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From FORBES and with a GREATFUL hat tip to SUICIDEBLONDE, most of whose tastes I seem to share…ain’t irony grand? When I started to follow her, little did I get it.
Meryl Streep Has Been Giving Away Millions in Secret for Years
Yesterday’s big news: Meryl Streep and artist husband Don Gummer donated $20,000 to two schools, and fellow actor Viola Davis has been involved. It sounded very nice, and it was done before the Oscars. But a closer look reveals that the Gummers have quietly been giving away millions for the last several years without any fanfare. Their Silver Mountain Arts Foundation has donated close to $2 million to Vassar College alone in the last three years.
According to the foundation’s tax filing, Silver Mountain pays no salaries. It just gives and gives- t0 arts projects, health organizations, etc. The donations are in a range from $1000 to $1 million. It’s quite extraordinary and it’s been going on for years. The Gummers are annual donors to the Opus School in Harlem, the setting of Meryl’s Oscar nominated performance in “Music of the Heart.”
In 2010 alone, they gave away $2.13 million–about half of it to Vassar, but $100,000 to Oxfam America, and another $5,000 apiece to things like New York’s City Meals on Wheels and Coalition for the Homeless. They’re very giving to local charities in their Connecticut neighborhoods, and support museums in Boston and Illinois. Last year they even gave $200,000 to the National Women’s Museum in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Why did Oprah get the humanitarian award?
The fact that these donations had to be DUG OUT by Forbes says more about Meryl Streep the HUMAN than any work she could do.
In this case the consummate, top professional has matched in character what she is capable of in her work.
CARRY ON
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