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SPECIAL REPORT

McLaughlin/Reuters' WHCAD Brunch ....................

THE PHILANTHROPIC HOLLYWOOD ON THE POTOMAC GrammySPOTLIGHT ON WASHINGTON'S winning musician Glen Campbell fights to find a cure for Alzheimer's ...................................................

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Woodrow Wilson Awards ........................................

EDITOR'S LETTER ................................

Refugees International Dinner ..................................

FYIDC

March of Dimes Gourmet Gala...........................

INSIDER'S GUIDE .....................................

WHO'S NEXT A lesson in giving with Teach for America's Ahnna Smith.........

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EMBASSY ROW Departures and Welcomes ..............

LIFE OF THE PARTY Trust for the National Mall's Benefit Luncheon ....................................

TRUTH SEEKERS The Ridenhour Awards honor the bravery of whistleblowers .......................................

WASHINGTON SOCIAL DIARY AROUND TOWN Derby Days and a piano prodigy

Bulleit Blazer Bourbon Tasting ..............................

Washington Ballet Spring Gala ................................

TheatreWashington's Helen Hayes Awards.................

Georgetown University's Diplomatic Ball ...............

CNMC's A Vintage Affair ................................

OVER THE MOON Hunt country and wedding season ..........................................................

Georgetown House Tour Patrons Party ....................

SPECIAL FEATURES

Signature Theatre's Sondheim Award Gala.................

BACK IN ACTION Susan G. Komen CEO Nancy Brinker on moving forward to find a cure .................

Kennedy Center Spring Gala ..................................

AU COURANT New young voices in Washington's

APAICS Awards Dinner ..................................

Folger Shakespeare Theatre Gala...............................

Ball on the Mall........................

philanthropic community .......................................

Teach for America Gala ..............

CAUSE CELEB Tiger Woods encourages scholastic

Dame Jillian Sackler Honored..............................

achievement, Susan Blumenthal on making AIDs history and Richard Branson calls for drug policy reform .......

National Alzheimer's Association Gala ..................

LIFESTYLES

Environmental Working Group Mixer..................

HOME LIFE

WHCAD Pre-Party Receptions and Red Carpet............................

COUTURIERS OF COMPASSION Carolina Herrera and Leonard Lauder re-brand with a spirit of charity. Saks Fifth Avenue spotlights Herrera with a luncheon and fashion show ................................

WHCAD Impact Arts/Film Fund After Party ...........................

SUMMER STYLE FORECASTSizzling staples for work and play ..............................................

MSNBC WHCAD After Party ................................

TTR Sotheby's and CharityWorks Washington Luxury Tour Kick-off ................................................

WHCAD Garden Brunch ..

Georgetown Sip & Sample Sale ..........................

57th Annual Corcoran Ball ..........

National Museum of Women in the Arts Gala ..................................

POLLYWOOD

Bachelors and Spinsters Ball ...............................

INSIDE HOMES Revisiting the Evermay estate ...

RE NEWS Historic homes hit the market .............

OPEN HOUSE June booms with big sales ..............

MY WASHINGTON George Vradenburg reveals his favorite Washington spots ...................................

Oscar de la Renta Fashion Show and Brunch ..........

ON THE COVER Mariella Traeger, Matt Dillon and Lauren Bush Lauren at Refugees International Annual Dinner (Photo by Ben Droz). Above, from top left to right: Matthew Morrison and Kerry Washington at The Atlantic's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner First Amendment Party (Photo by Tony Powell); SGK founder & CEO Nancy Brinker (far left) with Dr. Marc Boisvert, director of the Center for Breast at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center and his patient Delores Jackson (Photo by Tony Powell); Philanthropic 50 listees Jean-Marie and Raul Fernandez (Photo by Tony Powell); Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vernon Jordan at the Woodrow Wilson Awards (Photo by Tony Powell); Evermay estate (Photo by Tony Powell). Products: Bottom, Left: REBECCA TAYLOR Sequin Dress ($395); available in-stores mid-June and currently at www.rebeccataylor.com; Top, Right: NARS Thakoon Limited Edition Nail Polish in "Amchoor" ($18); Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase, www.bloomingdales.com

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Generous to a Fault Washington’s altruistic hearts and minds give and give … and give again

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Bush Lauren, Matt Dillon and other boldfaced ews on the philanthropy B names were in attendance. At the gala for Teach front was fairly dismal n a few years back. As the ffor America’s D.C. Region, we were privileged economy slowed to a tto see Washington philanthropist Calvin Cafritz honored for the more than $338 million that virtual standstill, people across the country h has been awarded since 1970 by the Morris tightened their fiscal belts, leaving little h to nothing for giving. Even so, we were aand Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation to more pleasantly surprised to learn that many tthan 920 organizations.

We are delighted that acclaimed fashion Washingtonians gave and continued to give as the economy rebounded. ddesigner Carolina Herrera contributed a perToday, that trend is getting ssonal “letter to Washington” following her stronger. Philanthropy across rrecent visit where she joined forces with Leonard Lauder, the Alzheimer’s Drug Disthe country is on an upswing.

L covery Foundation and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Surveys show that houseTOP: W TOP Woody d Harrelson H l Susan Blumenthal also wrote for this issue holds are on target to give and Nancy Bagley at the IMPACT I Arts + Film Fund First about putting an end to AIDS once and for about the same or more to Amendment A Party LEFT: Julia all, while Tiger Woods and Richard Branson various causes this year. Many Cohen and Nancy Bagley at an Environmental Working weighed in on education and the failing war on our Philanthropic 50 list Group fundraiser at Muleh on drugs, respectively. are donating as much as they (Photo by Ben Droz) With summer upon us, many of us are used to; some are donating planning to beat the heat by taking some more. A good number will vacation time. Before we leave, there are still more than a few social offer more than what’s in their i wallets ll by b expending di personall time i and energy to help causes that range from education, healthcare and engagements we need to get to. We’re looking forward to the Washington National Opera Ball at the Embassy of the United Arab the arts to international development and the environment.

There’s no place like home, even for philanthropy, and we are Emirates, attending the Queen’s Jubilee garden party at the British pleased to give you a glimpse of “Evermay,” one of Georgetown’s most Embassy and getting a dose of American history at Ford’s Theatre’s historic estates, which the new owners plan to turn into a headquar- annual gala. ters for a foundation focusing on rising artists and scientists.

Look for coverage of these and much more in our summer issue.

Around the theme of personal commitment to service, we were honored to be in the presence of Britain’s Prince Harry, who was visiting Washington for the first time. At the Atlantic Council’s annual dinner, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the young British Army captain and Apache helicopter pilot with a humanitarian leadership award for his (and Prince William’s) charitable work.

Nancy R. Bagley In this month’s Pollywood, we take you to the exclusive gatherEditor-in-Chief ings of media, political and entertainment personalities at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner plus the Corcoran Ball, the Washington Ballet’s “Alice in Wonderland Ball” and Refugees International’s awards dinner where Queen Noor of Jordan, Lauren

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FYIDC The Insider’s Guide to Washington | Spectacles of music, art, dance and theater

Artistic Spotlight

The Tate Modern and Fundació Joan Miró-curated exhibit “Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape,” a retrospective of the work of Catalan artist Joan Miró, will be on display through August 12 at the National Gallery of Art (4th and Constitution Ave. NW). This will be the sole U.S. showing of the decade-spanning exhibit, a showcase of paintings, graphic imagery and posters, chronicling the political shifts in Miró’s work and life. www.nga.gov

Final Farewell

STEP BY STEP

“RiverDance, ” the foot-stomping phenomenon that has wowed audiences for 15 years, with more than 10,000 performances, ends the 82-city stateside run of its farewell tour this month (June 15-17) at Wolftrap National Park for the Performing Arts (1551 Trap Rd.Vienna,Va.).

It’s your last chance to catch this celebration of Irish music, dance and song, directed by John Colgan, produced by Moya Doherty and composed by Bill Whelan. www.wolftrap.org

Adult Behavior

UPPER-CLASS CLASH

City Screening

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Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage” stole the silver-screen spotlight with an all-star cast including Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster, and now the Tony-winning tale comes to life on the Signature Theatre stage (4200 Campbell Ave. Arlington,Va.) through June 24. Featuring the talents of Helen Hayes Award winners Naomi Jacobsen and Andy Brownstein, the story of two high-brow New York couples who come to blows (figuratively) over a playground disagreement between their children, taps into the comedic ramifications of not-so-polite interactions. www.signature-theatre.org

The year’s best documentaries will be on view in Silver Spring, Md. at the 10th annual Silver in Docs (June 18-24) held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (8633 Colesville Rd.) Last year’s event included the much-buzzed-about “Bully Project” and this year also promises to please with two musicthemed films bookending the festival: the inspiring “Don’t Stop Believing: Everyman’s Journey” and the strange-but-true “Searching for Sugarman” www.silverdocs.com

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Be-bop and Boogie

JAZZ AGE The DC Jazz Festival (June 1-10) returns for its eighth year with the locally sourced series Jazz in the ’Hoods, featuring 80 performances at 50 venues, including the legendary Howard Theatre (620 T St.N W) and Bohemian Caverns (2001 11th St. NW) in 21 neighborhoods. Kicking off with the Randy Weston Trio at the historic Hamilton, (600 14th St. NW), the fest offers jazz-lovers and novices alike a chance to experience Washington’s rich ties to the genre. www.dcjazzfest.org

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A LIFE’S WORK

The Trust for the National Mall extends its sincere gratitude to its

2011 Founding Investors

The Akridge Family Foundation

The Philip T. Amarante Trust

The Boeing Company

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Clark Charitable Foundation

Clark Construction Group

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Estrin Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. W. James Farrell

Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Griffith

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The Widegon Point Charitable Foundation

Photo courtesy of The Boeing Company

The Trust for the National Mall is the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service dedicated to restoring the National Mall, home to the hope, history and heroes of America. To learn more, visit nationalmall.org.

WHO’S NEXT Ahnna Smith, Executive Director, Teach for America, D.C. Region PHOTO BY BEN DROZ

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am confident we can and will improve public education in the region,” Ahnna Smith says about one of the most complex tasks imaginable. Her passion is at the very center of what’s happening — and changing for the better — in the nation’s educational landscape. An alumna of the University of Maryland, College Park, and former senior advisor to the deputy mayor for education in Washington, Smith knows the stark lines that divide our communities and feels an overwhelming sense of responsibility to ensure that all children have the educational opportunities they deserve.

WHAT DOES TEACH FOR AMERICA DO? We’re the leadership pipeline for the education sector, developing great teachers and leaders to serve and improve the nation’s lowest-performing schools, both within and from beyond the classroom.

WHAT KIND OF LEADER DOES TODAY’S AMERICA NEED? For myself, it’s about passion for whatever I’m doing. If you care deeply about accomplishing whatever goal you set for yourself, you will find a way.

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teachers and school leaders to provide them with the ability to tackle and pursue any opportunities in their lives.

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO IMPROVE EDUCATION? Holding ourselves and our leaders accountable for what’s best for kids. In my mind, they are setting high expectations, ensuring all students receive a high degree of rigor, and great people — teachers, administrators, community partners – who have the the willingness to move forward, try new things and take risks.

WHAT NEEDS REFORM? To see growth and development in the District and region more broadly, education is the key. We have taken great strides in improving access to high-quality school options, but still face the reality that almost one in three residents in Washington, D.C. are functionally illiterate.

WHAT WAS BEST AND ABOUT BEING A TEACHER? It becomes so personal.You build relationships with your students, their families and in the community and become incredibly invested – equally in their successes and failures. Failure simply isn’t an option.

WHAT ABOUT YOUR JOB IS MOST CHALLENGING? It’s easy to bcecome overwhelmed by the many challenges that face our students inside and outside of the classroom. Children need great

WHAT’S YOUR OTHER PASSION? Playing basketball is my escape. I would love to challenge President Obama and Secretary of Education [Arne] Duncan to a game.

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WL-sponsored and Exclusive Events | Ball on the Mall, 57th Annual Corcoran Ball, National Museum of Women in the Arts Gala & more

Teach for America Gala chairwoman Christie Weiss with her mother, Audre Carlin, and her daughter, Nathalie Weiss at TFA’s 2nd annual Washington event.

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TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL’S BENEFIT LUNCHEON

Trust for the National Mall President Caroline Cunningham

The National Mall | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL

Rep. Jim Moran

PRESERVING HISTORY: Over 900 patrons turned out for this year’s luncheon, enabling the Trust to raise muchneeded funds to help restore the National Mall, which is visited by nearly four million tourists each year. In addition to enjoying a spectacular lunch and feeling good about giving back, guests heard speeches by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and former First Lady Laura Bush.

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BALL ON THE MALL The National Mall | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL PARTYING PATRIOTS: Balmy breezes, a breathtaking view and a capacity crowd on the dance floor ensured that the fourth annual ball was, once again, the place to see and be seen for the under-40 social set. EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS: More than 1,000 turned out for the affair, which included a seated dinner for 450 (paying $350 apiece) and a late evening option featuring drinks and light fare at $175 a pop.

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Willee Lewis, Calvin Cafritz and Nora Maccoby Hathaway

EDUCATiON EXTRAVAGANZA: Teach for America’s 2nd annual gala was a smashing success, raising $1.1 million to support programs and initiatives to expand educational opportunities in local public schools. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave the keynote address to a rapt crowd that included sponsors Donald Graham, Bob and Paula Hisaoka and representatives from CapitalSource Charitable Foundation and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. “We invested in TFA because we know the organization is not only training and supporting highly effective teachers for [local] students,” Cafritz Foundation Chairman Calvin Cafritz said, “it’s also about creating leaders for life — students and teachers alike.”

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Monica Moore Thompson and John Thompson III

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57TH ANNUAL CORCORAN BALL Corcoran Gallery of Art | PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON AND KATE WARREN

Honor Ingersoll Nels and Kristen Olson

DEDICATED TO ART: A spectacular evening in a romantic flower-filled se ing, the Corcoran Ball is always one of Washington’s most wondrous events and serves as the charitable foundation of a grand and historic institution. Women’s Commi ee chairman Nancy Smith and ball chairman Deborah de Gorter welcomed more than 1,000 guests, under the honorary patronage of French Ambassador François Dellatre and his wife Sophie L’Hélias Dela re, for a night of socializing amid works by the great masters, a lavish three-course dinner of crab timbale and filet of bison, and, of course, dancing well into the night.

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Please join us at the Fifth Annual

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Hope and Healing

About the Gala

Gala Details

Joan Hisaoka, founder and president of Hisaoka Public Relations, was 48 when she lost her battle with cancer on May 14, 2008. This Gala was created to honor Joan and her dream of assisting those living with cancer.

Through the Gala, we will continue her unfinished work by supporting organizations who bring hope and healing to those faced with serious illness.

Mandarin Oriental, Washington, DC

Robert G. Hisaoka, Event Chair Executive Committee: James Abdo, Grace Bender, Katherine Bradley, Jack Davies, Fariba Jahanbani, David Joubran, Richard Kay, Mirella Levinas, Mark Lowham, Art Monk, Gary Nakamoto, Richard Patterson, Lauren Peterson Fellows, Robert Rosenthal, Steve Schram, Soroush Shehabi, Gabriela Smith, Eric Ziebold

• Four course menu with wine pairings prepared by CityZen with the James Beard Award winning chef Eric Ziebold.

