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Sidney Kimmel Sidney Kimmel (born January 16, 1928) is an American businessman, film producer, and philanthropist. In 1970, he founded the women’s apparel company Jones Apparel, manufacturer of brands such as Jones New York, Rachel Roy, and Nine West. His movie production company has produced many films, including Moneyball starring Brad Pitt and The Lincoln Lawyer with Matthew McConaughey.. Kimmel ranked 360th in the 2012 Forbes list of the richest Americans, and is a noted philanthropist who has given more than $550 million to fund cancer research. Contents •	1 Personal life •	2 Professional life •	Early career •	Jones Apparel Group •	Sidney Kimmel Entertainment •	Filmography •	3 Philanthropy •	Giving Pledge •	Cancer Research •	Cultural Institutions •	Jewish Continuity & Education •	Alternative Energy •	4 References •	5 External links Personal life Sidney Kimmel was born in Philadelphia in 1928. His family struggled during the Great Depression, his father having given up a job as a society band leader and taking work as a cab driver. Kimmel served two tours of duty in the Army in the years after World War II and briefly attended Temple University before starting his career in the women’s clothing business. He married his wife, Caroline, in 1999, and now lives in California and New York. Professional life Early career Kimmel’s first job in the garment business was as an inventory clerk at a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer. By 1960, he had joined Philadelphia-based company the Villager, beginning in the knitwear unit and rising to president and CEO by the end of the decade. The Villager was known for its iconic, preppy suburban look. Jones Apparel Group Kimmel left the Villager and founded the Jones Apparel Group as a division of W. R. Grace in 1970. Five years later, he and a partner bought the business outright and, in May 1991, Kimmel took the company public. Since 2011, the company has been known as the Jones Group Inc. Jones New York is the flagship brand of the Jones Group, but it has been supplemented by the acquisition of labels such as Stuart Weitzman, Anne Klein, Nine West, Rachel Roy, Albert Nippon, Kasper, Evan-Picone, Gloria Vanderbilt, Enzo Angiolini, Bandolino, and Joan & David. Jones recently acquired British shoe purveyor, Kurt Geiger. Between 2004 and 2008, Jones owned high end department store Barneys New York. Kimmel stepped down as chief executive officer of Jones in 2002 but remains chairman of the board of director. [Citation for all = JNY website] Sidney Kimmel Entertainment Kimmel’s first involvement in the film business was in the 1980s, when he financed the movies Nine 1/2 Weeks and Blame It on Rio. In 2004, after stepping down from the CEO position at Jones, Kimmel opened Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based production, finance and distribution company. SKE has financed and/or produced or co-produced 30 motion pictures since 2004, including such notable titles as Moneyball, Stand Up Guys, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Kite Runner, United 93, Breach, Lars and the Real Girl, Adventureland, Death at a Funeral, and Synecdoche, New York. Recent projects have included The Place Beyond the Pines starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling; Stand Up Guys, a feature comedy with Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin, and Julianna Margulies; and the comedy Cloudburst, starring Oscar winning actresses Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker. SKE has forged a formal alliance with Nick Meyer’s company, Sierra Pictures, which will handle all foreign sales and servicing of future SKE titles. Filmography •	Brilliant (2013; producer) (pre-production) •	Walk of Shame (2014; producer) (post-production) •	American Pastoral (producer) •	Almost Christmas (2013; producer) •	Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013; producer) •	Parker (2013; producer) •	Stand Up Guys (2012; producer) •	The Place Beyond the Pines (2012; producer) •	Gone (2012; producer) •	One for the Money (2012; producer) •	Cloudburst (2011; executive producer) •	Moneyball (2011; executive producer) •	The Lincoln Lawyer (2011; producer) •	Death at a Funeral (2010; producer) •	Adventureland (2009; producer) •	Management (2008; producer) •	Synecdoche, New York (2008; producer) •	All God's Children Can Dance (2008; producer) •	The Kite Runner (2007; executive producer) •	Lars and the Real Girl (2007; producer) •	Married Life (2007; producer) •	Charlie Bartlett (2007; producer) •	Talk to Me (2007; producer) •	Breach (2007; executive producer) •	Death at a Funeral (2007; producer) •	Griffin & Phoenix (2006; producer) •	Copying Beethoven (2006; producer) •	Alpha Dog (2006; producer) •	Slow Burn (2005; producer) •	Trust the Man (2005; producer) •	Neverwas (2005; producer) •	The Emperor's Club (2002; executive producer) •	Separation Anxiety (2002; executive producer) •	The Perfect You (2002; executive producer) •	Strut! (documentary) (2001; executive producer) •	Town & Country (2001; executive producer) •	Famous (2000; executive producer) •	It All Came True (1998; executive producer) •	Mother (video) (1995; executive producer) •	The Night We Never Met (1993; executive producer) •	Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986; producer) •	The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986; co-executive producer)

Philanthropy Kimmel is an active philanthropist, focusing on healthcare, Jewish education and continuity, arts and culture, and alternative energy. He has stated that his goal is to donate $1 billion in total throughout his lifetime.[9][10]  In 1993, he created the Sidney Kimmel Foundation and its subsidiary, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research, as vehicles for his charitable contributions. As of January 2013, Kimmel and his foundation had donated an estimated $750 million. Giving Pledge In 2010, Kimmel signed the Giving Pledge, the Warren Buffett and Bill Gates initiative to encourage America’s billionaires to contribute half of their wealth to charitable endeavors. Prior to 2010, however, Kimmel had already devoted more than half of his fortune to philanthropic works and committed to giving the balance of his estate to further those efforts. Cancer Research In 2001, the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research donated $150 million to Johns Hopkins University. The donation became the largest single gift ever received by the University, and was directed exclusively toward cancer research. An additional $8 million gift was used in the development of a residence for cancer patients undergoing extended treatment. The gift inspired the university to name its cancer center the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. In total Kimmel has had his name attached to four separate cancer-research centers in Philadelphia, New York, San Diego and Baltimore.[9][10] Kimmel gave $10 million to support physicians and scientists at Thomas Jefferson University’s Kimmel Cancer Center and another $______ million for research into the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Other major gifts include $25 million to fund the Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York; $25 million to the Stand Up To Cancer effort of the Entertainment Industry Foundation; and lead sponsorship of the 1998 March to Conquer Cancer in Washington, D.C., that advocated for increased federal funding of cancer research. [Will need citations.] In 1997, Kimmel established the Kimmel Scholars Program to fund the youngest stars of cancer research who are embarking on their careers. As of 2012, more than 260 such awards have been granted, establishing the next generation of cancer researches in a program to which more than $70 million has been committed to date. [Citation = kimmel.org] Cultural Institutions Kimmel’s first major contribution was to pledge $12 million in 1993 to the campaign to build a new performing arts center in Philadelphia. That pledge grew to over $60 million, the largest gift to what is now the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, home to the world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. Other contributions include a $5 million donation to The National Constitution Center on Philadelphia’s Independence Mall. Jewish Education and Continuity In 2003 Kimmel pledged $25 million to The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The construction was said to have cost in total $100 million, and opened in 2010 on Independence Mall. Kimmel made $20 million endowment gifts to the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Raymond and Ruth Perelman Jewish Day School. He also made a significant gift to the National Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. Alternative Energy In 2012 Kimmel announced a $5.5 million gift to the University of Missouri to create the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance, SKINR. The gift will fund research into low energy nuclear reactions with the aim of replicating the production of excess heat production in these reactions. Scientists from across multiple disciplines will participate in this effort.