The Alice L. Walton Foundation, Mercy, and Heartland Whole Health Institute recently reached a 30-year agreement and will invest $700 million to expand access to health care, reduce costs, and improve health outcomes in the central United States. Alice Walton is currently the wealthiest woman in the United States with an estimated fortune of $89.2 ..read more

Clifford Asness and John Liew, hedge fund managers with five University of Chicago degrees between them, are donating $60 million to their alma institution, just days after the university revealed a second $100 million contribution. The co-founders of quant firm AQR Capital Management made the donation to establish a master’s in finance program at the Booth School of Business, where both obtained MBAs, the school announced on Tuesday. They also obtained Ph.D. degrees from the university. “Their contributions will not only allow future generations to experience the value of a Booth education ..read more

Leave it to UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) and Children’s Health to not only break ground for its future Children’s pediatric campus, but to add a spectacular cherry to top off the occasion. That’s exactly what just happened this week. Learning that generous philanthropists Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones had stepped up to support the $5B project for the 4.7M-square-foot complex made the shoveling of dirt so much easier under October’s blue skies. Thanks to the Rees-Joneses and their $100M contribution, along with others, the two 12-story towers and an 8-story tower will provide inpatient, s ..read more

Inge Solheim is considered to be one of the world’s most respected adventure guides and motivational speakers. He is the ultimate authority people are directed to when they wish to undertake pioneering journeys in the most extreme environments on earth. Inge is best known for leading the Walking With The Wounded expeditions to the North and ..read more

Xavier University has secured another milestone donation, today announcing a $60 million planned gift from the Cincinnati-based Klekamp family. The donation will significantly strengthen the University’s ability to educate students intellectually, morally and spiritually in the years ahead. “The Klekamps continue to demonstrate their steadfast belief in the life-changing power of a Xavier education,” said Xavier University President Colleen Hanycz, Ph.D. “As our University builds toward its third century of educating the whole person, the Klekamp family is helping to ensure generations of fut ..read more

A major new gift from Joe Gebbia and Isabelle Boemeke to Clean Air Task Force (CATF), the EFI Foundation (EFIF), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) will establish and empower the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI)—a collaborative effort to catalyze and build a new nuclear energy ecosystem to scale to 50 or more gigawatts of clean, safe, and secure nuclear power per year by the 2030s, a tenfold increase of the current deployment rate. The gift awards $5 million to the NSI partnership to produce and socialize first-of-their-kind analyses and intellectual products among relevant governments ..read more

A new $15-million gift to the University of Vermont’s (UVM) Grossman School of Business will create the university’s largest experiential Co-op program, providing students with real-world experiences working in leading companies to better prepare UVM Catamounts for impactful careers and leadership in business and entrepreneurship. Thanks to this gift from the Grossman Family Foundation—led by Steven Grossman -UVM’s Grossman School of Business will become one of a few U.S. business schools with a major undergraduate business Co-op program. The new Co-op program will set a new standard of excel ..read more

The family of billionaire Eduardo Saverin, who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, made a $15.5 million donation to the Singapore American School, the institution announced. The donation is the largest gift in the school’s history, Superintendent Tom Boasberg wrote in a weekly email sent Friday, saying it would have a “transformative” effect on the institution, which serves pre-kindergarten through high school students. “The Saverin family gift will support the creation of world-class play spaces, cutting edge STEM labs” and other improvements at a new elementary school, currently under ..read more

City of Hope®, one of the largest and most advanced cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S., has received a $20 million gift from philanthropists Norman and Melinda Payson to create a pancreas center that will advance groundbreaking research and treatments for pancreatic cancer and diabetes. “Norman and Melinda understood the importance of our mission in Orange County from day one. Now, they are helping us as we look to a future where we end even the most complex forms of cancer and other serious illnesses.” The gift, announced at City of Hope Orange County’s Promises of Hope ..read more

More than 600 attendees walked down the red carpet as they entered midtown Manhattan’s chic Cipriani ballroom in support of American Friends of Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical service with more than 35,000 first responders. The event marked Bloomberg’s $44 million gift to Magen David Adom, Israel’s nonprofit emergency medical service. The former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist said he matched contributions he solicited through an email appeal for the American Friends of Magen David Adom. The total amounts to an $88 million gift, the largest in the Amer ..read more