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In 2022, the Kislak Family Foundation donated $10 million to the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to create a gallery exploring the history of the early Americas. [ 12 ] Kislak first donated nearly 4,000 items from his collection to the Library of Congress in 2004.
Despite the foundation's donations mainly remaining anonymous, some of the recipients of the foundations gifts are: Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, St. John's Health Center, California Hospital Medical Center, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, the United Negro College Fund, Children's Hospital Los Angeles ...
Kenneth C. Griffin – founder and CEO of Citadel LLC; co-founder of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation [36] Kumar Mangalam Birla – As per the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021, Kumar Mangalam Birla and his family ranked fourth on the philanthropy list with donations mostly to the healthcare sector. [37]
Carnegie laying the foundation stone of the Waterford City Library (1903) Nearly all of Carnegie's libraries were built according to "the Carnegie formula", which required financial commitments for maintenance and operation from the town that received the donation. Carnegie required public support rather than making endowments because, as he wrote:
Dolly Parton visited Kansas in August for an event with Gov. Laura Kelly to celebrate her Imagination Library of Kansas. A new law will allow the state to collect private donations for the book ...
The Friends group in Naples was able to take a donation of land which would be leased to the city and used to build the library. [36] Friends of African Village Libraries (FAVL) is a non-governmental organization that was created to build libraries in remote African villages.
Philanthropies, formerly LDS Philanthropies, is a department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and is responsible for facilitating donations to humanitarian and educational initiatives. [1] The department works under the direction of the church's Presiding Bishop. [2]
The library is suing the North Shore Library Foundation over the group's alleged refusal to hand over about $820,000 in donations for the new library.