April 13, 2023

What's Really in a Name? Ken Griffin's Latest $300 Million Joins a Crowded Landscape of Branded Gifts

April 13, 2023/ Philip Rojc

The billionaire’s mega-gift to Harvard isn’t his first such commitment, and it’s one of an endless array of higher ed naming gifts. The practice may be ubiquitous, but that’s all the more reason it should be questioned.

October 25, 2019

What the Right Hand is Doing: The Paradoxical Giving of a Billionaire Mega-Donor

October 25, 2019/ Julia Travers

Most top donors align their political and philanthropic giving so that both advance their values. Then there’s Ken Griffin, a patron of science and the arts who also bankrolls a Trump-dominated GOP that’s attacking those sectors.