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blindness, disaster relief and recovery, hospitality workforce development, improving the lives of multiple sclerosis patients, supporting
Catholic education, and extending Conrad Hilton’s support for the work of Catholic Sisters. The foundation also introduced the annual Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, which is awarded to a nonprofit organization doing extraordinary work to reduce human suffering. The prize shines a spotlight on the charity that helps raise awareness and funding for its good work, thereby leveraging the effectiveness of an unrestricted $ 2 million grant which is awarded along with the prize.
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largest foundations in the U.S. Barron, who had been a director of the foundation since 1950, served as chairman of the board from 2007 to 2012 before retiring and ceding the position to his son. At the end of 2015, Steven Hilton retired as president and CEO, while retaining his position as chairman of the board. Prior Steven's arrival in 1983, the Conrad N. Hilton
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Georgia, Alabama and California. He briefly explored the science and economics of aquaculture in California and Hawaii before returning
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calling for increased investment in refugee relief by the international community—with a special call for increased support from foundations. He warned that it could become one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of our lifetime. His words were prophetic. Just a year later, more than 13.5
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By 2016, the assets of the foundation had grown to more than $ 2.5 billion. Like his father before him, Barron Hilton has pledged 97 percent of his personal wealth to the foundation as well. His endowment could bring the total corpus to more than $ 5 billion, making it one of the dozen or so
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During his years with the foundation, Hilton has honed the foundation's focus onto 11 priority areas: providing safe water, ending chronic homelessness, preventing substance abuse, helping children affected by HIV and AIDS, supporting transition-age youth in foster care, preventing avoidable
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Syrians were in need of humanitarian aid, with 6.5 million displaced from their homes inside the country. An estimated 4.8 million Syrians had flooded across the border seeking refuge in Europe and the Middle East.
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in 1966, served as the family's patriarch after Conrad's death in 1979. Steven grew up with his siblings at their family home, first in Santa Monica, and later in the
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