Plus, hedge-fund manager Kenneth Griffin gave big gifts to a community college and a charter school, and Purdue University received two major donations from alumni.
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The ninth annual Purdue Day of Giving, held Wednesday, (April 27), invited donors to power the university’s next giant leap, and they responded with a resounding $68.2 million in contributions, outstripping last year’s $52.5 million and setting a record for most dollars raised for higher education through a single-day campaign.