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EnglishWhat Kind of Philanthropy News and Stories Are Featured on the Philanthropy Homepage?
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The Philanthropy homepage at philanthropy.cam.ac.uk features short news items that report on completed or ongoing giving outcomes at Cambridge, each linking to a fuller story. The four items currently shown cover a legacy gift for schools outreach, an artist-led fundraising campaign, a ten-year public health fellowship, and a legacy gift for climate research funding. They are presented as a "News" section, so the emphasis is on results and named donors rather than on how to give.
The four featured news stories
| Story | What it covers | Reported outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 'Perrin Days' and changing the fabric of the future | The Robert Perrin legacy gift for outreach in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy | Nearly 200 children have had hands-on experience of the field |
| Artists unite to raise more than £1 million for Kettle's Yard | 'Artists for Kettle's Yard', bringing together artists, alumni and supporters | More than £1 million raised, exceeding the original £750,000 target |
| The Gillings legacy: ten years of supporting public health leaders | The Lady Mireille & Sir Dennis Gillings Global Public Health Fellowships, in partnership with the University of Cambridge and Institut Pasteur | Ten years of supporting public health leaders |
| 'Something important and useful': Beryl and Michael Saich's legacy gift | A legacy gift addressing the need for postgraduate funding for climate solutions research | Funding directed to postgraduate climate solutions research |
Legacy gifts and named funds
Two of the four stories are explicitly about legacy gifts — the Robert Perrin gift and the Beryl and Michael Saich gift. Both show how a named bequest is tied to a specific department or research area, and both describe the gift in terms of what it enabled rather than the amount given. The Gillings story is similar in structure: a named fellowship, a defined partner institution, and a ten-year track record.
Campaign-style fundraising
The Kettle's Yard story is the only one of the four that reports a fundraising total and a target. It is also the only one framed around a group of donors — artists, alumni and supporters — rather than an individual or couple.
How these stories relate to the rest of the page
The news items sit alongside a "Featured priorities" section covering AI research, climate and nature research, and cancer research, plus "Give now" entries for Cambridge Children's Hospital, student support, the Rokos School of Government, and Sport at Cambridge. In practice, the news stories act as evidence for the priorities: the Saich gift maps onto climate research, the Perrin gift onto student outreach, and the Gillings fellowship onto public health.
If you want to understand what giving at Cambridge looks like in practice, the news section is the place to start; if you want to know where gifts are currently being directed, the featured priorities and "Give now" entries are the relevant part of the page.