Major Gift Report January 16 to 31, 2010

Major Gifts - $316 million +
January 15^th to January 31^st, 2010

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

Rochester, Minnesota	Mayo Clinic’s philanthropy campaign topped the $1 billion mark two years ahead of schedule; over 286,000 people donated to the campaign	$1.35 billion  Campaign success
Montgomery, Maryland	Montgomery College Foundation raised $25 million in its just completed campaign, a record for Maryland community colleges	$25 million  Campaign success
Bowling Green, Kentucky	Western Kentucky University had a record-breaking six months over the last half of 2009 taking in cash gifts	$12.5 million
Hershey, Pennsylvania	Hershey Medical Center at Penn State received over $10 million in donations in the month of December 2009, the largest amount ever for the center in the month of December	$10 million +
	GIFTS Received
Trenton, New Jersey	The Lawrenceville School received a bequest from Henry C. Woods Jr., who had been a teacher at the school	$60 million
La Jolla, California	Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute re-named in recognition of a five year pledge from T. Denny Sanford ( two days after the announcement the organization’s web site featured the name change )	$50 million
Los Angeles, California	Trustee and alumnus Herman Ostrow made a gift to the USC School of Dentistry that has been re-named the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California	$35 million
St. Louis, Missouri	A gift by Alvin Siteman to the Washington University in St. Louis that will generate $1 million per year, estimated gift of $30 – 35 million, awaiting confirmation of actual amount	$30 - $35 million
University Park, Pennsylvani	University of Pennsylvania received a gift from George Weiss, a Penn alum and trustee, designated for faculty support	$20 million
Tempe, Arizona	T. Denny Sanford made another gift last week, this to Arizona State University and Teach for America that named the Sanford Education Project designed to improve public education	$18.5 million
Marion, Ohio	An estate gift from Robert M. and Dorothy C. Wopat, longtime Marion residents to the local Community Foundation, doubled the size of the funds	$16 million
Athens, Ohio	Ohio University named the Violet L. Patton Center for Arts Education in appreciation for her gift	$13 million
Charlotte, North Carolina	A gift from Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Malu, to Davidson University with $6.5 million given to date and the balance pledged by 2012	$10 million
Charlotte, North Carolin	Queen’s University received a gift from   to create a College of Health	$7 million
Terre Haute, Indiana	Indiana State University Foundation received a gift from Lilly Endowment in support of Networks Financial Institute and the Donald W. Scott College of Business	$6 million
Indianapolis, Indiana	A grant from the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation to the Indianapolis Convention and Visitor Bureau, continues the trend of municipal major gift asks	$5.4 million
Los Angeles, California	UCLA has established the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, named in appreciation for a gift from UCLA alumnus Morton La Kretz	$5 million
Chicago, IL	Charles Ashby Lewis and wife Penny Bender Sebring have donated another major gift to the University of Chicago's research into urban education; this brings to $15 million Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation has given to the Urban Education Institute	$5 million
Eau Clair, Wisconsin	Mayo Clinic and Luther Midelfort Hospital announced  a gift from Albert and Judith Dunlap of Ocala, Florida	$5 million
New York	A gift to the New York Historical Society lead to the naming of the DiMenna Children’s History Museum in appreciation for their gift	$5 million
Claremont, California	Two gifts from Joan Lincoln and her husband, David, one to Scripps College to fund of $3.5 million to fund the new ceramics building and $500,000 endowment gift to Claremount Graduate University	$3.5 million +      $500,000
Rochester, New York	The Sands Family Foundation and Constellation Brands both made a $2 million gift to F.F. Thompson Hospital, a nonprofit they have both supported previously	$2 million +       $2 million
Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Kohl's Department Stores announced a partnering with Junior Achievement of Wisconsin, pledged over the next three years to create a new interactive learning facility, the Kohl's Education Center	$3 million
Sweet Briar, Virginia	A gift from Margaret “Peggy” Jones Wyllie to Sweet Briar College engineering program, one of two woman’s colleges offering an engineering degree	$3 million
Jacksonville, Florida	Community Hospice of Northeast Florida received a gift from Neviaser Charitable Foundation	$2.5 million
East Lansing, Michigan	Michigan State University announced that billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, have donated another major gift to the art Broad Museum yet to be built on campus. This brings their total giving to $28 million on the $40 million construction budget.	$2 million
Atlanta, Georgia	A gift from George A. Montgomery and his wife, Nancy to the University of Georgia, Richard B. Russell Library	$2 million
Chapel Hill, North Carolina	GlaxoSmithKline made a gift to the University of North Carolina to convert the Morehead Planetarium & Science Center's Star Theater from analog to digital	$1.5 million
Nanticoke, Pennsylvani	Luzerne County Community College named the new Joseph A. Paglianite Culinary Institute for him, a local businessman	$1 million
Honolulu, Hawai	A gift to the American Cancer Society Hawaii Pacific for research to stop breast cancer from spreading from Dr. Lawrence Tseu, a retired dentist, largest ever gift to the organization	$720,000
Moab, Utah	An anonymous donor's gift to the Grand School District in southeast Utah	$700,000
Pembroke, North Carolina	BB&T Distinguished Endowed Professorship in the Morality of Capitalism announced at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke; the second endowed chair supported by the company	$500,000
Portland, Oregon	Concordia University received a pledge from Mr. & Mrs. Richard Paul Roe of Pasadena, CA and named the Richard Paul & Jane Roe Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre in appreciation of the gift	$300,000
Amherst, Massachusetts	An estate gift from Nathalie Woodbury to the Jones Library, unrestricted	$283,521
Kansas City, K	Anschutz Foundation grant to Spencer Museum of Art	$200,000
Lansing, Michigan	A grant from the Hurst Foundation to the Jackson Community Foundation in support of the Legacy Program	$200,000
Conway, Arkansas	University of Central Arkansas Foundation received a  gift from Paul and Mary Cantrell of Little Rock in support of the football program	$100,000
Des Moines, Iowa	Highline Community College Foundation received a gift from Justine Richards to support emergency assistance to Highline students	$60,000
Trenton, NJ	New Jersey’s Science & Technology University received a gift from Vincent Naimoli ’62, Chairman and CEO Anchor Industries Int’l; Chairman Emeritus/Founder, Tampa Bay Rays, for a new athletic facility to be named after him	Private Gift
	International Gifts Received
Auckland, New Zealand	An estate gift from Arthur Henry Harrison to Canterbury Museum	$10 million
Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Toronto collector and former art dealer Ydessa Hendeles made a gift of 32 works of Canadian and international art to the Art Gallery of Ontario	$5 million
Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Runnymede Healthcare Centre received its largest gift ever from 90 year old supporter Gordon Gooder	$1 million
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada	A gift from entrepreneur Sreedhar Natarajan to Queensway Carleton Hospital to help fund expansion of the hospital surgical and outpatient areas	$1 million
National in Canada	The PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada Foundation Leadership Grants program for 2010 has $160,000 set aside for grants up to $2,500 each	$160,000

