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well over a million dollars to the hospital, in addition to endowing the Cindy and Evan Jones Professorship in Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, the first in the country that tests how medicine reacts in children as opposed to adults. Cindy Jones also sits on CNMC’s foundation board, while her husband serves on the medical center’s main board and is the former chairman of the Children’s Research Institute Board. Evan Jones, a scientist, is on a number of Boards including Research!America andhe established a Management & Technology fund at the Wharton School. Cindy Jones, an engineer by training, serves on several boards including the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Women’s Board of the American Heart Association and has chaired over a dozen local fund raising galas. KIPLINGER FAMILY Austin Kiplinger’s father, publishing magnate W.M. Kiplinger, started collecting rare prints, maps and photographs of the nation’s capital back in the 1920s and his family has continued the tradition ever since, amassing more than 4,000 pieces tracing every stage of the city’s development. This treasure trove dates from an early 1791 plan for the new capital drawn by Pierre L’Enfant to “Vanishing Washington,� 120 oil and watercolor paintings and hundreds of photographs commissioned to record buildings that were demolished in the 1950s. Austin Kiplinger and
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his son, Knight, recently turned over this treasure trove to the Historical Society of Washington, where it will be displayed at the old Carnegie Library, the downtown headquarters the group shares with Events DC, the city’s convention and sports authority. ROBERT AND ARLENE KOGOD AND CLARICE SMITH Any local resident who loves the performing arts would certainly be familiar with the names Kogod and Smith. From the Robert and Arlene Kogod Theatre at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Arlene and Robert Kogod Center for the Arts classroom at Sidwell Friends School to the Kogod Lobby at Studio Theatre and the Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum, it is clear this prominent real estate dynasty has left an indelible cultural mark in the metropolitan Washington area. SACHIKO KUNO AND RYUJI UENO The biotech tycoons behind the surprise purchases of the historic “Evermay� and “Halcyon House� properties in Georgetown fly under the radar with their philanthropy but have made strides in supporting the arts. In addition to their S&R Foundation, which supports emerging Japanese classical musicians and scientists, the couple also gives regularly to
the Washington Ballet, the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society as well as to more wide-reaching projects such as the Global Classmates Program. They are also in the process of creating a separate entity, the Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno Innovation Fund, for additional philanthropic endeavors. TED AND LYNN LEONSIS The couple were a pillar of the Washington charitable community even before they pledged to donate $100 million in their lifetimes. Ted Leonsis wears many hats — from entrepreneur and sports team owner to Emmy-awardwinning filmmaker and venture capital investor — and within each role he manages to wear a philanthropist’s hat as well. He and his wife have supported more than 400 charities in the past, and this year they are narrowing their focus to make a greater impact with their giving. Favorites still include his alma mater Georgetown University, College Success Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs, Best Buddies,VPP, Maya Angelou School, Capital Area Food Bank and military outreach programs such as TAPS. MARRIOTT FAMILY The hotel clan’s J. Willard and Alice Marriott Foundation, controlled by brothers Bill and Richard Marriott, distributed just over $19
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