HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Top Story BEQUEST TO MFA COULD SET RECORD FOR AN ART MUSEUM Oil heiress's gift ultimately may be up to $450 million Congratulations! You are a Billionare. You have decided to donate $450 million dollars to charity and you want to make the biggest positive impact for the most people you can, how do you direct your gift? (the freaking MFA?)
Why? As for the topic, the wife and I donate regulary to the SPCA. If I had $450 MIL to donate, I would give half to the SPCA and the other half to cancer research.
We gave $200 last year to Doctors Without Boarders (and $100 to them during the tsunami). And small donations to several other charities. But if I had $450M to give. I'd probably give it to AIDS research.
I would use at least part of it to help make a special needs camp I help at free and accessible to everyone. http://www.geocities.com/rothdaniel_2000 I also have this "dream" of starting a respite center of parents of children w/ special needs. We take there kids for a week (and have someone cook etc.. for us) I can't imagine how hard they most work everyday.
Well, there is this girl named Charity that I know....DAAAAAYUM. Seriously, half would go to animal shelters and the other half would go to educate people who would otherwise be unable to go to school.
$450 Million? I would put it into cancer research $100 million at the time. In order for the research team to get the next $100 million, they'd have to hit a certain goal, or milestone. That'd find the cure for cancer easily enough.
I give regularly to the makers of Samual Adams. I mean, like every night. A $450 million donation would probably be a tad much though, as I really don't have the space to store all the bottles and my belly can only stretch so much. If they'd change the name to LonghornFan Adams I'd think about it.
with 450 million dollars, i could buy me TWO NHL hockey teams. I don't know actually. There are alot of worthy charities.
