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Top 10 Emerging Trends in Major Gifts, Terry Burton from Dig In Research

services@supportingadvancement.com — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Top 10 Emerging Trends in Major Gifts

1. The importance of Stewardship Equity

Think about donor retention and spreading the word about your mission and vision.

2. Increase in the number of transformational gifts to smaller nonprofits

A residual effect of stewardship time and effort, these change the landscape forever in terms of cash flow, staffing, brand name / brand presence in the market to name a few.

3. Namesake donors stepping up to make a second, third and fourth major gift

Follows from #1. Broaden the stewardship to the direct family & extended family,lots of great follow along major gifts coming out.

4. Convergence of online giving and text messaging gifts

The cell phone has quickly emerged as the most dynamic electronic device ever and when you add in online giving, people can get to your web site from the cell phone, making the gift an impulse buying type of decision, more to come on this.

5. Shifts in the frequency and dollar amounts of major gifts

The number of major gifts has decreased during 2008 and 2009 but the dollar value of each major gift appears to be shifting upwards. The start of 2010 has seen a burst of major activity.

6. Planned Giving expanding

People are choosing to make gifts of cash, securities, large properties, art and other valuable assets. The dollar amounts of planned gifts appears to be shifting upwards as well.

7. International competition for major gifts

This is accelerating at the top of the major gift charts with large amounts coming in and going out of the USA. Evidence can be found in health care, higher education and arts & culture.

8. Pockets of Philanthropy

During 2009 over 25 campaigns across the USA reported record breaking years and other degrees of success at a time when traditional media claimed disaster. I believe it comes back to #1, Stewardship Equity in those communities.

9. Communication with major gift donors and prospects

We have shifted towards more electronic style of communication with email, voice mail and power point messages as compared to the face-to-face meetings, measure the difference in your own organization.

10. The growing importance of research

When developing a donor profile start with giving history to your organization AND to other nonprofits. Think like a wealth management adviser in terms of "Share of Wallet" a term they use to describe accepting that the individual wants to spread things around and not have all their eggs in one basket.

One last thought, please take the time to develop for the Ask Amounts with benchmarks for your Naming Opportunities.

best regards

Terry Burton
Dig In Research
cell 248-881-2323

Major Gift Report to February 26, 2010 by Terry Burton

services@supportingadvancement.com — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

The month of February revealed a surge in new Major Gifts. From the first half of the month I tracked $154 million in major gifts that was surpassed in the last few weeks with $305 million more for a total of $459 million for February, 2010. This includes only those major gifts that I find in my day-to-day survey and is not the total amount of giving. Take note of more evidence of what I refer to as Pockets of Philanthropy in 2009, when you review the campaign results from the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare in Louisville + the over goal report from the United Way in Roanoke, VA. Congrats all around.

In other Major Gift news I am in the final stages of completing my work on the Survey of Major Gifts & Philanthropy, Canadian edition, to be followed by my Survey of Major Gifts & Philanthropy, USA edition.

Major Gifts - $305 million +
February 15th to February 26th, 2010

Major Gifts for February = $459 Million in the USA
Sponsored by DonorSearch.net

Entries come from announcements from Individuals, Foundations and Corporate Funders
researched by Terry Burton / Dig In Research

Houston,Texas, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center launched the public phase of the Billion dollar campaign. $1 Billion

Auburn, Alabama, Auburn University has reduced the ASK Amounts on many of its’ naming opportunities

Louisville, Kentucky, The Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation reported a record setting fundraising year in 2009. $9.6 million

Roanoke, Virginia. The United Way of the Roanoke Valley reporting surpassing the 2008 goal in its 2009 campaign. $6.1 million

MAJOR GIFTS

Tulsa, Oklahoma. T. Boone Pickens offered a $100 million challenge grant to Oklahoma State University to fund an endowment for scholarships. $100 Million

Boston, Massachusetts. The Barr Foundation, with assets of approximately $1 billion, has pledge to support Boston-area nonprofits and efforts that fight climate change from a $50 million fund. $50 million

Mount Vernon, Virginia. A grant from the Reynolds Foundation of Los Angeles to the George Washington Library. $38 million

Miami, Florida. Norton Herrick, chairman of Herrick Entertainment, made a gift of silent films of Charlie Chaplin, valued at $32 million to the University of Miami, School of Communication. $32 million

Bloomington, Indiana. A gift from Bill & Gayle Cook to Indiana University basketball program, IU Trustees voted to name Cook Hall in recognition of their support. $15 million

Washington, D.C. A grant from the Leavey Foundation to Georgetown University to create three named programs to enrich the Catholic and Jesuit heritage. $6.9 million

Charlotte, North Carolina. Carolinas Kids Cancer Research Coalition, a group of eight philanthropic organizations pooled their resources to make a gift o Kids Cancer Research at Levine Children's Hospital. $5.7 million

Cambridge, Massachusetts. A gift from Glenn Dubin, co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management to Harvard University, Kennedy School of Gov’t. $5 million

Thousand Oaks, California. A gift from Ventura County real estate developer William Rolland to California Lutheran University for a new 3,000 seat football stadium. Largest single gift to the school. $5 million

University Heights, Ohio. John Carroll University received a bequest from an anonymous donor directed towards student scholarships. $4.45 million

