Philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad announce second $100M gift to support Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Only eighteen months after the launch of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Los Angeles-based philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad announced today that they are doubling their founding gift to the Institute from $100 million to $200 million. The Broads' gift is the largest ever given to support a joint endeavor combining the strengths of two great universities — Harvard and MIT.