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Bard Is Driving Toward a $1 Billion Endowment with Soros Donation The college must match the philanthropist’s $500 million donation within five years, and it’s already halfway there. Bard College could be the next $1 billion university endowment if it can match a $500 million grant from billionaire investor George Soros within the next five years. It has already raised $250 million toward that goal.  Until then, a Bard spokesman said the $500 million commitment from the Hungarian-born Amer...

Image by Getty Images George Soros donated $500 million to Bard College last week, building on previous donations to the school with what college officials said was the largest single gift ever made to an American institution of higher education. “This is the most historic moment since the college’s founding in 1860,” said Bard College President Leon Botstein in a statement. Soros, a Jewish investor and major philanthropist to liberal causes, donated $60 million to Bard in 2011 and $100 ...

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“This is the most historic moment since the college’s founding in 1860,” Bard College President Leon Botstein said.

Soros Pledges $500M to Bard Endowment By   Financier George Soros has pledged a $500 million endowment to Bard College, the liberal arts college in New York’s Hudson Valley announced Thursday. The pledge stands to more than double Bard’s endowment, which was valued at $220.8 million last summer. Soros’s pledge is structured as a challenge grant as Bard seeks to raise $1 billion over five years. Bard will receive the $500 million once it has raised a matching $500 million. The colle...

NEW YORK - Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York, which the school called a “transformational” gift that would be among the largest ever given to higher education in the United States.

April 1, 2021 | By Clive Paget, Musical America It looked set to be a gala year for Miles Mykkanen. The 29-year-old tenor made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Second Apprentice in the company’s new production of Wozzeck, but when the run ended on January 22, 2020, lockdown was less than two months away. I’d seen him twice previously, as a fabulously funny Flute in Robert Carson’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Opera Philadelphia in 2019 and singing Jonathan Dove’s The End at the Ma...

NEW YORK — Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York, which the school called a “transformational” gift that would be among the largest ever given to higher education in the United States. “This is the most historic moment since the college’s founding in 1860,” Bard […]

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