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- Asian Art Museum Receives $25 Million Commitment for Expansion. The gift from board chair Akiko Yamazaki and her husband, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, will support a $90 million project to transform the city-owned institution....
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Oct 2, 2017 · By giving $25 million toward a $90-million “transformation project” of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, suggest our understanding of the rules of probability, logic, and arts philanthropy may be structurally flawed.
Sep 26, 2017 · SAN FRANCISCO — In a rare example of high-level cultural philanthropy from Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial elite, Jerry Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, have pledged...
Sep 27, 2017 · Jerry Yang, have pledged a gift of $25 million to the campaign. So far, more than $60.5 million have been raised of the $90 million goal, which will cover construction, programming and...
May 30, 2018 · Last fall, Yang and his wife gave a historic gift of $25 million to the Asian Art Museum—the largest donation in the museum’s history. (They also gave a larger gift of $75 million to Stanford a decade ago to create the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, demonstrating that their philanthropy is multidimensional.)
In 2017, they pledged $25 million to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the museum’s highest ever donation. In 2021, Yang co-founded The Asian American Foundation to fight anti-AAPI hate and support Asian American communities.
Sep 26, 2017 · The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco has announced a $25 million commitment from board chair Akiko Yamazaki and her husband, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, in support of a project to transform the city-owned institution.
Mar 2, 2016 · The $25-million cost will be underwritten mostly by donations from board members, according to the press release, who have raised more than $50 million over the last two years.
