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Gary Comer: Lands' End
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A gift of $18.5M from Lands' End founder Gary Comer and the Comer Science and Education Foundation will help with the construction of a new geochemistry research building at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus. The new building is expected to open in November 2007. Columbia has committed to raising the additional funds necessary to complete the construction.
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Just before his death in 2006, Gary Comer, founder of Lands' End, funded a start-up company to develop ways to pull CO2 out of the air. Last week, Comer's Global Research Technologies officially introduced its unique CO2 vacuum cleaner in conjunction with Earth Day, placing the Arizona company in a good position to win a $25 million prize offered in February to anyone who could invent such a thing.
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Comer's stakeholder view extended to the community. Lands' End funded scholarships and equipment for the local high school. The company funded numerous community projects including a community swimming pool and a traffic signal at a busy intersection. Comer himself donated to charitable causes in what he considered his original community, the Paul Revere School area on �Chicago's South Side. His gifts included $50 million to the Revere School community (www-news.uchicago.edu), major funding for the hospital services at the University of Chicago including the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital, the Field Museum and a private school in Chicago run by the De LaSalle Christian Brothers ("Comer, Gary, Illinois Campaign for Political Reform"). His three major hospital gifts to the University of Chicago totaled $83 million�( www.-ews.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061005.comer.shtml.)
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The hospital is named after Gary Comer, founder of the Dodgeville, Wis.-based Lands' End Inc. clothing empire. Comer, a native of Chicago's South Side, made a $21 million donation to help build the facility.
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Comer made creative contributions of his own beyond writing compelling copy. One creative strategic move was to seek out and, in effect, partner with small suppliers. There were many of them at the time, most being relatively new start-ups. Comer offered to give them advertising copy they could use for their own product marketing. Essentially what he did was give each supplier-partner� copies of the pages featuring that company's products that were used in the Lands' End catalog. Comer would create a separate cover and index for each company . In return, the suppliers would pay Lands' End for each special page and would sell their hardware to Lands' End at the lowest discount rate.
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Lands' End founder Gary Comer--former king of the clothing catalogs--has turned a high-Arctic epiphany into millions for no-strings funding of research into abrupt climate change. But the transforming funding is about to end.
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