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The Broad Foundation Announces 2011 Finalists for $1 Million Broad Prize; Four Urban School Districts Honored for Significant Student Gains

Media Contact Erica Lepping, elepping@broadfoundation.org The Broad Foundation Announces 2011 Finalists for $1 Million Broad Prize; Four Urban School Districts Honored for Significant Student Gains LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2011—The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today the four school districts that are finalists for the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, an annual $1… Read more »

UCSF Opens Headquarters for the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research

Media Contacts Jennifer O’Brien, jobrien@pubaff.ucsf.edu Karen Denne, 310-954-5058, kdenne@broadfoundation.org UCSF Opens Headquarters for the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2011—The University of California, San Francisco today celebrated the official opening of the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building, a testament to the power… Read more »

Teach For America Announces Endowment With Investments From Four Leading Philanthropists on Eve of Its 20th Anniversary

Media Contacts Erica Lepping, elepping@broadfoundation.org Carrie James, carrie.james@teachforamerica.org Teach For America Announces Endowment With Investments From Four Leading Philanthropists on Eve of Its 20th Anniversary Four National Funders Commit a Total of $100 Million to Ensure the Organization’s Sustainability NEW YORK CITY, January 27, 2011—Teach For America announced today that it has established a permanent endowment… Read more »

The Broad Art Foundation Unveils Museum Designs; Initial Programming Outlined, Board of Governors Announced

The Broad Art Foundation Unveils Museum Designs; Initial Programming Outlined, Board of Governors Announced LOS ANGELES Jan. 6, 2011 – Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and architect Elizabeth Diller today unveiled the designs of The Broad Art Foundation, a contemporary art museum on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller Scofidio… Read more »

Broad Collection to be Built on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles; Broads Name Diller Scofidio + Renfro as Architect

Media Contact Karen Denne, 310-954-5058, kdenne@broadfoundation.org Broad Collection to be Built on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles; Broads Name Diller Scofidio + Renfro as Architect LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23, 2010—The Broad Collection, a public museum of contemporary art and headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, will be built on Grand Avenue… Read more »

Broad Foundation makes gift to Koegel Autism Center at UC Santa Barbara

Media Contact George Yatchisin, george@education.ucsb.edu Broad Foundation makes gift to Koegel Autism Center at UC Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, CALIF., May 25, 2010—The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has made a $250,000 grant to the Koegel Autism Center in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara to support the cutting-edge research and… Read more »

World-Class Building Under Way with Groundbreaking for Broad Art Museum

Media Contact Karen Denne, 310-954-5058, kdenne@broadfoundation.org World-class building under way with groundbreaking for Broad Art Museum EAST LANSING, MICH. March 16, 2010—Construction for MSU’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum began March 15 with a groundbreaking for the building, designed by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid. The facility is named in honor of Eli and Edythe… Read more »

Caltech, UCLA Launch Joint Center for Translational Medicine

  Media Contact Karen Denne, 310-954-5058, kdenne@broadfoundation.org Caltech, UCLA Launch Joint Center for Translational Medicine Broad Foundation gift will help guide new research toward clinical applications PASADENA and WESTWOOD, CALIF., Dec. 16, 2009—The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced the establishment of the Joint Center for Translational… Read more »

The Broad Art Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Media Contact Karen Denne, 310-954-5058, kdenne@broadfoundation.org The Broad Art Foundation Celebrates 25th Anniversary LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2009—As The Broad Art Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary this year as a pioneering lending library for artworks, more than 100 million people have viewed the works in the foundation’s world-renowned contemporary art collection through more than 7,100 loans… Read more »