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

THE DISH Under the sea.....................................

WHO'S NEXT Dr. Craig Chiefetz.....................

LIFE OF THE PARTY Phillip's Collection Gala and After Party.....................

Corcoran Ball ......................................................

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

Signature Theatre's Sondheim Awards ........................

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

THE PHILANTHROPIC Washington's most generous givers..............................................................

BOOK EXCERPT Bret Baier's 'Special Heart'....

MONUMENTS MEN The Icemen Cometh .......

LIFESTYLES FASHION EDITORIAL Life of Leisure ...........

TREND REPORT Palm Print ..........................

TREND REPORT Fruit Punch ........................

WASHINGTON SOCIAL DIARY POLLYWOOD

AROUND TOWN Celebration of Caring ..............

CHARITY SPOTLIGHT Eileen Shields-West

Musicia y Suenos ................................................

on Refugees International ........................................

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

HOLLYWOOD ON THE POTOMAC White House Correspondents' Association Weekend Events...................................................

EMBASSY ROW Baptism of Fire ....................................................

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

MS Women on the Move Luncheon ..........................

The Tennis Ball ..................................................

STK Grand Opening ...........................................

Degas Exhibit Opening .........................................

ARC Reception ...................................................

Parties! Parties! Parties!........................................

PERFECT PITCH Stormy Weather ...................

Helen Hayes Awards ...........................................

HOME LIFE

OVER THE MOON Hunt Master ......................

INSIDE HOMES Ray and Shaista Mahmood's Taj Mahal-Style Virginia Residence ......................

The International Pavillion at the Preakness.................

'Confidence Code' Party ........................................

REAL ESTATE NEWS Great Estates .......................................................

SPECIAL FEATURES

City Dance Benefit ...............................................

OPEN HOUSE June Market ..............................

PROFILE IN PHILANTHROPY

Peet's Coffee Opening............................................

Steve & Jean Case focus on personal giving ..............

Bachelors & Spinsters Ball ......................................

MY WASHINGTON Chef JoséAndrés ...................................................

ON THE COVER Steve and Jean Case (photo by Tony Powell). TOP FROM LEFT "Life of Leisure" fashion editorial (photo by Dustin Lilley. See inside for full crew and shopping credits); Mark and Sally Ein with Reed Krakoff and Emily and Mitch Rales at the Phillips Collection Gala (Photo by Tony Powell); Jean and Steve Case (Photo by Tony Powell). ABOVE KENZO Palm tree-print faux textured-leather shoulder bag ($760); kenzo.com.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Back to the Benefactors Every year, as we compile our With summer warming up, we’re looking Philanthropic 50 list, Washington’s many forward to a bit of relaxation and our generous benefactors inspire us to open our talented team of fashion experts kept busy wallets a bit further. It’s good to see that with an aim to provide wardrobe inspiration given how well the wealthiest are doing in whatever your summer plans may be. And this economic recovery that many are sharing speaking of inspiration, if you’re looking to their good fortunes. And some like Richard E. add a little whimsy to your closet check out Marriott and his wife Nancy Peery Marriott our trend reports featuring fruit- and palmhave even signed on to the Giving Pledge printed youthful selections. to give away more than 50 percent of their As usual, our team party coverage takes wealth in their lifetimes; they join locals Steve you to all the best soirées of the season. and Jean Case, David Rubenstein and Vicki You’ll enjoy the National Museum of and Roger Sant in the pledge.

Women in the Art’s “Nine Thousand and Local educational institutions, arts Nine Hundred Nights” and the Phillips organizations, hospitals, social services and Collection’s tribute to American masters.

Nancy Reynolds Bagley and MSNBC’s Disrupt environmental causes figured fairly heavily in We also attended Refugees International’s With Karen Finney host at the WL sponsored our compilation of recipients this year, but annual dinner, where the honoree, chef/ Foreign Policy Magazine/UN Foundation White House Correspondents’ Association pre-party other groups continue to reap the benefits restaurateur José Andrés had us all on our soiree. (photo by Tony Powell) of our donors’ considerable largess.Many give feet and got to enjoy a cup of joe at the staggering figures through their foundations such as Teresa Heinz, grand opening of Peet’s Coffee. whose multiple foundations distributed about $75 million to Stay tuned next month when we cap off the social season hundreds of worthy causes. Another star benefactor, Betty Brown with Tudor Place’s garden party, DC Vote’s 3 Star Ball, Step Casey, recently gave more than $29 million to establish a state-of- Afrika’s gala, CharityWorks’ 100 Point Vintage Wine Dinner, the the-art integrative medical center in Montgomery County.

Washington National Opera Ball and Meridian Center’s Global But one doesn’t have to be a billionaire to make a difference. Leadership Awards.

Many Washingtonians also lend their considerable skills and high profiles to give back, most notably those in our hospitality industry and athletic community. Our special mention of these generous individuals shines a spotlight on other ways to give of one’s time and expertise, not to mention the fact that technology is making it easier than ever to donate — even if it’s just $1 online. A little Nancy R. Bagley truly does go a long way for organizations that need it the most.

Editor in Chief We somehow found the time to get to the plethora of parties Readers wishing to contact Nancy Bagley can email her celebrating the White House Correspondents Association’s 100th at nbagley@washingtonlife.com annual dinner and you won’t want to miss our extended coverage of the political, media and entertainment world stars we rubbed elbows with on the various red carpets.

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FYIDC The Insiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guide to Washington

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ike behar georgetown opening If there is one sartorial symbol of Washington,D.C., it is the power suit, and nothing completes the look like a finely tailored dress shirt and eye-catching ties.

Ike Behar, a New York-based label that recently opened their first Washington outpost in Georgetown, specializes in customized, patterned dress shirts and ties, and aims to make the fitting process simple.Though new to the District, they have already attracted celeb clients such as the Nationalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gio Gonzalez. 2900 M St. NW, 202-808-8715, www.ikebehar.com

Charm/Reddz Popup

JUST CHARMED

Jaclyn Masonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;charmingâ&#x20AC;? Georgetown bauble collection has made its way to Bethesda

with a new permanent popup inside upscale consignment shop Reddz Trading. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a match made in retail heaven with jewelry big-hitters like Jennifer Zeuner, Gorjana and Kenneth Jay Lane on hand to kick up Wendy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Redâ&#x20AC;? Ezrailsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many â&#x20AC;&#x153;gently usedâ&#x20AC;? designer finds.

7801 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814, 301-656-7333.

new stadium for kastles

CHANGE OF COURT

After three undefeated seasons at The Wharf, the Washington Kastles will play their 2014 season indoors at the Charles E. Smith Center in Foggy Bottom. The venue change brings several new features for fans, including 672 extra seats, baseline scoreboards and instant replays.. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With loads of new amenities, fans even closer to the court, and a higher level of comfort, Kastles tennis will be bigger, better and even more exciting than ever before,â&#x20AC;? says Kastles owner Mark Ein. 600 22nd St. NW, 202-483-6647, tickets start at $8, www.washingtonkastles.com

Boomerang Pirate Ship Cruises

YO HO HO AND A BOTTLE OF FUN If a pirateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life be the one for you, head on down to the Georgetown Waterfront and sail the seas aboard the newest party cruise vessel in the Boomerang Fleet. The fireengine-red, custom-built â&#x20AC;&#x153;pirate shipâ&#x20AC;? serves as a family-friendly treasure hunt cruise vessel during the day and an adults-only party boat at night. Kids can enjoy some simple line dancing, face painting and water cannon battles, while parents take in views of some of the capitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous landmarks. Evening sailors can take advantage of a deejay, full bar and ample space (capacity of 84 would-be brigands) on two open decks. Visit www. boomerangpirateship.com for cruise dates and pricing.

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OPERA BALL

This annual celebration of opera and culture marks the traditional end of the social season. Japanese Amb. Kenichiro Sasae and Mrs. Sasae serve as this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambassadorial hosts with Sachiko Kuno and Phebe Novakovic sharing chairmenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duties. Guests have the option of attending intimate black-tie dinners hosted by ambassadors around the city before dessert, dancing and performances kick off at the hostsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; residence. Japanese Ambassador;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Residence; 10 p.m.; black-tie; $1,000; sponsorships start at $5,000; contact Caitlin Wagner, 202-416-8496, operaball@kennedy-center.org

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MERIDIAN GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AWARDS

This annual dinner honors those whose â&#x20AC;&#x153;actions and practices exemplify the positive impact individual and corporate leaders can have in their communities and the world â&#x20AC;Ś and are champions of Meridianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief that all citizens can be global leaders.â&#x20AC;? The Meridian International Center will honor Egyptian businessman ShaďŹ k Gabr with the Meridian Global Citizen Award and Rep. Sean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keefe with the Meridian Corporate Leader Award at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event. Four Seasons Hotel,Washington D.C.; 6:30 p.m. reception and 7:15 p.m. dinner; $500; sponsorships start at $2,500; contact Olivia Dorieux, 202-450-5899, Olivia@ cblaneygroup.com.

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BARK BALL

The Washington Humane Society is encouraging all dog owners to let their pets out for a night on the town at the 27th annual Bark Ball. Guests are treated to a reception, three-course seated dinner, presentation, auctions, dancing and, of course, a bark bar for the pups.

Washington Hilton; 7 p.m.; black-tie; $150-$250; sponsorships start at $2,500; contact Heather Theunissen, htheunissen@washhumane.org

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FORDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THEATRE GALA

VIPs from politics, music, stage and screen gather at this annual awards ceremony to honor two surprise guests with the prestigious Lincoln Medal.

Guests will enjoy a stellar performance at the historic theater followed by a seated dinner at the National Portrait Gallery. Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery; 7 p.m; black-tie; contact 202-434-9523, gala@fords.org

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FYIDC | THE DISH

UNDER THE SEA Fabio Trabocchi keeps things personal by sharing the seafood dishes he ate while on vacation in Europe with diners at his newest venture, Fiola Mare.

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Fabio and his wife Maria run all three restaurants as a team, with Maria running the front of the house and Fabio manning the kitchen (Photo by Tony Powell)

A raw bar and seafood counter display fresh selections daily (Photo by Greg Powers)

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or chef Fabio Trabocchi, restaurants are more than a career or even a way of life. With three Italian concepts now under his belt, Trabocchi has made it clear that his restaurants are deeply personal ventures about far more than good food.

“All my restaurants are places that my wife, kids and I would like to go if we were choosing a restaurant for dinner, and they are a representation of our life,” Trabocchi says. “Fiola is our upscale dining option where you go for a special occasion or just to have a great glass of wine and pasta. Casa Luca is a more traditional, casual family place with lots of history behind it. And our latest, Fiola Mare, is where we would go to eat seafood on vacation in Spain or Italy.”

The largest of Trabocchi’s dining destinations, Fiola Mare is smartly positioned on the Georgetown waterfront where diners can take in sweeping views of the Potomac while enjoying fresh seafood imported from locations that range from Maine and the west coast to France, Spain and elsewhere on the Mediterranean Sea. “There was a creation of a unique opportunity that just made sense for Fiola Mare,” Trabocchi says. “The water view, the location and the amount of windows overlooking the river indirectly created the perfect venue for the seafood concept I had wanted for so long.”

Growing up in the Le Marche region of Italy, Trabocchi was surrounded by seafood and always had an affinity for cooking it. It doesn’t hurt either that a diet driven mainly by seafood is a healthy

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way to live, which Trabocchi says is important to him. Though he doesn’t have a favorite seafood (he loves it all) he believes every day should start with oysters and enjoys the simplicity of grilled branzino. and other succulent fish.

Despite a costly kitchen fire in early February, Fiola Mare opened to rave reviews and has attracted celebrity diners, including first lady Michelle Obama and White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett; chef Trabocchi declined to comment on what they ordered but it was reported that they dined with three other friends and called the evening “a girls’ night out.”

Trabocchi believes in allowing his customers to determine his signature dishes based on popularity and demand, and says that there is at least one dish from the Fiola menu that he had to have on Fiola Mare’s menu or his customers would be upset: lobster ravioli. But he is also excited to introduce diners to “Italian-style raw seafood.”

“We are developing a section of the menu called tutto crudo, which means everything raw,” Trabocchi says. “It has been popular in Italy forever but it is just now enterting American markets. It can be as simple as a piece of tuna with olives seasoned with oil, salt, pepper and a hint of lemon, but it is delicious.”

A raw bar and market counter are available for guests who like to personally select their dinners. Just don’t get too attached to any one dish becaause Trabocchi changes his menu daily.

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WHO’S NEXT Dr. Craig Cheifetz, Inova Fairfax Hospital

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here are very few physicians who, by the ripe age of 40, can boast of having a 13-page C.V., founding a medical school campus and winning three major teaching awards – all while coaching more than 30 Little League baseball teams. If an award for mastering work/life balance existed, medical visionary Craig Evan Cheifetz might be its strongest contender. A husband and father of three teenage sons, the Centreville,Va. resident pioneered Inova Hospital’s medical school campus in Fairfax and its concierge program (VIP 360), delivering highly personalized care to athletes, diplomats, political figures and business executives. He also wrote the business plan for Virginia Commonwealth University’s Regional School of Medicine at INOVA, where he’s now dean. But buyer beware, a visit to his elite practice might inevitably end up with a sermon involving baseball analogies or batting averages.

WHY TEACHING? I love to care for my patients, but when I teach I can impact medical students, who will then impact tens of thousands of patients during their lifetimes.With so many physicians retiring, what we’re doing is the most effective model of putting more welltaught and trained doctors into the pipeline.

a lot of ordinary moms and dads who just want a more hands-on approach. We’re helping many get out of a downward spiral so they don’t risk diabetes or heart disease further down the road.

WHAT’S BEEN YOUR MOST DIFFICULT DAY HERE? On 9/11, we were just getting ready for a teaching conference when we heard the news about the Pentagon. We went into disaster response mode and cleared as many beds as possible, discharging as many patients as we could.

AT YOU WERE TOLD YOU WERE TOO WHY IS PERSONALIZED MEDICINE SO I think we cleared 216 beds that day. UnfortuYOUNG TO BE DEAN Pretty much. I’d done IMPORTANT? What we’ve learned is that so nately, nobody came. my undergrad at American University, medical many CEO’s spend so much time at work and school at SUNY Buffalo and had won three on travel that they don’t take care of their bodies. WHAT’S NEXT? A $5.5 million advanced big awards during my residency at Georgetown So, in 2005, we launched the Executive Health medical simulation center here on campus to and chief residency at Inova. I’d taken the initia- practice here, and five years later, the concierge train up-and-coming physicians in new techtive to write the 170-step business plan for the medicine model with VIP 360. For a subscrip- nologies and skills for every type of scenario, first regional medical school campus in Virginia. tion fee, we now have 2,100 members, including including high-risk situations.

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P H OTO BY D E B RA T R O E L L

WHY MEDICINE AS A CAREER? I never had any doubt I’d do anything else. I grew up the son and grandson of classic, old-school doctors and my brother’s the chair of pediatrics at Duke. For my dad and granddad, it was always about taking care of the individual, their total wellness. The blend of science, caring for people and individual wellness only became a more consuming passion as I grew up.

It took a few years, but I got there, and I now oversee a teaching staff of 540 doctors.

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

2014 ANNUAL GALA + AFTER PARTY Thank you for helping The Phillips Collection raise $800,000 to sustain the development and implementation of our award-winning education initiatives, serving children, families, and teachers in Washington, DC, and across the country.

2014 AnnuAl GAlA Honorees Art appraiser and collector Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Fashion designer and photographer Reed Krakoff

2014 AnnuAl GAlA sponsors The Phillips Collection wishes to acknowledge the generous support of

GAlA HosTs Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Tanner

GAlA CHAirs Mariella and Michael Trager

GAlA BeneFACTors

Altria Group

Henry H. and Carol Brown Goldberg

Bloomberg

Mitch and Emily Rales

Sally and Mark Ein

Total Wine & More

Lindsay and Henry Ellenbogen

Mr. and Mrs. George Vradenburg

The Adler, Wurtzel, and Zickler Families

Cindy and Evan Jones

Arent Fox LLP & JM Zell Partners, Ltd.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr.

Arnold & Porter LLP

Vicki and Roger Sant

Capital One Bank

Mildred Beatty Smith, PhD

Clear Channel

US Trust

Gina and John Despres

The Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Fischer

MediA sponsor

Left, top to bottom: Director Dorothy Kosinski, Honoree Reed Krakoff, Kay Kapoor; Board Chairman George Vradenburg, Chef de Cuisine Todd Grey; Gala Hosts Vicki and Bruce Tanner; Jennifer Serenyi, Doug Jarrard, Patty Jarrard, Nick Serenyi; Maureen Witter, Satsuko Young, Lori Jenkins; Right, top to bottom: Gala Chairs Michael and Mariella Trager; Maria Pica Karp, Honoree Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Dr. Louis D. Kaplan; Ambassador of France Franรงois Delattre, Trustee Mary Howell; Trustee Richard Thompson, Roger Sant, Honorary Board Chair Vicki Sant, Vernon Jordan; John Mason, Michelle Sanchez, Carl Bedell

LIFE OF THE PARTY WL-sponsored and Exclusive Events | National Museum of Women in the Arts Gala, Corcoran Ball and more!

Dorothy Kosinski, Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan, Reed Krakoff and Mariella Trager at the Phillips Collection Gala; Reed dressed the three women in his designs.

(Photo by Tony Powell)

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George and Trish Vradenburg.

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Jeanine and Michael Hayden

PHILLIPS COLLECTION GALA Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL AMERICAN GLAM: This year’s gala celebrated the new “Made in the USA” exhibition (the most comprehensive installation of American art ever undertaken there) and to honor two pioneers of American art and design: fashion designer Reed Krakoff and fine arts appraiser/curator Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan.

Guests dined in galleries decorated with themes based on the masterpieces displayed there. Occassions Catering collaborated with chef Todd Gray to create the sumptuous feast. DANCE PARTY: Though the dinner was elegant and bu oned-down, the a!er party at Anderson House was glitzy and loose, with a packed dance floor that included French Amb. François Delattre and his wife Sophie mixing it up with young patrons in sequined gowns, velour suits and even an Afro wig.

