Laurie Tisch

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Laurie Tisch
Born1950or1951(age 72–73) [1]
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Investor, Philanthropist
Spouse Donald Sussman (divorced)
Children2
Parent(s) Joan Hyman Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch
Family Jonathan Tisch (brother)
Steve Tisch (brother)
Laurence Tisch (uncle)
Jamie Tisch (sister-in-law)

Laurie Tisch (born 1951) is an American investor, philanthropist, and billionaire.

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Biography

Tisch is the daughter of Joan (née Hyman) (1927–2017) and Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005). [1] Her father co-founded the Loews Corporation with his brother Laurence Tisch and was a 50% owner of the New York Giants football team. [1] She and her two brothers (Jonathan Tisch and Steve Tisch) inherited her mother's 6% share in Loews after her death making them billionaires. [1] She founded the not-for-profit foundation, the Illumination Fund, which serves the children of New York City with an emphasis on arts education. [2]

In 2007, she founded her charitable foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, with the core mission of increasing access and opportunity for all New Yorkers and fostering healthy and vibrant communities, using an equity lens to develop initiatives and to issue grants. [2] Since she started the foundation, the Illumination Fund has undertaken high-impact initiatives, including Healthy Food & Community Change, launched in 2013, and Arts in Health, launched in 2018. Since its founding, the Illumination Fund has played a catalytic role in a range of initiatives and organizations, as well as in public-private partnerships with multiple City agencies.

In 2021, in response to increasing need for mental health resources brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Illumination Fund issued an RFP inviting proposals from NYC-based arts and cultural organizations addressing mental health for people in historically marginalized and vulnerable communities. In 2022 the Illumination fund awarded grants to 14 organizations from among the hundreds of applications. [3]

Tisch is a former Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Whitney Museum of American Art and former Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, serves on the Board of Directors at The Juilliard School and The Jewish Communal Fund and is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute.Ms. Tisch is Chair Emeritus of the Center for Arts Education and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). Ms. Tisch led CMOM’s transformation and expansion from a neighborhood-based storefront into a citywide institution that is now recognized as a national leader in health, education, and the arts. Currently, she is co-chairing a capital campaign to build a new home for CMOM on Central Park West and 96th Street, which will also become a base for their citywide programs serving families in the shelter system and incarcerated mothers and fathers and their children. She is also a co-owner and member of the Board of Directors of the New York Football Giants. She and her daughters Emily Tisch Sussman and Carolyn Tisch Blodgett are among the owners of Gotham FC, the NY/NJ National Women’s Soccer League team.

Tisch is a recipient of many awards for philanthropy and public service. In December 2018, she received the Key to the City of New York at Gracie Mansion. She was named one of the “50 Most Powerful Women of 2017” by Crain’s New York Business, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was honored with the United Way of NYC’s 10th Anniversary Power of Women to Make a Difference Award and by the New York Women’s Foundation. She received Share Our Strength’s “No Kid Hungry” Hero Award and New York City’s Special Merit in Public Health Award for her initiatives promoting access to healthy foods in low-income communities. She has also received the Lincoln Center Distinguished Service Award. She received an honorary doctorate from Yeshiva University. In 2022, Ms. Tisch helped produce A Strange Loop, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. [4]

Net worth

Per Forbes' list of The World's Billionaires, she had a net worth of $1.2 billion (April 2023). [5]

Personal life

She is divorced from Connecticut hedge fund manager Donald Sussman; they have two children [6] [7] including Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, a marketing strategist who served as Chief Marketing Officer at Peloton during their highest growth period, and Emily Tisch Sussman, a Democratic strategist, political commentator, and campaign coordinator who has run progressive campaigns for organizations such as the Center for American Progress and Swing Left. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Forbes: The World's Billionaires - Laurie Tisch May 2021
  2. 1 2 New York Observer: "Laurie Tisch Illuminates Children’s Lives" By Ken Kurson October 24, 2013
  3. ↑ "New Arts & Mental Health program to serve communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic". 10 January 2022.
  4. ↑ https://cbtc.org.in/news/who-is-laurie-m-tisch-what-is-her-net-worth/
  5. ↑ "The World's Billionaires: Laurie Tisch". Forbes . April 2023.
  6. ↑ New York Times: "Preston Robert Tisch, Owner of Loews Hotels and Giants, Dies" By DOUGLAS MARTIN November 16, 2005
  7. ↑ The New York Observer: The Tisch Family by Anna Schneider-Mayerson December 18, 2006
  8. ↑ "Emily Tisch Sussman". Marie Claire . Retrieved May 21, 2021.
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