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November 8, 2007

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Your Research Shop

ASK BEE Question of the Week

Philanthropists of the Week

News of the Week

General News

Newsmakers

Campaigns

Scandals

Footprints

Curious and Wonderful

Fundraising Workshops & Training

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ASK BEE of the Week

Question

Is it appropriate to share with surviving family members the dollar 
amount of each person's gift donated in memory of an individual recently 
deceased?

Answer

This is a decision for your board, resource development committee or 
stewardship committee, but typically, an organization would not disclose 
the amount of a memorial gift to the family of the deceased. That is, 
unless the donor wants the gift amount disclosed. For stewardship 
purposes, you should do your best to respect the wishes of the donor. 
You may want to give information on the total amount given but not the 
amounts from individuals.

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Philanthropists of the Week



Arizona

* $4 million donation from the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation to the 
University of Arizona to endow two faculty chairs, one in the College of 
Engineering and the other in the Eller College of Management. (kold.com, 
10/29/07)

Arkansas

* $2 million corporate donation from Wal-Mart to Washington Regional 
Medical Center in Fayetteville to support technology advancements and 
associated quality improvement initiatives into its new electronic 
medical records system. (money.cnn.com, 10/29/07)

California

* $10 million anonymous gift to The Children’s Museum of Los Angeles for 
exhibits and operational costs for the museum’s new facility. (The 
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 10/30/07)
* $10 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation to the Hoover 
Institution at Stanford University to establish an endowment to support 
public policy development in the areas of economics, national security, 
and foreign policy. (hoover.org, 11/5/07)
* $2.65 million donation from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the 
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health to restore full-time 
school nurses to four San Jose schools. The five-year project is 
designed to help children succeed in school by improving their access to 
primary care and prevention services. (San Jose Business Journal, 11/5/07)
* $2 million corporate donation from Toyota to the American Red Cross to 
support relief efforts for the California wildfires. Toyota also donated 
lift trucks and palette jacks to unload and distribute relief supplies. 
(money.cnn.com, 10/25/07)
* $100,000 grant from the Callaway Golf Foundation to the American Red 
Cross to support relief efforts for the California wildfires. 
(businesswire.com, 10/25/07)

Connecticut

* $50,000 corporate donation from Garden Home Management, a family owned 
commercial real estate company, to Stamford’s Ferguson Library to 
prevent having to cut branch hours. (thestamfordtimes.com, 11/1/07)

Florida

* $1.5 million donation from The Verizon Foundation to The American 
Foundation for the Blind in Tampa to help develop a Web site designed to 
help aging adults who are losing their sight to live independently. 
(TheChronicle of Philanthropy, 10/24/07)

Georgia

* $22 million grant from The General Electric Company's charitable 
foundation to boost science and math education in the Atlanta Public 
Schools. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10/30/07)

Indiana

* 100+ original Andy Warhol photographs from the Andy Warhol 
Photographic Legacy Program to DePauw University. This is part of a 
national donation of original photos valued at over $28 million. 
(depauw.edu, 10/26/07)

Massachusetts

* $100,000 from Eileen and Ray Tye, liquor magnate turned 
philanthropist, who oversaw the Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation for the 
surgery that separated Egyptian conjoined twins, Ahmed and Mohamed 
Ibrahim, which took place at North Texas Hospital for Children in 
Dallas. (bostonglobe.com, 10/24/07)
* $150,000 in grants from The Boston Foundation to various Boston 
nonprofits including the Boston Capacity Tank to support the High Risk 
Youth Network, The Hyams Girls' Initiative through the Black Ministerial 
Alliance, Boston Private Industry Council to support the Youth 
Transitions Task Force, Everett Community Health Partnership for the 
program Teens Leading the Way and the Massachusetts Communities Action 
Network, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, and Freedom House for the 
Multicultural Dropout Outreach Collaborative. (Boston Business Journal, 
11/2/07)

Michigan

* $5.5 million gift from Bill Van Domelen and his wife, Julia, to the 
Borgess Nursing Home in Kalamazoo to help build a 101-bed, 
skilled-nursing and rehabilitation facility on Borgess's Nazareth 
campus. (mlive.com, 10/23/07)