Greenville,North Carolina. East Carolina University has named the dental school building after Dr. Ledyard Ross in recognition of his gift. $4 million

St. Louis, Missouri. A corporate gift from Emerson, based in nearby Ferguson, MO, to the St. Louis Public Library helped to expand the north side of the facility into an atrium. $4 million

New York. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research announced $3.5 million in awards. $3.5 million

Detroit, Michigan. Gretchen Valade, CEO of Mack Avenue Records and chair of Dearborn-based Carhartt Inc., has come forward as the donor of an anonymous $3 million gift made to St. John Hospital and Medical Center. $3 million

St. Louis,Missouri. A grant from the William T. Kemper Foundation to Washington University in St. Louis, split between support for the Kemper Art Museum, the Sam Fox School of Visual Arts and the Hope Ctr for Neurological Disorders. $3 million

Sioux City, South Dakota. Avera McKennan Hospital received a grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to support health care in South Dakota. $2.5 million

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania grant from the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs of the Gov’t of India, to support Penn’s Center for the Advanced Study of India. $2 million

San Francisco, California. Google’s gift to support Wikipedia, matches the largest gift yet received by the online reference site. $2 million

Florence, South Carolina. Francis Marion University received a gift from the PSARAS Foundation to support outreach programs. $2 million

West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue University College of Engineering received two scholarship gifts, both of $1 million; one an estate gift from Robert L. Turner and his wife, Catherine and the second from an anonymous donor. $1 million + $1 million

Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Wilson College celebrated the launch of its campaign with the naming of the C.Q. Smith Auditorium in recognition of the gift from the local businessman. $1.5 million

Raeford, Arkansas. An estate gift by Dr. Doris Chambers, to the Hospice Foundation of Hoke County, a nonprofit with an annual budget of just $50,000. $1,185,000

San Antonio, Texas. H-E-B gift to Witt Museum to support H-E-B Science Treehouse into an interactive center that focuses on the body and ways to live a healthy lifestyle $1 million

Hartford, Connecticut. The Hartford Hospital received a gift from an anonymous donor, funds to be used for the new Clinical Center. $1 million

Bloomington, Illinois. Illinois Wesleyan University recently opened the Joslin Atrium of the Memorial Center on campus, made possible by a gift from Roger and Stephany Joslin. $1 million

New York, New York. Sumner Redstone made a gift to Autism Speaks. $1 million

Las Vegas,Nevada. The Harrah's Foundation announced a gift to the William J. Clinton Foundation. $1 million

Provo, Utah. A gift from Marc and Debbie Bingham to Utah Valley University to match money raised for a new science building. $1 million

Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia College & State University received an estate gift from 1942 alum Martha Daniel Newell. $1 million

St. Joseph, Michigan. A gift from Thomas Yeager to the Lakeland Health Foundations for the new cancer treatment center. $1 million

Black Hills, Minnesota. Lloyd Paulson made a gift to the Black Hills Community Foundation as a challenge grant. $1 million

Beaumont, Texas. Education First Federal Credit Union has signed on as a sponsor of Lamar University athletics with this gift. $1 million

Charlotte, North Carolina. Bank of America announced two gifts of $500,000 each, one to United Way of Central Carolinas and the other to the Critical Need Response Fund administered by Foundation For The Carolinas. $500,000 + $500,000

Moorehead, Minnesota. An estate gift from Julien Burkness ’35, to Minnesota State University Moorhead for student scholarships. $860,000

Alma, Michigan. Alma Colleges named The Charlie and Marion McIntyre Court in appreciation of their gift to Alma College athletics, the new facility opens this winter. $250,000

Apex, North Carolina. A grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation to start the development of a virtual hospital on campus of Johnston Community College. $200,000

INTERNATIONAL MAJOR GIFTS

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA. Karim (Kay) Nasser, his wife Dora, and their five children have donated $12-million worth of property to the University of Saskatchewan. $12 million

Zambia. BARCLAYS Bank Zambia made a gift of K40 million to the University of Zambia to settle arrears owed by students from 2009. $8.4 million US

Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA. A pledge from an anonymous donor to The Land Conservancy to buy land between Jordan River and Sooke on Vancouver Island. $250,000

Contributing research supplied by Terry Burton, of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-438-8064. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts

Major Gifts - $154 million +, February 1st to February 14th, 2010 from Terry Burton

services@supportingadvancement.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Here is an excerpt of my recent Major Gifts Reports, sponsored by DonorSearch.net listed here are half of the Major Gifts I tracked so far this month from public announcements.

Full Major Gifts Report available at DonorSearch.net web site.

