60 million

For the seventh consecutive year, social service and arts organizations have received funds from an anonymous donor, but for the first time they have also received a two-year commitment, along with technical assistance valued at over $2.5 million....

Although $60 million in emergency relief assistance has been pledged by twenty-eight nations, the European Union, and philanthropic organizations, little of it has been allowed into the country....

Grants ranging from $700,000 to $1.6 million will be awarded to forty-eight U.S. colleges and universities over the next four years to help revitalize life sciences instruction....

The gift — the largest ever received by a State University of New York school — will be used to construct the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics on Stony Brook's main campus....