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Susan Thompson Buffett (June 15, 1932 – July 29, 2004) was an American activist for the causes of civil rights, abortion rights and birth control, and the first wife of investor Warren Buffett. She was a director of Berkshire Hathaway , owning 2.2 percent of the company worth about $3 billion at the time of her death, [ 1 ] making her the ...
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.
Instead of continuing to donate to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (named after his wife), the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the NoVo Foundation—three ...
Those yearly gifts have gone to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four of his family's foundations: the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G. Buffett ...
Susan Alice Buffett (born July 30, 1953) [1] 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, formerly known as the Susan A. Buffett Foundation, an organization in Omaha that provides grants in public education, human services [2] and social justice in the interest of promoting the ...
Chinese American family donates millions to Black Resource Center for past act of kindness. 02:59. CORONADO, Calif. — Standing on their lawn, members of the Dong family waited to meet the great ...
William Hertzog Thompson was born June 16, 1895, in Greeley, Colorado, to Lorin Andrew Thompson, a newspaper editor and postal inspector, and Annie Hertzog Thompson, a mother of four sons and active church member. In 1903 the family moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where Thompson eventually graduated from the University of Omaha (later part of the ...
financier. philanthropist. William Boyce Thompson (May 13, 1869 – June 27, 1930) was an American mining engineer, financier, prominent in the Republican party, philanthropist, and founder of Newmont Mining. Thompson was one of the early twentieth century mine operators that discovered and exploited vast copper deposits that revolutionized ...