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Rien van Gendt, executive director of the €800 million Van Leer Group Foundation, is one of the leaders of the new breed of philanthropists in Europe. The foundation, which focuses on helping young children, has blazed a trail by spending 95% of its grant money outside its home country, the Netherlands. And unlike most European foundations, it has severed ties with its corporate founder, the Van Leer packaging company - a move that gave it independence and credibility. "I always advise firms to find their philanthropic interests far from their corporate goals," says Van Gendt, who is now spearheading...
Rien van Gendt, executive director of the $1 billion Van Leer Group Foundation, is one of the leaders of the new breed of philanthropists in Europe. The foundation, which focuses on helping young children, has blazed a trail by spending 95% of its grant money outside its home country, the Netherlands. And unlike most European foundations, it has severed ties with its corporate founder, the Van Leer packaging company--a move that gave it independence and credibility. "I always advise firms to find their philanthropic interests far from their corporate goals," says Van Gendt, who is now spearheading an initiative...
Then a contact referred Blanco to the Van Leer foundation, which agreed to fund her group. She has since expanded to a national federation with 17 regional associations. Thanks to her, several French prisons have facilities for visiting children. After three years of arm twisting, the Fleury-Merogis prison outside Paris last month let her stage the first Father's Day party for kids and their jailed dads. Blanco still has to struggle to raise money. She recently wrote to all 63 companies in her local chamber of commerce. Not one gave a euro...
DIED. JACK ELAM, 82, accountant turned movie actor who, with a maniacal leer and dead eye (a result of being stuck with a pencil during a boyhood fight) specialized in playing mean hombres in such westerns as High Noon and Once Upon a Time in the West; of congestive heart failure; in Ashland, Ore. Later he showed his comedic skills in the 1969 parody Support Your Local Sheriff...
...scenes and the feel of a true thriller--and says he's trying to deliver a 21st century update of that. "Filthy and snappy!" he says to Brosnan and Berry as they film the scene in which Bond and Jinx meet after her swim. He wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost, jokes that "Lee wants to make this an X-rated Bond film." In truth, he just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican condemned the film's amorality...