David and Katherine Bradley
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education innovation. In April, CityBridge announced the first winners of Breakthrough Schools: D.C. to support educators and school leaders launching innovative school designs to personalize learning for students. David Bradley serves as a KIPP DC board member and is the longtime chairman of a child abuse treatment center in the Philippines (where he was a Fulbright scholar). The couple continues to support many local causes including the Kennedy Center, Washington Ballet and Georgetown University. They are founding investors in Venture Philanthropy Partners and created ServiceCorps for working professionals. BILL AND BUFFY CAFRITZ Long recognized as one of the most active and engaged couples on the capital’s philanthropic and social scene, Bill and Buffy Cafritz are also among the most generous. Mainstays of the Kennedy Center for many years, they recently made a substantial donation toward construction of the performing arts complex’s new addition. The Cafritzes are also longtime benefactors of the Foundation for the National Institute of Health (Buffy Cafritz served as cochairman for the foundation’s Lurie Prize in Bio-Medical Sciences dinner in May with her longtime friend Deeda Blair). They also contribute to numerous other causes, including the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and its Madison Council and The History Makers’ oral history project to educate the world about the struggles and successes of African Americans. CALVIN AND JANE CAFRITZ Washington’s most philanthropic family has given away more than $400 million since 1970 to a wide range of organizations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in the fields of community services, arts and humanities, education, health and the environment. The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, with assets estimated at $450 million, supports many causes — some long established, others new and cutting edge — with annual grants, mostly in the $10,000-$50,000 range. Recipients
of larger gifts, some totaling $1 million or more over the past few years, include Sibley Memorial Hospital, Planned Parenthood, Iona Senior Services, Washington Performing Arts Society, Washington Ballet, Teach for America, D.C. Primary Care Association, D.C. Jewish Community Center, Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Kennedy Center and the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafr itz Program to sponsor promising young vocalists. BETTY BROWN CASEY The head of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation has shifted giving away from the performing arts after donating millions to the Washington National Opera for a new home in the old Woodward & Lothrop department store that never got built. When the opera company decided to merge with the Kennedy Center in 2011 instead, she reluctantly allowed for the merging of funds but hasn’t been greatly involved since. In recent years her focus has been on the Casey Health Institute, which the foundation established with a $29.2 million gift to realize her vision of establishing a major integrative medicine center in Montgomery County. She also funded Casey House, a 65,000-square-foot facility in Gaithersburg that is the only inpatient hospice facility in Montgomery County providing comprehensive, specialized end-oflife care to patients with acute medical needs. Other major gifts over the years include $35 million for the Casey Trees Project to “restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation’s capital” and million-dollar grants to the Salvation Army for Hurricane Sandy relief; Montgomery Hospice; Friends of the National Arboretum; the Patrick Henry National Memorial in Brookneal, Virginia; The Virginia E. Hayes Williams opera prize endowment at the District’s Duke Ellington School; and her alma mater, Washington College in Chestertown, Md. A JAMES AND ALICE CLARK COURTNEY CLARK PASTRICK The Clark Charitable Foundation, directed by construction mogul A. James Clark, his wife Alice and their daughter, Courtney
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