Georgetown gets $10M gift for social innovation

Published February 10, 2014 6:44pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown University has received a $10 million gift for a new center aimed at fostering innovation among students who want to build skills and organizations to solve society’s problems, the school announced Monday.

Georgetown alumna Olga Maria Beeck and her husband, investor Alberto Beeck of Key Biscayne, Fla., made the gift and helped develop the program over the past three years, university officials told The Associated Press. The Beecks are the parents of two current Georgetown students.

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