"The enormous generosity of this gift will enable the Graduate School of Business to create a truly unique environment for its graduate programs and enrich Stanford's efforts to encourage multidisciplinary teaching and research that transcends traditional boundaries.
"I am thrilled at the magnitude and generosity of this gift, which would invigorate the park in the winter months and provide much-needed active recreation space for youth all over the borough on a year-round basis," said Regina Myer, president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation.
The Tate's departing director, Nicholas Serota, said: "The generosity of this gift is almost unprecedented in Tate's history.
Frederic was a man of humor and generosity with the gift of making people from all walks of life feel happy in his presence.
The expression of generosity is the gift; reciprocating is an expectation that genuine generosity does not demand or expect.
Organized in honor of Columbia's 250th anniversary, the exhibition celebrates both the rich collection of books, drawings, manuscripts and other research materials that have been gathered since King's College had its start near Trinity Church in lower Manhattan in 1754, and the generosity of the donors whose gifts have made possible the work of students and scholars for many generations.
"A Generosity of Spirit: Celebrating the Gift of Eugene Rogolsky," at the Fisher Museum.
This does not diminish the generosity of their gifts, but it does highlight that the creation of intellectual achievement is not free.
Mervyn Kohler, head of public affairs, Help the Aged: "For all the apparent generosity of the chancellor's one-off gifts, in this budget there was no bold bid to address pensioner poverty.
"Obviously a huge part of this was the remarkable generosity of the Starr Foundation with its record single gift of $1 million," he said, "but that accounts for only about half of the improvement".
Generosity is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
