IN THE NEWS
Inside T. Boone Pickens Brain
June 2008
T. Boone Pickens gets a brain scan, and Forbes magazine tags along to find out how a billionaire really thinks.
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Eighty is the New Fifty
June 7, 2008
Our culture relentlessly celebrates youth. But in the corporate world, 80 is the new 50.
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Boone Pickens Named Recipient of Distinguished American Award
June 4, 2008
T. Boone Pickens has been named a recipient of one of four major awards presented by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. Pickens was recognized for his philanthropy work with this year’s Distinguished American Award. He is joined in this year’s class of honorees by John Glenn (Gold Medal), Bill Battle (Outstanding Contribution To Amateur Football Award) and Gene Smith (John L. Toner Award).
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Ruth Sharp Altshuler, T. Boone Pickens to get awards
April 29, 2008
The prestigious Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution will present the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship to Mr. Pickens at a dinner on Sept. 17 at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas.
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Park Cities Quail Unlimited Honors T. Boone Pickens with Lifetime Sportsman Award
March 13, 2008
Park Cities Quail Unlimited honored legendary oil entrepreneur,
conservationist, and avid sportsman T. Boone Pickens on March 6 as its 2008 Lifetime Sportsman Award
winner before 900 guests in the Frontiers of Flight Museum near Dallas Love Field Airport. The auction of exclusive hunts and trip packages helped the PCQU set a new record for Quail
Unlimited banquets. In one night the chapter raised $654,679; the primary beneficiary of this fundraising will be the Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch.
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Texas Businessman T. Boone Pickens Named Outstanding Philanthropist
March 19, 2008
Legendary oil and gas entrepreneur and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens has been chosen as the winner of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' top philanthropy award, the Paschal Murray Award for Outstanding Philanthropist.
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Dining in the Dark gala to benefit Foundation Fighting Blindness
March 19, 2008
T. Boone Pickens and some friends decided they needed a little practice before participating in a unique event, Dining in the Dark, that benefits the Foundation Fighting Blindness. Since attendees will eat in pitch darkness – or at least as dark as the Fairmont Hotel's ballroom can get – and all the servers will be blind, the diners won't know what they're eating or drinking until it reaches their mouths. And they'll do it all in cocktail attire. That's why Mr. Pickens agreed to host a pre-fete meal in a storage room in his company's headquarters.
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Pickens Foundation gives $1.275M to Big Brothers Big Sisters for Irving museum
March 13, 2008
The T. Boone Pickens Foundation is giving $1.275 million to Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas to open a museum and resource center at its Irving headquarters.
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EXCLUSIVE: T. Boone Pickens pledges $10 million to Dallas' Museum of Nature & Science
February 27, 2008
T. Boone Pickens talks with The Dallas Morning News about the goals and objectives of his latest philanthropic initiative, a $10 million gift to a major nature and science museum in Dallas.
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Pickens gift propels brain health research
February 15, 2008
T. Boone Pickens sees firsthand how his $11 million support helps Asperger patients at the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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The Philanthropy 50: Americans What Gave the Most in 2007
January 15, 2008
T. Boone Pickens ranks No. 8 on the Chronicle of Philanthropy's largest givers of 2007.
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Pickens matches Crystal Charity donation to Jonathan's Place
December 31, 2007
The residents of Jonathan's Place, a home for abused and abandoned kids, got a surprise Christmas gift from billionaire T. Boone Pickens. The news that Crystal Charity Ball is giving $1.5 million of its proceeds to help Jonathan's Place complete its new campus in Northeast Dallas County piqued his interest.
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More reasons for hope in Jubilee Park
December 10, 2007
Changes are coming to the South Dallas neighborhood of Jubilee Park, but on Congo Street, many houses are still in need of paint and repairs. The billionaire oilman's donation last week will pay for a new community building. It will build a resource center with space for police and other government services. It will provide cash to buy and clear dilapidated property. It is the latest, and perhaps most uplifting, move for a long-troubled area of South Dallas – one showing signs of reversing a deadening spiral of drugs, violence, crime and blight.
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T. Boone Pickens Foundation Awards Retina Foundation Of The Southwest $2.5 Million Grant To Fund Macular Degeneration Research
December 6, 2007
The Retina Foundation of the Southwest (RFSW) has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation. The grant will be used to fund age-related macular degeneration (AMD) research and establish a chair in Mr. Pickens’ name.
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T. Boone Pickens to Give $6 Million to Revitalize Neighborhood in Need
December 5, 2007 - The Dallas Morning News
T. Boone Pickens and Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert announce a $6 million T. Boone Pickens Foundation donation to the Jubilee Park community, to be used to fund a comprehensive revitalization strategy that will touch on education, crime, housing, employment and community services. The gift was commemorated with a bulldozing of a nightclub, which is across the street from a kindergarten and has been a hot spot for criminal activity.
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Pickenses honored by foundation
November 14, 2007 - The Dallas Morning News
The Southwestern Medical Foundation gave the 2007 Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award to Dallas philanthropists T. Boone and Madeleine Pickens at its annual dinner at the Hilton Anatole.
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Pickens' leadership recognized
September 21, 2007 - The Dallas Morning News
Energy mogul and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens will receive Texas Woman's University's 2008 Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award, which is given annually to a Dallas leader with a lifelong commitment to improving the quality of life in the community and furthering the importance of education.
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Dallas philanthropist and energy mogul T. Boone Pickens donated $2.5 million last week to the Happy Hill Farm Academy/Home for at-risk children.
August 27, 2007 - The Dallas Morning News
The money will be used to build the T. Boone Pickens Training Center and Guest Lodge on the 500-acre working farm and campus near Granbury, southwest of Fort Worth.
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Denise Park Named T. Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair in Clinical Brain Science at UT Dallas
August 20, 2007 - The University of Texas at Dallas
$2 Million Endowed Chair is Part of University’s Center for BrainHealth
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OSU buys into innovative Pickens donor plan
June 20, 2007 - Denver Post
OSU's innovative strategy is projected to ultimately raise $270 million for the athletic department.
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T. Boone Pickens Foundation Donates $1.1 Million to Fisher House program in San Diego
June 15,2007
Gifts will allow completion of ailing veterans’ family-support center
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Energy Independent
June 2, 2007 - Wall Street Journal
Maverick oilman Boone Pickens talks about fuel prices and his love for philanthropy
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T. Boone Pickens Foundation Donates its Largest Gifts — $50 Million Each to UT Southwestern Medical Center, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
May 16, 2007
Innovative Gifts Aim to Produce $1 Billion Toward Ensuring the Future of Health Care
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Record-breaking Giving
February 23, 2007 - Chronicle of Philanthropy
T. Boone Pickens Among Biggest Donors
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Q&A With T. Boone Pickens
December 24, 2006 - The Dallas Morning News Editorial Section
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T. Boone Pickens Launches Charitable Foundation
December 22, 2006
Dallas businessman gives $150 million in 2006, establishing a legacy of giving