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Liberty raises $2M during inaugural Giving Day campaign
Liberty University raised more than $2 million on Nov. 17 during its inaugural Giving Day, an all-day fundraising campaign for academic departments, athletics programs and student scholarships, the university announced Friday. The university raised $2.003 million from more than 6,000 donors. Funding will go toward more than 100 campaign initiatives on campus. “The response to […]
David Baldacci donates $100K to Smith Mountain Lake meals program
Bestselling author David Baldacci and his wife, Michelle, have donated $100,000 to The Landing Love Project, a nonprofit initiative to expand meal delivery services to at-risk families and seniors in the Smith Mountain Lake region. The Landing Love Project was established in March 2020 by March Bruno and Tiffany Silva, owners of The Landing Restaurant, […]
Amazon to donate $9M to NoVa nonprofits
Marking the second anniversary of the news that it would brings its East Coast headquarters to Virginia, Amazon.com Inc. will donate $9 million to several nonprofits in Northern Virginia, the company announced Monday. The gifts include $3.5 million to community organizations supporting small businesses and military families and $3 million to nonprofit legal services groups […]
Ferrum College receives $100K gift
Ferrum College alumnus Michael Christian donated $100,000 to his alma mater, which will establish the Michael T. Christian ’63 Center for First-Year Experience at the school. The center — intended to connect incoming first-year students to professors, mentors and classmates — will be located in the college’s library and will be part of the Carter […]
Hampden-Sydney College receives $6M gift
Hampden-Sydney College has received its second-largest gift in its 245-year history — a $6 million gift from Rob (an alum) and Cindy Citrone to support the college’s experiential learning program Compass. “Rob and Cindy have long been devoted champions of the college’s mission and our efforts to strengthen the experience we offer young men,” President […]
Sentara, Truist launch emergency meals program with state
As Feeding America projects that more than 1 million Virginians will face food insecurity this year, Norfolk-based Sentara Healthcare, Optima Health and Truist Financial Corp., along with the state government, launched the “We Care” COVID-19 Virginia Emergency Fund Support Plan to provide free meals to families during the pandemic. The state committed $1.4 million of […]
Dominion pledges $35M for HBCUs in Virginia, three other states
Dominion Energy Inc. announced Thursday its $35 million initiative that will include a $10 million scholarship fund for Black students and other underrepresented minorities and also support historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Virginia and three other states. More details will come soon, according to a news release from the utility company, which recently […]
The Generous Virginians Project
Despite record-breaking gifts to universities and nonprofit organizations in 2019 and early 2020 — including a $68 million gift to the Darden School of Business and $50 million gifts to Virginia Tech and George Mason University — philanthropic giving in Virginia this year has quickly pivoted from traditional donations to gifts that are responding to recent […]
Altria to donate $5M to social justice nonprofits, businesses
Henrico County-based Fortune 500 tobacco manufacturer Altria Group Inc. announced Friday that it will donate $5 million to national and local organizations that address systematic racism and small businesses that have been affected by vandalism associated with recent protests and rioting. “These are difficult times, and we must find ways to embrace our differences, address […]
Dominion commits $5M to social justice nonprofits, businesses
As protests over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis have spread into a nationwide movement against systemic racism and injustice, the Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation announced Thursday that it will donate $5 million to nonprofits and minority-owned and small businesses within Dominion Energy Inc.’s 20-state footprint. Of the $5 million […]
U.Va. receives $27.5M gift for democracy projects
John L. Nau III, president and CEO of Silver Eagle Distributors LP, the largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in the country, has donated $27.5 million to the University of Virginia‘s new Democracy Initiative at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, the university announced Wednesday. The Nau Foundation’s gift will be combined with more […]
ChamberRVA announces small business relief fund
Richmond‘s regional chamber of commerce, ChamberRVA, on Wednesday launched its RVA Small Business Relief Fund to provide grants to eligible small businesses in the Richmond region that have been harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The effort is a partnership with Facebook Inc., which seeded the fund with $250,000 to be used in the first round of […]