Arlene and Bob Kogod

Roger and Vicki Sant with Ann and Vernon Jordan Joel Friedman and Jenny Bilfield

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George and Anne Colclough

Jim Gail and Lisa Barry (Photo by Ben Droz)

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French Amb. Franรงois Delattre and Sophie Delattre Wayne and Catherine Reynolds

Andrew Martin and Katie Rost

Trish Yan and Jonathan Taylor

Tony Podesta and Kate Chieco

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Anastasia Dellaccio, Lindsey Mask, Jana Sedlakova and Fran Holuba

Jim Hoffman and Julia Farr

THE CORCORAN BALL Corcoran Gallery of Art | PHOTOS BY BEN DROZ

Ally Behnke and Richard Carvalho

END OF AN ERA?: Glamorous gowns and fabulous flowers shared the scene with an unmistakable sense of nostalgia at this year’s Corcoran Ball as guests gathered for one last time before the famed gallery ceases to exist as an independent arts institution in Washington. STAY TUNED: A delicious dinner followed by dancing to music that ranged from traditional waltzes and fox trots to the explosive sounds of M.H. & His Orchestra kept spirits high as patrons both old and new discussed the likely fate of one of the capital’s most storied social events.

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Nancy Stevenson and Dr. Roger Stevenson Annie Totah Mark Lowham and Lola Reinsch

Bulgarian Amb. Elena Poptodorova and Empress Farah Pahlavi

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NMWA SPRING GALA National Museum of Women in the Arts | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL

Juliana May and Susan Fisher Sterling

IMPERIAL SPLENDOR: It came as li le surprise to those gathered in black tie and ball gowns that 2014 Ball Chair Annie Totah had completely outdone herself again at this year’s “9,009 Nights” themed gala, held this year under the gracious patronage of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Farah Pahlavi, widow of the late Shah of Iran. The evening was inspired by a Moorish/Marraskesh theme, and hosted by this year’s Diplomatic Chair, Her Excellency Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador of Bulgaria.

Very fine French wines were poured, and artistic flourishes reigned completely, such as models in white top hats and stilts, with gallavanting dancers and roaming instrumentalists who got patrons furiously dancing and the typically sedate museum shaking to its foundation. Guests had the opportunity to view the decorative arts collection, “Works by Hand: Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts,” over pre-dinner cocktails, followed by dinner and dancing, and a splendorous auction co-chaired by Charo Abrams and Carole Margaret Randolph.

Chris and Teresa Carlson

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Princess Yasmine Pahlavi, Stephanie Schmitt and Princess Noor Pahlavi

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Susan Stamberg

Signature Theatre Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer Gala co-chairmen Ann and Tim Keating Jonathan Tunick

SIGNATURE THEATRE’S SONDHEIM AWARD GALA Embassy of Italy | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL

Bonnie and Ken Feld

SCORING SONDHEIM: Each year Signature Theatre chooses an honoree who has contributed to the legacy of award-winning lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim. This year’s recepient was Jonathan Tunick, who has scored most of Sondheim’s musicals. That achievement is impressive enough but we can’t help noting that he is also one of only 11 people known as an “EGOT” for having won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards at some point in their careers.

Norm Dicks, Suzie Dicks, Laura Denise Bisogniero and Italian Amb. Claudio Bisogniero

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Joan Mulcahy and Lola Reinsch

Ted Austell and Richard Hauser

Jennifer and George Lowe

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Melissa Moss and Jonathan Silver

Craig Pascal and Victor Shargai with Kelly and Dirk Burghartz

Bob Perry and Rep. Jim Moran

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Christine Lagarde and David Rubenstein (Photo by Yassine El Mansouri)

Laysha Ward and Michael Kaiser (Photo by Yassine El Mansouri)

Philippe Auguin and Don Brown

KENNEDY CENTER SPRING GALA Kennedy Center | PHOTOS BY ALFREDO FLORES GOLDEN ERA: After 13 years during which one of the country’s leading arts organizations enjoyed a budget surplus and a flourishing of arts and culture, it was fitting that soon-to-depart Kennedy Center president Michael Kaiser would be fêted with his favorite musical, “Camelot,” in concert. “Perhaps you could work for the federal government to help balance the budget,” KenCen chairman David Rubenstein joked after a sumptuous dinner. “Or the highest calling, the world of private equity.” Kaiser followed up modestly, calling his success a group effort before noting that incoming president Debra Rudd would “bring new life and innovation” to the storied institution. After enjoying a performance of Lerner and Loewe’s classic starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, guests joined the entire cast upstairs for cocktails and dancing, topping off an evening that raised a record $2.7 million for the center.

Swedish Amb. Bjorn Lyrall and Emadeleine Lyrall with Nobuko Sasae and Japanese Amb. Kenichiro Sasae

Ann and Richard Kane

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Jane Harman and Jeh Johnson

Norman and Deni Mineta

Manuela Simeto and Linnea Head

Jay Frame and Faryar Shirzad

Rachel Haas and Eric Hill

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t all started with a simple act of kindness.

Thirty-five years ago, Sue Morton went to the Thai border to see for herself the plight of refugees who were escaping from the horrors of Cambodia’s Pol Pot regime. She witnessed first-hand Thai troops forcing back thousands of Cambodians — or, as Morton later wrote, “the living skeletons of men, women and children” — who had been trying to flee to safety. She gathered together a small group of friends and started a campaign to aid the increasing number of refugees and Vietnamese boat people in Southeast Asia. Morton met with President Jimmy Carter who agreed to use the Seventh Fleet to rescue refugees at sea. “I cannot let your people die,” he said.

And they had indeed become “her people.” Morton could not let go of the notion that refugees — wherever they were — needed lifesaving assistance. And so in 1979, Refugees International (RI) was born. Today it is recognized as the leading independent advocacy organization for the 53.9 million refugees, internally displaced, and stateless people around the world.

One of Morton’s first recruits was the legendary actor Sam Waterston. As Sam tells it: “I’d made a movie about the Cambodian War — ‘The Killing Fields.’ Sue found me at a publicity event for the movie. She let me know in no uncertain words that I had to do something with what I’d learned by making that movie.”

Since that first embrace, Sam has remained on the Board of RI. He says, “How we respond to refugees is a measure of the world’s humanity and how refugees are doing is a measure of the world’s health.”

Richard Holbrooke, the late American statesman, who served as RI’s chair from 1996 to 1999, followed Morton’s example by convincing

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AOL founder Jim Kimsey to succeed him as chairman; he also recruited the versatile actor and director Matt Dillon to focus his talents on refugees. A board member since 2008, Matt has accompanied RI on missions to South Sudan, Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan was persuaded by a friend to join the board in 2001. She explained: “I wanted to be part of an organization that was speaking out so effectively for the victims of a world filled with conflict.”

RI is unique among humanitarian organizations in that it accepts no government or United Nations funding. This allows the organization to say what it wants and to advocate for things that others may shy away from because it would harm their ability to deliver services. RI has a staff of just 18 people, but is known to be nimble and punch above its weight.

Some of our proudest successes have been: mobilizing an American humanitarian airlift in

the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide (1994); increasing U.S. aid for displaced Iraqis by more than 800 percent (2008); persuading the U.N. to feed and protect 60,000 forgotten survivors of the Haitian earthquake (2010); shining a light on atrocities committed by South Sudanese troops on their own people (2013).

Sadly, as 2014 begins, there is much more work for RI to do. In Syria alone, we are witnessing a displacement crisis once unfathomable. Inside Syria, 6.5 million people have fled their homes, and another 2.5 million have crossed into neighboring countries as refugees. Every day, 5,000 more make that same dangerous journey. RI has been to Syria and the surrounding region six times in the past two years, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Egypt to assess the dire humanitarian needs of Syrians living there.

You might think it impossible that such a small organization could have an impact on such an enormous crisis. Yet RI’s relentless advocacy has made a difference. In 2013, for example, RI was the first group to document the unmet needs of Syrian women and girls, many of them survivors of rape. This prompted western countries to release millions of dollars in aid aimed at preventing and responding to sexual violence. RI will return to the region for as long as it takes to make the voices of vulnerable Syrians heard.

As José Andrés, RI’s 2014 McCall-Pierpaoli honoree, stated so well at our 35th anniversary dinner on April 30, the displaced “don’t want our pity; they want our respect.” They want to be heard, and RI will make sure that they are.

Eileen Shields-West is chairwoman of the board of Refugees International.

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The group undertakes at least 12 field missions each year, most recently to Syria where it was instrumental in ge ing $11.9 million in aid from Britain’s Department for International Development to prevent gender-based violence, and to Myanmar a!er demanding that the U.S. renew an import ban on that country’s gemstones because they fuel human rights abuses there. This work, along with the efforts of four humanitarians (Rep. Ed Royce, Dr. Seri Bakkar, chef José Andrés and actor Forest Whitaker) were honored at RI’s 35th anniversary dinner featuring award presentations, video updates of the organization’s work around the world speeches from notable guests.

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tupid Pet Tricks” is how previous generations of female journalists described their assignments as women working their way up the newsroom ladder.

So, we asked female journalists at the Welcome to Washington: A Salute to Women in Journalism’s party kicking off “nerd prom” weekend at the home of Story Partners’ Gloria Dittus if they ever had to do any such stories.

“No,” S.E. Cupp of CNN’s “Crossfire” said. “The closest segment to a pet story I’ve gotten is duck hunting with Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” and hunting in Alaska where I got a nice 200-pound black bear.”

Across town, Tony Goldwyn, “President Fitzgerald Grant” on ABC’s “Scandal,” chatted with hosts Kimberly Dozier, Alan Fleischmann, Timothy Shriver, Karen Finney and Vivian Schiller at the Washington Life-sponsored Foreign Affairs Magazine/Devex Global Party supporting The United Nations Foundation.

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Friday’s wake-up call was 8 a.m. for Politico’s Celebrity Playbook Breakfast with Mike Allen and Cosmopolitan Editor Joanna Coles showcasing “Kid President,” to whom Allen said “I have a question that I’ve never asked before and I will never ask again — How does the White House taste?”

The question was in reference to YouTube sensation Robby Novak, a.k.a “Kid President” who licked the walls of the White House on his way to meet President Obama. Don’t ask.

“I don’t do a De Niro impression,” said Joel McHale jokingly in his remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “but I do an impression of Robert De Niro’s agent. You ready? Here it is. Ready? Ring, ring. He’ll do it.” Saying “yes” to virtually anything included De Niro’s visit to Washington to premiere his new HBO documentary: “A Father. A Son. A Legacy. Remembering a Legacy,” hosted by Politico at Longview Gallery.

Katherine and David Bradley of Atlantic Media hosted an elegant dinner for “grownups” at their residence that included Jim Lehrer, Jake Tapper, Andrea Mitchell, Grover Norquist and Sebastian Arcelus who plays Lucas

Goodwin in “House of Cards.”Yes, that counts.

“I never get fed up going to these parties,” said the Republican National Committee’s Sean Spicer at the PEOPLE/TIME party at The St. Regis Hotel. “It’s like Christmas in Spring for Washington celebrities.” Guest Patrick Duffy (think Bobby Ewing on CBS’s “Dallas”) was a hit.When asked if he was still a good guy in his “Dallas” role, he directed us to his son for the answer. “If he wants to stay in the will, he’ll say what’s good for him,” he jokingly added.

At the Google/Netflix soiree at The United States Institute of Peace, Scott Foley of “Scandal” fame was stunned when we suggested that maybe real-life scandals in Washington went beyond the show’s take. Reluctantly

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agreeing he said: “You’re right. Sometimes you can’t make that [stuff] up.” Meanwhile, MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow talked about being a TV host. “I have tremendous respect for the people that have done this day in and day out for years and years,” he told us. “It really is a discipline of tremendous technical complexity.”

“Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell , Chef “Spike” Mendelsohn of The Food Network, Candian Amb. Gary Doer and a host of TV personalities and members of Congress enjoyed a tasting menu throughout the evening at The Hill’s red

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Tyler Beardsley, Ian Alberg, Mary Alberg, Todd Flournoy and Ed Hill

carpet reception at The Embassy of Canada, which also featured DJ Connor Cruise — yes, that one — who kept things moving.

The Creative Coalition celebrated at STK with a slew of celebs including Drake Bell from “Drake & Josh,” “Arrested Development” star Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Daly from “Wings” and Wendi McClendon-Covey from ABC’s new hit show “The Goldbergs” along with her co-star Sean Giambrone.

All were among the many celebrities pushing funding for the arts on the Hill.

“As an Indian-American, I have always

believed that diverse viewpoints being heard is essential to journalism and democracy. I’ve been on the host committee for “Our Voices” since its inception five years ago,” said Politico’s Peter Cherukuri at the Voto Latino party co-hosted

by Maria Teresa Kumar and David Sutphen at the Newseum with Wilmer Valderrama.

The “sleeper” party at LOOK on K Street was hosted by ABC News & Noticias Univision.

The evening featured two-time Latin Grammy-winner Foncseca, who dared guests to dance. In Washington, dancing is a dare. The unbuttoned-down event rocked the town.

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Justin Mikita and Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson

John Leguizamo Patrick Duffy Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina

MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow

Susie Westmacott and British Amb. Peter Westmacott

Connie Milstein and Rev. Rick Curry

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Impact Arts & Film Fund hosted the “Funny or Die” after party (“No Pictures, No

Sponsors, No Press, No Hassle Party”) at Baby Wale, while “The next generation of tech, media, Hollywood and politics” came together at the Carnegie Library for the 2.0 New Media party hosted by Event Farm and HyperVocal.

We missed the annual Running of the Chihuahuas taking place Saturday morning on the waterfront to attend the Annual Garden Brunch hosted by Tammy Haddad, Ted Greenberg, Kevin Sheekey, Hilary Rosen, Steve and Jean Case, Alex Castellanos, Anita Dunn, Bill Knapp, Steve McMahon, David Adler and Franco Nuschese at the home of Mark Ein. According to actress Anna Chlumsky of “Veep,” it was a “hoopla.”

The “ Nerd Prom” brought out cast members from HBO’s “Veep,” ABC’s “Scandal” and Netflix’s “House of Cards”; politicians and

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newsmakers; celebrities, models and musicians including Jessica Simpson, Diane Lane, Irina Shayk, N’Sync’s JC Chasez, Gloria Estefan, Brad Paisley, Katharine McPhee, Michelle Branch and Will.i.am. As guests paraded down the corridors afterward, the President and Joel McHale were brushing up comedy zingers like Obama’s “Let’s face it Fox, you’ll miss me when I’m gone. It’ll be harder to convince the American people that Hillary was born in Kenya” and McHale’s “Hillary Clinton has a lot going for her as a candidate: She has experience, she’s a natural leader.

As our first female president, we could pay her 30 percent less.” The anti-dinner folks showed up at the BuzzFeed “Bowties & Burgers” kids party across town where Dean Cain and cast members from “House of Cards” and others were indulging in “selfies.”

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Tammy Haddad, Dr. Ronald DePinto Affleck , Fred Armisen , David Gregory and Chuck Todd as well as Olympians and actors who kicked up their heels to the music of band Jimmy Eat World — kinda like throwback Thursdays — while others were enjoying a Vanity Fair nightcap at Firenze House, the residence of the Italian Amb. Claudio Bisogniero and his wife Laura.

We were grateful for the morning-after parties: Thomson-Reuters at The Hay-Adams and the Allbritton Politico Brunch at the Georgetown manse of Elena and Robert Allbritton, where House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi rolled up her sleeves to show us those “tattoos” dissing the Koch brothers from the video that aired during the correspondents dinner.The video went viral with over 1 million views. “MOMWUT?” tweeted her daughter. But we got a first-hand look when we asked her to bare her arms — oopsie, all gone! Just like the weekend.

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Canadian Mounty and Spike Mendelsohn

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Baptism of Fire Feisty wives, symbolic flowers and a new book on an old embassy

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CHALLENGE ISSUED: There was no leion Massachusetts Avenue NW, surely settling in for Germany’s new built in 1930 by Sir Edwin Lanseer ambassador to Washington, Peter Lutyens, Britain’s preeminent archiWittig, lately chief of the German tect of the 20th century. The book, mission to the United Nations. As “The Architecture of Diplomacy: he put it, “Immediately after arrivThe British Ambassador’s Residence ing I had a kind of baptism of fire in Washington” by Anthony Seldon and Daniel Collings, was published with the visit of Chancellor [Angela] last month.

Merkel” — in other words, every The house — a blend of the ambassador’s nightmare.

English country tradition and VirIf the name of the ambassador’s ginia Colonial — has been the focal wife, Huberta von Voss-Wittig, rings a bell it could be because two years point of the special relationship ago she earned her own share of between Washington and London, very public attention when she and played host to numerous royal visiSheila Lyall Grant, wife of Ambastors including Queen Elizabeth II, sador Wittig’s British counterpart, and been the venue of some memoset up an online petition to Asma rable social events. Though Lutyens’s Al-Assad, wife of Syrian President structure is not as old as Pauline Bashar Al-Assad, urging her to stop Bonaparte’s Hotel de Charost in the hiding behind her husband and speak rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, it out for peace. has the distinction of being among They made a companion video the very few embassy residences The Embassy of the Ukraine’s floral arrangement created some buzz that can still be seen on YouTube (not chanceries) in Washington speat the International Flower Mart at Washington National Cathedral. (“International letter and petition cifically built for that purpose (the (Courtesy photo) to Asma al-Assad”). Scenes of dying Spanish ambassador’s residence on children and devastation are juxtaposed with through, the design seemed somewhat ironic. Foxhall Road NW, designed by the archishots of the Syrian dictator’s glamorous wife Blue and white flowers, the national colors, tect Rafael Moneo, is another that comes to even as an unidentified female narrator urges split the country sharply into north and mind) her, “For the sake of your people stop your south — blue in the north, yellow in the husband and his supporters.” The petition south. In fact, the current ethnic turbulence collected more than 85,000 signatures and in has created an East-West split, so the line response to some raised diplomatic eyebrows, doesn’t reflect the situation; but a design Voss-Wittig told CNN that the appeal and that wasn’t a reminder of the current divithe video “isn’t done by us as spouses,” but as sion would surely have been better. “women who care, and as women who have an international profile ourselves.”

