PHILANTHROPY

Overview
Kimara Ahnert is presently on the board of the Libby Ross Foundation, a member of the National Society Daughter’s of the American Revolution, a partner of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, American Museum of Natural History, New York City Ballet, a corporate donor and guild member of the Princess Grace Foundation, USA, member of the Cosmetic Executive Women, and a board member of the Friends of the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center, and affiliate of New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, which raises funds to promote research, education, and awareness regarding women’s health issues. Kimara continues to hold volunteer makeup workshops at Gilda’s Club in NYC and supports the Libby Ross Foundation’s Pink Ribbon program with her Lashes for Life service and Pink Ribbon Lipstick.

Cosmetic Executive Women
Cosmetic Executive Women, Inc is a nonprofit professional organization with over 4,000 executives in the beauty, cosmetics, fragrance, and related industries. CEW is based in NYC, and has associated organizations in France and the United Kingdom. CEW is a leading trade organization in the beauty industry, and helps develop career contacts, knowledge, and skills of its members so that they may advance on both professional and personal levels. Among the many programs CEW offers are its Young Executive Cocktail Parties, Women in Beauty Series, Speed Networking Events and Newsmaker Forums. Major trade events include the Beauty Awards program and the Achiever Award event. The Holiday Luncheon and Auction is sponsored by the Foundation. CEW was founded in 1954 as a social organization for professional women working in the cosmetics industry. The organization remained relatively small and social in the 1960s and 1970s, with the annual Holiday Luncheon as its keystone. CEW’s mission was expanded in 1975 to encompass “promoting the contributions of women in the cosmetics industry,” primarily through the addition of another annual event: The Achiever Award Lunch. In 1985 the organization again expanded its mission to include education, philanthropy, and industry development. In 1993 CEW's philanthropic arm, the CEW Foundation, was established to help women better their lives. In 2001, the Foundation developed the Cancer and Careers program, an online and offline resource to support working women with cancer and their employers, coworkers, caregivers and healthcare providers. The Cosmetic Executive Women Foundation currently supports Cancer and Careers, an online and offline resource for working women with cancer.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from the now fabled performance in March 1958, at the 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association in New York. Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African-American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance. Today, led by Artistic Director, Judith Jamison, AAADT has gone on to perform for an estimated 21 million people in 48 states and in 71 countries on six continents, including two historic residencies in South Africa. The company has earned a reputation as one of the most acclaimed international ambassadors of American culture, promoting the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience and the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance.

The Libby Ross Foundation
The Libby Ross Foundation was founded in 1999 in loving memory of Elizabeth "Libby" Ross, who lost her battle with breast cancer on July 24, 1998. Please click here for the original letter from the founders detailing their reasons for starting the Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Lori Ross and Marla Willner started the Foundation. Both of the founders have first hand experience with breast cancer in their families. Lori lost her mother to breast cancer in 1998 and Marla's mother is a two-time survivor of the disease. The Foundation was started to prevent other women and other families from experiencing the devastation of breast cancer by focusing on creating unique support programs and to help eradicate the disease through research and early detection. The Foundation's enormous success has been a result of the many kindhearted people and companies that have donated money, products, services and time. We also have a very diverse group of individuals that have joined our Board of Directors, Advisory Board and Volunteer Committee.

Gilda's Club
The Gilda’s Club’s Mission is to provide meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer, along with their families and friends, can join with others to build a personal network of social and emotional support as an integral part of cancer treatment. Free of charge and non-profit, Gilda's Clubs offer support and networking groups, seminars, workshops, specialized children's programs and social events, in a nonresidential and home-like setting. Funding is solicited from private individuals, The Gilda's Club philosophy of providing an emotional and social support community as an essential complement to medical treatment when cancer is in the family enables the organization to serve as a beacon for the provision of health care services in the 21st Century.

The Princess Grace Foundation - USA
National in scope, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to identifying and assisting emerging talent in theater, dance, and film by awarding grants in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships, and fellowships.