Major Gifts - $154 million +
February 1st to February 14th, 2010

Major Gifts announcements from Individuals, Foundations and Corporate funders by Terry Burton/Dig In Research

Las Vegas. UNLV raised $537 million in the just completed first ever capital campaign. $537 million campaign

Haiti Relief. The American Red Cross updated the giving from mobile donors who committed $10 at a time to relief efforts in Haiti, creating a new plateau of philanthropy. $32 million

Philanthropy & Sponsorship

Columbus, Georgia. NASA has donated parts from the space shuttle to Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science Center. $17 million

Los Angeles, California UnitedHealth Group purchased Children’s Institute’s tax-exempt revenue bonds through the California Health Care Investment Program. $14.3 million

Edmonds, Washington An estate gift from Hazel Miller has established the nonprofit Hazel Miller Foundation, goal to support local nonprofits. $12 million

Dallas, Texas An anonymous donor has issued a $10 million challenge grant to the Dallas Opera to help the new fundraising campaign of $20 million. $10 million

Denver, Colorado The Denver Museum of Nature & Science received a gift from the Morgridge Family Foundation to help build a new three storey addition . $8 million

Columbia, Missouri Leo Journagan and his family gift of the family ranch including ,3300 acres, 1,000 head of cattle and other ranch assets to Missouri State University, Darr School
of Agriculture. $7 million +

Berea, Ohio A bequest from Arthur and Helen Telfer to Baldwin-Wallace College for the science building. $7 million

Tulsa, Oklahoma A gift from Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish the Dean John Rogers Endowed Chair for the College of Law at the University of Tulsa. $5 million

Pasadena, California A gift from the estate of Edward and Ruth Hughes to the California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. $3.9 million

Dallas, Texas The JP Morgan Promenade was named after a sponsorship gift to the city of Dallas Woodall Rogers Deck Park. $3 million

Caledonia, Michigan The M.E. Davenport Foundation made a gift towards the Robert W. Sneden Center of Davenport University. $2.5 million

Raleigh, North Carolina Stephen Zelnak, chairman of the board and recently retired CEO of Martin Marietta Materials, announced his pledge to the Salvation Army, his gift was acknowledged with the naming of the Zelnak Center of Hope, a new headquarters and homeless shelter, $12 million campaign. $2.5 million

San Diego, California A gift from Pauline Foster of San Diego to endow MBA student fellowships at the University of San Diego, Rady School of Business. $2.5 million

Washington County, Wisconsin An estate gift from a private donor to build a community arts center at East Ridge High School. $2 million

Adair Village, Oregon A gift from an anonymous donor to Santiam Christian Schools where the funds will be used for a new library, science and community building, it is the largest gift ever received by the school. $2 million

Charlotte, South Carolina A gift from alumna Patricia Whetstone Carter and her husband Ray Carter to Winthrop University. $1.5 million

Fort Worth, Texas Thanks to contributions of its customers during the holidays, RadioShack announced a donation to Livestrong, an organization that helps people with cancer. $1.3 million

Corvallis, Oregon A gift from Indie Hops to Oregon State University, Nor’wester Professorship in Fermentation Science. $1 million

Bloomington, Indiana 3M has made a gift to Indiana University's Kelley School of Business to support the new sales and communications lab. $1 million

Salt Lake City, Utah Westminster College announced it will name the third floor of the new Meldrum Science Center for the gift received from The Sorenson Legacy Foundation. $833,000

Louisville, Tennessee A new computer lab named the Scripps Convergence Lab was dedicated at the University of Tennessee, a gift from the Scripps Howard Foundation. $500,000

International Gifts Received

Victoria, British Columbia United Way campaign raises record $6.7 million in the just completed efforts. $6.75 million

Kamloops, British Columbia A gift from Mark and Ellen Brown made a historic pledge to Thompson Rivers University, the largest gift ever to the university. $2 million

Halifax, Nova Scotia An estate gift from John Walker of Crapaud to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Foundation. $1 million

England The National Trust now counts 3.8 million members, up 300,000 in the last three years, that pay annual membership fees of between £35.63 for a single adult to £61.50 for a family. 55,000 of volunteers spend time caring for the 600,000 acres of countryside, 700 miles of coastline and over 350-historic houses and gardens + 300,000 members since 2007

Contributing research supplied by Terry Burton, of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts

Extraordinary Gifts to Foundations in 2009

services@supportingadvancement.com — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Terry Burton
Dig In Research
http://diginresearch.biz

Extraordinary Gifts from / to Foundations in 2009

Seattle. Warren Buffett donated the largest portion of his pledge to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. $1.56 billion.

Philadelphia. Haas Charitable Trusts gift to the William Penn Charitable Foundation. $767 million.

New York. New York investment managers Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller reported gifts to their Druckenmiller Foundation. $704 million.

Akron, OH. University of Akron received an in-kind gift of computer software from Siemens to its’ School of Engineering, market value for 300 licenses pegged at $218 million.

Washington, DC. Siemens PLM Software, a division of the Siemens Industry Automation Division announced a series of in-kind software grants valued at more than $150 million to Howard University. The largest grants ever in the history of Howard University. $150 million.

San Jose, CA. Lorry Lokey’s gift to Silicon Valley Community Foundation. $110 million.

New York, NY. McKnight Foundation pledges $100 million to climate change initiative over the next five years. $100 million.

New York, NY. Ford Foundation announced a five-year, $80 million effort to ensure Americans get the support they need to stabilize family incomes, cope with unemployment and keep their jobs. $80 million.

This is Part 3 of Research on Major Gifts made in 2009 - Terry Burton

services@supportingadvancement.com — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

This is Part 3 of Research on Major Gifts made in 2009

Also working on a presentation for NEDRA "Emerging Trends in Major Gifts" for the NEDRA Conference in Boston, April 2010.

Open invitation to all APRA Chapters interested in a webinar session of this presentation please contact me directly. No cost to APRA members.

