Observer Philanthropy

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 12:  Eric F. Trump and Donald Trump Jr. attend the "Celebrity Apprentice All Stars" Season 13 Press Conference at Jack Studios on October 12, 2012 in New York City.  (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

New York’s Young Philanthropist Powerhouse Eric Trump

AT JUST 23, ERIC TRUMP DECIDED that young people should do more for their community, so he started his own charitable foundation, the eponymous Eric Trump Foundation, which is committed to improving the lives of children who are battling life-threatening diseases at Saint Jude Children’s Hospital, an institution with a unique and amazing mandate: no Read More

The Eight-Day Week

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To Do Monday: Mind If We Play Through?

The weather’s finally right for golfing—we’ve been blowing off tee times all summer realizing we’d be sweating too hard to get a good grip on our tallboy or our pitching wedge! Today brings the Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational, during which the scion raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The evening’s post-golf festivities Read More

The Trump Family

It’s with a certain contempt that Manhattan’s developer class admits that among its most prominent family names—Rudin, Rose, Stern, Tisch, Durst—only one is a household word today: Trump.

Of course, Donald Trump’s real-estate empire is full of the kinds of dramatic reversals of fortune that have always attracted ink in this town.

And then, no Read More