Rhoda Haas Goldman (1924 – February 17, 1996) was an American billionaire philanthropist in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

Biography

Goldman was the only daughter born to Walter A. Haas and Elise Stern (heiress to the

Levi Strauss Levi Strauss (; born Löb Strauß ; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm of Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi's) began in 1853 in San Francisc ...

fortune); and granddaughter of

David Stern David Joel Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. Stern oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of t ...

. She was a graduate of the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and, in 1946, she married fellow Berkeley alumnus Richard Goldman.New York Times: "Rhoda H. Goldman, Civic Benefactor, 71"
February 20, 1996 In 1951, the couple founded the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, a foundation that has donated over $680 million to various organizations. The

Goldman School of Public Policy The Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, or the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP), is a public policy school and one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally named the Graduate Sch ...

at Berkeley is named after the Goldmans. She served as president of the San Francisco Symphony, chairwoman of San Francisco's Memorial to the Six Million Victims of the Holocaust, director of the Mount Zion Health System, president of the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, and president of Congregation Emanu-El, the city's largest reform Jewish synagogue. She was a major supporter of environmental causes and San Francisco arts organizations and a co-founder with her husband of the Goldman Environment Prize in 1990.

Personal life

She had four children with her husband: John D. Goldman, Douglas E. Goldman,

Susan R. Gelman Susie Gelman is an American activist and philanthropist who serves as the chairwoman of the Israel Policy Forum. Biography Gelman was born Susan Goldman the daughter of Rhoda (née Haas) and Richard Goldman. She has three brothers: John D. Gold ...

, and Richard Goldman (deceased).Jewish Telegraph Agency: "Philanthropist Richard Goldman dies at 90" By Ami Eden
November 30, 2010 Her grandson, son of Richard, is attorney Daniel S. Goldman. Funeral services were held at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.

References

External links

Finding Aid for the Richard N. and Rhoda H. Goldman papers, 1863-2003

The Bancroft Library The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library. It was acquired from its founder, Hubert Howe Bancroft, in 1905, with the proviso that it retai ...

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