Minnesota

* $7.1 million gift from Richard T. Fields to the University of 
Rochester Medical to fund research and care for a form of muscular 
dystrophy. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 10/25/07)
* $1.5 million grant from The Harry S. and Isabel C. Cameron Foundation 
to the University of St. Thomas, Cameron School of Business to create 
the Cameron Endowed Chair in Management and Marketing. (The Chronicle of 
Philanthropy, 10/24/07)

Montana

* $2.7 million planned gift from Evelyn Wanke of Rudyard to Montana 
State University's College of Agriculture to help pay for a new teaching 
and research building. (kxmc.com, 11/4/07)

New Hampshire

* $10 million from three families have endowed three new professorships 
at Dartmouth College. The Evans Family Distinguished Professorship was 
endowed by Barbara and Brad Evans, a Dartmouth trustee and class of ’64 
for chairs in the fields of psychological and brain sciences and 
biological sciences. The Richard and Jane Pearl Professorship from Jane 
and Richard Pearl, class of ’54 and grad of Tuck School of Business in 
’55, will endow a chair in environmental studies. (Dartmouth.edu, 10/29/07)

New York

* $10 million challenge grant from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation to 
Syracuse University to match up to $5 million for the S.I. Newhouse 
School of Public Communications. (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 
11/3/07)
* $3 million gift from Sabah Al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait, to St. 
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City for the establishment 
of a cardiac institute focused on arrythmias. (newsday.com, 10/24/07)

North Carolina

* $4 million grantfrom The C.D. Spangler Foundation to Charlotte's Teach 
for America to recruit 70 additional teachers to high-poverty CMS 
schools in 2008-09 and 2009-10. (The Charlotte Observer, 10/23/07)
* $1.6 million gift from Seth and Hazel Monsees Macon to Guilford 
College to support the cost of a welcome center and offices for 
advancement staff on campus. (The Business Journal of the Greater Triad 
Area, 10/29/07)
* $500,000 gift from the estate of Clara E. Lowry to Elon University to 
endow the Clara E. Lowry Endowed Scholarship, benefiting students with 
financial need or special talents. (The Business Journal of the Greater 
Triad Area, 10/30/07)

Ohio

* $125,000 in grants from the Aultman Health Foundation to various 
nonprofits in Stark, Wayne, Holmes, Carroll and Tuscawaras counties. 
(times-reporter.com, 10/25/07)

Oregon

* $1.5 million estate gift from Bob and Phyllis Mace to Oregon State 
University’sDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife to endow a faculty 
chair and an annual scholarship fund. (gazettetimes.com, 11/2/07)

Pennsylvania

* $22 million grant from the Heinz Endowments to Carnegie Mellon 
University toward a new School of Information Systems Management and to 
aid green chemistry, robotics and computer science programs. 
(post-gazette.com, 10/26/07
* $23 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation to the 
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburg and the University of Pittsburg’s 
School of Medicine. (post-gazette.com, 10/25/07)

South Carolina

* $800,000 anonymous challenge grant to match gifts toward creating an 
endowment for the preservation of Limestone College’s Winnie Davis Hall 
of History. (gaffneyledger.com, 10/24/07)

Texas

* $50 million gift from Jan and Dan Duncan of Houston to Texas 
Children's Hospital to launch an institute to study and treat pediatric 
neurological disorders. (Houston Chronicle, 10/23/07)
* $9 million in technology grants from the AT&T Foundation to 680 
nonprofits nationwide. The AT&T Excelerator program provides technology 
access to organizations that work to strengthen underserved communities. 
(bizjournals.com, 10/24/07)
* $5 million corporate donation from Exxon Mobil Corp. to support the 
renovation of the Ford Theatre in Washington, D.C. (bizjournal.com, 
10/26/07)
* $1 million donation from Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Dallas to the 
U.S. Fund for UNICEF which will focus on reducing the rate of infant 
mortality and increasing and improving access to basic sanitation, 
nutrition and education programs for families and children in Brazil. 
(prnewswire.com, 11/5/07)

Utah

* $1 million pledge over four years from The Micron Technology 
Foundation to Utah State University to help create a research center. 
(The Salt Lake Tribune, 10/2/07)

