Stanford receives $1B grant to launch climate school, second-largest gift ever

Published May 4, 2022 6:57pm ET



Billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr is donating $1.1 billion to Stanford University to create a new school focused on climate change and sustainability, the school said in an announcement on Wednesday.

The gift from Doerr and his wife Ann is the largest in the university’s history and will create the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, which is slated to launch this fall.

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