Total Wine strives to be a responsible corporate citizen and make a difference in our communities through philanthropy and social responsibility programs. Since opening our doors in 1991, Total Wine & More has been committed to enriching the lives of wine lovers, as well as being active and supporting the communities in which we work and live. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving - Decemfamilies, charities, businesses, and individuals will come together to improve their local communities and contribute to the causes they support and help create a better world. David Trone.This year, Total Wine & More will join thousands of other corporations, volunteer organizations, charities, and foundations as a partner of #GivingTuesday, and we will celebrate the holidays by giving back to our local communities.įor those of you new to #GivingTuesday, it is a national charitable holiday that started in 2012 as a day to transform how people think about, talk about, and participate in the giving season. The article was updated to include comment from Rep. Total Wine, which Trone founded in 1991, is reportedly the largest retailer of Israeli wine in the U.S. He has been a “minyan” donor to AIPAC, which requires a minimum $100,000 annual gift, and has given millions of dollars to the American Civil Liberties Union, which established the Trone Center for Justice and Equality. Trone has a lengthy philanthropic history. “Whenever we have a holiday coming up, everyone is very eager to get together and make sure we find a night that everyone can do so that we can all celebrate together.” “I haven’t really felt lonely at all, and a lot of the people here are willing to learn more, and want to learn more, about the Jewish community,” she said. Epstein hopes that the Hillel can channel the Trones’ donation into providing more food and holiday materials to students, such as Seder plates, dreidels, and chanukiahs.ĭespite there being few Jews, Epstein says the environment on campus is positive. The JSA-Hillel has no building, and serves roughly 20 students at the university. Said June: “By creating The Hillel Endowment Fund, we are able to expand and enhance the Furman Hillel for a more robust Jewish life for all students and the broader community.” We must equip our nation’s future leaders with the tools to succeed after graduation and I hope this donation from our foundation will do just that.” Over the course of the pandemic, our students have really suffered. I was also proud to donate funds to expand mental health care on campus. “Furman University has done an outstanding job to further these efforts on its campus, and I am confident that this funding will go a long way to support Jewish student life at my alma mater. “As an alumnus of Furman University and the father of four Jewish children, I am committed to ensuring tolerance and diversity in our nation’s higher education institutions,” Trone said in a statement to eJewishPhilanthropy. “He said that was fine with him, and of course he’s been extremely supportive of my being Jewish, and the kids.” “I told him, I want to raise my family Jewish, so if that was something that he wasn’t interested in, we shouldn’t pursue this,” June Trone told Jewish Insider in 2020. Though Trone, an alumnus of the university who sits on its board of trustees, was raised Lutheran, his wife and children are Jewish. That’s all I really have heard so far, but I know they’re going to be telling us a lot more soon.” “They want to make sure that the current Jewish Students Association student body is helped, but also just to keep it going in the future. “I’ve heard they’re going to try to help us out,” Alana Epstein, a rising senior at the university and student president of the JSA, told eJewishPhilanthropy. The Hillel gift is part of a larger $10 million donation from the Trone family to the university, with the rest of the money going to support student mental health services. The donation comes nine years after Trone, who is the owner of Total Wine & More, gave $3.5 million to the university to renovate and rename its student center. David Trone (D-MD) and his wife, June, have given Furman University, a liberal arts university in South Carolina, $1.5 million to create a Hillel Endowment Fund in support of the school’s Jewish Student Association, which is affiliated with Hillel International.
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