Philanthropy - Oprah Winfrey

Inside Philanthropy - Oprah Winfrey
 Net worth: $3 billion
 Main Source: Oprah Winfrey Show/Harpo Productions/Winfrey Network
Love to Know - Charities of Oprah Winfrey
 Main Charities:
 - The Angel Network
    - supports and pulicizes on her talk show hoping to get audience "to be more involved in giving             and volunteering"
    - collects millions of $'s in donation then gives grants to organizations focusing on her initiatives               (education, developing leaders, protecting human rights, making support communities)
    - started in 1997/98
    - pays all overhead and operating costs herself & 100% of donation goes to funding a project
 - The Oprah Winfrey Foundation
    - runs it exclusively
    - provides grants (funded by her personally) to non-profit organizations
    - no donations or grant applications; she chooses charities
 - The Oprah Winfrey Operating Foundation
    - exclusively for Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa
      - began in 2007
Other Charities:
 - O Ambassadors
    - school-based program which encourages kids "to give and act on behalf of their peers in                     underdeveloped countries"
 - The US Dream Academy
    - after school program that works with children who have a parent in jail
    - aims to "break the cycle of incarceration"
    - Oprah is one of the biggest supporters
Bio. - Oprah Winfrey Biography
 - single mother in Mississippi
 - sexually abused by several male relatives and friends of her mother when she was young
 - launched  The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986
 - Harpo Productions (Oprah backwards)
 - Oprah's Book Club --> put many unknown authors on top of bestseller lists & renewed popularity       of pleasure reading
 - co-founded Oxygen Media --> dedicated to "producing cable internet programming for women"
 - Angel Network has raised more than %52 million for charitable programs
 - proposed a bill to Congress, which was passed in 1994, making a nationwide database of convicted    child abusers
CNN - Oprah Wifrey Fast Facts
 - President Clinton signed "Oprah Bill"
 - "Oprah's Book Club" = influential in the publishing world
 - "Oprah Winfrey Show" was originally called "AM Chicago"
 - Won the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2002
 - Opened school for girls in 2007 ($40 million to open)
    - houses 152 girls from bad backgrounds and gives them education
 - OWN was originally "Discovery Health Channel"
 - was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2010 at 33rd annual Kennedy Center Honors gala
 - received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2001
 - Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2013