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Apr 21, 2014 · April 21, 2014, 12:02am. View ALL 5 Photos. LOS ANGELES — WWD dubbed Sidney Kimmel “A Quiet Giant” in 1988, 18 years after he founded the Jones New York label. Kimmel subsequently served as ...
Sidney Kimmel. Producer: The Kite Runner. Sidney Kimmel is known for The Kite Runner (2007), Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Hell or High Water (2016).
This is the vision of the Sidney Kimmel Foundation. Formed in 1993, the Foundation has committed many hundreds of millions of dollars to causes that affect so many. The Foundation’s impact on cancer research, Philadelphia, medicine and Jewish continuity has been transformative, demonstrably fulfilling the mission of Connecting Promise to ...
Jones Apparel Group1975–2002. Kimmel ran the apparel division of W. R. Grace & Company when it diversified into the fashion world in the early seventies. As Grace sought to streamline its operations, Kimmel bought the fashion business and incorporated it as Jones Apparel Group. Though he struggled through much of the eighties, Kimmel was able ...
Born in 1928, Sidney Kimmel grew up in Philadelphia during the Great Depression. There can be no doubt that his ambition and drive are products of those hard times, but so is his generous spirit. Mr. Kimmel recalls an example of his parents’ generosity that resonates with him to this day. Sidney’s father, working as a cab driver in the ...
kimmel, sidney The son of a Philadelphia cab driver, Kimmel, a self-made man, became not only a leading apparel manufacturer but possibly the biggest individual donor to cancer research in the U.S. Although he had virtually no religious education as a child, he became committed to Jewish causes and was a bar mitzvah at the age of 73.
In 1998, the March to Conquer Cancer in Washington, underwritten by Sidney Kimmel personally, brought to our daily conversation the need for increased government funding of cancer research. Today, the Foundation is one of the lead sponsors of Stand Up To Cancer, which not only supports the most innovative cross-institutional research but also ...
