His other gifts include a 150-acre (61-hectare) park and a $2,000,000 endowment to the city of Pittsburgh, as well as liberal contributions to Princeton University.
Mr. Nash said Mr. Carey at first rejected a $225,000 Teamsters contribution to a liberal group, Citizen Action, which was to use the money in a get-out-the-vote effort.
So how does an institution like Amherst with an endowment that's still well above $1 billion make a pitch that it's needy, or at least equal in worth to other causes that lack any endowment, at a time like this? Amherst's new capital campaign is built around "Lives of consequence," the idea that a contribution to a liberal arts college helps develop the leaders of tomorrow.
Mr. Thompson, however, was helped by nearly $150,000 from Daily Kos, a liberal blog, and some more modest contributions from a group aligned with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Groening identifies himself as agnostic and a liberal and has often made campaign contributions to Democratic Party candidates.
A podcast and a liberal media company, they thought, could be their contribution to the anti-Trump resistance.
A rich political hybrid of orange, red and green with a liberal splash of blue, it was written by me but oozed contributions from hundreds of you.
This can be the major contribution of universities, along with a broad commitment to teaching management as a liberal art — a way of thinking outlined by Peter Drucker.
Hughes, a Liberal Democrat, is aware the initiative will not solve every unmet legal need but believes it will be a significant contribution in a climate of austerity.
