Ellie Ganz Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, I often witnessed men one- upping each other for charity, and I vowed that I would NEVER announce my charitable gift publicly. I went collecting JNF Blue Boxes with my dad when I was very young and I was appalled to see these same men having negligible money there. So I saw a difference between publicly proclaiming and actually doing. I chose not to announce my gifts, but rather to give quietly, preferably anonymously.
Ellie Ganz
After I moved to Miami in 1971, I became involved in Federation. My late husband, Arnold Ganz, became heavily involved in the nascent Foundation, and I began to change my views. The Foundation was being featured as “the community’s philanthropic bank account” and talked about planting trees for the future. In 1973, I was in the Federation building when I heard about the
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