Lyda hill biography of william hill

• UCCS College of Business, Lifetime Entrepreneurship Award, 2017
• El Pomar Foundation, Russell T.

  Tutt Community Leadership Award, 2016

• YPO, Global Impact Award, 2016
• Cooper Institute, Legacy Award, 2015
• The Association of Junior Leagues International, Mary Harriman Award, 2015
• SMU, The Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility, J.

  Erik Jonsson Ethics Award, 2015

• The University of Texas at Dallas, Center for BrainHealth, Legacy Award, 2014
• The Nature Conservancy, Ocean Bright Spot, 2014
• The Association of Fundraising Professionals Dallas Chapter, Philanthropist of the Year, 2013
• Colorado Springs, Philanthropist of the Year, 2013
• Southwestern Medical Foundation, Sprague Award, 2012
• The Junior League of Dallas, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
• Hollins University, Outstanding Alumnae, 2009
• Volunteer Center of Dallas, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008
• Association of Fundraising Professionals, Fundraiser of the Year, Dallas, 2007
• Colorado Springs Economic Development Corporation, Community Enhancement Award, 2007
• Colorado Springs Business Journal, Women of Influence, 2005
• Leadership Dallas, Outstanding Alumni Award, 2004
• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Distinguished Service Award, 2002
• Northwood University, Outstanding Business Leader, 1999

From 138 countries (and still counting!), here are a few photos from Lyda’s travels where she sees firsthand the hope and opportunity of impacting the world.

She supports our soldiers with grants of $2 million to the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) so the school could establish a veteran trauma clinic and development of mobile Warrior Training Teams at the Brain Performance Institute at the Center for Brain Health at UT Dallas.

Previously, she served on the Boards of the American Heart Association (as Chairman of the Dallas & Texas Chapters), the Arts Magnet High School, the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce (from 1985 to 1990), the Peter F.

Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management, the President's Advisory Board for Private Sector Initiatives (from 1986 to 1989), the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University, and the Women's Texas Golf Association (as President). In 1988, the Governor of Texas named her “Outstanding Volunteer in Texas.”

She leveraged her interest in science and medicine to found a women’s breast care center and has funded and launched Remeditex Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on supporting and expediting development of promising biomedical products and therapies, while also providing aid in bringing them to commercial development.

As a result, KERA has expanded its coverage of local news in addition to its staff. She has joined The Giving Pledge, begun by the Bill Gates Foundation, and has pledged to donate her entire wealth to charity, the bulk of it during her lifetime.

She received the President's Volunteer Action Award and the Best of America Award in 1985. In 2011, she donated $20 million in grants to her alma mater, The Hockaday School, to fund a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics program.

And yet, while taking on issues of national import, such as food security and safety, water conservation, urban green spaces, medical research, and public health, Hill remains dedicated to empowering nonprofit organizations that are improving the places closest to her heart: local communities in Colorado and Texas.

Hill began her career in 1967 when she founded Hill World Travel, a market-leading travel consultancy.

She has also promoted science education. Most recently, she pledged $50 million to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Moon Shots Program, which aims to combat and eliminate cancer. She now serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Garden of the Gods Foundation, The Hockaday School, the Junior League of Dallas Endowment Fund (as Chairman), and on the Board of Visitors of M.

D. Anderson.

The Lyda Hill Foundation supports increased understanding of nature and science. In 1985, she also received the Best of America Award. In 1982 she became president of the Junior League of Dallas. In 2015, she donated $25 million to establish the Department of Bioinformatics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2015.

She has served as Chairman of the World Presidents' Organization – Dallas, the Visiting Nurse Association, the Easter Seal Society for Children and the American Heart Association of Dallas and Texas.

She spent the early part of her career building that business, moving on to prioritize venture capital investments and volunteering after selling the company in 1982. The project was replicated in seventy cities across America. Two years later, she received the Outstanding Tourism Award and the Partnership for Community Design Award in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Former Hockaday Headmistress Jeanne Whitman said that Hill’s “tenure at Hockaday was marked by early acumen in mathematics and polite distaste for the classroom.” She entered Stanford University in 1960, but soon left to attend Hollins University, a small liberal arts college for women in Virginia. Three years later, in 1992, she received the Newsmaker of the Year Award and the Best Real Estate Development Award in Fort Worth, Texas.

She received the Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award in 2012, an she was named Outstanding Philanthropist by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2013.