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☆ Their Diplomas Came With Envelopes of Cash, and a Catch
  + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Jenna Russell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Then, as they prepared to collect their diplomas, their commencement speaker, Rob Hale, a billionaire philanthropist from Boston, returned to the dripping podium. “My friends and I were looking at each other like, no way,” Ali McKelvey, one of the students, said. “We were like, this has to be a joke.”It wasn’t. Mr. Hale, the co-founder and chief executive of Granite Telecommunications, ranks as one of the country’s wealthiest people and most generous benefactors. He and his wife, Karen, gave away $1 million every week in 2022, to both well-known and unheard-of causes.
Persons: Rob Hale, “, ” Ali McKelvey, Hale, Karen Organizations: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Granite Telecommunications Locations: Boston
☆ Billionaire CEO gifts 1,200 UMass grads 'envelopes full of cash' totaling about $1.2 million — but there's a catch
  + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Read previewA billionaire gifted graduating students at UMass Dartmouth with "envelopes full of cash" totaling $1,000. Related storiesA UMass Dartmouth press release said security brought onstage two large duffle bags "packed with envelopes full of cash." AdvertisementHale told graduates that he had two envelopes to give them: one reading "gift" and the other reading "give." UMass Dartmouth graduates received $1,000. If all 1,200 students received the $1,000, Hale's giveaway amounted to about $1.2 million.
Persons: —, Robert Hale Jr, Hale, Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld, Duke Organizations: Service, UMass Dartmouth, Granite Telecommunications, Business, UMass Dartmouth Chancellor's, Columbia University, Duke University, BI Locations: Hale, United States, Gaza, Israel
☆ A telco billionaire gave $1,000 each to 2,500 Boston college graduates and encouraged them to donate half of it, calling it a 'gift of giving'
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Robert Hale, the founder, and CEO of Granite Telecommunications, gave 2,500 graduating students $1,000 each. But he called on the graduates to donate half of the gift, or $500, calling it the "gift of giving." He isn't the only billionaire donating to college students. He then urged them to donate half of the gift, or $500, calling it the "gift of giving," according to media reports, including NBC Boston. In May 2022, Hale gifted $1,000 each to 150 graduates at the Roxbury Community College in Boston, per NBC Boston.
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