Private giving increases sharply at UCLA

Perhaps responding to the well-publicized state cutbacks within the UC system, gifts and pledges for fiscal year 2010-2011 totaled nearly $480 million, a 26 percent increase from a year earlier. Among the Chancellor's Associates (folks who contribute at least $2,500), the increase was 7 percent. The really big guns included Meyer and Renee Luskin ($100 million), the Kirk Kerkorian-funded Lincy Foundation ($200 million), and the late John E. Anderson and his wife, Marion ($42 million). UCLA's fund-raising network is vast, even in the not-so-good times. (UCLA Today) Another UC school that did well was Davis, reporting $117.6 million in gifts and pledges, a small increase from last year.