• 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction • 7:30 p.m. Dinner, Live Auction and Dancing • Black Tie For more information about the Fifth Annual Joan Hisaoka “Make a Difference Gala Benefiting “Life with Cancer,” The Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, The Brem Foundation, and sponsorship details, or to purchase tickets, please contact Vivian Thompson at 202-302-0053 or joansdifference@aol.com http://www.joanhisaokagala.org

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Isabel Ernst, Jacqueline Mars, Wilhelmina Hollladay and Bonnie McElveen-Hunter

Isabel Allende

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Caroline Boutte and Peter Gallagher

Chris Delgatto and Veronica Webb

IN HER HONOR: Gala underwriter Bonnie McElveenHunter fêted this year’s excellence award honoree, Chilean author Isabel Allende at her newly redecorated home, encouraging guests to explore. Later, 500 guests arrived at the museum, founded by Wilhelmina Holladay, where co-hosts Jacqueline Mars and Isabel Ernst pulled out all the stops for the museum’s 25th annual gala with a silent auction, dinner and dancing to the tunes of the Gene Donati Orchestra.

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POLLYWOOD The Nexus of Politics﹐ Hollywood﹐ Media and Diplomacy | White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Woodrow Wilson Awards

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the transition to a better life with the help of his wife Kim. “The Bible says that when you find a good woman, you find a good thing. Kim Campbell’s my good thing. She’s wonderful.”

Reminiscing on his earliest days, the first music ABOVE: Glen Campbell A with his family. He sang Campbell remembers was ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ as in the Church of Christ a goodbye at the 2012 Grammy Awards on where they didn’t allow February 12, 2012. LEFT: musical instruments. “The JJohnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens congregation sang alone. and Glen Cambell My dad and mom took all of us to church and we sat guitar. Our mailbox was at the Bill- together in one row. I first learned stown Crossroads, two miles from our to sing harmony inside that country house, and I walked up there every sanctuary.” But he also heard about day at the age of 4 to see if the guitar an African-American church a few had arrived. When it finally did, you miles away in which the members sang fast music with heavy rhythms. couldn’t get it out of my hands.”

His fingers reach the chords He would hike over there, stand now, but a greater challenge awaits. outside the window, rise on his bare Last June, Campbell announced tiptoes and peek inside at the conthat he had been diagnosed with gregants rolling on the floor and Alzheimer’s disease. “My record running in the aisles.

“They were thoroughly caught company suggested that I tell people I have Alzheimer’s,” Camp- up in the spirit and the music. It was bell says. “I talked it over with my first experience of seeing how my family, manager and the other moving music could be to people. I people involved in my business. We had never seen so much unleashed decided it was the right thing to do.” passion, and hungered to be around Thus the “Goodbye Tour” and the the rhythm and music that I felt as feature documentary currently in much as heard coming from that production by filmmakers James impoverished clapboard church. “‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ is a great Keach and Trevor Albert of PCH song with a lot of truth,” Campbell conFilms in Los Angeles.

By most anyone’s standards, Glen tinues.“I never get tired of singing it.”

And to this very day, we never tire Campbell has led a successful and rather tumultuous life. He’s made of hearing it.

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Glen Campbell describes what it was like to play with some of the greatest musical talent of all time.

FRANK SINATRA “I was still young and relatively new in Hollywood when I played the ‘Strangers in the Night’ session with Frank Sinatra. I was in awe.

Only a few short years earlier, I was playing my uncle’s band in Albuquerque.

Now I am playing for Sinatra.

I was able to come up with the distinctive guitar lick on that recording.”

ELVIS PRESLEY “We both played at the Hilton and o en would follow each other. It was great fun playing ‘Viva Las Vegas.’

DEAN MARTIN “He was a joy to work with. I got to harmonize with him on several of his records and to play guitar on many of Merle Haggard’s early hits.”

RECORD PRODUCER PHIL SPECTOR “I was in Phil’s recording sessions for the Righteous Brothers’ recordings of ‘You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling’ and ‘Unchained Melody.’ I was also in the sessions for ‘He’s a Rebel’

by Darlene Love and The Crystals and ‘Be My Baby’ by the Rone es. It was immediately clear that Phil was a genius and knew what he was doing.”

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ountry music legend Glen Campbell still has it. Calling for action to end the epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease, the musical star and his family are giving fans a run of free performances across the nation this summer. “It is wonderful having my kids join me on stage. I love it,” says Campbell. “Ashley is on keyboards, Shannon plays guitar and Cal is on drums.” They jammed and crooned on Capitol Hill for more than 60 members of Congress and supporters of the Alzheimer’s Association, with Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey, co-chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, saying that “the fight against Alzheimer’s has needed a Rhinestone Cowboy for a long time and now Glen Campbell is shining his spotlight on this epidemic, raising the awareness that is needed to ensure we meet the bold goal of curing the disease by 2025.”

Campbell was 4 years old when he started to play on a ten-dollar guitar from Sears, a gift from his dad.

“I had been walking only a couple of years when I began to try to strum one of our family’s mandolins,” he recalls. “My fingers wouldn’t reach the chords, so dad sent away to Sears Roebuck for a three-quarter-size

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WONDER WOMAN: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was honored with a prestigious public service award presented by IMF head Christine Lagarde, who noted many similarities with the woman she said she had been following since they both worked on the Hill as college students. “We both have deep ties to Chicago which explains our so and gentle personalities,” she joked. An film featuring appearances by former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice, Madeleine Albright and George Schultz drew amused laughter with its irreverent take on the former first lady.

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The Moving Village Singapore’s ambassador departs after 16 years, the European Union gets ‘neighborly,’ and a distinguished former British envoy returns as a young prince’s senior advisor

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DEPARTING Singapore’s Ambassador Chan Heng Chee, long a fixed point in social and diplomatic Washington, is leaving in mid-July after 16 years en poste. She presented her credentials to President Bill Clinton on July 29, 1996 in the middle of his re-election campaign. “I Amb. Chan Heng Chee was immediately plunged (Photo by Kyle Samperton) into the American political process,” Chan recalls. Since then she says she’s seen “partisanship become more emphasized to an astonishing degree, and go deeper.”

On her watch, Singapore’s engagement with the United States has broadened and become more sophisticated. “It’s not just economics and security,” says Chan, whose next post is roving ambassador based in Singapore. “There’s been interaction in the biotech revolution, and the hitech revolution. Of course, there’s fire fighting all the time for ambassadors, not serious in my case, but they can be irritants.” Still, they should make for interesting reading should she decide to write a book about her Washington years.

Since 2005, she has been deputy dean of the Washington diplomatic corps, an unusually demanding role in her case because the present dean, Amb. Roble Olhaye of the Republic of Djibouti, doubles as his country’s representative to the United Nations, and lives in New York.

Her successor as deputy dean will be Yemeni Amb. Abdulwahab Al-Hajjri, who has been in Washington since 1997.

The dean is the diplomatic representative who has been accredited the longest, except in several Catholic nations where the dean is always the papal nuncio from the moment when he presents his credentials.

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A EUROPEAN WELCOME Thousands of Washingtonians waited in line for almost two hours to gain admission to the Embassy of Greece on the European Union’s Open House Day, May 12.Typical Greek dishes were served, no doubt along with a hope and a prayer for better times next year. The French and German embassies held a joint open house for over 6,000 visitors on Reservoir Road — some would say a notto-be-repeated occurrence, given the political change in Paris.

Since its modest beginnings six years ago as the culmination of Europe Week, the EU’s Open House has blossomed into a major happening.

“We’re still doing a final count of visitors, but it looks like we had a record-breaking attendance,” says Amb. Joao Vale de Almeida, head of the European Union Delegation to the U.S. A total of 10,471 visitors (up from 9,700 last year) passed through the gates of the British Embassy, where lessons in how to play cricket were on offer along with traditional English fare.

At the embassy of Belgium there was chocolate and beer; the Spaniards served paella to 5,300 Washingtonians compared to 2,100 in 2011; and outside the Irish, Latvian and Romanian Embassies dancers kept the waiting crowd entertained.

And the clever Muslim Women’s Association continues to hold its annual bazaar on the same day in the grounds of the Massachusetts Avenue mosque. With the public already on the move, they get a good turnout.

QUICK THINKING At its glittering annual dinner, Refugees International gave the one-year-old leadership award named after the late Richard C. Holbrooke. Movingly introduced by his widow, Kati Marton, it went to the Haitian journalist and activist Colette Despinasse.

Honorary co-chairmen for the distinguished occasion were Japanese Amb. Ichiro Fujisaki

and his wife Yoriko. The ambassador gave a deft demonstration of how an experienced diplomat gets out of a tight corner. Addressing the dinner guests, he expressed particular pleasure at chairing the event because it happened to be the eve of the couple’s 25th anniversary.

A quickly whispered remark from his wife and he went on, “I’m sorry, it’s the 35th anniversary.”

For a second, he looked as if he might have to fall on his fork, but quickly recovered saying, “I feel very young being with her.” Good recovery.

ADVISOR TO THE PRINCES Was that Sir David Manning accompanying Prince Harry in Washington in May? At the request of the Queen, Sir the former British ambassaDavid Manning dor to Washington has been a senior advisor to Princes William and Harry since 2009. As such he played a key role in planning William and Kate’s first post-marriage foreign tour (to Canada and Los Angeles in April 2011) and Prince Harry’s 24-hour visit to Washington to accept the Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership award for the royal brothers’ work with disabled vets.

ELECTION FALLOUT? So, does the leadership change in France mean a moving company will be calling at the French embassy residence on Kalorama Road any time soon?

Not necessarily. Unlike the American system, a change in government in most European countries does not trigger an instant round of diplomatic musical chairs: François Delattre and his wife Sophie L’Hélias-Delattre have been in Washington since February 2011, and from all accounts from Paris have received no marching orders. At least, so far.

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Portraits in Courage Each year, the Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation awards courageous individuals who tell the truth to protect the public interest with the Ridenhour Prize, an award memorializing Ron Ridenhour’s fearless whistleblowing and career. As the first in a two-part series, we highlight this year’s brave whistleblowers in their own words.

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achel Libert and Tony Hardmon were awarded the 2012 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize for “Semper Fi: Always Faithful,” the chronicle of Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger, whose quest to understand the reasons for his daughter’s early death pitted him against the organization to which he had pledged to be semper fidelis, or “always faithful.” Ensminger’s 25-year devotion to the Marine Corps was disrupted when his 9-year-old daughter died of a rare form of leukemia. In his quest for answers, he exposed a cover-up by the Marine Corps of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history.The water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where Ensminger lived with his family while his wife was pregnant with his daughter, had been contaminated with toxic and carcinogenic chemicals for 30 years. It is estimated that as many as one million may have been exposed.

The Marine Corps were made aware of the contamination in 1980, but refused to officially notify the residents of the base until 2008, after Ensminger’s campaign brought national attention to the issue.

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ASTER S G T. J E R RY ENSMINGER: The very people for whom our society looks to as the epitome of honor and integrity are uniformed military leaders. These military leaders are the very front line of our nation’s defense. But yet, it appears that we can no longer depend on them to tell the American people the truth. This is a reality that the civilian leadership of our country should take measures to correct immediately, and one that all Americans should view as a very real and present danger to our Democratic process.

There are factions within our country,

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or our society today, who try to paint any member of our civilian leadership as unpatriotic or anti-American if they dare to hold any of these military leaders accountable for what they say or write. This has made many members of our Congress unwilling or afraid to ask these military leaders the tough questions when they appear at Congressional hearings.

President Eisenhower’s January, 1961 farewell speech to our nation, and his ominous warning about the military industrial complex, has become a reality. It’s here. Our highest military leaders are now in the practice of protecting that industrial complex over the protection of our own men, women and their families who volunteer to serve and protect this nation.

Telling the truth is many times harder than falling in line and going along with the status quo. I congratulate all the Ridenhour winners. And I close in saying Semper Fidelis, which means “always faithful.” And keep telling it like it really is.

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histleblower Eileen Foster exposed systemic fraud at the nation’s largest mortgage provider, Countrywide Financial. As a former Executive Vice President in charge of the Fraud Risk Management division, her actions go a long way in exposing corrupt commission-hungry loan officers — not borrowers lying on their loan applications — who fueled the increase in toxic mortgages that contributed to the 2008 economic crash.

“IF THERE IS INSUFFICIENT LEGAL EVIDENCE TO CONVICT THESE EXECUTIVES OF WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE OBVIOUS CRIMES, THEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD REFOCUS.” — Eileen Foster

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How can the Justice Department ignore this? How can there be no consequence? A third of Countrywide’s loans ended up in default. To quote Eileen, “It wasn’t just one or two or three individuals, it was branches of individuals. It was regions of individuals.” In 2007, a year before the crash, Foster sent a team to Boston to rummage through recycling bins of the subprime division.

Loan officers were forging and manipulating borrowers’ incomes: “liar loans.” But the liars were not the borrowers, the loan officers were. Signatures, said Foster, had been cut off one document and put on another to fill the quota and to collect bonuses. After Foster’s investigation, 44 out of 60 employees were fired or quit. It wasn’t just Boston, it was Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Florida. The subprime division began concealing evidence from her. And, when Countrywide, with a swamp of bad loans, merged with Bank of America, Foster was promoted and asked whether she would speak with government regulators. She said yes. She was fired. Bank of America asked her to sign a 14-page document to buy her silence in exchange for a lot of money. She said no. She blew the whistle. After three hard years, she won a federal whistleblower complaint against Bank of America. She won a million dollars in back pay and benefits.

She is now weathering a grueling appeal. We salute her.

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ILEEN FOSTER: An often overlooked but important part of the Countrywide story is the bravery evidenced by many employees who tried to stop the fraud, corruption and deception. We never wanted to become whistleblowers. I was hired to improve investigations and reduce fraud [at Countrywide]. I came to learn that the true expectation was to conform and propagate the status quo. Countrywide wasn’t just a rogue culture, it was a cult. And it was one that was welcomed instead of rejected

by Bank of America. When I became a threat to the wrongdoing, I was swiftly dismissed, sending a chilling message to others.

This recipe was also embraced by corporate lawyers to defeat the claims that could expose and punish the wrongdoers, a strategy fully embraced by Bank of America. These lessons highlight the threat of ongoing efforts

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OURNALIST LESLIE COCKBURN: Eileen Foster is a hero of the mess we call the financial meltdown. Without her and others as brave, the country will sink under this systemic corruption, and we would be in the dark. Foster says there were people at Countrywide who belong behind bars and that outright fraud was systemic. This executive vice-president in charge of fraud investigations at the largest mortgage lender in the country was ignored. The pain and suffering caused by such fraud was immense.

People were destroyed; neighborhoods were ravaged. She wanted to talk about it, and no one wanted to listen.

by corporate America to gut whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act. Critics insist that a whistleblower be compelled to first report problems internally, supposedly to provide the corrupt company an opportunity to correct wrongdoing. But, when I followed protocol and reported internally, I was summarily eliminated. The wrongdoing was protected, not corrected.

We cannot allow corporate malfeasance to run rampant and become institutionalized. People need to know that many corporations use hotlines and reporting policies to silence whistleblowers and conceal fraud. Corporations now screen applicants for whistleblowing tendencies and assign lawyers to participate in internal investigations so they can shield the wrongdoing under a cloak of privilege. The Congress and state legislatures should eliminate the corporate lawyer cover-up by disallowing the use of so-called privileges in these circumstances.

So here we are, several years after the onset of the financial crisis, caused in large part by reckless lending and risk-taking in major financial institutions. And still, not one exec-

“CORPORATIONS NOW SCREEN APPLICANTS FOR WHISTLEBLOWING TENDENCIES AND ASSIGN LAWYERS TO PARTICIPATE IN INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS SO THEY CAN SHIELD THE WRONG DOING UNDER A CLOAK OF PRIVILEGE.” — Eileen Foster utive has been charged or imprisoned. This stands in stark contrast to the savings and loan debacle in the 1980s, where prosecutors sent more than 800 bank officials to jail.

