Barbara Abrams Mandel (December 13, 1925 – November 21, 2019) was an American activist and philanthropist. She was named to the
Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame was a program the State of Ohio's Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Department of Job and Family Services ran from 1978 through 2011. The Hall has over 400 members. In 2019, the Hall's physical archives a ...
in 1985.
She was elected to two terms as President of the
National Council of Jewish Women, which is the oldest Jewish women's organization in the country.
Mandel and her husband
Morton's operation, the Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation,
gave a $10 million gift to the
Smithsonian’s
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2014.
Mandel died on November 21, 2019, a month after her husband.
References
External links
Mandel Foundation
1925 births
2019 deaths
Businesspeople from Cleveland
Jewish American community activists
National Council of Jewish Women
Activists from Ohio
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American philanthropists
21st-century American Jews
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