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spucci t1_isgg0ks wrote

Reply to comment by CO_PC_Parts in TIL that before Lincoln Center could reward David Geffen's $100 Million donation by renaming "Avery Fisher Hall" to "David Geffen Hall", they had to pay the heirs of Fisher - the original donor - $15 million. Geffen's donation has a provision that requires his name to be on the hall "in perpetuity". by AspireAgain

Yup I'm with ya. He sold all of that and apologized to the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas. He also made these donations through his foundation. It doesn't excuse his behavior but your leaving out relevant parts of his story.

$8.2 million to the College of Southern Nevada Foundation in Las Vegas to improve school's health sciences program (2008)[20]

An initial $5 million to the Boys and Girls Club to build a new facility, this includes a long-term donation plan that has money allotted for scholarship endowment (2008)[21]

$10 million to Bishop Gorman High School to fund a new campus (2003)[21]

North DakotaEdit

$250,000 to Farm Rescue to help farm and ranch families struck by unexpected crises in North Dakota (2018)[22]   

$3 million to Grand Forks' Community Violence Intervention Center benefitting its Safer Tomorrow Road Maps program (2018)

$100 million to the University of North Dakota to build Ralph Engelstad Arena (1998)[23]

$20 million endowment to the University of North Dakota (2007)[17]

Items donatedEdit

Donated General George S. Patton Papers (1918-1944, 1997-1998)[24] and portraits of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices to University of North Dakota valued at nearly $127.5 million[25]

UtahEdit

$6 million to build the Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre in Cedar City, Utah (2016)[26] 

As of 2019, the Engelstad Foundation is run by trustees Betty Engelstad, Kris Engelstad McGarry and Jeffrey M. Cooper.[27

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Engelstad

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