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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.
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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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