Philanthropy
In financing the establishment of the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud in 1989, she sold a large part of her assets. These included a jewelry collection auctioned by Sotheby's in New York for $31.2 million, an art collection of $20 million, and a substantial part of her family real-estate business which fetched $50 million.
As part of the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud, Albina du Boisrouvray developed FXB International. The mission of FXB International is to fight poverty and AIDS, and support orphans and vulnerable children left in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. FXB International offers comprehensive support to the families and communities that care for these children, and advocates for their fundamental rights. Today, FXB International leads over 100 programs in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and has a staff of over 450.
In 1991, Albina du Boisrouvray funded the Global AIDS Policy Coalition at the Harvard School of Public Health. A year later, the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud announced that it was giving $20 million, its largest gift ever, to establish the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and to pay for construction of the François-Xavier Bagnoud building in Boston, and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Professorship in Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Albina du Boisrouvray also started the FXB Center at the School of Nursing at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which "reaches across traditional boundaries to link research and practice through education". The Center provides clinical care, education, and technical assistance in the United States and globally to support capacity building to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
In 2002, Albina du Boisrouvray and FXB International founded World AIDS Orphans Day, "a grassroots campaign to draw attention to and advocate on behalf of the over 15 million children orphaned by AIDS".
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Famous quotes containing the word philanthropy:
“... the hey-day of a woman’s life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility,—requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I shall not be forward to think him mistaken in his method who quickest succeeds to liberate the slave. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)