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November 11, 2014
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Stanford Real Estate Hall of Fame Inducts Tad Taube
Bay Area Real Estate Developer, Philanthropist, Dual Stanford Degree Holder to be inducted November 14
SAN FRANCISCO – Bay Area real estate developer and philanthropist Tad Taube will be inducted into the Stanford Real Estate Hall of Fame on Friday, November 14, at the Stanford Real Estate Hall of Fame Honors Banquet.
Taube, who earned an undergraduate degree from Stanford in 1953 and a master’s in 1957, is founder and chairman of the Woodmont Companies, a diversified real estate investment and management organization. Since its founding in 1963, the company has been involved in the acquisition, development, and management of income properties exceeding $5 billion in valuation. Until merging in 2013 with Cassidy/Turley, a national commercial real estate brokerage company, Woodmont’s holdings also included BT Commercial, a regional brokerage firm with 350 agents and 10 offices spanning the San Francisco Bay Area. In the 1990’s, Taube expanded his interests to include some 5,700 acres of land development projects in Placer and San Benito Counties. Taube was chairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret of California) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979.
Taube is one of the Bay Area’s preeminent philanthropists through his creation and leadership of Taube Philanthropies, of which he is chairman, and his board service at the Koret Foundation, where he served as president for 32 years. His philanthropy touches the Stanford community through longtime involvement including as founder and advisory board chair of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, established in 1986; as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, on whose executive committee he continues to serve; as a founder and past chairman of the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); and as past chair of the Stanford Athletic Board. His involvement in Stanford Athletics includes his family's principal gift to Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Stadium and his significant support of Stanford's new football stadium, built in 2006.
Twice recognized by The Forward newspaper as one of the 50 most influential Jewish Americans, Taube’s recognitions include the United Way’s Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Scopus Award, and an honorary doctorate degree from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.
Taube was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1931 and escaped with his family to the United States in 1939. He has made engagement in and support of Jewish life in the Bay Area, as well as the revitalization of Jewish life in Poland, major components of his philanthropic investments. He is Honorary Consul for the Republic of Poland in San Francisco and a major benefactor of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, which celebrated its grand opening in Warsaw in October of this year. Both the museum’s Core Exhibition and Education Center were named in honor of Taube Philanthropies and the Koret Foundation.
Taube has served as trustee of the University of Notre Dame de Namur, the University of San Francisco, and as governor of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
More information on Tad’s induction is available here from Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE).
You can view a video here that SPIRE put together as part of Taube’s induction into the Hall of Fame, which includes clips of people discussing Taube’s accomplishments, as well as Taube discussing his childhood, immigrant experience, and life, including his time at Stanford and his support for Jewish issues in the Bay Area and in Poland.
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ABOUT TAUBE PHILANTHROPIES
Taube Philanthropies was established in 1981 by its founder and chairman, Tad Taube. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and with an office in Warsaw, the Foundation makes philanthropic investments primarily in the Bay Area and Poland, in scholarship, heritage preservation, arts and culture, education, and institution-building. Taube Philanthropies is committed to collaborative giving for greatest charitable impact and actively partners with individual donors and other foundations. For additional information, please visit www.taubephilanthropies.org.
