August 16, 2025
NIKE CO-FOUNDER’S SHOCKING $2B GIFT TO FIGHT CANCER
Phil and Penny Knight Just Donated a Record-Breaking $2 Billion to Cancer Research—Here’s Why It Matters for Millions One normal Thursday, the kind you might barely notice, for Phil Knight and his wife Penny, it suddenly didn’t matter. A tap on the phone would change the world—for a university, for cancer patients everywhere, and for anyone who believes in the power of what’s possible. That tap told Dr. Brian Druker—scientist, lifelong dreamer, and doctor behind one of the most important leukemia treatments ever—that the Knights believed in his vision. Two billion dollars later, the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health