Maria Di Mento
Philanthropy
Washington, DC, United States
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Houston Grand Opera Receives $22 Million for Young Artists Program
Plus, Temple University landed more than $10 million to help students with physical disabilities, and three other universities and a community foundation received big gifts. → Read More
Community Foundation Lands $100 Million From Late Clarinetist and Entrepreneur Jay Kahn
Plus, hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin gives Florida pediatric hospital $25 million, and three universities received major gifts. → Read More
UVA Lands $100 Million From Paul and Diane Manning for New Biotech Institute
Plus, Denny Sanford gave $70 million to a medical research institute, and NYU’s Stern School of Business received $25 million from Ken and Elaine Langone. → Read More
Retired Construction Executive Gives $75 Million to U. of St. Thomas
Plus, four Mars candy company heiresses together gave $22 million to support a science, technology, engineering, arts, and math programs at a prep school for girls. → Read More
Harvard Lands $50 Million Gift to Launch Program Honoring Paul Farmer
Plus, gifts from MacKenzie Scott and Michael Jordan inspired a Washington State couple to give Friends of the Children $33 million to expand its youth mentoring and family services programs. → Read More
Financier John Paulson Gives NYU $100 Million
Plus, American Technion Society received $50 million from Lynda and Stewart Resnick, and the retired race-car driver and oilman Johnny Gray and his wife, Terry, are giving Jupiter Medical Center $25 million. → Read More
MacKenzie Scott’s Donations Boosted Beneficiaries and Avoided the Pitfalls Some Feared, New Study Says
Worry that the gifts would lead other donors to pull back their support or that small groups wouldn’t be able to handle the money were largely unfounded. Plus: MacKenzie Scott’s Giving Total Is Now Over $13 Billion → Read More
‘Game of Thrones’ Creator George R.R. Martin Gives $5 Million for Writing Workshop, Chair in Storytelling
Plus, Salvation Army of San Diego landed $35 million to expand programs serving people struggling with homelessness, and five other donors gave big gifts to support democracy programs, climate resilience, and medical care. → Read More
Former Northeastern U. Student Who Dropped Out Gives $25 Million for New Professorships
Plus, the News Literacy Project landed $10 million from Los Angeles philanthropists Melanie and Richard Lundquist to combat misinformation. → Read More
Kimberly Querrey Gives $121 Million for Biomedical Research and Other Programs
Plus, MacKenzie Scott gave Girls Scouts of the USA nearly $85 million, and Nvidia Corporation founder Jen-Hsun Huang and his wife Lori gave their alma mater $50 million for research into artificial intelligence, materials science, and robotics. → Read More
Inventor of the UV Coating on Sunglasses Gave $100 Million to U. of Florida Scripps Biomedical Research
Plus, Jackie and Mike Bezos gave $710 million to Fred Hutch Cancer Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital got $50 million to expand sickle cell disease research and to support other programs. → Read More
Wealthy Donors Want Their Giving to Be Different Than Their Parents’, New Study Says
But 82 percent of parents who give believe their children share their philanthropic goals. → Read More
N.J. Entrepreneurs Give U. Penn $50 Million for Autoimmune Research Center
Plus, MacKenzie Scott gave $30 million to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Sheryl Sandberg gave $3 million to the ACLU to fight abortion bans, and three medical centers received big gifts for medical research programs. → Read More
How to Talk to Big Donors About Mental-Health Programs
Advice from nonprofit and development leaders who have figured out how to engage donors on the topic and even persuade some to publicly share their experiences to win support from others donors. → Read More
More Big Donors Are Supporting — and Talking About — Mental Health
Wealthy donors publicly gave more to mental health last year than in any other year over the past decade, according to a Chronicle tally of publicized donations of $1 million or more. → Read More
Retired Boston Pops Musician Gives Boston U. $100 Million for Medical School
Plus, an extensive public parks effort in Houston receives $100 million, Bard College lands $25 million for Indigenous studies, and a health-care nonprofit receives a big gift from MacKenzie Scott. → Read More
Lululemon Founders Give Nearly $76 Million to Conserve and Expand Canadian Parkland
Plus, MacKenzie Scott gave $15 million to a clean-water charity, and five universities landed big gifts. → Read More
Billionaire Kahn Family Gives $15 Million for Veterinary Oncology
Plus, Hoag Hospital receives a $106 million bequest, and City of Hope, Centre College, and the American Academy in Berlin received big gifts. → Read More
Seattle Couple Gives $78 Million to Cancer Center
Plus, South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford pledged $150 million to UC San Diego, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and four additional nonprofits received big gifts. → Read More
Denny Sanford Gives $150 Million to Fund Stem-Cell Research in Space
The gift will go to the University of California at San Diego. With this latest donation, Sanford has given the university at least $380 million. → Read More