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Adrienne Arsht

Adrienne Arsht

CATEGORY: Philanthropists

Company: Adrienne Arsht Center

INDUSTRY: Performing Arts

What Makes her Haute : As former Chairman of the board of TotalBank of Miami, Arsht grew the bank to $1.4 billion in assets before selling to Banco Popular Español in 2007 when she began dedicating her life to philanthropy. The first woman to join the Million Dollar Roundtable of United Way of Miami- Dade in 2004, she gifted $6 million to the University of Miami and $30 million to the Adrienne Arsht Center. Her generosity is not limited to southern Florida, large donations in the northeast include $10 million to New York’s Lincoln Center, $5 million to the Kennedy Center and $5 million to the Atlantic Council for a new center on Latin America in Washington D.C.

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