five months of 2015 than they did in the same period last year, according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy tally. From January through the first week of June 2015, affluent donors gave more than $4 billion to nonprofit groups, a 21 percent increase…
June 17, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Cornell Tech, the applied sciences graduate school of Cornell University, is expected to announce a $100 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
June 16, 2015 at 2:59 pm
The Sigma Chi International Fraternity recently announced a seven-year, $10 million fundraising commitment in support of its national philanthropic partner Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). In honor of the commitment, HCI named the sixth floor of Huntsman Cancer Hospital at HCI "The Sigma Chi International Fraternity Sixth Floor." The floor features a gourmet cafeteria, a multi-purpose room…
June 16, 2015 at 2:18 pm
Charitable giving rose 5.4 percent last year to a record $358.4 billion, according to estimates released today by "Giving USA," the annual snapshot of American philanthropy. The figures show that donations from individuals, corporations and foundations last year topped the record giving figure achieved in 2007, just before the recession started to affect donation figures.…
June 16, 2015 at 1:41 pm
Today Ted Hart, CEO of Charities Aid Foundation of America (CAFAmerica) and CEO of P2P Fundraising, GreenNonprofits.org and TedHart.com, speaks with Peter Fissinger, president and CEO of Campbell & Company, to break down Giving USA 2015: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2014. Tune in at 4:00 p.m. EDT for a first look…
June 15, 2015 at 2:31 pm
You might have just read this headline and said to yourself, “I can tell this is going to be really boring stuff…
June 15, 2015 at 2:13 pm
To mark the 50th anniversary of the The Ark, Ford Motor is making a $500,000 donation, the largest gift in the history of the Ann Arbor, Mich. folk and roots music venue. Ford's gift, to be paid over 20 years, puts the nonprofit Ark's anniversary capital campaign more than 70 percent of the way to…
June 12, 2015 at 1:43 pm
FedEx Corp. kicked off the FedEx St. Jude Classic in a major way. The Memphis, Tennessee-based company, which also renewed its title sponsorship of the tournament through 2017 last week, is donating $1 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The donation will be made in the name of Billy Horschel, who won the FedEx St.…