The current administration has defended the lack of prosecutions by labeling the executives’ actions “bad behavior but not illegal.” Assistant Attorney General Lanny Brewer told Steve Croft of “60 Minutes” that, although the risk-taking was offensive and the greed was upsetting, it didn’t mean the Department of Justice could bring a

To read complete transcripts go to www. ridenhour.org or watch the video of the 2012 Ridenhour Prizes at www.ridenhour.org/ press_room_prizes_video.html

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criminal case. Perhaps we simply need a different means to a justifiable end.

When prosecutors were unable to convict Al Capone of racketeering, they convicted him of tax evasion instead. If there is insufficient legal evidence to convict these executives of what we believe are obvious crimes, then the federal government should refocus.

Overwhelming evidence of perjury, witness tampering and obstruction of justice exists in the numerous claims, court filings and trial and investigative transcripts. We must not let these deeds go wholly unpunished.

Perhaps financial industry whistleblowers should be permitted to present their information to the grand juries without the help of the government prosecutors, then the people can decide how best to address this outrageous wrongdoing. We can and must uphold the law and prosecute those who break it, especially white collar criminals, no matter how highly placed, or how cozy they are with government officials. We must insist on full and complete investigations with accountability and punishment for the guilty parties.

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or more than two decades, Washington Life has

Education reform is a high-priority objective on the

celebrated the red carpet openings and fundraising

current philanthropy agenda and will be for years to come.

soirées benefiting all the worthy causes that mean so

The current generation of college students, for example,

much to us — not just locally, of course, but nationally

now has the option to make a serious study of philanthropy

and internationally as well. While the pressure to

at more than 30 educational institutions. With the global

give big can be amply rewarded by “seeing and being seen” at

ability to leverage networks, it’s also easier and faster than

such affairs — to say nothing of naming buildings or sitting on

ever for more people to join in and give back.

prestigious boards — the real reward surely comes from the “Holy Grail” of giving: the quest for lasting impact.

In addition to revisiting our “Philanthropic 50” by adding a host of names that have not been included before, we’ve

Individuals and family foundations remain the backbone

taken a look at a select number of institutions, mostly of a

of the philanthropic community, trying hard as they do to fill

cultural variety, to see how their operations and endowments

the gaps where government may be slow to act and need

have grown from a national base as well.

is high. Thinking in terms of “How do you get the greatest

Our philanthropists have changed their communities and

degree of leverage for your money?” many of the individuals

the world and have risen to the challenge to further so many

included in our Philanthropic 50 List are innovating new

important causes in ways that would otherwise not have

ways of giving by pooling resources and revolutionizing

been possible. We salute them for their commitment, their

advocacy for deserving communities.

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JOHN E “CHIP” AND SALLY AKRIDGE The chairman and founder of the Trust for the National Mall continues to make headlines because of his commitment to restoring America’s great national landmark. He established the trust’s first Founding Investors circle and was the first to make a $1 million contribution. The Akridges are active in other backyards as well, most recently by establishing the Akridge Scout Reservation so the scouts (Chip is an Eagle Scout) will have more wilderness places to camp.

AMI ARONSON Ami Aronson has picked up the family baton by leading the Bernstein Foundation, started by her grandfather, developer Leo M. Bernstein, who had the foresight to know that “philanthropy is more than just giving money away; it is about preserving a family’s legacy, passing values from one generation to the next and keeping a family united.” With more than 180 local and national causes having benefited from its largesse since 1952, Aronson is taking the foundation’s current endowment of $10 million and $500,000 in annual giving into the 21st century through estate liquidation, leveraging intellectual and social capital, and putting grant recipients together with community leaders in three focus areas: Jewish causes, arts and culture and American democracy.

ADRIENNE ARSHT One of Washington’s most visible donors, Arsht is known for her philanthropy in both Washington and in New York (where she has supported Lincoln Center to the tune of $10 million). She has given millions to the University of Miami, including two recent $1 million contributions to endow the school of medicine with a chair in the pediatric department and a genetic eye disease laboratory. Other gifts include: $30 million to Miami’s performing arts center (renamed the Adrienne Arsht Center in her honor), $5 million to the Kennedy Center for musical theater, $250,000 to the Washington Ballet (to underwrite a live orchestra for the “Nutcracker”) and $500,000 to the Blair House endowment.

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Atlantic Council, the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Library of Congress (to fund the Desi Arnaz music archive).

PATRICIA BAUMAN A family foundation endowed through her father’s estate is “the little tugboat that brings some of the big ocean liners in” Bauman says of more than $60 million dispensed in the past 10 years by the Bauman Foundation. A long-time supporter of the Natural Resources Defense Council, to which she has given more than $2.5 million and remains an active vice chairman, she concentrates on the intersection of human health and environment, fostering the “rightto-know” and open government, proving that “relatively little money can have big impact through advocacy to leverage change.” Recent grant recipients include the Brennan Center for Justice, OMB Watch, Media Matters, the National Gallery of Art and Tides Foundation.

DAVID AND KATHERINE BRADLEY Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley and his wife Katherine’s CityBridge Foundation focuses on education reform in Washington, D.C. to help build a city-wide system of highperforming public and charter schools that will serve as an exemplar for the nation. The foundation also actively promotes engagement opportunities for local business, philanthropic and community leaders to get involved in education.

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Both Bradleys share a passion for KIPP, the nation’s highest performing network of charter schools. David Bradley continues to oversee a project from CityBridge’s earliest health-focused days: a child-abuse treatment network in the Philippines, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Both Bradleys are loyal supporters of their alma maters: Swarthmore, Harvard and Georgetown for David, and Princeton for Katherine (where she serves as a trustee). They are also known for

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Five Years Later

Chip Akridge

The Trust for the National Mall is closer to revitalizing America’s “front yard”

BY CHIP AKRIDGE

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s any casual visitor knows, the grass on the National Mall has been worn down to dirt in many areas; many sidewalks are cracked or inaccessible. The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is discolored and missing pieces. The seawalls near the Jefferson and in front of the F.D.R. and M.L.K. memorials flood twice daily as the Tidal Basin seawall has sunk. And that’s not even the complete list.

Today, the Trust for the National Mall is closer than ever to realizing its mission of restoring the National Mall for present and future generations.

We are so honored to have former First Lady Laura Bush as honorary chairman of the Campaign to Restore the National Mall. We are always moved by the generosity of the trust’s supporters who, over the past five years, have contributed nearly $7 million to our efforts through our annual

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benefit luncheon alone. We also recently hosted more than 1,000 young benefactors at our fourth Ball on the Mall. These two events experienced a 35percent rise in sponsorship support this year and raised more than $2 million. These funds are put to work helping to implement the National Mall Plan, a visionary blueprint for the future of the park.

Using the plan as our roadmap, the trust’s recent National Mall Design Competition solicited creative solutions from some of America’s most renowned architects and landscape architects to revitalize three areas. The winning designs will not only resolve shortterm restoration needs, they will set a course for a more beautiful, useful and sustainable National Mall better equipped to welcome its 25 million annual visitors. As Mrs. Bush said at this

year’s luncheon, “After so many decades, we need to do more than sprinkle some seed or put down some new sod. Our capital and our country are worth us maintaining this beautiful gathering place and making it a place that will educate and unite Americans through the 21st century and beyond.”

Due to the generosity of our donors, coupled with the leadership of Mrs. Bush and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, there is currently more than $100 million of restoration work underway.

This work includes repairing the plaza at the Jefferson Memorial, restoring the D.C. World War I Memorial, rebuilding the Lincoln Reflecting Pool, and more.

This is where we are, five short years later. We hope that all Americans will join us on our journey to revitalize and improve the Mall for generations to come.

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MAJOR INDIVIDUAL AND FOUNDATION DONORS TO THE SMITHSONIAN - MAJOR INDIVI Museum

Donation

Donor(s)

Purpose

Freer and Sackler Galleries

$5 million

Dame Jillian Sackler

Support position of director and programs

National Zoological Park

$4.5 million

David M. Rubenstein

Fund Giant Panda Program for 5 years

$2.5 million

The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation

Elephant Trails

$3 million

John and Adrienne Mars

Elephant Trails

$3.5 million

W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Design and construction

$1 million

Earl W. and Amanda Stafford

Design and construction

$10 million

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Design and construction

$3 million

Rockefeller Foundation

Design

$1 million

James A. Johnson and Maxine Isaacs

Planning and preliminary design

$2 million

Robert J. Johnson

Planning and development

$1 million

The Oprah Winfrey Foundation

Design and construction

$1 million

Hubert N. (Jay) Hoffman, III

Increase exhibition space for stamp collection

$8 million

William H. Gross

Stamp Gallery

$1 million

John and Adrienne Mars

Academic Center

$10 million

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Encyclopedia of Life

$2 million

Alice and David Rubenstein

Fellowship program for Encyclopedia of Life

The Summit Fund of Washington

Ocean Initiative

National Museum of African American History and Culture

National Postal Museum Smithsonian Conservation Institute – National Zoological Park National Museum of Natural History

$16.25 million

(Roger and Vicki Sant) $1.5 million

Coralyn Wright Whitney

Gem acquisition

$2.4 million

Edward P. and Rebecca R. Henderson

Care for the National Meteorite Collection and the National Gem and Mineral Collection

$10 million

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Encyclopedia of Life

$15 million

David H. Koch

What Does it Mean to be Human? exhibition

$10 million

Victoria P. and Roger W. Sant

Endowment of Sant Chair in Marine Sciences

$1 million

Robert H. and Clarice Smith

Clarice Smith American Art Education Initiative

$1 million

Clarice and Robert Smith

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art series

Smithsonian

$1.3 million

Robert and Arlene Kogod

Strategic priority to revitalize education

National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy

$15 million

Travis and Anne Engen

Phase 2 construction

$2 million

Marcel and Serge Dassault

Phase 2 construction

Smithsonian American Art Museum

$3 million

John and Adrienne Mars

Phase 2 construction

$2.568 million

The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Preservation of Gwenfritz

$1.5 million

Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak

Star-Spangled Banner Campaign

$1 million

Alice and David Rubenstein

Star-Spangled Banner Campaign

$1 million

Albert and Shirley Small

Albert Small Document Gallery

$1.65 million

The Glenstone Foundation, Mitchell P. Rales, Founder

Purchase suite of “Seascape” photographs

$1 million

The Glenstone Foundation, Michell P. Rales, Founder

New exhibitions, building new audiences and expanding public outreach

National Air and Space Museum

$10 million

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Barron Hilton Endowed Fund

National Museum of the American Indian

$1 million

David Rockefeller

George Gustav Heye Center Endowment and W. Richard West, Jr. Endowment (split 50-50)

Kogod Courtyard

$25 million

Robert and Arlene Kogod

Renovation of Patent Office Building that resulted in The Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard

National Museum of American History

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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frequently convening events at their home as well as round-table dinners for journalists at the Watergate-based offices of The Atlantic.

NANCY G BRINKER No single woman has done more to find a cure for breast cancer than former ambassador to Hungary and chief of protocol Nancy Brinker. As founder of the global Susan G. Komen for the Cure, she has led the organization in raising $2 billion for the cause that took her sister Suzy’s life.This year, Komen awarded $4 million in new community grants for low-income minority and uninsured women in the Washington area, where death rates from the disease are the highest in the nation. All told, the organization has given 30 Komen-funded programs in Washington, for a total of $11 million.

DORIS BUFFETT Whether it’s helping prison inmates find redemption, assisting battered women in recovery and the poor in prospering, or giving children a chance to realize their potential, Buffett believes there’s a common solution: education. “Good luck does not shine equally on everyone,” says the big sister of billionaire Warren Buffet, who has given more than $100 million of her own funds thus far. She continues on the path of “giving it all away” to battered women, sick children and at-risk kids who would otherwise not have had the chance to go to college. Her Sunshine Lady Foundation has launched “Learning by Giving,” a college-level philanthropy course now in 30 schools across the nation including Cornell University, New York University and Georgetown University.

her contacts and raised the money he needed to continue. It’s a testament to the Cafritzes’ continuing passion for the arts — nothing is too large or too small. Through their family foundation they have given millions of dollars over the years to support such local institutions, as the Washington National Opera, the National Building Museum, Alliance Francaise and Synetic Theater.

BILL AND BUFFY CAFRITZ Long a fixture of the capital’s elite social circles and renowned for their glitzy presidential inauguration parties, Bill and Buffy Cafritz have been steadfast supporters of the Kennedy Center for decades. They are also major contributors to the medical scholars program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Library of Congress and its Madison Council, the National Gallery of Art (where they helped underwrite the current Miró exhibition), Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) and Sasha Bruce Youthwork.

STEVE AND JEAN CASE The sparkling philanthropic track record of Steve and Jean Case, who, in 2011, became

two of 58 billionaires to sign the Giving Pledge, has been maintained this year as their foundation continued to raise awareness and funds for numerous causes. Current focus?

A Billion + Change. In cooperation with Sen. Mark Warner and managed by the Points of Light Institute the group will train corporations and nonprofits in providing effective pro-bono services.With $1.7 billion already pledged, they hope to reach the $2 billion mark by 2013.

A JAMES AND ALICE CLARK A veritable godfather of university engineering programs, A. James Clark and his wife Alice, have donated an estimated $48 million to Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland and George Washington University for scholarships and construction projects. Clark has also been busy with the Clark Charitable Foundation, a philanthropic offshoot of Clark Enterprise. In April, the family foundation donated $500,000 to Boulder Crest Retreat, a 37-acre facility for wounded soldiers and their families.

WILLIAM “BILL” E CONWAY JR AND JOANNE CONWAY Bill Conway, a co-founder of Carlyle Group, made headlines last year when he announced

Bob and Paula Hisaoka

CALVIN AND JANE CAFRITZ When Jane Cafritz learned last fall that Dana Tai Soon Burgess was in danger of losing funding for his dance company, she reached out to BLAIR HOUSE ENDOWMENT $500,000 contributed by each donor • The Annenberg Foundation • Adrienne Arsht • Calvin and Jane Lipton Cafritz • The Vinod Gupta Family Foundation • The Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation • Roger and Vicki Sant • The Starr Foundation • The Wasserman Foundation

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plans to donate donat 50 percent of his net worth (then at more than $ billion) during hen estimated estima his lifetime. Apart from multiple grants made through the family’s Bedford Falls Foundation, the Conways have also donated $6 million to the Capital Area Food Bank and $5 million to So Others May Eat. JACK DAVIES AND KAY KENDALL This generous, newlywed couple is regularly spotted at many charitable events and work tirelessly for their favorite organizations. Davies and Kendall are major supporters of Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Center (THEARC), —a community center that seeks to improve the quality of life for families living in Anacostia — and several arts and education organizations such as Maya Angelou Schools, Teach for America, CityDance and the Washington Ballet. Davies has led fundraising for Venture Philanthropy Partners which has raised over $70 million in support of low-income children and families.

JOHN K DELANEY AND APRIL MCCLAINE-DELANEY Family-oriented philanthropists John and April Delaney focus their efforts on youth and education. April Delaney maintains posts on the boards of the Childrens’ Hospital Foundation, Boys and Girls Club of Washington and Disovery Creek’s Children’s Museum in addition to serving as the Washington outreach director of Common Sense Media. Her husband, who recently won the Democratic primary in Maryland, is chairman of the National Symphony Orchestra nominating committee and head of the CapitalSource Foundation.

The two Georgetown Law graduates also give back to their alma mater, with John serving on the Georgetown University board and April

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serving on the law school’s board of visitors.

