Investor David Booth, GSB'71, built his investment firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors, on the principles he learned from Prof. Eugene Fama at the Graduate School of Business. With Fama and other University of Chicago faculty on his board, the firm became a national success.

T. Boone Pickens, the noted oil and gas industry leader and philanthropist, said today he has contributed an additional $63 million to Oklahoma State University for the completion of the university’s football stadium and its west end zone.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton accused Barack Obama of taking more cash from the companies involved in the current sub-prime mess.

The largest single cash donation ever made to a university library in the UK has been given to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

A special thanksgiving event for friends and relatives of those who have donated their bodies to medical science will be held by the University of Bristol on Wednesday 27 February.

TELUS, its team members and alumni donated $5.5 million this year to more than 2,800 charities across Canada as part of the Team TELUS Cares charitable giving program.

Jon M. Huntsman announced that he and his wife, Karen H. Huntsman, are giving nearly $26 million to Utah State University, USU’s largest donation to date

NYU School of Social Work to be Named the Silver School of Social Work at NYU.

Close to 50 Chevrolet dealers from the Metro-Atlanta area partnered with local youth baseball parks/leagues through the Chevy Youth Baseball Program and helped generate nearly $150,000 in donations from the dealerships and private parties.

General Motors and the GM Foundation are putting in place several efforts to help those persons impacted by the devastating fires that have raged across Southern California.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a donation of US$20,000 (VN dong 320 million) to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation (CNCF) to help improve the lives of impoverished children in Vietnam. Founded in 1991, CNCF is an international organization dedicated to helping children in need with education, medical care, social opportunities and job placement assistance.

Canon U.S.A., Inc., donated 60 teddy bears to Child Life at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., on July 24, 2007.