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The patriarch and matriarch of one of Silicon Valleyâs most prominent families in real-estate development and philanthropy, John A. â60 and Susan Sobrato, have made a gift of $100 million to Santa Clara University to help create the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation. The Universityâs largest-ever gift, $100 million from John A. and Susan Sobrato, will fund a 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for transformational STEM education.
The Â£10m donation is the largest single gift that J K Rowling has ever given. Her mother, who had MS, died when Miss Rowling was just 25. She has donated Â£10million for research at a multiple sclerosis centre which will be named in honour of Anne, who died in 1990. Miss Rowling, who never told her mother that she had started the book, has said she is haunted by the death, describing it as 'a literal pain in my heart'.