CREATIVE GIVING

48 Heroes of Philanthropy From helping disaster victims to funding soup kitchens, they make our latest regional list.

AUSTRALIA medical research and care in JACK M A 45 Western Australia, with the Alibaba Group founder. JAN CAMERON 57 focus on indigenous people. Aims to help farmers increase Founder of outdoor-clothing The pledge is being funded by crop yields, introduce educa­ chain Kathmandu and owner royalties from his iron ore proj­ tion reforms and other causes. of Retail Adventures. ects in the Pilbara region, and Last year spearheaded a $5 mil­ Since 2006 has donated more the money starts going into lion Alibaba donation to than $20 million to animal health care projects by next year. launch Grameen China and welfare groups, a hospital and provide microcredit loans in child care center in Tasmania CHINA______Mongolia and the Sichuan (where she lives), research into earthquake zone. the cancer that’s killing HUANG NUBO 46 Tasmanian devils and other Chairman of Beijing property YAO MING 30 causes. She donates the developer Zhongkun Group. Basketball all-star. roughly $9 million annual In a year of tension and vio­ Supports an international cause profit of her Chickenfeed chain lence in western China made that’s not as popular in China as in Tasmania to charity. donations to promote stability, his play on the court: ending including $73,000 to Tibet Uni­ the consumption of shark’s fin ANDREW FORREST 48 versity for scholarships and soup; he was featured in an ad Fortescue Metals founder. activities, and $30,000 to Tibet’s last year for Wildaid. Meantime Billionaire works to find jobs Tashihunpo Monastery. Works he’s set up the Yao Ming Fund, for Aborigines. (See story, p. 50.) to advance Chinese culture which helped the Sichuan abroad, giving $100,000 to the earthquake victims. DAME ELISABETH East Asia Library at UCLA. In MURDOCH 101 January gave $75,000 to his HONG KONG Mother of global media alma mater, Peking University. mogul Rupert Murdoch. JACKIE CHAN 55 g A leading supporter of cultural, HUANG RULUN 59 Hollywood movie star. social, medical and childrens Founder of property A tireless charity worker, and not | causes for more than 75 years, developer Golden just for his Jackie Chan 1 including the Murdoch Resources Group. Charitable Foundation and a £ Childrens Research Institute, the Topped FORBES CHINA’S list of Dragons Heart Foundation | Royal Childrens Hospital, the philanthropists last year with After singing on “Bring You 8 National Gallery of Victoria and $40 million in cash donations; Home,” dedicated to the 8 S the Australian Ballet. Supports over his career has donated Chinese peacekeepers who died 1 more than 100 charities each some $311 million, according in the earthquake in Haiti, he do- 1 year. In 2008 was one of 5 to his company. Largest targets nated $730,000 to their families J philanthropists honored in the of his generosity: housing for and the UN. This follows $ 1.5 | ‘Australian Legends” series of the elderly in economically million he gave after the Sichuan ( postage stamps. backward Yunnan Province, earthquake. Charity will get half j where he also is investing in his assets after he dies. g < CLIVE PALMER 55 property. In his home province Founder and chairman of of Fujian he’s funded new JONATHAN CHOI 52 § Mineralogy and Resourcehouse. buildings worth $34 million for Chairman of Sunwah Group. ; In 2008 pledged $100 million to the Fujian Jiangxia Institute. Focuses on education in Hong £

58 FORBES ASIA MARCH 2010 www.rohininilekani.org Kong, China and North Amer­ tablish the 1,400-bed Mazum- Foundation, which sponsors ica. He and his family have dar-Shaw Cancer Centre in youth sporting events and offers more than a dozen foundations, . Due to open this microfinancing services. school buildings and museums year, it will provide free care to in their names at Nanjing and poor patients in the evening. PUTTRA SAMPOERNA 62 Fudan universities and else­ She also donates $2 million a Former tobacco tycoon. where. Gave $5 million to es­ year to her Biocon Foundation, Started the Sampoema tablish the U.S.-China Center which runs a micro health in­ Foundation in 2001 and for Research on Educational surance scheme that covers pledged $150 million to it In Excellence at Michigan State 100,000 villagers. Has also the past decade it has awarded University. Also awards scholar­ committed $3 million to the more than 33,000 scholarships ships to Vietnamese to attend Indian School of Business in and trained more than 10,000 colleges in China. Hyderabad. teachers. With Iowa State Uni­ versity in the U.S., it opened a FONG YUNWAH85 KIRAN NADAR 58 university in Jakarta last year to Hip Shing Hong Group chair. Wife of HCL Technologies train teachers; it provides schol­ Funded 2 buildings at the cofounder Shiv Nadar. arships to most of the students. Chinese University of Hong A collector of contemporary Kong. Still turning up for Indian art, she recently opened MARTHA TILAAR 72 work regularly, he hears the Kiran Nadar Museum of Founder of cosmetic and reports from his newspaper­ Art on the outskirts of New herbal company Martha Tilaar. scanning staff about families Delhi. It houses 47 paintings The family’s Martha Tilaar facing emergency needs and and sculptures from her col­ Foundation teaches farmers approves offers of support. lection and is funded by the organic farming techniques and Recently he gave $30,000 to Shiv Nadar Foundation. “Indi­ advocates the use of natural rebuild a health center in ans don’t have much of a mu­ dyes in the country's signature Inner Mongolia and $15,000 seum habit,” she says. “I’m batik prints. She’s been a foster to a village in Guangxi. hoping to inculcate it.” She parent for numerous traditional aims to open a bigger venue medicinal herbal drink (jamu) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw PETER GAUTSCHI 83 that’s planned for next to the vendors for the past 19 years, Ran the Peninsula Hotel. HCL campus. helping them to introduce new Building schools with his methods and ingredients. Studer Trust. (See story, p. 53.) ROHINI NILEKANI 50 Early investor in EKATJIPTA WIDJAJA 86 Technologies and wife of Patriarch of Sinar Mas. cofounder . His Eka Tjipta Foundation A N U A G A 87 Has donated $40 million over boosts education and Director of engineering firm the years. (See story, p. 54.) environmental conservation in 0* Thermax. Indonesia. This year it provided | Concentrates on addressing INDONESIA 1 million saplings to the govern­ g India’s “educational inequity” In ment’s Billion Tree Campaign. 01 2008 she cofounded Teach for YANI RODYAT 58 Its Sumatera Quake Schools 2 India, which recruits graduates Medco Energy vice chairman. Rehabilitation program rebuilds 5 and professionals under age 35 Through family’s Yayasan Yusuf schools in parts of Jambi 1 to teach for 2 years in low- Panigoro foundation pays the Province. It also helped set up I income schools. Thermax tuition of 335 underprivileged Economics for Life, an entrepre­ f donates 1% of its net profits to children and provides them neurship program for students I charity each year; Aga and her with living expenses and an Is­ in 25 high schools. | family hold a 62% stake. lamic faith study group for n them and their mothers. Fre­ JAPAN 1 KIRAN MAZUMDAR- quently donates to Himmata, I SH AW 56 which looks after Jakarta’s street SOICHIRO FUKUTAKE 64 | Chairman and managing children and teaches them to be Owner of Benesse, leading >i director of Biocon. entrepreneurs or organic veg­ cram-school operator and S Contributed $10 million to es­ etable farmers. Runs Medco correspondence-course seller.

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