Diana Blank

After Diana Blank and Arthur Blank divorced in 1993, she began to explore the world of philanthropy through the Atlanta Women’s Foundation, Take the name Kendeda. Diana Blank named the Kendeda Fund after her three children — Kenny, Dena and Danielle — taking the first few letters of their names to form Kendeda. Despite the Kendeda Fund’s successes, Blank said she is getting older and wants to step back. Her children had an open invitation to become more involved. And finally Dena Kimball, who had a background in nonprofits and had moved back to Atlanta in 2011, decided she wanted to go work with her mother. The plan is for the Kendeda Fund to spend its assets by 2024 — which Blank estimated would equal about what the Fund has already invested — or a total of about $1 billion.The Kendeda Fund donates between $40 million and $50 million annually and had donated over $500 million through 2017 with the goal of spending all its assets by 2024. Her daughter, Dena Blank Kimball, serves as the executive director of the Kendeda Fund. Diana Blank was born Diana Latow on September 13, 1942 Diana and Arthur Blank were divorced after having three children Diana Blank was raised in a middle class, Roman Catholic family. Through her Kendeda Fund, founded in 1993, Blank has historically donated anonymously to various Georgia-based causes including $4 million to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the mid-1990s; and $20 million to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to enable the purchase of Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital, a historically-black hospital in Atlanta,[ in 2006. In 2015, she was revealed as the person who provided a $30 million grant to Georgia Tech for their Living Building Challenge 3.0.tasked with building the "most environmentally-sound building ever constructed in the Southeast." She has three children with Arthur Blank (born 1942): Kenny Blank, Dena Blank Kimball, and Danielle Blank Thomsen;[ they divorced in 1993.[ Her son, Kenny Blank and his wife Nancy;[ and her daughter Dena and her husband Josh Kimball, serve as directors of The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.