DALIA AND HOSSEIN FATEH Relative newcomers to the Washington philanthropic scene, this young and attractive couple are shaping up to become very generous benefactors indeed. They donate to the NCRC Preschool, City of Joy Aid and the Hotchkiss School, where they support scholarships for Iranian students. The Fatehs have also supported THEARC since the arts institution’s inception five years ago and they continue to be among its biggest donors. Dalia Fateh is a member of THEARC’s board of directors and also serves on the board of Time in Children’s Initiative RAUL AND JEAN-MARIE FERNANDEZ The son of immigrants, Raul Fernandez is living the “American Dream.” After his global web company, Proxicom, sold for $450 million, he and his fashionable wife, Jean-Marie, began to engage in many philanthropic endeavors. Their Fernandez Foundation funds scholarships and donates laptops and other school supplies to local children in need. Raul Fernandez is also a co-founder of the philanthropic investment group Venture Philanthropy Partners and sits on the board of many local nonprofits, including DCCAP and the D.C. Public Education Fund.

Jean-Marie Fernandez is actively involved with THEARC and sits on the board of directors of the Washington Ballet.

MICHELLE FREEMAN Michelle Freeman comes from a long family tradition of philanthropy and is described as extremely generous both with her time and donations. As head of the Carl M. Freeman foundation, she serves on the boards of the Washington National Opera and CharityWorks.

Jacqueline Mars

MAJOR DONORS TO THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY - $1 million and above • Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation • Steven and Debrah Epstein • James A. Feldman and Natalie Wexler • Kirsten and Kingdon Gould • Philip L. Graham Fund • HRH Foundation (Helen Lee Henderson) • Michael R. Klein and Joan I. Fabry • Robert and Arlene Kogod Family Foundation • Abby and Howard Millstein Foundation • James and Wanda Pedas • Theodore and Leah Pedas • Roger and Victoria Sant

She has worked especially closely with THEARC for the last three years and will serve as chairman of its gala for the second consecutive year this fall. She also heads the Joshua M. Freeman Foundation, which honors her late husband’s passion for education and the performing arts.

LEAH AND JACQUES GANSLER “She is a venture-capital investor in young charities,” businessman Ted Leonsis once said of Leah Gansler, a woman dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty, enhancing local education, and enabling families to overcome critical health issues through education. She founded the volunteer-led CharityWorks, which holds two signature events each year – a 100 Point Vintage Wine Dinner in the spring and The CharityWorks Dream Ball each fall – that have made more than $13 million in grants over the past 12 years for such charities as Habitat for Humanity,The Orphan Foundation of America, and Everybody Wins literacy programs for thousands of inner-city children. Jacques Gansler, who directs the University of Martland’s Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, is affilated with Venture Philanthropy Partners.

CARL GEWIRZ BERNARD GEWIRZ AND NORMA GEWIRZ-TIEFEL The Gewirz clan continues a tradition of giving started by their late father, developer Morris Gewirz. Norma Gewirz focuses her attention on the arts as a consistent patron of the Philips Collection, a member of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts and the Circle of the National Gallery of Art, while brother Carl is oriented toward the health sector

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DONORS TO THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION - $1 million and above • Joseph and Lynne Horning • Margaret Stuart Hunter • The Lichtenberg Family Foundation • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord • George and Trish Vradenburg and the Vradenburg Foundation • Alan and Irene Wurtzel • Judy and Leo Zickler • Victoria and Roger Sant

Norma and Russ Ramsey

as a contributor to the Washington Hospital Foundation and the National Children’s Hospital. Bernard Gewirz has donated to a range of charities, mostly geared toward children, the arts and Jewish causes.

STEVE AND DIANA GOLDBERG The Goldbergs are best known for their 2008 donation to Children’s National Medical Center to build the Diana L. and Stephen A. Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health. All told, they’ve given over $50 million to the institution. Diana is a boardmember of Children’s National Medical Center, CNMC Child Health Center, Safe Kids Worldwide and the National Cathedral School for Girls.The couple are avid supporters of The American Red Cross,Washington AIDs Partnership, B’nai Israel and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

TERESA HEINZ As chairman of The Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Foundation, food products heiress

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Teresa Heinz has focused on sharply focused, innovative strategies to protect the environment, broaden economic opportunity, enhance the lives of children and families and promote the arts. The endowment’s environmental program now distributes around $12 million each year, mostly in the Pittsburgh area, with the goals of strong environmental stewardship and prevention of human problems resulting from air and water pollution and other environmental factors. Her reputation as a philanthropic visionary is sustained by the annual Heinz Awards that bestows six-figure awards on often unheralded individuals who have demonstrated outstanding vision and achievement in many fields. Heinz is also noted for her decadeslong support of environmental and medical research (especially preventative medicine) at the nation’s top universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon.

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technical theater plus the ability to dispense hefty grants from a family foundation give Helen Henderson the background and ability to support the arts in a major way. She has given more than $8 million to the Kennedy Center for international and festival programming in addition to major contributions to the National Symphony Orchestra, Signature Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, Colonial Williamsburg and the National Gallery of Art (where she was an underwriter of the current exhibition on Miró). Henderson also supports Arts in Crisis, a program offering consultation services to troubled nonprofits across the nation.

BOB AND PAULA HISAOKA Since establishing the Joan Hisaoka “Make a Difference” gala shortly after his sister Joan’s death from cancer, Hisaoka’s fundraiser has helped raise over $3.2 million to help those living with the deadly disease. This year will mark the fifth annual gala, scheduled to take place on September 22, which will benefit Life with Cancer, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts and the Brem Foundation. Bob is on the board of the D.C. region for Teach for America, the See Forever Foundation and the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts. The Hisaokas are also active in Venture Philanthropy Partners, Fight for Children and THEARC. LINDA H KAUFMAN A generous lender and donor in the art world, Linda Kaufman recently gave the National Gallery of Art one of the largest and most refined collections of early American furniture

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still in private hands. “With this donation, the Gallery allery will house one of the finest assemblages of early American furniture, and there is no such comparable and easily accessible public collection in the nation’s capital,” the gallery’s director, Rusty Powell, said of the gift. Kaufmann has also donated major Dutch and American paintings, 40 floral watercolors by French artist PierreJoseph Redouté and “Gloucester Sunset,” one of Winslow Homer’s most vibrant and luminous early watercolors.

ROBERT AND ARLENE KOGOD AND CLARICE SMITH As lovers of the arts and supporters of education, Robert and Arlene Kogod and Arlene’s sister, Clarice Smith, are established patrons of the Smithsonian Institution, the Newseum, Arena Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, George Washington University, Sidwell Friends School, American University and the University of Maryland with donations estimated at over $170 million. In addition to these larger grants, their giving extends to numerous other charities and organizations.

SAMUEL AND SUSAN LEHRMAN Along with his brother Robert, Samuel Lehrman directs the Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman Foundation, whose mission is to support and enrich Jewish life in Washington, D.C., Israel and throughout the world. Susan Lehrman’s total underwriting of the Washington National Opera’s Opera Ball over the past four years made it one of the city’s most over-thetop charity events and ensured that 100 percent of the proceeds directly benefited the company.

Since WNO’s merger with the Kennedy Center, Susan Lehrman has expanded her generosity to other causes. Most recently, she endowed a chair in Russian history and culture at American University’s College of Arts and Sciences.

TED AND LYNN LEONSIS Ted and Lynn Leonsis do well by doing good.Through their foundation and giving platforms, including Monumental Sports and Entertainment, Snagfilms, Revolution Growth Fund and Groupon, they have supported 400plus charities in the past year. Word is that they have two films soon to be shown under their

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Samuel and Susan Lehrman Jeannie and Tom Rutherfoord

Filmanthropy production company, shining a light on tough subjects and supporting charitable causes via new media.

TED AND ANNETTE LERNER They may be best known these days as owners of the Washington Nationals baseball team, but the Lerners made their fortune in real estate, with Lerner Enterprises building local landmarks such as Tysons Corner and Dulles Town Center. The couple is remarkably generous, especially to educational and Jewish causes in the Washington, D.C. area. Through their family foundation they donated the Annette and Theodore Ler ner Family Health and Wellness Center and Theodore N. Lerner Hall to George Washington University (Ted is an alumnus) and have given generously

to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Imagination Stage and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

ANN LUSKEY Fiercely passionate about ocean conservation, Luskey funded a three-month-long expedition to Cuba in 2011 on her motor yacht, Sirenus (which means “mermaid”) for scientists from Cuba and America to conduct research alongside documentary filmmakers from the Sylvia Earle Foundation and journalist Anderson Cooper; earlier that year, she funded scientists from Panama, Columbia and Costa Rica to examine Eastern Pacific shark tagging.

In addition to The Ocean Foundation, Luskey sits on the boards of The African Wildlife

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additional emphasis on disaster relief and people with disabilities. Last year it gave $18 million to numerous recipients, including $3 million to Cornell University for a student training center.

The foundation is a major supporter of DCCAP, which Bill Marriott co-founded to help public high school students enter and graduate from college. Other grants went to Hospitality High School, the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation and National Theatre. A gift of $1 million helped to build the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington.

JACQUELINE MARS Ranked number 52 on Forbes’ most recent wealth list with a net worth of $13.8 billion, Mars has done much to further cultural causes in the area. She’s been a major supporter of such hunt country causes as the National Sporting Library and the Virginia Gold Cup as well as the Washington Winter Antiques Show and the Washington National Opera.

Jacques and Leah Gansler

Hossein and Dalia Fateh

Foundation, The Whaleman Foundation, the Africa Channel and The City Kids to Wilderness Project, and is president and executive producer of the “Oceans Are Talking” project.

J W “BILL” MARRIOTT AND RICHARD E MARRIOTT The family’s J. Willard and Alice Marriott Foundation currently manages a cool half billion dollars in assets and focuses mainly on education, youth and human services with

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WINSOME DUNN MCINTOSH A trustee of the McIntosh Foundation since 1972, McIntosh is “most proud oaf introducing and developing public interest law for the environment of our country.” She co-founded ClientEarth with her husband, Michael, to promote law as a tool for social change and “to mend the relationship between human societies and the Earth,” noting emphatically that “if you can affect laws in 27 countries, you can really leverage; it’s a tremendous tool when all else fails.” Recognizing the needs for more women at the decision-making level in the environmental movement, McIntosh also founded a “good old girls’ network,” called Rachel’s Network, which is comprised of 95 impassioned women philanthropists committed to the stewardship of the earth and responsible for more than $500 million in grants per year.

JAYLEE MEAD The complete transformation of Washington, D.C. into one of the nation’s leading cultural centers would not have been possible without the outstanding longtime contributions of Jaylee Mead and her late husband Gilbert. Thanks to their multi-million-dollar donations over many years, the Arena, Signature, Studio and Wooley

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Mammoth theater complexes were developed and/or expanded in major ways that will affect music, dance and the dramatic arts here for many decades to come.

CONNIE MILSTEIN Perhaps best-known for tur ning The Jefferson Hotel into a “boutique jewel box,” this savvy entrepreneur has also been active in philanthropy. In addition to sitting on several boards, including CURE for epilepsy, Refugees Inter national, the National Symphony Orchestra, Ford’s Theatre and Washington National Opera, she’s launched several nonprofits and charitable programs for military families, domestic and international hunger issues and healthcare for children. In 2010, she gave $10 million to establish New York University’s Constance Milstein and Family Academic Center in Washington, D.C. Currently, she’s working to bring a bakery to D.C. that will employ military families with all profits going to charities that support local communities.

HILDA OCHOA-BRILLEMBOURG AND ARTURO BRILLEMBOURG The name Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is music to the ears of musicians throughout North and South America.The Venezuelan-born president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group is the founding chairman and leading benefactor of the YOA Orchestra of the Americas, a multicultural world-class symphony of young musicians who employ music as a catalyst for social change. The Brillembourgs also support the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Trust for the National Mall, the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, the Fulbright Association and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

RUSS AND NORMA RAMSEY This philanthropic power couple have generously given to numerous organizations through their family foundation, including CharityWorks,Teach for America and Autism Speaks. As chairman of its board of trustees, Russ Ramsey has also helped steer George Washington University toward a whopping $1 billion for its endowment fund.

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CATHERINE AND WAYNE REYNOLDS ATHERIN Over the past 10 years, the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation has provided $100 million to an array of education and arts organizations. In addition to earlier major gifts to the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery of Art, the foundation has donated $20 million to Harvard University and New York University for hundreds of graduate fellowships in social entrepreneurship, led a $55 million fundraising campaign to renovate and create a new Ford’s Theatre campus, built Jill’s House (a 42,000-square-foot respite center for children with disabilities and their families), chaired the first National Geographic “Evening of Exploration” gala and the D.C. College Access Program gala at the Kennedy Center, and produced a series of interactive eBooks and podcasts for high school students that helps bring to life the history of the 20th century.

ALICE AND DAVID RUBENSTEIN The founder of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group has no problem giving away billions for charitable causes. A philanthropic juggernaut, the Rubensteins began with a $5 million donation in 2002 to Duke University, which sparked even more generous checkwriting — all told $200 million in the past 10 years, including $66.2 million in 2011, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Beneficiaries include the Kennedy Center (where David serves as chairman of the board), Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington Historical Society, and smaller education and literacy organizations.Alice is a big supporter of the environment and the culture of native Alaskans, having founded Alaska House New York and Alaska Native Arts Foundation.

THOMAS AND JEAN RUTHERFOORD The venerable Rutherfoord firm has been a Patricia and Frank Saul

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Donor(s)

Designation

$88.7 million

Harry A. and Virginia B. Toulmin

Medical research

$76 million

Robert L. and Catherine McDevitt

Faculty chairs

$44 million+

Robert Emmett McDonough

Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business

$20 million

H.R.H. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz al Saud

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

$18 million

Virginia Mortara

Mortara Center for International Studies, Mortara Professorship in the Practice of Diplomacy

$17 million

Arthur B. Calcagnini

Calcagnini Contemplative Center, Office of Mission & Ministry

$10 million

William J. Doyle

Doyle Engaging Difference Program

mid-Atlantic insurance institution since the family founded it in 1916. Tom Rutherfoord joined the firm in 1971, became president and then chairman, and has led its expansion internationally. He and his wife have given generously to the Phillips Collection ($1 million) and to Hollins University, including a $1 million gift to strengthen the school’s “Hollins Abroad Paris” program. They also support the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and Georgetown’s Christ Church.

CYNTHIA RYAN For the past 14 years, Cynthia Ryan has run her family’s Schooner Foundation which fights to ensure that all citizens not only know their rights but have the opportunity to demand them from their governments, communities and families. In that capacity, she’s directed more than $6.2 million to support constitutional reform in Zimbabwe and Tunisia, Partners in Health’s holistic approach to healthcare in Rwanda and Haiti, and women’s economic opportunity in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.To fulfill this mission, Ryan supports the Chris and Lisa Smith

Fund for Global Human Rights and the Clinton Global Initiative and has endowed the first chair in Human Rights at the Carr Center of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

ROGER AND VICKI SANT The Sants have joined Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to pledge at least 90 percent of their net assets (estimated at well north of $1 billion by Forbes magazine) as planned gifts to a wide variety of causes. Much of the fortune Roger made from the AES global power company will be distributed via the couple’s Summit Foundation, which dispenses substantial gifts in three areas: conservation of the Mesoamerican reef, adolescent reproductive health issues and sustainable cities. The Sants have donated vast sums to many other causes as well, including $15 million to present the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History with a new ocean hall and millions more to the National Gallery of Art (where Vicki is chairman of the board), the Phillips Collection and National Symphony Orchestra.