PURPOSE-BUILT: And speaking of ambassadors’ wives, when Sir Peter Westmacott was the SAYING IT WITH FLOWERS: Among the floral British ambassador in Paris, his wife Susie arrangements from many diplomatic mis- commissioned a book on the historic Hotel sions at the annual International Flower de Charost, acquired by the Duke of WelMart at Washington’s National Cathedral lington as the British embassy residence was a colorful display from the embassy in 1814. When the Westmacotts moved to of Ukraine that attracted a lot of atten- Washington, Lady Westmacott organized the German Ambassador Peter Wittig (Courtesy photo) tion. Given what the country is now going publication of a similar history of the house

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CAPITOL HILL FLAVORS: The 32nd annual Gourmet Gala raised nearly $1 millionto continue the work of the March of Dimes, which has been a key contributor to the 10 percent decrease in pre-term births since 2006. “Our bright li le firecracker wouldn’t have happened without March of Dimes,” said Jill Lamothe, mother of 2014 March of Dimes National Ambassador Aidan Lamothe. The shy 6-year-old appeared briefly on stage with his parents to donate his piggy bank toward the cause before burying his ginger head in his mom’s skirt. COOK-OFF: Nearly 40 members of Congress and their spouses participated in the pre-dinner cook-off competing for prizes in six categories, with guests voting on the coveted People’s Choice Award, which went to Rep. Filemon Vela and Rose Vela for their very popular tacos de Chamorro. They were so popular that every time we went to the table to taste one they were all gone.

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DISRUPTING PHILANTHROPY

Steve and Jean Case are changing the new order of philanthropy and entrepreneurship through the transformative approach of impact investing.

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t was a chilly night in 1991 and a few hundred propeller heads like me had gathered at the Hard Rock Café in Penn Quarter for free beer and wings to celebrate the first anniversary of a fledgling start-up called America Online.

Attired in blue jeans and an AOL T-shirt, Steve Case was working the room, passing out sign-up disks.

Having earned his marketing chops at Proctor & Gamble and Pizza Hut, the young CEO was promoting the next technological frontier — Internet connectivity — that he confidently said would change all our lives.

For some of us it already had. Our computers were logging on to the chirps of “You’ve Got Mail!” AOL’s gaming modules and chat rooms were suddenly devouring hours of our day.

Steve Case and Jean Villaneuva had been hired by serial entrepreneur Bill Van Meister in the early ’80s, and after 10 years as co-workers,

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they were married in 1998 by the Rev. Billy Graham.

“That night was the kickoff for the 10-city ‘Getting America Online Tour’ and we were launching our Windows product,” recalls Jean Case, who was AOL’s chief of marketing at the time. “That was really a turning point for AOL and the basis of other tours to come.”

The rest is history, and a thing of Washington business legend.

AOL became the biggest online service provider in the world, with 26 million users at one point. At its peak, half the world’s Internet traffic went through AOL and its Northern Virginia servers.

After going public in 1992, the company’s shares took the couple and millions of other investors on a rocket ride — a bountiful 11,000 percent stock romp until famously crashing in 2000.AOL minted thousands of tech millionaires (including a few secretaries who got in early),

exponentially boosting the Northern Virginia economy and establishing the area as the nation’s leading technology incubator after Silicon Valley.

“Growing AOL in Northern Virginia wasn’t just about the tens of millions of people we were benefiting through the online service,” Mr. Case says. “There were at least a thousand people who became millionaires, probably more, so the whole community benefited.

Suddenly houses were being built, restaurants and dry cleaners opened.

The whole economy was lifted by its growth. That allowed us to focus on entrepreneurship and philanthropy in other places that needed it.”

The bounty of AOL stock wealth incubated a new breed of Washington tech philanthropists like then-AOL Chairman Jim Kimsey, former AOL Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis and AOL International Founder/ President Jack Davies. The Cases and Leonsises eventually became billionaires by putting their windfalls to work in startups and advanced-stage businesses, improving the lives of others through philanthropy and seeding entrepreneurship.

In the past two decades, Northern Virginia and especially Loudoun County — where AOL was founded — has surged on every economic level, doubling in population and now boasting the highest per capita income of any county in the nation. Technology now contributes about $60 billion per year in Gross Regional Product (GRP) to Northern Virginia’s economy.

Philanthropy was also impacted. “So many of the folks there for us in the early days have gone on to be great social activists and philanthropists themselves,” Mrs. Case

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says. “So, if we just add it up, we don’t just count how many millionaires were created.

We count how much has been given back.”

After catching up with the Cases last month, it was clear that the passage of time and their accumulated wealth had changed little about them. Kind, humble and polite, Mr. Case had just finished interviews that day with Bloomberg and Fox News Channel, and ever the marketing road warrior, was preparing to hit the road again. This time it’s a four-city bus tour in June as part of a pitch competition to place $100,000 bets on new start-ups in Detroit, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati.

“It’s important to remember that America was once a startup and became the greatest economy in the world, thanks to the entrepreneurs who built not just companies but entire industries in the heart of the country, “ he says. “Entrepreneurship is the secret sauce that has powered the nation, and is central to the American story.”

INVESTING WITH IMPACT The “Rise of the Rest” summer bus tour may be about seeding startups, but like everything the Cases do, it is also inextricably linked to the Case Foundation, launched 17 years ago.

“The mission for Revolution is actually the same as the Case Foundation: We invest in people and ideas that can change the world,” Mr. Case says. “We’re looking for big ideas that have big impact.”

Two years ago, the foundation launched its “Be Fearless” campaign, which combines the entrprenurial mindset to philanthropy. It then awarded $670,000 in grants, software and technology for the projects of 20 “fearless” changemakers.

A year ago, the Case Foundation embraced “impact investing” as a guiding principle. The idea is that companies aiming to create social as well as financial returns for their core business need not forsake making a difference in the world. “It’s something we’re spending a lot of time and energy on, collaboratively working across sectors, whether it be government or private initiatives working together for change,” Mrs. Case says.

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inclined “Millennial” class, the Cases are seeing a lot of disruptive innovation. “We have a new class of entrepreneurs, many of them Millennials saying, ‘I don’t want to just start another company, I want to change the world’ and they will start companies that will have impacts in ways we’ve never seen before,” Mrs. Case says.

‘There’s a role for philanthropy, for govenment and for entrepreneurship - the innovative, disruptive attackers who challenge the status quo’ Appointed to the President’s Jobs Council, where he chaired the efforts related to entrepreneurship, and named as the President’s ambassador for global entrepreneurship, Mr. Case has also championed entrepreneurship through his stewardship of the Startup America Partnership, now UP Global.

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entrepreneurship — the innovative, disruptive attackers who are challenging the status quo,” Mr. Case says.

Disruptive change is vital if Americans are to live in a peaceful, stable world, he adds.

“We need to create hope and opportunity in regions that lack it, such as the West Bank,” he says. “The best hope for Africa is to move past a grant mentality and into more of an investment opportunity — creating jobs and opportunities for people there.”

KNITTING TOGETHER PARTNERSHIPS Bringing broad awareness to causes and highlighting their progress in social giving lends itself to the concept of democratization, Mrs. Case says,.

Two separate Giving Challenges encouraged nearly 200,000 people to donate, and raised nearly $4 million for thousands of local causes. In addition to the dollars raised from the public, the foundation and its partners awarded $1 million to those that recruited the most donors and were most successful in using online and offline strategies to mobilize support.

“The White House and Capitol Hill are a few blocks away, so these public/private partnerships are easier to do because we’re here,” she says.

“That has really allowed us to knit together the different sectors.”

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President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation and sits on the board of the National Geographic Society. Her husband is a regent of the Smithsonian Institution.

“Both organizations are anchored locally but have a broader, global reach,” Mr. Case says. “We both were active in the search for a new CEO of National Geographic and a new secretary of the Smithsonian because we think that leadership matters. We’re helping both organizations reimagine where they’re going and how to best deliver on their missions in this new world.”

THE MILLION MARKER Since its founding 17 years ago, the Case Foundation has donated more than $100 million to charitable causes and provided countless support to pro-bono initiatives. That figure increases dramatically if you include the Cases’ personal gifts outside of the foundation, the sum of which they don’t wish to disclose.

In the foundation’s early years, one of its primarty areas of focus was the $22 million PowerUp initiative, whose goal was to to bring the power of technology and the information age to more than 1,000 underserved communities across the country.

Among their largest gifts, their donations have included $10 million to Habitat for Humanity; $5 million to the Special Olympics and $1 million

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to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

The Cases have often discussed the shift of the foundation from a traditional checkwriting approach to running strategic programs, including the Startup America Partnership, Be Fearless campaigns and its impact investing programs. The foundation selects its grantees based on how they align with its programming priorities for each year. Those priorities are set through a competitive business planning process held amongs the foundation’s 18 employees.

In recent years, the foundation has turned to Venture Philanthropy Partners to manage its Washington, D.C.-based giving.

Recent Case Foundation grants include $4 million to City Year-DC, an Americorps organization that provides full-time, yearlong service opportunities for young people; the District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP); and Share Our Strength’s Partnership to End Childhood Hunger in the Nation’s Capital.

The Cases say their biggest tangible successes in philanthropy have been investments in microgiving platforms: Network for Good, Causes, and MissionFish (now part of eBay).

Their investment of a few million dollars in these platforms resulted in more than $1 billion in micro-donations from everyday givers utilizing them, Mrs. Case says. In fact, this year Network for Good reached $1 billion in individual donations through online giving.

Other gifts have been profoundly personal.

In 2002, Steve’s brother, Dan Case, an investment banker who referred him to his job at the company that became AOL, died of brain cancer at age 44. The foundation has given nearly $6 million to Accelerate Brain Cure, a nonprofit that encourages new forms of collaboration to hasten the discovery of a cure for that disease.

A Hawaii native, Mr. Case donated $10 million to Honolulu’s Punahou School to build a new building named after his parents, Daniel and Carol Case.

Along the way, the couple has publicly admitted to a few grant-making failures.

PlayPumps International, a nonprofit focused on providing clean drinking water to rural African villages, was initially “a flop,” by their measure. “We talked a lot about the lessons learned from that failure,” Mr. Case says. “Then

we pivoted, and it ended up being successful.”

The clean water device worked in some communities but not others, so they combined it with another effort called “Water for People” which ended up succeeding.

THE GIVING PLEDGE The foundation’s studied approach to gifting and grant-making has earned praise from the media, with The Wall Street Journal editorially placing the Case Foundation on the same pedestal as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Warren Buffet lauded the couple on “60 Minutes” after they signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, committing to give at least half their wealth away in their lifetimes. But the couple will not comment on exact amounts.

“We competed against them [Gates and Microsoft] for many years, so we’re happy to finally join forces,” Mr. Case told CBS News’ Charlie Rose. So far, 140 billionaires ages 27 to 98 have done so, tabulating over $500 billion in pledges from the so-called “Billionaire’s Club.”

The couple is one of a handful of signatories from the Washington, D.C. area.

Private by nature, Mr. Case admits that for many years their foundation could not even be found online. “As bizarre as it may seem, we didn’t have a website, even for a foundation which was created by the Internet. The reason is that we had a view that giving should be done privately, not looking for credit.”

In some respects, the foundation is closedlipped about certain details of its giving. There is no endowment per se, as the Cases give annually to the foundation which spends down the money each year. The couple declines to comment on how much they give on average each year. And the application process is closed; nonprofits must be invited to apply.

In May, the couple attended a retreat with others who had taken the pledge,and both said the experience made them “just a little bit smarter and the giving a little bit more impactful.”

They learned that their public commitment to causes could be as vital as the money they distribute. “We realized that we’re not just allocating capital, but also time and reputation for causes we care about,” Mr. Case adds. “This has more impact than if we’re simply writing checks.”

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Mr. Case gives as an example the hybrid giving platform embraced by Revolution business partner Ted Leonsis, who actively promotes his e-Buddies initiative with Best Buddies International and other causes, deploying his stature as chairman of Monumental Sports and Entertainment and owner of the Verizon Center, the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards.

“The sports teams help excite the community and bring people together,” Mr. Case says.“It also points a giant spotlight on places of real need in the community, and both directly and indirectly drives more support.”

STALKING THE NEXT BIG IDEA The District-based investment firm Revolution LLC now has about 30 businesses in its portfolio of funded companies and makes about $200 million per year in new investments. Its leadership team also includes Revolution’s principal investors. co-founders Ted Leonsis, Donn Davis, David Golden and Tige Savage.

“The four of us have worked together for more than 15 years,” Mr. Leonsis says. “We genuinely like and trust each other and our skills complement each other’s.”

Launched in 2005 and targeting mostly “innovative technologies and disruptive ideas that have the potential to reinvent traditional consumer markets,” the most notable companies in its invested portfolio include LivingSocial, ZipCar, Exclusive Resorts and Miraval.

While many of its investments are directly involved with technology or are technology enabled, others are lifestyle-based. Revolution invested $22 million into Sweetgreen, the locally-based fast-casual restaurant chain which has become wildly popular among the Millennial set, even spawning its own Sweetlife Music + Food Festival concert each May, with proceeds going to local schools and sustainable living concepts.

“We like Sweetgreen because it’s giving people healthier options,” Mr. Case says. “We liked the fact that they are based in D.C. And by the way, they’re big users of technology. About 20 percent of the orders or payments are made through mobile phones. My guess is that in the next five years that figure could be 80 percent.

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think about restaurants.”

At 55, Mr. Case still appears restless — a ball of boundless energy striving to capture the next big idea. He says he’s found it and that we’re on the cusp of the Internet’s “Third Wave.”

Companies like AOL and Intel helped usher in the First Wave, which was getting consumers to understand what the Internet is all about and getting them connected. During the Second Wave, social concept companies like Facebook and Twitter built on top of the Internet.

The Third Wave — perhaps the biggest according to Mr. Case — is just beginning. It’s more about integrating the Internet into our daily lives, with hot new concepts like wearable computer devices.

“Areas like education, energy, health care, transportation and government services are big parts of the ‘new economy’ that haven’t really changed that much over the past few decades,” he says, predicting that “these industries are going to be significantly disrupted.

“So, “ he says, “we’re big believers in that Third Wave of companies, and that’s really what we’re looking to invest in.”

and targeting areas that need innovation, but I recognize that Jean has the heavier lift, because it’s more difficult to build a collaborative effort in the non-profit sector.”

‘WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE?’ In many ways, it’s hard not to discern from Mrs. Case’s equally impressive resume that she has become as big of a force as her husband in the worlds of cultivating entrepreneurship and philanthropy. This creates a unique dynamic.

“We are playfully competitive,” she admits.

“But we learned a long time ago that it was better if we divided and conquered separately. Steve has Revolution as his full time gig, and I have the foundation. There are plenty of areas where we play together, whether it’s investments or different things we take on. But having that division early on, we knew that would bring a lot more marital harmony, instead of sitting across from each other and saying, ‘Who’s in charge here?’”

Her husband agrees. “We know where the buck stops,” he says. “If Jean says we’re going to do something, we do it. It’s not like we have to send emails and then wait for somebody to respond. It’s also about clarity of focus. I’ve often said that Jean has a tougher job than me, because it’s actually harder to give money away in a smart, sustainable way than it is to invest in start-ups. I love what I do at Revolution

CREATING BALANCE The strains on their time, talent and energy might create stress for other couples, but the Cases have been successful at achieving a work/life balance, both for themselves and their five children, one son and four daughters from previous marriages.

“Fitting our children into our schedules hasn’t been hard,” Mrs. Case says.“We’ve always made a priority out of our roles as parents.”

As his youngest daughter moved away last year to start college, “This is the first year of ‘Emptynesterville,’ which is new for us.” Mr. Case says.“It’s enabled us to do more active travel than what we’ve been accustomed to.”

The couple resides at “Merrywood,” the sprawling riverfront estate in McLean that was one of the childhood homes of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and that’s where they spend their off-time in healthy pursuits.

“We’re active people,” Mr. Case says. “I was raised in Hawaii and Jean in Florida, so we’re both into biking, hiking and being on the water.”

Who has the cooler day most of the time?

“On any given day of the week, that could be a draw,” Mrs. Case says with a smile.

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year’s uptick seems to be holding with a rosy

Family foundations are the backbone of giving in the

outlook for the rest of 2014. That’s good news

nation’s capital, but technology is making it easier than ever for

for the many charitable organizations both near

individuals to give in any number of ways both large and small.

and far that have had to make do with shrinking

Our Philanthropic 50 benefactors give much and often, with

budgets and growing needs for far too long. But money for

special emphasis on healthcare, education, children and the arts.

many worthy causes is still tight, a holdover from government

Our list, by no means definitive, aims to highlight Washington’s

cutbacks. Thankfully, benefactors have continued to hold the

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ADRIENNE ARSHT Active in philanthropic circles in Washington, New York and Miami, Arsht’s major benefaction last year was $1 million to fund the TEDxMet performance and talk series at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the next three years. In Miami, she completed the restoration of “Villa Serena,” once home to former secretary of state and three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, which will be preserved as a national historic landmark. In Washington, the Kennedy Center’s Arsht Musical Theater Fund will present a new production of the four-time-Tony-winning production “Side Show” and a new production of “The Little Dancer,” which centers around the eponymously named Edgar Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art. YOUSEF AND ABEER AL-OTAIBA There can be no doubting the word of the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador when he says, “We spot a need and we try to help.” Recently in the news for co-chairing the effort to raise nearly $11 million for Children’s National Medical Center at its ball this year, the young, charismatic and well connected envoy also gets major credit for arranging a previous 150 million gift from his country to launch the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation there. Other grants he has shepherded include about $80 million for a cardiovascular and critical care tower at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Unioversity Hospital; $10.5 million for relief efforts in the wake of the Hurricane Sandy and Joplin, Mo. tornado disasters; and $1 million to support Joe’s Champs’efforts to improve learning environments in schools located in Washington’s highest-need neighborhoods. The Al-Otaibas have also provided consistent support over the years to Vital Voices and Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.

