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==Legacy== In March 2007, the Shileys donated [[USD|$]]12 million to the University of Portland, for renovating the University's School of Engineering. The grant was the largest the university had ever received.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stone |first1=Jordan |title=Donald and Darlene Shiley bestow UP with the largest donation in the school’s 105-year history |url=http://upbeacon.com/2007/03/22/12-million/ |accessdate=June 5, 2014 |work=[[The Beacon (University of Portland)|The Beacon]] |date=March 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808054323/http://upbeacon.com/2007/03/22/12-million/ |archive-date=August 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shiley also made a donation to the [[University of San Diego]] for the Donald P. Shiley Center for Science and Technology. In 2012, Darlene Shiley donated [[USD|$]]1 million to MASTERPIECE Trust, the [[Public Broadcasting System|PBS]] fund which supports the "Masterpiece" program series, when the ''[[Downton Abbey]]'' series brought increased interest in Masterpiece and after the fund had lost a major donor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jensen|first1=Elizabeth |title=$1 Million Gift to PBS’s ‘Masterpiece’ |url=http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/1-million-gift-to-pbss-masterpiece/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0 |accessdate=June 5, 2014 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 29, 2012}}</ref>
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