<p>Stanford University Calif. $598,890,327
Harvard University Mass. $596,963,000
Johns Hopkins University Md. $427,593,283
University of Southern California Calif. $426,016,332
Columbia University N.Y. $402,356,576
University of Pennsylvania Pa. $381,591,586
Yale University Conn. $380,903,371
New York University N.Y. $349,213,948
Duke University N.C. $345,468,017
Indiana University Ind. $342,818,089
University of California, Los Angeles Calif. $340,406,763
University of Wisconsin-Madison Wis. $311,846,992
Cornell University N.Y. $308,219,446
University of California, Berkeley Calif. $307,509,066
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mass. $307,181,598
University of Washington Wash. $285,219,625
University of California, San Francisco Calif. $268,904,940
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill N.C. $266,857,424
University of Michigan Mich. $252,098,059
University of Chicago Ill. $251,233,491
University of Minnesota Minn. $245,003,442
Univ. of Texas at Austin Tex. $235,292,812
Northwestern University Ill. $230,595,585
University of Notre Dame Ind. $221,615,902
Ohio State University Ohio $214,909,351</p>
<p>Ohio State To Get Record $100M Gift From Wexner, Limited Brands</p>
<p>By Nick Petrello & Donna Willis
Published: February 16, 2011
Updated: February 16, 2011 - 10:09 AM </p>
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee says Ohio State alumnus and trustee Leslie Wexner and the Limited Brands Foundation have committed to donating a record $100 million to the university.</p>
<p>The $100 million commitment includes $65 million from Wexner and $35 million from Limited Brands Foundation. “It’s not intended as an estate gift,” said Mr. Wexner, who is 73. "It’s not ‘I hope to leave a large gift - and live a long time.’ I’m very critical of people who make a gift like that. This is a milestone, but this isn’t the end.</p>
<p>“It’s a real gift. It’s real money.”</p>
<p>With the announcement, the Wexner family and Limited Brands Foundation have given, raised or pledged a total of nearly $200 million to Ohio State. More than half has come directly from the family.</p>
<p>The university attracted another big windfall in December, when Ohio State learned it had won a $100million federal grant to add a radiation oncology center next to its $1 billion Medical Center expansion.</p>
<p>The gift primarily will benefit The Ohio State University Medical Center and The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, according to Gee. It will also benefit Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts and select other university initiatives.</p>
<p>“But for Ohio State, I would have never been able to go to college,” Wexner said. “I love Ohio State and all the good it does. I hope this gift stimulates those who have received an education here, or been touched by this remarkable institution, to think about how they, too, can give back.”</p>
<p>Gee said this latest gift, the largest in the university’s history, is nothing short of transformational.</p>
<p>“Through his life’s work, and this most exceptional and unprecedented gift, Les Wexner has created an enduring legacy,” said Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee. "He is an outstanding example of the transformational power of public higher education. His commitment to the University – in time, wisdom, and leadership – has been just as important as his financial generosity. And I like what he said: ‘But for Ohio State, none of this could have happened.’ I believe that, and I know Les does, too. I would ask each of us to think how our lives would be different ‘But for Ohio State.’ "</p>
<p>Gee said the Wexners’ gift will have an impact in three ways at the university:</p>
<p>• By aiding OSU’s $2.5 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign: “This donation will be a propelling moment in a time of economic uncertainty.”</p>
<p>• By stimulating the number of donors: “People like to be part of a winning tradition.”</p>
<p>• And “he is signifying real confidence in the university, that the university is one of the most important places in the state to invest.”</p>
<p>Wexner said that the gift also symbolizes his confidence in Gee’s leadership.</p>
<p>Gee said that although he has a “longstanding and close personal friendship” with Mr. Wexner, the gift is “a true partnership gift. Sometimes, one partner is reluctant. But I have to say in this instance, their enthusiasm is of equal valor.”</p>