Major Gifts to Arts & Culture in 2009

Cincinnati, OH, Ohio arts patron Louise Nippert donated $75 million to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and another $10 million to the city’s opera and ballet companies and other classical-music entities, $75 million + $10 million

Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History announced that multibillionaire David H. Koch’s gift will finance the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, $30 million

Creve Coeur, MO, Chaminade College Prep received a gift designated for the construction and endowment of an arts center, 79,000 square feet in dimension with a 1,000 seat auditorium, $28 million

Los Angeles, CA, The late founder of the Museum of Latin American Art, Robert Gumbiner’s bequest to the organization announced in Los Angeles, $25 million

Los Angeles, CA, Glorya Kaufman’s donation to the Dance at the Music Center program, thought to be one of the largest gifts of its kind to a dance program, $20 million

Atlanta, GA,The Goizueta Foundation made a 3 year grant to the Woodruff Arts Center to expand programming to students, $12 million

New York, NY, The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center was named in appreciation of his gift, $10 million

New York, NY, An estate gift from Michael H. Dunn to the Museum of Modern Art, $10 million

New York, NY, New York Philharmonic gift from Henry Kravis in order to endow its composer-in-residence program and establish an award for composers of contemporary classical music, $10 million

Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture received a gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the current capital campaign, $10 million

Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan dedicated its newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology display of long hidden artifacts from the Mediterranean with an estate gift from Edwin and Mary Meader, $8.5 million

Washington, D.C., William H. Gross gift to the Postal Museum will enable the museum to add a 12,000-square-foot gallery, named for Gross, to the 65,000-square-foot facility near Union Station, $8 million

Springhill, MA, Tom Shields and his wife, Mary made a gift to Stonehill Colleges that named the Shields Science Center in appreciation for their gift, $7 million

Newport News, VA, The Virginia Living Museum received a gift from an anonymous donor to help pay off the $9 million debt from the recent capital campaign, the gift a $3 million challenge match if the museum can raise an additional $3 million by Dec. 31, 2009, $6 million

New Orleans, NO, The National World War II Museum received a gift from T.G. Solomon and his family, who helped found the Gulf States Theatres organization of movie theaters. The museum’s theater will be named the Solomon Victory Theater, $5.5 million

New York, NY, Adrienne Arsht Theatre Fund was named after her gift to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to support musical theater programming, $5 million

Louisville, KY, The Speed Art Museum received a grant from the James Graham Brown Foundation for the renovation and expansion campaign, $5 million

Los Angeles, CA, A donation from Haim and Cheryl Saban was instrumental in aiding the work of restoring the famed Wiltshire Theatre, that will be re-named the Saban Theatre when work is completed, $5 million

New York, NY, American Ballet Theater announced a gift from Toni and Martin Sosnoff to create the Toni and Martin Sosnoff New Works Fund, which will support all future works that it commissions. The gift was the single largest gift the organization has received from a private donor, $5 million

Springfield, MA, Springfield Museum of History received an anonymous gift for the museum’s expansion campaign, $4.3 million

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences named the SECU Daily Planet, part of a multi-media presentation area in the museum, a gift from the State Employees Credit Union members, $4 million

West Palm Beach, FL, John & Heidi Niblack’s gift to the Norton Museum’s Chinese art programs. $2 million to acquire Chinese paintings and the balance split between renovations, educational programs and annual operating expenses over five years, $3.5 million

Washington, D.C., Collector, William H. Gross, sold his rare stamp collection and made a gift to the Smithsonian Postal Museum with the proceeds, $3.2 million

Tampa, FL,Tampa Museum of Art pledge from longtime supporters Frank & Carol Morsani and named the Frank and Carol Morsani Lobby Atrium in recognition of the donation, $3 million

Bloomington, IN, The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center received a gift from the Lily Endowment to support journeys back in time, $2 million

Terry Burton, President of Dig In Research
http://diginresearch.biz

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The Devil is in the Details

services@supportingadvancement.com — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Customer service has a foundation that needs to be built on strong partnerships.

Motivation for success can/is/should be a key driver for customer service. Success on a personal level is important, but the more important component of success is to transmit motivation to the whole organization so everyone on the team can also be successful in providing great customer service.

The environment we’re in is intensely competitive. We are selling ideas and issues which are practically intrinsic compared to organizations that are selling physical goods. If we don’t get it right, people will quickly move to another idea for another cause.

Basics of fundraising – these have not changed, but we should remind ourselves of what the basics of the fundraising business are in relation to customer service:

• Personal Contacts with Prospects and Donors
• Perfection in Communications
• Accuracy and Timeliness
• High Standards of Ethics
• Accountability

Transcending our competitors will need to revolve around:

• Being a good member of the community.
• Partnering with competitors to make the industry stronger.
• Being relentless about asking why and making continual improvements.
• Continuously seeking partnerships with both similar and complementary skill sets.
• Including Government and other “non donor” funding bodies in our embodiment of what customer service means.
• Service is about fiduciary responsibility so we must provide it while managing our budget constraints and giving our stakeholders the best value for their financial commitment in our programs.

What are some formative strategies on how we can initiate changes in our own customer service models?

• As a manager – be trained by co-workers in some of the customer facing entry level positions in the organizations. As managers we often end up removed from many of the day-to-day activities that can really make a difference. It’s surprising what you might discover both about the organization and about yourself.