FRANK AND TRICIA SAUL In 2008, Saul sold Chevy Chase Bank to Capital One for $520 million and remains a major philanthropist and generous contributor to the National Gallery of Art and other cultural institutions. He serves on the board of National Geographic, the trustees council of the National Gallery of Art as well as on the boards of the Library of Congress Trust Fund and the National Sporting Library.

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He is an honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution, trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins Medicine, and a life trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Tricia Saul is co-chairman of Friends of Blair House and is also active in the International Neighbors Club, which helps to welcome foreign women into the area.

ALBERT AND SHIRLEY SMALL Southern Engineering founder Albert Small’s lifelong passion for collecting Americana has played a major role in his mission to place historically significant books, documents, manuscripts and maps in the public domain.

In 2002, he donated a treasure trove of artifacts related to the signers of the Declaration of Independence to the University of Virginia along with a library to house it; in 2011 he replicated the gesture by giving his Washingtoniana collection to George Washington University plus $5 million to display the items in a historic home on the campus. Last year he pledged to underwrite much of the cost of renovating a terrace adjacent to the state department’s diplomatic reception rooms.

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money to its further development. Mr. Smith premature birth of his daughter. He donated also sits on the boards of KIPP D.C. and the his private plane to help Red Cross’s disaster Washington Ballet. relief efforts and help transport resources to Haiti after the 2010 hurricane.

CHRIS AND LISA SMITH DAN AND TANYA SNYDER Chris Smith serves as chairman and CEO of It’s safe to say the owner of the flailing Redskins MARIELLA AND MICHAEL TRAGER William C. Smith & Co., a Washington-based football team is still not the most beloved At the epicenter of fundraising for Refugees real estate company that his family founded personality in the Washington metropolitan International’s lifesaving activities, the over four decades ago. The firm constructed area, but with an estimated net worth of $1.3 Tragers embody a highly collaborative THEARC in 2007, earning the Urban Land billion, he continues to be a generous member signature formula. Exceptional at tapping into Institute’s Award of Excellence that year, and of the community. Snyder is known for his Washington’s deepest philanthropic circles and the Smiths have remained committed to the donations to Children’s National Medical forming good working committees, they say institution, generously donating their time and Center, where he donated $6 million after the fundraising is about placing the highest value on people who are on the team. That’s how Mariella Trager, the only non-lawyer on the board of Children’s Law Center for 10 years, LARGEST GIFTS TO THE KENNEDY CENTER FROM THE PAST DECADE helped expand the organization that provides Amount Donor(s) Designation safe homes and services for low income, at-risk $25 million David and Alice Rubenstein Education and artistic programming children in the District. $20 million

Betsy and Dick DeVos

Endowment of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center

$20 million+

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National Symphony Orchestra (including a $4.5 million gift to endow the NSO music director chair)

$8 million

Helen Lee Henderson

International and festival programming

$5 million

Adrienne Arsht

Musical theater

$5 million

Vladimir Potanin

Programming and general operating expenses

$5 million

Charles E. Smith Family Foundation Two new program initiatives (Arts Across America and Barbara Cook’s Spotlight)

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GEORGE AND TRISH VRADENBURG After eight years as co-chairmen of the Alzheimer’s Association’s gala and raising $10 million, George and Trish Vradenburg are embarking upon a new journey to support Alzheimer’s research with the launch of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, an advocacy organization focused on finding a cure by 2020. They

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in green energy, companies in the developing world or run by women or disadvantaged groups. Research, advocacy and activism are also high on the list for reducing reliance on fossil fuels and promoting initiatives for “sustainable human population.”

DENNIS WHITTLE AND MARI KURAISHI These former World Bank executives know a little something about how philanthropy can change the world. They co-founded GlobalGiving in 2002 with a plan to create something like an “eBay of philanthropy,” providing individuals with an opportunity to support grassroots nonprofits around the world in an innovative and open way.

Their idea has grown exponentially into a global marketplace for ideas, information and money that democratizes aid and philanthropy, helping direct more than $62 million to 2,600 projects in 135 countries. GlobalGiving more than doubled its annual volume from $10.8 million in 2010 to more than $20 million in 2011. Raising more than $9 million for Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims ranked GlobalGiving as the 10th largest source of donations in the world for the disaster. Whittle and Kuraishi continue to drive two core ideas: that good ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time; and that individuals all over the world can have an impact on true social change, one donation at a time.

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Scott and Christy Wallace

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART MAJOR BENEFACTORS SINCE NOT INCLUDING PLEDGES IN-KIND ART OR ESTATE GIFTS $5 million or more • The Annenberg Foundation • James T. Dyke and Ms. Helen Porter • Greg and Candy Fazakerley • The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund • Elisha and Letitia Henson • The Samuel H. Kress Foundation • The Honorable Alfred H. Moses/ Ms. Fern M. Schad • The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell P. Rales • Vicki and Roger Sant • Robert H. and Clarice Smith • Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffman • Estate of Richard S. Zeisler

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recently hosted the first annual No Gala, Gala, an affair low on glitz and high on passion that nonetheless raised more than $100,000.

SCOTT AND CHRISTY WALLACE Their major focus on strengthening democracy and civic engagement supports what Scott Wallace’s grandfather — former U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace — called the “common man” in the power struggle with the moneyed elites. Giving in the neighborhood of $10 million every year consistently ranks the Wallace Global Fund in the top 10 for total giving in the District.

The D.C.-based charitable foundation is the first to put 95 percent of its assets to work

JONAH WITTKAMPER Wittkamper has built one of the largest young philanthropy networks in the world, the Global Youth Action Network (TakingITglobal.org.)

Managing a global network of young donors from nearly 50 countries — a movement of youth investing in youth — he “catalyzes” new leadership and new generosity among 300-plus young wealth-holders. His event, The Nexus: Global Youth Summit (a project of the Young Donor Network) generated more than $10 million in new philanthropy from a budget of just $100,000. Acting as the director of Search for Common Ground-USA since 2009, he finds that young people from top families are often isolated and seek greater meaning in their lives.

“There is great power in diversity,” he says, “and by bringing together young change-makers from different countries, people find themselves and their identities. A life takes on greater meaning.”

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his year, Susan G. Komen found itself at the center of controversy when it decided to end funding for screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates. After a speedy reversal and a heartfelt apology from CEO Nancy Brinker, the pink ribbon group says it’s moving on with programs that get back to its core mission. Brinker sat down with Washington Life to discuss SGK’s future.

Q: How is SGK working to reaffirm its mission? What programs are you particularly excited about?

We’re focused on getting treatments from the lab to the bedside quickly, and I’m very pleased that our research funding has led to 83 active clinical trials as I speak. We’re also providing help to hundreds of thousands of low-income and uninsured women across the country. We gave $102 million to thousands of community health programs last year to get women screened and through treatment.

Q: What other challenges are there

to finding a cure? How close are we to eradicating this disease?

As a nation, we’ve made great progress.

Breast cancer mortality rates are down by 33 percent since 1990; five-year survival rates are at 99 percent for early-stage breast cancers. That’s a lot of progress in a short time. But I’m very impatient to find the “silver bullet” that puts this disease in the history books.

Q: Looking back,

Q: A majority of net funds raised from global Race for the Cure events stays in the Washington area. Why the local focus?

Seventy-five percent of net proceeds from our races or local fundraisers stay in local communities. It’s no different in Washington, D.C., which has one of the highest mortality rates from breast cancer in the country.

Komen has funded $11 million here to help change that statistic.

Q: How is SGK restoring its numbers after a dip in funding since the PPFA incident?

By reminding people of what we do and what we’ve done for three decades. We’re seeing encouraging signs that people aren’t letting a few weeks of controversy overshadow 30 years of extraordinary progress for women.

We hope others follow, because the people who are hurt are the women and families who need us the most.

Q: What have you learned and how has

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Susan G. Komen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker meets with patients and providers of the Women’s Oncology Center at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center on May 22, 2012. (Photo by Tony Powell)

what would you have done differently?

We would have paid more attention to how a decision like this might be viewed in the larger arena. We’ve been a staunchly apolitical organization for 30 years. This was not a politically motivated decision but it was seen as one, and that’s why we reversed it and reverted to our longstanding policies. We would never, and will never, turn our backs on uninsured or low-income women.

it changed the way you approach SGK’s mission?

We’ve reaffirmed our commitment to ensure that we are funding the best research and helping women, men and families facing this disease.

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AU COURANT | NEXT-GEN GIVING

The World of Givers Philanthropy adjusts to tough times — and a younger perspective

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ball linebacker who played 11 seasons in the t its glittering but purposeful National Football League (most recently with annual dinner recently, Refugees the Cincinnati Bengals), launched Bow Tie International gave its McCallCause, which he describes as “catalytic phiPierpaoli Humanitarian Award lanthropy” because the specially designed to Lauren Bush Lauren. The former model tie becomes a conversation piece — a cata— 27 years old this month — was being lyst about the specific cause supported by its honored as the founder of FEED, a program wearer. A different design is created for each that sells totes, candles, teddy bears and the group that buys Jones’ ties, and the money is inevitable coffee mugs to pay for school meals funneled into education projects. in more than 40 countries via the U.N. World A couple of years ago, the White House Food Program.

Office of Public Engagement wanted to meet Envious philanthropic activists will tell some under-40 entrepreneurs and CEOs.They you that FEED, which Bush Lauren founded Eric and Sharapat turned to Elliott Bisnow, who — according in 2007, has the advantage of a glamorous, Kessler (Photo by Betsy to the Washington Post — promptly “delivand well-connected founder who is — as if Spruill Clarke) ered 35, including Ivanka Trump and the guy you didn’t know — a member of the Bush dynasty and the daughter-in-law of fashion young innovator philanthropist. Four years who invented Twitter.”

But who is Elliott Bisnow? The 26-yearicon Ralph Lauren. Vogue magazine is not ago, soccer star Natalie Spilger, now 30, likely to bestow 10 pages of free, high-end launched her Green Laces movement, which old Washington-born college dropout and publicity on a charity start-up whose founder encourages athletes to declare a commit- two other partners launched The Summit is not sprinkled with the gold dust of a ment to help the environment from Green Series, which organizes periodic get-togethers Laces’ list of options. If promising to start a of successful young entrepreneurs, scientists, model’s looks and figure in the first place. entertainers and media people; invitations But the success of FEED, which progo out on Twitter and Facebook for what vides an estimated 68 million school have been described as “a younger, cooler meals a year (or so it says on the FEED version of Davos.” website) also reflects interesting shifts in In reality, the atmosphere is more America’s philanthropic landscape. One Spring Break than somber economic is the engagement of a younger, broaderUNITED STATES HAS NEVER conference in the Swiss Alps (the Post based generation of givers. In part, this is the result of “growing up in a new era BEEN SO DYNAMIC, INNOVATIVE called one of Bisnow’s summits “Mar— OR, IN SOME WAYS garita-sodden”). Still, these get-togethers of impact” due to Facebook and other CONFUSING.” have resulted in some noteworthy business social networks, coupled with greater ideas, as well as acting as facilitators for social and environmental awareness, says the philanthropic community.

Eric Kessler, founder of the WashingtonThe 2010 summit in Washington, based Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, which oversees more than half-a- garden compost pile doesn’t quite work in for example, raised $600,000 to rehabilibillion dollars of charitable giving for clients. your apartment building you can pledge not tate Uganda’s children soldiers. It was also at Colleges tend to encourage this interest by buying non-recyclable plastic bottles. Spilg- a Summit Series that Charity Water, which offering to forgive the student loans of gradu- er’s 100-percent recyclable plastic green shoe brings clean, safe-drinking water to people in ates who go to work for nonprofits and stay laces sell for five dollars, with the funds going developing countries, was launched.

The big, established foundations and gento established environmental organizations. there for at least seven years.

Dhani Jones, 34, a former American foot- erous, high-net-worth donors always ready Bush Lauren is not, of course, alone as a

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to support what they regard as a worthy cause are still the bedrock of American philanthropy. But new, less traditional, ways of addressing the giving business are livening up the scene by offering a compelling alternative or complement to the old approach.

The result: charitable giving in the United States has never been so dynamic, innovative or, in some ways, confusing. “Philanthropists today live in a different world,” Kessler says.

“Writing checks is the last thing, not the first thing.”

unstable region shunned by investors; the exporter is financed by a group of U.S. businesses (including Starbucks) and non-profit funds.

Historically (if one can call it that), the growth of social impact investing is linked to the decline in traditional sources following the 2008 global recession. In 2009, D.C.-area giving dipped by 8

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ECONOMIC TURMOIL SINCE 2008 HAVE BEEN THE ARTS, WITH MOST FUNDERS REDUCING THEIR GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS

BY AN AVERAGE OF 10 PERCENT IN 2010”

The emergent social impact investing “uses enterprise, investment and human capital to address and cope with social and environmental challenges,” according to a recent report by two experts, Antony Bugg-Levine of the Rockefeller Foundation and financial adviser John Goldstein. This has gone from “a niche concern among idealists to a mainstream focus. Business schools report oversubscribed classes on social enterprise.”

The report defines such investments as a supplement to private and government financing to resolve major problems. “They offer a bridge between traditional philanthropy, which incubates innovation and mobilizes attention to exciting solutions, and the private sector capital markets that ultimately hold the wealth required to advance these solutions to a level proportionate to need.”

Jones observes: “Philanthropy is a mindset: social impact is action.”

For example, a commercial company in Nevada buys a failing Head Start program to keep it going for local children. The purchase is made with funds from a combination of business and philanthropic sources.

A Ugandan exporter buys vanilla and coffee beans from farmers in Eastern Congo, an

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percent from $934.4 million to $859.8 million, mirroring a nationwide decline from $228.5 billion (2008) to $217.3 billion; Washington foundation assets dropped by 2 percent. Estimates for 2010 — the most recent year for which reliable figures are available — show a slow but continued improvement, with D.C. philanthropic giving at $878.7 million and nationwide at $227 billion. The result has been to “make philanthropy smarter,” Kessler says. “People spend a great deal more time thinking about how they are going to use their money.”

Major losers in the economic turmoil since 2008 have been the arts, with most funders reducing their grants to non-profit arts organizations by an average of 10 percent in 2010, and in most cases continuing to dip lower, though by smaller amounts.

Overall, demands for funding can hardly be said to have diminished. Hence the pooling of resources and a widening of both the scope and definition of giving. Newcomers entered the field with different motives and objectives: in the new landscape, banks and financial institutions formed alliances with non-gov-

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ernmental organizations; foundations engaged in mission-investing teamed up with philanthropic families.

And looming over the philanthropy sector is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the giver to emulate, but can never hope to equal.

With assets of more than $37 billion, the Gates Foundation is the largest philanthropic organization in history, and three times larger than the number two U.S. charity, the Ford Foundation. Education and health are the Gates’ main global targets. With 60 percent of its charitable health dollars going to public health issues, philanthropy specialists say its contribution in that area is the same size of the World Health Organization’s. Jim Kim, until recently director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, has been quoted as saying that global health was in a state of neglect before the Gates focused attention on it. “The Gates Foundation,” he said, “has made global health cool.”

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CAUSE CELEB | TIGER WOODS

The golf champion at the 2007 AT&T National announcement with Rep. John Boehner and Rep. Nancy Pelosi

The Golf Standard Giving Washington kids a head start in education is just the beginning

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t’s been six years since we came to Washington, D.C. to launch the AT&T National.

Since then, the tournament has seen a lot of great golf, but more importantly, my foundation has been able to make a real impact in the community. At the time, my learning center in California was enjoying tremendous success, and we were a year into the Earl Woods Scholarship Program, which was created to honor my dad’s memory.

