Giving Matters | Archives
Past issues
Fall 2010:
A better future in
sight for kids
Minnesota Lions make a $3 milion pledge to help prevent blindness in infants and children
Also featured in this issue:
- Building medical student success
- A reason to celebrate
- Peace of mind - priceless
- Finding hope
- Speaking of healing
- A passion for their profession
Spring 2010:
Building healthy communities
This public health scholarship just might turn our country around.
Also featured in this issue:
- From beneficiary to benefactor
- Changing the game
- Breast cancer: Raising funds and awareness
- Community partners make the hospital a better place for kids
Fall 2009:
Supporting service
Robert Hart created an endowed scholarship to support medical students committed to serving others.
Also featured in this issue:
- A family affair
- Estate gift supports two tracks of leading Alzheimer’s disease research
- Major grant funds stem cell research collaboration
- Tapping the potential of natural killer cells
Winter 2009:
Passion and purpose
Schulze family foundation pledges $40 million for cure-focused diabetes research
Also featured in this issue:
- Honoring a pioneer
- Reaping the awards
- Paying it forward
- On message
- Simply outstanding philanthropists
Winter 2008:
Customized for kids
Two dads have made children’s hospital rooms a little more like home with Adopt A Rooms.
Also featured in this issue:
- Offering hope and comfort
- Supporting students
- An international toast to children’s health
Spring 2008:
A historic gift
Masons pledge a record-breaking $65 million for cancer research
Also featured in this issue:
- A lifelong investment
- Anonymous gift boosts Minnesota’s Future Doctors program
- A heartfelt ‘Happy Birthday’
- A monumental gift to mortuary science
Fall 2008:
Grief leads to hope for others
Family’s research fund helps University physicians hone in on a cure for a devasting skin disease
Also featured in this issue:
- Ensuring a lasting impact
- Improving cancer outcomes
- Scholarship honors sister’s contributions to public health nutrition
Winter 2007:
Breathing easier
Donations to lung research help propel U’s program to the top.
Also featured in this issue:
- Mutual admiration
- Working for safety
- Legendary leader
- Stopping Alport syndrome
- From the heart
Spring 2007:
A culture of collaboration
Endowed chair to honor longtime Cancer Center director.
Also featured in this issue:
- Solving the puzzle of autism
- Giving others a new lease on life
Fall 2007:
A kind heart
In memory of their son, couple funds endowed chair in preventive cardiology.
Also featured in this issue:
- Keeping radiology at the forefront
- Motivated by experience
- Sullivan scholarship surpasses goal
Winter 2006:
A gift that keeps on giving
Jean McGough created an endowed chair in women’s health to honor her mother — and to help future generations.
Also featured in this issue:
- Advancing research
- Doing business for a cause
- Now that’s commitment
- A place to learn and reflect
- Put it on plastic
Fall 2006:
A powerful partnership
Donor supports leukemia research with funding and ideas.
Also featured in this issue:
- Alum gives back to honor trusted friend and counselor
- A global investment
- A passion for public health
Summer 2006:
Minnesota miracle-maker
Kurt Amplatz’s medical inventions are saving lives. Now he’s giving back to the university that gave him his start.
Also featured in this issue:
- Creative ways to give
- A gift of gratitude — and hope
- Twin Cities Hope Lodge
