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Article: $250 Million Gift To Create Institute For Cognitive Disabilities.(Brief Article)
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- Fund Raising Management
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Coleman, founder and chairman of BEA Systems in San Jose, and his wife Claudia, a former manager at Hewlett-Packard, have donated $250 million to the University of Colorado. The cash gift, which is to be paid over five years, is believed to be the largest ever made to an American public university.
The donation will be used to fund the study of technological advances for people with cognitive disabilities such as Down Syndrome, autism, Alzheimer's disease, or the aftermath of stroke. The university, which has promised to at least match the endowment, plans to establish the University of Colorado Coleman Institute of Cognitive ...