• There is both an emotional and a physical commitment to services, and an appreciation of this relationship needs to be gained to truly understand services. For example: What are the constraints presented by a folding machine that may be causing our receipts to have a less than optimal appearance?

• Buy-in is important at all levels of the organization. Service needs to be provided in a seamless manner and at the same time, the organization needs to have an appreciation of the teamwork that makes it happen from start to finish. Silos have no relation to customer service. We need to deliver services in spite of our organizational structure.

• We need to hire people that want to be in our business and want to do the type of work that we need done. It doesn’t make sense to invest heavily in dollars and energy bringing people along who are marginally committed to our cause. People need to be able to succeed personally if the organization is to succeed.

Customer service is not without challenges. Economy, adherence to past branding, changing business models and much more make it more difficult to change course mid-stream, but some of these changes such as Internet enabled business models have helped us with new creative opportunities for service we never had even just a few years ago.

In conclusion, focus on what works and what supports your brand.

People today don’t want a transaction, they want an experience, and your customer service activities need to provide the differential experience that keeps your customers coming back.

Top 25 Major Gifts to Higher Education in 2009 - Terry Burton

services@supportingadvancement.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Part Two of my research this is the Top 25 Major Gifts to Higher Education in 2009 there was a tie for 25th with six gifts of $20 million, this lists includes other major gifts made at the time of the Top 25 gift.

For more details visit Dig In Research at http://diginresearch.biz
compiled by Terry Burton

Universities & Colleges

Cambridge, MA, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, received the first installment of $100 million towards the $400 million pledge, to a genomic medicine research institute shared by the two universities from Eli Broad, $100 million

Cambridge, MA, David Rockefeller pledge to Harvard for international study programs and to expand its arts programs. Harvard will not receive the $100 million until Rockefeller’s death but will receive $2.5 million / year until then, $100 million

Amherst, MA, Two graduates of Amherst College pledged separate gifts of and both wished to remain anonymous, $100 million + $25 million

Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University created the Precourt Energy Institute with a bundle of million gifts. Jay Precourt, donated $50 million, and university trustee and managing partner of Farallon Capital Management Thomas Steyer and spouse Kat Taylor gave $40 million, and Douglas Kimmelman, senior partner of Energy Capital Partners, Michael Ruffatto, president of North American Power Group Ltd., and the Schmidt Family Foundation combined to make a gift of $10 million $50 million + $40 million + $10 million

Poughkeepsie, NY, Raymond A. Rich has bequeathed a 60-acre estate valued at approximately $75-million to Marist College along with a $10 million cash gift, $75 million + $10 million

Chicago, IL, Loyola University Chicago historic gift from John Cuneo, Jr., his wife, Herta, and the Cuneo Foundation. The gift includes the Cuneo Museum and Gardens in Vernon Hills, Illinois, its nearly 100 surrounding acres, an extensive collection of art and furnishings, and an in-kind distribution of funds $50 million

New Haven, CT, A gift from John W. Jackson, a 1967 Yale graduate, and his wife, Susan to Yale to establish a new international studies institute to encourage students to pursue careers in diplomacy and global affairs, $50 million

Dartmouth, VT, Largest gift commitment in Dartmouth’s history, from a Dartmouth family which wishes to remain anonymous, $50 million

Boston, MA, Bernard Gordon gift to the Gordon Institute at Tuft’s University, School of Engineering to advance its engineering leadership education programs. It is the 2nd mega gift from Gordon who gave $35 million in 1984 to establish the Gordon Institute, $40 million

Tulsa, OK, The University of Tulsa began construction of its performing arts center thanks to a nearly $40 million commitment from the George Kaiser Family Foundation, $39 million

South Bend, IN, Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program at Notre Dame University established with endowment gift from Mark W. Yuskos and Stacey Miller Yuskos of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, $35 million

St. Louis, MO, The John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics was established this past week with this gift from the Danforth Foundation to the University of Washington in St. Louis, $30 million

Dubuque, IA, University of Dubuque announced a gift from Joseph & Linda Chlapaty. The gift was designated for an Academic Chair Endowment that will support the teaching and research of an academic chair in each of the mathematics, the sciences, and in the theological seminary curriculum;
$20 million was designated as the lead gift for the Fine & Performing Arts, Worship and Campus Center, plus funds to support renovation to student housing, $30 million

Rochester, NY, University of Rochester named the Edmund A. Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in appreciation for his gift to the university, Hajim has served for the past year as the Chairman of the University's Board of Trustees and has been a member of the Board since 1988. $30 million

Fresno, CA, Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology named at the Fresno State College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, for the gift from the Jordan family: Hanabul “Bud” Jordan, his wife, Dee and his brother, Lowell, $29.4 million

Indiana, Taylor University, Indiana Wesleyan University and White’s Residential & Family Services all shared in an estate gift from Arthur Hodson. White’s Residential & Family Services received $2.6 million, Indiana Weslyan University got $10.6 million and Taylor University got $13.8 million, $27 million

Ames, IA, Pappajohn Institute, and the building that houses it the John and Mary Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building were named to honor the Papajohn's gift to the University of Iowa, $26.4 million