Since that first AT&T National, I’m so proud to say we’ve raised nearly $14 million, and I’m very excited about the ongoing investment we’re making in the Washington, D.C. community.

In 2010, we launched the Tiger Woods Learning Center campuses in Wards 6 and 7.

Many people have asked me why we didn’t build a large-scale facility like we did in Anaheim, Calif. The answer is simple — we adapted the program to fit the Washington community, and I’m very proud of this. Because of the campus model, we’ve been helping kids for two years take classes they would never have access to otherwise. Our forensic science, engineering, video production and robotics lessons are dramatically increasing the science skills of D.C.’s middle and high school students. It’s not uncommon for our students to discover a love of science for the first time because they built

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With students at the Tiger Woods Learning Center

a robot or created a video game, instead of just reading a textbook and memorizing facts.

We’re also supporting 25 local students through the Earl Woods Scholarship Program, and I just can’t say enough about these kids.

They come from high schools like Cesar Chavez, Friendship Collegiate, Woodson and Ballou.

And through our program, they are now going to schools like Georgetown, Marymount, Tufts and Penn State. What makes this program so successful is that we provide so much more than a check for tuition. Every Earl Woods Scholar gets one-on-one attention from my staff, a dedicated mentor, internship placement and annual skill-building workshops. Once enrolled, there is

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no limit to my staff ’s dedication to these kids.To date, 100 percent of our scholars have graduated with a bachelor’s degree, and many are on the road to medical school, law school and master’s degrees in business.That’s pretty amazing considering most of them were the very first in their families to get through college.

One of the things I’ve said over the years is this is just the beginning. And I mean it.

These programs are powerful, and I am ready to see them grow. I hope we will continue to enjoy the support of the Washington, D.C. community so we can help many more young people attain the life-changing goal of a great education.

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With Earl Woods Scholars Ayanna Brooks and Fatou Bekeyi at the Tiger Woods Learning Center, Cesar Chavez Capitol Hill Campus

There are many ways to support the young scholars of the Tiger Woods Foundation. To donate your time or resources, visit tigerwoodsfoundation.org to learn about mentoring, volunteering, providing internships or to purchase tickets to the 2012 AT&T National, June 26 – July 1 at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md.

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Making AIDS History Momentous breakthroughs in science and policy scale new heights as The International AIDS Conference returns to Washington B y S u s a n J . B l u m e n t h a l , M . D, M . P. A .

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where no child will be born with HIV and where the risk of infection will be dramatically reduced with a combination of powerful prevention tools.

There is real hope that a vaccine and, ultimately, a cure will emerge in our lifetimes.

As a public health doctor who has worked on eradicating AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic, I have seen firsthand how investments in research have produced lifesaving antiretroviral medications (ARVs) that have revolutionized HIV/AIDS treatment.

Today, nearly 7 million people are receiving these drugs globally, transforming what was once a lethal disease into a chronic, manageable condition for many. However, of the more than 14 million people with HIV/AIDS worldwide who need medications, less than half receive ARVs. Now we must intensify efforts to ensure that all people with the disease in need receive treatment.

Scientists are making significant progress on many prevention fronts. Research is underway to develop a vaccine that would protect people from acquiring HIV. Recent landmark studies have revealed that a “prevention pill,” combining two HIV treatment drugs-- can also prevent

HIV transmission by as much as 92%. In May 2012, an FDA advisory committee recommended approval of this medication for preventing AIDS in populations at high risk of acquiring the virus through sexual activity. Other research has found that early treatment of an HIV-infected partner decreases transmission to an uninfected partner by 96%, underscoring that treatment is also prevention. These advances can now be combined with other proven prevention measures to help save countless lives.

This remarkable progress towards ending AIDS, however, is threatened by a decline in resources and the threat of budget cuts to support HIV research and services worldwide, as well as a lack of initiatives that target vulnerable populations.

While U.S. global health investments today represent less than 1% of America’s budget, these funds support lifesaving research and services for millions of people in developing nations and help build a world with more friends and fewer enemies, a critical tool of “smart” power in our nation’s foreign policy.

To ensure that the U.S. and the world are on track to realize an AIDS-free generation— a goal President Obama announced on World AIDS Day 2011 – there are many organizations you can support, including the one with which I’ve been closely aligned for many years: amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, www.amfAR.org As the InterRear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. national AIDS (ret.) is currently the Conference conSenior Policy and Medical venes here in July, Advisor at amfAR, and a clinical professor at let us, together, Georgetown and Tufts help make AIDS Schools of Medicine. history.

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onsider this: In Washington, D.C., nearly 1 out of 30 people are living with HIV/AIDS—a rate that is higher than 15 African countries, including Rwanda and Angola.

This summer marks the return of the International AIDS Conference to the United States for the first time in more than two decades. From July 2227, The International AIDS Society will convene more than 25,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries in America’s capital. The meeting is being held this year in Washington, D.C, as a result of President Obama’s lifting, in October 2009, of the 22-year-old U.S. government travel and immigration ban that prohibited people with HIV/AIDS from entering the U.S. This important change in public policy reflects the Obama Administration’s leadership on eradicating AIDS, its adoption of evidence-based policies, and its rejection of the stigma that has surrounded the disease.

Today, 34 million people are living with HIV/AIDS globally, 2.7 million were infected with the virus last year, and nearly 30 million people have died from the disease since the beginning of the epidemic. Worldwide, 50% of people living with HIV are women. In the U.S., there are 1.2 million people living with HIV, with more than 50,000 new HIV infections and 18,000 deaths from AIDSrelated causes annually. Of all new HIV infections in America in 2009, 61% were men who have sex with men, 23% were women and 68% were people of color.

The International AIDS Conference will highlight strategies for achieving an AIDS-free generation. For the first time in the history of the epidemic, dramatic advances in science provide the possibility of achieving a world

LEFT: Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Cokie Roberts, Whoopi Goldberg and Kenneth Cole at the 2011 amfAR Capitol Hill Conference on Making AIDS History: Ending the Epidemic.

BELOW: amfAR co-founder Dame Elizabeth Taylor testifying before Congress in 1990 with Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

cause celeb | Richard Branson

End the Failed War on Drugs Treating addicts like criminals does absolutely nothing to address the crisis

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ust as prohibition of alcohol failed in initiatives like arresting and punishing citithe United States in the 1920s, the zens who have addiction problems. war on drugs has failed globally. Over The next step is simple: countries should the past 50 years, more than $1 trilexperiment and consider how new policies lion has been spent fighting this battle, and can cut consumption and reduce harm. We all we have to show for it is increased drug have models to follow. In Switzerland, the use, overflowing jails, billions of pounds authorities employed a host of harm-reducand dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted, and tion therapies and successfully disrupted the thriving crime syndicates. It is time for a criminal drug market. In Portugal, decriminew approach. nalization for users of all drugs 10 years ago Many political leaders and public figures led to a significant reduction in heroin use acknowledge privately that repressive stratand decreased levels of property crime, HIV egies have only made the drug problem infection and violence. worse. It took 14 years for America’s leaders Even with these examples, new polito repeal Prohibition. After 50 years of the cies should be evaluated according to the Richard Branson failed drug war, it is time for today’s leaders scientific evidence. But because of their (AP Images) to find the courage to speak out. success, we can say now that drug policy I was fortunate to be should be a comprehensive part of the Global Comissue for families, schools, mission for Drug Policy, civil society and health along with former Seccare providers, not just law for America’s leaders to repeal retary of State George enforcement.

Prohibition. After 50 years of the failed Shultz, former U.N. To evaluate such poldrug war, it is time for today’s leaders Secretary-General Kofi icies, we should stop to find the courage to speak out.”

Annan, President Fermeasur ing their success nando Henrique Cardoso according to the numbers of Brazil, former U.N. of arrests, prosecutions and High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise have been ineffective. First, prohibition and drug seizures, which turn out to have little Arbor and the former chairman of President enforcement efforts have failed to dent the impact on levels of drug use or crime. We Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, production and distribution of drugs in any should instead, study the number of victims Paul Volcker. part of the world. Second, the threat of arrest of drug-related violence and intimidation, We studied international drug policy over and punishment has had no significant deter- levels of corruption connected to the drug the past 50 years and found that it has totally rent effect on drug use. market, the amount of crime connected to failed to stop the growth and diversification It is obvious that drugs are dangerous and drug use, and the prevalence of dependence, of the drug trade. For example, between need to be regulated. Broad criminalization drug-related mortality and HIV infection.

1998 and 2008, opiate use increased by should end; new policy options should be For all the successes I’ve had in busimore than 34 percent, even as prison popu- explored and evaluated; drug users in need ness, I’ve also learnt to accept when things lations swelled and profits for drug traffick- should get treatment; young people should go wrong, work out why, and try to find ers soared. be dissuaded from drug use via education; a better way. The war on drugs is a failed As these grim trends show, the two strat- and violent criminals should be the target of enterprise. We need to have the courage to egies at the core of drug control policy law enforcement. We should stop ineffective learn the lessons and move on.

“It took 14 years

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Fashion﹐ Art﹐ Dining﹐ and Travel | Oscar de la Renta Fashion Show, Summer Trend Report and more

Drawing on the dual influence of her mother and grandmother’s great sense of style, Carolina Herrera reigns over a couture team noted for its exceptional pedigree and training. (Photo courtesy of Carolina Herrera)

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Carolina Herrera, an internationally acclaimed designer known for exquisite taste and sophistication, has made a career of creating a regality all her own. She visits with Washington Life, reflecting on philanthropy and how to cultivate one’s own confident style.

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have been coming to Washington D.C. for many years now – since the beginning of my career in fashion. It’s a very important place to be familiar with as a designer, seeing as some of the most influential people in our country work and reside here.

What’s unique about Washington is that on any given night there is always a black tie affair to attend, much like New York. For years I have enjoyed seeing my dresses on the sophisticated and elegant ladies who live there.

Looking back at the times when great women like Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy were in the White House, I think of the foundations of elegance that have made this city so grand. Both women had a style of their own, which is most important.

People today always speak of trends and it can be exhausting. Find what works best for you and what makes you feel most confident.

Trends are not for everyone and many times blindly following them takes away your ease

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of dressing and your personality.

Confidence is always a component I consider with my collections. I design for the modern confident woman, very much so the ladies of Washington. I imagine women in politics sometimes find themselves restricted in what they can wear because of their career. This should never be the case. Never abandon your femininity. Sophisticated chic dressing is always in style.

Today I think it’s very easy to tie fashion and philanthropy with one another. Through its great influence, the fashion industry has made itself a great supporter of numerous charities and foundations in need of nurture.

It’s important to do so, give back and be aware; otherwise, what are we all doing here?

I tell people many times to always keep their eyes open, so as to not miss anything.

You never know when you might find inspiration for your next collection or be stimulated. The same can be said for charities and philanthropy. If we are not aware of just

what is going on in the world, and we’re deaf to the problems of the people of the world, we’re not doing our jobs.

Working with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation during my last visit to Washington was both an honor and a pleasure. It is a charity that is near and dear to my heart and my beloved friend Nancy Reagan.

Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease that affects so many and it’s important that we do everything in our power to find a cure.”

(RIGHT) At the 2nd annual Great Ladies Luncheon and Fashion Show, held on May 2 at the Washington DC RitzCarlton to benefit the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Carolina Herrera presented her Fall/Winter 2012 collection.

Exuding femininity, it is focused on saturated color and a juxtaposition of weights and textiles. Silhoue es are trim and body conscious with an accentuation on natural curvature and movement.

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Carolina Herrera Fashion Designer YOUR CURRENT STATE OF MIND? Occupied … Always!

WHICH LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST ADMIRE AND WHY? Queen Elizabeth II. Sixty impeccable years of service and with grace and elegance she has overcome all that life has thrown her way.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME WHICH HISTORICAL PERSON WOULD YOU WANT TO MEET? Cleopatra. She was both clever and powerful. I’d ask her the very same question. “If you could go back in time…”

WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED POSSESSION? My family.

WHAT REALLY ANGERS YOU? Liars.

IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOURSELF WHAT WOULD IT BE? My impatience.

YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT? My children.

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? Always keep your eyes open.

WHAT CHARITY OR CAUSE IS CLOSEST TO YOUR HEART? Raising funds for breast cancer research.

WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? Shoes – less than Imelda Marcos and more than Minnie Mouse.

WHAT QUOTE INSPIRES YOU? “Fashion changes, but style endures” – Coco Chanel YOUR MOST FAVORITE VACATION DESTINATION? For a weekend getaway, Paris or Venice. I stay at the Plaza Athénée. I love to lunch at the Roulée.

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Nicole Chedid and Ron Frasch Carol Winer and Alma Gildenhorn

Norah O’Donnell and Carolina Herrera

Alexandra de Borchgrave and Lady Westmacott

Juan Carlos Rincones and Tom Pheasant

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GREAT LADIES FASHION SHOW The Ritz-Carlton | PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON CURING WHAT AILS US: Leonard Lauder presented the Great Ladies Award to First Lady Nancy Reagan, accepted in her behalf by “Fashion’s First Lady” Carolina Herrera at a luncheon benefiting the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation. The designer’s fall 2012 collection, presented by Saks Fi h Avenue, was followed by the presentation of the door prizes: a male Imperial Shih Tzu purebred puppy donated by Mr. Lauder and tickets to the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors given by Elise and Marc Le owitz.

Dorothy Kosinski, Leonard Lauder and Patricia Sagon

David Deckelbaum, Genevieve Ryan and Robert Higdon

Suellen Estrin

Arnaud and Alexandra de Borchgrave with Diana and Ned Powell

Nancy Lynn and Carolina Herrera

Robert Higdon and Nancy Corzine

Wilma and Stuart Bernstein with Leonard Lauder

Warner and Faith Diamond with Lynn and Wolf Blitzer

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IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDS Continuing to honor the philanthropic spirit of the late Estelle Gelman, who had Alzheimer’s for 15 years, Elise and Marc Le owitz hosted an elegant private dinner at their Georgetown home for Carolina Herrera. Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation executive Nancy Lynn joined major supporters and friends that included Carol and Hank Goldberg, Ned and Diane Powell, Jane Harman and Joe and Alma Gildenhorn.

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Leonard A. Lauder Chairman Emeritus, The Estée Lauder Companies FOUNDATION CLOSE TO YOUR HEART? The disease ruins so many caregivers’ lives, as well as their loved ones. We will find a cure.

WHAT IS THE MOST PROMISING THING CURRENTLY IN THE PIPELINE FOR CURING ALZHEIMER’S? Discovering the mechanism that cures or predicts. We will know by the end of this year whether new vaccines work to remove protein plaques from the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. We are also excited to be funding several clinical trials that test drugs already approved for other diseases to see if they could be effective against Alzheimer’s disease.

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HAT WORD OR PHRASE BEST EMBODIES CAROLINA HERRERA? Class WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT FASHION? Clothes make women look sexy.

WHY IS THE ALZHEIMER’S DRUG DISCOVERY

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WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE SAYING OR QUOTE? “Our danger is people’s fear of telling the truth.”

WHAT POLITICAL SPEECH OR QUOTE INSPIRES YOU? Harry Truman’s statement: “I’d rather be right than President.”

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR NEWS TOP ?

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the FT (Financial Times).

WHAT IS THE WORD YOU MOST OVERUSE? T.M.I. WHAT WORKS OF ART IN YOUR COLLECTION MOVE AND INSPIRE YOU? I love all my children.

IF YOU COULD IMPROVE ONE THING ABOUT YOURSELF WHAT WOULD IT BE? Keep enjoying life, every moment.

