Article: Mega Gifts: Who Gives Them, Who Gets Them, 2d ed.(SOCIOLOGY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: New Study Finds That Mega-Gifts - Gifts of $10 ...
PR Newswire;  March 27, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... PRNewswire/ -- The vast majority of mega-gifts (gifts of $10 million or more) are concentrated ... author of the study, entitled A Study of Mega-Gifts in American Philanthropy, "Mega-gifts are an important part of philanthropy ...

Article: Mega-Gifts Eluding Jewish Community; Billions at ...
The Jewish Week;  April 4, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... only 6 percent of the $5.3 billion in mega-gifts Jews donated to individual institutions ... The survey found that 188 of the 865 mega-gifts, 22 percent, came from Jews, who the ... Philanthropy, suggested one reason the mega-gifts go to other than the Jewish community ...

Article: U.S. philanthropists set record in 2006; Mega-gifts ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... generous givers hit a record $7 billion in 2006, up from $4.3 billion the year before. The reason for the increase in mega-gifts is simple: There are more people with deep pockets. "It's a sign that wealth is growing and people are just raising their ...

Article: Duke receives relatively few mega-gifts
University Wire;  November 17, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Greg Pessin University Wire 11-17-1999 (The Duke Review) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. -- A rule of thumb for university fund-raisers is that 90 percent of gifts come from 10 percent of the donors. But the nearly four-year-old $1.5 billion Campaign for Duke University, which recently topped $1 billion, is

Article: MY MILLIONAIRE GIRLS; Lotto jackpot dad's ...
The Mirror (London, England);  July 11, 1998 ;     700+ words ...GENEROUS dad Roy Gibney picked up a pounds 7.5million Lotto cheque yesterday and immediately pledged a million apiece to his two teenage daughters. Barmaid Laura, 19, and factory worker Lucy, 17, vowed to "shop till we drop" - then warned would-be gold-diggers: "Forget it." Laura said: "I suppose

Article: The worm that never dies - Bribery.(bribery by multinational ...
The Economist (US);  March 2, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... believe that lots of the bribes their companies engage in are merely small "facilitation payments", different in kind from mega-gifts with the power to alter the direction of large government contracts. Facilitation payments, investors assure themselves ...

Article: The Genius of Edison places his inventions in the spotlight. ...
Computer Shopper;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... investigation. The first, Tom's Technology, offers a brief article about how and why Edison developed the invention, along ... life and career; a database of 253 terms, each linked to a brief article; and a cleverly designed quiz that tests users on program ...