<p>Wexner is a 1959 graduate of Ohio State. He is in his second term on The Ohio State University Board of Trustees, where he is serving as chairman. He was also a founding member of The Ohio State University Foundation and its first chairman.</p>
<p>The university will discuss more details of the historic gift during a special event at the Ohio Union at 11 a.m. Wednesday.</p>
<p>Source: [Ohio</a> State To Get Record $100M Gift From Wexner, Limited Brands | NBC 4i](<a href=“http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/feb/16/9/wexner-makes-record-donation-ohio-state-university-ar-397517/]Ohio”>http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/feb/16/9/wexner-makes-record-donation-ohio-state-university-ar-397517/)</p>
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<p>Hopefully with this piece of news, TOSU would be making the Top-10 fundraisers for 2011. :)</p>
<p>Wexner always was a class guy–Victoria’s Secret TV shows notwithstanding. Private money will be where the publics make their marks in the next 20 years. Most have just started tapping this area. UW is waiting for Lee Raymond to get religion.</p>
<p>Stanford University Calif. $598,890,327 - med school included
Harvard University Mass. $596,963,000 - med school included
Johns Hopkins University Md. $427,593,283 - med school included
University of Southern California Calif. $426,016,332 - med school included
Columbia University N.Y. $402,356,576 - med school included
University of Pennsylvania Pa. $381,591,586 - med school included
Yale University Conn. $380,903,371 - med school included
New York University N.Y. $349,213,948 - med school included
Duke University N.C. $345,468,017 - med school included
Indiana University Ind. $342,818,089 - med school included
University of California, Los Angeles Calif. $340,406,763 - med school included
University of Wisconsin-Madison Wis. $311,846,992 - med school included
Cornell University N.Y. $308,219,446 - med school included
University of California, Berkeley Calif. $307,509,066 - NO med school
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mass. $307,181,598 - NO med school
University of Washington Wash. $285,219,625 - med school included
University of California, San Francisco Calif. $268,904,940 - med school ONLY</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>Stanford University Calif. $598,890,327 - med school included
Harvard University Mass. $596,963,000 - med school included
University of California, Berkeley Calif. + UCSF $576,414,006 - NO med school + Med school ONLY</p>
<p>That looks better… :p</p>
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I hear you man…he should “give back to the community”…esp after what xiggi said about how he treated those poor soccer players. :D</p>
<p>UCB, you beat me to it.</p>
<p>Casino mogul donates $100 million to UCLA</p>
<p>Published: 2/15 8:54 am
Updated: 2/15 8:54 am</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) Billionaire investor and casino mogul Kirk Kerkorian donates $100 million to the University of California, Los Angeles, money that will be used for medical research, scholarship and other projects.</p>
<p>UCLA will also be able to administer another $100 million for other charitable causes nationwide.</p>
<p>The gift by Kerkorian, the largest stockholder in MGM Resorts International, comes weeks after animal feed mogul and UCLA alumnus Meyer Luskin donated $100 million to the university.</p>
<p>Kerkorian’s gift, announced Monday, calls for transfer of $200 million in Kerkorian Lincy Foundation assets to a new organization called the Dream Fund, which will be based at UCLA.</p>
<p>The Los Angeles Times says UCLA will be able to use half the total for its own research and student support without any specific requirements.</p>
<p>Source: [Casino</a> mogul donates $100 million to UCLA - KGPE CBS47 News, Sports & Weather for the Central Valley](<a href=“http://www.cbs47.tv/news/state/story/Casino-mogul-donates-100-million-to-UCLA/buXSKsKR6UWoQbH91xGT6w.cspx]Casino”>http://www.cbs47.tv/news/state/story/Casino-mogul-donates-100-million-to-UCLA/buXSKsKR6UWoQbH91xGT6w.cspx)</p>
<p>Larry Page’s inevitable donation to Stanford in the coming years will make the above alumni contributions seem like peanuts in comparison.</p>
