Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation

{{Short description|American charitable foundation}}

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Ann and Robert H. Lurie Family Foundation was incorporated in {{start date and age|1986|p=y}} and, in 2000, the name was changed to Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation. The Foundation was established by Chicagoans Robert H. Lurie, a real estate and investment magnate who died from colon cancer in 1990, at age 48,{{Cite web|url=http://www.chicagolife.net/content/interview/A_Conversation_with_Ann_Lurie|title=Chicago Life|website=www.chicagolife.net|access-date=2019-11-20}} and his wife, Ann, who died from brain cancer in 2024, aged 79.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-xpm-2012-04-09-ct-biz-0409-executive-profile-lurie-20120409-story.html|title=Executive Profile: Ann Lurie, philanthropist|last=reporter|first=Corilyn Shropshire, Chicago Tribune|website=chicagotribune.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20}}

Ann's charitable contributions have been made both individually and through the Foundation. These include endowing the Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center and the Lurie Tower and The Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, as well as funding building and equipment costs for the Biomedical Engineering and Nanofabrication facilities, all at the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor;{{Cite web|url=http://zli.umich.edu/about-zell-lurie/founders-sponsors|title=Founders & Sponsors {{!}} Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies|website=zli.umich.edu|access-date=2019-11-20}} endowing The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, funds to build and support the Robert H. Lurie Research Center and for numerous other education, healthcare and research initiatives at Northwestern;{{Cite web|url=http://archives.wardrounds.northwestern.edu/features/feature3.html|title=Ward Rounds {{!}} Features {{!}} Hands-On Giving|website=archives.wardrounds.northwestern.edu|access-date=2019-11-20}} $100 million to build Ann & Robert H.Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago;{{cite web|url=http://www.annlurie.com/images/heroes_fall2012.pdf|title=Heroes|website=annlurie.com|access-date=2013-01-17|archive-date=2013-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819144919/http://annlurie.com/images/heroes_fall2012.pdf|url-status=dead}} a $10 million endowment to maintain the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park in Chicago; multi-year support for the former AID Village Clinics, a comprehensive healthcare initiative in rural Kenya; funding to build 30 rural schools in Ethiopia; and support for the research and advocacy work of Human Rights Watch in the Horn of Africa.