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Doris Eleanor Buffett (February 12, 1928 – August 4, 2020) was an American philanthropist also known as the 'retail' philanthropist and the founder of The Sunshine Lady Foundation, The Learning By Giving Foundation, and The Letters Foundation which she co-founded alongside her younger brother, billionaire Warren Buffett.
Doris Buffett, who has donated $2 million to the Germanna Community College mentoring, tutoring and scholarship program, visited the students and mentors. (Photo by Robert A. Martin) Date: 19 December 2015, 12:47: Source: Doris Buffett visits Gladys P. Todd Academy students, mentors: Author: Germanna CC: Other versions
Susan Alice Buffett is an American philanthropist who is the daughter of Warren Buffett and Susan Thompson Buffett.Her charitable work has focused largely on the Sherwood Foundation and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, organizations in Omaha that provide grants in public education, human services, and social justice in the interest of promoting the welfare of children from lower-income families.
Following this initial success, Doris Buffett proposed a second challenge: a matching grant of $100,000, contingent upon the students raising an equivalent amount by semester's end. This challenge led to the expansion of SHH's network, with the establishment of chapters at Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia. The collective efforts of ...
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Buffett was Corporate Vice President and Assistant to the Chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Company from 1992 to 1995, Director of Archer Daniels Midland Company from 1991 to 1995, Director of the Board of Directors of The GSI Group from 1995 to 2001, Director of ConAgra Foods from 2002 to 2006, Director of Agro Tech Foods Ltd. until October 26, 2006, and Director at Sloan Implement.
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation is a charitable organization formed 1964 in Omaha, Nebraska, by investor and industrialist Warren Buffett as a vehicle to manage his charitable giving. [1] It was known simply as the Buffett Foundation until 2004, when it was renamed in honor of Susan Buffett , who died that year.
In 2006, on his 76th birthday, Buffett married his longtime companion, Astrid Menks, who was then 60 years old—she had lived with him since his wife's departure to San Francisco in 1977. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] Susan had arranged for the two to meet before she left Omaha to pursue her singing career.