Officials with the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles announced a $13 million gift for its new North Campus. The donation from The Otis Booth Foundation is the largest private gift dedicated to the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park in its nearly century-long history, officials said. The money will go towards the creation of a glass entrance pavilion for the museum. The three-story entrance will be named the Otis Booth Pavilion and will connect to Exposition Boulevard via a pedestrian bridge. “We are extremely grateful to The Otis Booth Foundation for this gift, which will create a ..read more

Inova Health System has received a $20 million gift from the Peterson Family Foundation, the family behind the Peterson Cos. real estate development firm, the Falls Church-based health system announced. The gift will be split, with $15 million dedicated to the Inova Life with Cancer program and $5 million to the expansion of Inova Fairfax Hospital’s emergency room. The Life with Cancer program, which will be renamed Inova Peterson Life with Cancer, provides education and psychosocial support, including support groups, nutritional consultations and therapeutic and art counseling, for free to i ..read more

The US Government has announced a new $110 million AI partnership between Japan and the United States that includes an initiative to fund research through a collaboration between the University of Washington and the University of Tsukuba. Jensen Huang through his NVIDIA is committing another $25 million in a collaboration with Amazon that aims to bring the latest technologies to the University of Washington, in Seattle, and the University of Tsukuba, which is northeast of Tokyo. Universities around the world are preparing students for crucial AI skills by providing access to the high performa ..read more

The Pagidipati family donated $50 million to the Tampa-based healthcare provider, according to BayCare. This is the largest publicly recorded gift to a hospital in Tampa Bay and one of the largest gifts to healthcare in Florida. Stephanie Conners, president and chief executive officer of BayCare Health System, announced that the funds will be used to build a new freestanding children’s hospital in Tampa. The $50 million donation is in honor of Pagidipati’s parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, while the family is also celebrating 50 years of living in the United States. The funds, donated by Tam ..read more

Thanks to a transformational $10 million donation from Caivan Group (Caivan), one of Canada’s leading real estate developers, co-founded by Waterloo alumni Frank Cairo and Troy van Haastrecht, Waterloo University has embarked on a bold new mission to create healthier, more prosperous cities with the launch of the Future Cities Institute founded by CAIVAN.  At the gift announcement and launch event some of the challenges facing cities today and the need for futures-thinking interventions were critically discussed. From the rising cost of housing, aging infrastructure and climate change to ..read more

Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation announced that Susan Milman is donating $16 million to support the new state-of-the-art Outpatient Cancer Pavilion on Sarasota Memorial’s Sarasota campus. The facility, which will offer comprehensive outpatient cancer services, is currently under construction and slated to open in late 2025. Ms. Milman’s donation will be used specifically to support operations of the new pavilion which will house an expanded breast health center with the latest mammography, ultrasound, and stereotactic and nuclear medicine technology. Additional services will include ou ..read more

Montana State University will break ground this month on a new building, Gianforte Hall, that will house the Gianforte School of Computing. The three-story building was made possible by a $50 million gift from the Gianforte Family Foundation and is expected to open in 2026. “I am grateful for the generosity of the Gianforte Family Foundation and for the opportunities this new facility will create for students,” said MSU President Waded Cruzado in a statement. The building will have two large classrooms and laboratories dedicated to robotics, cybersecurity, augmented and virtual reality, data ..read more

With help from an historic $101 million donation, Montana State University is constructing five new buildings across the state for nursing education to help provide health care and meet the need for more nurses. The buildings will be at each of MSU’s five campuses — Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell and Missoula. “These new buildings will provide students with a better learning experience and allow us to enroll more students to help meet the nursing shortage in Montana,” said Sarah Shannon, dean of the nursing college. The buildings are expected to be open for business in fall 2026 if ..read more

Berkeley Journalism alum Angela Filo and her husband David Filo, the co-founder of Yahoo, have made a $10 million gift to the journalism school — the largest single gift to the school in its history. The gift publicly kicks off a five-year $54.4 million Campaign for Berkeley Journalism. “Great journalism is essential to a thriving democracy,” said Angela Filo), a member of the school’s Advisory Board. “We have to invest in training the next generation of journalists who will ensure that communities have access to reliable and responsive information they can trust.” Dean Geeta Anand expressed ..read more

$34.9 million gifted to 75 nonprofit groups working in the areas of arts and culture, climate resilience, education, nonprofit-sector effectiveness, racial wealth equity, and watershed protection in New England. Among the grants was $1 million to the Metropolitan Area Planning Council to bolster its Arts and Culture Department’s programs and advocacy on behalf of arts organizations in the region. Amos Hostetter is co-founder and trustee of the Barr Foundation and chairman and CEO of Pilot House Associates, LLC. In 1963, Amos co-founded Continental Cablevision and served as its chairman and CE ..read more