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efforts, including fighting malaria in Africa, saving the Brazilian rainforest, supporting female education in Afghanistan, endowing scholarships for Arab women at Georgetown University and helping refugees with housing and medical care in the Mideast. Justly renowned for their unparalleled hospitality, the glamorous diplomatic couple will once again be welcoming Washington VIPs to their home this fall when they assist the Bob Woodruff Foundation’s efforts to help veterans overcome health, unemployment and other problems so that both they and their families can thrive long after they return home.

BRET AND AMY BAIER The chief political anchor and anchor of Fox’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” and his statuesque wife cut a wide swath across Washington’s philanthropic scene. Last year, they received the inaugural Joseph E. Robert Philanthropy Award for “transformational philanthropy and advocacy for children’s health,” stemming from the couple’s wellpublicized ordeal over their infant son’s congenital heart defects. Since then, the Baiers have given generously to Children’s National on whose board Amy Baier sits. For the past six years, Bret Baier has served as emcee for the hospital’s popular Children’s Ball, and this year the couple helped raise nearly $11 million as co-chairmen with U.A.E. Amb. Yousef Al Otaiba and his wife Abeer. Bret Baier also supports children of wounded warriors as a board member of No Greater Sacrifice, and he says all the money he earns from his new book “Special Heart” will be donated to pediatric heart disease research and treatment.

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DAVID AND KATHERINE BRADLEY Atlantic Media Chairman David Bradley and his wife Katherine focus their philanthropy primarily on education in the District of Columbia, with a goal of helping build a citywide system of high-performing traditional public and public charter schools.

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education innovation. In April, CityBridge announced the first winners of Breakthrough Schools: D.C. to support educators and school leaders launching innovative school designs to personalize learning for students. David Bradley serves as a KIPP DC board member and is the longtime chairman of a child abuse treatment center in the Philippines (where he was a Fulbright scholar). The couple continues to support many local causes including the Kennedy Center, Washington Ballet and Georgetown University. They are founding investors in Venture Philanthropy Partners and created ServiceCorps for working professionals.

BILL AND BUFFY CAFRITZ Long recognized as one of the most active and engaged couples on the capital’s philanthropic and social scene, Bill and Buffy Cafritz are also among the most generous.

Mainstays of the Kennedy Center for many years, they recently made a substantial donation toward construction of the performing arts complex’s new addition.

The Cafritzes are also longtime benefactors of the Foundation for the National Institute of Health (Buffy Cafritz served as cochairman for the foundation’s Lurie Prize in Bio-Medical Sciences dinner in May with her longtime friend Deeda Blair). They also contribute to numerous other causes, including the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress and its Madison Council and The History Makers’ oral history project to educate the world about the struggles and successes of African Americans.

CALVIN AND JANE CAFRITZ Washington’s most philanthropic family has given away more than $400 million since 1970 to a wide range of organizations in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in the fields of community services, arts and humanities, education, health and the environment. The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, with assets estimated at $450 million, supports many causes — some long established, others new and cutting edge — with annual grants, mostly in the $10,000-$50,000 range. Recipients

of larger gifts, some totaling $1 million or more over the past few years, include Sibley Memorial Hospital, Planned Parenthood, Iona Senior Services, Washington Performing Arts Society, Washington Ballet, Teach for America, D.C. Primary Care Association, D.C. Jewish Community Center, Washington Area Women’s Foundation, the Kennedy Center and the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafr itz Program to sponsor promising young vocalists.

BETTY BROWN CASEY The head of the Eugene B. Casey Foundation has shifted giving away from the performing arts after donating millions to the Washington National Opera for a new home in the old Woodward & Lothrop department store that never got built. When the opera company decided to merge with the Kennedy Center in 2011 instead, she reluctantly allowed for the merging of funds but hasn’t been greatly involved since. In recent years her focus has been on the Casey Health Institute, which the foundation established with a $29.2 million gift to realize her vision of establishing a major integrative medicine center in Montgomery County. She also funded Casey House, a 65,000-square-foot facility in Gaithersburg that is the only inpatient hospice facility in Montgomery County providing comprehensive, specialized end-oflife care to patients with acute medical needs.

Other major gifts over the years include $35 million for the Casey Trees Project to “restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of the nation’s capital” and million-dollar grants to the Salvation Army for Hurricane Sandy relief; Montgomery Hospice; Friends of the National Arboretum; the Patrick Henry National Memorial in Brookneal, Virginia; The Virginia E. Hayes Williams opera prize endowment at the District’s Duke Ellington School; and her alma mater, Washington College in Chestertown, Md. A JAMES AND ALICE CLARK COURTNEY CLARK PASTRICK The Clark Charitable Foundation, directed by construction mogul A. James Clark, his wife Alice and their daughter, Courtney

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Clark Pastrick, has given a total of $2 million to Boulder Crest Retreat, a Bluemont, Virginia facility for wounded warriors and their families. The foundation’s mission to serve the military and veterans also includes $8 million for the USO Warrior and Family Center in Bethesda. The family donates to education, health care and other social service organizations that include “power lunch” programs at Highland View Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland; the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Excellence in Teaching Program; Catholic Charities; and Children’s National Health System. They have given an estimated $50 million to Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and the University of Maryland (much of it for engineering scholarships) over the years.

BILL AND JOANNE CONWAY Bill Conway, a billionaire co-founder of The Carlyle Group global asset management firm, knows a lot about making money, but when it comes to giving it away he’s had some doubts. That’s why he asked Washington Post journalist Bill McCartney in 2011 to query his readers for ideas on how to invest $1 billion to help the poor and long-term homeless in the Washington, D.C. area.

Conway and his wife, Joanne, may still be sorting through the thousands of suggestions that poured in; meanwhile they have given away $30 million for nursing scholarships at five local universities and the LAYC Career Academy; $1.75 million to Community of Hope for a healthcare center and healthcare workers’ development programs; and $5 million each to the Capital Area Food Bank and the Center for Employment Training at So Others Might Eat. The Conways also support higher education ($5 million to the University of Virginia) as well as Roman Catholic causes ($10 million to both Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of Washington).

DAN D’ANIELLO Self-made billionaire investor Dan D’Aniello keeps a lower profile than David Rubenstein and Bill Conway, his fellow Carlyle Group

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co-founders, but recently made the news when it was announced that he was pledging $20 million to help the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) re-locate to its first permanent headquarters. The gift will help the 75-year-old conservative think tank renovate and restore its new offices, the former home of financier Andrew Mellon, after it was purchased from the National Trust for Historic Preservation last year. The Beaux Arts-style building in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington will henceforward be named the Daniel A. D’Aniello Building. “Freedom, opportunity and enterprise ... are the watchwords of AEI,” D’Aniello told the Washington Post in February, adding that “if I would think about my life, I would think about it in just that way.” D’Aniello is also a contributor and board member of the University of Syracuse, his alma mater.

JACK DAVIES AND KAY KENDALL This longtime couple who wed last year after a seven-year courtship are well-known “power philanthropists” who live to give — and not just with their wallets (which, in Davies’s case as the founder of AOL International and a stakeholder in Monumental Sports, is considerably weighty). A former chairman of the Washington Ballet, Kendall is now involved with CityDance, which produces professional dance productions in the Washington metro area and provides free classes for thousands of students. She has also been active with THEARC, which strives to provide access to high quality health, education, cultural and social services programs in Anacostia. Davies is an education advocate and has supported Teach for America, See Forever Foundation and the Maya Angelou Charter School, among many other causes.

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chronic disease and disability, including autism and autoimmune disorders. They also fund research into Alzheimer’s disease causes and therapies, in addition to organizing and underwriting conferences for the scientific community and the public. Some of their research is featured in “The Age of Aluminum,” a film that Claire Dwoskin produced which describes aluminum’s link to an array of serious chronic health conditions and diseases, including breast cancer. Outside of health causes, they have co-chaired several capital campaigns and say they have donated generously to universities, educational organizations, historic preservation, youth services and the Fairfax Public Library Endowment.

Feld Family Foundation have focused on the performing arts with $1.2 million dispensed to the District’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts over the years as well as other gifts to Signature Theatre and New York’s Actor’s Fund and Theatre Development Fund.

The family has also given millions to the Salvation Army, American Red Cross, the Smithsonian Institution, Toys for Tots and Special Olympics. Their largest gift of record is $10 million to Boston University in 2010 to endow three professorships and support other mutually agreed projects. BU, which is Ken, Bonnie and Alana Feld’s alma mater, also received previous funding to build the Feld Family Career Center and Feld Family Skating Center.

HOSSEIN AND DALIA FATEH After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from George Washington University, Hossein Fateh went on to co-found DuPont Fabros Technology, one of Washington’s fastest-growing data center providers with clients like Microsoft and Yahoo. Over the years, the company has made Fateh and co-founder Lammot du Pont very wealthy indeed. But the Fatehs have put their fortune to good use, donating millions to various local and international causes, including Maret School (where Dalia Fateh is a trustee), Children’s Hospital and THEARC as well as New York’s Time in Children’s Arts Initiative, Los Angeles’ Skid Row, Cape Town’s Cool To Be Me children’s self-esteem program and London’s Popoli Khalatbari fund for humanitarian aid to earthquake victims in Iran. Last year, Dalia Fateh, a filmmaker whose company Salt Productions tackles social issues like human rights, women’s rights and the environment, served as chairman of the Meridian Ball.

RAUL AND JEAN-MARIE FERNANDEZ Last fall, the tech entrepreneur who founded ObjectVideo made headlines when he and Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank helped raise a record-breaking $4 million for Fight for Children’s Fight Night. That followed on the heels of Catholic Charities’ annual gala, which raised $2.1 million thanks to him and his stylish wife, Jean-Marie, who served as gala chairmen. The co-owner of Monumental Sports and Venture Philanthropy Partners also continues to fund educational and community nonprofits such as Boy Scouts of America, D.C. Public Education Fund, Georgetown University and The Community Foundation through his family foundation.

KEN AND BONNIE FELD Billionaire Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus owner Ken Feld is gradually handing over the reins of his entertainment empire to his three daughters, Alana, Nicole and Juliette Feld, and has intimated he’ll be focusing more on philanthropy in the years ahead. In the meantime, grants from the

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SHAFIK AND GEHAN GABR There are two types of giving: giving financially and giving of yourself.While Shafik Gabr is no stranger to financial philanthropy, his eponymously named foundation helps to fund 17 primary schools in Egypt, has treated over 60,000 medical care patients since 2006, inaugurated Cairo’s first free health center in 2014 and aids those working for women’s rights and human trafficking. Gabr places a strong emphasis on donating his time and expertise to youth. In 2012, he began underwriting the “East-West: The Art of Dialogue” initiative to bring young emerging American and Egyptian leaders together on extensive visits to Egypt and the U.S., as well

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as funding 50 percent of their collaborative projects with the purpose of building bridges for understanding and cooperation across cultures. In June, Gabr is to be honored by the Meridian International Center’s Board of Trustees, with the Meridian Global Leadership Award, for his groundbreaking work on building constructive dialogue between Americans and Egyptians.

MICHAEL AND ELIZABETH GALVIN The Galvins were honored at the 35th anniversary dinner for Refugees International this year, as one of only two couples in the Humanitarian Circle, the highest level of sponsorship for the event. They are also generous donors to D.C. Prep, a nonprofit educational resource for low-income Washington public school students, with their giving in the $250,000-$999,999 range.

Michael Galvin serves on the Capital Campaign Committee for the National Cathedral School, which raises funds for necessary restorations and additions to the girls’ school’s historic campus.

ANDE GRENNAN AND MAE HANEY GRENNAN With five children, Mae Grennan says schools, education and health are most important to her and her husband. As such, the couple is “extremely” active with Children’s National Medical Center.

Mae Haney Grennan sits on the boards of both the hospital and its foundation, and the couple share chairmen duties for the hospital’s Circle of Care program for donors who give $10,000 or more annually. The couple’s philanthropic work also expands to Palm Beach and Nantucket where they host annual events for doctors and donors with her parents. Ande Grennan’s company, Sperry Tents of Nantucket, sponsors the popular Children’s Hearing and Speech Center Barbecue at the Italian ambassador’s residence. In keeping with their beliefs, they also serve on the development committees for the River School and St. Patrick’s (where they co-chair the capital campaign and serve on the board of trustees. Washingtonians are also likely to catch a glimpse of the Grennans at benefits for Teach for America

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TERESA HEINZ The food products heiress and wife to Secretary of State John F. Kerry has maintained a low profile while dealing with serious health issues over the past few years but she retains active control over the largess dispensed by five separate foundations constituting The Heinz Endowments and Heinz Family Philanthropies (with more than $1 billion in assets) which she has directed since the death of her first husband, the late Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania, in 1991.

The Endowments distribute $65 million$75 million per year to several hundred recipients, mostly in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area (where the H.J. Heinz Company is based), focusing on six program areas — arts and culture; children, youth and families; common initiatives; community and economic development; education; and the environment. Grants range from $10,000 for small theater companies and neighborhood family services centers to multimilliondollar dispensations to major museums and universities. Mrs. Heinz is especially focused on the selection process involving the Heinz Family Foundation’s Heinz Awards, which gives annual grants in the $250,000 range for individual achievement in many fields.

The 2013 recipients were: a medical doctor whose writings offer a poignant look at the practice of medicine and the power of healing; an environmental advocate who is a leading voice on the intersection of global ecosystems and agriculture; an education innovator who developed one of the most unique online tools to personalize how each student learns; a chronic disease specialist who created a medical model that improved the delivery of services to rural and underserved communities; and a social entrepreneur whose nonprofit group provides digital employment to disenfranchised citizens.

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Culinary Champs

Area chefs are using their reputations and their skills to improve lives near and far.

Here, a bite-size helping of some culinary benefactors.

José Andrés – Minibar, Barmini, Jaleo

The larger-than-life celebrity chef is on a tear after his rousing speech at this year’s Refugees International dinner and a George Washington University commencement address video that had grads tickled pink. But his greatest achievement may well be his philanthropy. Through the years, this newly naturalized U.S. citizen who was named an “activist” in Time Magazine’s 2012 most influential people list has worked to find innovative ways to end hunger worldwide. As Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton named him culinary ambassador of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and most recently, his organization, World Central Kitchen, dedicated to ending world poverty and hunger, earned him Refugees International’s McCallPierpaoli Humanitarian Award in addition to a standing ovation.

Ris Lacoste – Ris

This hands-on chef also supports a myriad of local arts, culture, education, social services and health causes. Lacoste is often seen donating her talents at various galas and actively supports organizations such as Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, N Street Village, Best Buddies, Hospitality High School of Washington D.C., Jubilee Support Alliance and Jubilee Housing, Real Food for Kids, George Washington University Women’s Heart Center and more.

Spike Mendelsohn – Good Stuff Eatery, We the Pizza, Bearnaise

The Top Chef all-star supports “Chefs Move to Schools,” part of first lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign, which works with chefs and schools to teach children healthy eating habits. He also advocates for Horton’s Kids to help improve the lives of children in Ward 8, and regularly hires graduates from D.C. Central Kitchen’s culinary training program for his many restaurants. Look for Chef Mendelsohn to throw down against other celebrity chefs at this year’s Capital Food Fight fundraiser for D.C. Central Kitchen in November.

Richard Sandoval – Toro Toro, El Centro, Ambar

While building an empire that includes 20 top-rated restaurants, Sandoval has also found time to give back to various causes. Recently, he’s expanded his work with Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-Cap), which trains public school students for careers in hospitality. Part of this new role involves the establishment of a scholarship and a work-study program that would give students hands-on training at his many restaurants across the nation. Sandoval also helped the organization raise more than $1 million at its annual fundraiser in New York City.

Bryan Voltaggio – Volt, Range, Aggio

This Maryland native and James Beard Award nominee is just as dedicated to giving back as he is to his craft. The “Top Chef” alum’s primary cause has been Share Our Strength, an organization that seeks to end childhood hunger in America. For the past three years, Voltaggio has worked closely with S.O.S.’s No Kid Hungry campaign by hosting dinners at his restaurants that have raised $800,000 to feed children without access to healthy food. He is also a public advocate for S.O.S. and has testified before the Maryland State House Appropriations Committee for increased investments in the state’s school breakfast program.

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The French Laundry alum is frequently seen at Washington’s various charitable fundraisers, usually dishing out one of his flavorful hits for an important cause.

Besides donating his considerable expertise behind the pass at March of Dimes’ annual Gourmet Gala, Heart’s Delight and others, he also contributes his time to the S&R Foundation as a committee member, Hisaoka’s annual Make a Difference Gala and St. Judes Children’s Hospital.

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sister, Joan Hisaoka, who died of the disease.

Over the last six years, the event has raised more than $6 million, including a whopping $1.36 million last year. He has set a goal of $1.5 million for the September 2014 gala.

Last year Inova Health System honored his work with the “Building Our Legacy in Cancer Award” and he has also received the Smith School of Business Alumnus of the Year Award. Hisaoka has been the lead sponsor of the Teach for America gala for the last two years and remains actively involved with numerous charities including Venture Philanthropy Partners, New Schools Venture Fund, DC Public Education Fund, The ARC, Catholic Charities and D.C. Central Kitchen.

He sits on the board of directors of the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Teach for America, Maya Angelou’s See Forever Foundation and the advisory board of the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Most recently Hisaoka established the Robert G. Hisaoka Fellows Scholarship to support high-achieving MBA students at the University of Maryland’s Dingman Center by offering them paid internships at startups in the region.

Allan and shelley holt Adoption is a gift in and of itself and Allan and Shelley Holt, adoptive parents themselves, have helped ensure that others can experience the gift of parenting by donating more than $1 million to the Barker Foundation through their family foundation, the Hillside Foundation. They also recently became members of the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Founders Society, which recognizes those who have committed gifts of $1 million or more. The Holt’s gift was earmarked for launching innovative digital products to memorialize the stories and lessons of the Holocaust beyond the walls of the museum. Mr. Holt, a managing director of the Carlyle Group, is a board member of The National Children’s Museum and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

DEBBIE and ernie JARVIS Under Jarvis’ stewardship as vice president for cor porate citizenship and social responsibility for Pepco, the Fortune 500

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energy company has donated nearly $2 million in 2013, according to its most recent social responsibility report. Beneficiaries include arts and cultural organizations like the Phillips Collection and Studio Theatre, community organizations such as the Montgomery County Community Foundation and educational groups, among others. The company is also a robust fundraiser, generating more than $1.5 million for United Way, thousands for the American Heart Association, Montgomery County public schools and the Salvation Army in Washington, D.C. Jarvis is passionate about women’s and children’s causes and serves on no less than 13 boards while providing pro bono consulting services to Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, N Street Village, Life Pieces to Masterpieces, Washington Area Women’s Foundation and many others.

