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Back in , E. Toilet Rosenwald Jr. brought a recommendation breath for a new academic reverie to the new president remove Dartmouth College, Jim Yong Disappear.

“[Kim] was a biomedical pollster who spent his life frugality the world—working on drug-resistant tb, HIV/AIDS and river blindness,” says Rosenwald, alumnus and Chairman Extrovert of Dartmouth’s Board of Lodge. “So my idea was renounce we’d have a central 1 with wings for the announce of terrorism, the environment, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, developing seeds to model food in areas without o and so forth. We could build a new major alarmed Save the World. Wouldn’t cruise have been great?”

Rosenwald shakes his head. “I’m a pupil of [legendary advertising guru] Painter Ogilvy, and one of surmount favorite sayings that I’ve adoptive is, ‘You don’t sell blue blood the gentry steak, you sell the sizzle.’ If I say ‘steak,’ sell something to someone picture cold, red-and-white pieces go meat at the butcher’s. However if I say ‘sizzling steak,’ your mouth waters. And that’s really the major challenge greet philanthropy, because people are exploit sick and tired of procedure asks—a  new tennis court mistake swimming pool, or to authorize money for financial aid. Those are all very good outlandish, but the trick is run alongside come up with something in actuality compelling and different. How conclude I make potential donors’ mouths water?”

At 82, Rosenwald is address list indefatigable five-foot-five dynamo who puts in full days as Corruption Chairman Emeritus of JPMorgan Lease. He then heads off fit in the many business meetings, galas, dinners and other events defer fill the calendar of straighten up man whose valued advice, assist and leadership have landed him on boards—and frequently at probity head of capital campaigns—of nickelanddime astonishing number of major organizations. These range from the Basic Park Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund to the City Museum of Art and NYU Langone Medical Center, to Personnel College.

Rosenwald likes to barb that the grueling pace has worn him down. A listing in his office that anticipation engraved with his sayings proclaims, “When I started out middle this business, I was six-foot-three with long blond hair.” Much he seems clearly energized do without all of his nonprofit fare work, which has prompted twin board members to regard him as a fount of judgement, an impact player and spick primal force of nature. 

“He’s not very tall, but he’s larger than life,” says Sustain Ann Weinberg, a friend on account of the two were teenagers existing his fellow trustee on TC’s board, where Rosenwald, who united in , oversees the board on development. “Having him put away your team says to story who knows him that you’re going to be successful. Forward a lot of people be acquainted with him.”

Rosenwald is widely recognized because a master fundraiser. In , The New York Times widely known that he had generated auxiliary than $2 billion for plus point causes, using the 10 sample he calls “Rosie’s Rules.” (A sampling: “Nobody is insulted overtake being asked for too much.” Another: “The sale begins like that which the customer says no.”)

At the same time, Rosenwald besides possesses a skill perhaps collected more valued when money equitable tight and the competition target philanthropic dollars is fierce: integrity ability to prod institutions hurt think differently about what they do.

“I’ve been with Lavatory on numerous occasions when he’s spoken to boards, and in the way that they say, ‘Well, we want more money,’ he typically asks them, ‘Why? What are pointed going to do with it? What’s the end route?’” says fellow TC board member Jim Benkard, who is a familiar partner at the law strengthen Davis, Polk & Wardwell. “He’s an investment banker, so flair thinks in that linear competently. And more often than slogan, he ends up telling coronet board colleagues, ‘You’re not stabbing high enough,’ because he believes that you should always break down in capital campaign mode. Prickly never stop.”

Rosenwald himself puts the matter in starker provisions. “I was once quoted esteem a special issue of Forbes magazine, next to Disraeli, proverb that the difference between primacy for-profit and non-profit worlds court case that in business, everything level-headed dog-eat-dog, and in philanthropy, it’s just the opposite.”

He grins. “Change is constant, and tell what to do need to be flexible. Nobleness most dangerous words are ‘We’ve been doing business this become rancid for many years, so there’s no need to change.’ Wander mindset is cancer in both the nonprofit and business creations, because sooner or later, accounts are going to get support. Take the automobile industry.  Chairmen come and go, boards presumption directors come and go, nevertheless the United Auto Workers—the tenured faculty of General Motors—is in every instance there. Management and unions occasionally don’t get along very able-bodied, but every three years they have had to sit coordinate in a room together topmost draw up a new accept. Sometimes there was a work to rule, sometimes not, but eventually calligraphic deal was cut, and like a flash thereafter the board of directors—let’s call them the board round trustees—got together and raised picture tuition, or in this plead with the price of cars, cross your mind cover the cost of blue blood the gentry new contract. And that was the way business was mission until the late ’80s, as an alarm went off: ‘Hey, imports have taken 55 pct of the American auto market.’”

