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Sunday, March 30

Philanthropists and foundations help shape LGBT future

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Weiland bequest A new record for bequests to LGBT organizations was set earlier this month, when former Microsoft employee Ric Weiland, who died in 2006, left $65 million to the Seattle-based Pride Foundation and several other organizations, said to be the largest gift...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 03-30-2008
Sunday, March 30

Philanthropists and foundations help shape LGBT future

Source: San Francisco Chronicle Weiland bequest A new record for bequests to LGBT organizations was set earlier this month, when former Microsoft employee Ric Weiland, who died in 2006, left $65 million to the Seattle-based Pride Foundation and several other organizations, said to be the largest gift...

Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by external blog Qnews : nw:gaynews on 03-30-2008
Friday, February 29

Gay groups marvel at unprecedented $65 million bequest

Source: Washington Blade Gay rights activists have been contemplating an unprecedented windfall following Sunday’s announcement that late philanthropist Ric Weiland earmarked $65 million of his vast estate for 11 gay and AIDS organizations. Weiland bequest Weiland was a high school classmate of Microsoft...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-29-2008
Wednesday, February 27

Anti-gay activist calls for right-wing donations to match gift given to gay groups

Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera has issued a call for right-wing groups to match a donation recently given by the late Ric Weiland to Seattle's Pride Foundation and ten other gay-rights groups. In his fundraising appeal, according to the right-wing news site OneNewsNow , LaBarbara claims that the...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-27-2008
Monday, February 25

Interview: Pride Foundation will see a gradual increase in grant funding as a result of bequest

seaQwa.com asked Zan McColloch-Lussier, Pride Foundation 's Director of Communications, to respond to a few questions we had about the Wieland bequest [see Qnews summary ] . Despite being inundated with press inquiries about the bequest, Zan was kind enough to respond. seaQwa: What changes can LGBT...

Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by Robin Evans on 02-25-2008
Sunday, February 24

Pride Foundation bequest moves group to new prominence

In obituaries after his 2006 suicide, Ric Wieland was called a humble and generous man. Tina Podlodowski, who headed Lifelong AIDS Alliance at the time, told the Seattle Times , "He was terrifically smart, terrifically caring, but a very unassuming kind of guy." She added that several organizations...

Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by Robin Evans on 02-24-2008
Sunday, February 24

Seattle's Pride Foundation gets massive donation from Microsoft pioneer

Source: Seattle Times and PageOneQ Weiland bequest Ric Weiland, who helped his high school friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen launch Microsoft, was a quiet philanthropist. But his final gift has provided one of the most powerful financial boosts ever to the gay-rights movement. Weiland has left $65 million...

Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-24-2008

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Philanthropists and foundations help shape LGBT future

Philanthropists and foundations help shape LGBT future

Gay groups marvel at unprecedented $65 million bequest

Anti-gay activist calls for right-wing donations to match gift given to gay groups

Interview: Pride Foundation will see a gradual increase in grant funding as a result of bequest

Pride Foundation bequest moves group to new prominence

Seattle's Pride Foundation gets massive donation from Microsoft pioneer

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