JEONG AND CINDY KIM There’s no arguing that Jeong Kim’s rise to the top is inspiring — coming to America without a firm grasp of the language, working nights at a convenience store to pay for college and eventually becoming one of the wealthiest men in the country as a tech entrepreneur and president of Bell Labs. In recent years, he was inducted into the University of Maryland’s Innovation Hall of Fame and France’s prestigious Légion d’honneur. He also entertained an appointment by the South Korean government, but eventually declined due to that government’s internal squabbling. The Kims make the rounds at various Washington charitable events and support local charities including Jill’s House, an organization for children with intellectual disabilities; The Holton Arms School; and local church groups through their family foundation.

THE KIMSEY FAMILY Since launching America Online with Steve Case, Jim Kimsey and his sons Mike, Mark and Ray have been active in philanthropic circles. Jim ran the AOL Foundation for many years, fostering interactive learning to disadvantaged communities. As chairman of Refugees International, he has traveled

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across the globe personally championing human rights. In addition to his international work, he actively supports such local causes as Big Brothers of the National Capital Area, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera, among others.

Michael Kimsey, who followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the military, has made a name for himself in public service as well.

In addition to support of KIPP/DC, Fight for Children, CharityWorks and other causes, he now leads the family foundation and its mission to improve the lives of those living in disadvantaged communities.

ROBERT AND ARLEEN KOGOD CLARICE SMITH Brothers-in-law Robert Kogod and Robert H. Smith were at the helm of the Charles E. Smith real estate empire for decades and helped to expand it into a billion dollar-plus enterprise. Smith, who died in 2009, left an amazing philanthropic legacy, having donated millions for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (named in honor of his wife) and other causes including Mount Vernon and the Newseum. Kogod donated $25 million for the courtyard that connects the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. In 2009, both families committed $10 million for a transformational renovation of the Charles E. Smith Center at George Washington University. Recent beneficiaries of the Kogod Family Foundation include Sidwell Friends School, Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Arena Stage, National Gallery of Art, Trust for the National Mall, Capital Camps and Retreat Center in Rockville, the Latin American Youth Center, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Mayo Clinic and the American Friends of the Israel Museum.

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DAN AND SUNITA LEEDS These quality public education advocates have either founded or co-founded a number of learning-based organizations, including Education Voters of America

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and the Education Funders Strategy Group, National Public Education Support Fund, Education Voters Institute, Alliance for Excellent Education, Schott Foundation for Public Education and the Institute for Student Achievement. They also co-chair the Enfranchisement Foundation (formerly the Sunita and Daniel Leeds Family Foundation), which supported various progressive causes in 2012, according to the organization’s most recent tax filing. Dan Leeds, who is president of Fulcrum Investments and the son of CMP media founders Gerry and Lilo Leeds, also serves as director of the PBS Foundation where he helps raise transformational gifts for “America’s largest classroom.”

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TED AND LYNN LEONSIS For Ted and Lynn Leonsis, philanthropy seems to be a way of life. Either through their family foundation or Ted Leonsis’ many entrepreneurial projects (Revolution, Groupon and Monumental Sports among them), they give much and often. Over the years, they’ve supported more than 400 char itable groups, most recently CharityWorks, DC Central Kitchen, Fight for Children and The Washington Animal Rescue League — all of which chip away at the couple’s promise to give away at least half of their fortune in their lifetime.

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ANN LUSKEY Interior designer Ann Luskey has philanthropy and conservation in her blood. Her mother, Charlotte Ramsay, was a well-known conservationist who sat on the advisory council of the National Wildlife Foundation and founded the Jordan Conservation and Research Center. Luskey, also a descendant of Boston Globe founder Eben D. Jordan, continues her tireless work to preserve our planet’s oceans supporting the Nature Conservancy in The Bahamas, Dr. Enric Sala’s Pristine Seas Project with National Geographic, The Ocean Health Index with Conservation International, the creation of marine protected areas with The Sylvia Earle Alliance, and the conservation of whales and dolphins with Whaleman Foundation and The Baltimore Aquarium. Hand in hand with her conservation work, she also supports the Plastic Pollution Coalition and Environmental Working Group. Locally, Luskey is also a

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TED AND ANNETTE LERNER The billionaire real estate mogul who built his fortune on a $250 loan from his wife in 1952 has given much of his wealth to various causes locally and across state lines over the years. The family foundation’s most recent tax filing shows that the Washington Nationals’ owner and his wife gave $1.7 million in 2012, the bulk of it to Jewish organizations including the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, the Koby Mandell Foundation, Heifetz International Music Institute, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School, the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse and others.

The couple has also given very generously to many children’s and social services organizations, including Mary’s Center, Miracle League of Montgomery County, and Juvenile Diabetes Research.

ALFRED C LIGGINS The oft-quoted phrase, “behind every great man is a great woman” rings particularly true for Alfred C. Liggins, CEO of Radio One. The woman who has always been by his side is his mother, Cathy Hughes. Even though she was only 17 when he was born, she gave him his start in radio by bringing him along to her job at WHUR, Howard University’s radio station, to have dinner and do his homework. When Hughes worked her way up through the broadcasting ranks and purchased her first Washington station, WOLAM, he became the account manager at age 21. Together the duo created a radio empire that led to the creation of Radio One, the seventh largest radio broadcasting company in the U.S., with 66 stations in 22 national markets and nearly $300 million in revenue.

Liggins has not forgotten his roots and earlier this year gave $4 million to Howard University’s School of Communications. For the last five years, he has dedicated his free time to numerous organizations advancing the arts, including the Apollo Theater Foundation, Reach Media, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

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proponent of children and the arts and says she has made a multi-year commitment to support the refurbishment of Bethesda’s The Washington Waldorf School and works with her brother Randy Luskey, founder of The City Kids to Wilderness Project, to better the lives of underserved and at-risk innercity youths. She also supports Transformer art gallery for emerging artists.

J W BILL AND DONNA MARRIOTT The J. Willard and Alice Marriott Foundation, controlled by brother hoteliers J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr. and Richard E. Marriott, distributed more than $29 million last year to recipients that included the Capital Area Food Bank, the District’s E.L. Haynes and KIPP DC public charter schools and Higher Achievement’s summer and afterschool academic programs. It also supported the Marriott Foundation for People with Disabilities, which has placed more than 16,000 young people in jobs with 3,500 employers since 1989. Recipients of million-dollar grants in recent years include Boston Children’s Hospital and the Culinary Institute of America. The foundation is also active internationally. Last year it allocated $6.5 million to expand career opportunities for youth in the hotel business through a China Hospitality Education Initiative. Bill Marriott also distributes smaller grants from his own personal foundation to the American Heart Association, Mutiple Sclerosis Society and other groups including charities affiliated with the Mormon chirch. , RICHARD E AND NANCY PEERY MARRIOTT The 75-year-old hotelier who runs Marriott spin-off Host Hotels & Resorts and his classically trained soprano wife were among the latest group of wealthy individuals to sign onto the Giving Pledge, promising to give away at least half of their wealth (he’s worth $2.6 billion) in their lifetime. The pledge is a natural extension of the couple’s generosity and will likely ramp up the $1.2 million in grants they gave away last year through their Bethesda-based foundations. Causes dear to their hearts involve education and

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developmental programs for children and adults, according to the Foundation Center.

Richard Marriott is also actively involved with his brother, Bill Marriott, in distributing funds from the foundation named in their parents’ honor. Nancy Marriott also gives plenty through her own foundation.

Organizations that have benefited with tens of thousands from her considerable funds include American Cancer Society, Brigham Young University, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Girl Scouts Council of the Nation’s Capital and Johns Hopkins University, among them — a total of more than $700,000 in 2012.

FORREST B MARS JACQUELINE BADGER MARS AND JOHN MARS The candy clan, described as “notoriously secretive” about their $60 billion fortune are just as quiet about most of their philanthropy. Some of it derives from a family foundation, controlled by the three siblings, that distributes small grants to a host of environmental, education, animal welfare, health care and performing arts causes. Larger amounts have been given to the Washington National Opera, Wolf Trap, and a small children’s museum in California.

The bulk of the three siblings’ giving is said to be on an individual basis. Jacqueline (“Jackie”) Mars favors the Washington Opera and horse-related causes including the U.S. Equestrian Team and the Sporting Library in Middleburg,Va., while Forrest and John Mars have contributed $2 million to both Mount Vernon and Yale University. The largest donation on record from a family member may well be the $11 million Forrest Mars gave to Colonial Williamsburg some years back.

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MARY MOCHARY A lawyer, for mer high-ranking state department official and mayor of Montclair, New Jersey who ran unsuccessfully against Sen. Bill Bradley in his 1984 U.S. Senate race, Mochary now focuses her considerable energy on art and philanthropic interests.

She has chaired numerous fund-raising events for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Young Concert Artists, the

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CHAMPION GIVERS Though they are known for their athletic accomplishments, many of Washington’s sports stars are also making a difference off the field. We chatted with a few who have started their own foundations to learn their motivations and goals behind their charities.

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DESEAN JACKSON — THE DESEAN JACKSON FOUNDATION “The DeSean Jackson Foundation’s mission is to support and provide hope to patients diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and … children across America facing the bullying epidemic in our schools. I hope by using my voice and creating awareness to my anti-bullying campaign that I will be able to teach young people how to stop the cycle of bullying.”

STEPHEN BOWEN — SKYLER’S GIFT Skyler’s Gift helps hundreds of families pay for funeral and cremation services when their premature baby passes away. We started Skyler’s Gift as a way to honor our son Skyler, who passed away from complications of premature birth, but also because we knew that paying for a funeral was the last thing a family needed to worry about after losing their baby. Not only has Skyler’s Gift been very rewarding but also very healing.”

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RYAN ZIMMERMAN — ZIMS FOUNDATION I launched the ziMS Foundation in 2006 to help find a treatment and ultimate cure for multiple sclerosis. The cause is an incredibly personal one for me [because] my mother, Cheryl, was diagnosed with M.S. in 1995. Witnessing her struggles and her strength make all of us want to keep fighting for a cure. I’m proud to say that we have donated more than $1 million to fund M.S. research since our inception, and with our fifth-annual ‘A Night at the Park’ fundraiser on June 16, I think this year will be our biggest yet.”

DENARD SPAN — SPAN’S FANS “Helping single-parent families is something that I’m passionate about.

I came from a single-parent home and I always told myself that when I got in a position to, I would do something special for these mothers and their children. By blessing these families with an invitation to come to a baseball game, I know from personal experience that it might be their only chance to enjoy an afternoon at the ballpark.”

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MIKE GREEN — SO KIDS CAN “Through So Kids Can, my teammates and I, along with Elliot Segal, have a special opportunity to give back to the D.C. community. To date we’ve donated nearly $250,000 for charity based on our on-ice performance, allowing us to work closely with several local youthfocused organizations that serve the region. We feel fortunate to be a part of the local community and will continue to tally our goals and assists during the 2014-15 season in the name of charity.”

ALEX OVECHKIN — OVI’S CRAZY S “We started Ovi’s Crazy 8s in 2006 to give kids, soldiers and their families the chance to see a Capitals home game for free. I wanted to do something to give back to the community and show them how much their support means to me. I am very happy to keep doing this program and share Capitals hockey with all these kids and service members next season.”

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Washington Opera, Kennedy Center and the American Red Cross in addition to her support for Duke University Medical School and the University of Chicago Law School.

Mochary is well known in cultural circles for her stewardship of the Kasser-Mochary Foundation, which inspires and promotes appreciation of the arts through the lending of her family’s important collection of 19thand 20th-century European paintings and sculpture to regional museums.

MARK AND BRENDA MOORE Through their family foundation, the couple — a high-tech executive and retired nurse who met in high school — says they have pledged to give away $500 million to the causes that are dear to their hearts: health care, education, music and the arts. Toward that goal, they have already donated $1 million toward consturction of the $500 million Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open in 2015. They also support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater through its Directors Circle program and sit on the board of Alexandria-based Hopkins House Early Childhood Learning Center. The Moores are also donors to Inova Health System. Besides serving on the steering committee for its Mount Vernon Hospital expansion (which the couple says will be renamed the Mark and Brenda Moore Medical Center when it reopens in the fall 2014), they also sit on the board of the healthcare system’s foundation and the Patient Exper ience Advisory Committee. In addition, Mark Moore is a member of the National Symphony Orchestra board.

KEVIN PLANK The business wünderkind who built a multibillion-dollar company on literally the shirt off his back, is a prolific philanthropist.

As co-chairman with ObjectVideo’s Raul Fernandez, he helped lead Fight for Children’s Fight Night gala to a $4 million windfall in 2013. He is also active in the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and is giving away $115,000 annually to next-gen entrepreneurs through the

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school’s Cupid’s Cup contest.The businessman with a net worth of $2.1 billion also gives time and money to various Baltimore organizations, including Living Classrooms Foundation, Johns Hopkins, Win Baltimore, Power in Pink and donates 10 percent of his UA stock sales to Cupid Foundation, which supports public education in Baltimore.

PENNY PRITZKER The name of President Obama’s billionaire secretary of commerce is affiliated just as much with her family-controlled Hyatt hotel chain and Marmon conglomerate of manufacturing and industrial services companies as it is with large-scale philanthropy. While the Pritzker Architecture Prize may be the best-known example nationwide, the clan’s hometown of Chicago has benefited mightily from its vast largess, much of it dispensed through the Pritzker Foundation (Penny Pritzker is a trustee). No one living in the Windy City can fail to be aware of a legacy that includes the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, the Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law, the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park, Pritzker Children’s Zoo and Pritzker Military Museum and Library. Penny Pritzker and her husband, Dr. Bryan Traubert, also contribute through their own family foundation, which focuses primarily on education, health and arts and cultural issues. She is known to be a supporter of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Harvard and Stanford universities, the Kennedy Center, Teach for America and the Council on Foreign Relations.

MITCH AND EMILY RALES Mitch Rales, co-director with his brother Steve of the Danaher Corporation, a $40 billion global trading company, is one of the nation’s leading collectors of modern and contemporary art and has focused most of his giving — said to be in the $500 million range — into creating the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. He and his second wife, Emily Wei Rales, a former arts curator, continue to add buildings to the enclave

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which they promise will become more accessible to the public in future years. Mitch Rales serves on the board of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art (which received his $10 million pledge to help fund a complete renovation of the East Building). Both he and the Mitchell Rales Family Foundation have also dispensed major gifts to educational causes over the years, including $5 million to Miami University and $1 million to the Washington’s Seed School.

RUSSELL AND NORMA RAMSEY The Ramseys have dedicated themselves to causes that aid at-risk families in the community and promote education, healthcare and the arts. Through the W. Russell and Norma Ramsey Foundation Inc., the Ramseys donate to organizations such as INOVA Health System, CharityWorks, Teach for America, Fight for Children and Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts. They were among the founding investors of Venture Philanthropy Partners, which has invested over $70 million in non-profits in the D.C. Capital Area helping community leaders build strong non-profit organizations. As a trustee at the Potomac School in McLean, Norma Ramsey oversaw $70 million in capital improvements, while her husband, chairman emeritus of George Washington University‘s board of trustees, took the lead on several billion-dollar projects, including the newly created GW/National Gallery/ Corcoran partnership. He was also recently named chairman/CEO of the effort to bring the 2024 summer Olympics to the District.

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DAVID AND ALICE RUBENSTEIN It’s safe to say that when it comes to philanthropy, Carlyle Group’s co-founder is a giant. Tales of his generosity are well known and documented: $50 million to the Kennedy Center, $10 million to Mount Vernon Ladies Association, $10 million to the National Gallery of Art among many others. All told, $300 million in giving with no plans to stop anytime soon. The Washington Monument’s reopening this spring after a nearly three-year renovation to repair earthquake damage to

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CLICK TO GIVE Technology has made it easier than ever to support worthy causes Charitable giving is on the rise and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being felt most strongly in the digital sector. With so many apps and websites, donating to a favorite charity or cause has never been more simple or more effective. These websites and apps are just a few ways to kick-start your giving in small, yet powerful ways.

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This charity donation site says it has raised nearly $11 million for various charities like the American Red Cross and UNICEF to smaller organizations like local schools. Donationminded users raise money by completing everyday activities like conducting a web search or shopping online through the site.

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The brainchild of a new teacher in the Bronx, this site is like Kickstarter for public schools.

Cash-strapped teachers post what they need and donors choose which projects to fund, donating a minimum of $1. The fun part: when a project reaches its funding goal, benefators get photos from the classroom, a letter from the teacher and a breakdown of how every dollar was used.

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This app does double duty by making donors feel good twice. Get in shape and earn money for charitable organizations like Girl Up, Wounded Warrior Project, Feeding America or the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like being a sponsored athlete, only better.

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Johnson and Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charitable project is a fun one and speaks to our insatiable appetite for posting photos through social media. Share a photo through the app and the company donates funds toward causes like providing access to clean water in an African village and providing children with vaccinations.

which he donated half the repair cost is just another reminder of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;patriotic givingâ&#x20AC;? he is likely to engage in, as he recently told the New York Times. This year, the billionaire also added chairman of the Library of Congressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; James Madison Council to his philanthropic rĂŠsumĂŠ and donated $2 million to transfer two Asian elephants from Albertaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Calgary Zoo in Canada to the Smithsonian National Zoo. ROGER AND VICKI SANT The Sants (whose wealth derives from Roger Sant having co-founded AES Corporation, a Fortune 200 electrical power company) have earned top honors in the annals of Washington philanthropy with enormous gifts to many local arts and cultural institutions, including $35 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and millions more to the National Gallery of Art (where Vicki Sant serves as president). They endowed the National Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair and are longtime supporters of the Phillips Collection and the Shakespeare Theatre.