Philadelphia, PA, A gift from Richard A. Hayne, university trustee and founder and chairman of Urban Outfitters Inc., to Drexel University for the College of Art & Design, largest private gift in history of the university, $25 million

Princeton, NJ, A gift to Princeton creates the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund from this couple, $25 million

Orange County, CA, Chapman University received a $25 million challenge grant from an anonymous donor towards the construction of a performing arts center on the main campus, $25 million

Bloomington, IN, Alumni Charles “Chuck” and Joyce “Jay” Ames, namesakes of the university’s School of Fine Arts and the campus library, made the pledge to Illinois Wesleyan University The largest single gift ever to the university, $25 million

Baltimore, MD, An estate gift from Charles Weiland to Johns Hopkins University, where he where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and several other honorary fraternities, $23 million

Pasadena, CA, The Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech was named with a gift made by Stewart and Lynda Resnick, and an additional $10 million came from the Gordon and Betty Moore Matching Program, $20 million + $10 million

Cleveland, OH, Case Western Reserve University announced estate gift from Donald J. and Ruth Weber Goodman that will fund research at the medical and dental schools of the university, $20.5 million

Washington, D.C., Georgetown University names the Rafik B. Hariri Building at the McDonough School of Business, for the gift from the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, $20 million

Major Gifts - $228.5 million January 4th to 8th, 2010

services@supportingadvancement.com — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Major Gifts - $228.5 million January 4th to 8th, 2010 Major Gifts newswire announcements over the last week brought to you by Terry Burton of Dig In Research

26 cities in USA The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has promised $70 million to community foundations that serve the 26 cities where the Knight newspapers are found, a seven year program

Cambridge, Massachusetts The Rajawali Foundation, the charitable arm of the PT Rajawali Corporation, made a gift to Harvard to create a new Institute for Asia and an Indonesian program within the Kennedy School’s Ash Center $20.5 million

Chicago, Illinois The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation made a gift to the new Children’s Hospital to establish an emergency care center that will be named after the couple $16 million

Columbia, South Carolina Solomon Jackson, Jr., winner of the Powerball Lottery, made a gift to his alma mater, Morris College, from his winnings $10 million

New Haven, Connecticut Lei Zhang, a 2002 grad of Yale School of Management and founder of the largest investment fund in China, made this gift for the school’s new campus $8,888,888

Cortland,New York SUNY Cortland alumnus John Fantauzzi '58, now living in Cape Coral, Florida, will bequest this gift to the university a scholarship he set up in 1990 $5.18 million

Los Angeles, California Television celebrity Bob Barker announced a gift to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named its new 1,200-ton anti-whaling ship The Bob Barker $5 million

Provo, Utah James Lee Sorenson Leadership Pavilion named for a gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation including James Lee Sorenson a1975 grad $4.63 million

Amherst, Massachusetts National Yiddish Book Center received an unexpected estate gift from comedy writer Mickey Ross $3 million

Davis, California Margaret Mondavi's donation to UC Davis Art Museum helped to launch the campaign $2 million

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute received a 3 year grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation $1.8 million

Boston, Massachusetts Brandeis University received a three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for experimental research into active matter $1 million

Indianapolis, Indiana Lily Foundation announced a grant to St. John's youth ministry program $875,000

Orlando, Florida Orlando Magic Youth Fund, a fund of the McCormick Foundation, announced grant to 23 organizations from three counties in Central Florida $700,000

New York, NY GE Foundation made a grant to AmeriCares. This is part of GE’s Developing Health program, 3 year, $25 million commitment that provides grant funding and employee engagement to selected healthcare centers across the USA $650,000

Ann Arbor, Michigan A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Michigan Musical Society $600,000

Leesburg, Virginia Thomas Balch Library of History and Genealogy in Leesburg received a bequest from the estate of Virginia L. Bowie $250,000

North Adams, Massaschusetts Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation of Falmouth, Maine for a campus wide assessment $225,000

Chicago, Illinois Advocate Condell Medical Center received a gift from Joe Nemmers Sr. of Libetyville, a grateful patient $100,000

Portland, Oregon Bienestar, a local non-profit housing provider, received a grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation $25,000

Yawkey, Massachusetts The Hannaford Charitable Foundation made a grant to Special Olympics Massachusetts $25,000

International

Essex, England Essex lifeboat station celebrated after it was revealed an anonymous benefactor estate gift £1 million( approx. $1.6 million US)

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Top 25 Major Gifts to Healthcare Nonprofits in 2009

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Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

The gift from Sanford Weill, his fourth gift of at least $100 million to the the Weill Medical College at Cornell, The gift will help buidl a new medical research building. $ 170 million

Children's National Medical Center
Washington, D.C.

The Sheik Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation named at the Children's National Medical Center for this gift from the government of Abu Dhabi $ 150 million

University of California San Francisco Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Charles F. Feeney’s gift from his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center in support of the development of a facility to provide medical services to children, women and cancer patients at the university’s new downtown campus $ 125 million

Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

The Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, named for their gift to help find an effective vaccine against AIDS.

