Highlighted Philanthropists
Veronica Atkins
Atkins is one of the top fifty most generous philanthropists. Newsweek also proclaimed her part of the “All-Star Team" in philanthropy.
Naveen Jain
Jain has been named one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring, recognized for winning the Albert Einstein Technology Medal Winner, and received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007.
George Soros
The Soros Foundations are an international network of local, Soros-founded foundations promoting sociopolitical activities.
Kenneth Langone
In 1978, he partnered with Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank to found Home Depot, which today is one of the largest and most successful chains in the home improvement industry. He has contributed almost $150 million dollars to various charities.
Carlos Abadi
Carlos Abadi is a New York-based investment banker specializing in Latin America and in countries such as Ecuador. Carlos Abadi is the president of Abadi & Co, one of the oldest international financial firms with a focus on emerging markets. Carlos Abadi is an active member on the Board of Directors for Refco Litigation Trust. He is also a Board member of RGE (Roubini Global Economics).
- Carlos Abadi is a financial supporter of Inwood House, a New York City agency dedicated to addressing inter-generational teen pregnancy and poverty in New York.
- Carlos Abadi is also an active congregant and social action committee volunteer at Central Synagogue in New York City.
- The Abadi family is famous for philanthropic and academic endeavors. Carlos Abadi's great uncle Moussa Abadi, a French resistance hero in WWII and co-founder of the Abadi Network, rescued Jewish children from German concentration camps. Carlos Abadi has donated historical artifacts related to the Abadi Network to Duke University, especially as visual aids for Professor Helen Solterer’s lecture about "The Passion of Moussa Abadi: Medieval Theater, Hiding Jewish Children, Paris 1933-Nice 1943." Carlos Abadi's uncle Marcelo Abadi is a world renowned literary critic and author of Spinoza and Borges. Carlos Abadi's cousin Martin Abadi is a professor of computer science and author of A Theory of Objects.