{"id":4644,"date":"2014-07-08T12:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2022-03-24T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:25:48","slug":"power-of-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/power-of-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Philanthropy on Display, Anonymously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/ommencement-2009-by-Kal-Gazette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4646 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/ommencement-2009-by-Kal-Gazette-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Graduates throwing caps in the air\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/ommencement-2009-by-Kal-Gazette-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/ommencement-2009-by-Kal-Gazette-381x300.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/ommencement-2009-by-Kal-Gazette.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On April 1, 2009, Kalamazoo College\u2019s then-vice president of advancement received a phone call. The caller identified himself as the representative of someone who wanted to make a $2 million anonymous donation to the College. The money would be coming in two cashier\u2019s checks, each for $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>One check was for scholarships for minority students and women. The other was an unrestricted gift that the College could use any way it saw fit.<\/p>\n<p>It was April Fool\u2019s Day, but it wasn\u2019t a prank.<\/p>\n<p>And K wasn\u2019t the only school receiving phone calls and checks from the same source. Within weeks, 20 colleges and universities nationwide reported receiving checks totally some $100 million from seemingly the same anonymous donor with the same request to help minority students and women.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4647\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4647 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kamille LaRosa\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamille LaRosa &#8217;11 is among hundreds of K students who have benefited from an anonymous $2 million gift to the College in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guessing the identity of the donor became a favorite pastime throughout higher education. Was it Oprah? No one knew. Or at least no one was talking.<\/p>\n<p>One thing was clear, however: The power of individual philanthropy was on full public display.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the bottom had just fallen out of the economy, families were reeling from job losses and home foreclosures, states across the country\u2014including Michigan\u2014were cutting financial aid to college students, and schools like K were being forced to take up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later in spring of 2014, BBC Magazine reporter Taylor Kate Brown contacted the colleges and universities to ask three questions: How they had spent their anonymous gift? How had the gift made a difference to their institutions, their students, and the students\u2019 families? And, had they ever identified the anonymous donor?<\/p>\n<p>Read Brown\u2019s account in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-27530011\">\u201cHow US universities spent surprise anonymous millions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, 2009, Kalamazoo College\u2019s then-vice president of advancement received a phone call. The caller identified himself as the representative of someone who wanted to make a $2 million anonymous donation to the College. The money would be coming in two cashier\u2019s checks, each for $1 million. 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The caller identified himself as the representative of someone who wanted to make a $2 million anonymous donation to the College. The money would be coming in two cashier\u2019s checks, each for $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>One check was for scholarships for minority students and women. The other was an unrestricted gift that the College could use any way it saw fit.<\/p>\n<p>It was April Fool\u2019s Day, but it wasn\u2019t a prank.<\/p>\n<p>And K wasn\u2019t the only school receiving phone calls and checks from the same source. Within weeks, 20 colleges and universities nationwide reported receiving checks totally some $100 million from seemingly the same anonymous donor with the same request to help minority students and women.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4647\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4647\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4647 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/07\/11-by-JP-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kamille LaRosa\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamille LaRosa &#8217;11 is among hundreds of K students who have benefited from an anonymous $2 million gift to the College in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guessing the identity of the donor became a favorite pastime throughout higher education. Was it Oprah? No one knew. Or at least no one was talking.<\/p>\n<p>One thing was clear, however: The power of individual philanthropy was on full public display.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the bottom had just fallen out of the economy, families were reeling from job losses and home foreclosures, states across the country\u2014including Michigan\u2014were cutting financial aid to college students, and schools like K were being forced to take up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later in spring of 2014, BBC Magazine reporter Taylor Kate Brown contacted the colleges and universities to ask three questions: How they had spent their anonymous gift? How had the gift made a difference to their institutions, their students, and the students\u2019 families? And, had they ever identified the anonymous donor?<\/p>\n<p>Read Brown\u2019s account in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-27530011\">\u201cHow US universities spent surprise anonymous millions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}