Eli Broad is the Founder of The Broad Foundation. In the course of his 50-year career, he built two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up, serving as Founder-Chairman of KB Home (formerly the Kaufman and Broad Corp.) and AIG Retirement Services Inc. Today he is focused on venture philanthropy with The Broad Education Foundation, whose mission is to improve urban public education through better governance, management and labor relations. The Broad Art Foundation operates an active lending library of contemporary art to more than 400 museums and university galleries worldwide. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation gave the funding gift to create the Broad Institute for biomedical research, in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Broad serves on a number of boards, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where the Broad Contemporary Art Museum opened in February 2008. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.

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A Nation Paralyzed: Is the United States at Risk of Losing the Education Race Worldwide?

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