Contributing researcher, 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 248-438-8064. Follow me on Twitter @Major_gifts.
 

Major Gift Summary - January 4 to 15, 2010

Major Gifts - $332.7 million
January 4th to 15th, 2010

Major Gifts newswire announcements from news wire announcements
provided by Terry Burton - Dig In Research

Dallas, Texas	Sammons Dallas Foundation donates total of $100 million to Dallas nonprofits: Baylor Health Care System…………………...$20 million Methodist Health System…………………..…$20 million Communities Foundation of Texas…………..$20 million UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas….$20 million Salvation Army, Dallas…………………………$15 million Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, educational trust fund…………………………..$5 million	$100 million
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	$70 million
Marian, Ohio	Marian University will now develop Indiana's first college of osteopathic medicine thanks to the gift from an anonymous donor, largest in school history	$30 million
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
Kansas City, KS	The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City has pledged  to the University of Kansas Cancer Center and the Midwest Cancer Alliance for the cancer center to meet its goal of designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Ctr.	$18 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
Athens, Ohio	Violet L. Patton who graduated in 1938 from Ohio University announced her gift for a new arts education center at the university	$13.3 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
Tulsa, Okalahoma	University of Tulsa College of Law received a gift  the Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish an endowed chair	$5 million
Provo, Utah	James Lee Sorenson Leadership Pavilion named for a gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation including James Lee Sorenson a1975 grad, at Univ. Utah	$4.3 million
Amherst, Massachusetts	National Yiddish Book Center received an unexpected estate gift from comedy writer Mickey Ross	$3 million
Cedar City, Utah	The George S. and Dolores Doré  Eccles Foundation made a gift to Southern Utah University for the construction of a building on campus for the Utah Shakespearean Festival	$3 million
Clemson, Alabama	The Cliffs Communities gift to Clemson includes the financial pledge plus all rights to the Zest Quest program and name to Clemson University	$3 million
Archbold, Ohio	Northwest State Community College has received an estate gift from Francis O. Fackler of Napoleon, Ohio	$2.9 million
Munci, Indiana	Ball Memorial Hospital gets John Fisher’s estate gift, served on the hospital board for 55 years	$2 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
Little Rock, Arkansas	Dillard's, Inc. announced a gift from the sale of its Southern Living Christmas Cookbook to to Ronald McDonald House Charities	$1.4 million
Hollywood, California	Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donate to Haiti victims of the recent earthquake	$1 million
Boston, Massachusetts	Brandeis University received a three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for experimental research into  active matter	$1 million
Boulder, Colorado	Amgen’s gift to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the new Caruthers Biotechnology Building	$1 million
Rosemead, California	Southern California Edison has launched a Green Jobs Education Initiative to fund “green” education and job training at 10 California community colleges	$1 million
Princeton, New Jersey	JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, a hospital volunteer on campus, made her donation to the new University Medical Center at Princeton for the Infusion Suite in the Center for Cancer Care	$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
Kingston, Ontario, Canada	BMO Financial Group made a gift to Queen’s University for the expansion of the School of Business	$2 million
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Stanford computer science professor, David Cheriton, a mentor for the founders of Google, made a gift to the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia	$2 million
Essex, England	Essex lifeboat station celebrated after it was revealed an anonymous benefactor estate gift	£1 million ( approx. $1.6 million US)

