School of the Arts from 1969 to 1991, and in 1985 he secured a donation of $7.5 million from Laurence A. Tisch and his brother, Preston Robert Tisch, billionaire businessmen who were then members of the N.Y.U. board of trustees.
Last year he secured a donation of ukuleles from an organization called Little Kids Rock.
Stephen Ritz, the dean of students at Hyde Leadership Charter School in Hunts Point, said that Ms. Carter mentored his students and used her contacts at the Hunts Point market to help him secure a weekly donation of 1,500 pieces of fruit to the school.
Within months he had secured a $150 million donation to the university, the largest since its founding, from James H. Clark, a former colleague in the computer science department who went on to found the Netscape Communications Corporation.
She joined the Friends of Burgess Park, formed the Burgess Park Food Project, secured a soil donation from Capital Growth and £46,000 of funding from Community Spaces, a Big Lottery fund.
Dr. Vogel said that he and the law school dean secured a $1 million donation from the family only after traveling to Saudi Arabia to meet with another of Osama bin Laden's siblings, Bakr Muhammad, who runs the family's construction company.
He was also instrumental last year in securing a $150 million donation from Netscape founder Jim Clark, who worked down the hall from Hennessy when both were Stanford professors.
To assist it in its endeavors, Arch Grants today announced that it has secured a $150K donation from Peabody Energy (the largest private-sector coal company in the world).
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has fostered a close relationship with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, attending a fundraiser at his Palo Alto home last year and securing a $100 million donation from the tech guru for Newark schools in 2010.
Plans to construct a new academic building in 2013, known as the Wilson Building for Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, are underway after securing a substantial donation from the university's chancellor, Lynton Wilson, as well as securing funding from the provincial government.
The FA's lawyers have contacted Emap, the publisher of both magazines, to try to secure an apology and a donation to a charity of Beckham's choice by way of compensation.
