January 29, 2009
How The Chronicle's Ranking of America's Top Donors Was Compiled
The Chronicle's ninth annual Philanthropy 50, a list of the most-generous donors, is based on gifts and pledges of cash and stock to nonprofit institutions.
As a springboard, The Chronicle used information it has published in the last year about donations of $1-million or more from individuals; it also conducted additional research on wealthy people and their donations to charitable organizations last year.
Although the newspaper attempted to compile all
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