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Nov 5, 2024

U.Va. Wise receives largest ever donation

The University of Virginia‘s College at Wise has received its largest ever donation, $11.2 million, from The Bill Gatton Foundation, the Wise County college announced Monday. The late Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton, a successful businessman who owned the Gatton Automotive Group with dealerships in Kentucky and Tennessee, made significant gifts to the University of Kentucky […]

Jun 6, 2024

Inova raises $83M to match Schars’ $75M gift

Inova Health System has raised $83 million over the past year, surpassing the “Schar Challenge” issued by donors Dwight and Martha Schar when they made a $75 million matching gift to Inova in May 2023. The Schars’ most recent gift to support Inova’s heart and vascular services and the gifts to match it made by […]

Nov 30, 2023

Lego donates $1M to six Richmond-area nonprofits

Lego Group has distributed $1 million in grants across six Richmond region nonprofits, the Danish toymaker announced Thursday. The company, which broke ground in April on its $1 billion manufacturing facility in Chesterfield County, awarded the funding to organizations serving children and families as part of its commitment to help kids “learn through play.” “Today […]

May 30, 2023

Donations by individuals and family foundations

Read more: Mannings aim for biotech revolution with $100 million gift Check the numbers: Donations by companies and corporate foundations; total corporate donations

May 30, 2023

Total corporate donations

Check the numbers: Donations by companies and corporate foundations; donations by individuals and family foundations Read more: Mannings aim for biotech revolution with $100 million gift

Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors Chair Kevin Carroll, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Lego Group Chief Operating Officer Carsten Rasmussen and U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago shovel dirt at the Lego Chesterfield facility's ceremonial groundbreaking Photo by Rick DeBerry.
Apr 13, 2023

Lego breaks ground on $1B Chesterfield facility

The Lego Group broke ground Thursday on its $1 billion Chesterfield County manufacturing facility — launching the Danish toymaker’s first U.S. manufacturing plant and one of Virginia’s biggest economic development projects. The Billund, Denmark-based toy company known for its brightly colored plastic toy bricks and construction sets plans to hire 1,761 people to work at […]

Donna Stucker. Photo courtesy Goodwill Industries of the Valley
Apr 10, 2023

Goodwill of the Valleys names philanthropy exec

Donna Stucker is the new chief philanthropy officer for Goodwill Industries of the Valleys. Stucker assumed her role April 3, according to a news release. She will lead a new capital campaign and associated donor development and will plan and manage an effort to grow donations for the Roanoke-based Goodwill chapter, which serves 35 counties […]

James Madison University opened the $66.5 million, 115,000-square-foot Hartman Hall in fall 2020.
Oct 21, 2022

JMU fundraising campaign brings in $251M

James Madison University‘s second comprehensive fundraising campaign, Unleashed, raised more than $251 million, the Harrisonburg university announced Friday. The eight-year fundraising campaign, which exceeded its $200 million goal in March 2021, ended June 30. It began with an advanced gift phase in July 2014 before JMU announced it publicly in October 2018. Unleashed attracted 63,976 [&hel[...]

WILLIAM E. CONWAY JR.
Sep 6, 2022

U.Va. School of Nursing receives $14M donation

The Carlyle Group co-founder, interim CEO and non-executive co-chairman William E. “Bill” Conway Jr. and his wife, Joanne, have committed $14 million to the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing, the university announced Friday. Adding to previous donations, the Conways’ gifts now total $49 million. “Our goal of supporting the School of Nursing is twofold,” [&helli[...]

University of Virginia Darden School of Business Photo by Sam Levitan
May 3, 2022

U.Va. hits $4B in capital campaign

The University of Virginia has hit its $4 billion benchmark in its $5 billion Honor the Future capital campaign three years ahead of its deadline, the university announced this week. U.Va. has brought in significant individual donations during the fundraising campaign, including a record-breaking $120 million gift from alumni Jaffray and Merrill Woodriff in 2019, […]

Apr 13, 2022

Norfolk Southern donates archives to museum

Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern Corp. donated its complete collection of historical documents and archives from Norfolk and Western Railway, its predecessor, to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, the company announced last week. Norfolk Southern, formerly headquartered in Norfolk, also provided a $750,000 grant to help the museum digitize, catalog and preserve the collection, and [&helli[...]

Norris E. and Wendy Mitchell committed $35 million to help Virginia Tech replace Randolph Hall. Photo by Peter Means/Virginia Tech
Feb 27, 2022

Eyes on the future

In 2021, a year marked by continuing pandemic uncertainty and overloaded health care systems, philanthropists and corporations gave generously, supporting construction and research projects at Virginia universities and hospitals. Following 2020, a year that saw record-breaking donations to Hampton, Norfolk State and Virginia State universities by billionaire MacKenzie Scott, 2021 saw similarly gen[...]

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