Occupation Philanthropist Name Barbara Davis | Role Philanthropist | |
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Barbara Davis' Carousel of Hope Ball sees a star-studded red carpet in Beverly Hills
Barbara Davis is an American philanthropist.
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- Barbara Davis Carousel of Hope Ball sees a star studded red carpet in Beverly Hills
- Kathy Griffin and Barbara Davis talk about if Hilary should boycott Donald Trump outside Craigs Res
- Early life
- Philanthropy
- Personal life
- References
Kathy Griffin and Barbara Davis talk about if Hilary should boycott Donald Trump outside Craig's Res
Early life
Barbara Davis was born in New York City. She graduated from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York in 1951.
Philanthropy
In 1977, she established the Children's Diabetes Foundation. Since 1978, she has organized the black-tie, invitation-only Carousel of Hope Ball every two years to raise money for juvenile diabetes. In particular, the proceeds go to the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Aurora, Colorado and the Children's Diabetes Foundation.
She also serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the Race to Erase MS in Los Angeles, California and the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Additionally, she is a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel of the Los Angeles Music Center.
In November, 1992, she received the 1992 Promise Ball Humanitarian Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International in New York City. In 1995, she received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Colorado. In 2004, she received the Angel Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Los Angeles.
Personal life
She married Marvin Davis (1925–2004) in 1951. They had five children:
They resided in Denver, Colorado from 1951 to 1985. In 1985, they moved to The Knoll, an estate in Beverly Hills, California. Shortly after his death, she sold it for $46 million and moved into a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Additionally, in 2011 she listed a condominium she owned in the Wilshire Corridor in Westwood, Los Angeles.