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Cecily Carson

From:

New York, New York 1

References

  1. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Columbia University. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
Education:

Dartmouth College 1

References

  1. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
Ocupation:

President of Carson Family Charitable Trust 1

References

  1. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Columbia University. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson

Cecily M. Carson is a fashion industry figure and philanthropic donor. She is the president of the Carson Family Charitable Trust 1 and founded CMC Jewelry Designs, Inc. 2 She is a member of several nonprofit boards and has been a political contributor mostly to Democratic political candidates. 3 4

Background

Cecily M. Carson is the president of the Carson Family Charitable Trust, a private grantmaking foundation. 5 She is the daughter of Russell L. Carson — a private equity advisor, and founding partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe — who founded the family trust. 6 7

The trust focuses on education, poverty, healthcare, and culture. 8 The Trust largely funds left-leaning organizations, most notably the Robin Hood Foundation, to which it donated $4.75 million. 9

Carson, a native New Yorker, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1995, where she majored in government and minored in film. She also has a certificate in women’s studies. 10

She previously worked at Andrew Edson & Associates, Inc., a corporate and financial public and investor relations firm in New York, for two years. 11

Carson also studied for two years in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Jewelry Design program. From there, she founded a jewelry design business, CMC Jewelry Designs, Inc., in 2002. 12 13

Carson has been employed by her family’s foundation in various capacities since 2000. 14

Boards

Since 2015, Cecily Carson has been a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit associated with the financial industry with a stated goal of alleviating poverty in New York City. 15

Carson is a board member for the Fischer House Foundation, which provides housing for military families receiving care at military and Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. 16

Cecily Carson has been a board member of the Columbia Business School’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. 17

Further, Carson has been a trustee of The Museum of Arts and Design, the Excellence Girls and Excellence Boys Charter Schools of Bedford-Stuyvesant; a director of The New York City Charter School Center; a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation; a member of the President’s Leadership Council at Dartmouth College, and the New York Public Library’s Library Council. 18

Political Donations

Most of Carson’s political donations have gone to Democrats, but she has donated some to Republican candidates. 19

She contributed $10,000 to the campaigns of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat. 20

She donated $4,000 to the campaigns of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), since 2021 the Senate majority leader. 21 She further contributed $2,000 to the Murphy Victory Committee for Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) in 2018 22 and $1,000 to the campaign of Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), in 2013. 23

Carson gave $2,500 to the campaign of then-Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) for the 2012 election 24 and $2,000 to former Rep. Dick Zimmer (R-NJ) in 2000. 25

Carson contributed $1,000 to the 2020 Republican presidential primary campaign of Bill Weld, a former Massachusetts governor and Libertarian nominee for Vice President. 26

References

  1. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Columbia University. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  2. “Cecily Carson.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecily-carson-b5482a4/
  3. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  4. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  5. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Columbia University. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  6. Press Release. “Tamer Center Honors Carson Family for Longtime Social Enterprise Work.” Columbia University. March 24, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/newsroom/newsn/4106/tamer-center-honors-carson-family-for-longtime-social-enterprise-work
  7. “Russel L. Carson.” National September 11 Memorial and Museum. 2019. Accessed July 9, 2019. https://www.911memorial.org/russell-l-carson
  8. “Russel L. Carson.” National September 11 Memorial and Museum. 2019. Accessed July 9, 2019. https://www.911memorial.org/russell-l-carson
  9. Carson Fam Charitable Trust, Return of Private Foundation (Form 990), 2017, Part One, Line 25 Attachment.
  10. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  11. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  12. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  13. “Cecily Carson.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecily-carson-b5482a4/
  14. “Cecily Carson.” LinkedIn. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecily-carson-b5482a4/
  15. “Cecily Carson.” Bloomberg. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/19036181
  16. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  17. [1] Press Release. “Tamer Center Honors Carson Family for Longtime Social Enterprise Work.” Columbia University. March 24, 2016. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/newsroom/newsn/4106/tamer-center-honors-carson-family-for-longtime-social-enterprise-work
  18. “Cecily M. Carson.” The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. December 11, 2021. https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/socialenterprise/advisory/carson
  19. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  20. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  21. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  22. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  23. Cory Booker Federal Elections Commission. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?13020553582
  24. Bob Corker. Federal Elections Commission. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?13020553582
  25. “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
  26.  “Cecily Carson.” Little Sis. Accessed December 11, 2021. https://littlesis.org/person/49152-Cecily_Carson
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