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The Rockefeller Foundation has pledged $100m (£61m) over five years to help developing nations build better healthcare systems as part of its ‘smart globalisation’ approach to...

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Famed philanthropist George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, will donate $100m (£60m) through his Open Societies Institute to help communities and young people in...

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A $50m (£31m) donation will make the aim to build a new world leading brain research centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem a reality.

The $130m (£81m)...

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Publicity shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist Chuck Feeney has featured in a documentary on Irish television to inspire ‘giving while living’.

In ‘Secret Billionaire: The Chuck Feeney Story’, Feeney talked about how he...

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US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle donated 6.5% of their income to charity last year, according to their income tax return released by the White House.

The Obamas gave...

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A $50m (£35m) matched fund to encourage giving has been set up for Oxford University by an IT entrepreneur, despite the financial downturn.

Dr James Martin will match donations of at...

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Terry Gou, chairman of China’s biggest exporter, has donated NT$15bn (£308m) to the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Teipei, to combat cancer.

Gou is chairman of the Foxconn Hon-Hai Group, which...

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Lord Sainsbury of Turville has made one of the largest ever donations to a British university, to fund a new research laboratory to study plant biology.

Lord David Sainsbury’s ...

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US philanthropist and legal scholar Arthur R. Miller has promised a gift of around 1,800 prints by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi to the British Museum.

The...

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Alan Bennett is to donate his manuscripts and other papers to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

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