Well known for a particularly enlightened view of the environment, the Sants are major champions of preserving the Mesoamerican Reef and have had a major impact on the World Wildlife Fundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sustainable agriculture efforts in Belize over the past two decades.

Their Summit Foundation supports adolescent reproductive health issues and has assisted the Federal City Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quest, led by former Major Anthony Williams, to clean up the Anacostia River.

FRANK AND TRICIA SAUL The publicity-averse billionaire investor sold Chevy Chase Bank to Capitol One for $520 million in cash and stocks in 2009 but he and his wife remain generous contributors to many organizations on whose boards they have served, including National Gallery of Art, National Geographic, the Library of Congress, the National Sporting Library, Brookings Institution, Blair House and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. They also donate to the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian, University of Virginia, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, Providence Hospital, Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

National Medical Center, the Conservation Fund and various Roman Catholic charities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The more you give of your time, talents, and energy, you get back tenfold,â&#x20AC;? Frank Saul says.

DANIEL SOLOMON This activist/philanthropist wears his causes on his sleeve and is even willing to go to jail for them, as he recently did during a protest in Washington to gain voting rights in Congress for the District of Columbia. The DC Vote founder and president of the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation has a long history of fighting for such causes as a former political appointee to the U.S. Department of Labor working on international labor and child labor rights. When he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t advocating for social justice, he serves on the boards of the University of the District of Columbia School of Law Foundation and Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers and helped raise over $1 million for Bend the Arcâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tzedec program, which supports lowincome communities in the District.

PATTY STONESIFER The 57-year-old former tech executive caused quite the stir when she was named to head local food bank Marthaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Table after spending more than 10 years managing an $89 billion endowment as chief executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Indeed, the Washington Post said it was not unlike GE legend Jack Welch managing an appliance store. But just one year into her job, Stonesifer appears to be fulfilling what she set out to do â&#x20AC;&#x201D; be on the front lines of charitable work.

As the leader of the much-admired 35-yearold institution â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which almost exclusively relies on public donations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she is teaching the staff to think big with the lofty goal of eradicating childhood hunger.

ANNIE TOTAH A prolific and generous giver, Annie Totah has donated to nearly 75 causes, according to her foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent tax filings, including Strathmore, Blair House, PEN/ Faulkner, Washington Ballet, Young Concert Artists, Refugees International, Washington

Performing Arts Society, as well as to various causes focused on her Armenian/Jewish heritage. All told, Totah estimates that she has helped raise millions for local charities, to say nothing of the $1.5 billion in foreign aid she helped raise for her Armenian homeland in the last two decades. It’s no wonder that the most recent National Museum of Women in the Arts Spring Gala was hailed as the best of the season, mostly due to her efforts as chairwoman, which the Washington Post’s Reliable Source called “Annie’s gala.”

RYUJI UENO AND SACHIKO KUNO The Japanese-Amer ican biochemists have been very busy putting their S&R Foundation on the map of late, as well as developing their newest venture at Halcyon House while considerably ramping up their giving in 2013. The organization dedicated to supporting talented individuals with “high aspirations” in the arts, sciences and social entrepreneurship has had a full calendar with various events featuring such heavy hitters as Hillary Clinton. All told, the couple last year donated $1.6 million to 27 organizations mostly in the arts and health fields, including Transformer Gallery, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Library of Congress’ Music Division, New Orchestra of Washington, Johns Hopkins University and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. They’ve also supported 10 organizations through the use of S&R’s facilities, including Trust for the National Mall; Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security; Asia Society; and Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy. Look for S&R to expand its longtime support of the Washington Ballet with Evermay Chamber providing the music for the ballet, starting with its “Swan Lake” production in 2015.

GEORGE AND TRISH VRADENBURG TheVradenburgs have made it a personal mission to end Alzheimer’s disease. They have chaired the National Alzheimer’s Gala in Washington since 2003, and with their tireless efforts the event has raised over $9 million to date for the Alzheimer’s Association. They took their personal crusade one step further in 2006, by founding their own philanthropic organization,

USAAgainstAlzheimer’s, which raises funds for research with the mission to eradicate the disease by 2020. Trish Vradenburg sits on the boards of Theater J and DC Vote, while George has served as president of the board of the Phillips Collection (a major recipient of gifts from the couple over the years). In 2008, he co-founded the Chesapeake Crescent Initiative, an organization that works to create jobs and growth in the Chesapeake region.

SCOTT AND CHRISTY WALLACE Both Scott and Christy Wallace serve on the board of the Wallace Global Fund, an environmentally focused organization that awards grants on local and national levels to organizations that not only promote positive environmental impacts but fight injustice, especially related to women’s rights, civil liberties and “furthering democratic participation … in supporting bold, new and progressive ideas.” The fund grew out of what was once known as the Wallace Genetic Foundation, which was founded in 1965 in honor of the late Henry A. Wallace, who served as secretary of agriculture under Franklin D. Roosevelt and ran as the Progressive Party candidate for president in 1948. In 1995 the Fund started the work and grant-giving it is still well-known for today.

ROBIN WEST AND EILEEN SHIELDS WEST Robin West, an international energy advisor, spearheaded the $160 million effort to build the new headquarters building of the United States Institute of Peace and to expand the organization’s activities to some of the world’s most troubled areas. He is co-chairman of the board of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the leading institution focusing on transatlantic relations, and also serves as president of the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, a major funder of scholarship in American art at the National Gallery of Art. His wife, author and journalist Eileen Shields West, is chairman and benefactor of Refugees International. The Wests have also contributed to the SEED Foundation (on whose board Eileen West also serves) and to the renovation of the Beauvoir School.

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FATHERLY LOVE In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Special Heart,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fox Newsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bret Baier tells how raising a son born with special needs changed his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives for the better.

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Papa Baier, Mama Baierâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and NOWâ&#x20AC;Ś Paul Francis Baier HAS ARRIVED! And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just right.

He was born here in Washington at 12:34 PM at Sibley Hospital. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6 lbs., 12 oz., and 19 1/2 inches long.

Mama and Baby Baier are doing greatâ&#x20AC;Śand Papa Baier is amazed at the whole process!

Thanks for all of your kind words and wishes.

Paul was staying with Amy and me right there in the room, and it was awesome. I felt like I was walking on air the entire time.

Over the course of my career in journalism I had traveled on hundreds of trips to some really exotic locales all around the world, even some recent ones on Air Force One with the president of the United States. But I never, ever had more excitement flowing through me than I did that day as I anticipated spending the night with my wife and son in the cramped confines of our little nest of a room in the Sibley maternity wardâ&#x20AC;Ś Also, on that first day at Sibley with Paul and Amy, I had a few opportunities to show off everything I had learned from all those position papers on swaddling and diaper changing. The swaddling went perfectly fineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was even fun. But that first diaper change wasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how to put this delicatelyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;disgusting!

There is no book, training session, or position paper that can prepare you for something like that. There were colors in that diaper I never imagined existed anywhere in the known universeâ&#x20AC;Ś Entering the room to check on mother and baby for the first time, nurse Beth Kennedy took one look at Paul and said she thought his color seemed offâ&#x20AC;Ś

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Beth suggested to Amy that Paulieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pale color might be the result of some kind of bacterial infection. She thought he should have a few tests just to be safe. So she took him to the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) so he could be checked outâ&#x20AC;Ś I was back in the room with Amy for a short while when Beth came in to let us know the bacterial infection tests had all come back negative. This was a huge relief. Amy had been told that newborns with any kind of bacterial infection often stay in the hospital for as many as ten additional days. After all the excitement of Paulieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birth and the wonderful overnight we had with him there in the room, Amy couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fathom the idea of leaving the hospital without her son, let alone not taking him home for another ten days.

While Amy and I were thrilled with the news that Paulie didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an infection, Nurse Kennedy wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Still concerned about his color, Beth told us she wanted to run some more tests and page a doctor to come in and take a look just to be safeâ&#x20AC;Ś After hearing Paulie didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a bacterial infection, Amy and I were eager to get him back in the room with us so we could continue with that warm and wonderful Three Baiers bonding process. Amy was enjoying the salad I brought her from Sweet Green, and the mood in the room was upbeat as I filled her in on what her folks had to say about the house I took them to see.

Amy was a little miffed at me for being gone so long and not around to help her deal with the nurse reassignment issue and the bacterial infection scare. I reminded my dear wife I was out with her parents and not exactly

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quaffing beer with the boys at the nineteenth hole after playing a round of golf.

Amy, of course, knew that. But I realized then how worried she had been about the possibility of not being able to take Paulie home for ten more days. She was so looking forward to that day—tomorrow—when we would finally be able to put Paulie into the empty car seat that we had been goofily grinning at for the past two months…

Over the years, I had done several stories about the mountain of medical litigation cases hospitals face every year. If they needed to run a few extra tests on Paulie so they could dot all their i’s and cross all their t’s to keep their lawyers happy, that was perfectly fine with me.

There was nothing to worry about. We spent the entire night with Paulie right there in the room with us and there were no problems of any kind. Still, we were a little anxious about the situation.We chalked it up to having a new nurse who was probably just being abundantly cautious…

Before long we heard a knock on the door

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and a doctor came in. He was someone we’d never laid eyes on before. Wearing civilian clothes, he apologized for not looking the part, explaining his children were soccer players and he had been to a couple of games earlier in the day. With that, Dr. Gerard Martin introduced himself as the cardiologist who received the call from Sibley to come take a look at Paulie.

Amy was lying down and I was sitting on the edge of the bed as Dr. Martin entered the room and flipped on the overhead lights.

“I need to talk to you about your son,” he said.

My mind was racing two hundred miles per hour and in fifty different directions at once. Now operating on a seven-second delay, I realized Dr. Martin had introduced himself to us as a cardiologist. Why would a cardiologist be talking to us about a bacterial infection or the results of some precautionary tests?

My heart dropped as I started to put two and two together. I knew instantly and instinctively this was going to be exponentially worse than simply having to keep Paulie in the hospital for an extra ten days because of

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an infection. I quickly rewound the tape in my mind, now hoping that Paulie actually did have an infection.

Ten extra days? No problem! Keep him for twenty if you need to. We can deal with that. Piece of cake. Keep him as long as you need him. Let’s just get our boy home healthy.

An infection is nothing. Happens all the time. Please God, let Paul have this bacterial infection.

It’s amazing the number of thoughts your mind can process and the speed at which it can process them in that frozen split second of a moment when you realize the comfortable reality you have known your entire life is over and you are now entering a place of uncertainty and fear from which you may never return.

I looked at Amy and she had sheer terror in her eyes. I moved closer and held her hand as Dr. Martin continued to speak. In a very calm but serious voice he said, “Your baby has heart disease. Heart disease can be simple or it can be complex.Your son has a complex heart disease.

He has a very complicated heart.”

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THE ICEMEN COMETH The Department of Homeland Security’s own ‘Monuments Men’ return stolen art works to their rightful owners in numerous countries.

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The Roman marble sarcophagus lid with the Egyptian-influenced image of a sleeping woman was stolen in Italy 30 years ago. It was recovered earlier this year and returned to Italy after Immigration and Custome Enforcement (ICE ) investigators traced it to a storage facility on Long Island, N.Y.

According to ICE officials, a paleontologist in Florida, Eric Prokopi, then spent a year restoring the bones and assembling a skeletal T-Bataar, 8 feet high and 24 feet long, which was sold at auction in New York for just over $1 million.

There was no legal route by which the dinosaur could have ended up in a New York auction house, and by now the Mongolian government had alerted Homeland Security.

Investigators seized the skeleton even before its private buyer could take possession of his purchase. They also arrested Prokopi who eventually admitted to illegally importing a second, nearly complete T-Bataar, a flying dinosaur from China, two oviraptors and a duckbilled creature known as a Saurolophus.

In April, ICE returned to the Brazilian government the Poliakoff painting, part of a huge art collection confiscated by the court in Brazil from Brazilian financier Edemar Cid Ferreira after he was sentenced for money

laundering and embezzling funds from his own bank. The Poliakoff had been illegally imported into the U.S. in 2006, along with Roy Lichenstein’s “Modern Painting with Yellow Interweave” and “Figures dans une structure” by Uruguayan artist Joaquin TorresGarcia — with shipping invoices that didn’t name the artists and declared a combined value of $230 (the appraisal value of the paintings was $4 million). The Lichtenstein and the TorresGarcia were subsequently sold in America, but ICE investigators traced them to the buyers who forfeited ownership. The Poliakoff was shipped to Switzerland, where it was seized by the Swiss authorities in July 2008 at the request of Homeland Security and sent back.

Interpol said last year that illegal trafficking in cultural property is the world’s third most profitable crime (after drugs and weapons) and is valued at around $6 billion$8 billion a year. It is less lethal to humans

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hat do the following have in common: a painting by the Russian abstract painter Sergei Poliakoff with the title “Composition abstraite” (Abstract Composition), a 16th-century Flemish tapestry, a 24-foot-long skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Bataar, a sword belonging to the late Saddam Hussein and a 14th-century first edition of Boccaccio’s “Decameron”?

Answer: they are among more than 7,000 mostly stolen art works and other cultural property recovered in the United States and “repatriated” to 27 countries ranging from Mongolia to Peru, usually through their respective embassies in Washington.

Charged with tracking down such treasures are the investigators from ICE, which sounds like something in a television series, but actually means Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is a unit of the many faceted Department of Homeland Security’s investigations section.

ICE agents get the job because the legal basis for seizure and repatriation is frequently that the object in question illegally entered the United States having evaded Customs.

The investigators are today’s “Monuments Men,” specially trained in art history at the Smithsonian Institution, operating both domestically and attached to various U.S. embassies around the world — and waiting for their very own cinematic moment!

And why not? The narrative of many of their investigations reads like a film script. Take the 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Bataar (a cousin of the T-Rex) that was repatriated last year to Mongolia. It had been stolen from an archeological site in the Gobi Desert and smuggled into the U. S. (via the United Kingdom) as a loose collection of fossilized bones, for which there is a big demand — especially skulls.

than the other two crimnes, but harmful to a country’s heritage. The richer the heritage, the higher the incidence of thefts from churches, museums and private homes, which explains why Italy or France are major targets. Countries like Egypt and Peru, where virtually every hole dug unearths a relic of an earlier civilization, are also ripe for plunder, with looting of archeological sites a constant challenge.

The leading market for this enormous, varied and illegal flow of loot is New York.

London comes close, as does Hong Kong, but to the experts — and criminals — New York is number one. It’s not only where the money is, but also the expertise and infrastructure of the legitimate art market — the auction houses, dealers, and specialists — of which the illegal trade represents the dark side.

The Internet has opened up the market, but it has also made it easier to spot missing works because auction houses and galleries advertise their sales. This results in almost daily alerts to Homeland Security’s international division, usually transmitted through Interpol, of art objects missing in different countries. Homeland Security issues a warning to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Through our investigative efforts in New York, through sources and informants and people we speak to in the art world, we try to determine if it’s in the New York art market,” ICE Special Agent Thomas Mulhall says.

But who are the buyers? “There are all kinds of millionaires who want to decorate their home with the most expensive and exotic item they can find,” Mulhall notes.

ICE meticulously publicizes every success however minor it may seem to be in part to discourage others, but also because the operation has an obvious foreign relations dimension. There are investigators attached to 48 U.S. embassies, and some repatriations generate goodwill toward the United States in unexpected ways. The president of Mongolia, Tsakhia Elbegdorj, attended the handover in New York, and the Mongolians have opened a dinosaur museum in their capital, Ulan Bator, with the T-Bataar as its main exhibit, proclaiming its recovery as a triumph of

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U.S.-Mongolian cooperation.

Similar repatriations have been arranged with, among others, the embassies of Cambodia, Egypt, Peru, Poland, Italy and France.

Not all the Homeland Security investigators’ battles are with professional art thieves. For one thing, there is still residue to deal with from the wholesale wartime looting by the rapacious Nazis.

Two paintings by the prolific 19th-century Polish landscapist Julian Falat, missing since the German occupation of Poland in 1944, were recently returned to the National Museum in Warsaw when they were offered for sale.

The elaborate silver monstrance from the 1700s was stolen from a small church in But a number of repatriations are the Cusco region of Peru. It was returned to the Peruvian Embassy two years ago. objects that happened to stick to the hands of souvenir seeking individual American soldiers in various wars, from Europe in World War II to Afghanistan today.

“Servicemen will remove an item as a keepsake or a war trophy, keep it at home, and then when they pass away whoever inherits the item brings it to market, naturally not knowing where it came from and that’s when we begin to discover the artifacts,” Mulhall says. “As we approach 70 years, The 16th-century Flemish tapestry was stolen from a cathedral in Spain in 1979 and most of the ownership is changing went from a Belgian gallery owner to a Texas businessman who bought it in 2010 for $369,000. Acting on information from Spain, ICE questioned the Texas buyer hands now.” and eventually seized the tapestry for delivery to the Spanish Embassy.

Sometimes aging veterans anticipate that scenario, as in the spring of French Embassy in Washington a rare color 2013 when eight valuable books ranging monotype (a combination of painting and from the 15th to the 17th centuries and printing) by Camille Pissarro titled “The taken from the University of Naples library Fish Market.” It had been stolen from a were handed over to the Italian embassy museum in southeastern France in 1981. This on behalf of the 96-year-old ex-G.I. who followed delivery to the embassy some time had taken them in 1943. Italian Ambassador earlier of a small Edgar Degas masterpiece Claudio Bisogniero used the occasion to called “Blanchesseuses souffrant des dents” appeal to World War II veterans and their (Laundrywomen with toothache), missing families to repatriate such souvenirs. “We from another French museum since 1973. want to raise awareness among families that ICE seized the painting when it appeared in in attics and cellars, precious and important a Sotheby’s New York catalog, the painting works of art may be awaiting their return,” having changed hands several times since it Bisogniero said. was stolen. Experts valued the small painting Two years ago ICE delivered to the at about $500,000. Some toothache!