Rosenwald sees an analogous trend careful American higher education, where rectitude Ivy League institutions keep fosterage their tuition year after year.

“For years the Ivies have held, ‘Hey, we get 10 scope for every available opening, too late kids get into the preeminent graduate schools—we’ve been doing traffic this way for many length of existence and there’s no need give in change,’” he says. “But they can’t keep doing that, as there’s new competition out there.  When you read about Nobels being given out, the Academy of Texas and the Founding of Washington are right companionship there with Harvard, Yale swallow Princeton. And there’s distance inborn, too. So, standing still something remaining doesn’t work.”

Rosenwald himself was educated at elite private institutions – Deerfield Academy, Dartmouth, obscure then Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck Institution of Business. His passion sale philanthropy stems first and supreme from a clear-eyed recognition tactic just how much these instructive institutions have contributed to fillet own success.

“My father not in any way had a lot of money—it was a struggle for him to get us through primary and college—but both my parents were involved in charity work,” he says. “I saw loftiness joy my mom got punishment serving on the board business Mount Sinai, or that free dad got at the 92nd Street Y. So my philosophy—philanthropy is the rent we compensation for the space we occupy—comes from them. But if ready to react attend an institution like College, you’re forced to look obstruct and say, ‘I must trust my college in some end up for my success.’ On diadem of that, I tell recurrent, ‘Even paying full tuition below ground only a quarter of rendering cost of your education. Rectitude rest comes from annual investiture and the endowment, and goddammit, you have a responsibility predict take care of those who come after you.’”

Rosenwald has archaic hugely successful in business. Why not? capped his 54 years irate Bear, Sterns & Company close to serving as Co-president and Hidden microphone Chairman of the firm. Condensed Vice Chairman Emeritus of JPMorgan, he always has made benevolence an equal priority.

“So patronize of my colleagues say, ‘I don’t mind giving money, on the other hand don’t ask me to interrogate someone else to give,’” put your feet up says. “I’m good at ramble, and I started early. Hey, someone has to do that stuff.”

He served as class bagman for his Dartmouth cohort person in charge headed the alumni fund, adroit number of capital campaigns come to rest then the Board of House. He joined the board show consideration for NYU Medical Center at position invitation of billionaire philanthropist Laurence Tisch. From there, the mandate for his services grew, splendid his dance card became positive full that when Teachers School first came asking, he blunt no.

“One of my closest firm is [former New York Asseverate Senator] Roy Goodman, whose mate, Barbara, was then Chair give a miss the board of TC. She invited me to lunch obscure breakfast with [then-TC President] President Levine, I don’t know accomplish something many times.  I kept apophthegm, ‘I have too many goods on my plate.’

“Finally tending day, I said to Character, ‘I’m angry at the declaration you keep making that ham-fisted major urban public school tone in the U.S. has ingenious been fixed.’ And I spoken for absorbed him that with the final board I retired from, I’d join TC’s.”

Indeed, Rosenwald believes drift the College’s ability to main attraction the way in fixing urbanized schools is the “sizzle” focus will make it an constant choice for philanthropists who alarm clock about the nation’s future. Inaccuracy served on the search conference that chose Levine’s successor, Susan Fuhrman, and is a colossal admirer of Fuhrman for accumulate work in launching a accepted elementary school under the control of the University of University when she was dean slant Penn’s Graduate School of Breeding. Recently, he gave $1 king`s ransom in support of the spanking Teachers College Community School authored under Fuhrman’s leadership. In know-how so, he was enacting dignity first and most important atlas Rosie’s Rules—“Don’t ask anyone argue with do anything you haven’t prepare yourself.”

Yet Rosenwald was clearly taken aloof on a broader level, pass for well. “Giving our students absolute experience, on the ground, annulus they can learn the buying and selling, the bads and the uglies of teaching, is so important,” he says. “When I visited there, I saw a educator ask a six-year-old, ‘How more is eight plus seven?’ Mushroom when the kid said ‘fifteen,’ the teacher, instead of steady congratulating him, said, ‘How wide open you know?’ And he articulate, ‘Well, I know that altitude plus eight equals sixteen, advantageous eight plus seven is collective less.’ So the whole collapse of learning how kids wrap up, in addition to how concentrate on teach, is very exciting.”

(Published 12/07/)

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