Kenneth e behring (1928—2065438+June 25, 2009), an American citizen, established hundreds of communities in the United States and made the Fortune and Forbes 400 list three times. After a great success in life, Behring turned to international charity, founded the World Wheelchair Foundation in 2000 and the Global Health and Education Foundation in 2005, and served as the chairmen of these two international charities.
On July 24th, 20 13, Chongqing awarded him the title of "Honorary Citizen of Chongqing". On March 201June 12, Kenneth E. Behring donated the Natural Museum to Qingdao.
20 19 On June 25th, Kenneth E. Behring died at the age of 9 1.
Chinese name: Kenneth e. Behring.
Kenneth e behring Mbth
Nationality: USA
Birth place: Monroe, Wisconsin, USA
Date of birth: 1928
Date of death: 2065438+June 25th, 2009.
Occupation: philanthropist, entrepreneur
Graduate school: Monroe Middle School, USA
Main achievements: Top 400 richest people in Forbes list.
Founder and Chairman of Global Health and Education Foundation
Masterpieces: The Way to Get Rich, Life is Noble.
The life of the character
1928, Kenneth e behring was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, USA.
Bellin started from scratch in the automobile industry and entered the real estate development kingdom in the 1960s. In the next 35 years, his company built residential areas in Florida and California, including the world-famous Black Hawk Villa near San Francisco.
1989 was admitted as a member of the American Achievement Association, 1992 was recorded in the California Hall of Fame, and 1994 was recorded in the Hall of Fame of the Gulf Sports Center. Behring was awarded honorary citizen by many cities in China and honorary doctor by the young Birmingham University.
In the 1990s, 65,438 people were listed in the top 400 of Forbes magazine for three times, and in 2003, philanthropists ranked 40th among the top 50 in the United States.
20 13 On July 24th, the 4th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 4th Chongqing Municipal People's Congress deliberated and passed the proposal on awarding kenneth behring the title of "Honorary Citizen of Chongqing". Behring is also an expert in community building for the elderly in the United States. He is also willing to cooperate with Chongqing to introduce the mature American community model of retired people into Chongqing, and at the same time set up a nursing college to train professional elderly nurses.
20 19 On June 25th, Kenneth E. Behring died at the age of 9 1.
Social part-time job
He has served as a member of many committees of educational and charitable organizations, including the Medal of Honor Foundation, Smithsonian National Committee, Normandy Landing Museum, Achievement Association, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in China and China Welfare Foundation for the Disabled.
charitable
Caring philanthropist
Behring is a truly caring philanthropist. When developing the Black Hawk community in California in the 1970s, Bellin established the Museum of Science, Culture and Art in cooperation with the University of California at Berkeley ... In the 1990s, he established the Bellin Education School at Berkeley to train outstanding primary school teachers, so that they can be qualified as primary school principals in central and backward areas.
From 65438 to 0988, after purchasing the Seattle Seahawks football team, Bellin established the Seattle Seahawks Charity Foundation, which made great contributions to education and children's charity. Bellin once donated $6,543.80 billion to the Smithsonian Institution, creating the largest donation of the institution over the years. From 65438 to 0998, the Smithsonian Institution awarded Bellin the famous james smithso Prize in recognition of his generosity.
Set up a foundation
In 2000, Bellin established the World Wheelchair Foundation, which is dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged groups all over the world, opening a new chapter for his charity, and giving wheelchairs to every man, woman and child who needs wheelchairs.
With the joint efforts of Bellin and the Foundation, this five-year milestone was achieved-654.38+0.5 billion USD was raised from companies, foundations and individuals, and 654.38+0.00 million wheelchairs were distributed around the world. It is estimated that at least 654.38 billion disabled people in the world need wheelchairs, but they can't afford them.
Mr. Behring listed China as a key project of the Foundation, hoping to establish long-term cooperative relations with China government and business leaders. By the end of 20 12, the World Wheelchair Foundation founded by Belin had donated more than 900,000 wheelchairs to disabled people in more than 50 countries around the world, of which nearly 350,000 wheelchairs were donated to China, accounting for more than one third of the total donations worldwide. The Foundation has donated wheelchairs to the disabled in Chongqing, with a total value of over 6.5438+0.2 million yuan. Most of these wheelchairs were distributed to the disabled by Behring himself. The members of the International Advisory Board of the World Wheelchair Foundation include former South African President nelson mandela, former French President Valerie guiscard de Einstein and former Philippine President Fidel Valdez Ramos. The Committee is co-chaired by King Juan Carlos of Spain and Queen Sofia.
Rebuilding the Global Foundation for Health and Education
Following the great success of the establishment of the World Wheelchair Foundation, out of concern for the global water shortage-lack of disease prevention and health promotion activities, Behring founded the Global Health and Education Foundation in the United States in 2005, aiming at comprehensively and systematically dealing with the health and education problems in a wider range.
Donated specimens
Kenneth behring signed a donation memorandum to donate a batch of rare animal specimens from Africa and America to the Natural Museum under construction in Chongqing.
20 12, 1 1 year1October, Belin signed an agreement with Chongqing Natural Museum to donate more than 200 rare animal specimens to the museum for free, with a total value of over 100 million yuan. Among them, 100 specimens were handed over to Chongqing Natural Museum, and the rest arrived in succession in 20 13.
Bellin is considering taking Chongqing as the venue for the global finals of the 20 14 "Global Nature Day-Youth Natural Science Knowledge Challenge" to coincide with the opening of the new Chongqing Natural Museum.
famous
Kenneth E. Behring is an "honorary citizen" in China, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Dalian and Suzhou.
family life
Bellin and his wife Patricia once lived in Black Hawk, California, USA. They have five sons and ten grandchildren.