Doris Buffet "Gives it Away On Pix"
From battered women to prison inmates, from troubled youth to long-suffering parents, Doris Buffett has given her millions to people from nearly all walks of life. Doris stopped by PIX Morning News today to chat about her memoir, Giving it All Away: The Doris Buffett Story, where she describes her lifelong philanthropic mission.
Sister to billionaire Warren Buffett, Doris weathered an abusive childhood, depression, and shaky family relations, but when her mother died and left her an inheritance worth millions, Doris decided to devote her life to giving all the cash to people in need. According to her website, Doris’s ultimate goal is for the last check she writes to bounce due to insufficient funds. Doris founded the Sunshine Lady Foundation in 1996, where she receives letters seeking her contribution. So far, Doris has donated $100 million through this “retail philanthropy.”
Giving It All Away is available in bookstores now.
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Comments: 3
How do I get in touch with Ms. Buffett? I would love to tell her our story but the sunshinelady.org site is all I could find. On that site, when you goto Contact Us, it somes with "coming soon". Please help. We are in need and I think we have a compelling one. Our profoundly mentally handicapped class was dissolved due to our county's budget.
Good day to you and thank you for sharing this.
This is a great story and it is people like Ms. Buffet that give entrepreneurs like myself who focus on community and people development a chance to build our hopes and dreams. Sometimes the biggest challenge in building something good and valuable in our communities is having someone who can see the human side of the project or initiative and support it in many ways including financially.
I would love to get a chance to talk with her about our Abuse/Bullying Victims & Survivors Apprecilove/Tribute Day - you are NEVER alone, on Oct. 8th http://sisfi.org/abuse_apprecilove_day/. We would love to honor her as a survivor as well. I am sure she would find this very intriguing and of value.
Anyway, it is good to know that she is still in good spirit and still being a positive motivation and support for people.
May God continue to bless and guide her.
~Brett A. Scudder~
I am so touched by Doris and her life story. I to have come from hard times as a child and still have hard times even now. Family is the utmost importance to me and I feel I am letting them down as well as myself. I am to the point I don't know where to turn. When I heard about Doris and help she is giving to the people in need I am hoping she will guide me in the right direction to getting my life and my family's lives on the right track. I have so much to say but can't explain it in writing. I would so much like to talk to her and ask her how she got her life going in the right direction. Please let her decide if she wants to communicate with me. That is all I ask.