A $1.5 million gift to the University of Maryland, Baltimore will establish a health care innovation center at the university’s Health Sciences and Human Services Library. The contribution by UMB graduates Richard Sherman and Jane Sherman will establish the Richard ...

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Maryland Legal Aid is receiving a $64,000 gift via a cy pres award. The funds were directed to Maryland Legal Aid at the request of Cory L. Zajdel, of Z Law LLC in Reisterstown. The money came from a $3 ...

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Georgetown University has received a $10 million gift for a new center aimed at fostering innovation among students who want to build skills and organizations to solve society's problems.

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Loyola University Maryland is receiving a $1.75 million gift to form a new program in peace and justice studies. The college says Mary Catherine Bunting of Ruxton, a 1964 alumna of Mount St. Agnes College, is making the gift to ...

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A gift of product life management software with a commercial value of $750 million is the largest in-kind grant ever received by the University of Maryland, university officials announced Tuesday.

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The Jemicy School, of Owings Mills, which educates above-average and gifted students ages 6 to 18 with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences, said it received a $1 million donation from a foundation created by a late Baltimore real estate ...

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WASHINGTON — An energy businessman is donating a record $35 million to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to build a new dinosaur hall on the National Mall. The Smithsonian is announcing the gift Thursday from David H. Koch, ...

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NEW YORK — Credit card rewards are the new social currency. Citibank customers can now use Facebook to pool their rewards points online. The bank on Tuesday launched a Facebook application that lets users team up to use their points, ...

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The $30 million gift to the University of Maryland School of Law from the W.P. Carey Foundation means much, much more than a name change. As the largest donation in the law school’s history and one of the largest ever ...

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NEW YORK — Shoppers spent a bit more in early November, raising retailers’ spirits about the holiday season right before it kicks into high gear. Early discounting on everything from TVs and sweaters as well as free shipping deals helped ...

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