$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center

March 13, 2009, The New York Times — Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead.

Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex to provide medical services to children, women and cancer patients on its new downtown campus.