Wisconsin

* $15 million gift from Robert Kern, founder of Generac Power Systems, 
Inc., and his wife to Marquette University to improve its engineering 
school. (wkbt.com, 10/29/07)
* $6.8 million in grants from The Greater Milwaukee Foundation to 
various nonprofits to support programs that help working poor families, 
provide scholarships, protect the environment and promote youth 
development. (The Business Journal of Milwaukee, 11/5/07)

International

* £30,000 gift from an anonymous donor to Neath Port Talbot College in 
Wales to benefit needy students. (icwales.icnetwork.com, 10/25/07)
* Artwork valued at over £100,000 donated from the estate of British 
philanthropist Simon Sainsbury to the National Gallery, the Tate Britian 
and the Tate Modern in England.(timesonline.com, 10/30/07)

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Other News


Philanthropists Today not only gives you news on contributions but also 
on other nonprofit happenings. Here are just a few article topics that 
are currently in Philanthropists Today.

General News

* The Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College is beginning a 
study that explores the cultural underpinnings of wealth for society. 
The center said it is the first large-scale survey to focus exclusively 
on households with at least $25 million in net worth, with many of those 
respondents above $100 million. The objective is to study the attitudes, 
practices and personal philosophies of ultra-high net-worth households 
regarding wealth and philanthropy. (journalnow.com, 10/30/07)
* The Wikimedia Foundation has attracted 10,000 fundraising contributors 
in nine days. The foundation's annual fundraiser supports the nonprofit 
organization that runs Wikipedia. The group announced Thursday that its 
10,000th donation came from someone in Finland who donated 10 Euros. The 
total amount raised was not disclosed. (informationweek.com, 11/2/07)
* A majority of donors who own stock do not understand the tax breaks 
they could obtain by donating securities that have rose sharply in 
value, a new survey has found. The survey, released by Fidelity 
Investments and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, assessed the 
knowledge of more than 500 investors who had at least $100,000 in stocks 
or mutual funds, including retirement accounts, and who also had donated 
$1,000 or more to charity in one of the past three years. Sixty-eight 
percent of the investors were unaware of the tax benefits of giving 
appreciated stock rather than selling it — namely, that they could save 
15 percent of the amount by which their stock had appreciated in 
capital-gains tax, on top of the deduction they would receive by 
donating either stock or cash. Only 5 percent of the donors had given 
appreciated stock to charities in the past three years. Among the 
remaining 95 percent, the top reasons cited for not giving stock were 
that the investor wanted to keep stocks that had done well (39 percent), 
that the investor thought stock gifts involve “too much paperwork” (23 
percent), or that the investor thought making small gifts and supporting 
many organizations would be difficult with stock (20 percent). (The 
Chronicle of Philanthropy, 11/1/07)
* The American Cancer Society dedicated its new national headquarters 
building in downtown Atlanta this week. The dedication was done in 
conjunction with the society's annual meeting. (Atlanta 
Journal-Constitution, 10/25/07)
* New School Preparatory and Rollins College are joining forces to 
launch a charitable organization to aid an underprivileged child 
attending school in Namibia. The two Florida schools have also entered 
into an agreement with the Nambian school to foster support for needy 
students and also start a teacher exchange program. (Orlando Business 
Journal, 10/31/07)

Newsmakers

* Kelly J. McBride has been elected to the board of directors of Hands 
On Atlanta. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, 10/29/07)
* The American Lung Association of the Atlantic Coast has named Melina 
Davis-Martin president and chief executive officer. (The News & 
Observer, 10/23/07)
* The George Mason University Foundation Inc. has appointed David Roe as 
president, replacing Judy Jobbitt, who resigned June 30. Roe, an 
alumnus, joined the foundation in 1990 and was named CFO in 1999. 
(Washington Business Journal, 11/3/07)

