GEORGE GUND III
Billionaire sports mogul Prolific philanthropist, art patron and collector Husband of leftist documentarian Iara Lee and producer of her films Co-founder of the Iara Lee and George Gund III Foundation Co-founder of the Caipirinha Foundation.
See also: Iara Lee Caipirinha Foundation Cultures of Resistance
Iara Lee and George Gund III Foundation
George Gund III was born in 1936, the son of a Cleveland banker, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In the business world, the younger Gund made his mark most notably as co-owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers and the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks. His other major sports-related business ventures have all involved professional hockey: he was a partner with the California Seals, president of the Cleveland Barons, and chairman of the Minnesota North Stars.
Gund's family has a long history of supporting the arts. His sister Agnes, for one, has developed an extensive career an art collector, arts patron, trustee, educator, and nonprofit founder. George Gund himself owns large collections of Japanese, Western, and Northwest Coast Indian art; he is also a donor to the Cowboy Poetry Festival, an annual event that made headlines in 2011 when Democratic Senator Harry Reid sought to preserve its eligibility for taxpayer funding.
One of Gund’s artistic passions is the distribution of independent and foreign films. He is a board member of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute, the Cleveland Film Festival, the Cleveland Cinemateque, and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He also serves on the film committee for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, likely a connection facilitated by his sister.
In 1986 Gund met Korean-Brazilian filmmaker Iara Lee, whom he would later marry. Gund has produced all of Lee’s films, from her early apolitical works in the 1990s to her more recent, hard-left, anti-Israel efforts including the 2010 film Cultures of Resistance. Gund and Lee also created an online activist network, likewise named Cultures of Resistance.
In 2004 Gund and his wife co-founded the Iara Lee and George Gund III Foundation (ILGGF); two years later they established the Caipirinha Foundation (CF). Both of these entities donate funds to numerous leftist organizations. Cumulatively in 2007 and 2008, Gund and Lee contributed $1,133,562 to ILGGF's operations and $762,953 to CF.
Gund also serves as a trustee of the George Gund Foundation, which was created by his father in 1952 and requires all its grant applicants to specify precisely what they “are doing or considering to reduce or eliminate their impact on climate change.”
In 2008 Gund donated money to the political campaigns of three Democratic congressmen, as well as to ActBlue, the Fund for the Majority, and the Obama Victory Fund. Other political figures whom Gund has supported include Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and John Kerry.
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And hubby's a donor to the Cowboy Poetry Festival. Small world.
Although the US Congress no longer cares about
treason as the little piggies get rich,
why are there no lawsuits against the ‘deep pockets’
of Soros, Lee, and these terrorist foundations?
"..In 2008, Lee moved to Iran, where she supported the exchange of cultural projects between Iran and the West. Lee helped produce Iranian rapper Hichkas' "Ye Mosht Sarbaz (A Bunch of Soldiers)" music video,[4] which was directed and edited by Fred Khoshtinat.[5] During that time she also worked with US-based peace organizations on efforts to promote peaceful diplomacy between the US and Iran. Also in 2008, after experiencing the 2006 Lebanon War firsthand, Iara created the Make Films Not War campaign.
Iara Lee is a council member of the International Crisis Group and the National Geographic Society, as well as a trustee for the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, North Korea's first privately funded university, the only in the country whose faculty is entirely composed by international professors..."
This is one crazed beeatch! She belongs in a nuthouse!