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.
Peter Lewis
Peter Lewis took control of a small Cleveland insurance firm during one of the first LBO’s in history. Lewis took that small insurance firm from an 100-employee company to a 14,000-employee company over the course of 30 years and without any major acquisitions.
- Peter Lewis has given millions to higher education. He gave $37 million to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. His gifts to Princeton, his alma mater, are well over $233 million.
- Invests in people with clear, creative, courageous visions that produce results. Lewis’ reputation is that he insists on the organizations to which he donates be both financially accountable and sound.
- Lewis is a major arts patron. Among the many things he has done for the art world include: creating and supporting the Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, donating $50 million to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and donating $1 million to Princeton for a contemporary gallery at the Princeton Art Museum.