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OSCAR DE LA RENTA sheer white robe ($398) and STELLA MCCARTNEY dahlia red bra ($65), Bloomingdale’s, 5300 Western Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 240-744-3700; TIFFANY & CO. “Atlas” 18k gold round pendant necklace ($1,200), “Schlumberger” rope six-row 18k gold and platinum earring clips with diamonds ($6,700) and “Atlas” 18k gold flat bangle ($4,200), Tiffany & Co., 5481 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 301-657-8777.

ST LAURENT v-back blouse ($1,450), Hu’s Wear, 2906 M St., NW, 202-342-2020; PRADA baroque sunglasses ($595), Bloomingdale’s, 5300 Western Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 240-744-3700.

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PUCCI jersey circo logo gown($2,850), Saks Fifth Avenue, 5555 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 301657-9000; YVES ST LAURENT heels ($875), Hu’s Shoes, 3005 M St. NW, 202-342-0202; TIFFANY & CO. “Schlumberger” 18k yellow gold bull swivel bracelet ($17,000) and “Paloma Picasso” villa paloma earrings ($1,200), Tiffany & Co., 5481 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815, 301-657-8777.

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Celebration of Caring The Washington Home rallies guests for a compassionate cause at the Embassy of Italy

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his wife Marta.

Laura Denise Bisogniero, the 400 Washingtonians came wife of the Italian ambassador, to a rollicking birthday party was a gracious hostess circulating at the Embassy of Italy to through the crowd. All enjoyed celebrate the 125-year-old the warmth of the setting and the honoree, the Washington Home generosity of the Italian embassy. and Community Hospices, “This is such a worthy cause,” the (WHCH). ambassador noted, “that we really Guests were handed coins wanted to help.” to throw into the central In fact, the carefully budgeted fountain, Trevi-style, as they Washington Home is always entered the ever-so-Italian looking for more support. As scene, handsomely decorated the population ages and care and boasting an upscale Italian becomes more complicated market, fine Italian food and and costlier, the gap between music, music, music from pop/ WHCH’s Medicaid/Medicare rock to opera. reimbursements and the true The Celebrazione della Cura cost of the care provided is ever (Celebration of Caring), as the widening. fundraiser was titled, emphasized “This is such a marvelous the care the non-profit marquee event,” CEO Tim Cox organization has been quietly said. “It is introducing so many providing — without fanfare but Tim Cox, Sharon Casey and Laura Denise Bisogniero at the Washington Home’s benefit to the work of the Washington with a record of never turning at the Embassy of Italy (Photo by Neshan Naltchayan) Home and Community Hospices. anyone away.

It began in 1888 on a shoestring in a twoWHCH recognized that family income is We are just hoping tonight will also raise $100,000.” room cottage without water or electricity jeopardized when the caregiver is the bread It did. when malaria was rife in Washington and winner; it relieves stress and saves their jobs care unobtainable for the poor. Now its liveby providing in-home help to permit their NOBLESSE OBLIGE Annie Totah, in rehabilitation and hospice patients are absence. chairman of the National Museum of housed in a serene setting at Connecticut Guests were greeted by WHCH Women in The Arts 2014 Spring Gala, Avenue and Upton Street NW where it Chairman Sharon Collins Casey and proved a big success with her over-the-top, serves close to 2,000 outpatients and residents CEO Tim Cox. Honorary host committee members included Esther Coopersmith, fun program. Even greater was the coup per year. To help, dedicated volunteers Marlene and Fred Malek, Netherlands she scored when she brought her friend provide 16,000 hours of work per year.

The staff ’s standard of compassionate care Amb. Rudolf Bekink and his wife Gabrielle, and neighbor, Farah Pahlavi, to serve as Shahin Mafi, Singaporean Amb. Ashok honorary chairman of the event. of patients extends to those left behind, with Miripuri and his wife Gouri, Rafat and In exile under the present regime, bereavement services to ease their pain as Shaista Mahmood, Didi Cutler, Alexandra Pahlavi was crowned empress in 1967 at her well. and Arnaud de Borchgrave, Judith Terra, late husband’s coronation as shah of Iran.

Ever courageous, the health facility Christine Warnke,David Short, Cyd Everett, At the gala she displayed both grace and pioneered in dealing with two taboo Gail West, Eleanor Clift, designer Barbara stamina in rising from her table each time illnesses: cancer, which was considered Hawthorn, Craig Cobine and the embassy’s to accede to the requests of everyone who contagious as late as the 1970s, and AIDS. chief of mission Luca Franchetti Pardo and asked for a photo with her.

Now Alzheimer’s is treated as well.

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SALSA, SUEÑOS AND SWEETS: Only in its second year, Catholic Charities’ Música y Sueños upheld its reputation as a lively, entertaining and uplifting night out for young professionals. The evening was sprinkled with salsa lessons and an Argentinean tango performance as guests nibbled on Latin tapas and sweets from District Doughnut. But at the heart of it all, the fiesta is about supporting Catholic Charities’ services to Hispanic immigrants and enabling their sueños (dreams) to come true, while generating new volunteers to ensure that this mission continues.

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Luncheon co-chairman Carrie Marrio also spoke of her mother’s battle with M.S. before co-chairman Amy Knight brought down the house by rising from her wheelchair to share her own experience, bringing the reality of the disease home.

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llan Pineda, 39, better known as apl.de.ap, earned fame and fortune as one of the founding members of the multiple Grammy-winning hiphop music group The Black Eyed Peas. Here for a benefit concert for his native Philippines, which was devastated by last year’s typhoon Haiyan, Pineda took a moment to talk about how music saved him from a difficult childhood, his new solo career and the importance of giving back now.

WASHINGTON LIFE: You grew up in Angeles City in the Philippines and then immigrated to the United States in 1988 at age 14. Why did you come here and what was that experience like as a youngster immigrating on your own?

AP DE AP I originally came to the U.S. to explore treatment options for an eye condition known as nystagmus, from which I am legally blind. I came through a sponsorship program.

In the beginning I was O.K., but I would often get homesick.

WL: What was it like to be in school in your adopted country? What challenges did you have to overcome?

APL When I was in school in LA, there were a lot of gangs. Being around other kids that were into music kept me focused and out of trouble.

Middle school can sometimes be rough, but because the [students] who were into dance and music were always together, we were just seen as “the other kids.”

WL: When did you discover music and how did it develop into a viable career choice for you?

APL When I was in school, I had a hard time seeing because of my eye condition.

I used to move closer to the board in class so that I could see, but the teacher thought I was being disruptive. She asked me what was I going to do with myself. That was very devastating for me. Could you imagine a 14/15 year old hearing this? I wondered what I was going to do. I wanted to be a nurse or an architect, which both required my eyes.

I stumbled upon music and I discovered that I just needed my ears and brains. Music brought me out of a very dark place. I am now learning music backwards, now studying music theory.

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WL: You met fellow Black Eyed Peas group member will.i.am, a.k.a. William Adams, in middle school. How did you meet and how did the group come to be?

APL Often on my way to school in Angeles City [in the Philippines], I remember seeing kids break-dancing to all kinds of music. One of the dances that I saw and learned to do was the “running man.” [When I came to the U.S.], my sponsor,, who is also my adoptive father Joe Hudgens, introduced me to a friend’s 13-year-old nephew, William Adams, who we all know as will.i.am. When I told Will that I was from the Philippines, he asked “What is there to do in the Philippines?” I showed him this dance that I had learned and we connected ever since. First, we formed a dance group and in 1995 we formed The Black Eyed Peas and the rest is history.

Apl.de.ap (Photo courtesy The Apl.de.ap Foundation)

WL: After being in a famous group for so long, what were some of the pros and cons of venturing out on your own?

APL People always enjoy hearing about us having our own singles and projects but the question is always “When are you all getting back together?”

WL: You were able to come to the United States and change your life. How important is it for you to pay it forward?

APL Giving back is very important to me. I noticed that there was such a discrepancy in the education in the United States from the Philippines. In the U.S., kids can get on the computer and Google to learn about different things going on in the world. I was given a chance and I want to make that happen for

people back home. One day I asked my mom to secure a building, for which I provided the funding. We purchased some computers and set up a computer lab so that the students could learn. We now have several centers in the Philippines. It’s good to come back and see the young people editing their own videos and working on projects.

WL: Tell us about your upcoming benefit concert and what audiences can expect.

APL I have a really good team who brought the idea to me and I have been doing these benefit concerts in various cities to bring awareness of the typhoon in the Philippines.

It’s like a touring show that moves from city to city. I am really thankful for all the people and various artists opening their hearts to help.

Apl.de.ap headlines “After the Storm” for the Philippines with Joshua Bell, Darren Criss and Lou Diamond Phillips June 15, 8 p.m. at The Kennedy Center sponsored by the U. S. Philippines Society.

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The cast of the Olney Theatre Center’s “A Chorus Line”

Brett Hemmerling, Bryan Knowlton, Jessica Vaccaro, Joseph Ammiano, John Romano and Jennifer Cordiner

HELEN HAYES AWARDS Alma Powell and Alma Gildenhorn

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Arlene and Bob Kogod

PARTY MAS: The several thousand guests who jammed the National Building Museum’s vast confines for the 30th annual Helen Hayes Awards may or may not have been aware of who actually won accolades for this or that production on a Washington area stage last year, but that didn’t mean they weren’t engaging in their own little dramas as they bellied up to the overcrowded bars, attacked various buffets (pizza, mini-burger, gelato), queued for psychic lip readings and caroused on various dance floors before, during and after the last award was announced. BEST CHEERLEADER: Longtime TheatreWashington board chairman Victor Shargai took home the Helen Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award, placing him on a pedestal once occupied by such stars as Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones.

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OVER THE MOON

Hunt Master Legendary sportsman and horse breeder Randy Rouse embodies Middleburg’s timeless traditions

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The Middleburg Training Track (Photo by Tracy Meyer)

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very morning just before dawn a devoted cadre of thoroughbred trainers, exercise riders and grooms make their way to the Middleburg Training Track. As a reminder that it was built in the 1950s by the late Paul Mellon, there are faded hints of his racing colors of dark gray and yellow that can still be seen atop the clockers’ outbuildings.

At this time of year a heavy haze hovers as a faint chill transforms into what promises to be a sweltering summer. Owners and onlookers lean over the rail. In the distance a visitor can hear the rhythmic gallop and a steady snort as a racehorse emerges from the fog and sweeps around the turn.

Back in the barns a vet checks in and a blacksmith tacks on a loose shoe. After the work out, horses are bathed, stalls are cleaned and fluffed, and tack is oiled. There’s nothing better … manure, hay and horses … the smell of money.

Here is where 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Spectacular Bid got his start, 1970s champion Hoist The Flag also breezed at the training track and recently Wicked Strong, who is expected to be a top contender in this year’s Belmont Stakes.

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Randy Rouse (Photo by Middleburg Photo)

1970s era steeplechase winner Cinzano (Photo by Douglas Lees)

The track’s current owner is dashing nonagenarian sportsman Randy Rouse who has owned many racehorses and steeplechasers including Ricacho, the winner of the 1960 Virginia Gold Cup and The Carolina Cup. He rode his own Cinzano to 11 victories in the amateur steeplechase races during the 1970s.

Rouse has been master of foxhounds of the Fairfax Hunt since 1961 and continues to follow the sport by car. He served on the board of the Washington International Horse Show and swirled late into the night at many hunt balls.

In Washington, Rouse is best known as the entrepreneur who developed the Seven Corners area in Arlington during the 1950s when he built 50 houses. At the same time he bought the Febrey-Lothrop farm nearby. It was here where he lived with his first wife, actress Audrey Meadows, during their three-year marriage.

Now known as “Hillcrest,” the stately Colonial Revival remains a 26-acre oasis amid the sprawl and is filled with trophies and photos.

Rouse and his ever-chic horse-loving wife of 30-plus years, Michelle, entertain here. At their Christmas party, he treats guests to a jam session on his beloved saxophone.

But back to the track, which includes a 7/8-

mile course with a four-stall starting gate on 149 acres with 11 barns, 220 stalls, 22 paddocks, tack rooms, grooms’ quarters, offices, the Mellon room, a vet office and two-bedroom tenant house. Now listed by John Coles of Thomas and Talbot, it is for sale for $3.9 million.

In the early evenings out here the locals trade their boots and jeans from the stables for linen jackets and dresses. The ladies don picture hats as the garden party circuit kicks off.

The Piedmont Environmental Council staged a wine tasting and talk by expert sommelier Neal Wavra at the Grey Door Party Barn .

Rep. Frank Wolf, who recently announced his retirement after 17 terms, is to be honored June 21st for introducing legislation designating this region as the 38th National Heritage Area in the country at the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Gala at “Merry Oak Farm” in The Plains. The evening concludes with dancing to the Motown group, the Fabulous Bel-Airs.

This much is true: these hard-partying, dancing-all-night folks in Middleburg were up with their horses before the sun the next morning no matter how much sleep they didn’t get. There must be something to it … just ask Randy Rouse.

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Pimlico Racecourse | PHOTOS BY ALREDO FLORES CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: The skies broke picture perfect in Baltimore for the 139th running of the Preakness Stakes as Derby winner California Chrome’s four white hooves bolted to a commanding finish that put the three-year-old sprinter in contention for racing’s Triple Crown — something that’s not been done since Affirmed won in 1978. Among those cheering on the California-bred chestnut colt from the International Pavilion were the hosts, Peruvian Amb. Harold Forsyth and Maryland Jockey Club President Tom Chuckas. The winner’s 77-year-old trainer, Art Sherman, said the triumph was “quite a thrill! I knew we had to run harder this race.”

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‘CONFIDENCE CODE’ PARTY Wolf Blitzer and Jay Carney Tom Hardart and Virginia Shore Residence | PHOTOS BY BEN DROZ CELEBRATING CERTAINTY: Broadcast journalists Ka y Kay (BBC) and Claire Shipman (ABC News) celebrated publication of their co-authored second book, “The Confidence Code,” with cocktails, hors d’ouevres and a few plucky remarks at a reception hosted by their publisher HarperCollins, the Atlantic (which featured the book on its May cover) and longtime mutual friends Tom Hardart and Virginia Shore.

TRUE RELIANCE: The authors write that women, despite being just as qualified as men, deliberately hold themselves back due to a lack of confidence and that this gender disparity keeps them from achieving at the highest levels.

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U STREET SCENE: Co-producers Rasta Thomas and Alexe Nowakowski raised the rafters of Lincoln Theatre for the second year in a row with “DREAMscape,” a gala performance to support CityDance’s free after-school classes in local schools. Dancers from the Washington Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, PHILADANCO, the Bad Boys of Dance and Culture Shock DC joined students from the CityDance Conservatory (including the very lithe Sasha Obama) onstage before heading off to the lively dance party at nearby Alero Restaurant hosted by event co-chairmen Debbie Dockser, Alison Shulman and Sissy Yates.

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PEET’S COFFEE & TEA LAUNCH

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Peet’s Coffee, 1701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW | PHOTOS BY BEN DROZ CAFFEINATED POLITICOS: To kick off the rollout of 23 stores coming to the Washington area this summer, Peet’s Coffee & Tea invited a power-packed guestlist to check out their flagship store at 17th and Pennsylvania Ave. NW, which opened this spring. Coffee-based cocktails and cappuccinos were offered along with sweet and savory nibbles. The California-based company aims to attract big-league Washington coffee drinkers who may or may not already be familiar with the brand, which was founded in Berkeley in 1966. Judging from the politicos who attended the opening, from Reps. Jackie Speier and Lore a Sanchez to CNN’s Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash, lobbyist Heather Podesta and the White House’s Jorge Neri, Rumana Ahmed, Liza Heyman and Brad Jenkins, they are well on their way to being a household name with their target audience.

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City Tavern Club | PHOTOS BY TONY POWELL TIMELESS & TRENDY: Fast approaching its 100th anniversary, this venerable gathering is always a not-to-be missed event for the singles set. With its invitation-only guest list and history of successful matchmaking, who wouldn’t be dancing the night away?

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STEAK AND STILETTOS: Billed as one of the biggest restaurant openings of the year, STK’s “female-friendly steakhouse” drew an impressive 400-plus über-stylish crowd to its first Washington outpost, with lines to enter the exclusive soirée wrapping around the block all evening. Once inside there was another hurdle at the VIP room where the lucky few were rewarded with the much raved about “VIP-only” sliders. A deejay and a bongo man accompanied by a rotating cast of “tambourine girls” provided bumping beats to ensure the dance floor stayed packed while models branded guests with kisSTK temporary ta oos.

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BON ANNIVERSAIRE: Booz Allen Hamilton’s 100th birthday celebration was unusually far-seeing: sponsorship of the National Gallery of Art’s latest Impressionist show, the first to focus on the relationship between Edgar Degas and Mary Cassa — a Franco-American alliance if ever there was one. The two were peers who learned from each other and were even collaborators of shorts (as shown in one work on gallery walls). The black-tie preview dinner featured individual chocolate cakes (a ‘palet au chocolat’) and plenty of frothy Champagne for guests who included company CEO Ralph Shrader, French Amb. François Dela re, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet and artist Lou Stovall. — Ann Geracimos

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Newseum | PHOTOS BY VITHAYA PHONGSAVAN SLEEPING GIANTS: The launch of the Asian Republican Coalition had G.O.P. heavyweights from Congress and the business world gathering in support of the nascent coalition’s pledge to “be a voice” for Asian Americans. Founded

by John Ying, of Hong Kong’s Peak Capital, and Thomas Bri , CEO of Global Equity Corporation, both of whom have served on the finance commi ee for the Republican National Commi ee, the organization seeks to connect with the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S. and bridge the gap in government representation.

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Adam Gopnik Reception

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An intimate crowd gathered around the bar of the St. Regis Hotel to toast Adam Gopnik on his original essay released in Thornwillow’s newest libretto, “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” by Lewis Carroll. This marks the sixth title in Thornwillow’s libretto series, which features each volume in a sewn letterpress wrapper and a limited edition run of leather-bound copies.

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Following the Washington, D.C. premiere of “Cesar Chavez” at the Newseum, cast members, including actresses America Ferrera and Rosario Dawson, and director Diego Luna, gathered for a private party at Oyamel. Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was also there to enjoy grasshopper tacos and guacamole made tableside.

