Eli Broad是一位着名的商业领袖，他们建造了两个财富500强公司，从大楼内完成了一家五十多年的业务。他是Sunamerica Inc.和Kb Home（以前的Kaufman和Broad Home Corporation）的创始人。
今天,Eli Broad和他的妻子Edythe投入to philanthropy as founders of The Broad Foundations, which they established to advance entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts. The Broad Foundations, which include The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Broad Art Foundation, have assets of $3 billion. The Broad Art Foundation has provided over 500 museums and university galleries worldwide with more than 8,000 loans of artwork since 1984.
Through the foundations, the Broads have created groundbreaking independent institutions in each of their three areas of grantmaking, including The Broad Center, which develops leaders to help transform America’s urban public schools; The Broad Institute, a global leader in genomics; and The Broad, which was founded in 2015 as a gift to the city of Los Angeles and is dedicated to making contemporary art accessible to the widest possible audience.
宽敞的是成立主席，是洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆的一生，广泛的基金会于2008年12月在2008年12月获得了3000万美元的挑战议定书，以重建博物馆的捐赠并提供展览支持。狗万充值平台他是纽约现代艺术博物馆的一生学会，洛杉矶县艺术博物馆，广泛的礼物制作了6000万美元的礼物，以建造伦佐钢琴设计的广泛的当代艺术博物馆，于2008年2月开业，狗万充值平台并为艺术收购预算提供资金。
Tireless advocates of Los Angeles, the Broads have championed the cultural and architectural vitality of the city. Committed to the belief that all great cities need a vibrant center, Mr. Broad was the visionary behind the development of Grand Avenue, which will blend residential, retail, cultural and recreational uses into a civic centerpiece to rival the main boulevards of the world’s greatest cities. In 1996, Mr. Broad and then-Mayor Richard Riordan spearheaded the fundraising campaign to build the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to worldwide acclaim in October 2003. The Broads provided the lead gift to the Los Angeles Opera to create a new production of Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen in 2009-2010. They gave $10 million in 2008 to create an endowment for programming and arts education at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage and The Edye Second Space at the Santa Monica College performing arts center.
From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Broad served as a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution by appointment of the U.S. Congress and the President. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1994 was named Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor by the Republic of France. Mr. Broad serves on the board of the Future Generation Art Prize. He received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in 2007 and the David Rockefeller Award from the Museum of Modern Art in March 2009. Strong believers in higher education, the Broads have further extended their philanthropy in the arts. The Broad Foundation made a major contribution to the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA for The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, designed by Richard Meier. In 1991, the Broads endowed The Eli Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University (MSU), where Mr. Broad graduated cum laude in 1954. In June 2007, the Broads announced a $26 million gift to create the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU, and they gave another $2 million to the project in January 2010. The Zaha Hadid-designed museum opened in November 2012.
Mr. Broad's first book,The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking，由Wiley发表于2012年5月，是一个New York Times,Wall Street Journal,USA Today， 和Washington Postbestseller.
The Broads reside in Los Angeles and have two grown sons.
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