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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (to give it its full title), where Buffy is an honorary trustee, the Library of Congress and the National Institute of Health as well as the Vice President’s Residence Foundation, Ford’s Theatre, the Washington Ballet, the French American Cultural Foundation and numerous Catholic causes.
Calvin and Jane Cafritz Real estate developer Calvin administers the family foundation named after his late parents, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, which in 2017 gave $18.5 million to 409 organizations and causes. Jane Cafritz is the driving force behind the Domingo Cafritz Young Artists Program. The foundation contributed $1.2 million to Martha’s Table for a new headquarters in Ward 8 and $1 million to the National Gallery of Art to expand education programs and outreach. Among the 59 new grantees – at least for the foundation – were lesser grants to Life Asset Inc., which makes micro loans to small businesses, ScholarChips, the Anacostia Playhouse, Leveling the Playing Field and Gearin’ Up Bicycles (job training). Since 1970, when electronic record keeping was initiated, the Cafritz Foundation has given $465 million in grants to more than 950 non-profit organizations.
America Online was a long time ago for Steve Case, and he would probably be uncomfortable to hear himself labeled a “historical figure.” But future historians will look on him as one of the pivotal figures of our fast moving technological age. For Case, philanthropy has to do with helping people to fulfill their own dreams and ambitions.The Case Foundation, where he is chairman and where wife Jean (who is chair of National Geographic) is CEO, searches “across issues to identify opportunities where innovation is needed to address an urgent challenge,” according to the foundation’s website. Case is also co-founder of Revolution, a $1.3 billion, District-based venture capital firm that has so far invested in 50 or more companies, and more recently Rise of the Rest, which seeks to fund startups in the Midwest and other areas judged by Case to be overlooked by investors. A Case mantra in the past few years is, “Last year, 75 percent of venture capital went to three states, California, Massachusetts and NewYork.” Hence his bus tours in the hinterland to hand out $100,000 tranches
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Susan carmel The American University’s Carmel Institute of Russian Culture and History, launched in 2015 by real estate investor and philanthropist Susan Carmel, aims to broaden student awareness of Russian life and culture by hosting concerts and funding student summer travel to St. Petersburg and Moscow. Structured as an exercise in cultural diplomacy, it also offers courses in Russian literature. It has, however, drawn criticism – even inside A.U. itself – for not speaking up about Moscow’s attempts to influence the 2016 elections and its incursions in Ukraine and Crimea. A year ago the university’s own newspaper The Eagle, called the institute’s activities controversial because it “host[s] events featuring Russian cultural figures who are supportive of Putin.”The institute has not cut back or changed its programs, sticking to its stated belief that people-to-people programs are the way to better understanding. “All you are seeing are Cold War stereotypes,” Lehrman told the paper. “How do you get young people to understand each other and work together and get along better?”
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Contractor A. James Clark, whose Clark Construction Group built FedEx Field, the Verizon Center, the World Bank headquarters, the Canadian Embassy, 28 Metro stations and much more, died in 2015, but his gift keeps on giving through the A. James and Alice Clark Foundation. Now headed by his daughter Courtney, it made headlines with its record-breaking gift of $219 million to the University of Maryland, Clark’s alma mater. It was the largest private donation to the university by a long shot, and – for that matter – one of the most significant to any institution of higher learning anywhere. But it overshadowed the Clark Foundation’s ongoing generosity in other areas, including hospitals, schools, culture and veteran services. In March, 2018, for example, the foundation gave $5 million to the USO Pathfinder, which helps military families make the transition to civilian life.
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william and jane conway In the 1930s, Frank Capra would have made the movie, with James Stewart playing billionaire Bill
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