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Menlo Park couple give $150 million to Stanford

Original post made on Dec 11, 2011

Stanford University's Graduate School of Business has received a $150 million gift -- one of the largest in the university's history -- to create an institute to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Saturday, December 10, 2011, 10:58 PM

Comments

Posted by JT
a resident of another community
on Dec 11, 2011 at 1:44 am

Is it my imagination or have I seen this story two or three times in the past couple of months -- i mean the same story about a couple giving $150 million to Stanford to create an antipoverty program. It's nice that they did this, and all of that, but why announce it so many times?


Posted by Alfred Nonymous
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Dec 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm

The donation was announced by Stanford at the beginning of November. It looks like this is the first time that the Almanac has run the story.

It does seem appropriate to me that it be carried in the local newspaper because after all the the donor is a local resident who is giving the second largest donation that Stanford has ever received.

I guess if I read it elsewhere a couple of times it still would break down to $50M per reading, which I can live with but I guess not everybody is the same. I think if it really bugged me to hear about it again, I'd just skip over the article.