Even in a time of crisis, Americans are still generous. Not only with these major gifts given in our region, but also with the support of many gifts from a few dollars to multi-millions, you have stepped up to support community needs and our nonprofits who help meet those needs.
Here is our annual selection of some of the many thoughtful and distinguished gifts individuals have made from and to our region since our last Thanksgiving card. A reminder that it is generous people such as these who create and sustain philanthropy:
• Anonymous: $1 million to NC Museum of Art
• Anonymous: $1.82 million to East Carolina University
• Anonymous: $2 million to UNC School of the Arts
• David and Michelle Baldacci: $1 million to Mark Twain House and Museum
• Steve and Jackie Bell: $25 million to UNC Chapel Hill
• Marcia Carlucci: $10 million to Rand Corporation
• William and Joanne Conway: $20 million to Catholic University of America
• S. Stuart Flanagan: $2 million to College of William & Mary
• Michael Jordan: $7 million to Novant Health
• Charles G. Koch: $2.9 million to Rand Corporation
• William Lemon: $1 million to Virginia Tech
• Howard R. Levine: $1 million to Foundation for the Carolinas & United Way
of Central Carolinas
• John and Leigh Harvey McNairy: $1 million to Lenoir Community College
Foundation
• Bob and Bonnie Meeker: $1 million to the NC Zoo Society
• Pavel Molchanov: $1 million to UNC Chapel Hill
• Seymour and Pearl Moskowitz: $2.4 million to City College of NY
• Claiborne Robins: $1 million to National D-Day Memorial Foundation
• David and Barbara Roux: $100 million to Northeastern University
• Brad and Sheryl Schwartz: $1 million to American Friends of Hebrew University
• Talmadge and Ian Silversides: $1 million to the NC Zoo Society
• Betty Strickland: $12 million to High Point University
• Agnes and Ed Weisiger: $1 million to Sharon Towers
• Bill and Bobbitt Clay Williams: $1 million to Meredith College
• Matthew Wilson: $4 million to Furman University
• Doug Witcher: $2 million to High Point University
• Anita Wyatt: $1 million to Averett University and Danville Community College
CapDev campaign clients are in italics
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