THE FINE ART OF GIVING

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5. PRITZKER FAMILIES The Illinois Institute of Technology got another $60 million pledge (over five years) from Robert A. Pritzker, a 1946 graduate and the chief executive officer of the Marmon Group, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, and his brother Jay A. Pritzker, a Chicago attorney.

6. GONDA (GOLDSCHMIED) The donor's full name is being kept private, but he gave $45 million to UCLA to create the Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center. This is the largest charitable gift from an individual in University of California history. The donor was described in a ucla statement as having long been committed to advancing medical progress against disease.

7. RICHARD FISHER, SUSAN SOROS and LEON LEVY These three trustees gave a total of $42 million to New York's Bard College, a gift that allows the school to more than double its endowment. Fisher is chairman of the Morgan Stanley Group Inc. Levy is general partner of Odyssey Partners, an investment firm. Susan Soros, George's wife, is the director of Bard's Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, based in Manhattan.

8. ARISON FAMILY Lin Arison, wife of Carnival Cruise Lines founder Ted, gave $40 million worth of Carnival Corp. stock to Miami Beach's New World Symphony, which was created in 1987 by conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and Ted Arison to educate young musicians.

9. ROBERT M. BASS and ANNE BASS A $20 million donation from the 1970 Yale University graduate and his wife will help renovate Yale's aging residential colleges. The Basses also gave $10 million to Duke to enable the university to make chairs for full professorships available for only $1.1 million instead of the usual $1.5 million, with the hope of persuading other donors to endow professorships, and $1.4 million to bring these professors together in a group known as the Bass Fellows. Total: $31.4 million. Previously the Basses have given $25 million to Stanford and $20 million to Yale (Robert Bass attended both schools).

10. BILL GATES The Microsoft mogul gave $15 million to Harvard University, where he dropped out. This is part of a joint $25 million gift with Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer--a Harvard graduate--to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. Of this, $20 million will be used to construct a research and teaching facility named after the donors' mothers. The remaining $5 million will endow a professorship. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, also gave $12 million to the University of Washington to help pay for a proposed $52 million law school building that will be named after Gates' father William, who graduated from the law school in 1950. Total: $27 million.

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