Campaigns

* Syracuse University announced a $1-billion capital campaign, with more 
than half that amount already raised. The capital campaign began in 2005 
and will continue through 2012. Much of the money already has been 
allocated for student scholarships, endowed chairs and professorships, 
interdisciplinary collaborations, and community-engagement initiatives. 
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/3/07)
* Oregon State University aims to raise $625 million in its first ever 
university-wide campaign. The money will provide new facilities, hire 
more professors and fund more scholarships, among other improvement. The 
Campaign for OSU already has collected $350 million toward its goal 
during a silent phase, and the university wants to gather remaining the 
funds by July 2011, and about a third of the total will go into 
endowments. (Corvallis Gazette-Times, 10/27/07)
* The Houston Museum of Natural Science's capital campaign has already 
raised more than $45 million of its $85 million goal. (Houston Business 
Journal,10/31/07)
* The Cassady School in Oklahoma City announced the start of a $50 
million capital campaign. The Forward Focus campaign has a two-fold 
purpose, financial aid and scholarship funds. The remaining $25 million 
will go toward construction, renovation and expansion projects. 
(NewsOK.com, 10/27/07)
* The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson has launched a $28 million 
capital campaign to go toward buying land for parishes and schools in 
areas where the population is growing, including Pinal County and Yuma. 
(azstarnet.com, 10/20/07)
* The United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley has raised more than $3.3 
million of its $6.8 million campaign goal. (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, 
11/2/07)
* Quality Hill Playhouse in Kansas City has launched a $5 million 
capital campaign for renovations and expansion. $1.6 million has already 
been raised. (kansascity.com, 11/3/07)
* The Paws and Claws Humane Society in Rochester, MN has raised $1.8 of 
its $3.1 million capital campaign goal. (postbulletin.com, 10/30/07)
* The Ridgewater College Foundation in Minnesota launched the public 
phase of its $2.5 million capital campaign, “Changing Lives … 
Strengthening Communities,” to pay for a lab and its initial operating 
expenses. The next phase of the foundation’s fundraising effort will be 
to raise $1.5 million for a scholarship endowment. (West Central Tribune 
Online, 10/27/07)
* The DeKalb Chamber of Commerce has raised 66% of its $1 million 
capital campaign goal. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, 10/22/07)

Scandals

* The Smithsonian Institution has taken the rare step of putting on hold 
a $5 million donation from the American Petroleum Institute after two 
members of the museum complex's Board of Regents balked at accepting 
oil-industry money for a major initiative on the world's oceans. The 
longtime chairman of the regents' executive committee, Roger W. Sant, 
and U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), one of the six congressional 
regents, raised objections when the donation appeared on the board's 
agenda. (huffingtonpost.com, 11/3/07)
* The Arthritis Foundation's central Ohio chapter says it fired an 
employee after the charity discovered about $100,000 missing from 
various business accounts. The worker will be criminally charged in the 
matter. (wdtn.com, 11/3/07)
* The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, built around the motel 
where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, is 
drawing criticism that its governing board is too white and too closely 
tied to big business to watch over such an important piece of black 
history. "The board should more nearly approximate the soldiers of the 
civil rights movement that it celebrates, and they were overwhelmingly 
African-American," said D'Army Bailey, a black Tennessee judge who 
played a major role in the museum's founding but resigned from the board 
in 1991 when it refused to make him chairman. (The Associated Press, 
11/2/07)

Footprints

* R. Herbert “Herb” Bowden of Sioux Falls, SD has died at 82. Perhaps 
Bowden is best known for his role in creating Bowden Youth Center. He 
and his wife donated $475,000 to buy the former Irving school in 1999 
for the center, which provides free activities and food for youth. He 
served on boards such as Sioux Empire United Way in the 1980s and was an 
Augustana College Board of Regents member from 1985 to 1988. 
(argusleader.com, 10/27/07)
* Boca Raton philanthropist Sam W. Klein has died at age 93, ending a 
life in which the Cleveland saloonkeeper's son donated millions of 
dollars to charities around the country. Friends, business partners and 
acquaintances remembered Mr. Klein as an entrepreneur who willingly gave 
away much of his fortune. (palmbeachpost.com, 10/26/07)
* Leo Albert of Palm Beach has died at 87. Albert, a Marine Corps 
veteran, donated $2 million to the American Veterans Disabled for LIFE 
Memorial in addition to other causes. (palmbeachdailynews.com, 11/5/07)

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