CapDev is deeply thankful for generosity, not only in this season of Thanksgiving, but all year.
We like to share news of generosity each year, and in 2017 philanthropy reached peak heights. Giving USA reported giving at an all-time high of $410.02 billion, a 5.2% increase, marking the eighth year in a row of increased giving.
The following is our annual selection of some of the many thoughtful and distinguished gifts individuals have made from and to our region since last Thanksgiving season, a reminder that it is generous people all around us who create and sustain philanthropy:
- Anonymous – $10 million to Wake Forest University
- Bud & Suzanne Baker – $1 million to YMCA Camp Hanes
- David & Michelle Baldacci – $1.1 million to Virginia Commonwealth University (2017)
- Jane Batten – $10 million to College of William & Mary
- Jane Batten – $10 million to University of Virginia
- Terry Brown – $1 million to Hammond School (2017)
- Bill & Ericka Cain – $5 million to Cornelius Arts Center
- Derick Springsteen Close – $30 million to Foundation for the Carolinas
- William & Joanne Barkett Conway – $5 million to University of Virginia
- Robert & Susan Culp – $1 million to High Point University (2017)
- John Ellison, Jr. – $10 million to UNC Chapel Hill (2017)
- Peter Fawcett – $1 million to Hammond School (2017)
- Barbara Fried – $3 million to University of Virginia
- Sarah Belk Gambrell – $10 million to Queens University (2017)
- Mickey Hughes – $5 million to Western Carolina University
- Michael Jordan – $1 million to American Red Cross
- Michael Jordan – $1 million to Foundation for the Carolinas
- Lois Kirkwood – $1 million to UMFS (United Methodist Family Services)
- Charles G. Koch – $5 million to George Mason University
- Mike & Mickie Krzyzewski – $3 million to Emily Krzyzewski Center
- Leon Levine – $4 million to Queens University (2017)
- Joe & Bobby May – $5 million to Virginia Tech
- Sam & Carolyn McMahon – $2 million to Queens University
- Chris Paul – $2.5 million to Wake Forest University
- Michael Penland – $1 million to Hammond School (2017)
- Lola Reinsch – $1 million to Marymount University (2017)
- Jerry Richardson – $4.1 million to Limestone College
- Carl & Trish Ring – $2 million to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
- JoAnne Safrit – $1 million to UNC Greensboro (2017)
- Bob & Susan Salvin – $2 million to Queens University
- Eric & Lori Sklut – $1 million to Queens University
- Eddie & Jo Allison Smith – $10 million to Vidant Health
- Robert & Elizabeth Strickland – $2.8 million to Forsyth Technical Community College
- Steve & Debbie Vetter – $40 million to UNC Chapel Hill (2017)
- C. Kenneth Wright – $5 million to Virginia War Memorial Foundation
- Anita Zucker – $5 million to Medical University of SC (2017)
CapDev clients are in italics
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