<p>You mean like Bill Gates to Harvard?? He went to another school for undergrad (Michigan)and has placed a major Google operation there. Hard to say what he will do later. Some like Gates work on bigger things like world health.</p>
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Good point, I’m not sure why Bill Gates hasn’t made a large donation to Harvard. My guess would be is that he dropped out very early on and doesn’t have a strong bond with the school as a result.</p>
<p>The Gates family have generously supported Duke University however, where Melinda Gates is an alumna. I believe a $15 million donation from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped endow DukeEngage, a civic engagement program that allows Duke undergrads to pursue unique service opportunities domestically and abroad for free of cost.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> Engage : About DukeEngage](<a href=“http://dukeengage.duke.edu/about-dukeengage]Duke”>About - DukeEngage)</p>
<p>^^“Good point, I’m not sure why Bill Gates hasn’t made a large donation to Harvard. My guess would be is that he dropped out very early on and doesn’t have a strong bond with the school as a result.”</p>
<p>Not really… Harvard did award Bill Gates an Honorary
doctorate, thereby delivered the commencement address for the class of 2007 I recall.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1)](<a href=“Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1) - YouTube”>Bill Gates Speech at Harvard (part 1) - YouTube)</p>
<p>In the case of Larry Page, you guys had it all wrong!!! He will donate all his $$$ to “Michigan State University in East Lansing” where he was born, raised and educated (East Lansing High School alum), in addition to honoring his parents whom are both Computer Science Dept. Professors at MSU. ;p</p>
<p>why will bill gates give more money to the richest university in the world when he can do more charity?</p>
<p>“In the case of Larry Page, you guys had it all wrong!!! He will donate all his $$$ to “Michigan State University in East Lansing” where he was born, raised and educated (East Lansing High School alum), in addition to honoring his parents whom are both Computer Science Dept. Professors at MSU. ;p”</p>
<p>His parents, as well as himself, all attended and graduated from The University of Michigan. They had to live in East Lansing I suppose, although I know a current politician who is also a Michigan graduate that commutes from Ann Arbor to Lansing every work day:</p>
<p>[Gov.-elect</a> Rick Snyder to live in Ann Arbor and commute to Lansing | wzzm13.com](<a href=“404 Not Found | wzzm13.com”>404 Not Found | wzzm13.com)</p>
<p>^^ I’ve read that news before, but thanks for sharing!! Let’s hope that Gov Snyder would be doing his job for the State of Michigan in the years to come. If not, I am certain that Lt. Gov Brian Calley of Sparta will be watching!! Go State!! :)</p>
<p>Strong effort by Notre Dame one of the few private schools on the list without medical school.</p>
<p>OSU seeks donors with deeper pockets</p>
<p>Fundraisers turn focus to gifts of $1 million or more</p>
<p>Thursday, April 7, 2011 03:09 AM
By Elizabeth Gibson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH </p>
<p>Ohio State University’s quest to raise $2.5 billion in seven years has been under way since President E. Gordon Gee set foot back on campus.</p>
<p>Now, a third of the way to its goal, the school is preparing for the next phase with a focus on “megagifts” - those with at least seven digits after the dollar sign.</p>
<p>“We need to be more bold, more insistent,” said Andrew A. Sorensen, the school’s chief fundraiser. “What we do is very important. The future of our nation depends on the quality of education.”</p>
<p>University officials will be discussing the 2009-2016 comprehensive campaign today, looking at how to motivate donors to dig deeper into their pockets. Comprehensive campaigns are a way to rally alumni, clients, friends and fans to give more, which is increasingly important as public funding for public universities declines, campaign leaders said.</p>
<p>Most alumni probably won’t notice much of a difference in solicitations, but fundraising staff members will be stepping up efforts to court donors with the resources to give the most.</p>
