Almanac Timeline

• 2017
• Religion

Museum of the Bible

• 2017
• Arts & Culture

Museum of Narrative Art

George Lucas and Mellody Hobson Celebrate Popular Storytelling Art

• 2017
• Medicine & Health

Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery

Robert and Patricia Kern Re-Engineer Health Care

• 2017
• Local Projects

Lakeland, Florida

Florida Lake, Land, Park (Lakeland)

• 2017
• Religion

Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Global Engagement With Religion

Muslim Donors, Catholic University

• 2017
• Medicine & Health

Marcus Institute for Brain Health

Home Depot Co-Founder Works to Heal Veterans

• 2017
• Medicine & Health

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Besoz Family Funds Cancer Research in Seattle

• 2017
• Medicine & Health

UCSF Medical Education and Research

Sanford and Helen Diller's Mega Medical Gift

• 2017
• Education

Meeting Demand for Computer Science in Seattle

• 2017
• Education

Chapman Rises in Southern California

• 2017
• Prosperity

Embracing Data Science

• 2017
• Prosperity

Bolstering Fairness in Sports

• 2017
• Prosperity

Making Off-campus Learning Universal for Students

• 2017
• Local Projects

Helping Those Left Behind by the Tech Boom (Silicon Valley)

• 2017
• Medicine & Health

Major Bonus for Microbiome

• 2017
• Arts & Culture

A Performance Space in a New NYC Neighborhood

• 2017
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Taking Fountains to New Heights

• 2017
• Education

Public Colleges, Private Gifts

• 2017
• Prosperity

Battling Bad Science

• 2016
• Overseas

Overseas Giving by U.S. Churchgoers

• 2016
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Separating Bikers and Pedestrians in Chicago

• 2016
• Local Projects

Repaying His Eye Doctors (Sacramento)

• 2016
• Local Projects

Investigating Metabolic Disease (Indiana)

• 2016
• Local Projects

Bringing Dental Health to a Desert (West Texas)

• 2016
• Local Projects

A Yankee Gives Back (Vermont)

• 2016
• Religion

Record Gift for Jewish Education

• 2016
• Religion

Exploring Religion and Art through Journalism

• 2016
• Overseas

Building Up Israel’s Youngest University

• 2016
• Prosperity

Collaborating for Child Prosperity

• 2016
• Public-Policy Reform

Protecting Children Where Government Didn’t

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Boosting Biomedicine Through Collaboration

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Sharpening Vision at the Cleveland Clinic

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Difficult Diseases Taken On in Texas

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Long-term Support for Unconventional Bio Med

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Big Money, Fresh Approaches, Bold Methods

• 2016
• Medicine & Health

Cohen Brings Mental-health Care to Military Families

• 2016
• Arts & Culture

A Pearl of a Museum Grows Bigger, Quickly

• 2016
• Arts & Culture

Private Funding at a Smithsonian

• 2016
• Arts & Culture

Live Performance in a Once-dead Place

• 2016
• Arts & Culture

Building an Art-glass Center

• 2016
• Education

Music From Notre Dame

• 2016
• Education

Schooled in Science, Outside of School

• 2016
• Education

New Schools for D.C.

• 2016
• Education

Supporting Minorities in Engineering

• 2016
• Education

Scalia School of Law

• 2016
• Education

Expanding the Best Charter Network in New York

• 2016
• Education

$1.25 Billion to Expand Charter Schools

• 2016
• Prosperity

A Fossil Park in New Jersey

• 2016
• Prosperity

Pushing Science Into the Real World

• 2016
• Prosperity

Unexpected Social-work Riches

• 2016
• Prosperity

Paying for Scientific Collaboration and Risk-taking

• 2016
• Public-Policy Reform

Nonprofit Newspapers

• 2015
• Public-Policy Reform

Independence Project for Veterans

• 2015
• Religion

A Fund to Seed New Catholic Schools

• 2015
• Overseas

Test of Overseas

• 2015
• Overseas

Gates Doubles Spending Against Hunger

• 2015
• Overseas

Global Studies at Northwestern

• 2015
• Nature, Animals & Parks

A Golden Age for Parks

• 2015
• Public-Policy Reform

Building U.S. Interest In Israel

• 2015
• Medicine & Health

Putting a Shine on NYC’s Hospital District

• 2015
• Medicine & Health

Cornell Biomedical Engineering School

• 2015
• Medicine & Health

Funding the Small and the Large of Regenerative Medicine

• 2015
• Education

Building Real-world Leadership In Every Student

• 2015
• Education

Flexibly Incubating New Ideas at Caltech

• 2015
• Education

Edgy Education News

• 2015
• Prosperity

Engineering Improvements at Harvard

• 2015
• Prosperity

Jailing Efficiently—and Less Often

• 2015
• Arts & Culture

Stringing Houston’s Art Pearls

• 2015
• Arts & Culture

A Nonpareil Book Collection

• 2015
• Nature, Animals & Parks

Healing Horned Owls and Breeding Bugs

• 2015
• Medicine & Health

Creative Approach to Disease Research Pays Off

• 2015
• Public-Policy Reform

Gestating an Iran Deal

• 2015
• Education

Doubling Wisconsin’s Endowed Chairs

• 2015
• Religion

A Record for Catholic-school Scholarships

• 2015
• Arts & Culture

Art of Native America to Indiana

• 2015
• Local Projects

Safety and a New Life for Women in Crisis (Dallas-Fort Worth)

• 2015
• Local Projects

Recycling Abandoned Homes (Indianapolis)

• 2015
• Local Projects

Tripling a Community Foundation (San Antonio)

• 2015
• Public-Policy Reform

New Tools for Family Revival

• 2015
• Local Projects

An Honors College to Honor the Home State (Kentucky)

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

$50 Million for Gun Control

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Keeping the Lights on in Detroit

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Boosting Policy Instruction at U. Chicago

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

A $250 Million Media Experiment

• 2014
• Nature, Animals & Parks

$350 Million for a City Park in Tulsa

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Making an Impressionism on Denver

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Foundations Rescue Detroit’s Accumulated Art

• 2014
• Nature, Animals & Parks

World’s Most Powerful Telescope

• 2014
• Education

Wielding Litigation to Improve Student Opportunities

• 2014
• Education

New Orleans School District Goes All-charter

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Protecting NYC Charter Schools From Political Opponents

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Last of the Mellon Pictures

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Making an Impressionism on Denver

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Fighting Cancer at Johns Hopkins

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Analyzing an Archive of Tumors

• 2014
• Education

Scholarships for Engineers

• 2014
• Medicine & Health

Shot in the Arm for Public Health

• 2014
• Arts & Culture

Rehabilitating Arlington

• 2014
• Public-Policy Reform

Suing for Reform

• 2014
• Local Projects

California Techies Find Philanthropy (Silicon Valley)