In an overwhelmingly generous and unexpected gift, 98-year-old Louise Nippert has placed $85 million of capital underneath the performing arts organizations that have in great part defined Cincinnati as a city.
A deep love of classical music prompted arts patron and philanthropist Louise Nippert to announce a gift of $85 million on Thursday to preserve music at the highest possible quality in Greater Cincinnati.
The Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund will help maintain the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as a major, full-time professional orchestra. It also will allow Cincinnati Opera to continue a 90-year collaboration with the Cincinnati Symphony in its pit, and allow dancers to pirouette to live music at Cincinnati Ballet well into the future. It is the largest single gift by an individual to a Cincinnati arts organization and one of the two or three largest ever to a U.S. symphony orchestra.
A classically trained singer who was a soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with the Cincinnati Symphony in 1957, Nippert has shunned the limelight as a philanthropist. In 1995, she told The Enquirer that her motivation behind charitable contributions was simple: "Giving is enough - you see how it affects everything, and you don't have to sit back and pat yourself on the back."
Did you read that last sentence? 'Giving is enough...'
Giving is enough. No need for publicity, fanfare, the public giving of alms.
Green Shoots Award Finalist, not only for the size, location and timing of the gift, but primarily for the attitude of the donor.
Giving is enough.
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