6 Degrees of Separation….
How many degrees of separation are there between HODR and potential donors?….You tell us!
We have identified the following foundations, corporations, TV shows and individuals to pursue for funding, to establish a corporate volunteer program or for publicity. We need you, the HODR Family, to help us make introductions or connections to get our foot in the door, and we’ll take it from there!
Please email Andrew Kerr, Development Coordinator, at Andrew@HODR.org if you have a connection to any of these companies, foundations or donors, or any others you think would be interested in the HODR story!
The foundations and companies below have been identified for their philanthropy and strong match to HODR’s mission:
3M Google.com, Google.org, the Google Foundation
Ameriprise Halliburton
Aetna Hasbro
Alcon Laboratories Henry Schein, Inc.
Anheuser Busch Hewlett Packard
Ashland, Inc. ING
Best Buy KPMG, LLC
Becton Dickinson Live with Regis and Kelly
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Merck & Co.
Cardinal Health Merrill Lynch
Caterpillar Corporation & Foundation Micron Technology Foundation
Coca-Cola Microsoft
ConAgra Foods Nike
Corning The Oprah Winfrey Show
Credit Suisse Sony
Eastman Chemicals, Inc. The Today Show
Exxon Mobile Corporation Toyota Motors
FedEx Walmart
General Electric Walt Disney Company
Good Morning America Wells Fargo
The following individuals have been identified by BusinessWeek Magazine as “The 50 Top American Givers” of 2008:
Sheldon Adelson - Chairman and CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Paul Allen - Microsoft co-founder, Vulcan Inc. chairman
Veronica Atkins - Widow of Dr. Robert Atkins
Donald Bren - Real estate developer
Michael Bloomberg - Bloomberg founder, NYC Mayor
David & Suzanne Booth - Dimensional Fund Advisors CEO
Eli & Edythe Broad - SunAmerica, KB Home founder
Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway CEO
Robert Day - Trust Co. of the West CEO
David & Cheryl Duffield - PeopleSoft co-founder
Dan Duncan & family - Oil and gas
Bill & Melinda Gates - Microsoft co-founder
William Barron Hilton - Heir and former CEO of Hilton Hotels
Marguerite Hoffman - Widow of investor Robert Hoffman
Jon Huntsman - Huntsman chairman
Irwin & Joan Jacobs - Qualcomm co-founder
George Kaiser - Oil and gas, banking, investments
Kirk Kerkorian - Investor
John Kluge - Metromedia founder
Philip Knight - Nike founder and chairman
Charles Koch - Chairman and CEO, Koch Industries
David Koch - Koch Industries executive vice president
Henry Kravis - Founding partner of KKR
Peter Lewis - Progressive Insurance chairman
Lorry Lokey - Business Wire founder, chairman
Alfred Mann - Medical devices, aerospace
Bernard Marcus - Home Depot co-founder
John & Tashia Morgridge - Cisco Systems chairman emeritus
Harvey Najim - Sirius Computer Solutions chairman and CEO
Pierre & Pam Omidyar - eBay chairman and founder
Bernard Osher - Banking, investments
Peter Peterson - Blackstone Group co-founder
T. Boone Pickens - Energy and investing
Julian Robertson - CEO of Tiger Management
David Rockefeller - Standard Oil heir, banking
Herbert & Marion Sandler - Golden West Financial co-founders
T. Denny Sanford - Banking and credit cards
Thomas & Stacey Siebel - Siebel Systems founder
James Simons - Investor
Jeffrey Skoll - Founding president of eBay
George Soros - Investor
Ted & Vada Stanley - MBI founder
Ted Turner - CNN founder
Walton Family - Family of Wal-Mart founder
Sandy & Joan Weill - Former Citigroup chairman, CEO
Shelby White - Widow of investor Leon Levy
Robert Wilson - Investor
Oprah Winfrey - Harpo chairman
Hansjörg Wyss - Medical devices
Mortimer Zuckerman - Real estate and publishing