Weekly Major Gift summary, Oct. 5 to 9, 2009

Major Gifts & Named Gifts Highlights in the USA - $58 million
Week of October 5 to 9, 2009

Davis, CA – The grand opening of Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr. Hall, the new home of the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis celebrating the gift . The gift came from Maurice Gallagher, Jr.  and his wife Marcia. He is a Las Vegas airline executive. Gallagher earned his undergraduate degree in history from UC Davis in 1971.	$10 million
New York, NY - Anonymous gift to The Miami Project, organized by NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti and his son Marc hosted a full house of 1,300 guests at the 24th Annual Great Sports Legends Dinner, held at the Waldorf Astoria, to benefit The Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis	$10 million
Philadelphia, PA - The Rajendra and Neera Singh Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering was dedicated and named for the donors to the University of Pennsylvania	$8 million
Indianapolis, IN - Marian University has received an anonymous gift to support student scholarships	$5 million
Louisville, MO - The Speed Art Museum received a grant from the James Graham Brown Foundation for renovation and expansion capital campaign	$5 million
Engelwood, NJ - The Kaplen Pavilion, a new two- story building at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, dedicated in honor of the gift from Maggie and Bill Kaplen	$5 million
New Haven, CT - Norman Foster and his family have donated $3 million to Yale School of Architecture to fund a visiting professorship in his name. Foster is a Pritzker-Prize laureate and Yale School of Architecture alumnus.	$3 million
Arlington, TX – An anonymous gift to the University of Texas, Arlington to support the UTA College of Business Goolsby Leadership Academy. Lockeed Martin made a $40.000 scholarship gift to the same campaign	$2 million + $40,000
Bozeman, MT - Montana State University President Geoff Gamble and his wife, Patricia, will leave their estate to the school. Patricia Gamble will also leave MSU an endowment created in honor of her parents - Florence and Monty Moneyhan.	$2 million
Houston, TX – A gift to Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston from alum Houston-based hotel developer and president of American Liberty Hospitality, Nick Massad Jr. for the library archives	$1.5 million
St. Louis, MO - Owsley Brown Frazier gift to create a new endowed chair in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Frazier Rehab Institute and University of Louisville’s School of Medicine	$1.5 million
Little Rock, AR - The Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation announced a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, given in honor of Barbara H. Hanna, for her years of service as a trustee of the Reynolds Foundation	$1.4 million
Hattiesburg, PA - Joel McKenzie of Foxworth named William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in his trust, and created an endowed professorship	$1 million
Wilmington, NC - H. David Swain and his wife Diane presented their check to support economic research and business development at the University of North Carolina, Willmington	$1 million
University Park, PA – A gift from William and Lee Beard as the lead gift for a new facility for the Nittany Lion softball team at Penn State named the facility the Beard Field	$500,000
Wellesville, UT – Gift from the ALSAM Foundation, an organization named in honor of food and drug store magnates Aline and L.S. “Sam” Skaggs to the University of Utah, recognized by naming the Sam Skaggs Family Stable	$400,000
Kent, OH - Kent State alumnus Ron Zoeller, who played on the varsity team while attending university there, made a gift to the varsity soccer program.	$125,000
Middleton, CT - The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, which occupies the renovated Davenport Campus Center at Wesleyan University, dedicated on behalf of Robert ’92 and Elena ’93 Allbritton. Robert Allbritton is serving as a Wesleyan Board-Elected Trustee through 2015.	Private Gift
Dallas, TX - AT&T Performing Arts Center dedicated with a private gift. According to Bruce Thibodeau, president of Los Angeles-based Arts Consulting Group Inc., who did not work on this project, this is the first time there have been more than 100 $1 million donors on an arts campaign.	Private Gift
Detroit, MI - Ben Roethlisberger Foundation grant to Detroit Police to buy two new canines that will replace two other dogs who are retiring at the end of this year	Private Gift
Northampton, MA - Ford Hall named at Smith College, a gift from Ford Motor Company	Private Gift
Belfast, ME – University of Maine celebrated the of facilities with the naming the new wing  the Edward J. Walsh wing after the grandfather of MBNA founder Charles Cawley	Private Gift
International
Saskatoon, SK, Canada - Irene and Leslie Dube gift to the Saskatchewan Children’s Hospital capital campaign. When the new hospital is built, the entrance and core areas will be named the Leslie and Irene Dube Centre of Care for Children.	$6.5 million
Kingston, ON, Canada - Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts at Queen’s University, dedicated last week	Private Gift