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.
  

Major Gift Summary, December 28 to 31, 2009

Major Gifts in the USA - $845 million & International - $38.5 million
Week of December 28 to December 31, 2009

The following list of donations is from newswire announcements over the last week.  

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
Palo Alto, California	The Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation awarded research grants to four groups working to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and design new strategies to boost the efficiency of treatment development Ronald A. DePinho and Lynda Chin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute John H. Sampson and Joseph R. Nevins, Duke University Sanjiv Gambhir and Andrei Iagaru, Stanford University Michael Prados, University of California, San Francisco	$9,800,000
Madison, Wisconsin	University of Wisconsin received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support studies to identify virus mutations that may serve as early warnings or pandemic influenza viruses	$9,500,000
Reston, Virginia	ASNE received a grant over five years from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to sustain the country's premier training opportunity for high school journalism advisers from 2010 through 2014	$4,646,100
Santa Paula, California	Thomas Aquinas College received a grant from the Dan Murphy Foundation lead gift to the college’s new capital campaign	$2,000,000
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
Indianapolis, Indiana	A cash gift to Community Health Network Foundation from John W. "Jack" Heiney, a retired president and CEO of Indiana Gas Co. that later merged to become Vectren Corp.	$1,000,000
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
Newark, New Jersey	The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey grants to eight New Jersey nonprofits to support health services and arts programs for local communities. New Jersey YMCA State Alliance in Trenton - $143,000 New Jersey Network Foundation in Trenton - $75,000 American Heart Association in Robbinsville - $50,000 Children's Futures in Trenton - $50,000 HiTOPS in Princeton - $25,000 Prevention Education in Lawrence - $15,000 Women's Heart Foundation in West Trenton - $15,000 The Arts Council of Princeton - $7,500 Thirty-eight charitable organizations received $936,500 during this fourth round of grant giving in 2009; the Horizon Foundation has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to 96 organizations in 2009.	$380,500
Detroit, Michigan	DTE Energy employees and the DTE Energy Foundation raised more than $300,000 to help the hungry during their annual holiday fund-raising drive. DTE Energy employees gave $100,000 during the six-week drive and the Foundation, which for many years has matched employee gifts dollar-for-dollar, today announced it would double its match for an additional $200,000. 51 recipient nonprofit organizations included: Salvation Army, multiple locations - $56,321 Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit - $36,074 Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit - $32,651 Gleaners Community Food Bank, multiple locations, - $27,738  St. Martin Lutheran Church, Port Huron - $11,120 Forgotten Harvest, Inc., Oak Park - $10,070 Macomb Food Program, Clinton Township - $5,570 Mel Trotter Ministries, Grand Rapids - $3,545 Family Counseling and Shelter Services of Monroe County, Monroe - $2,945	$300,000
Charlotte, North Carolina	United Family Services received a check from the Leon Levine Foundation to help expand a women’s shelter	$250,000
Athens, Georgia	Athens Community Foundation $150,000 in grants to 28 local nonprofit organizations	$150,000
Dover, Delaware	Delaware Does More, a nonprofit run by the United Way of Delaware and the Food Bank of Delaware received a corporate donation from AstraZeneca $50,000 allocated to the United Way of Delaware and $50,000 to the Food Bank of Delaware	$100,000
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
Bakersfield, California	Ag Against Hunger has received a total of $34,590 in grants for equipment and operations from a group of donors: Community Foundation for Monterey County - $10,000 Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County - $10,000 Grower-Shipper Foundation - $5,000 Yellow Brick Road Benefit Shop - $2,000 Hans & Elizabeth Wolf Foundation - $1,800 Logan Family Foundation - $400 Heal Family Charitable Trust - $2,890 Tom & Mary Gallagher Foundation - $2,000 Miller Family Trust - $500	$34,590
San Francisco, California	The San Francisco Foundation awarded a grant to Conard House, a one year grant, to continue implementation of a five-year strategic mental health education initiative	$30,000
Dedham, Massachusetts	Needham Bank sponsors new scoreboard at Dedham High School	Corporate Sponsor
	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

