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Philanthropic Organizations
- The Abadi Network
- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Angel Network
- The Alfred Mann Foundation
- The Atkins Foundation
- The Bacardi Family Foundation
- The Bernard Osher Foundation
- The Bertarelli Foundation
- The Broad Art Foundation
- The Broad Education Foundation
- The Broad Foundation
- The Carnegie Foundation
- Charles Koch Foundation
- Commonwealth Foundation
- Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
- The Fields Family Foundation
Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network
Founder: Oprah Winfrey
Areas of interest:
- Education
- Social leadership
- Women empowerment
- Children
- Poverty
- Disaster relief
Notable projects/programs:
O Ambassadors - Then as now, Oprah Winfrey's philanthropy is focused on transforming young lives so that they reach their full potential. Built in 2007, the Angel Network is one of the largest projects of this specialty. O Ambassadors, as it is called, has empowered 10,000 students to become truly global citizens.
More about Oprah's Angel Network:
Talk show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey once urged her viewers in 1997 to help fill the World's Biggest Piggy Bank with their spare change. Met by rousing response, the "piggy bank" paid for around 150 scholarships and provided the impetus for the creation of Oprah's Angel Network the next year.
Giving Oprah her wings, so to speak, The Angel Network helps the disenfranchised and the needy, those bereft of education and fundamental rights. It also awards grants to deserving nonprofits.
The Angel Network leverages the talks show host's immense affluence as the richest Black American in the world, who defrays management and overhead costs herself. Therefore, donors are sure that contributions would fund projects directly. In its short span, Oprah's Angel Network has collected $70 million in donations, funding life-changing initiatives from education to women's rights.
Oprah's Angel Network erected over sixty schools for backward communities in 13 nations, including the Seven Fountains Primary School in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Nearly 18,000 destitute South African students received school supplies and uniforms clocked in at $1 million from the organization in 2005. It also funded organizations that enable women in the Middle East to pursue higher education.
Oprah's Angel Network also sends Oprah's Book club Selections to underprivileged children living in the books' settings, as in Russian children for Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by.
Wherever there are impoverished communities, The Angel Network has served as their pecuniary resort. In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Oprah's Angel Network built and repaired around 300 homes in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Alabama. An emergency facility in East Biloxi, Mississippi was also created by the organization after Hurricane Katrina to assist 3,000 affected families. After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami leveled Sri Lanka, Oprah's Angel Network was also there to revitalize affected regions in the country.
Oprah's Angel Network administered the "Use Your Life Award" in 2000.
For her efforts, Oprah toped the Celebrity Philanthropy A-list in 2007.