IF YOU COULD MEET ANY FAMOUS PERSON LIVING OR DEAD WHAT WOULD YOU ASK THEM? Hard to answer. I’m always telling people what to do.

Currently, Mr. Lauder is co-founder and chairman of the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, trustee and chairman emeritus of the Whitney Museum of American Art, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, chairman emeritus and a trustee of The Aspen Institute, chairman of The Aspen Institute International Committee, and a member of the President’s Council of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital.

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THAKOON Wool Pullover ($390) and Cropped Cotton/Silk Pants ($990); JIMMY CHOO Private Patent Leather Sandals ($950); Saks Fifth Avenue, www. saksfifthavenue.com

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3.1 PHILLIP LIM Floating Bib Silk Shirt ($450) and Pleated Crop Trousers ($375); Saks Jandel in Chevy Chase, 301-652-2250 MARC JACOBS Crosby Thompson Satchel in “Saffron” ($1,250); Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase and Tysons Corner, www. bloomingdales.com

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CACHAREL Tulle Dress ($995); JIMMY CHOO Lilac Point-Toe Pumps ($495); Saks Fifth Avenue, www. saksfifthavenue.com

JO MALONE Nectarine Blossom & Honey Cologne 100 mL ($110); Bloomingdales, www. bloomingdales.com

REBECCA TAYLOR Sequin Shorts ($250); www. rebeccataylor.com

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YVES SAINT LAURENT Fishnet Dress ($1,490); YSL Cabas Chyc Large Leather East West Bag ($2,150); Tie-Up Satin Suede & Patent Leather Platform Pumps ($1,295); Saks Jandel in Chevy Chase, 301-652-2250

ESTEE LAUDER Bronze Goddess fragrance inspired by the Isle of Capri, 3.4 oz ($55); Bloomingdales, www.bloomingdales.com

NARS The Multiple, multi-purpose stick for eyes, cheeks, lips and body in “Orgasm” ($39); Bloomingdales, www. bloomingdales.com

REBECCA TAYLOR “Batik” TieDye Maxi Dress in Blue ($395); www. rebeccataylor.com

DIANE VON FURSTENBERG “Opal” Wedge Sandals ($295); Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase and Tysons Corner, www. bloomingdales.com GUCCI Jersey Wrap Dress ($1,995); Betty Peep Toe T-Strap Sandals ($640); Saks Fifth Avenue, www. saksfifthavenue.com

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AKRIS PUNTO Short-Sleeve Sweater ($495) and Cropped Five-Pocket Cotton Pants ($395); Saks Jandel in Chevy Chase, 301-652-2250 JIMMY CHOO Crown Patent Leather Peep-Toe Pumps ($695); Saks Fifth Avenue, www.saksfifthavenue.com

BOBBI BROWN Extra Repair Moisturizing Balm ($90); Bloomingdales, www.bloomingdales.com

TORY BURCH “Robinson” Demi Wedge Sandals in “Bleach” ($265); Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase and Tysons Corner, www.bloomingdales.com

CATion TORY BURCH Kip Leather Bucket Bag in “Ivory Dust” ($465); Bloomingdales in Chevy Chase and Tysons Corner, www. bloomingdales.com

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REBECCA TAYLOR White Gauze Dress ($450); CUSP (locations in Georgetown and Tysons Corner), www.cusp.com

NARS Thakoon Limited Edition Nail Polish in “Koliary” ($18); Bloomingdales, www. bloomingdales.com

AKRIS PUNTO Colorblock Silk Dress ($1,350); Saks Jandel in Chevy Chase, 301652-2250 JIMMY CHOO Crown Patent Leather Peep-Toe Pumps ($695); Saks Fifth Avenue, www. saksfifthavenue.com

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Dorothee Berendes and Robin Phillips at Phillips’ Kentucky Derby party in McLean.

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Pianist Louis Schwizgebel (Photo by Christian Lutzi)

Derby Days and Keyboard Nights Celebrating the Kentucky Derby in high style; a piano prodigy wows music lovers at the Kennedy Center

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CHAMPAGNE AND CHAPEAUX It started as

a Kentucky Derby gathering, but the party itself turned into a Triple Crown affair, with three events melding into one happily overlapping throng of 60 celebrants.

There was lots to celebrate: Robin Phillips, planning to open her Carderock Falls Manor in McLean to host Derby-loving pals, included guests from the others when she learned first that newlyweds Rose and Gary Akin were planning a delayed post-wedding reception the same day, and that founders Chateau and John Gardecki were about to kick off their annual Washington International Piano Competition with their committees.

Guests entered the garden past a striking waterfall backed with carderock. (We always thought Carderock was just a Maryland place name, but it turns out it is a mica-schist quartz building material mined in Maryland. It’s that

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granite-like facing stone you see in various pale tones, tinged with blue, green and soft brown.)

Robin is a songbird who sings in three languages, can double Edith Piaf ’s voice when she wishes, and loves hats. That’s why she had enough chapeaux for those who had overlooked the traditional Derby Day head gear. Robin had impishly decked every lampshade in the house with a proper topper ready for any bare head.

Derby Day is traditionally a day for mint juleps, although guests were also hoisting the Akins’ Champagne as they cut their wedding cake with a special sword, presciently presented years earlier by the late Prince Alexis Obolensky to honor Rose Akin’s Russian mother.

PERFORMANCE TO REMEMBER Pianist Louis Schwizgebel was a child prodigy, beginning his

studies at age 6, and representing his native Switzerland at Hamburg’s Steinway Festival

when he was just 12.

His masterful renderings of Scarlatti, Mozart, Ravel and Liszt drew standing ovations from the 33rd Young Concert Series audience at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre. It was an encore performance for them.

YCA was founded by its director, Susan Wadsworth, in 1961 to seek out talented young musicians and help them launch their careers.

Since then it has brought many outstanding performers to concert stages throughout the world.

Schwizgebel, 24, won first prize at the 2006 YCA European Auditions in Leipzig, then took first again at YCA’s International Auditions in 2007. He debuted at Carnegie Hall and now travels the world to perform, while garnering a long list of international awards.

At the post-concert reception hosted by Braxton and Debbie Moncure in their tall Foxhall home, Schwizgebel noted that he is the son of a Chinese mother and a Swiss father, both artists. He said he is delighted to experience New York, where he now lives while studying with the famed Emanuel Ax (another YCA discovery) at The Juilliard School.

Among the guests: Bulgarian Amb. Elena Poptodorova; Walter Cutler and his skilled photographer wife Didi; designer Anna Weatherley and Dr. George Contis; artist Sheila Saleh; Cynthia Howar; Linda Reynolds Stern (widow of violinist and conductor Isaac Stern); Dr. Milton Corn and concert artist and YCA trustee Gilan Tocco Corn; Adam Corn and Bay Fang; Shahin Mafi; Patty and Jerry Sowalski; Dr. Ahmad and Judy Esfandiary; Annie Totah; and Richard Rymland and his wife Catherine Wyler, the producer daughter of famed director William Wyler.

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Lindsey Davidson, Reina Pratt and Bethany Fraser

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Hunt Parties and Wedding Fêtes Guests celebrate the Old Dominion hunt races at ‘Leeds Manor Farm’; classic hunt country weddings are the epitome of style

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eslie and Bob Yarbrough hosted a

cocktail buffet at their circa 1740 “Leeds Manor Farm” in Hume, Va., on a crisp sunny evening before the Old Dominion hunt races. Originally built by Lord Fairfax, the single-story structure on the northwest side of the residence was built as a private suite for a subsequent owner, Chef Justice John Marshall, in 1833.

Guests Deanna and Charles Akre, Laura and Paul Dietrick, daughter Mariel Yarbrough, journalist Betsy Parker and Tom Neal, Linda and Stuart Robeson, Kathie and Paul Russo and Helen and Charles Steele mingled on the expansive front lawn. Others ABOVE: Kara Davis and Bretton sighted: Cecilia and Scott Dove Molenaar recently wed at “Hillmount,” (owners of Scottish deerhound the bride’s parents’ home in The Plains, Va. RIGHT: Va. Gov. Robert McDonnell Foxcliffe Hickory Wind, the 2011 and Sheila Johnson are working to Westminster Kennel Club Best in preserve the Civil War battlefield at Mt. Show Grand Champion); Donald Defiance, Va. (Photos by Vicky Moon) Glickman; Douglas Wise and her children Hattye Hytla, John Hartz and Midora billows of flowers Hartz; artist Sandra Forbush and Gus Forbush; and lots of space to stretch out and and local lawyer Blair Howard.

As the “jump” circuit closed and awards were dance.The nuptials distributed, a very young lady emerged from what of Alden Denegre has traditionally been a hard riding, hard partying and Gavin Moylan bunch of boys. (Yes “boys,” as many refuse to grow kicked off the season in mid-May.The reception up!) Annie Yeager, 19, from the town of Marine was held at “Foxstone,” the home of her parents, on St. Croix, Minn., a 2011 graduate from the Penny and John Denegre. (Penny is a jointvery horsey all-girls Foxcroft School, was a star. master of the Middleburg Hunt.) A 2009 history Annie had never galloped a race horse before graduate of Duke,Alden met Gavin, a professional but took to it immediately while training with horseman, on the show circuit.

Don Yovanovich. Her very supportive parents Cricket Bedford and Neil Morris tied the flew to Virginia to watch her race and bought her knot in early June at a wedding hosted by Lisa and a new horse named Mischief. By the end of the Zohar Ben-Dov at “Kinross Farm,” their Marshall, Virginia point-to-point season she won Hurdle Va., home. Lisa’s 13-year-old son, Harrison Horse of the Year, Leading Novice Rider Over Whitner, escorted his mother down the aisle; her Fences and Amateur Novice Rider Champion. daughter Louise Whitner, 10, was a flower girl.

Then the social season took a turn with Also in the wedding party were her friend, Polly several elegant country weddings featuring Riemenschneider Gardner, who was matron of

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honor, and Neil’s son, Wright Morris, 10, who was best young man.

Following a romance of several years, the couple recently purchased a four-bedroom home to accommodate their blended family — which was facilitated by Cricket, an agent with Thomas and Talbot Real Estate in Middleburg. Formerly known as “Pan D’Or,” the 54-acre property is close to Neil’s racing and steeplechase training barns at Kinross.

Shannon and Jim Davis hosted a wedding reception for their daughter Kara and her spouse, Bretton Molenaar, set against a breathtaking backdrop of a sunken garden and vast summer house at their home “Hillmount” in The Plains, Va. The effervescent mother of the bride, a volunteer nurse and avid rider, didn’t miss any detail down to the coordinated linens and flow of the reception. The father of the bride is president and CEO of James G. Davis Construction.

And finally, we have word that equestrian Paige Johnson, the daughter of BET co-founders Sheila Johnson and Robert Johnson, is engaged to Dudley Payne, a prominent local amateur golfer. A May 2013 wedding is in the works, with no word on the location.

Speaking of location, Sheila Johnson was in Middleburg to greet Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell when he came to town to announce a public-private partnership with the Civil War Trust and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority to preserve Mt. Defiance.The property, a key portion of the Middleburg Battlefield, was the site of a Civil War cavalry battle on June 19, 1863.

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HOME SWEET HOME: Supporters of historic St. John’s Episcopal Church toasted Jack and Michele Evans, Hugh Newell Jacobsen and Dale and Melissa Overmyer, who opened their beautiful homes to the hundreds of visitors who supported the 81st annual Georgetown House Tour, sponsored by Washington Fine Properties. Stephanie Bothwell and Frank Babb Randolph served as co-chairmen. The Patrons Party helps raise muchneeded funds for the church, which was built between 1796 and 1804.

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A STAR TO REMEMBER: One of the best performing arts galas in many a year was made even more memorable when two-time Tony Award-winner Pa i Lupone “sang for her supper” a er picking up Signature Theatre’s prestigious Stephen Sondheim Award.

DESSERT SURPRISE: Following a tribute performance by showbiz colleagues, the star of “Evita” and “Les Miserables” wowed the crowd with Sondheim’s “Anyone Can Whistle” and Kurt Weill’s classic “September Song.” A bravura performance indeed!

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PACIFIC TIES: Over 1,000 congressional and community leaders celebrated Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at APAICS’ 18th annual gala, featuring a keynote by President Barak Obama, who opened the evening with a crowd-roaring “mahalo.” “Being here makes me feel like home” he said, a er referring to his Asian American brother-in-law Conrad Ng and half sister Maya Sotero Ng. “[The Asian American] community makes this country feel like home.” HONORED: Karen Narasaki and S. Floyd Mori were among honorees receiving awards. AA-LIST: Emcee Leonardo Nam, Grace Park and American Idol’s Heejun Han, who opened with an a cappella national anthem.

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“WAIT WAIT … FORSOOTH!” More than 200 celebrated the Folger Library’s 80th anniversary by taking part in a dramatic departure from the norm for such affairs: a hilarious spoof of the NPR show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me” wri en

by Aaron Posner and Ken Ludwig.

EXTRA CREDIT Roxanne Roberts played host with Carl Kassell as judge and panelists Donna Denize and Arthur Phillips joining in along with good-natured “surprise participants” from the audience, including Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey.

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SPECIAL CELEBRATION: British Ambassador Sir Peter Westmacott and Lady Westmacott welcomed guests in honor of Dame Jillian Sackler, the British-born arts doyenne whose late husband’s munificent gi forms the nucleus of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s Asian collection. THE BUZZ: Members of the benefit commi ee spoke of the many royal and VIP guests who are expected to a end the gallery’s 25th anniversary festivities in November.

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NATIONAL ALZHEIMER’S GALA Renaissance Washington | PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON BRAIN POWER: This year’s Alzheimer’s Association gala drew powerful voices in support of finding a cure for a disease that affects 5.9 million Americans. Former California first lady Maria Shriver and daughter Christina Schwarzenegger presented the award, named for Maria’s father, Sargent Shriver, who died from the disease, to University of Tennessee Women’s Basketball Head Coach Emeritus and advocate Pat Summi and her son Tyler. NBC News’ Meredith Vieira served as emcee for the event, which also honored Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Rep. Mike Burgess, Col. Karl Friedl and advocate Garre Davis.

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BACHELORS AND SPINSTERS BALL City Tavern Club | PHOTOS BY ALFREDO FLORES MINGLING SINGLES: A social soirée of note since 1949, this festive invitation-only event draws Washington’s most eligible singles for a night of revelry while raising funds for a worthy cause. This year’s event benefited TAPS, an organization that provides a support network for families that have lost loved ones in military service.

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ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP MIXER Muléh, Washington D.C. | PHOTOS BY BEN DROZ COCKTAILS WITH A CAUSE: Organic, modern, green — and drool-worthy. The fashionable home furnishings and clothing store, Muléh, kicked off the summer season with a happy hour and fashion fundraiser benefiting the Environmental Working Group. Washington-based philanthropist and new board member Ami Aronson toasted the advocates, supporters and shoppers who turned out for this cu ing-edge environmental advocacy organization.

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RESEARCH SCIENTISTS DR RYUJI UENO AND SACHIKO KUNO ARE TRANSFORMING AN HISTORIC WASHINGTON ESTATE INTO A HUB OF PHILANTHROPY PHOTOS BY TONY BROWN

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n a town where everyone knows ever yone, lowprofile research scientists Dr. Ryuji Ueno and his wife Sachiko Kuno caused quite a stir when they purchased one of Washington’s most highprofile historic homes.

“Ever may,” with its sprawling 12,000 square feet of Federal-style architecture, stately rooms and manicured grounds covering 3.5 acres in Georgetown is one of Washington’s most storied estates. Built in 1801 by land baron Samuel Davidson, it began as a 13-acre lot reaching down to Rock Creek.

