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Susan Alice Buffett 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 and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, organizations in Omaha that provide grants in public education, human services, and social justice in the interest of promoting the welfare of children from lower-income families.
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.
The family's giving began in earnest with the distribution of Susan Buffett's $3 billion estate after her death in 2004, but really took off when Warren Buffett announced plans in 2006 to make ...
Buffett formed the Buffett Foundation in 1964, then renamed it the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation after his first wife died in 2004. The foundation's chair is Buffett's daughter, Susie.
The Buffett family’s four charities include the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, supporting reproductive health care organizations, including those that provide abortion and contraception ...
Buffett currently resides in Decatur, Illinois, from where he oversees a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) family farm in Pana, Illinois, and three foundation-operated research farms, including over 1,500 acres in Arizona, and 9,200 acres in South Africa.
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 ...