The Montana Heritage Center is getting a $10.4 million donation from Montana native millionaire Norm Asbjornson. Norm Asbjornson is from Winifred, Montana. He founded AAON, a publicly-traded heating, ventilation, and air conditioning manufacturer that has made him wealthy. In 2021, AAON made a profit of $535 million, and Asbjornson’s net worth is estimated between $500 […]
An anonymous donor has given the largest ever gift to a University of Kansas business school, of $50 million. The University of Kansas’ School of Business received a monumental boost with an anonymous donor contributing a generous $50 million, marking the largest single gift in the history of the institution’s business school. This substantial endowment […]
Publix Supermarkets is donating $1 million to support relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, Northern Florida’s worst landfall in over a century. Publix is the largest employee-owned company in the United States, a supermarket chain with over 1,300 stores in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, and the Carolinas. With over 250,000 employees, they’ve been […]
Steve Fox is donating $25 million to establish a cancer treatment center at Texas Tech University after his own cancer went into remission. More than 20 years ago, Steve Fox, car salesman and owner of several dealerships in El Paso, Texas, was diagnosed with severe tongue and throat cancer. “Being a (car) salesman, I thought […]
Metallica is donating $200,000 for emergency relief efforts during the wildfire catastrophe in Lahaina, Hawaii. The Lahaina wildfire is the worst natural disaster to strike Hawaii in almost 70 years, and may yet surpass the 1946 tsunami’s death toll of 150. As of Wednesday, the official death count is 106, 1,300 are still missing, and […]
Dwayne Johnson has contributed a ‘historic’ amount to SAG-AFTRA to help provide for union actors on strike. The Screen Actors’ Guild won’t disclose the specific amount other than to say that it’s in seven figures, but they are the ones calling it historic, and the largest total contribution ever received from a single individual. Two […]
Seth MacFarlane donates $1 million to support industry workers during the joint strikes of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Orville, could easily say he has to straddle the line between the Screen Actors’ Guild and the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. He’s a member of both, an actor […]
OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT, is donating $5 million to the American Journalism Project to develop AI tools to assist and support local journalism. “To ensure local journalism remains an essential pillar of our democracy, we need to be smart about the potential powers and pitfalls of new technology,” American Journalism Project CEO Sarabeth Berman said […]
Racial bias in medicine is still an issue, and $10 million in medical grants are meant to help fight it. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is the legacy of one of America’s wealthiest women. Doris Duke, who passed in 1993 at the age of 80, was a tobacco heiress and an active socialite. During her […]
A young author has donated copies of her own book to her local library for all to read. Ayla Anderson is ten years old, fresh out of the fourth grade at her Colorado elementary school. And for the past school year, she’s been writing, illustrating, and editing a book. Her first book, she makes sure […]