MIAMI – Leave A Legacy, a program of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning of Miami-Dade, recently honored delancyhill Attorney, Marlon Hill, with its inaugural Ruth Shack Community Leadership Award.
The award is being bestowed to a leader under the age of 40 who reflects the values and qualities of the life of Ruth Shack, retired president of the Dade Community Foundation.
Leave A Legacy recognized Mr. Hill as a member of the inaugural class of the Dade Community Foundation Miami Fellows Initiative and his leadership and philanthropic contributions to a cross section of community organizations through his law firm and family.
Leave A Legacy (www.leavealegacymiami.org) is a community program of the partnership for philanthropic planning in Miami-Dade County to assist nonprofit organizations to implement and enhance charitable planned giving programs and spread the word about philanthropy, educate professional advisors about planned giving and philanthropy, and to promote philanthropy and planned giving to the general public.
For those of who may not be familiar with Mrs. Shack’s work, she was elected to the Metro-Dade County Commission (now known as the Miami-Dade County Commission) in 1976, 1978 and 1982. Since leaving the Commission she had been the President and CEO of one of the largest philanthropic organizations in Florida, the Dade Community Foundation (www.dadecommunityfoundation.org).
Ruth Shack’s career has been rooted in the world of community service. She was elected to her first term as Metro-Dade County Commissioner in 1976, re-elected to a four-year term in 1978, and to a third term in 1982. In her tenure as a Commissioner, she forced the county and its municipalities to consider their historic resources, including the Art Deco District on South Miami Beach, in sponsoring the first historic preservation ordinance and Human Rights Ordinance in Miami-Dade.
Her philanthropic activities are international, national, and locally based. She has served as Vice Chair of the Council on Coundations and Chair of its Management Committee, on the Board of the Community Foundations for Youth and the Board of Funders Concerned about AIDS. She is a member of the Bertelsmann Foundations’ Transatlantic Community Foundation Network and was Chair of the Communications Network.
Teresa Valdes-Fauli Weintraub; Hank Raattama, Jr., Esq.; Ruth Shack; Marlon Hill; Carla Hill; Javier Soto (president, Dade Community Foundation).
Since becoming the President of the Dade Community Foundation in 1985, the community foundation for the Greater Miami area, Ruth Shack has spearheaded a campaign that has significantly grown the Foundation’s assets and has provided oversight for the investment of the endowment and the equitable distribution of grants to Greater Miami’s nonprofit institutions.
Yvonne Hill (mother); Marlon Hill; Eglantine Gordon (grandmother); Ruth Shack.
Mrs. Shack recently demitted her post as President of Dade Community Foundation in 2009. Leave A Legacy established this annual award in recognition of her values and life of service to Miami-Dade County.
“It is a special honor to receive this recognition in the name of Ruth Shack. It epitomizes her essence and core values of leadership, ethics, dedication and service,” stated Marlon A. Hill, partner, delancyhill, P.A.
Rosie Gordon-Wallace (aunt); Yvonne Hill; Marlon Hill, Eglantine Gordon.