Over the years, the property changed hands many times, undergoing a number of changes along the way, including almost being transformed into a hotel. Fortunately, better heads prevailed and the idea was abandoned.

In recent years, the mansion became the source of neighborhood squabbles as Henry Belin, the son of owner Peter Belin, a former diplomat and Hindenburg

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survivor, struggled to keep up with skyrocketing costs by renting it out to the public for special events. After years of struggling to keep his family home, Belin finally gave up and listed it for a record $49 million. When the price finally dropped to $22 million, Ueno and Kuno stepped in.

The Japanese couple has actually been in the area since 1996 when they founded successful biotech firm called Sucampo in Bethesda. Since then, they’ve quietly built a life in Washington, purchasing several properties, including “Halcyon House” in Georgetown and discreetly giving to such causes as the Washington National Opera and the Smithsonian. “When we decided to move to the U.S. we looked at a number of cities, but fell in love with Washington, D.C.,” says Kuno. “It’s a beautiful, international city full of culture, and it has many of the important resources needed for our work.”

By purchasing “Evermay,” the couple is expanding their philanthropic endeavors, mainly through their own charity S&R Foundation, which Kuno will be heading full time after stepping down from Sucampo.Where once “Evermay’s” manicured gardens and elegant interiors served as backdrops to visiting dignitaries and private dinner parties, they will now provide a permanent home for the foundation.

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LEFT: Dr. Ryuji Ueno and Sachiko Kuno say they plan to preserve Evermay even as it becomes the new home of their foundation.

(Photo by Kyle Samperton) ABOVE: Previously completely painted teal with gilt trim on doors and crown moldings, the dining room made for a glamorous backdrop for Jazz Era parties. An Asian screen print enhances the intricate Chinoiserie-style detailing on the original wainscoting and fireplaces.

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ABOVE: Clockwise from left: The library features a stunning sculptural pendant light. English wood paneling dating from the 1700s in the living room creates a warm and inviting space for intimate meetings. Six fountains are located throughout the grounds, including one from noted sculptor Carl Milles whose elegant piece in black granite erected in 1960 greets guests in the circular courtyard. The stairwell features decorative volutes on the bottom and curlicues on stair stringers.

BELOW: A view into the garden.

Originally designed by Nicholas King, the landscape includes rare flowers and shrubs.

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“The beautiful, historic environment of ‘Evermay’ is perfect for the foundation, as it reflects its core values,” Kuno. says “We intend to preserve its historic integrity and carry out all necessary restoration projects on the interior and exterior of the estate. We view ‘Evermay’ as a national treasure and take our responsibility as the next owners very seriously.”

Established in 2000, S&R Foundation seeks to give rising artists and scientists with a leg up in their careers, an instrumental factor in the couple’s own success.

“We were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to conduct scientific research thanks to grants and support from others,” Kuno says. “Our success today is partly due to that support, and through the foundation we can show our gratitude for the generosity extended to us by returning it to others.”

That support comes mainly in the form of the Washington Award, which provides $5,000 in cash prizes, and events like the foundation’s newly created “Overtures: S&R Foundation Artist Concert Series,” at the Kennedy Center. This year’s show

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featured recent winners Char Prescott, an Alexandria cellist, and soprano Maki Mori. Promising scientists are also recognized with the Ueno Award. Kuno notes that the first winner, Dr. Akira Sawa, has gone on to become a fully tenured professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Art and science go hand in hand for the new owners of “Evermay.”When he’s not discovering biotechnological breakthroughs, Ueno collects race cars and once used to get behind the wheel. “Since I was 3 years old, the innovative technology and beauty of cars have attracted me most,” he says. For Kuno, the correlation is obvious.

“I believe that there are quite a few similarities between the arts and sciences, particularly in the creative process,” she says. “Researchers go through multiple rounds of testing to get a formula or product right, and composers tirelessly test their pieces by playing and adjusting until they are satisfied with the result.”

Such perfectionism will surely play a part in the future of “Evermay” as this dedicated pair sets their sites on growing S&R into a world-class philanthropic endeavor. “Of course, science will be our lives’ work,” says Kuno, but “since the S&R Foundation has been established for a decade, we view the next few years as the next chapter.”

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Historic Sales Olga Hirshhorn sells her ‘Mouse House’ on Embassy Row; the Friendly and Folger clans’ mansions change hands, and an 1820s Federal sells in Georgetown

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THE DISTRICT Olga Hirshhorn, the widow of financier and art gallery founder Joseph Hirshhorn, sold MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE NW for $480,250 to Moustafa Soliman and Lynn Skzynear. The 500-square-foot pied-à-terre

is the former Argyle House carriage house, which Mrs. Hirshhorn, 92, turned into a cozy apartment she affectionately called the “Mouse House.” She used the property to house pieces from her international modern art collection, which includes works by Picasso, Matisse and Daumier. The listing agent for the transaction was John Taylor of Chatel Real Estate Inc. The historic former residence of Alfred and Jean Friendly at ST STREET NW in Georgetown sold for $6.2 million.

Mrs. Friendly was a noted philanthropist and longtime Washington hostess while her husband was a Pulitzer-Prize-winning former managing editor of the Washington Post. The estate, built in 1805 and truly a historic masterpiece, awaits interior customization although significant structural improvements have been completed since the last owner, Marc Teren, purchased it and began renovations. The property sits on a three-quarter-acre lot and features a carriage house, a detached garage and plenty of room for a pool or tennis courts. The listing agent was Mark Fleisher.

Originally built for investment banker and former ambassador to Belgium John Clifford Folger and his wife Katherine, WOODLAND DRIVE NW in Massachusetts Avenue Heights recently sold to Obama Administration chief information officer and former Microsoft honcho Steven Van Roekel for $6.9 million. It was the first time the John-

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Shakespeare scholar Gail Kern Paster sold 4935 Linnean Avenue NW for $2 million.

Russell-Pope-designed mansion has been on the market since its construction in 1935.

Pope is also known for designing the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art.The property sits on 1.3 acres and features a pool, a pool house and a summer dining room with French doors opening onto gardens designed

by Rose Greely in 1942. Washington Fine Properties’ Dana Landry was the listing agent while Alex Venditti and Paul Pike of TTR Sotheby’s represented the buyer.

David Helfrich bought ST STREET NW from LaMaison Partners for $4.5 million.

Helfrich is the president of Avenue Title Group and a former sales agent at Washington Fine Properties. The house was previously owned by American-tycoon-turned-politician

Al Checchi and his wife Kathryn. Checchi, a

native Washingtonian, began his career at the Marriott Corporation and eventually became co-chairman of Northwest Airlines. In 1998, he ran for governor of California, but lost. The sixbedroom East Village Federal mansion features a stately library, a top-of-the-line kitchen and a living room overlooking beautifully landscaped gardens. Washington Fine Properties’ Ellen Morrell was the listing agent while TTR Sotheby’s Julia Diaz-Asper was the buyer’s agent.

Gail Kern Paster, a Shakespeare scholar and director emerita of the Folger Shakespeare Library, sold LINNEAN AVENUE NW in Forest Hills for $2 million to David Ehrenfest Steinglass, an executive at American Capital.

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that are perfect for entertaining. The house includes a full lower-level apartment with both front and rear entrances. Beasley’s Jim Bell was the listing agent.

MARYLAND Carol Grose and Jeffrey D’Souza sold WOODLAWN AVENUE in the Kenwood neighborhood of Bethesda for $3,175,000.

Mr. D’Souza is a partner at Oryx Investments.

The six-bedroom French Country house was built in 1958 and includes a chef ’s kitchen, a woodworking room, a billiard room, a solarium and beautifully landscaped private gardens.

Mark Fleisher of Long & Foster was the buyer and seller’s agent for the transaction.

Carol Grose and Jeffrey D’Souza sold 5304 Woodlawn Avenue in Kenwood for $3,175,000.

The stately Colonial, built in 1940, offers seven bedrooms, gracious entertaining spaces and a beautiful walled garden. The property was listed by Ellen Abrams and Anne-Marie Finnell of Donna Evers & Company.

Michael Salzberg bought RD STREET NW for $2 million from Mark Wiesner. Salzberg is president of Salco Mechanical while Wiesner is a professor at Duke University. The three-bedroom Federal townhouse was built in 1820 and has been completely restored, expanded and modernized for contemporary living. Features include

reclaimed pine floors, an open gourmet kitchen, a marble fireplace and a lovely bluestone patio.

The listing agent was Coldwell Banker’s Jeff Mauer, while Long & Foster’s Sarah Brodsky was the buyer’s agent.

Fred and Ann Robinson sold ASHMEAD PLACE NW to Fred Mitzner for $1,375,000. This classic three-bedroom townhouse in Kalorama was built in 1915 and features original details, a completely remodeled kitchen with high-end appliances, Waterworks fixtures throughout, a front garden and rear patio as well as large rooms

VIRGINIA Former Blackwater spokesman Steve Capace sold his home at

CHINQUAPIN ROAD in McLean for $2.8 million to Donald Lansky. Mr. Capace lived in the seven-bedroom Colonial when he was involved with the private military security firm (now known as Xe Services) but has since moved to New York where he is an attorney. The property includes a home theater, an elevator, a pool and a sports court, but also boasts such high-level security features as a 50-kilowatt generator, a guard room with an executive surveillance system and a concrete safe room. The listing agent was McEnearney

PROPERTY LINES NEWEST MOST EXPENSIVE IN NOVA There’s a new top of the heap in Northern Virginia. McQuire Woods LLP partner Thomas Brown Jr. listed BOYLE LANE in McLean for $17.9 million with the help of Long & Foster’s Maryanne Polk. The six-bedroom, nine-bath house sits on a five-acre gated estate overlooking the Potomac.

PRIZED POSSESSION Helen Hecht, the widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, Anthony Hecht, has listed NEBRASKA AVENUE NW for $2,495,000. The stately fivebedroom Colonial was built in 1942

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and sits on beautifully landscaped grounds featuring a glass garden conservatory. The house contains a large family room with a cathedral ceiling, a library and a sunporch with a Gothic-inspired ceiling. Evers & Company’s Ellen Abrams and Anne-Marie Finnell are the listing agents.

FRIARY ON THE SEVERN Phillips Seafood Founder Steve Phillips and his wife Maxine have listed their 26,000-square-foot Georgian house in Annapolis for a cool $32 million. The couple bought the property in 2002 for $2.5 million, but transformed the 1922 seven-

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bedroom estate into the opulent mega-mansion it is today. The former Capuchin monastery sits on 23 acres overlooking the Severn River and features a 60-foot infinity pool, an oversize ballroom, conservatory, indoor spa, library, game room, wine cellar, secret vault, nine-car garage, tennis court, threebedroom guest house, tea house and a six-slip private dock with a boat lift. TTR Sotheby’s David DeSantis and Maria-Victoria Checa are the listing agents.

‘TREEHOUSE’ FOR SALE Worldrenowned architect Travis Price is selling his Forest Hills resi-

dence at CHESTERFIELD PLACE NW for $3,450,000. Price describes the three-bedroom property, built in 2004, as “New York loft meets treehouse.” Held up by two red steel columns bolted to concrete footers, it is suspended above the ground and gives the illusion of being on the brink of tumbling into Rock Creek Park.

Features of this modern marvel include a master bedroom surrounded by glass on four sides, unpainted maple plywood walls and a spiral staircase connecting all four stories. The property is listed

by TTR Sotheby’s John Mahshie and Ron Mangas.

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ASKING PRICE $8,500,000 LISTING AGENT William F. X. Moody and Robert Hryniewicki, 202-2431620; Washington Fine Properties

Sited on over four private acres, careful attention to detail is clear throughout, starting with the impressive entrance through columns to a paved motor court. Double doors open to the dramatic two-story foyer flanked by twin sweeping staircases.The interior is gracious with soaring ceilings, fine materials, moldings and antiques highlighting the principal rooms and private quarters.The extensive grounds include a large terrace, outdoor kitchen, heated pool and guesthouse overlooking a lower garden that is set up for kid’s recreation activities.

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ASKING PRICE $4,750,000 LISTING AGENT Karen Barker, 703-9288384; TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

A spectacular five-acre lot on a lovely private lane in Great Falls provides the perfect setting for this exceptional six-bedroom, six full- and three half-bath custom home by premier builder, The Galileo Group. The exquisite selection of materials and beautiful millwork enhances an exceptional floor plan and room design, culminating in a large estate home with an inviting atmosphere.

This sensational home is conveniently located near Great Falls Village Centre and Great Falls National Park.

GREAT FALLS INTERPROMONTORY ROAD GREAT FALLS VA In a serene setting, this magnificent country estate has miles of horse and fitness trails, private access to the Potomac River and a five-stall barn.

Surrounded by lush landscaping and private gardens, this Georgian-style home has a grand staircase foyer accenting formal and casual spaces while separating the master wing from the upper level bedrooms. A magical solarium, six fireplaces, gourmet kitchen, family room, screened porch, den, main-level master suite and finished basement with a home theater system and wine cellar, complete a stunning home that is sure to delight nature lovers.

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MY WASHINGTON George Vradenburg, Philanthropist and Co-Founder, USAgainstAlzheimer’s

HOW DO YOU DECIDE TO SUPPORT A PARTICULAR CAUSE? We want to make a difference so we invest in projects and organizations where we are playing a leading role ... or where we are impressed with the passion and leadership of others. Trish and I are personally taking ownership of stopping Alzheimer’s by 2020 through our new organization USAgainstAlzheimer’s. She’s the “D,” I’m the “R,” but the Alzheimer’s cause is definitely non-partisan.

George Vradenburg and his wife Trish

DO YOU AND YOUR WIFE FOCUS ON DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF YOUR JOINT MISSIONS? She says I’m the brains, but we all know she is. I bring the facts; she leaves them laughing. Humor is what people remember, particularly in this town where everyone has an intense position on everything from the price of cucumbers to the perfect population of polar bears.

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HOW ARE DONORS RESPONDING TO YOUR “NO GALA” CONCEPT WHEREBY GLITZY PARTIES ARE REPLACED BY DINNERS WITH RESEARCH SCIENTISTS? They’re very popular, much different from the BIG gala experience: intimate, fun and interactive.

Donors walk away engaged and enraged ... but well-fed. Can’t beat that combo.

WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE A BUDDING PHILANTHROPIST? Get rich, and then get richer.You may never have enough to heal the world, but more wellleveraged resources can enable you to make a difference.

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MY TOP SPOTS Washington is coming home for me, living as I did with my grandparents off Military Road while my Dad fought in the South Pacific, and then again when I was stationed at the Naval Air Facility at Andrews AFB right after marrying Trish.

1. Favorite Museum: The Phillips Collection, of course (I’ve chaired the board for almost a decade). It’s an intimate experience with great works of art, intriguing lectures, Sunday afternoon music and those hip First Thursdays.

2. Favorite Restaurant: Any Ashook Bajaj restaurant, but our current favorite is 701.

3. Favorite Saturday Morning Activity: A haircut with Urna at Salon Rafik in Georgetown.

4. Favorite Theater: Theater J, where the brilliant Ari Roth mounts an amazing array of fascinating plays (Trish is on the board). Also Studio Theater (Joy Zinoman’s genius venue).

5. Newest Non-Alzheimer’s Venture: The University of the District of Columbia’s board of trustees (the lynchpin of an affordable public higher education for District kids).

Least Favorite Late-Night Outing: Picking up Trish outside the D.C. City Jail after she was arrested with city leaders and other voting rights activists for protesting our “taxation without representation.”

Favorite Time and Place: Anytime, anywhere with Trish (and our puppy, Kiddo).

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