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(Photos by Sarah Martin and Jarrod Curry) Despite a torrential downpour, about 70 guests came to toast the 10th anniversary of the Ocean Foundation and hear Rockefeller & Co.’s Rolando Morillo discuss his firm’s continued support of its mission to advance global ocean conservation.

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The Washington Area Women’s Foundation hosted their guest of honor, first lady of Virginia Dorothy McAuliffe, at an intimate cocktail reception to celebrate their shared commitment to ensuring the economic security of lowincome women and girls in our region. As a surprise, Gov. Terry McAuliffe made an appearance, as the women in attendance networked while nibbling on Virginia’s culinary delights.

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Sisters Anaïs de Viel Castel and Clemence de Laubier are giving Washington babies and toddlers many sartorial options with the launch of Petite Lucette, their chic fashion line for children inspired by their own childhood summers spent in Provence. Stylish moms and tots gathered at Georgetown’s hip new restaurant Malmaison to toast the launch and select a few outfits for boys and girls aged 6 months to 8 years.

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% 8EN 1ELEP XS 'EPP 8LIMV 3[R After Pakistani-born Ray and Shaista Mahmood moved to the United States, the real estate tycoon built his wife her own version of the famed Indian shrine to call home.

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s a young girl growing up in Pakistan, Shaista Mahmood dreamed of the Taj Mahal. She dreamed of having a love story like that of emperor Shah Jahan who built the shrine to honor his late wife Mumtaz Mahal; dreamed of having a home as beautiful as the domed white marble structure; and mostly dreamed of having a home filled with love. Little did she know that when she was 17, Ray Mahmood, the son of her father’s college friend, would ask for her hand in a pseudo-arranged marriage (“Both our opinions were asked on the matter and back then that didn’t usually happen,” Shaista notes) and bring her to live in America.

“When we got married, Ray said, ‘Shaista, I will build a Taj Mahal for you, but you will have yours while you are still alive!’” Shaista says, beaming at her husband across their kitchen table.

“But the Taj Mahal doesn’t have this,” says Ray gesturing to the sprawling view of the Potomac River. “This is much, much better.”

After a wedding reception in 1976 at the U.N. headquarters in NewYork, the couple settled into a two-bedroom apartment in Alexandria City. Since then, they have moved four times, all within Alexandria, before buying the historic plot upon which it would take them three years to build the Colonial-style “Taj Mahal” where they now reside.

“The land originally belonged to George Washington who gave it to his nephew, Augustine. Eventually the Neitzey family, German fishermen, bought it in 1854, and they kept it in their family until we bought it in 1996,” says Ray.

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PREVIOUS PAGE, FROM TOP LEFT: The dining room where Shaista Mahmood sits has hosted Pakistani leaders Benazir Bhutto, Perez Mushraf, Asif Ali Zardari and Shauket Aziz at various dinners. The foyer’s grand but airy atmosphere sets the tone for the rest of the house’s open layout. Floor-toceiling windows in the living room allow a view of the river from anywhere you sit or stand.

The Mahmoods purchased all their sofas and chairs during a family trip to Vienna, Austria.

This 4th-century bust of Bodhisattva is Shaista’s most treasured piece of art.

THIS PAGE, TOP: The river views sold the Mahmoods on this house, their fifth residence in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood in the past 20 years. The downstairs level is designated for large-scale entertaining. The Mahmoods have hosted upwards of 700 guests there. Shaista says that she spends much of her time in the kitchen, her favorite room.

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“From one immigrant to another. Isn’t that the story of America?” Shaista observes.

Though it’s on historic American land, the interior of the house shows very little Americana influence. Soaring ceilings, ornate chandeliers, dozens of oriental rugs, an impressive art and antiques collection (ranging from a 4thcentury bust of Bodhisattva and a collection of Pakistani silver to Michelangelo Meucci paintings), tablecloths purchased in Nice and Niedermaier furniture purchased during a trip to Vienna lend a distinctly European formality and elegance. Bright colors are splashed everywhere, which Shaista fell in love with on a trip to Versailles and she says plays a large role in her eternally sunny disposition.

But if there were any doubt that the Mahmoods have immersed themselves in American culture, the rows of framed photographs showing them shaking hands with powerful political figures dispels it. Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Vice President Biden (he gave their youngest daughter sage dating advice: don’t date!) and finally President Obama are just a few of the notables featured prominently on the Mahmoods’ walls.Very active Democratic fundraisers, the Mahmoods estimate that they have hosted events, whether charitable or political, two to four times a month since they moved in. Their largest, around 700 people, was a picnic-style fundraising event for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee before the house had even been completed at which Gore landed his helicopter on their eight-acre lawn.

“Our entertaining needs dictated much of the design of the house as our biggest priority was an open layout and a good flow that would be conducive to accommodating large crowds,” Ray says.

The Mahmouds’ love for “the best country in the world” or “the land where anything is possible” is evident.

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And while they say they will never abandon their efforts to better the lives of their Pakistani brothers and sisters, they don’t see themselves ever leaving their “Taj Mahal.”

“We will always want to help the people in Pakistan, but America is our home now,” Shaista says. “It is the land of my children and grandchildren and this is where we want to be.”

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Great Estates John Warner IV sells his historic East Village Federal, former Miss America Yolande Fox bids adieu to Georgetown and a 1920s Tudor sets records in Kalorama

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THE DISTRICT Paul Murtagh and Erin Cleary

parted ways with the historic 1920s estate at BELMONT ROAD NW for $5,295,000.The couple purchased the property in 2009. The sale is the highest-priced Kalorama closing so far in 2014. Cleary is an associate at Cleary & Oxford Associates, a healthcare advisory firm. Murtagh works in private equity at Carraig Capital. The nine-bedroom, eightbath Tudor sits on two over-sized lots and has been completely renovated to include substantial additions.

The property boasts gracious public rooms, exquisite finishes, a lowerlevel au pair suite, oversized terraces, formal gardens, two-car garage and gated motor court for eight to 10 vehicles. Washington Fine Properties represented both sides of the transaction. Mark McFadden represented the sellers; Kimberly Casey and Daryl Judy represented The Tudor style residence at 2446 Belmont Road NW broke this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale record for the purchasers.

John W. Warner IV sold Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tony Kalorama enclave when is sold for $5,295,000 TH STREET NW for $3.5 million went on to be a civil rights activist. She was spanning the width of the apartment and also to Sharif Atta and Sandra Missmar. Warner is married to the late Matthew Fox, a Hollywood includes a huge master suite with dual baths, the son of former Virginia Sen. John W.Warner movie producer. The five-bedroom, four- multiple walk-in closets, and both National and his first wife, Catherine Conover, thus and-a-half bath brick Federal house in Cathedral and Washington Monument views. making him also the grandson of Paul Mellon. Georgetownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Village sits high above the The listing agents were Washington Fine The 19th-century East Village Federal includes street and exudes the classic charm of a bygone Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Matt McCormick and Ben Roth a pool, main-level double parlor and a family era. Washington Fine Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; James Peva while TTR Sothebyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mansour Abu-Rahmeh room with a wall of windows overlooking the was the listing agent while Long & Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s represented the purchasers. garden. Coldwell Bankerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jeanne Russell was Anjelika Dmitrieve acted as the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent.

MARYLAND the listing agent while RE/MAXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marcelle Gerard Boquel and Lew Hages sold their Candace Kaller and Charles Rosencrans Jawhar was the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent.

Alla Bakhtina is the new owner of former 2,200-square-foot penthouse at 1010 bought CHESAPEAKE STREET NW Miss America and opera singer Yolande B. MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW for $1,895,000. for $2,025,000 from Robert Macgregor. The Foxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former residence at DUMBARTON Dr. Boquel is an oral surgeon while Mr. Hages newly built five-bedroom Arts and Crafts STREET NW. The sale closed at $2.9 million. is an attorney.The two bedroom, three-and- house completed earlier this year features all Fox holds the 1951 Miss America title and a-half bath unit boasts large, top-level terrace the bells and whistles imaginable. Radiant heat

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floors, wood-burning fireplaces, a gourmet kitchen and wired media room are among the propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many amenities.The listing agent for the sale was RE/MAXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thomas Holbrook; the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent was McEnearney Associatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Alyssa Crilley.

Leon Irish and Karla Simon sold KYLE ROAD in Crownsville for $1.9 million to Wilshire LLC. The 110-year-old Arts and Crafts residence sits on a three-acre point of land on the Severn River with over 600 feet of water frontage, mature naturalized gardens, a private beach and a scenic blend of wood and water from every room. Other nautical amenities include a 150-foot pier with boat lift and dock house. The property

the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent. The custom five-bedroom house was built by Benchmark in 2001 and sits on more than half an acre. The light-filled 4,600-square-foot floor plan boasts gracious foyer, gourmet kitchen and finished lower level with additional catering kitchen.

Christopher C. Bickell sold INTERPROMONTORY ROAD in Great Falls VIRGINIA for $2,470,000 to Ken and Sarah deLaski.

Charles W. Katz purchased DeLaski co-founded the software company INGLESIDE AVENUE in McLean for $2 Deltek Inc. The six-bedroom Georgian estate, million from pediatrician Daniel J. Kao . built in 1984, sits on five acres with pastoral Katz is a partner at the Morrison Foersterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views, gardens, trees, horse stable and pool.

Northern Virginia law firm. Washington Fine Washington Fine Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mark McFadden Propertiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mark McFadden was the listing was the listing agent; Long & Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joyce agent and Long & Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hans Wydler was Shuemake was the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent. was renovated from top to bottom in 2003 to include a conservatory with vaulted ceiling, chef â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen and updated main living rooms.

Brad Kappel, of Long & Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Annapolis Mr. Waterfront Team, was the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent while Marilyn Bandy of Coldwell Banker Annapolis represented the seller.

PROPERTY LINES BANNOCKBURN BEAUTY: Local business power player, Sue Cimbricz, founder of Cimbricz Consulting and a Cures Within Reach advisory board member, listed ORKNEY PARKWAY for $3,595,000. The property is listed by Jim Bell and Kira Epstein of Beasley Real Estate LLC. The stunning 9,000-square-foot custom-built Arts and Crafts-style house is located in the sought-after Bannockburn neighborhood of Bethesda and was designed by award-winning architect Glenn Fong. The posh five-bedroom residence, built in 2007, features a gourmet kitchen and butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pantry, light-filled library with access to a screened-in porch and wet bar, billiard room, home theater, pool and two garages.

The Arts and Crafts residence at 7701 Ornkey Parkway in Bethesdaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bannockburn neighborhood is on the market for $3,595,000.

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NOVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TOP TIER: Two properties are neck and neck for the most expensive Northern Virginia listing these days: FOUNDERS RIDGE LANE in McLeanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exclusive Reserve and BOYLE LANE, also in McLean. John and Sara Darvishi are selling the 2008 French Provincial on Founders Ridge for $12.9 million (previously listed at $17.9 million). The 20,000-squarefoot custom-built mansion boasts an indoor pool and racquetball/basketball court, wine cellar, elevator, ballroom, luxurious movie theater, steam showers, nanny quarters and a generator equipped to power the entire house. Mr. Darvishi is also the listing agent for the property. McQuire Woods LLP partner Thomas Brown Jr. is selling Boyle Lane for The five-bedroom Georgian Colonial at 7020 $12,980,000 with the help of Long & Fosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natelli Woods Lane in Avenel is currently on offer Maryanne Polk. The scenic property includes for $2,975,000 six bedrooms, eight full baths and two half baths. It features views of the Potomac River MARYLAND COUNTRY ESTATE: Michelle from all levels and includes a guest house.

DeFebo Freeman is selling DAMASCUS ROAD on 532 acres in Gaithersburg for MERIDIAN INVESTMENTS FOUNDER $13 million. Freeman is the owner of the LISTS: Jack Casey, co-founder of The Carl M. Freeman real estate development Meridian Companies, and his wife Sharon, company. She is also the founding president are selling their five-bedroom Georgian and chairman of the board of the Joshua M. Colonial in Avenel for $2,975,000. Beasleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Freeman Foundation named in honor of her Jim Bell and Jan Evans are the listing agents. late husband who died in a helicopter crash

NATELLI WOODS LANE offers 8,000 in 2006. The posh estate dates to 1747 and square feet of finished living space in the includes eight bedrooms, four full baths, two main house plus a year-round live-in pool/ half baths, stables and an entertainment barn guest house. The main residence includes with commercial kitchen. many luxurious features. The guest house also includes a full kitchen, one and a half Send real estate news to Stacey Grazier Pfarr baths and laundry facilities. at editorial@washingtonlife.com.

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June Listings High-end properties in the city and suburbs are currently for sale

BANNOCKBURN

ASKING PRICE $3,595,000

ORKNEY PARKWAY\ BETHESDA\ MD

Designed by award-winning architect Glenn Fong and constructed in 2007 LISTING AGENT: by the acclaimed Augustine Homes, this custom-built residence has just over Jim Bell and 9,000 square feet of living space. The main level’s open floor plan boasts details Kira Epstein, such as arched ceilings and doorways and a wide grand staircase with vaulted 202-957-2272; windows. Four sets of French doors lead to the rear flagstone terrace, pool and Beasley Real gardens – made private by large evergreens and lush landscaping. The second Estate level includes the master suite with garden views and fireplace in addition to two separate full baths and his-and-hers walk-in closets plus four additional bedrooms, each with en-suite baths. The top floor has a large open loft area that could be used as an in-law suite. All four floors are accessible via elevator.

AVENEL YORK MANOR WAY\ POTOMAC\ MD This custom masterpiece is sited on two acres in the gated village of Rapley Preserve at Avenel. The interior boasts soaring ceilings, two-story glass walls , an expansive stone terrace and dynamic floor plan with custom touches throughout.With approximately 11,0000 square feet of finished living space, the house offers seven bedrooms, seven full baths, two half baths and a fourcar garage.

ASKING PRICE $4,395,000 LISTING AGENT Wendy Banner & The Banner Team; Long and Foster Real Estate

LOGAN CIRCLE RHODE ISLAND AVE^ NW\ WASHINGTON\ DC This stunning Victorian row house is located just steps from 14th Street NW in the heart of sought-after Logan Circle. Five bedrooms and four and a half baths spread out over four stories containing 5,000 square feet of beautifully restored living space. Additional amenities include a roof deck, two rentable basement units and two private rear parking spaces.

GREAT FALLS

INNSBRUCK AVENUE\ GREAT FALLS\ VA Sited on an idyllic five acres, this grand custom residence is handsomely presented at the end of a large circular drive. Sitting on the back terrace, one can enjoy sweeping views of the expansive yard featuring a tennis court, gazebo and pool with a large entertainment area. This gracious Colonial with European flair is perfect for entertaining both large formal gatherings and small intimate groups.

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ASKING PRICE $2,850,000 LISTING AGENTS: Jeff Taylor & Alex Venditti, 202-550-8872; TTR Sotheby’s International Realty

ASKING PRICE $4,200,000 LISTING AGENT Marianne Prendergast, 703-676-3030; Washington Fine Properties

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MY WASHINGTON HOW DO YOU BEST SUCCEED AT GETTING PEOPLE TO RELATE TO FOOD WITH THEIR BRAINS AND EYES AS MUCH AS THEIR STOMACHS? I am a storyteller as well as a chef. My food is about creating memories and experiences and sharing a unique story. It’s about taking something you thought you knew, a memory or a flavor, and elevating it to a totally new experience.

HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN QUALITY IN YOUR WORK WHEN YOU HAVE SO MANY RESTAURANTS, MEDIA PROJECTS, CHARITABLE INTERESTS, ETC.? I am very blessed that I have an incredible group of people around me whom I trust and who are passionate and always hungry to learn. I would say that the quality in my restaurants has improved over the last 20 years but obviously as we’ve gotten bigger, I cannot be in all places at once. We’ve created a structure that works efficiently and streamlines our efforts. It hasn’t always been easy and we are still learning.

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WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU TEACH YOUR STUDENTS — WHETHER THEY ARE AT HARVARD OR IN ONE OF YOUR KITCHENS? I recently had the honor to give the commencement speech at George Washington University. As I sat down to write it, I thought of my life and all of the lessons I’ve learned along the way. The best advice that I can give is to not be afraid of failure. Life can be anything but predictable and it’s how we are able to learn and embrace the lessons of our failures that will help determine out paths.

WHAT CHEFS AND/OR GASTRONOMICAL INFLUENCES MOST AFFECTED YOUR CAREER? I believe you have to look back to move forward. I love collecting old cookbooks. One of the most important is “The Physiology of Taste” (1825) by the philosopher Brillat-Savarin, who said, “The future of nations will depend on how we feed ourselves.” That is something I always keep in mind.

ARE THERE ANY YOUNG CHEFS IN THIS AREA WHOM YOU ARE WATCHING? Erik Bruner Yang is doing great things at Toki Underground on H Street NE. Also Mike Friedman of the Red Hen and Marjorie Meek Bradley of Ripple who were both named to Food & Wine’s list of up-and-coming chefs. And we also have to recognize the entrepreneurial food truck operators that have added so much excitement to our city.

MY TOP SPOTS 1. Penn Quarter FRESHFARM Market (8th and D streets NW) On Thursday afternoons, count on finding me and my team here to find the best products from surrounding farm areas into the city.

For me there is nothing better than an outdoor market to find inspiration.

2. 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW) I’ve been going for years to this D.C. institution owned by my friend Seth Hurwitz. Some of my favorite moments in Washington have happened there.

3. Restaurant Nora (2132 Florida Ave. NW) was the first U.S. restaurant to be certified as organic over 30 years ago and it continues to be one of the city’s best places to eat. What Nora Pouillon created was amazing. She paved the way for a lot of chefs as well as the farm-to-table movement.

4. United States National Archives (700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW) Seeing all the history there is astonishing. As an immigrant, I will never forget seeing the Declaration of Independence in person. It was a very powerful moment.

5. Great Falls Park (9200 Old Dominion Dr., McLean) On a nice day I always enjoy walking along the Chesapeake and Ohio CanaI, an incredible place where you can see astonishing views of waterfalls, tree and beautiful nature.

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