Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness
The project will, among other things, help establish a state-of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. “It’s very tough losing a little more sight every year,” says Mr. Jonas, a retired retail executive. “I bump into people; I try to avoid crowds. It was important for me to do something.”
The money to pay for the effort will come from the Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund along with matching funds from Columbia Ophthalmology to support the effort. The Barbara and Donald Jonas Family Fund was created in 2005 with more than $44 million raised through a Christie’s auction of about half of the family’s contemporary art collection. The collection included works by Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Franz Kline, among others...