Stiftungen unterstützen viele Institute bei Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaufgaben mit finanziellen Mitteln. Da die Beispielhaft als "philantropische Gaben" sollen hier die Zahlungen der "Gates Foundation" des Bill Gates stehen, der mit seiner Stiftung zahlreiche Projekte unterstützt.

Foundation awards Yale $4.3 million health grant
JARED STANISCI
YDN Staff Reporter

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropic institution catering exclusively to health and health care, recently awarded Yale a $4.3 million grant to continue participation in the Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research Program.
The program allows Yale to bring three or four scholars to New Haven each year for two-year fellowships. These scholars will work in conjunction with Yale faculty members, exploring different factors that affect public health and health care.
Yale was chosen from among a host of top-notch institutions to take part in the program.
"The foundation asked 18 schools in the U.S. to compete for three programs -- including Harvard, Columbia, and Penn on the East Coast," said Theodore Marmor, professor of political science at Yale's School of Management and scholars program director at Yale.
The other two schools selected were the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.
Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies administers the program. The ISPS formed an interdisciplinary board to try and increase Yale's chances of getting the program.
"We managed to get the deans of the law and management schools and the head of ISPS to tell the review group that what we said we would do we could and would in fact do," Marmor said.
Harvard, one of the schools vying for the program against Yale, had a more difficult time coordinating its departments. "Harvard has lots of talent, but they cannot figure out how to integrate folks from the medical school, the law school, the social sciences, and the Kennedy School," Marmor said.
The Foundation is sponsoring three post-doctoral scholars this year: Rogan Kersh, a political scientist who earned his Ph.D. from Yale, and sociologists John Evans and Robin Rogers-Dillon, who earned their Ph.D.'s from Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively.
"The RWJ grant is obviously a tremendous help in this study, both in that I have access to the extensive Yale expertise in health policy and that I have time free of teaching or administrative requirements to carry out my research," Kersh said. Kersh will research health-care lobbying in Washington, D.C.
"I'm actually going to 'shadow' several health-care lobbyists to see how their activities match social-science theorizing about lobbying in the American political system," Kersh said.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation became a national institution in 1972. Since then, it has given out over $2 billion in grants.
(Published Monday, September 28, 1998)
Quelle: Yale Daily News

Beispiel für eine private Spende an der University of Michigan:

What is the Brehm Gift?
On November 22, 2004, the University of Michigan Health System announced an extraordinary gift from a pair of extraordinary people: $44 million from Bill and Dee Brehm of McLean, VA, to work toward a cure for Type I diabetes.
Dee, who has lived with Type I diabetes for nearly 55 years since her diagnosis in a U-M hospital, and Bill, a U-M alumnus and information technology leader, chose Michigan for its atmosphere of discovery, innovation and collaboration.
The gift will fund a new research, new faculty and a new facility. But even more, it will catalyze a new and different framework for Type I diabetes research that's based on laboratory and clinical discovery, accelerated by unprecedented use of systems analysis and information technology, and fed by true interdisciplinary cooperation.
We hope you will explore this site to learn more about the Brehms and their gift, about diabetes research and care at the University of Michigan, and about diabetes in general.
As the University embarks on this new initiative, guided by the vision and generosity of the Brehms, we look forward to putting the best minds and resources into fighting a disease that affects more than 1.3 million Americans and countless others worldwide.
Quelle: University of Michigan

Stiftungen und Einzelpersonen könnten mit Ihren Spenden die politische Ausrichtung eines Instituts beeinflussen. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei den Stiftungen, die (nach Dye 2002) die "Vast-Right-Wing Conspiracy" bilden:

Scaife Foundation
Bradley Foundation
John M. Olin Foundation: Dabei unter anderem auch Spenden an Yale University im Jahr 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998 oder 1997
Koch Family Foundations
A. Coors Foundation
Heritage Foundation