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A £1.5m gift by businessman and philanthropist Dr Leonard Polonsky to the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford  will support library digitisation initiatives....

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Hong Kong based Chinese billionaire businessman and K.B.E. Sir Ka-shing Li is donating £5m to Oxford University, which adds to the £800m already raised by the ...

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Last year, Dr James Martin, one of the world’s leading computer scientists, pledged to donate up to $50m (£33m) to the eponymous school he set up at Oxford University, to fund 20 key...

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Professor Lord Bhattacharyya has committed to a five-year programme of personal donations to the University of Warwick that will create a fund worth around £1m to support research.

This is thought...

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The Ford Foundation last week announced a new $100m (£60m) initiative to ‘transform’ secondary education in urban schools across the country, saying it wants to...

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presented its tenth annual Access to Learning Award of $1m (£620,000) to the Columbian ...

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The biggest private donation to a medical research facility in Australian history has been made by Atlantic Philanthropies, the charitable foundation of media-shy multi-billion-dollar philanthropist ...

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One of a Florida university’s biggest donors says he cannot honour a 2007 pledged donation of $16m (£9.5m) to them because of the recession, reports The Associated...

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Sixty million children from India’s slums will receive basic education in a hope "to end the cycle of poverty" and turn some into leaders, in a huge scale initiative funded...

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St Andrews University, Scotland’s oldest university, is launching a private philanthropic fundraising campaign aimed at its alumni network to raise £100m to help it compete on the global stage, as...

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