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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.



Major Gift Editorial, January 4, 2010

Major Gift Editorial
January 4th, 2010
by Terry Burton

2009 wrapped up in fine fashion as a number of foundations chose to make year end announcements on grants and awards.

The second largest announcement of the year came from the Haas Trust as it bestowed $767 million to the William Penn Charitable Trust in Philadelphia. Only the billion dollar plus gift of Berkshire Hathaway funds to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation back in the summer topped this.

Other foundations joined in as well.

The Cleveland Foundation has chose to support the Cleveland School District with two large grants through their $15 million in awards to local charities.

Atlantic Philanthropies stepped up and made $12 million in grants to four East Baltimore Schools that are part of a redevelopment project in these schools where they will become centers for providing health, social and employment services to students and their families.

The grants extend over a four year period. Out of the Midwest the Alphawood Foundation of Chicago made a $10 million grant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island to help fund the construction of this new park.

In California the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation sent out grants totaling $9.8 million for research grants to improve clinical care for patients with brain tumors and to come up with new strategies to help patients suffering from this condition. Four separate researchers in the USA received those grants.

The personal gift announcements were down during the last week but overall the month of December was ahead of 2008 year over year. Last year major gift announcements totaled approximately $325 million while this year the final tally was in excess of $1.5 billion.

A new corporate foundation was also announced last week as OneWest Bank, FSB in California, set aside $10 million to establish the fund. As we head into 2010 it appears as though the shape of philanthropy has changed. Foundations and wealthy individuals are more willing to make the big gift.

But they also have higher expectations of accountability and want to stay involved. The shift in giving comes with an enhanced sense of wanting to share in the long term success of the grant recipient. A trend we can count on for years to come. Best wishes for a productive year in 2010.

Good health to you.

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. 

Major Gift Report, December 21 to 24, 2009

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

The following list of donations is from newswire announcements over the last week.
 

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
Watertown, Massachusetts	St. James Armenian Church naming ceremony for the St. James’ Charles Mosesian Cultural and Youth Center in appreciation of the gift from Charles Mosesian a long time parishioner	$1,000,000
Bloomington, Indiana	The Lilly Endowment made a grant to The Nature Conservancy in Indiana for its headquarters building	$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
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Washington Crossing Historic Park in Bucks County, got this gift from Lockheed Martin just about the time that Revolutionary War re-enactment volunteers were crossing the Delaware River	$400,000
Portland, Oregon	Pacific University’s College of Arts and Sciences has been admitted to the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust’s College Science Research Program which means that it will receive a grant spread over a three-years	$325,000
Detroit, Michigan	DTE Employees raise money for needy, see list below: Salvation Army, multiple locations $56,321 Coalition on Temporary Shelter, Detroit $36,074 Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Detroit $32,651 Gleaners Community Food Bank, multiple locations, $27,738 St. Martin Lutheran Church, Port Huron $11,120 Forgotten Harvest, Inc., Oak Park $10,070 Macomb Food Program, Clinton Township $5,570 Mel Trotter Ministries, Grand Rapids $3,545 Family Counseling and Shelter Services of Monroe County, Monroe $2,945	$300,000
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
New Haven, Connecticut	The Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut received a grant from The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven to fund the research, development and implementation of a certified nurse’s aide training program	$135,000
Tri-Cities, Washington	The Arc (American Red Cross ) of Tri-Cities on Tuesday announced a donation from Washington River Protection Solutions toward its new building	$100,000
Fremont, Ohio	Employee owned Meyer Company donated this gift to Terra Community College	$50,000
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

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.