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Amy Marks Dornbusch and the AtlasDaughters model of next-generation philanthropy

Amy Marks Dornbusch has form when it comes to philanthropy: she was born to it. The Marks Family Foundation has a long tradition of endowing medical research and broadly humanitarian pursuits. The family’s entrepreneurial credentials are equally broad and long-standing, ranging from technology and venture investing to motorsport and hospitality. Amy is a director of […]

The extraordinary life of John L. Loeb Jr

John L. Loeb, Jr, former US Ambassador to Denmark, philanthropist and art collector, is a compelling narrator of his life story that is in its ninth decade. John Loeb is a 9th generation American. His earliest ancestor, Abraham Isaacks emigrated to the U.S. from Emden, Holland in 1697. It is a story of immense privilege […]

Lio Malca’s Art Universe

The Art Collector Lio Malca had an auspicious start in art. His father, owner of a chain of stores in Colombia, sent him to study finance and economics in Miami and Boston. Upon graduation, Lio did not want to move back to Colombia, so he visited a relative in New York City who had worked […]

Fondation de Luxembourg

A Philanthropic Umbrella Conversation with Tonika Hirdman, Director of the Fondation de Luxembourg Photo Credit Mark Zenari ‘The Fondation de Luxembourg was created in December 2008 by the Luxembourg State and the Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte. Its mission is to promote private philanthropic commitment. ‘ In order to understand better the mission and […]

The Rockefeller Effect

Conversation with Valerie Rockefeller, chair of the Board of Directors of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors If a single name were ever synonymous with, and evocative of immense wealth – certainly in the pre- high tech, pre-Elon Musk era – it has to be that of Rockefeller. John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was a legendary American industrialist and […]