{"id":310572,"date":"2026-05-11T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310572\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:40:09","slug":"la500-2026-edythe-broad-los-angeles-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/310572\/","title":{"rendered":"LA500 2026: Edythe Broad &#8211; Los Angeles Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Edythe Broad\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778521209_685_w=9999.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium aligncenter\" style=\"max-height: 400px; max-width: 300px; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778521209_685_w=9999.png\" alt=\"Edythe Broad\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Co-Founder<br \/>The Broad Foundations<\/p>\n<p>As co-founder of The Broad Foundations, Edythe Broad has devoted her life to transformative philanthropy alongside her late husband Eli. After establishing The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in 1967 and The Broad Art Foundation in 1984, they committed to full-time giving in 1999, focusing on public K-12 education, scientific and medical research, the arts, and civic transformation in Los Angeles. To date, their investments have exceeded $4 billion. The Broads were also among the first signatories of the Giving Pledge, committing to donate 75% of their wealth.<br \/>Favorite charity or cause: Public libraries<br \/>Favorite book: \u201cCutting for Stone\u201d by Abraham Verghese<br \/>Favorite quote: \u201cWe in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.\u201d \u2013 Unknown<\/p>\n<p>YEARS ON LA500: 6 Years on the LA500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Co-FounderThe Broad Foundations As co-founder of The Broad Foundations, Edythe Broad has devoted her life to transformative philanthropy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[126855,48,52,51,47,50,49,130330],"class_list":["post-310572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-edythe-broad","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-the-broad-foundations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}