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Mart Green. Mart Green (Trustee Emeritus) began his retail career in the home of his parents as a youth. With $600 his family started Hobby Lobby in their living room, now a chain of over 500 arts and crafts stores. He serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for the Green Family Businesses and is the Board Chair of Hobby Lobby.
Green pledged a $70 million gift in November 2007 to Oral Roberts University (ORU), enough to retire much of the university's debt, on the condition that the university show good governance. Of the $70 million that was pledged, he gave an immediate $8 million during the November 2007 board meeting.
Today, Green is 46 and he is still giving. This time though, it's $70 million of his family's fortune to rescue Oral Roberts University, the evangelical Christian school engulfed in a...
Sep 3, 2008 · 2008. Ten months ago, Hobby Lobby heir Mart Green aroused both suspicion and relief among Oral Roberts University's faithful. The retail whiz announced that his affluent family was...
From 2008 to 2014, Mart served as Board Chair of the Board of Trustees at Oral Roberts University (ORU). He now serves as Trustee Emeritus. Outreach Efforts. In 2010, Mart began a journey to help build a Digital Bible Library through an alliance called Every Tribe Every Nation.
In May, In Trust president Christa Klein and editor Jay Blossom visited Oral Roberts University (ORU) and spoke to board chair Mart Green, interim president Ralph Fagin, board member Glenda Payas, and several faculty and administrators.
Apr 9, 2014 · Mart Green will step down this week as chairman of the Oral Roberts University board of trustees but will remain on the board. Green, the founder and owner of Mardel, is part of the Green...
