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Movie Theater For the People

A movie theater has been donated to a small town, after AMC opted not to renew their lease in the space. Apple Valley is a large town in southeastern California, between Barstow and San Bernardino. Until earlier this year, the town boasted a 14-screen AMC movie theater. But as the cinema franchise tightened its belt […]

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Charles Feeney Passes Away

Charles Feeney, a quiet hero of philanthropy and tech investments, sadly passed away at the age of 92 in San Francisco on Monday. Chuck, as he was known to friends, was the man who gave away almost his entire $8 billion fortune to charity, often without fanfare. Charles Feeney believed in low-key giving. He donated […]

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Governors Point Donated to Public

Governors Point has been donated by a private owner to conserve undeveloped land on the Chuckanut Bay shoreline. Randy Bishop, a Canadian business owner living in White Rock, bought Governor’s Point in 2018 for $5.7 million. At the time, his plans for the wooded little peninsula south of Bellingham, Washington were to build a development […]

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Montana Heritage Center Completes Funding

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 […]

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Anonymous Donor Gives $50M

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 […]

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Publix Donates $1M, No Cakes

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 […]

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Steve Fox and Texas Tech

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 […]

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Metallica Gives $200K For Lahaina

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 […]

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Dwayne Johnson Steps Up

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 […]

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Seth MacFarlane: The Actors’ Actor

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 […]