Yet despite the generous pledges of aid, history suggests expectations may need to be tempered.
Today, nearly a year later, the generous pledges of international aid have yet to materialize, says Farmer, and the peril has expanded to include a cholera outbreak.
Renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center upon receipt of a generous pledge from the Davis family, the institution became a nexus for lively discussions and research into once inaccessible archives and regions.
In 1996, Harvard's Russian Research Center (RRC) was renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center, in honor of a most generous pledge from the Davis family.
While welcome, given Egypt's squeezed finances, a generous Saudi pledge of $4 billion in aid raises Egyptian fears that strings may be quietly attached.
"We've had some major donors who have made some generous pledges".
The best way we can see of turning this around is for wealthy nations to make a generous and concrete pledge of aid for the next five years — and then deliver.
November 18 , 2011— Columbia University Trustee H.F. "Gerry Lenfestt ('58LAW, '09HON), a benefactor whose previous gifts of more than $100 million place him among Columbia's most generous donors, has made a new pledge of $30 million to support the construction of a multi-arts venue on the University's Manhattanville campus.
Social services, for example, are more generous than the average (and are supplemented by the pledge of 78 Minnesota companies to donate 5% of their earnings to charity).
And Stony Brook's most generous donor, the hedge fund manager James Simons, has made a pledge of as much as $150 million, contingent on the passage of some form of the legislation.
