Buxton Books is proud to be the booksellers for the Charleston Library Society as they honor David Rubenstein during their 2023 Founders Award Ceremony on April 20th, 2023. This is a ticketed event. To purchase tickets, click here.

About The Founders Award:

The Founders Award was established by the Trustees of the Charleston Library Society to recognize a person who exemplifies the values of the 19 young men who collaborated in 1748 to found what remains one of America’s earliest and enduring cultural and intellectual centers. This award also prizes leadership and philanthropy undertaken in pursuit of those values, and reflects a demonstrated desire to appreciate our past and understand its relationship to the future.

This year, CLS is thrilled to honor their 2023 award recipient, David Rubenstein, who not only embodies their 1748 Founding Members’ goal of promoting knowledge and shared learning, but who is also a visionary leader with a deep and proven commitment to civic engagement and lifelong scholarship. There will be toasts, tributes, and a surprise appearance from a special guest or two.

Tickets are $50 for Members, $75 for Guests. To purchase, click here.

About David Rubenstein:

David Rubenstein is a former government official, a lawyer, and a co-founder / co-chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity investment company based in Washington, D.C. He currently serves as chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Economic Club of Washington, D.C., and is a former chairman of the Duke University Board of Trustees and the Smithsonian Institution. In 2022, he became chair of the University of Chicago Board of Trustees.

In addition to his business success and acumen, David is also an extraordinarily generous and thoughtful philanthropist. In December 2007, he purchased the last privately owned copy of the Magna Carta to loan to the National Archives in Washington, D.C. In 2011, he gave $13.5 million to the National Archives for a new gallery and visitors center, and the next year donated $7.5 million towards the repair of the Washington Monument. The list of beneficiaries of his generosity goes on.

Most remarkably he was an early signer of the Giving Pledge, the campaign started by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage wealthy individuals to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

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