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David Haas is a Philadelphia-based philanthropist with a longtime interest in public media, journalism and arts and culture. He is vice chair of the Wyncote Foundation, founded in 2009, which makes grants in a variety of areas including public media and journalism, and has served since 1982 on the board of the William Penn Foundation, founded in 1945 by his grandparents Otto and Phoebe Haas. He has been a board member of Media Impact Funders since 1994, and board chair from 2002-2015. Haas serves on the board of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, created in 2016 by philanthropist Gerry Lenfest with the donation of the Philadelphia Media Network. He has worked as a freelance photographer, and ran the Philadelphia Independent Film/Video Association from 1989-1997. He grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs, and has been a resident of Philadelphia since 1981. |