<p>OSU’s fundraising total of $215 million ranked 11th last year among public universities, according to the Council for Aid to Education. University officials have said they’d like to rank first by 2020, and plans for the campaign have identified large gifts as one of the key areas where Ohio State is lagging other schools.</p>
<p>Every gift counts, but heavy hitters are key, said Richard Jolly, vice president for client relations at Marts & Lundy, a firm based in Lyndhurst, N.J., that advises other universities on fundraising.</p>
<p>“The largest gifts are by far the largest share,” he said. “But they don’t just put the institution on track to reach their goal, they also inspire others to reach and give what they can.”</p>
<p>Jolly said the key to securing big-money donors is to “dream with them.” Philanthropists want to see that their money is doing something new.</p>
<p>Ohio State recently has had better luck with gifts of more than $1 million, including 33 last year. The $100 million contribution from Les Wexner, founder of Limited Brands and an OSU trustee, in February was the largest sum the university has ever received.</p>
<p>Ohio State has 450,000 alumni and had 140,000 annual donors last year, but fewer than 2 percent of donors, on average, account for 80 percent of what the university raises.</p>
<p>It’s typical of schools to focus on large donors and wait until they’ve raised almost half of their goal before going public with their campaign, as Ohio State plans to do. The campaign staff doesn’t expect to launch a full media blitz until next year.</p>
<p>To build the relationships necessary to meet the $2.5billion goal, the fundraising team is asking for additional members.</p>
<p>The campaign budget isn’t final yet, because of questions about state funding and reorganizing. But the plan proposes permanently adding $7.8million to the annual $27 million budget as well as $1.5 million in one-time money for marketing and campaign events.</p>
<p>If approved, the money would allow the fundraising team to eventually add 91 positions to its staff of 107 people.</p>
<p>The money might sound like a lot, but if used right, it can pay off, said Ann Kaplan, director of the annual fundraising study from the Council for Aid to Education, which is based in New York City.</p>
<p>“Institutions that spend the most tend to raise the most,” Kaplan said. “The truism is that, if you have a case for support, your trustees behind you and enough resources, it should work.”</p>
<p>Source: [OSU</a> seeks donors with deeper pockets | The Columbus Dispatch](<a href=“http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/07/osu-seeks-deeper-pockets.html]OSU”>http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/07/osu-seeks-deeper-pockets.html)</p>
<h2>“In the case of Larry Page, you guys had it all wrong!!! He will donate all his $$$ to “Michigan State University in East Lansing” where he was born, raised and educated (East Lansing High School alum), in addition to honoring his parents whom are both Computer Science Dept. Professors at MSU. ;p”</h2>
<p>True, but he went to UMich so I don’t see that happening…</p>
<p>^^ Fair enough! The $ went to… Stanford instead where Larry received his PhD!! lol</p>
<p>[Mountain</a> View Online : Google donates $2.5 million for Stanford faculty position](<a href=“Google donates $2.5 million for Stanford faculty position | News | Mountain View Online |”>Google donates $2.5 million for Stanford faculty position | News | Mountain View Online |)</p>
<p>par72-Notre Dame had better raise a lot of money since it is looking at two very high pay outs: one for the death of Declan Sullivan, the student in the tower which blew over las Fall and another for the young girl who committed suicide after she was sexually assaulted by a Notre Dame football player. Some nasty bloggers have used the term “University of Negligent Deaths” to describe Notre Dame, especially in view of its initially callous attitude toward these tragedies. Only later last Winter did Father Jenkins, take full responsibility and apologize for Notre Dame’s conduct.</p>
<p>“^^ Fair enough! The $ went to… Stanford instead where Larry received his PhD!! lol”</p>
<p>That’s a drop in the bucket for Page. Michigan will get a lot, lot more than that. Btw, Larry never completed his PhD. </p>
<p>“in addition to honoring his parents whom are both Computer Science Dept. Professors at MSU. ;p”</p>
<p>Both of his parents attended and graduated from Michigan. It’s where they met!</p>