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Kudos to Lilly Endowment Inc. for the $49 million in grants it distributed last month to organizations for cultural projects that will likely spur additional development and impact the city [...]

Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education Among the donors of 15 recent large gifts to colleges are the founder of Craigslist, the widow of the man who created the Weather [...]

Byline: Editorial Staff Wright Patt CU, Gulf Winds Announce Year-End Bonuses FAIRBORN, Ohio--Two more CUs announced bonus dividends last week. Wright-Patt Credit Union said it would pay a $5-million Special [...]

Recent Private Gifts to Higher Education Many gifts to colleges come from older alumni: for instance, a recent $250-million gift to Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons from a [...]

Philanthropist George Cornell of Delray Beach made a surprise $10 million gift to Rollins College during the school's Oct. 19 gala. That gift brought the total for the school's five-year [...]

A new minority scholarship endowment has been created at the University of South Florida College of Medicine with $1.3 million donated by Joy and Robert Daugherty. Dr. Robert Daugherty is [...]

Delta Dental Plans of Kentucky recently gave the University of Louisville School of Dentistry a $750,000 endowment for oral health research. In response to this, the state's 'Bucks for Brains' [...]

Have you ever thought how we maintain our quality of life in Central Ohio? If you look across the community, there are those who are less fortunate than others. To [...]

The Steven L. Newman Hall of Baruch College was dedicated last week. The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute was established in 1995 with a gift from William and Anita [...]

Rutgers University. $1.75 million from P. Roy and Diana Vagelos to extend the Rutgers Future Scholars program to Rahway. The donation will allow 15 students from Rahway High School to [...]

University of the Ozarks. $1.25-million bequest from Virginia Rose Hicks, who worked as an engineer at Sun Oil Company in Oklahoma. The majority of the bequest, $1 million, will establish [...]

Youngstown State University. $1 million from alumna Jocelyne Linsalata to bolster a scholarship endowment she previously established and to support programs that promote student success. Ms. Linsalata is a trustee [...]

University of Colorado at Boulder. $4-million pledge from Elaine Baskin and Ken Krechmer to establish an endowed chair in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program. The couple created the chair in honor [...]

Georgetown University. $10 million from Norman and Irma Braman to establish a program on the forensic study of the Holocaust at the university's Center for Jewish Civilization. The donation will [...]

Stanford University has received its largest cash donation from an individual in its history --$400 million from Philip H. Knight, the Nike co-founder. The gift will be part of a [...]

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded $423,464 in grants to 38 cultural organizations to make historical records and artifacts digitally available. These grants are the first awards to [...]

During a season when we often pause to express gratitude, Indiana can give special thanks for Lilly Endowment's recent commitment of $100 million to 14 cultural institutions. The endowment's action [...]

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. gave $1 million in grants this year, the largest single-year endowment ever donated by the org, to 27 schools and nonprofits. Ever since NBC started [...]

ALA's PPO has announced a $249,972 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to present the fourth season of the award-winning radio-library partnership 'StoryLines America,' which explores regional [...]

Industry Mandel Scientific Company of Guelph, ON, has announced the appointment of Michael Cauley as a director of the company and to the position of vice-president of sales. Cauley has [...]

Lilly Endowment Inc. gave $10 million to the Salvation Army to help relief efforts following recent Gulf Coast hurricanes and flooding in the Midwest, the Virginia-based charity said Sept. 22. [...]

The Ruth Lilly Health Education Center received a $3 million grant from locally based Lilly Endowment Inc. late last month that allows it to forge ahead with a $10 million [...]

Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. has handed out the $100 million it offered Indiana colleges and universities earlier this year to help expand institutions' 'intellectual capital.' Fifteen schools received grants last [...]

Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment has donated $1 million to Butler University for an endowed chair in finance, in honor of Eli Lilly and Co. veteran Eugene Ratliff. Ratliff, who retired in [...]

Following are individuals, organizations, companies and foundations whose help between Jan, 1 and Feb. 25, 2003 is making possible activities of the tax-exempt AET Library Endowment (federal ID #52-1460362) and [...]