Gifts for UC

Despite the recession and sinking stock market accounts, the University of California reports new acts of multimillion-dollar generosity from donors.

For UCLA, the Shapiro Family Charitable Foundation has pledged $2 million to fund two endowed chairs at the David Geffen School of Medicine. One will concentrate on child development studies, and the other on cerebral palsy. The Shapiro Foundation was started by Ralph Shapiro, who is chairman of Avondale Investment Partners, and his wife, Shirley, both of whom are UCLA alumni.

The UC system as a whole received a $4-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for planning a UC School of Global Health, a proposed multi-campus school to train leaders in world health issues.

The grant would help kick-start plans for the new school, which is expected to seek UC regents’ approval in 2010 in hopes of first enrolling students the following year.

-- Larry Gordon

Comments

[Adrian]

It would be nice if some of the donors could make some of the funds to cap student tuition, they are increasing by too much, too often.