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July 22, 2009
After five years of internal management of its investment portfolio—which includes the University of Colorado endowment—the University of Colorado Foundation is outsourcing these services to Perella Weinberg Partners (PWP), an asset management firm based in New York.
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July 21, 2009
More than 50,000 donors made contributions toward University of Colorado people, places, and programs during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009—more than in any other year in CU’s 133-year history, the university announced today.
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July 7, 2009
Kate Horwitz, PhD, a breast cancer researcher at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and distinguished professor of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, has received $650,000 from the Avon Foundation for Women in support of various breast cancer outreach and research programs.
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June 26, 2009
Louise Bennett Reed, who passed away at age 103 last June, gave gifts totaling more than $4.75 million for University of Colorado at Boulder athletic scholarships, making her the largest individual donor to the CU-Boulder Athletics department.
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June 25, 2009
The company’s $1 million gift is a lead gift toward the initial renovations of the new Business School building at 1475 Lawrence St. in downtown Denver, and the school plans to honor EnCana’s generosity through the naming of the Global Energy Management suite where the GEM program will be located in the new facility.
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June 16, 2009
The University of Colorado at Boulder Leeds School of Business and Vail Resorts, Inc. are partnering on research that will create new, more comprehensive green development standards. A gift from Vail Resorts announced today will fund the research.
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June 11, 2009
As part of its community benefit program, Kaiser Permanente made a $2.4 million dollar grant to establish the University of Colorado Denver’s Interdisciplinary Rural Training and Service Program (IRTS).
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June 4, 2009
As the state’s first and only school of public health nears its one-year anniversary, The Colorado Health Foundation is showing its ongoing support of this emerging regional public health leader. The Foundation is giving the Colorado School of Public Health more than $2 million to expand programs and recruit top faculty.
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May 28, 2009
Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder may get a step closer to identifying all proteins present in a single cell type, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The grant could better enable researchers to understand the complex changes within a cell that are triggered by disease, food or other means — which could accelerate the development of targeted therapies for cancer, heart disease and other diseases.
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May 26, 2009
The arm of public health in Colorado now is able to improve its reach in our state thanks to a generous grant from Kaiser Permanente Colorado. The state’s largest nonprofit health plan has given $600,000 to the Colorado School of Public Health to support the development of The Center for Public Health Practice (CPHP).
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