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Diana Latow Blank (born September 13, [1] 1942) [2] is an American philanthropist who founded the Kendeda Fund. She is the former wife of The Home Depot co-founder, Arthur Blank . Biography
The Kendeda Fund’s journey began with Diana Blank's curiosity, discomfort, and sense of urgency. Her curiosity arose from the joy and wonder she found in the natural world, leading to her mantra, "I wonder what this will be like?" Her discomfort centered around her own unexpected wealth and privilege. And her sense of urgency led her to think ...
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In the early 1990s, Diana Blank began a remarkable and unconventional philanthropic journey. After more than one billion dollars in grantmaking, Diana closed the Fund she had created. WMN partnered with Diana and her Kendeda family to memorialize three decades of philanthropy.
Mar 26, 2024 · There’s the Kendeda Fund in Georgia, a foundation launched by Arthur Blank’s former wife Diana Blank, which shuttered in December after three decades of grantmaking. Kendeda, which was steered in its later years by the couple’s daughter Dena Kimball, focused on areas like climate change and land conservation, the rights of women and girls, gun violence prevention, and racial and economic ...
Oct 21, 2019 · Diana Blank is a mother, a grandmother, a philanthropist and lifelong lover of the outdoors. Guided by her twin passions for social equity and the healing power of nature, she founded The Kendeda Fund in 1993.
Jun 13, 2023 · Atlanta philanthropist Diana Blank is trying to advance that dream. Inspired a decade ago by a visit to the Bullitt Center , a living building in cool, rainy, and eco-progressive Seattle, she set out to prove that such an engineering feat was possible in the Southeast — despite its hot, humid, and not-so-eco-friendly political climate.
Jun 20, 2023 · As reported by the Chronicle of Philanthropy: “Long before MacKenzie Scott’s billion-dollar giving spree made ‘trust based philanthropy’ a buzzword, Diana Blank followed her instincts and put a lot of faith in her grantees… She bankrolled some for decades, eschewing grant cycles, elaborate theories of change, onerous grant applications and data-insistent impact measures.
