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Lisa Dunkle, left, wants to help med students like Anna Marie Young, Class of 2020, pursue their dreams without worrying about money.
Giving
Helping future doctors pay their way
Published Winter 2019
Lisa Dunkle, Med '72, is helping to lift the burden of medical school debt for current and future Johns Hopkins students. Her hope is that her support, including the endowment of the Lisa Dunkle Scheffler, MD, Scholarship Fund, will allow Hopkins students to focus on making the world a better place, rather than "following the money" to pay back loans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Startup at Fast Forward U
Startups
Pledge to give back
Published July 16, 2019
Founders Pledge encourages successful startups to pay it forward with support for current Hopkins entrepreneurs
Andrea Weiss, Lynn Hackney, and Karen Peetz
Women supporting women
Published Summer 2019
The rise of women philanthropists at Carey has been led in part by the powerhouse personality of Karen Peetz, a university trustee and alumna / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Seymour Baron and Jennifer Baron
Endowed scholarship celebrates a family legacy
Published June 6, 2019
Seymour Baron and his granddaughter—Jennifer, a member of JHU's Class of 2019—graduated with engineering degrees 75 years apart
#ONEHopkins
#ONEHopkins
Hopkins aims for 1,200 donors in 24 hours
Published May 1, 2019
A donation made Wednesday to Johns Hopkins could help unlock more than $400,000 in challenge gifts
Michael R. Bloomberg
Fulfilling a promise of Hopkins for all
Published Spring 2019
Michael Bloomberg's historic $1.8 billion pledge for undergraduate financial aid promotes greater diversity at Johns Hopkins / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Sarah Szanton and Cheryl Himmelfarb
The patient's advocates
Published Spring 2019
School of Nursing endows two professorships, granting faculty the freedom and funding to explore complex projects and make advances in their fields / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Jim Margraff
Football
Coaching position to be named in honor of Margraff
Published Jan 15, 2019
Jim Margraff Endowment for Hopkins Football will honor late coach's legacy, support program in the future
Michael R. Bloomberg
Hopkins 'truly blessed' by Bloomberg's legacy of support
Published Nov 26, 2018
With $1.8B donation in support of financial aid, Bloomberg has now given more than $3.35B to his alma mater, by far the most ever by any individual to a U.S. university
Michael R. Bloomberg seated a table with students
Student impact
Elimination of student loans opens doors for Hopkins undergrads
Published Nov 26, 2018
Bloomberg's historic $1.8B gift in support of financial aid means a Hopkins education is within reach for qualified students, regardless of their ability to pay