Phillip Ragon, 59, who is a founder and sole owner of InterSystems Corp., a Cambridge company that provides database software to hospitals and other industries. $ 100 million

University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

A pledge by Patrick Soon-Shiong pledge to the University of California trustee to underwrite the re-opening of Martin Luther King Jr. - Harbor Hospital $ 100 million

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital gift from the Lucile Packard Foundation to help fund the hospital expansion, the namesake foundation for which the hospital has been named $ 100 million

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

The gift from William P. Clements Jr.., the former governor of the state of Texas, made an unexpected gift to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the largest gift in the university's history $ 100 million

New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Stanton Clinical Cancer Program
New York, NY

A gift from trustee Ronald Stanton to increase the cancer-fighting efforts at the hospital. The Ronald P. Stanton Clinical Cancer Program was established to help the hospital get new equipment and build a new center for blood infusions

Stanton, has been a member of the hospital board since 1983 and he is the chairman of Transammonia, a fertilizer and chemicals firm $ 50 million

University of Minnesota - Amplatz Children's Hospital
Minneapolis, MN

The Amplatz Children's Hospital at the University of Minnesota was named in appreciation of a gift from Caroline Amplatz, daughter of former University professor and medical devices inventor Dr. Kurt Amplatz and the hospital will now be named after her father $ 50million

New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY

The estate of Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities.

The largest grant, $40 million, went to create a digestive diseases center at New York-Presbyterian /Weill Cornell Medical Center. $ 40 million

University of California, San Francisco - Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center
San Francisco, California

The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center named in appreciation of the gift from Helen Diller and her husband Sanford Diller and their family to the University of San Francisco, Mission Bay at the biomedical campus in Mission Bay $ 35 million

Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY

Real estate baroness Leona Helmsley's estate gave away $136 million to hospitals, foundations and the homeless and left $1 million to animal charities.

A $35 million gift went to start two research facilities in Helmsley's name at Mount Sinai Medical Center. $ 35 million

University Hospital - Ahuja Medical Center
Cleveland, OH

The Ahuja Medical Center, Cleveland University Hospital named for a gift from Monte and Usha Ahuja and their family $ 30 million

GE Foundation - Developing Health program
New York, NY

GE Foundation and the GE Corporate Diversity Council announced "Developing Health," a new 3-year program that provides grant funding and employee engagement to selected health centers across the USA $ 25 million

Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children
Birmingham, AL

A gift from Ben & Luanne Russell of Alexander City, the hospital will be re-named the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children when the new facility opens $ 25 miillion

University of California, Irvine - Douglas Hospital
Irvine, CA

An estate gift from of M.A. Douglas, formerly a resident of Orange. In recognition of the generous donation, the university’s new seven-story hospital in Orange will be re-named UC Irvine Douglas Hospital $ 21 million

University of Florida, Shands Cancer Center
Jerry W. and Judith S. Davis Cancer Endowment
Coral Gables, FL

The Jerry W. and Judith S. Davis Cancer Endowment at the University of Florida, Shands Cancer Center, was named for a gift from Jerry and Judy Davis, their second gift following their earlier gift of $5 million $ 21 million

Grady Memorial Hospital
Atlanta, GA

Grady Memorial Hospital received a gift from Bernie Marcus, a co-founder of Home Depot expand Grady Hospital's trauma center and stroke care $ 20 million

Nevada Cancer Center - Engelstad Cancer Research Building
Las Vegas, NV

The Engelstad Cancer Research Building named at Nevada Cancer Center in appreciation of the gift from the Engelstad Family Foundation of Las Vegas $ 20 million

Baylor Health Care System - Sammons Cancer Center
Houston, TX

The Baylor Health Care System named the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center for a corporate gift from Dallas-based Sammons enterprises, a privately held $40 billion company operating businesses across industries including insurance, finance, equipment distribution, hospitality and real estate $ 20 million

Stanford University, Cancer Early Detection - Canary Center
Palo Alto, CA

The Canary Foundation announced the new Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection $ 20 million

Florida International University - Wertheim College of Medicine
Miami, FL

The Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine was named to recognize the contributions the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation gave to Florida International University $ 20 million

Northwestern Memorial Foundation - Wirtz Cancer Innovation Fund
Chicago, IL

Northwestern Memorial Foundation announced the inception of the William W. Wirtz Cancer Innovation Fund in recognition of an estate gift from William Wirtz, former owner of the Chicago Black Hawks $ 19.5 million

South Dakota State University - Avera Health & Science Center
Brookings, SD

Sioux Falls based Avera Health made the largest single gift in the university's history. Avera becomes the first health system in the state to have a building named for it on the Brookings campus $ 15 million

University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's & Women Hospital
Ann Arbor, MI

A gift from the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation to the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital. This gift was in addition to the $2 million gift made previously $ 15 million

Contributing author, Terry Burton, is President of Dig In Research. Author, speaker and consultant on emerging trends & strategies for major gifts. For more information please visit my web site at http://diginresearch.biz or call 248-881-2323. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.

