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Chuck Lorre Donates To Push STEM For All
Chuck Lorre is donating $10 million towards research education for underserved communities, through his family’s philanthropic foundation.
The considerable gift, given via the Chuck Lorre Family Foundation to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) aims to support research education for high school and college students, particularly those from under-resourced communities across greater Los…
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#children&039;s hospital los angeles#chuck lorre#Emil Bogenmann#Medicine#STEM#underserved communities
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Thanksgiving Giving from Warren Buffett
As Thanksgiving approaches, Warren Buffett, billionaire investor, is continuing his pattern of philanthropy by donating $870 million to four family-run foundations. This tradition of giving back reflects Buffett’s commitment to sharing his substantial wealth, estimated at around $120 billion.
The generous donations are structured in the form of shares from Buffett’s conglomerate, Berkshire…
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#berkshire hathaway#susan thompson buffett foundation#The Giving Pledge#warren buffett#Warren Buffett philanthropy
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US Embassy Supports Tobago With Hospital
The US Embassy is donating a $3.5 million field hospital and ambulance to Tobago’s emergency response
In a gesture of enduring partnership, the US Embassy has donated a 40-bed field hospital and an ambulance, valued together at approximately $3.5 million, to the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA). The donation is a symbol of the United States’ commitment to supporting the safety and…
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#candace bond#farley augustine#health care#hospital#tobago emergency management agency#Trinidad and Togabo#united states
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Movie Theater For the People
A movie theater has been donated to a small town, after AMC opted not to renew their lease in the space.
Apple Valley is a large town in southeastern California, between Barstow and San Bernardino. Until earlier this year, the town boasted a 14-screen AMC movie theater. But as the cinema franchise tightened its belt in the wake of a pretty terrible 2022, the location closed down, with no plans to…
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Charles Feeney Passes Away
Charles Feeney, a quiet hero of philanthropy and tech investments, sadly passed away at the age of 92 in San Francisco on Monday. Chuck, as he was known to friends, was the man who gave away almost his entire $8 billion fortune to charity, often without fanfare.
Charles Feeney believed in low-key giving. He donated anonymously to universities, medical institutions, and humanitarian causes across…
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#charles f. feeney#charles feeney#northern ireland#sinn fein#The Giving Pledge#ulster defense association
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Montana Heritage Center Completes Funding
The Montana Heritage Center is getting a $10.4 million donation from Montana native millionaire Norm Asbjornson.
Norm Asbjornson is from Winifred, Montana. He founded AAON, a publicly-traded heating, ventilation, and air conditioning manufacturer that has made him wealthy. In 2021, AAON made a profit of $535 million, and Asbjornson’s net worth is estimated between $500 and 600 million. In 2014,…
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Anonymous Donor Gives $50M
An anonymous donor has given the largest ever gift to a University of Kansas business school, of $50 million.
The University of Kansas’ School of Business received a monumental boost with an anonymous donor contributing a generous $50 million, marking the largest single gift in the history of the institution’s business school. This substantial endowment is set to make a profound impact on both…
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#anonymous donor#dan martin#Kansas University Endowment#paige fields#school of business#university of kansas
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Publix Donates $1M, No Cakes
Publix Supermarkets is donating $1 million to support relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Northern Florida’s worst landfall in over a century.
Publix is the largest employee-owned company in the United States, a supermarket chain with over 1,300 stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas. With over 250,000 employees, they’ve been recognized as an…
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#florida#georgia#hurricane cakes#hurricane idalia#publix#publix super market charities#publix supermarkets
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Metallica Gives $200K For Lahaina
Metallica is donating $200,000 for emergency relief efforts during the wildfire catastrophe in Lahaina, Hawaii.
The Lahaina wildfire is the worst natural disaster to strike Hawaii in almost 70 years, and may yet surpass the 1946 tsunami’s death toll of 150. As of Wednesday, the official death count is 106, 1,300 are still missing, and the fires are still burning. Most of the seaside town, with a…
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#All Within My Hands#disaster relief#firefighting#hawaii#josh green#lahaina#maui#maui strong fund#Metallica#relief#wildfire
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Steve Fox and Texas Tech
Steve Fox is donating $25 million to establish a cancer treatment center at Texas Tech University after his own cancer went into remission.
More than 20 years ago, Steve Fox, car salesman and owner of several dealerships in El Paso, Texas, was diagnosed with severe tongue and throat cancer.
“Being a (car) salesman, I thought I’m going to make a deal with God. So, I made a promise that if God…
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Dwayne Johnson Steps Up
Dwayne Johnson has contributed a ‘historic’ amount to SAG-AFTRA to help provide for union actors on strike.
The Screen Actors’ Guild won’t disclose the specific amount other than to say that it’s in seven figures, but they are the ones calling it historic, and the largest total contribution ever received from a single individual.
Two weeks ago, SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance and…
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Seth MacFarlane: The Actors' Actor
Seth MacFarlane donates $1 million to support industry workers during the joint strikes of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA.
Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Orville, could easily say he has to straddle the line between the Screen Actors’ Guild and the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. He’s a member of both, an actor and a producer. Those two sides of himself are hopefully less at war…
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Racial Bias in Medicine
Racial bias in medicine is still an issue, and $10 million in medical grants are meant to help fight it.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is the legacy of one of America’s wealthiest women. Doris Duke, who passed in 1993 at the age of 80, was a tobacco heiress and an active socialite. During her life, she used her considerable wealth to preserve historical buildings and threatened heritage…
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#american academy of pediatrics#doris duke#doris duke charitable foundation#joseph wright#Medicine#racial bias#racism#racism in medicine
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OpenAI Donates to AJP
OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT, is donating $5 million to the American Journalism Project to develop AI tools to assist and support local journalism.
“To ensure local journalism remains an essential pillar of our democracy, we need to be smart about the potential powers and pitfalls of new technology,” American Journalism Project CEO Sarabeth Berman said in a statement. “With this partnership, we aim…
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#ameriacn journalism projct#artificial intelligence#chatgpt#journalism#misinformation#news#openai#sarabeth berman
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Young Author Donates Book to Library
A young author has donated copies of her own book to her local library for all to read.
Ayla Anderson is ten years old, fresh out of the fourth grade at her Colorado elementary school. And for the past school year, she’s been writing, illustrating, and editing a book. Her first book, she makes sure everyone knows.
“Writing was my favorite subject, so I was very intrigued to write a book,” Ayla…
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Accidental Donation Made Good
An accidental donation of $15,000 has helped a fundraiser to feed the hungry rise beyond all expectations.
A man who’s only given his name as Michael told his story on Reddit last month. He learned that his San Francisco neighbor, a Hindu priest, was running a charity to help support a community in poverty in Bangladesh. Wanting to lend support, he asked his neighbor for the GoFundMe link, and…
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Donated SUVS Head to Ukraine
Donated SUVs are heading from Scotland to Ukraine, to help support both the war effort and the citizens trying to go on with their lives.
Mark Laird, a farmer from Angus, and several other farms developed the Pickups 4 Piece program, to donate 4×4 vehicles to help out. (Pickups in Scotland aren’t trucks, they’re larger SUVs and work vehicles) They achieved their initial goal of 100 pickups, and…
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