New publication in progress - 2009 Major Gift Review

Major Gifts Report - Terry Burton

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Major Gifts in the USA - $845 million + $38 million International
Week of December 28 to 31, 2009

The following is a partial list of major gifts from newswire announcements from December 28 to December 31, 2009. The complete Major Gift Report is sponsored by DonorSearch.net and can be found in the Major Gift Research section of their web site.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania William Penn Foundation received $747 million from the Haas charitable trusts $767,000,000

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Foundation awarded grants to a wide range of Ohio nonprofits including:

Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $1,000,000 + for the education initiative
Cleveland Metropolitan School District - $750,000 to help implement its transformation plan
Starting Point - $450,000
Youth Opportunities Unlimited - $300,000
Cuyahoga County Family and Children First Council - $270,000 $15,000,000

Baltimore, Maryland A grant from Atlantic Philanthropies to four East Baltimore public schools in support of a redevelopment project the schools will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families under a four-year grant program $12,000,000

Pasadena, California OneWest Bank, FSB establishes new corporate foundation with this gift $10,000,000

East River Area of New York The Alphawood Foundation of Chicago grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park $10,000,000

Cambridge, Massachusetts Tufts Health Plan Foundation awarded grants to nonprofits in the state of Massachusetts including:

Cambridge Community Foundation and Cambridge’s East End House – combined grant of $35,000
East End House - $25,000
Cambridge Community Foundation - $10,000 $2,000,000

Uniontown, Pennsylvania An estate gift from retired coal miner Joseph Raymond to Uniontown Church who was 90 years old when he died earlier this year $1,000,000

Mankato, Minnesota Al Annexstad’s gift to the St. Peter School District that he grew up in, a legacy gift $500,000

Charlotte, North Carolina, United Family Services received a check from the Leon Levine Foundation to help expand a women’s shelter $250,000

Sunman, Indiana Sunman Rural Fire Department received a grant from the Dearborn Community Foundation for a new mobile air compressor $90,651

King of Prussia, Pennsylvania CSL Behring, a global leader in the plasma-protein biotherapies industry and a subsidiary of CSL Limited awarded four advocacy grants to patient organizations in the USA through the Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development $87,000

Youngstown, Ohio The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. received a donation from JP Morgan Chase to help fund two projects for homeownership and the reuse of vacant land $60,000

Topeka, Kansas Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation awarded six area school nurses grants $53,000

International

Paris, France Constellation Energy Group announced a contribution by Electricite de France to the company's foundation

The Constellation Energy Group Foundation supports programs and makes grants to nonprofit organizations in four focus areas: energy, education, economic growth and the environment. $36,000,000

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Michael J. Fox Foundation awards $2 million in grants to researchers:

Jeffrey Hausdorff, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Simon Lewis, MD, Parkinson's Disease Research Clinic, Brain & Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Wayne Martin, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada $2,000,000

Paris, France The French Hospital Medical Center Foundation has set up an endowment fund after receiving a donation from an anonymous donor $500,000

Hampshire, England Hampshire Autistic Society got a corporate gift from the Gannett Foundation £3,300

Major Gifts USA & Internationally - $31 million
Week of December 21 to 24, 2009

The following is a partial list of major gifts from newswire announcements from December 21 to December 24, 2009. To view my complete Major Gift Report go to the DonorSearch.net web site.

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Oakland, California 20 private foundations help support state census process in the state of California

According to reports out of Oakland, they have awarded grants to more than 125 community organizations that have strong connections to people the U.S. Census Bureau has had difficulty counting in the past $9,000,000

Santa Paula, California Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from Dan Murphy Foundation in honor of the college’s late president and is a led gift in the new capital campaign $2,000,000

Flint, Michigan An estate gift from of Earl Riopelle and his wife Lanice is one of the largest ever received Kettering University $1,200,000

Manoa, Hawaii The University of Hawaii Mānoa’s School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene received this gift from four of Hawaii’s healthcare companies:

Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) Foundation $500,000;
Hawai‘i Pacific Health $250,000;
Kaiser Permanente Hawai‘i $50,000;
and the Queen’s Medical Center $250,000
to the Hawai‘i Nursing Simulation Center Fund $1,050,000

Macon County, Georgia The Community Foundation of Decatur/Macon County announced $1 million from the Charles D. and Patricia A. Perkinson Endowment Fund

The $1 million gift qualifies for a matching gift of $1 million from the Grand Victoria Foundation in Chicago $1,000,000

Tahlequah, Oklahoma A gift from Gregg Wadley and his wife, Dr. Betsy Brackett to Northeastern State University, School of Education, will be used for a clinic to help students overcome reading deficiencies. This is the largest gift in the university’s history $1,000,000

Manhattan, Kansas The Keatings, a local couple in Manhattan, donated this gift and named The Good Shepherd Hospice, a 12 bed facility $500,000

Charlotte, North Carolina Leon Levine Foundation to double its pledge to United Family Services to expand the women’s shelter $250,000

Washington, D.C. A grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to The Huffington Post Investigative Fund

The Knight Foundation joins the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Atlantic Philanthropies, the Markle Foundation as key supporters $200,000

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra received a $150,000 challenge grant from the Fifth Third Bank and Narley L.. Haley, Trustees of the B.B., E.W. and F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation just one week after it received the mega gift of $75 million from Louise Nippert $150,000

Chelsea, Michigan The Purple Rose Theatre Company got a grant from the Chelsea Community Foundation $17,000

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania CIGNA has signed on as the presenting sponsor of The Philadelphia Orchestra's Free concert for 20th year.

The free concert honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on January 18, 2010 Corporate Sponsor 20th consecutive year

International

Jerusalem, Israel The Israel Museum announced a gift from Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel through the Mandel Supporting Foundations that capped off the $100 million campaign for its 20 acre campus $12 million